Post commander Max FISHER:
MAX FISHER (1887-1960) second commander (1920). Born in Barre. Member of the Class of 1910 at Harvard. In the Harvard College Class of 1910 Fourth Report (1921), he submitted the following account of his life after leaving school: “1910-1916: Actor. Played in everything except burlesque and a circus, including travelling and permanent stock companies, melodramas, and a season of Shakespeare as a member of Miss Anglin’s Repertoire Company. 1917-1919; Soldier. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Infantry at Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., November 27, 1917. Married November 29, 1917 at Barre, VT., to Marguerite Brown. Reported at Hoboken, N.J., January 5, 1918, for transportation overseas. Ordered to Camp Merritt, N.J., and assigned to the Camp Travis Replacement Draft Detachment No. 1 as second in command. Sailed for France January 24, 1918, on S.S. “Tuscania,” which was torpedoed off the north coast of Ireland, February 5, 1918. Completed the crossing of the Atlantic on H.M.S. “Mosquito” of the British Torpedo Boat Patrol, and landed at Buncranna Barracks, Londonderry, February 5, 1918. Moved with detachment to Ebrington Barracks, Londonderry, February 6, 1918, and to Winnaldown Camp, Winchester, England, ten days later. Arrived with detachment at the Classification Camp, St. Aignan, Loir et Cher, France, March 31, 1918. Assigned to Classification Camp as Receiving Officer, serving in that capacity until July 26, 1918; then being assigned to the 23rd Infantry, 2nd Division. Was second in command of Company M until August 25, 1918, and as Company Commander took part in the St. Mihel drive. Ordered to the Army Infantry Specialists School
October 1, 1918. On completion of the course was assigned to the school as an instructor in the Officers Course in Minor Tactics. In December produced Lord Dunsany’s play, “A Night at the Inn” with a cast of officers from the school and played the piece throughout the Langres-Chaumont area. Ordered on January 4, 1919, to Esch, Luxembourg, and was assigned as an instructor in Minor Tactics to the Fifth Division Schools at Tetange. Transferred to Division Headquarters as assistant to the entertainment officer February 1, 1919. One month later, on the death of the entertainment officer, became the entertainment officer of the Fifth Division. Produced the Fifth Division show, “Dustin’ ‘Em Off,” written by Lieutenant William F. Manley, the assistant entertainment officer (also Harvard 1920) and with Lieutenant Manley and the company of thirty-five men toured France until July 7, 1919, when we sailed for America on the S.S. “Imperator,” arriving in the United States July 13, 1919. Discharged from the service August 4, 1919 at Camp Devens, Mass. No wounds, no decorations, no regrets. 1919-120: Business man. Associated with my father and brother in the business established by my grandfather forty years ago, and conducted under his name, R.L. Clark.” R.L. Clark existed into the present decade when it was bought by Aubuchon, and the building on Prospect Street razed in 2017. Max Fisher is buried in Section N, Elmwood Cemetery (at the far northwest corner, outside the perimeter road).
