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Rollins College Veterans Memorial

Rollins College

 
 
Rollins College Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, September 13, 2020
1. Rollins College Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
In Grateful Remembrance of
Rollins Alumni Who Gave Their Lives
In Service To Their Country
The Path of Duty
Was the Way to Glory

World War I
Claude Sims Brannon ’16 • Erroll William Bryant ’16 • Paul W. Harrison ’17 • Robert Dickinson Lewter ’14

World War II
Paul H. Alter ’37 • Robert Clinton Barber ’34 • Milton Beekman ’38 • Paul Bouton ’40 • Henry Brokmeyer ’32 • D. Richard Cerra ’43 • J. Gordon Clerk ’32 • Doyle H. Darnold ’42 • Geoffrey C. Ferris ’41 • Sammie S. Gunn ’43 • Robert Haggerty ’41 • L. Maxwell Harrington ’38 • John B. Harris ’45 • Robert Louis Howe ’36 • Carl B. Howland, Jr. ’38 • Walter Lee Jordan ’36 • Vernon H. Langston ’42 • C. William Law ’38 • Edward DeHart Loti ’44 • Albert P. Nassi ’43 • Leonard F. Phillips ’42 • Theodore W. Reed, Jr. ’39 • Abbott Rogers ’42 • Colfax Sanderson ’31 • Gordon L. Spence ’37 • Robert L. Stevenson ’33 • Frederick H. Timson ’29 • John E. Wagner ’42

Vietnam Conflict
Dustin C. Trowbridge ’66 • McCrea Benedict Tuttle ’64
In Other Service
Charles H. Kitchell ‘70
 
Erected by William F. Jr. and Mary Lou Sommer Koch.
 
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This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 28° 35.551′ N, 81° 20.946′ W. Memorial is in Winter Park, Florida, in Orange County. It is at the intersection of Holt Street and Chase Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Holt Street. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Winter Park FL 32789, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Orlando and in Central Florida. It is also in the American South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: September 11, 2001 (here, next to this marker); Hamilton Holt (within shouting distance of this marker); Knowles Memorial Chapel (about 300 feet
Rollins College Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, September 13, 2020
2. Rollins College Veterans Memorial
away, measured in a direct line); Dorothea Thomas Lynch (about 400 feet away); Annie Russell Theatre (about 400 feet away); Francis Philip Fatio (1724-1811) and Lina L'Engle Barnett (1859-1934) (about 400 feet away); Gale Hall (about 500 feet away); Hon. Cornelius Amory Pugsley (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Winter Park.
 
Donation Panel image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Brandon D Cross, September 13, 2020
3. Donation Panel
Donated by William F. Jr. ’49 and Mary Lou Sommer Koch ’48 In Remembrance of Their Fellow Alumni Who Nobly Served Their Country As True Ambassadors of Freedom
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on May 22, 2021. It was originally submitted on May 21, 2021, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 263 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on May 21, 2021, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.
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