Albert Leonard Spickers '39

(April 29, 1917, Paterson, NJ-d. October 2, 1942, Akron, OH)

Attended Wilbraham Academy, MA

Entered Rutgers September 1935, attended one semester, transferred to Wesleyan University in January 1936

Entered Service July 25, 1942, U.S. Army Air Corps, 2nd Lt.

Albert and seven other members of his crew were killed when an engine on his bomber burst into flames over Akron, OH. Later Oliver St. John Gogarty, a senator in the Irish Dahl and a friend of the Spickers family wrote a poem called "Remembering Albert Spickers." The first stanza reads:

Had I the Proud Pindaric tongue

To praise men who strove well when young,

Calling their parents and forbears,

To combat and oblivious years,

I might place Albert well among,

The Delphic of Olympic throng,

Unless the theme outdid the song.

Albert L Spickers