Class of 1942

Benjamin Forgach was born in May 1921 in Yeagertown, Pennsylvania and graduated from high school there in 1938. That fall he entered Dickinson College with the class of 1942 but withdrew after one semester. He re-entered the following year but withdrew again in June 1940. While at the College he was a football player and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Forgach enlisted in September 1942, and trained as an infantry officer at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was an instructor for some time, but left for Europe in April 1944. His unit, Company A, 330th Infantry, 83rd Division, participated in the Normandy campaign and on August 6, 1944, Forgach was killed in action in western France.

Leonard Supulski was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1920, one of the twelve children of a Lithuanian immigrant. He graduated from Kingston High School and entered nearby Dickinson College in Carlisle with the class of 1942. He attended the College for four years but fell just short of the credits needed to graduate. He participated in the Commons Club, played basketball and ran track, but his most memorable contribution to campus life was his career as a star football receiver, perhaps the best in College history. His skills as an athlete allowed him to play for the Philadelphia Eagles before enlisting in early 1943.

Supulski entered the Army Air Corps as a private and completed flight navigation training at Selman Field in Louisiana, receiving his commission in July 24, 1943. Following further training at Moses Lake, Washington, and after a short leave to visit his wife of a year, June Lutz Supulski, in her native Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, he reported in August to the 582 Bomb Squadron for advanced training in Nebraska. Two weeks later, Leonard Supulski was killed in the crash of a routine flight along with seven others near Kearny, Nebraska on August 31, 1943.

Vincent Yarashes was born in Luzerne, Pennsylvania on August 28, 1920. He was the son of Lithuanian immigrants; his father was a coal miner. He graduated from Luzerne High School and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September, 1938 with the class of 1942. Yarashes attended Dickinson for two years and was a track and football participant as well as a member of the Commons Club.

He enlisted in the United States Navy in July, 1942 and trained as a naval aviator. Ensign Yarashes died in the South Pacific in a plane crash on July 10, 1944.