Changing of the Guard ROTC Reclaims Memorial Book Duties
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Volume 133, Issue 3 ,.' Be sure to log on to our new rnre'View" 'COIlI I Friday online edition. Changing of the guard ROTC reclaims Memorial Book duties BY MARY BETH LOMBARDO at a time. Jensen said the cadets see the task as a privilege Staff Reporter and' an honor to come every morning and turn the page. It's only 7:30 in the morning and campus is eerily "From their perspective, seeing Memorial Hall and the quiet. Army ROTC cadet Brandon Loomis has just fin system that is set up to remember fallen heroes makes the ished morning training. He walks into Memorial Hall, cadets even more appreciative of their education and their steps up to the dais in the center of the hall, unlocks the school community," she said. glass case that holds the Memorial Book and puts on a pair Cadet Kyle Bruffy was asked to be the first cadet to of white gloves. He carefully turns a page in the book and turn the pages in the bopk. ' takes a step back, locking the case and leaving as quietly as "It is a privi1ege to be able to honor those soldiers who he came. paid the ultimate price for our country by being involved The Memorial Book in Memorial Hall has been at tlie with turning the pages," Bruffy said. university since 1925. It lists the 'names of 270 He said it is important for ROTC to take over th e Delawareans killed in World War T. Every day, one page is duties because it gives them the opportunity to honor thei r turned to honor one person who died. fellow soldiers. Cadet Loomis is one of the first cadets to have the Cadet Loomis did not know about the book until hear honor of turning the pages in the book in nearly 60 years. ing about it this semester and said it is an honor to remem Since the 1940s, the task of turning a page in the book has ber World War 1 veterans in this way. fallen to an assistant in the Dean of Arts· and Sciences' "I think anyone who came i.n and looked at the names Office, and most recently, to Linda Russell, assistant to the in the book and the names on'the wall would think this was English Department chairman. an honor," Loomis said. "You don't have to be in the army Russell is retiring this fall after 37 years at tbe univer to appreciate the book and what it stands for." sity and 15 years of turning the pages in the book. Army Jensen said the book is significant to the community and Air Force ROTC cadets at the university are taking and knows the cadets take the responsibility seriously arid over the duty. Russell said she is happy to see the task that they understand the importance of the book. returned to the military. "We talked about the historical process of turning thc "1 think it's very significant to have the ROTC cadets page everyday on the anniversary of 9/11 this year and resume this responsibility," she said. "1 think that honoring about the significance of the fact that we're taking over thi s those killed in the Great War reaffirms for them what they responsibility to honor our veterans at the university," she do and why they do it." ' said. Lieutenant Colonel Heidi Jensen, chairwoman of the , Russell said she always considered the responsibility a military science department, agrees with Russell. She said privilege, but she was not prepared for how emotionally she believes it helps give the cadets a historical perspective attached she would become to the job of turning pages. and helps them understand how the university honors their "At first it just made logistical sense for me to do it, services. but the longer 1 did it, 1 realized that it was extremely sig "It makes our cadets more appreciative of those who nificant and 1 became personally involved with it," she have come before them," Jensen said. "Should they have to said. "It's very personal to me now." give their lives for their country, they know that they will Although the Library Campaign committee intended to still be honored by the university." add biographies of each soldier to the book, that effort The book was first suggested in 1922 by a committee never materialized. Russell, however, began researching for the Library Campaign, which recommended the estab every name listed. lishment of a memorial library. She has almost completed her research and plans to "The new library shall be called The Delaware finish before she leaves. When she retires, she will give the Memorial Library and shall be'a memorial to the men and information to the University Archives Office and the women of Delaware who lost their lives in their country's Office of Public Relations so the university has a biograph service in the World War," the committee's report said. "It ical record of those listed in the book. shall contain a... bronze tablet bearing the names of those Russell is proud of the book and its legacy and said it who fell, and a ... hand engrossed volume in which one is significant not only to the university, but to the state of parchment page shall be devoted to the life history of each Delaware as well. Only three of the men listed in the book person whose name appears upon the table." were students at the university, so the majority of the names Delaware citizens, alumni, and a "nickel subscription listed are not connected to the Delaware student body. campaign," in which school children saved up coins to "We're probably one of the very few universities that donate, raised $300,000. A war medal is embedded on the have a living memorial like this," she said. 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