Why This Matters

From what I've seen, no memorials exist on campus to memorialize this time. No plaques mark the one hundred students who served in the military or those who were involved in other ways, such as Pacific's knitting clubs or through relief work.

This period in Pacific's history is something that is already largely a footnote in the public memory, only compounded by the lack of memorials to this time. Although Pacific’s involvement was comparatively small when looking at the nation as a whole, it still serves as an important part of the college’s history and a small part of the experiences of colleges and their students during WWI as a whole. Programs such as the SATC were adopted across the nation and the Selective Service Act of 1917 would bring men from all walks of life into military service, with men from Pacific being only a small part of that group.