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- Prof. E.L. Overman Succumbs to “Flu”
Was one of Most Popular Members of College Faculty – Wife Also Stricken With Disease
Professor Elbert Leslie Overman of the English department of the State College, succumbed at the Northwest sanitarium at 10:00 o’clock Sunday morning from pneumonia following influenza. Prof. Overman had been very low for two days and his death was not unexpected. He was the holder of a B.A. degree from the University of Kansas, where he did a year’s post graduate work following graduation. Prior to coming To the State College in 1915 he was connected with the English department of North Central high school in Spokane.
Professor Overman was one of the most popular members of the college faculty and held a high position in the esteem of the entire student body. During the past three years he has coached the varsity debating teams and has taken his place as a debating coach without a superior in the Northwestern school.
Prof. Overman was one of the best read men on the faculty in regard to the war situation and conducted a course of lectures on “War Lima’s during the second contingent of vocational S.A.T.C. men. In the October 22 issue of “Pull Men,” the detachment paper, appeared an article by Prof. Overman, in which he urged that, under the existing conditions, “No American soldier or citizen can afford to assume anything else that that the war may go on indefinitely.”
Peculiar distress is attached to the death of Prof. Overman through the fact that Mrs. Overman, who was formerly Miss Marion Gray of Spokane, is herself stricken with the disease that claimed the life of her husband. Mrs. Overman graduated from the State College with the class of 1915, receiving her degree in home economics. Soon afterward she became the wife of Prof. Overman. No children survive.
Pullman Herald, Pullman, Washington. Friday, 1 November 1918.
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