Melvin Stolz '10
Date of birth: July 29, 1888
Date of death: May 8, 1915
Age: 26
Lucky Bag
From the 1910 Lucky Bag:
Melvin Lewis Stolz
New York, New York
"Stolts"
Stolz gives all his words a queer twist.
Calls "carl" "oil," and "jest" sounds like "jist."
Whenever we have
A P-work in Nav
He's sure to be on the sick list.
A TRUE New Yorker, with an intimate knowledge of all its byways and lanes, and especially of its complicated political machinery, Stolz entered the Academy four years ago, instead of pursuing a more sordid commercial career. Two or three times it has been a pretty close call, but he has always managed to make connections somehow, and is still with us. First Class year he had a room so near the door that he hardly had to turn out of bed to be at formation, but in spite of this he and Pop Gillam usually blew in just about the time the O. C. was inspecting the company.
For three years he labored on the track and was developing into an excellent distance runner, but when First Class year came around lie was so wedded to his pipe and his skag that divorce was out of the question. As a consequence he wears a green N 2d instead of the larger letter.
A dogged, determined little man, he has plugged away for four years, and certainly rates his diploma if anybody does.
Track (4,3,2). Green N 2d. Buzzard (a, b)
Loss
Melvin was lost on May 8, 1915 when he fell out of the "AH-9 hydroaeroplane" he was piloting at Pensacola, Florida.
He was survived by his parents and two sisters. He is buried in New York.
Other Service
In April 1914 he was a student aviator who nonetheless deployed aboard USS Mississippi (Battleship No. 23) "to assist in operations at Vera Cruz." Some other pictures are here. He flew "many flights" over the Mexican military positions there.
Related Articles
Left to right: Lieutenant V. D. Herbster, Lieutenant W. M. McIlvain, Lieutenant P. N. L. Bellinger, Lieutenant
Richard Saufley '08, Lieutenant J. H. Towers, Lieutenant Commander H. C. Mustin, Lieutenant (Army) B. L. Smith, Ensign
Godfrey Chevalier '10, and Ensign
Melvin Stolz '10.
Class of 1910
Melvin is one of 15 members of the Class of 1910 in Memorial Hall.
