Memorial Day Remembers Dead, Vets
Posted on May 26, 2008 in categories Events, Press Releases
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Following the parade of Boy Scouts, Brownies and the Central School band, Glencoe residents gathered at Veterans Park Monday to honor not only those who had died in the service of their country, but also those who served and returned to give service to their community.
Vignettes of the lives of those who had gone to war and returned to aid Glencoe were read by Caucus Advisory Council member Margot Flanigan and library board member John Tuohy. The material was taken from the archives of the Glencoe Historical Society.
The stories were of General Charles H. Howard, Civil War general, who served on the board of Howard University at its founding and was founder of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn. and Tugaloo University in Mississippi, all schools opened for the benefit of freed slaves after the war. Gen. Howard returned to Glencoe and was instrumental in the establishment of the Glencoe Congregational (now Union) Church and was the first president of the New Trier Township High School Board of Education.
Helena Seaberg and Martha Adelson were two women who went to war, Seaberg as a nurse in the First World War and Adelson as a WAVE in the Second. They, too, returned to Glencoe and worked tirelessly as volunteers for many organizations including the League of Women Voters and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Stanton Schuman was remembered not only for his service in the Second World War, but his tremendous service to Glencoe as a scoutmaster through most of his life, both before and after his children were of Scouting age; president of the Park Board, environmentalist who created the garden at the north end of the railroad depot, and, perhaps above all, the Patriotic Days Committee.
Emcee Roland Calhoun also asked all of those who were veterans in the audience to raise their hands and those who were not to turn and thank the vets.
Following Memorial Day tradition, the Daughter of the American Revolution (DAR) member Betsy Johnston, aided by Scouts, laid the wreath of remembrance, and former trustee Joel Dalkin and Trustee Mitch Melamed read the names of the Glencoe dead from World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. The trumpeter played taps.