William W. L. Dube

Rank: Private, U.S. Army

Serial: 32953316

Unit: Troop A, 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Group

Entered service from: New Jersey

Died: December 18, 1944

Buried at: Beverly National Cemetery, Beverly, NJ (Plot F O 1544)

Awards: Purple Heart

Private William W. L. Dube was born in New Haven, Connecticut on August 15, 1923, the eighth of eleven children born to Wilfred J. and Henrietta Dube. Wilfred Dube, a tool maker by trade, was from Massachusetts; his wife Henrietta was French Canadian. The family lived in Massachusetts originally, and had moved to Connecticut by 1920. The Dube family moved to Camden NJ sometime in the 1930s, and lived at 712 Penn Street, not far from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. The Dube family also had ties to Ansonia CT, and several of the Dube children later moved there.

William Dube attended Burrough Junior High School and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School on Federal Street in Camden in 1941. One of five brothers who served America during World War II, he was inducted into the United States Army on July 3, 1943.

Private Dube underwent basic training and in January of 1943 he completed training at the Armored Replacement Center at Fort Knox KY. He was subsequently assigned to Troop A, 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 102nd Cavalry Group, which served as a forward reconnaissance and screening unit.

Private Dube was killed in action while laying anti-tank mines in front of the troop sector near Monschau, Germany along with Private Robert C. Wynn of New York on December 18, 1944.

After the war, William Dube was brought home aboard the USAT Joseph V. Connolly, arriving October 27, 1947. He was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ on November 20, 1947. Survivors included his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Dube, Sr., seven brothers George, Hermis, Edward, Henry, Paul, Roland, and Wilfred Jr., and three sisters. William Dube’s father Wilfred J. Dube is not to be confused with Wilfred L. Dube, who had a long career in law enforcement and who eventually rose to the rank of Chief of Detectives of the Camden County Prosecutor’s office and later operated a private detective agency in Camden.

Junior High Awards Made by Principal Trembath in Special Assembly

9A-2 Girl Is Leader

Honor certificates, scholarship pins, music buttons, athletic letters and championship awards were presented to pupils of Burrough Junior High School during a special assembly program yesterday by Principal T. W. Trembath.

Students receiving honor certificates for outstanding contributions to all-around school life included:

Highest honor scholarship, Mildred June Allen, 9A-2; honor scholarships, Norma A. Canzanese, 9A-1; Eleanor Spector, 9A-1; Dora Anna Wagner, 9A-3; Anna Mae Winstanley, 9A-1; Robert Bowell, 9A-4; Jeanette Norma Lalli, 9A-2; and Ethelyn Blessing, 9A-3.

English — Albert Kreger, 8A-2; history and geography, Mary Colalillo 8B-1; science, William Anderson, 9B-4 and Charles Metz, 9B-5; mathematics junior business, Leslie Hudson, 8A-1 and Norman Glenn, 8A-3.

Club leaderships: dancing, Mildred June Allen, 9A-2; checkers, Louis Cooper, 9A-1; puzzlers, Lena Santangelo, 8A-5; council, Gloria Keefe, 9B-1; girl reserve, Margaret Cowgill, 9B-1; editors, Eleanor Spector, 9A-1, and library, Jeanette Norma Lalli, 9A-2.

Library Awards Made

School servicing, William S. Gibson, 9A-4 and Bruno Melchionni, 9A-5; library service, Virginia Carsley, 8A-1, Virginia Shearer 8A-5, Esther Biasi 8A-6 and Elizabeth Kracht 9A-1; stage managing, Bruno Melchionni 9A-5, Emil Meloni 9A-5 and Charles Merkh 9A-5.

Homeroom leadership, Herbert Foltz 8A-7, George Charles Turnbull, 9A-3, Hazel Pine, 9B-4, Mary Colalillo 8B-1, Patsy Marcotulli, 8A-4 and Daniel Starr 8B-2.

Student government: Health chief, Anna Mae Winstanley, 9A-1; council and court, Carmella Julia Marchisella 9A-2.

Students receiving “A” averages for the year received pins in school colors inscribed “honor student.” “B” averages were scholarship.

Glee club members of merit got the award of a pin in school colors bearing a music staff and quarter notes.

‘B’s Awarded In Sports

Students representing their class in four consecutive intra-mural sports received the block letter “B” for sweaters. Certificates were awarded to girls’ championship class teams in volleyball and Newcomb.

Ninth grade “A” averages were made by: Norma Canzanese, Eleanor Spector, June Allen, Jennie Garramona, Jeanette Lalli, Jeanett Kaplan, Doranna Wagner, Ethelyn Blessing, Robert Bowell, Edna Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Chase, Zelda Berlin, George McClellan and Josephine Beldina.

Ninth grade “B” averages were made by: Anna Mae Winstanley, Louis Cooper, David Cohen, Millie Marzilli, Betty Cramer, Rita Puleo, Arvida Peterson, May Pasell, Elvira Polidore, Althea Young, Dorinda Todd, Kenneth Ennis, Anthony Di Servio, Theodore Bunalski, Lillian Jenkins, Neno DeMarco, Bruno Melchionni, Leslie Hudson, Myra Schaffer, Nicola Pompeano, Gloria Keefe, Marian Jarvis, Clarence Monk, Charles Thompson, Elizabeth Blair, Elizabeth Olive, Joseph Thompson, Edith Andrews, Harry Marsh, Nan Converse, Bertha Feldman, Dolores McCormick, Evelyn Molotsky, William Anderson, Ida Rabinowitz, Anthony Ambrosino, Thelma Thomas, Charles Metz, William Dube, Orville Showers, William Johnson, Frank Hoffmeister, William Smith, Nicola Seneglia, Anthony Petrome.

Many Excel in 8th Grade

Eighth grade ‘A’ averages were made by Emma Downing, Leonard Hudson, Frederick Robertson, George Richterman, Albert Kreger, Russell Pierce, Herman Kripitz, Norman Glenn, Bernard Lentz, Howard Haines, Mary Garner, Mary Colalillo, Armando Cardillo.

Eighth grade “B” averages were made by Ella Durham, Margaret Fields, Sherman Freed, Martha Fish, William Hench, Armond Capanna, Rose Cianci, Robert Gray, Dorothy Davis, Dorothy Terry, Jack Kates, Edith Lukoff, Leonard Muscioscia, Miriam Van Sciver, Virginia Carsley, Henrietta Griffith, Jessie Odell, Edward Zane, Marjorie O’Brien, Yolanda Di Filippa, Palma Ferri, William Cox, Arleen Edwards, Penelope Marlys, Carmella Gallo,