World War II
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World War Two
Memorial
World War II Memorial
During World War II forty-one Kenyon graduates and students were killed. In order to remember the sacrifice these men made for their country, three of the fathers who lost their sons--Floyd E. Bliven, Carl A. Weiant, and Robert B. Brown--proposed a memorial in two parts. One part was the establishment of The War Memorial Scholarship Fund of Kenyon College, a full-tution scholarship of $20,000 awarded to four prospective male students who were judged by the College's Scholarship Committee to "most nearly meet the standard set by the men in whose memory the scholarship is founded."
The other part of the memorial can be found in the Church of the Holy Spirit: a simple bronze plaque listing the names of the forty-one Kenyon men whose lives were lost in the war. The plaque was designed to comform with the already existing plaque for those Kenyon men who were killed in World War I. The actual plaque itself was given by Mrs. Harry Whiting Brown in memory of her grandson Lieutenant Robert Bowen Brown, Jr..
The plaque reads "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" and includes the forty-one names of Kenyon alumni from the Class of 1918 to the Class of 1948.
