Did you know that from 1877 to 1917, Northwestern students staffed a campus Lifesaving Station that saved more than 400 people from drowning in Lake Michigan? The story begins one morning in 1860, when a group of Northwestern students woke to discover passengers clinging to the wreckage of the Lady Elgin, which had collided with another ship during a storm the night before...
Did you know that from 1877 to 1917, Northwestern students staffed a campus Lifesaving Station that saved more than 400 people from drowning in Lake Michigan? The story begins one morning in 1860, when a group of Northwestern students woke to discover passengers clinging to the wreckage of the Lady Elgin, which had collided with another ship during a storm the night before...
