Michigan Tech lost five of its won to the Great War. Information is limited, but here is what is known of each man’s service. Kenneth Ogilvie McEwen (class of 1902) Canadian Army d. October 12, 1918 (cause of death: unknown). He was from Detroit and took
Saturday, September29 8:00 AM Shuttle from Hancock hotel to Michigan Tech Memorial Union 8:00—9:00AM Coffee and muffins, Alumni Room, Memorial Union 8:45 AM Welcome, Symposium Committee 9:00—10:00AM Session 1a Contestations over Loyalties and Identities Conflicted Loyalties: Austro-Hungarian Immigrants in Michigan and the Great War — Robert Goodrich (Northern
Nice article in the Daily Mining Gazette today: “Modern technology used to dig a 100 year-old trench”
The Armistice & Aftermath Symposium will be producing a digital proceedings on the Michigan Tech Digital Commons website. We ask conference speakers to provide their talks in cleaned up form as a DOCX or RTF file by October 19, 2018. Please send your paper to
Here is all the latest news on the trench updates: •• Next work day is Tuesday 18 Sept. 3-5pm. With not a huge amount of work we can finish this off in style. We’ll need people to do very light work of tying faux barbs
Now set prominently at the south end of the Portage lift bridge (i.e., in the ‘Yooper Loop’), the Houghton Co. War Memorial in Veterans Memorial Park has a statue of a Civil War soldier and a WWII-era field piece. Parking is available in the lot
The Calumet National Guard Readiness Center has a collection of artifacts from its units’ deployments over time displayed in a series of display cases in the hallway. Please note, due to security restrictions, the building is locked at all times, so visitors are warned that
