THE TEXAS AGGIE
MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943
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SPORTS PARADE
Once Over Lightly
... Manning Smith’s Aggie basket-4
pall team did not come even close
to winning the championship but
gave the customers the best run
for their money they have had in
many years so far as basketball is
concerned. That final game in Aus-
tin was a rip-snorting affair. Nosed
out by two points, the cadets still
gave an excellent account of them-
selves. - - - Bill Henderson, who has
already made more varsity athletic
letters than any other Aggie ath-
lete in history will try for his 11th
and 12th this spring. He is almost
a cinch in track and may pick up
an extra letter in swimming. - - -
Spring football is over and the
Aggies looked better than was ex-
pected. Standouts were Barney
Welch and Otto Payne in the back-
field. Both lettered last fall. - - -
1st. Lts. John Kimbrough and Jim
Thomason and 2nd. Lt. Derace Mos-
er, great Aggie footballers of the
past few years, are all taking
flight training in the Army Air
Forces. Ernie Pannell, all confer-
ence tackle in 1939-40 has been
commissioned an ensign in the
Navy. Marshall Robnett, all-Amer-
ican guard in 1940 is on duty at
the new Bryan Air Field and slat-
ed soon for pilot training and OCS.
- - - Baseball and track coming up.
Diamond prospects are good—track
poor. - - - College athletics are
hanging on the ropes, what with
travel difficulties and even more
binding, loss of personnel that is
approaching a complete black-out.
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here is mighty interesting, as we run trips
from one end of North Africa to another.
I have been lucky enough to have one
A. & M. buddy, CAPT. JOHN W. BLA-
LOCK, ’36, with me since flying school
days . . . Through THE TEXAS AGGIE,
Johnny and I say ‘howdy’ to all our class-
mates and buddies wherever they may be.”
ENSIGN GEORGE M. LIPSCOMB, Port
Arthur, is with the U. S. Naval Reserves
and is located at 1301 Cloncurry Road,
Norfolk, Va.
CAPT. ROSS I. MILLER IS REPORTED
TO BE A PRISONER OF WAR AND IN
A JAPANESE PRISON CAMP, ACCORD-
ING TO WORD RECEIVED BY HIS
MOTHER, MRS. C. I. MILLER, Route 3,
Bryan, Texas.
LT. BRYAN E. MITCHELL, JR., writes
from A.P.O. 512, New York City: “LT.
CHAS. J. KEESE, ’41, and LT. BERNARD
C. RICHARDSON, °’40, are along in the
same outfit with me. We all landed here
in French North Africa along with the
invasion force early in November. I've seen
quite a number of German and Italian sol-
diers, and am convinced that we’ll beat the
socks off them very shortly.”
LT. HENRY L. NAYLOR is on foreign
duty and his address is A.P.O. No. 24,
¢, Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. Nay-
lor likes his assignment and finds the
country most beautiful.
CAPT. AND MRS. A. G. NEELLEY were
recent campus visitors. They are stationed
at Fort Knox, Ky.
LT. ROY A. NICHOLS is with the
Auto. Sec. 0. U. T. C., Camp Perry, Ohio.
He reports having seen quite a few Aggies.
LT. FRANK M. POOL has been trans-
ferred to Camp Campbell, Ky., Has. 20th
Armored Div. He recently passed through
Texas enroute to his new assignment, and
has he been around.
ARTHUR REAGOR, JR. has changed
his address to 305 South Hedgecoke, Bor-
ger, Texas.
LT. JOHN G. REYNOLDS has been
promoted to the rank of captain. Capt.
Reynolds is now serving as company com-
mander in a Rifle Training Battalion at
Camp Wolters.
LT. EDWIN C. SIMS, JR. of the Army
Air Forces Bombardier School at Big
Spring, has been appointed commanding
officer of a Bombardier Training Squad-
ron. He is a native of Dallas.
LT. BILLY G. SMITH recently gradu-
ated from Air Corps Officers Candidate
School, Miami Beach, Fla., and is now
Bomber Liaison Officer, A. P. O. 825, %
Postmaster, New Orleans, La. His perma-
nent address is Jacksonville.
G. P. SMITH is attending U. S. N. R.
Midshipmen’s School at Notre Dame Uni-
versity, Notre Dame, Indiana, where his
address is Room 357, Badin Hall. He re-
ports that the course is fine “and the
system a lot like the Aggie system.” His
permanent address is Box 684, Orange,
Texas.
LT. THOMAS D. STEVENS now re-
ceives his mail through A. P. O. No. 77,
Shreveport, La.
The new Army air base west of Gaines-
ville, Texas, will be known as Woodruff
Field. The field has been named in honor
of the late First Lieutenant Dennis H.
Woodruff, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Woodruff of Gainesville, killed in an Army
airplane crash at Fort Richards, Alaska,
last April.
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Wedding Bells—ENSIGN JACK W.
ADAIR, ENSIGN H. CONLY SHURTLIFF,
LT. EDWIN A. FELDER, JR., LT. JACK
RICHARDS.
Proud Papa—JULIUS J. POST, T. H.
SEAY, CAPT. BEN H. ROBERTS.
JACK W. ADAIR, Dallas; JOEL KA-
RIN, San Antonio, and ERNEST W. PAN-
NEL, Waco, were recently commissioned
as Ensigns in the U. S. N. R. from the
Naval Training School at Columbia TUni-
versity, N. Y. They are now enroute to
new assignments.
CAPT. JAMES T. ANDERSON was re-
cently elevated to that rank at Camp Wol-
ters, Texas. On duty at this station for
more than 16 months, Capt. Anderson has
shown superior ability in several key posi-
tions he has held, it was announced. He
has served as battalion supply officer,
regimental supply officer, and in his pres-
ent assignment, as company officer. He
was formerly graduated from the stiff
Rifle and Heavy Weapons Training Course
at Fort Benning, Ga.
THURMAN R. ATKINS
2718 Colonial, Waco, Texas.
JOSEPH F. BLANTON has changed
his residence from 4500 Caroline Blvd,
in Houston to 3741 Del Monte Drive.
CAPT... M. H. BOULTER, JR. is.=2
squadron commander at Luke Field, Ariz.
Of WALTER BRITTEN, Groom, THE
BRYAN EAGLE says: “We are proud of
Britten. He is going places with his auec-
tieneering. Just another product of A. &
WM. that makes good.”
RICHARD W. CARTER wishes to notify
his friends that his address is: 723 State
Qffice Building, Lansing, Mich.
CAPT. W. A. COLLINS, JR. is based
at Fort Benning, Ga. He recently was on
furlough to visit his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Collins, Sr. in Crockett.
LT. ROSS H. CORLETT, JR. has been
in Australia more than a year. His mail
is living at
should be addressed A. P. O.
Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
CAPT. WALLACE E. CRAIN is starting
the Air Force Preflight course in San
Antonio and is living at 720 N. Palmetto
of that city.
W. J. DAVIS gets his mail at 1806
State Street, Big Spring, Texas.
LT. JOHN M. DIXON,, of Lewisville,
is in Ward 19 of the Stark General Hos-
pital, Charleston, S. C. Dixon has been
in different hospitals since September,
1942, and he has no idea as to when he
may be released.
LT. LEE A. DOLBERRY, Abilene, re-
cently completed three months of bombing
operations over target areas greater than
the size of Germany. His civilian home is
in Midland, Texas.
THOMAS A. FORTSON, formerly of
Shreveport, La., has moved to Lafayette,
La., where he lives at 304 St. Patrick St.
LT. JAMES J. GALLAGHER is a stu-
dent officer of Pilot Training at Hicks
Field, Texas. Other Aggies there are:
LT. JIM N. THOMASON, ’41, and LT.
JAMES R. ROBERTS, ’37.
LT. WALTER E. HABERER, San An-
tonio, recently received the wings of aerial
navigator at Hondo, Texas.
AVIATION CADET ORMONDE D.
HATCHER has been transferred from
Santa Ana, California to AT, 1D.
Ontario, California.
The promotion of ANDREW J. HEN-
DRICK, Marlin, to the rank of captain
has been announced at the Eagle Pass
Army Base.
LT. EMIL G. HOLM has moved from
4309 Wilman, Houston to 3015 Carnegie,
same city.
LT. KENNETH M. IRBY is flying trans-
ports somewhere in North Africa. He is
from Simms, Texas.
E. R. (BUSTER) KEETON has received
his captaincy and is assigned to the Tank
Destroyer School, Radio Theory Section,
at Camp Hood, Texas.
LOUIS T. KILGORE is an Army avia-
tion cadet in training at Yale University.
He gets his mail at Box 1742 Yale Station,
New Haven, Conn.
CAPT. L. L. KILPATRICK is with the
XII Air Force, A.P.O. 650, U. S. Army,
New York, N. Y. He says it is a ‘real
pleasure to sit down and read THE AG-
GIE and find out where the classmates
are and what they are doing. It gives you
that ‘old feeling’ that every Aggie always
has . . . I ran across Chase Holland, Jr.,
’41, and he was sporting first lieutenant’s
bars. He is also an administrative officer
in the Air Corps and graduated in June,
1942. We did a little strutting together.”
LT. F. R. “DICK” LEWIS writes from
A.P.O. No. 302, % Postmaster, New York,
N. Y., and says: “The number of Aggies
in this theater is staggering. They're doing
a good job, too. A few of us got together
a couple of nights before Christmas and
had a good Aggie party at a French night
club where we were. Francs were flowing
out, champagne was flowing in, and the
‘bull’ was flowing in every direction. Be-
fore it was over, we had everyone in the
house wishing they too had been privileged
to go to A. & M.”
LT. WM. R. “BILL” LOUDERBACK,
Wichita Falls, is with the Service Co.,
167th Infantry, A.P.O. No. 31, Camp
Shelby, Miss.
LT. BERNARD E. LUDEMAN has been
transferred from Perrin Field, Sherman,
Texas, to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas.
CAPT. THOMAS L. MARSHALL has
been transferred from Perrin Field, Texas
to the A. A. F. Preflight School, San An-
tonio, Texas.
A/C JOHN D. McBRIDE, JR., of Cor-
pus Christi, is a member of the Class
43-E at Randolph Field, Texas.
LT. HARRY W. McKEE is attending
the Army Air Forces Advance Flying
School at Douglas, Arizona. :
CPL. CALVIN V. MILBURN is a mem-
ber of Officer Candidate Class No. 64 at
Fort Sill, Okla.
HOWARD W. MONZINGO has resigned
as assistant county agricultural agent for
Dallas County in order to go on active
military duty.
EUGENE C. “JEEP” OATES, formerly
associated with the Publicity Department
of the College, is on duty with the Head-
quarters Division at Camp White, Oregon.
LT. ROY W. OLBRICH was recently
promoted to a first lieutenant. He is on
foreign duty and gets his mail at A.P.O.
922, ¢ Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
He said he had just received the Decem-
ber 14 issue of the TEXAS AGGIE.
LT. RICHARD F. PHLLIPS is on duty
somewhere in the South Pacific. He was
recently the recipient of a photograph cf
himself which had in some manner become
lost from a Christmas package addressed
to him and found by an Aggie friend who
was assisting in salvaging the Red Cross
“unclaimed” packages, hundreds of miles
from its destination. This undisclosed friend
recognized Phillips’ face in the photograph
and, knowing his address, forwarded it on
to him. The rest ef the Christmas package
had been spoiled by sea water.
LT. JAMES N. PAXTON, JR., Houston,
is at Hunter Field, Ga., where he is serv-
ing with a bombardment squadron.
WILLIAM B. PIERCE, Mt. Vernon, is
beginning training as an aviation cadet
at Randolph Field, Texas.
LT. FRANK E. RUSK is on overseas
duty and wants his AGGIE sent to A.P.O.
520, % Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
LT. LAWRENCE E. SAMPLE is on
active duty with the 351st C. A., Sl. Bn.,
Camp Stewart, Georgia.
500, %
McElroy Leaves
Publicity Dept
To Serve in Navy
Will Join Sea Bees,
Naval Construction
Battalion, March 15
H. B. (Mac) McElroy, assistant
director of publicity at Texas A. &
M. College since 1937, resigned his
position effective March 15 to en-
ter the Navy in the Sea Bees Con-
struction Battalion. McElroy will
leave for Norfolk, Virginia next
Monday for an unspecified period
before finally being sent overseas.
A former student at A. & M,,
McElroy helped found the now pop-
ular football statistics and was the
official Southwest Conference stat-
istician until 1942 when his other
work required the maximum of his
time.
In addition to his duties with
the college he also served as cor-
respondent for the Associated
Press, United Press, International
News Service, and several Texas
and Eastern newspapers. His ar-
ticles on A. & M. also appeared in
many prominent magazines, the
latest of which was “The Fighting
Aggies Fight On,” which appeared
in the December issue of “Esquire.”
He served in World War I with
the Quartermaster Corps and saw
action in France and England.
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM L. SHIRLEY is
on foreign service and has been moved
often. He has seen service in England,
Northern Ireland, and is now back in
England.
WARREN S. SMITH has enlisted in the
Marine Corps and is in training at Parris
Island, S. C. In civilian life he was a
geophysical engineer practicing in Hous-
ton.
LT. VOLNEY B. STUBB’S address is
now Company B, Student Regiment, Tank
Destroyer School, Camp Hood. On March
5th his address will be changed to T. D.
R. T. C., Camp Hood, Texas.
LT. WILBUR H. SYNNOTT is stationed
at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, where he
gets his mail through A. P. O. No. 38.
RALPH F. THOMPSON is a lieutenant
with the Chemical Warfare Service and
can be reached through the following mail-
ing address: ASC Base Unit No. 2, APO
627, ¢% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
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Wedding Bells—ENSIGN CLAUDE C.
NATHAN, JR., LT. LEROY BROWN, JR.,
LT. NATHANIEL BROWN FOWLER, LT.
JAMES R. STRACENER.
Proud Papa—AVIATION CADET ROB-
ERT M. WARREN.
LT. JAMES O. ALEXANDER, JR. has
been transferred from Camp Maxey to
Fort Reno, Oklahoma, where he is with a
remount station.
The following ’42 men are “staging a
reunion’ at Randolph Field, the West
Point of the Air. They hope to meet again
soon over the “skies of Tokyo and Ber-
lin”: LT. RALPH M. CRISWELL, Cal-
Lert; LT. SAM E. BROWN, Dalhart; and
LT. WILLIAM C. JENN, Houston.
WILLIAM B. BARRON, JR. recenlly
was commissioned an Ensign at the U. S.
Naval Air Training Center at Corpus
Christi, Texas. He was formerly employed
by the Daily Plant Creamix Corporation,
Houston. He is a native of Wellborn, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Barron, Sr.
LT. WILLIAM E. BRUCE, Odessa, was
recently graduated from Lubbock Field.
J. W. CLAYTON’S latest address is
400 N. Wood Ave., Florence, Ala.
LT. FRED A. COLEY has been in over-
seas service since October. His address is
A.P.O. 615, ¢, Postmaster, New York, N.
Y. His civilian address is Box 733, Omaha,
Texas.
LT. EMERSON CONNELL has been
promoted to a first lieutenant and his ad-
dress is AAF Station 597, A.P.O. 636,
¢% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
CAPT. CHARLES S. CRISTOL is sta-
tioned at the Army Air Forces Navigation
School at Hondo, Texas.
LT. RALPH M. CRISWELL’S new ad-
dress is 462 E. French Place, San Antonio.
He was formerly at Fort Worth.
JOSEPH K. DEW sends his contribution
from 121 E. Hillerest Blvd., Inglewood,
Calif., with the folowing statement: “To
help bring up the class of ’42’s pereent-
age.”
LT. LOUIS C. DRAPER’'S new address
is 6th Tow Target Sqdn., U. S. A. A. F,,
Biggs Field, Texas.
GERALD H. EASTERLY is en foreign
duty and gets his mail through APO 6916.
% Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. East-
erly was president of the Rural Sociology
Club in his senior year.
LT. WILLIAM A. GOFORTH is sta-
tioned with the 13th Training Regiment at
Camp Robinson, Ark.
LT. ELWYN F. “PETE” GUMMELT is
with the Marine Corps and is right in the
“middle of it” on an undisclosed island.
He says CHARLES SPRADLEY, ’43, is
the only other Aggie he has seen there in
his outfit. Lt. Gummelt’s address is: Ma-
rine Corps Unit No. 990, % Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif.
LT. MARVIN E. HALL of the Quarter-
master Corps is receiving his mail at APO
3405, % Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
JOHN H. HARING of Houston is tak-
ing advanced training at Yale University
for a commission as a technical armament
officer. Haring was a junior engineer with
the Eastern States Oil Corporation before
volunteering for service.
LT. RANSOM D. KENNY, JR. is with
the 27th C. A. T. B., Battery D, at Camp
Wallace, Texas.
LT. JACK LAMBERSON is now doing
instrument work, formation and night
flying at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.
LTS. DOTSON, SMITHERS, and ROL-
LINS are still in the same outfit with
Jack.
LT. BROOKS MARTIN has been re-
ported wounded in action with the Ameri-
can armed forces in North Africa. Before
entering the service of the Army, he was
connected with an architectural firm in
Bryan, Texas. Mrs. Martin lives in Dallas.
LT. ROBERT H. McLARN, JR. of a
Signal Construction Company is on foreign
duty and gets his mail through APO 35230,
¢ Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
LT. GEORGE OGDEE has been recently
transferred from Camp Roberts to A.P.O.
4090, ¢% Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
He admits that he “sure misses the college.
If it takes Texas Aggies to win this war,
we’ll do it.”
LT. FRED T. O'KEEFE is now at the
Officer Training School, San Antonio
Aviation Cadet Center, San Antonio, Texas.
JEWEL C. RAMAGE has received his
first lieutenancy. He is with the 58th Q.
M. Co., Fort Bragg, N. C.
WINSTON G. SMITH was promoted to
the rank of first lieutenant on January
14. He has also moved from the San An-
tonio Aviation Cadet Center to the Army
Air Forces Gulf Coast Training Center,
Randolph Field, Texas, where he is as-
sistant ordnance officer. Smith gets his
mail at Box 321, Randolph Field.
G. M. (JIM) STONE is working in the
Technical Section of the Engineering De-
partment at North American Aviation.
Inglewood, California. He lives at 122
East Spruce Street.
LT. ALFRED E. SWINNEY is stationed
at the Air Depot Training Station at
Albuquerque, N. Mex.
LT. TERRY THRIFT, JR. is on assign-
ment at Yuma, Arizona.
LTS. ALBERT T. TOWNS, Georgetown,
and EDWARD C. DAVIS, JR., Houston,
were raduated in February from one cof
the Gulf Coast fighter and bomber pilot
training centers, U. S. Air Force.
Camp Sibert, Ala.
February 1, 1943.
Dear Mac:
Just a word to let you know how the
Ex-Aggie situation is at this camp way
down here in ’Bama.
Practically all of the boys have gotten
married that graduated from the 1942
class. It seems to be a vogue. There are
a few of the stouter breed still holding
out though.
We got your last issue of the paper and
were glad to hear from our old buddies.
Be sure to keep us on your mailing list.
Here is how the situation looks at Camp
Sibert, Alabama: (In all cases the rank
mentioned is the result of recent promo-
tions).
Married: 1st. Lt. Clyde H. Westbrook,
’42 ; 1st. Lt. Clifton O. Duty, ’42; 1st. Lt.
Ener Nelson, 42; 1st. Lt. William Goins,
’42 ; Capt. Lee Carson, ‘41; Capt. August
Bischoff, ’41; 1st. Lt. Clarence Moritz, '42:
1st. Lt. Russell Yankee, ’42.
Still happy: Capt. C. H. Colgin, ‘41;
1st. Lt. Scott Stubbs, ’42; 1st. Lt. J. F.
Elliott, ’42; 1st. Lt. Ray J. Edwards, 42.
Enclosed will be two five dollar checks
to help along toward a very successful
campaign. We hope to return some day
and see a brilliant new Union Building
on the A. & M. campus, thanks to Uncle
Sam.
(In view of the above classifications and
in the light of more years of experience
as a married man than these brash young-
sters, the editor is deleting the signatures
on the above letter).
HARRY E. WHITMORE is living at
907% North Washington, Junction City,
Kans.
LT. JOHN R. BANISTER III wants his
mail sent to 1804% W. 6th Street, Austin,
Texas. Banister, when last heard from
was in the vicinity of Constantine, which
is some 100 miles west of Tunis, North
Africa.
MAURICE H. BARNES, JR. writes
that he cannot disclose where he is but
that he is with the Navy “Seabees.” His
address is Navy 8145-H2 U. S. N. R.,
% Fleet P. O., San Francisco, Calif.
ENSIGN CHARLES G. BASHAM is at
the U. S. Coast Guard Patrol Base at
St. Simons Island, Ga. He writes, “If I
have any friends anywhere, I'd like to hear
from them.”
CADET NEILAN BEMIS is in the sec-
ond phase of his flight training ‘at the
Army Air Forces Basic Flying School,
Garden City, Kansas. While at A. & M.,
he was on the swimming and tennis teams.
He received his primary training at Cim-
arron Field, Oklahoma City, Okla.
2ND. LT. BILLY F. BOLTON, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Bolton of Sulphur
Springs, has been awarded the Certificate
of Merit as a Superior Instructor at the
Branch Immateriel Replacement Center,
Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, where
he has been stationed since he left A. & M.
last May.
LT. SAM E. BROWN, New Braunfels,
is beginning training as an aviation cadet
at Randolph Field, Texas.
LT. ROY E. BUCEK, former Aggie grid-
iron star, has been transferred to the 56th
Battalion, Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark.
2ND. LT. LELON T. CAMP, Q.M.C.
Officer in Charge of General Supplies at
the New Cumberland Quartermaster De-
pot, New Cumberland, Pa., was recently
promoted to first lieutenant. Camp has
been in the Army since his graduation.
CHAPLAIN (1ST. LT.) JAMES A. CAR-
LIN, formerly pastor of the College Sta-
tion Methodist Church, is Post Chaplain
at Olmsted Field, Middletown, Pa.
ROWLAND T. CLARE has been com-
missioned a second lieutenant. He is locat-
ed at Fort Monroe, Va., Randolph Hall,
Annex A.
FRED A. COLEY, Omaha,
promoted to a first lieutenant.
been overseas since last Octeber.
LT. RALPH M. CRISWELL, of Calvert,
Texas, is ome of the members of Class
43-E at Randolph Field, Texas.
LT. JOSEPH A. DODGE has been as-
signed to the Field Artillery at Camp
Gruber, Okla.
LT. B. S. DUDLEY, JR., Ranger, writes
from Marine Corps Unit No. 825, ¢% Post-
master, San Francisco, Calif., where he
has been
He has
has been for three months. He sends greet-
ings to every Aggie, and especially the
members of the February graduating class.
LT. GEORGE D. GANZ writes that he
was really supprised to read in a recent
issue of THE AGGIE where somebody had
reported having eaten two eggs for break-
fast because ‘in the first four months I
was in England, Scotland, and Wales, I
had only five eggs, and one of those was
off the record.” Lt. Ganz receives his mail
through A.P.O. 640, % Postmaster, New
York, N. Y.
LT. RUEL N. GUINN is on duty in
India. He gets his mail through A.P.O.
10443, ¢ Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
PVT. JOHN B. HAYNES wants his
AGGIE sent to A.P.O. 647, % Postmaster,
New York, N. Y.
LT. JIMMIE HILL, son of COL. AND
MRS. RALPH E. HILL, ’17, of Jackson-
ville, Fla., is now on patrol duty on the
border out of Santa Anna, N. M. He re-
ceived his commission in the cavalry at
A. & M. and was graduated in September
from the Cavalry School at Fort Riley,
Kansas.
NAVAL AVIATION CADET AUSTIN
M. HINDS, JR., of Tye, Texas, has com-
pleted three months physical conditioning
and ground school work at the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School at Athens, Ga., and has
been ordered to the Naval Air Station at
Memphis, Tenn., for primary flight train-
ing.
A/C J. A. JOHNSON is in training at
the Armament School of the Air Corps,
and he says: “It is the toughest school
I ever encountered. They recently moved
us to Yale University . . . There is one
member of the class of ’43, J. P. FERGU-
SON, in my class, and we enjoy reading
THE AGGIE no end . . . I would like
to hear from members of Landscape Class
of ’42 if you will mention it.” Johnson
has his mail sent to his civilian home:
Box 157, Ranger, Texas.
LT. JOHN M. JONES, JR., son of Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Jones of Bryan, is at
Fort Bliss with the 12th Regiment, Troop
C, Cavalry. He was promoted to a first
lieutenant in January.
LT. WM. C. JENN, Houston, is begin-
ning training as an aviation cadet at Ran-
dolph Field, Texas.
DURWARD LEWTER gets his mail at
Box 1837, Abilene, Texas.
LT. B. R. McCONNELL, JR. is getting
his mail at A.P.O. 4150, ¢ Postmaster,
New York City, N. Y. He was married
on February 3 at Aberdeen Proving
Ground.
NOEL H. McROBERTS, Dallas, was one
of the 59 aviation cadets to complete
their primary flight training at the Grand
Prairie Naval Air Station near Dallas.
McRoberts has been ordered to Corpus
Christi where he hopes to receive his
wings after three months of advanced
flight training.
LT. MATTHEW H. MARTIN, III re-
cently graduated from the Cavalry School
at Fort Riley, Kansas and has been trans-
ferred to Fort Washington, Md., where he
is a student in the Censorship School.
Upon completion of his course there, he
will be assigned to the Military Intelli-
gence Branch of the Service. His civilian
home is in Charlotte, Texas.
FRANCIS B. MURPHY has received
his promotion to first lieutenant. He is
overseas and receives his mail at A.P.O.
528-2, ¢, Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
He mentioned seeing LT. SAM KESNER,
’42, who also had been promoted to a first
lieutenant.
LT. GEORGE OGDEE
Camp Roberts, Calif.
LT. W. C. O’ KELLEY gets his mail at
A.P.O. 10775, % Postmaster, New York,
N. Y. He is somewhere in the middle East
and reports there are several Aggies with
him. :
LT. WILLIAM M. PENA has completed
the Officers Course at Fort Benning and
is now at Camp Roberts, Calif. LT. MIL-
TON RUBLE, ’43, is also at Camp Rob-
erts.
RALPH POCHMAN writes from the
U. S. Naval Air Station, Sitka, Alaska:
“I'm a civil service employee of the Navy,
and have comfortable quarters; but women
are even scarcer here than at A. and M.,
if that’s possible . . All told, I guess
we're well off.”
CHARLES RAY RICHARDSON, Tren-
ton, recently was graduated from U. S.
Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School, New
York City, and received the commission
of Ensign. He has reported to Norfolk,
Va., for duty. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Richardson, live at Trenton.
ENS. HAROLD RICHTER, Laredo, js
a naval flyer and at last reports was sta-
tioned at Norfolk, Va.
LT. W. M. RINGGOLD, formerly of
Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, has been trans-
ferred to the 384th Bomb., Wendover, Utah.
LT. JOHN F. ROUGAGNAC has been
selected for training as aerial observer
at Brooks Field, San Antonio. Prior to
his selection he served for seven months
in the air forces and attended the Officer
Training School at Miami Beach, Fla.
Rougagnac was associated with the City
of Houston before entering the air forces.
LT. DAVID S. SHELTON, Houston, was
transferred from Camp Maxey to Ft. Reno,
Okla., where he is assigned to a Q. M.
Remount Squadron.
LT. A. L. SMITH, JR., son of Mr. and
Mrs. A .L. SMITH, ’19, of the Texas A.
& M. Extension Service, has been on a
visit to his parents in Bryan. Smith has
been stationed at Camp White, Oregon,
for the past several months but is now
being transferred to Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
HENRY C. STOKES, Beaumont; GEO.
L. STANFORD, Linden; and CHARLES
R. RICHARDSON, Trenton, were recently
commissioned Ensigns in the U. S. N. R.
from the Naval Training School at Co-
lumbia University, N. Y. They are now
enroute to new assignments.
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GARRISON P. SMITH, of Orange, is
attending the U. S. N. R. M. S., at Notre
Dame + University, Notre Dame, Indiana.
1ST. LT. E. A. STERLING, JR., who is
in the Ordnance Department, Camp Shel-
by, Miss., is now on detached service at-
tending Ordnance School at Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland. He is the son
of MAJOR E. A. STERLING, ’15, Ogden,
Utah.
LT. JOE STOKES is with a Parachute
Battalion and gets his mail at A.P.O.
468, Hoffman, N. C.
LT. HARRY I. THOMPSON, JR. reports
that “Aggies are all over the world. I tell
you, they are everywhere. 1 hadn’t been
here but two days before I had run across
two Aggies. I hear there are at least 15
in camp here. I'd like to meet them.” Lt.
Thompson receives his mail through A. P.
0. No. 83, Camp Atterbury, Ind.
LT. WARREN N. TOMLINSON, Dallas,
was recently graduated from the Infantry
Officers Candidate School, Fort Benning,
Ga., and has been assigned as an instruc-
tor at Camp Wolters.
D. C. THURMAN is with the State
Health Department as Assistant Ento-
mologist and makes his headquarters in
Austin.
A/C DELLIE R. VOELKEL, Yoakum,
is taking Pre-flight training at the Santa
Ana Army Air Base, Santa Ana, Califor-
nia. He is finding his work most interest-
ing.
DR. GEO. M. GRIMES has moved from
Covington, Tenn., to Ripley, Tenn.
1943
Wedding Bells—DR. DONALD ARTHUR
CRIPPEN, CHARLES E. WHITSON, LT.
JOE D. LEACH, CPL. JOHN M. LAW-
RENCE, III.
CANDIDATE CHARLES E. BAILEY,
8rd Company, Officer Candidate School,
U. S. A., Fort Knox, Ky., reports that he
is getting along fine and working hard.
His home address is Dallas, Texas.
A/C W. W. BEAM, Denison, attending
A. A. F. T. S., Group II, is addressed:
McClellan Hall, Room 304, Yale Univer-
sity, New Haven, Conn.
AUBREY W. “BILL” BUCHANAN,
Weatherford, wants his TEXAS AGGIE
sent to the U. S. Naval Training School,
Lyons Hall, Section 6, Notre Dame, In-
diana.
LT. THOMAS A. DUKE has been trans-
ferred to Fort Monroe, Va., Randolph Hall
Annex A. He was recently commissioned
a second lieutenant.
CADET FREDERICK FUHRMANN is in
training at Q. M. S., Camp Lee, Va. Other
’43 men at the Q. M. School are: CADET
ALFRED MUTSCHINK and
JAMES E. MUDD. Mudd reports: ‘There
are about 44 of us ’43 Aggies down here.”
WM. J. GALLOWAY, WM. B. CARA-
WAY, JR., HAROLD W. DICKERSON,
and RAYMOND TERRELL, are author-
ized to receive their commissions as sec-
ond lieutenants in the regular army, ac-
cording to a letter from the commandant
of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill,
Okla. These men went before an examining
board before going to Officers Candidate
School, and after successfully completing
the tests were not sent to an OCS but
will receive their commissions soon.
ALTON L. GIESENSCHLAG now has
the rating of Ensign D-V(G), and is at
the U. S. N. Section Base, Port Arthur,
Texas. :
PVT. HAROLD H. GRISSOM, U. S.
M. C. R., Platoon 138, Recruit Depot, Ma-
rine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C., is
anxious to get the AGGIE started his way.
ERWIN A. GROMATZKY gets his mail
at Box 1295, Port Arthur, Texas.
LIEUT. JACK ILFREY, Houston, has
really earned the title of “America’s top
Ace over Africa,” having brought down
two Focke-Wulf 190’s, two Messerschmitt
190’s, a twin-motored Messerschmitt 110,
and more unconfirmed downed craft. He
was graduated from Luke Field, Ariz.,
with his wings on Dec. 12, 1941 and was
immediately assigned to patrol duty on
the West Coast. He has been overseas since
last July.
LT. CARL W. MALONEY has gone into
active service in the U. S. Army. His per-
manent address in civilian life is 8300
Beauchamp, Houston.
CADET
CANDIDATE JOHN T. PESEK, JR.
A. S. N. 38413546, is in training at the
Tank Destroyer School, Camp Hood, Texas.
Pesek was a student assistant in the For-
mer Students office during his
days.
LT. LEO J. PICKOFF is on foreign duty.
His address is A.P.O. 662, % Postmaster,
New Orleans, La.
CADET WAYNE W. THOMAS, Chil-
dress, is assigned to Co. C, 1st. Q. M. S.
Regiment, Quartermaster School, Camp Lee,
Va. Thomas was a student assistant in
the Accounting Department during his
Senior year at A. & M.
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BRYCE C. GIBSON has been called to
duty in the Air Corps and is with the 407
TSS, Sheppard Field, Texas.
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Dormitories 1
And 3 Vacated by
CWS and S Corps
Signal Corps Goes To
Law, Chem Warfare
Moves to Legett
Dormitories 1 and 3 were vacat-
ed yesterday by the Chemical War-
fare battalion and the Signal Corps
regiment under orders from the
Office of the Commandant. The
Signal Corps now occupies all of
Law hall, while the Chemical War-
fare boys are now living in the
first three floors of Legett hall.
No reason was given by the com-
mandant’s office for the sudden
move.
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Gainesville Air Base
Named for Woodruff
The new Army Air base near
Gainesville, Texas, has been named
Woodruff Field in honor of the late
First Lieutenant Dennis H. Wood-
ruff, ’40, killed in an army air-
plane crash in Alaska last April
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.
C. Woodruff of Gainesville and at-
tended Texas A. & M. in 1936-37.
His widow resides in Gainesville.
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Didja know—that Dick Todd, for-
mer Aggie football great, still
holds the world’s record for scor-
ing with 318 points. This record
was achieved while Dick was a
Senior in Crowell High School in
1934. Todd sparkplugged the Ag-
gie football teams in the years
1936-37-38, and is now an out-
standing professional with the
Washington Redskins of the Na-
tional Professional Football
League.
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