e inauguration of the S.A.T.C.,
Alumni Memorial Hall was taken over as a Hostess House and maintained
entirely by Ann Arbor women. Likewise during the worst of the influenza
epidemic, the terrors of which were multiplied by the constant arrival
of stricken men in new detachments, and the lack of adequate hospital
facilities for such an unforeseen emergency, the women gave themselves,
and in some cases their homes, to the cause, and helped to save many
lives.

Thus the University gave itself over unreservedly to winning the war. No
one can measure how great actually and potentially that service was. But
Michigan's contribution was far from resting there. Thousands of her
sons, alumni and students, were in service, a goodly proportion with the
forces in France and elsewhere and with the Navy, while at least 229 are
to be represented by a gold star on the University's great service flag.

Though Michigan officially remained aloof from active participation in
the issues of the struggle before America entered it, she had many
representatives in the fighting ranks. Professor Rene Talamon, of the
French Department, who was spending his honeymoon in France, entered the
French Army in 1914 and saw active service in all the great earlier
battles, winning the Croix de Guerre on the field. He remained in
uniform throughout the four years and completed his record by acting as
interpreter at the Peace Conference. Frederic W. Zinn, '14_e_ a student
just graduated, was of that immortal company of Americans in the French
Foreign Legion, whose exploits have so often been told, and was one of
the twelve survivors of a section of sixty. He was severely wounded in
the Champagne offensive and subsequently entered the French and later
the American Aviation Services. There were also many Michigan men
scattered through the British and Canadian forces, and at least one,
Stanley J. Schooley, _e_'09-'12, was with the Anzacs to the end at
Gallipoli. George B.F. Monk, '13_d_, a Lieutenant in the Royal
Warwickshires, was killed in Flanders, December 18, 1914, while another
dental graduate, John Austen Ogden, '04_d_, was killed in France. Lieut.
Thomas C. Bechraft, '09_l_, who enlisted with the Canadians, was killed
by a sniper at the great British attack on Vimy Ridge, April 4,
1917;--one wonders whether he knew then that America had entered the
war; and Theodore Harvey Clark, '14, died from sunstroke, September 9,
1917, while serving with the Y.M.C