Gunnison Valley News | 1925-07-16 | Page 2 | Award Degree to Dead Student who Died for It

j I-l-I-l-M 1 I I..1.4H-H-I-1-I-1-1-1-M-1-1-1- Award Degree to Dead " Student Who Died for It :: Philadelphia. The memory of a young Swedish student whose desire for an education- resulted in his death from starvation was honored at the commencement I! exercises at the University of Pennsylvania when a post-mor- ' J tern degree was awarded In the .. " name of Homer Oscar Acker-.. Acker-.. strom. I Ackerstrom died at the unl- versity hospital two months ago. He was without funds and was " working his way through college and at the same time was sending money to his mother " and his sister in Sweden, ne .. ate but little, and finally, under- ' I! nourished through what his fel- low students say was self-Im- l .. posed starvation, he contracted -" pneumonia and died. " His efforts to obtain an edu- cation so won the admiration of his classmates that they ppfl- '.l tioned the university author!- " - ties to award a post-mortem " J diploma and send it to Acker- t Strom's mother. The request " .. was granted and on the rolls of .. " the graduates the following ap-.- pears: H "Iiachelor of arts In enonom- " - les. Homer Oscar Ackerstrom -- (post mortem)." " 1 1 ! 1 I ! 1 1 1 1 I-H-H-H-