Ceremony: Gold Star Hall
Date/Time: | Monday, 07 Nov 2016 from 3:15 pm to 4:15 pm |
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Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
URL: | http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/11.../gold-star |
Contact: | Kristin Erdman |
Phone: | 515-294-2549 |
Channel: | Memorial Union programs |
Categories: | Special events |
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This year's honorees are:
-- Morris Rusch Marks, Lake Park, studied veterinary medicine and business at Iowa State in the 1930s. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942, and was killed during his sixth bombing attack over the Netherlands in February 1944.
-- Galen Dean Grethen, Emmetsburg, came to Iowa State in 1961 and stayed for two years before enlisting in the Army. He was a combat medic and paratrooper in Vietnam, where he was killed in April 1966.
-- Wayne William Gross, Carroll, came to Iowa State for graduate work in economics in 1967. The following year, he entered the Marines, and graduated from officers' training school as a second lieutenant. Just one month after deployment in Vietnam, he was killed by sniper fire in August 1968.
-- Donald Gary Lammers, Forest City, graduated from Iowa State in 1966 with a degree in English and speech, although he already had enlisted in the Marine Corps. He went to Vietnam as a helicopter pilot in March 1968, and his final flight was five months later in August 1968.