{"id":4274,"date":"2018-11-09T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2018-11-09T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T08:00:37","slug":"veterans-day-is-november-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2018\/11\/09\/veterans-day-is-november-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day is November 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4094\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4094\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/BartleNavy0002-1.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn G. Bartle in Navy Uniform\" width=\"386\" height=\"579\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of Glenn G. Bartle in Naval Uniform, circa 1945<br \/>Glenn G. Bartle Papers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Glenn G. Bartle, first president of Harpur College, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and served from 1942-45. He was appointed Commanding Officer of a V-12 Naval Unit at Swarthmore College. In addition to American troops, he also trained 49 Chinese naval officers. Bartle formed close ties with some of the Chinese officers, visiting several while on a trip to Asia after he retired. Bartle was awarded the Order of the Yun Hui (Cloud Banner). A medal and framed certificate were issued by Chiang Kai-shek on July 27, 1946. The photograph, medal and certificate are on view until February 1, 2019 in the exhibit <em>Glenn G. Bartle: His Life and Legacy<\/em> in Special Collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn G. Bartle, first president of Harpur College, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and served from 1942-45. He was appointed Commanding Officer of a V-12 Naval Unit at Swarthmore College. In addition to American troops, he also trained 49 Chinese naval officers. Bartle formed close ties with some of the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[28,37,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-4274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-university-archives","7":"tag-glenn-g-bartle","8":"tag-navy","9":"tag-veterans-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}