hing of the Schools of
Medicine and the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy, proved absolutely
indispensable. Long before this country entered the war Dean M.E. Cooley
had offered his services to the Government, when the crisis which he and
many others foresaw, should come.

In all there were 162 members of the Faculty in various forms of war
service, a large proportion of them in uniform. Among those to whom were
assigned particularly noteworthy tasks were Dean Victor C. Vaughan,
'78_m_, of the Medical Advisory Board of the Council of National Defense
and later Colonel on the staff of the Surgeon-General in Washington,
where was also Dr. Walter R. Parker, '88_e_, Professor of
Ophthalmology, who as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Medical Corps had charge
of head surgery. Dr. Udo J. Wile, Professor of Dermatology, Major in the
Medical Corps, was among the earliest medical officers abroad, where he
was in charge of the first American hospital in England, near Liverpool.

In the Literary College, among the many who early entered service were
Jesse S. Reeves, Professor of Political Science, who entered the
Aviation Service and later the Judge Advocates' Department, holding the
rank of major; Peter Field, Associate Professor of Mathematics, who, as
Major in the Ordnance Department, had charge of the tests and ballistic
computations, as well as serving as armament officer, at the Sandy Hook
proving grounds; Moses Gomberg, '90, Professor of Organic Chemistry, who
as Major in the Ordnance Service made valuable investigations, and
Professor H.R. Cross of the Department of Fine Arts, who held an
important post with the Red Cross in Italy.

The men of technical training of the Engineering Faculty were especially
in demand and practically every man in one Department, that of Chemical
Engineering was in service. Alfred H. White, '93, Professor of Chemical
Engineering, became Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the construction of
the great government nitrate plants; Walter T. Fishleigh, '02, '06_e_,
Associate Professor of Automobile Engineering, as Lieutenant-Colonel,
was, with Major Gordon Stoner, '04, '06_l_, Professor of Law in the
University, in charge of the design and purchase of all the ambulances
for the Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel William C. Hoad, Professor of
Sanitary Engineering, took charge of the sanitation of the big training
camps.

Many other members of the Faculty, in civilian capacities, gave no less
valuable servic