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 Wofford
Seniors
Enter US Forces
Wofford Seniors
To Enter Service
23 Get Commissions Following
Graduation Exercises Monday
SPARTANBURG. May 29. --- (AP) --- Wofford college's 88th annual
commencement exercises will be launched tomorrow afternoon with the
presentation of second lieutenant commissions In the United States
army to 23 members of the graduating class.
The annual alumni banquet will be held at the college at 7:30
o'clock, and class day exercises late in the afternoon at which Fred
Gillespie of Walhalla, president of the senior class, will preside.
Reunions will be held during the day by the classes of 1877, '82,
'92,-'02, '07, '12, '17, '22, -27, '32, '37, "39 and '41.
The commencement program will continue Sunday with baccalaureate
sermons by Dr. Harold Lynn Hough of Drew university, Madison, N. and
Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder, Wofford president. Chancellor O. C.
Carmichael of Vanderbilt university will be the principal speaker at
graduation exercises Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Diplomas will
be awarded 85 seniors.
[The Greenville News,
Greenville, SC, 30 May 1942, Sat, Page 3]`
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The following men have been ordered to Fort Knox: Fred E. Gillespie,
Walhalla; Edmund B. Gregorie, Charleston: Jennings Bryan .
Livingston. Woodford; . Thomas C. Ramseur, Cheraw, and Joseph E.
Wrightson. Spartanburg.
[The Greenville News,
Greenville, SC, 05 Jun 1942, Fri. Page 12]
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Lt. Fred Gillespie left last Sunday for Indio.
Calif., where he will be located at Camp Young for several months.
Lieutenant Gillespie spent last week with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
W. Frank Gillespie. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie also had as their guests
last week their daughters, Mrs. Udell Richardson of Columbia and MY.
Matthew Hendricks and baby of Easley.[The
Greenville News, Greenville, SX, 30 Aug 1942, Sun, Page 11]
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