Date of birth: November 4, 1914
Date of death: March 1, 1942
Age: 27
From the 1937 Lucky Bag:
New Mortansville, West Virginia
"Snod" "Red"
Entering one's room to find his roommate reading a voluminous letter and one's own desk blotter empty is a complete sensation in itself. One stoically consoles himself, however, returns his texts to the shelf, and turns around. Behold! Three letters on that previously bare blotter. More inclined to be quiescent than loquacious, Ray delights in original reasoning. Many times, we have heard him propose a new idea for some gadget. So far, however, someone else has "beaten him to the draw." That the future may prove different is a foregone conclusion of all who know him.
Cross Country 3. Radio Club 2, 1. Company C.P.O.
New Mortansville, West Virginia
"Snod" "Red"
Entering one's room to find his roommate reading a voluminous letter and one's own desk blotter empty is a complete sensation in itself. One stoically consoles himself, however, returns his texts to the shelf, and turns around. Behold! Three letters on that previously bare blotter. More inclined to be quiescent than loquacious, Ray delights in original reasoning. Many times, we have heard him propose a new idea for some gadget. So far, however, someone else has "beaten him to the draw." That the future may prove different is a foregone conclusion of all who know him.
Cross Country 3. Radio Club 2, 1. Company C.P.O.
Ray was lost when USS Edsall (DD 219) was sunk on on March 1, 1942 by Japanese surface and air forces. He was the ship's torpedo officer.
His wife was listed as next of kin.
Ray is one of 45 members of the Class of 1937 in Memorial Hall.
