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Lustbader, David (Class of 1965)
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- 1890-1946
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- 1862-1925
George Davis Herron (1862-1925) was a Congregational Church minister and professor of Applied Christianity at Grinnell College from 1893-1899 where he attracted nationwide attention for his radical statements. After his resignation in 1899 and his scandalous divorce, he joined the Socialist Party and married Carrie Rand. They moved to Italy where he worked for peace as an emissary of President Woodrow Wilson.
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Christopher Fulton McKee was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 14, 1935. In 1957, Mckee graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Houston and in 1960 he completed his Masters of Library Science at the University of Michigan. Since then, McKee has worked at various institutions of higher learning as a librarian, historian, and educator. These institutions include Washington and Lee University (1958-1962), Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (1962-1972), and Grinnell College (1972-2006). McKee also held the Secretary of the Navy Research Chair in Naval History at the Naval History Center (1990-1991) and was a NEH fellow at Newberry Library (1978-79). He has been recognized nationally for his contributions to the study of naval history. Awards include the U.S. Naval History prize (1985), John Lyman Book award, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Distinguished Service award.
McKee's major naval history publications include Edward Preble: A Naval Biography, 1761-1807 (1972),A Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession: The Creation of the U. S. Naval Officer Corps, 1794-1815(1991), Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy, 1900-1945 (2002).
Hall, James Norman (Class of 1910) -- Chronology
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- 1887-1951
Davis, Chester Charles -- Correspondence
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Hall, James Norman (Class of 1910)
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- 1887-1951
April 22, 1887 Born in Colfax, Iowa
1904 Graduated from high school. Visited St. Louis Exposition
1904-06 Worked in clothing store in Colfax
1906-10 Student at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
1908 Summer school at University of Chicago
1909 Summer in Scotland
1910 Graduated from Grinnell College
1910-14 Boston. Agent for Society for Prevention to Cruelty To Children. Friendship formed with Roy M. Cushman, George C. Greener, Laurence L. Winship.
May 1914 Bicycle trip through Great Britain
Aug. 18, 1914 London. Enlisted on British Expeditionary Force as Private in 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Lord Kitchener's Volunteer Army--the First Hundred Thousand)
Aug. 1914-May 1915 Army training in England. Became machine gunner.
May-Nov. 1915 Machine gunner in Normandy, France
Sept.-Oct.1915 Battle of Loos
Dec. 1, 1915 Discharged from British Expeditionary Force. Returned to U.S. Met Ellery Sedgwick, editor of Atlantic Monthly Jan.-Apr. 1916 Wrote Kitchener's Mob
Summer 1916 In London with Greener
Sept. 1916 Paris. Gathering information for articles on Lafayette Escadrille for Atlantic Monthly
Oct. 16, 1916 Paris. Enlisted in Lafayette Escadrille
Oct. 1916-June 1917 Aviation school at Buc, later at Avord.
June 14, 1917 Went to the front (near Soissans), in Squad 124
June 26, 1917 Wounded seriously in plane crash
June-Sept. 1917 American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly
Sept. 1917 Returned to action, rank of Sergeant
Sept. 1917 Crashed on Vosges mountain, broke nose
Feb. 7, 1918 Transferred to 94th (and later to 103rd) Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Air Service with rank of Captain
May 7, 1918 Shot down behind German lines near Pagny-sur-Moselle taken prisoner
May-July 15, 1918 In German hospital with broken ankle and nose J
uly 15-Nov. 16, 1918 In various prisons in Germany, the last being Schloss Trausnitz in Landshut, Bavaria
Nov.16, 1918 Allowed to "escape" from prison, train to Munich, Lindau, through Switzerland to Paris
Nov. 1918 Paris. Met Nordhoff. Both commissioned to write history of Lafayette Escadrille
Mar. 1919 Returned to U.S.
Summer 1919 Martha's Vineyard with Nordhoff. Wrote The Lafayette Flying Corps
Fall 1919 Lecture tour
Jan. 1920 Nordhoff and Hall sailed from California to Tahiti, arrived
Feb. 1920 1920-21 Voyages in South Seas on copra schooners. Nordhoff and Hall published Faery Lands of the South Seas
April 1922 Left Tahiti for U.S. and Iceland
Aug. 1922-Feb. 1923? Iceland Summer
1923 Returned to Tahiti
1925 Married Sarah Winchester
1926 Son, Conrad Hall, born
1929 Nordhoff and Hall began Mutiny on the Bounty
Aug. 1930 Nancy born in San Diego. Visits to U.S. about every two years, usually staying several months in Calif.
April 1947 Santa Barbara, Calif. Nancy's marriage to Nicholas Rutgers. Nordhoff's death.
June 1950 Grinnell College, 40th reunion, received honorary degree
July 6, 1951 Tahiti. Died of cardio-vascular ailment
Author of:
Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in Kitchener's Army. 1916
High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France. 1918
The Lafayette Flying Corps (editor with Nordhoff). 1920
Faery Lands of the South Seas (with Nordhoff). 1921
On the Stream of Travel. 1926
Mid-Pacific. 1928
Falcons of France: A Tale of Youth and the Air (with Nordhoff). 1929
Flying with Chaucer. 1930
Mother Goose Land. 1930
Mutiny on the Bounty (with Nordhoff). 1932
Men Against the Sea (with Nordhoff). 1934
Pitcairn's Island (with Nordhoff). 1934
The Tale of a Shipwreck. 1934
The Hurricane (with Nordhoff). 1936
Dark River (with Nordhoff). 1938
The Friends. 1939
Oh, Millersville! (By Fern Gravel, pseud.). 1940
No More Gas (with Nordhoff). 1940
Doctor Dogbody's Leg. 1940
Botany Bay (with Nordhoff). 1941
Men Without Country (with Nordhoff). 1942
Under A Thatched Roof. 1942
Lost Island. 1944
The High Barbaree (with Nordhoff). 1945
A Word for His Sponsor: A Narrative Poem. 1949
The Far Lands. 1950
The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas. 1952
Her Daddy's Best Ice Cream. 1952
My Island Home. 1952
Also numerous magazine pieces between 1914-52. Details of Hall's life are in his autobiography, My Island Home.
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Joseph Frazier Wall was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1920 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College in 1941. He received his M.A. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, both in American history. He joined the Grinnell faculty in 1947 and served as Chair of the Faculty from 1966-70 and as Dean of the College from 1969-73 under President Leggett. After a few years away from Grinnell, Wall returned in 1980 as the first Rosenfield Professor and as Director of the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs. He retired as professor emeritus of history in 1990.
Wall was a noted author; among his best-known books were Andrew Carnegie (1970); Iowa: a history (1978); and Alfred I. DuPont (1990). At the time of his death in 1995 he was writing a comprehensive history of Grinnell College as part of the College's Sesquicentennial celebration; the book was posthumously published in 1997.
Nordhoff, Charles -- Correspondence
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John Kleinschmidt was professor of French at Grinnell College from 1948 until his retirement in 1977. Following his retirement, he devoted his energies to studying the history of the Grinnell community and became widely known for his knowledge of town architecture, culture, and people. Following his death in 2000, many of the photographs and historical documentation he collected were donated to the Department of Special Collections and Archives.