Max Gayer memorial.AVI

Thanks to all for supporting this effort. Here is a brief video of the finished product.

The plaque's enscription says:

Max Gayer

(1943 - 2010)

Pennsylvania Miltary College, Class of '65

"Old PMC, Old PMC, your passing years mean much to me.

I miss the drill and stern commands; I miss the Colors and the Band."

Good journey, old friend.

The Alumni of the PMC Band - HQ Company

The quotation is an extract from a poem by Wilson Lowe, an 1883 alumnus. The full poem appears in a graphic within the Band exhibit at the PMC Museum.

The poem on the left side was authored by Harry Carlip '65 with some editing by me. The Old Main photo was stolen from the Widener web site and modified and colored.

This is the text of that poem:

To Our Fallen PMC Comrade

Taps sounds its final note; our day is done.
The pages our lives wrote; a story lived as one.

Separately, we made our way; yet tied by Band and Comrades all.
Years did not our bonds sway; not even the Corps' Last Call.

With luck, life's memories have no end;
and truths we learned will never bend.
Rook to Old Man, Cadets all come home;
lives complete... in the shadow of The Dome.

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