Class of 1936

John Care was born in Linglestown, Pennsylvania on June 22, 1915. He attended high school in Lower Paxton and entered Dickinson College with the class of 1936. His ambition was to become a teacher; he had practiced teaching at Boiling Springs High School. After graduation, however, he was mostly employed as a clerk, first with the U.S. Treasury and then with the Pennsylvania Supply Company.

Care enlisted in the Army in April, 1942 and became an officer that November; he was sent to Europe in late 1944. He served in Europe with the advance as a member of the 468th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion attached to the Ninth and Third Armies.

On February 10, 1946, while serving with the Army of Occupation in Austria, John Care died of gunshot wounds.

James Taylor was born in 1913 and graduated from high school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in 1932. After four difficult academic years, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1936. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. After college, he became a credit analyst with the Pennsylvania Company.

The big, red-headed Philadelphian enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in June 1942 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant that September. He went to the Pacific in January 1944 and served in the Marshalls and on Saipan. Taylor was leading his platoon on the landings against Tinian on July 23, 1944 when he was hit by a round from a Japanese sniper and died on board a hospital ship the following day. He was recommended for the Navy Cross. He left a wife and four year old son.