Brigadier General Calvin E. Barry was born near Meriden, Kansas on January 9, 1898. After graduation from Meriden High School he entered Washburn College and participated in the Students Army Training Corps. He later completed a business course and was employed in the Auditor of Disbursements Office of the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe general offices and quickly rose to the head of the department. He was enlisted in Headquarters & Headquarters Battery, 60th Field Artillery Brigade by another Hall of Famer, Howard S. Searle, in 1923. He was commissioned a second lieutenant July 1925. He was mobilized with the Guard in 1940 and saw action in North Africa and Italy. He received the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medals. In 1951, he became a Brigadier General assigned to Headquarters, 35th Infantry Division, and retired in February of 1958.