Answering the Call In Times of Conflict A sampling of names and stories from the University at Albany�s Veterans Wall of Honor:
Albert N. Husted (Class of 1855).
He became a math instructor at what was then the New York State Normal School and, in 1862, along with math professor Rodney Kimball, organized more than 200 faculty, students and alumni who fought in 17 Civil War battles as the 44th New York Volunteers, the so-called "Normal Company."
Capt. Kirtland W. Perry (1881).
Perry�s ship, Manning, was stationed in Alaskan waters in 1912 when volcanic Mount Katmai erupted nearby. President William Taft cited Perry and his crew for their heroics for remaining in port and risking their lives to assist trapped Alaskans instead of putting out to sea.
Edward Potter (1918).
After enlisting a month after the start of World War I, Potter, a lieutenant in the Army Flying Corps, was preparing to land at Orly Field near Paris and noticed at the final instant a number of people on the airfield. He veered of sharply to avoid casualties, crashed and died in an ambulance on the way to a Paris hospital. He is buried in Suresnes, near Paris.
Fred Hardemeyer (1936).
He left his job as an Albany High School instructor to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War II and became a member of its famed infantry unit, Black Watch Regiment � nicknamed "the Ladies from Hell" because of their kilts. He was captured by German soldiers in 1942 during a raid on Dieppe and spent three years as a prisoner of war in Germany. After his release and discharge from the Canadian Army, he enlisted in the U.S. Army the following day, just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He died in 1988.
Howard Anderson (1942).
Caught behind enemy lines and surrounded by German soldiers for three days in Tunisia during World War II, Anderson and two other American soldiers tramped 100 miles through German-held territory. Assisted by two Arabs who hid and fed them, they traversed difficult mountain terrain to rejoin the U.S. Army.
Lt. Col. Sally Beard (1942).
She served as an Air Force nurse from 1951 to 1978 and tended to wounded soldiers in the Korean and the Vietnam wars. She later conducted research on decompression sickness, was assigned to the Pentagon and retired in 1978. She lives in New York City.
Capt. Jordine Skoff Von Wantoch (1953).
A protégé of the late UAlbany faculty member and philanthropist M.E. Grenander, who encouraged her to enter military service. Von Wantoch served in the Navy and, after her daughter was born in 1970, was instrumental in changing rules for women in the military that at the time required a resignation upon becoming pregnant. She was among the first women to attain the rank of Navy captain and to be assigned a command. She retired in 1986 after 30 years in the Navy.
Maj. April Richardson Moore (1999).
A flight nurse in the New York Air National Guard�s 139th aeromedical evacuation flight, she was stationed in Saudia Arabia in 1990 and England in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm.