Honoring UConn’s Fallen
UConn alumni gifted the University with the Roll of Honor and the Ultimate Sacrifice Memorial as an homage to the fallen alumni who served our country. The memorial and the roll are an effort to let friends and family know that their loved ones will not be forgotten.
UConn’s Military History
In 1893, a dozen years after its founding, the Storrs Agricultural School became Connecticut’s land-grant college and the school took on the training of military cadets.
In 1898, following the declaration of war against Spain, four members of the graduating senior class headed from campus to camp. Among the four was Willis Nichols Hawley. On November 19, 1898, Hawley died of typhoid fever. He was the first graduate of the college to succumb to the hazards of war.
Following World War I, the Reserved Officer Training Corps, ROTC, was established on campus. During that war, nearly 500 students were trained in what was known as the Storrs Army Training Corps. Seven of them would fall in the “war to end all wars.”
The outbreak of World War II had the campus again on a military footing—by mid-1942, the Army Specialized Training, created through a petition to the U.S. Department of War, was the largest program of its kind in New England.
Through Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, University of Connecticut alumni have served their nation.
SPANISH AMERICAN
Willis Hawley 1898
WORLD WAR I
Billings T. Avery, Jr.
George W. Bourn, Jr.
Harry L. Clinton
Charles A. Johnson
Fred G. Lyon ’16
Arthur B. Stephenson
Richard A. Storrs
WORLD WAR II
Walter J. Adamy ’46
Paul Agranovitch ’44
Harry E. Andrews ’46
Henry G. Bartley ’44
Harold L. Baumstein ’44
Ellis A. Beck ’44
Frank E. Benson ’43
Paul K. Bidwell ’30
Bradford P. Blake ’43
Leslie Blakeslee ’42
Dwight Boardman ’46
Philip Y. Bokoff ’43
Anthony P. Bonaiuto ’45
William J. Booth ’41
Francis Brighenti ’46
Parmly C. Brown ’40
G. Pierce Brundage ’43
Roger P. Brundage ’41
Howard M. Buchanan
Irving Burness
Howard Johnson Burr ’45
Spencer G. Campbell ’44
Arthur E. Chatfield, Jr. ’39
Eugene V. Chernoff ’42
James G. Christie ’44
John W. Clark ’46
Harry G. Clinton
Everett W. Cooper ’44
Minor Cranston ’44
Maurice F. Daly ’23
Charles J. DeMaria ’45
Leo F. DeMartino ’44
Sidney A. Edwards, Jr. ’42
Charles S. Emerson ’45
James A. Ferguson ’39
Leon E. Forsyth ’42
Harold Freckleton ’36
Vincent P. Gambino ’45
Herbert Gilman ’42
Otto Goldstein ’40
Edward W. Goodnow ’40
Herman Gorky ’43
Edward J. Gourd ’43
William H. Greasley, Jr. ’39
Ralph L. Greco ’38
Kenneth P. Gregg ’45
John Gulieta ’46
Michael Habern ’43
William C. Hall ’34
Robert W. H. Hamilton ’42
Gordon S. Hart ’42
Leon H. Height, Jr. ’43
Henry M. Heldmann ’44
Roderick W. Hetzel ’33
Edward Hittleman ’41
Hugh Hogan ’44
William M. Hollis ’45
Robert W. Hyde ’43
Victor I. Kalander ’41
Myron Katz ’46
Francis J. Kelley ’46
David M. Knell ’45
Walter P. Lathrop ’40
Robert W. Lattimer ’46
Sigurd Lovdal ’37
John S. Lukoski ’39
Roswell J. MacMaster ’41
Daniel J. Mahaney ’45
Alonzo S. Marcil ’43
Joseph Matloff ’46
Clifford G. McCarthy ’38
Harold W. McIntosh, Jr. ’46
Edward J. McMullen ’46
John F. Melack ’32
Kenneth J. Mix ’44
Alan R. Morehouse ’37
WORLD WAR II (Cont.)
John C. Moriarty ’43
Stanley B. Morrill ’38
Ralph S. North ’45
Raymond Nurczyk ’44
Burton T. Oberg ’45
Roger W. Olmsted ’43
Douglas R. Osborn ’45
Leonard W. Parker ’38
Matthew L. Perry ’46
Michael E. Peters ’46
Anthony C. Piekarz ’43
Charles T. Relyea, Jr. ’44
John B. Regan ’45
Donald T. Robison ’33
Charles A. Rosenblatt ’40
Joseph Schwartz ’45
Paul Shapiro ’46
Austin P. Spencer ’40
James Standish ’34
Murray L. Steinman ’42
Thomas H. Sutliffe ’37
John C. Taylor ’39
Robert T. Thayer ’40
Vasco Tiziani ’43
Robert D. Triggs ’45
James V. Viola ’45
Irving R. Werner ’38
Roy A. West ’43
Godfrey C. Westcott ’33
John E. Winzler ’42
Kenneth C. Wolston ’44
John F. Zimmerman ’37
Richard Zorn ’44
George Zwicker ’45
COLD WAR
Paul Drotch ’57
Edward Jeruss ’49
KOREA
John W. Alling ’50
James A. Civillo ’46
Patrick A. DeVivo ’51
John M. Dunne ’42
George A. Martain ’50
Milton E. Nichols ’51
Robert Rich ’53, ’54
Peter B. Richardson ’51
Luzon W. Richter, Jr. ’53
Paul Shapiro ’52
Richard W. Spencer ’51
Paul M. Stavnitsky ’51
Clarence M. Stone ’47
Bernard S. Stromgren ’50
Robert W. Wegner ’50
David C. Wilson ’46
John C. Zweygartt ’49
VIETNAM
Richard H. Chapin
Brian J. Cronin ’61
Roger M. DeLuca ’61
Robert G. Dodson ’66
Robert K. Dwyer ’65
Joseph D. Francolini ’64
Joseph P. Holland ’64
Irwin S. Lerner ’64
James W. Levens ’54
Robert L. Lewis ’58
Normand Manning ’65
John V. Morascini
Peter G. Moriarty ’63
Michael J. Noonan, Jr. ’59
Pierce I. Robertson ’58
Robert Rohinsky ’59
Philipp R. Vollhardt ’69
Glenn W. Whitcher ’61
GULF WAR
Cindy Beaudoin ’95
IRAQ
Richard S. Eaton, Jr.
Jason Hamill ’98
Keith Heidtman
Jordan C. Pierson ’07
AFGHANISTAN
John A. Chapman ’87
SOMALIA
Kyle Milliken ’01
Submit A Name
The Memorial Committee has sought help in gathering names from all wars and conflicts in which the United States has been engaged since the founding of the University as Storrs Agricultural School in 1881. As additional names are submitted and verified, the Roll of Honor on display at the Alumni Center will be updated annually.
The Memorial Committee’s goals are to be inclusive and respect the memory of the fallen and their descendants, while maintaining the integrity and purpose of the Roll of Honor.
How to Submit a Name
If you have information about a UConn alum who died while in the U.S. armed services, please send us the information for consideration using the form below. Please make sure to include as much information as possible. Additional questions can be directed to University Archivist, Betsy Pittman.
Roll of Honor
Submit a name to our Roll of Honor.
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