February 12, 1944 Interlaken to Dedicate New Roll of Honor

The formal dedication of the Service Honor Roll placed last fall on the Library lawn will take place this coming Saturday night, February 12. The ceremony, which will be brief, will begin at 8:45 and close promptly at 9 o'clock. The tentative order of procedure will be as follows:

Chorus Singing -America.

Invocation-Rev. K. E. Arnold

Salute to the Flag-Under auspices of the American Legion.

Remarks- Supervisor John R. VanLiew.

Brief Address- Mayor Marion C. Slaght.

Chorus Singing- The Star-Spangled Banner.

If the Towns of Covert and Lodi have met their quota in the Fourth War Loan drive by 9 P. M., the ceremony will be followed by the ringing of the local church bells and sounding of the siren. If more time is needed the bells will ring and siren will sound later in the evening. Let’s get behind our boys with the Fourth War Loan drive. In what better fashion can we celebrate Lincoln's Birthday? [Interlaken Review Feb 11, 1944, item in the Blauvelt WWII scrapbook, Interlaken Historical Society Collections]

As part of the follow-up report, it was noted that the roll had 140 names. Also, the goal for the Fourth War Loan drive had been achieved.

In 1944 Miss Elizabeth Egan sent a Christmas Card to her brothers, each card had several pictures from around Interlaken. One of those photos was a close up of the Honor Roll.
Interlaken Historical Society Collection 

Photo of the Roll of Honor with the Library in the background.
Blauvelt World War II Scrapbook
Interlaken Historical Society Collections

Years later the honor roll was removed from the Library lawn. 

Through the efforts of a number of people, a new honor roll was placed in front of the Town of Covert Town Hall a few years ago. 

 To see an alphabetical list of the names click here. Transcribed by the author from M.L.Patterson 

Dewitt’s Diary 1941--1944 

Wednesday February 12, 1941 

Went down to see dad. He is very weak but tried to talk to me. Drove up to Ithaca to Farmers Week and wood chopping contest. Temperature 40 at 6 o’clock. [Feb 13, 1941 Dad passed away this morning at 12:30.]

Thursday February 12, 1942 

Clear and zero this morning. Try for fox hunting with Bunny Haviland. Started foxes in Black Woods.

Friday February 12, 1943

Went out fox hunting some this morning and helped W this afternoon. [Willard]

Saturday February 12, 1944 

Working at the meat [They had butchered hogs a few days earlier.]

DBN note: with their son serving overseas, I would suspect that Dewitt and Edna attended the dedication, but without his noting it we can’t be sure.