A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Donohoe last October. Mr. Donohoe
was a student at St. Ambrose about 1910,
but is now located at Des Moines.
Benjamin Reidy, Academic '13, has recently been appointed a captain in the
Marine corps. He is…
THOMAS COUGHLIN
From Chicago comes the news that
Chas. Gibbons, a college student of 1905,
and formerly of Keokuk, was forced to experience the loss of his wife during the influenza rage. We know that all Alumni,
especially his former class-mates,…
tain. Captain Jones served for a time as lieutenant, as he was in the army
almost from the start, and his good fortune came as welcome news to his
many friends and admirers at the old school.
Edmund O'Donnell, Academic '18, is at home at Lee*…
Windehne Miller, Academic '16, has
been in real warfare as may be seen from
the following extract from his letter: "I
spent an even six months and twenty days
or two hundred days in the trenches, and
will have been in France one year, April 6,
doing…
Leo "Tam" Donohoe, who left college in the late winter or 1018 to enter
army, visited his Alma Mater this year. He saw real service overseas
and was both wounded and gassed. He participated in the great battles
of the Argonne Forest and St.…
Many of the Academic graduates and College undergraduates were
members of the Students Army Training Corps, during the Autumn months
of 1918. Among these were Ralph Coxinne, James Skelly and Leo
Mahoney, Academics, '18, at Notre Dame University;…
William Hughes, a member of the Academic Class of 1917, who was
with us for so long, and for a few months was First Prefect of Discipline,
left during the Winter months to join the Congregation of the Passion.
For a short time he was at the…
THE Holidays of 1918 witnessed the ordination of five former
students of St. Ambrose to the sacred priesthood. These
zealous young priests, Rev. Lawrence Murphy, '15; Rev.
James Welch, '15; Rev. Edward Neuzil, '15; Rev. Chas. Van
Waus, '15; Rev.…
The Very Rev. James W. Gillespie, V. P., P. R„ holds the distinction of being the
first and only Alumnus of St. Ambrose to become a Dean of the Diocese of Davenport.
A graduate of the Collegiate Department in 1896, he was ordained to the…
Rec. Frank M. Nugent Rev. Joseph P. Coughlin
Two of the prminent Alumni who died during the year
Davenport Diocese felt the ravages of the Spanish Influenza epidemic severely in the death of two able and worthy priests.…
