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September 2026 - Salem University sports legend Harry E. Hartman, for whom a fitness center has been dedicated in the T. Edward Davis Gymnasium on campus, and who the Clarksburg (WV) Exponent-Telegraph calls "one of Salem’s most influential leaders of young men and women -- both in athletics and in academics." |
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August 2026 - The Turkeyfoot Regular Baptist Church near Ursina, Somerset County, PA, also known as the "Jersey Church," is the the oldest church west of the Allegheny Mountains. More than 25 major branches of our cousins have been involved with this body of believers as co-founders, members and donors, and more than 170 sleep for the ages in the sacred soil of its cemetery. |
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July 2026 - Brothers George "Wesley" Gaumer and Harvey Emmor Gaumer overcame early adversity to jointly own and operate the Gaumer Bros. Drug Store in Fairfield, IA. |
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June 2026 - Posthumous recipient of a Carnegie Hero Commission Medal, Donald Robert DeVine of Pittsburgh, who sacrificed his life trying to help others during an emergency. |
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May 2026 - The contents of the old Benjamin Leonard chair rail shop, which stood on his farm near Ohiopyle, PA from about 1830 to 1900, are a permanent exhibit today at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. |
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April 2026 - A number of cousins living in the mountains near Uniontown, PA, unexpectedly were thrust into the limelight and took heroic actions after a horrific TWA airplane crash in April 1936 that claimed 14 lives. |
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March 2026 - Col. John Harold "Jack" Hayden Jr., a World War II bomber pilot who earned a Silver Star for extraordinary achievements in destroying oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania, but whose B-24 aircraft was shot down just before Christmas 1943 during a bombing run targeting railyards at Osnabrück, Germany. |
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February 2026 - Winfield Ira Flanigan, author of a diary about his experiences on the 1907 around-the-world cruise of the U.S. Navy's "Great White Fleet" deployed by President Theodore Roosevelt. |
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January 2026 - Dr. Hung-Ti Chu, head of a delegation from China, and husband of our cousin Esther Briney, speaks at an international student assembly in Washington, DC in September 1942, during the height of World War II. |
