CLASS OF 1915
The death of Sergeant Frederic Drew Day, Company A, 101st U. S. Engineers, 26th Army Division, was noted in the report of General Pershing released at Washington on January 25. The cause was stated to be meningitis, but no further details have as yet been made available.
He was born August 28, 1893, the son of Fred N. and Ellen (Drew) Day. He is survived by his mother and a sister, Mrs. C. L. Tower, both ;of whom now reside in Auburndale, Mass.
Upon graduation from College, he entered the employ of Blodgett and Company (bonds), 60 State St., Boston, where he remained until he entered the military service. The year following graduation he enrolled as a private in the Boston First Corps Cadets. His first military service came during the Mexican trouble, when the organization was assigned to guard duty at the recruit training camp at Framingham, Mass.
On June 24, 1917, he took the federal oath, when the First Corps Cadets became the 101st U. S. Engineers. In order to better equip himself for this type of service, he enrolled in the special engineering courses offered by the Wentworth Institute in Boston, and upon the completion of this course received his warrant as sergeant. His regiment sailed for foreign duty last September, and since its arrival in France has been engaged on trench, transportation, and cantonment construction for the American Expeditionary Forces.
Fred was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and was particularly well known in College through his artistic contributions to the Aegis and the Jack O'Lantern. His pleasing personality, sincerity, and earnestness of purpose won for him the admiration and respect of a wide circle of friends. In chronicling his death, the class of 1915 finds no small measure of recompense in the realization that he gave his all in the service of his country and for the maintenance of the ideals which he cherished.
