Before entering college, however, Dr. Musgrave enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1953. During his enlistment, he served as an aviation electrician and instrument technician before receiving a promotion to aircraft crew chief. In this time, he traveled to Korea, Japan, and Hawaii, and he explored East Asia aboard the USS Wasp.
Alumni
Donald S. MacNaughton, Jr.
Born July 14, 1917 in Schenectady, NY, donald MacNaughton attended Syracuse University on a basketball scholarship and received his bachelor’s degree in 1939. Not long after graduation, McNaughton joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and served in the South Pacific during World War II. Naturally, at war’s end, 1st Lieutenant McNaughton returned to Syracuse University to earn a law degree in 1948.
Donald M. Babers
After his assignment overseas, Donald Babers returned stateside in 1957 and continued his training, attending the Army Artillery and Missile Center and the Field Artillery Battery Officer’s Course in 1958.
David M. Crane
David Crane was the first American since Justice Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg in ‘45 to become Chief Prosecutor at an international war crimes tribunal. It is said that his greatest achievement with this trial was his assistance in securing the arrest of Charles Taylor.
David C. Knapp
Born in 1927, David C. Knapp grew up in Syracuse, New York. With the Class of ’47, Knapp received a Bachelor’s of Art in political science from Syracuse University. A year later, he walked across the stage to receive his M.A. from the University of Chicago. He was then drafted into the U.S. Army’s 2nd Armored Division in Ft. Hood, Texas to eventually serve in Korea and West Germany from 1950 to 1952.
David A. Herrelko
From 1976-1980, David A. Herrelko was stationed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, where he directed computer science-related activities with the Data Processing Branch of the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System Program Office
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan served as an active duty sailor from 1944 to 1947, last serving as a gunnery officer on the USS Quirinus. After leaving the Navy he went on to earn his M.A. and Ph. D. in Sociology from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and then later studied economics at the London School of Economics as a Fulbright fellow.
Colonel F. William (Bill) Smullen
Bill Smullen’s successful career continued in the public sector in which served as an executive assistant and, later, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, where he monitored the formulation and implementation of State Department policies and assisted with planning and development of U.S. foreign policy strategy.
Colonel Eileen Collins
At NASA, Eileen Collins famously became the first woman astronaut to both pilot (1995) and then command (1999) a Space Shuttle mission. Under her command, the shuttle Columbiamade history when it deployed a $1.5 billion telescope into orbit to enable deep-space exploration of exploding stars, quasars, and black holes.
Major General Harold B. Gibson
Like many young men during the 1940’s, Harold Gibson served his country abroad, serving primarily in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Here, he served in New Guinea, Biak Island, the Philippines, and Japan until 1946.