Alvah A. Wallace (?-1964)

From Bloomfield, New Jersey, Alvah Wallace was a political science major in the class of 1964 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa honor society, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and a R.O.T.C. graduate.

Lieutenant Wallace died at Brooke Army Hospital Burn Center in San Antonio, Texas in December 1964. He had been critically injured a month before in the crash of his army aircraft at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he was a pilot with the 82nd Airborne Division. The incident took place just two weeks after his return from his deployment with the United States Peacekeeping Force to the Dominican Republic. An alcove at the Boyd Lee Spahr Library commemorates his life.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).