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1945 and Spencer |
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Ex- President Arnaud C. Marts is shaking the hand of new President Herbert L. Spencer in this 1945 photograph. Captain Marts is in uniform because he had been commissioned in the Coast Guard Reserves in 1943 to create a Temporary Reserve Division to recruit, train and direct volunteer Coast Guard Reservists to protect American shipping in ports of the United States. He served in this capacity, and as President of Bucknell, for the remainder of the war. For this service, Captain Marts was awarded the Navy Ribbon by the Secretary of the Navy. Herbert Lincoln Spencer had graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and had worked in mechanical engineering before entering the education profession. He had been a high school teacher and a principal before becoming Vice Principal of the Henry Clay Frick Training School for Teachers and, later, the President of the Pennsylvania College for Women, both of which were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He had earned the Ph.D from the University of Pittsburgh. He served as President of Bucknell from 1945 to 1949. | |