Hero Honored

The late Ensign Charles.M. Stern Jr. '36, who died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was the first Dartmouth man to lose his life in this war, will be honored soon when a destroyer escort vessel bearing his name is launched at an East Coast shipyard. His widow, the former Joan Mayer of Albany, who is now working at the Grumman aircraft factory on Long Island, has been invited by the Navy Department to sponsor the ship. Other members of his family who will attend the ceremonies are his parents and two brothers, Robert and William. Ensign Stern, who was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, was stationed aboai'd the U.&.S. Oklahoma when it was capsized by Japanese bombs during the attack on the Hawaiian base, only six months after he had been graduated as an honor man in the second class from the U.S.S. Prairie State, USNR training ship at New York. At Dartmouth a memorial fund has been established in memory of Ensign Stern.