County
Kennebec
Zip Code
04901
Type
Flag pole
Additional Type
Stone marker
Date Erected
1948
Date Dedicated
1948
Inscriptions
DEDICATED TO THE COLBY ALUMNI WHO IN THREE WARS GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE NATION’S SERVICE
“...WHO WOULD NOT, IF IT COULD BE MADE CERTAIN THAT THE NEW MORNING OF UNIVERSAL LIBERTY SHOULD RISE ON OUR RACE BY THE PERISHING OF ONE GENERATION. --WHO WOULD NOT CONSENT TO DIE?” --- RALPH WALDO EMERSON IN AN ADDRESS TO WATERVILLE COLLEGE, AUGUST 11, 1863.
(WWI Honor Roll)
1917-1918
ELVIN L. ALLEN ‘01
JOSEPH A. BESSE ‘19
RAYMOND H. BLADES ‘22
CARLETON M. BLISS ‘18
GEORGE N. BOURQUE ‘19
HARRY L. CURTIS ‘12
FREDERICK D. DEASY ‘14
HENRY L. EDDY ‘18
HERBERT H. FLETCHER ‘19
HUGH KELLEY ‘21
NORMAN J. MERRILL ‘14
MURRAY A. MORGAN ‘15
HENRY B. PRATT JR. ‘18
JOHN A. STOWELL ‘18
CHARLES A. STURTEVANT ‘97
HAROLD B. TAFT ‘16
EDWARD E. WASHBURN ‘12
GEORGE G. WATSON ‘17
WILLIAM A. WEEDEN ‘12
Materials
Granite base with a metal flagpole.
Monument Description
This flagpole, mounted on a large granite base with inscriptions on four sides (three honor rolls), is located in front of Lovejoy Hall, on the Miller lawn, on the Colby College campus, in Waterville, Maine. The monument has honor rolls for Colby College graduates who died in three wars: the Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
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Recommended Citation
"Waterville, Maine: Colby College Memorial Flagpole" (2018). Kennebec. 19.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/kennebec/19
Photographer
Libby Bischof
Date Taken
2018
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