in the Spanish–American War. One of his tasks was to bring "civilization" to the local population through missionary service. During one of his first services, on April 13, 1902, more than a hundred locals attended. After that, he held weekly services. The numbers interested fluctuated; on April 20, for example, there were only 50 in attendance, though the following week the number went back up to 75. Also, in 1902, while in Samar, he helped to wipe out a cholera epidemic threatening all there. In 1905, the Clemenses made the voyage to Mindanao, where he not only continued his missionary practice, but he also began a botanical study with guidance from his wife. In 1918 he was forced to retire from the military due to injury. He spent five months lecturing in Pennsylvania in small towns, factories, schools and churches and with the money he earned, he made an endowment to Dickinson College to support its missions. The Clemenses returned to the Philippines in 1922. There, he spent six and a half years doing evangelical work in Luzon. During this time, he baptized 16,000 people. Botanical collecting Joseph began to learn botany at his wife's prodding. She learned the study of flora after she gave up her dreams of being a musician. In 1915, while living in a mission camp and continuing to preach to the natives, Joseph and Mary made their first study together at Mount Kinabalu in North Borneo. In a period of six weeks they found and documented 101 new species of plants. In July 1931 he and his wife moved onward, leaving Luzon and the Philippines for Borneo again. There they began a plant collecting expedition which was later commissioned by the British Museum. Still having a soft spot for Dickinson College, he and Mary created the Joseph and Mary Strong Clemens Scholarship Fund for students of Dickinson who are studying the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In that same year, 1934, he and Mary had an article about them published in the Manila Bulletin, celebrating the advances that they have made in the botanical sciences. Meanwhile, he maintained contacts with his limestone alma mater half a world away, writing a letter to the college in 1935 that became an article in the Dickinson Alumnus. It describes one of his trips to the Islands, and his impressions of the natives he found there. Death Clemens