SU alumni

During World War II, Gerald Halpin served four years in a Naval Construction Battalion. After his service in the United States Navy, he spent 15 years with the Atlantic Research Company, focused on the development of manufacturing plants in several states.

Gerald Cramer was accepted to both Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, but ultimately chose Wharton for its one-year program. While in graduate school, however, he received orders to report to Navy Officer Candidate School and left business school to serve his country.

Robert Reed was born in Elkhorn City, Kentucky on October 10, 1929. Reed launched his Air Force career as an aviation cadet in 1952 at a time in our history when demand for pilots was greatly outpacing the supply.

Fredric Leigh believes that it is his experiences leading the 1st Infantry Division and the 101stAirborne Division in Vietnam that shaped his leadership style the most.

Ben Schwartzwalder distinguished himself in service to the nation, and to his men.  As a paratrooper with the 82nd, he was among the first wave of soldiers that jumped on D-Day in 1944.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.