Harry Potter Award Goes to Darby Youth

Pennsylvania, 1929

Exchange Club Presents Watch to S. T. Herb

While Colonel Lewis S. Sorley, chief of staff of the Seventy-Ninth Division, U. S. Army, looked on, Samuel T. Herb, of Darby, yesterday was presented with the Harry W. Potter award for proficiency in Citizens' Military Training Camp work, by the Exchange Club of Chester.

The presentation is made every year by the club to the young man from Delaware county selected as having the highest grade at the conclusion of two weeks training under C.M.T.C. officers at Port Houston, Texas, and Fort Howard, Baltimore. Md. The award is in memory of Lieutenant Harry W. Potter, of this city, who served in the World War. He died about four years ago and is buried in the National Cemetery, Arlington.

—Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Dec. 6, 1929, p. 1.