Building Men

"For roughly half a century, the name Hen Bream was indelibly linked with Gettysburg College athletics. First as a student in the 1920s, then during a long tenure as a coach and finally as Gettysburg's athletic director from 1953 to 1969, Bream contributed materially to Gettysburg's impressive record in intercollegiate athletic competition," Michael J. Birkner '72 writes in the introduction of Building Men.

Hen Bream was indeed an outsized figure in the history of Gettysburg College athletics, and Michael J. Birkner '72, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Liberal Arts and professor of history, has written the story of this colorful and influential person in Building Men: Hen Bream and Gettysburg College Athletics.

The book is available in the College Bookstore, bookstore.gettysburg.edu. We have also posted a chapter online, "‘This Darn War Won't Last Forever': Hen Bream's Boys and World War II.