4 Responses to D Day

1. Richard Schafer says:

   January 5, 2016 at 8:43 pm

   Were bugle calls a standard part of campus life in those days?

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   • Melissa Kean says:

     January 6, 2016 at 8:03 pm

     Yes!

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2. almadenmike says:

   January 5, 2016 at 9:06 pm

   The notice above was printed in the top-middle of the front page of the June 8, 1944, Thresher, under the headline, ”D-Day Observed in Silent Prayer”

   In the same position of the June 1, 1944, Thresher was this notice, “To All Members of the Rice Institute”:

   The Spiritual Preparedness Committee of the
   Office of Civilian Defense is requesting schools and
   colleges to engage in silent prayer for the Armed
   Forces of the United Nations on the day the invasion
   of the European continent begins.
   In compliance with that request I respectfully
   invite the cooperation of our Navy civilian members
   in the following proposal:
   That wherever we may be at eleven o’clock in
   the morning of D-Day we all stand for a moment in
   silent prayer or meditation for the success of the
   Armed Forces of the United Nations in the invasion of
   the European continent begun that day.”
   Edgar Odell Lovett
   President

   * * *
   “In accordance with the expressed wishes of the President
   of the Rice Institute, all members of the Navy, both students
   and staff, will at eleven o’clock the morning of D-Day, stand *
   for a moment of silent prayer or meditation for the success of
   our brothers in arms in th$ invasion of Europe.”

   V. F. Rathbun
   Commander U.S.N. (Ret.)
   Commanding Officer

   (Source: https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/65736/thr19440601.pdf?sequence=1)

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3. Bill Peebles '70 says:

   January 6, 2016 at 11:02 am

   Indeed the greatest generation.

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