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Phi Gamma Delta Conference, 1926

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Phi Gamma Delta Conference, 1926

Leaders of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity visit fellow member, President Calvin Coolidge (Amherst 1895), at the White House, January 23, 1926. L to R: W.T. Pangmon (Syracuse 1902), Donald Davis (Kansas 1918), Cecil Wilkinson (Ohio Wesleyan 1917), Harry White (Alabama 1916), Carleton Potter (Dartmouth 1918), Charles Anderson (Columbia 1925), Charles Eastman (Illinois 1906), Penfield Mower (Dartmouth 1904), Horace Brightman (Columbia 1902), Edwin Clattenburg (Roanoke 1902), President Coolidge, J. Earle Dunford (Richmond 1915), Luther Brewer (Gettysburg 1883), Ralph Cake (Oregon 1913), George Snyder (Pennsylvania 1900), Donald Canfield (WPI 1919), Clarence Williams (Reserve 1914), Frank Lee (California 1918), Danner Mahood (Davidson 1922, Virginia 1923), and Harry Swanson (Chicago 1917).

President Coolidge Awards First Distinguished Flying Cross Citations, May 2, 1927

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President Coolidge Awards First Distinguished Flying Cross Citations, May 2, 1927

In a decade full of historic achievements in aviation, the crews of the 1926-27 Pan-Am Goodwill flights were the first to receive this award created by President Coolidge. Involving five ships across 22,000 miles in the air, these exceptional Americans delivered messages of good will, aerial collaboration and friendship to our neighbor nations in Central and South America, accomplishing what a few short years before had been decried as impossible. While there are eight aviators in this photo at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., ten went on this important foreign relations mission. They were:

The New York – Major Herbert Dargue and Lieutenant Ennis Whitehead
The San Antonio – Captain Arthur McDaniel and Lieutenant Charles Robinson
The San Francisco – Captain Ira Eaker and Lieutenant Muir Fairchild
The Detroit – Captain Clinton Woolsey and Lieutenant John Benton
The St. Louis – Lieutenant Bernard Thompson and Lieutenant Leonard Weddington

Calvin Coolidge takes the Oath as Governor, January 2, 1919

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Calvin Coolidge takes the Oath as Governor, January 2, 1919

Standing in the Massachusetts House chamber, Governor Coolidge faces the joint gathering down the hall from where he had presided as President of the State’s Senate since 1914. Notice the new Governor’s father is conspicuously seated to the right of the podium.

 

On that occasion, he addressed the General Court,

“Each individual must have the rewards and opportunities worthy of the character of our citizenship, a broader recognition of his worth and a larger liberty, protected by order — and always under the law. In the promotion of human welfare Massachusetts happily may not need much reconstruction, but, like all living organizations, forever needs continuing construction. What are the lessons of the past? How shall they be applied to these days of readjustment? How shall we emerge from the autocratic methods of war to the democratic methods of peace, raising ourselves again to the source of all our strength and all our glory, — sound self-government?”