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THE TEXAS AGGIE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1943
Page 4
1937
Proud PAPAS—LT. (j.g.) EDDIE W.
HOGAN, PAUL HILBURN, ROBERT
EARL MONTFORT, CAPT. JOHN D.
SMITH.
ROBERT S. BLACK, JR. is associated
with the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co.,
S. A., at Cananea, Conora, Mexico.
A. T. BRATTON gets his mail at P. O.
Box 565, Sterling City, Texas.
MAJOR ED EADS was graduted recent-
ly from Officers Advanced Tactics Course
at the Tank Destroyer School and is now
assigned as C. O. of the 140th Training
Bn. Tank Destroyer Replacement Training
Center at Camp Hood, Texas.
Major Jack A. Crichton
MAJOR JACK A. CRICHTON, command-
ing officer of a cadet section of the
Nashville army center, Tenn., has been
promoted from Capt. He is the son of Mrs,
Mary Crichton Kyle, 3748 Youree Drive,
Shreveport, La. After graduation he took
graduate work at M. I. T., receiving his
advanced degree in 1938. He was a petro-
leum engineer and geologist. As a student
at A. & M., he played on the varsity bas-
ketball and tennis teams.
LT. JACK LEE GRAYSON is assigned to
the Transition Landplane Unit Auxiliary
Air Ctation, Camp Kearney, Calif.
CAPT. THOMAS G. HOLDEN is now
with the 8th Procurement Hospital, Tink-
erd Field, Oklahoma City, Okla.
CAPT. W. F. JACK MADISON is in the
C. A. at Ft. Finfield Scott, Calif. He
reports it a beautiful spot when the fog
permits him to see it.
LT. COL. DOYLE R. YARDLEY, para-
trooper, is still in North Africa. He re-
cently ran across CAPT. JOHN BLA-
LOCK, °’37, AAF.
ENS. PASCHAL MARTIN, USNR, has
been recently transferred from the
Charleston Navy Yard, S. C., and wishes
mail to be addressed to his home address,
402 N. Trinity St., Gilmer, Texas, until
he is assigned.
PVT. CLYDE T. NORMAN, who has
been stationed at College Station, has
been transferred back to Fort Sill, Okla.,
where his address is Headquarters Comp-
any, Reception Center.
LT. ROBERT J. POTTS, JR. is in the
Army Air Transport Command, Rosecrans
LT. ROBERT D. SHIPP gets his mail
at APO 251, ¢ Postmaster, New York, N.
Y. He was formerly located at Fort Knox,
Ky.
Major Fred J. Silvey
FRED J. SILVEY has been promoted
to the rank of Major and is serving as
and training officer of a Field
Fort Bragg, N. C. He is the
plans
Art. Bn.
—.son—of -Mr.-and Mrs. Fred G. Silvey, 128
T Elizabeth Road, San Antonio. The above
picture was taken in his R. V. uniform
while a cadet at A. & M. He entered the
army in 1939 and has seen duty at San
Antonio, Brownwood, Camp Claiborne,
La., and Fort Sill. His brother, BILL SIL-
VEY, is a 1st Lt. in the Ordnance Air
Force and now overseas.
MARVIN J. SIMMS is now County Agr.
Agent for Dallam County, headquarters
at Dalhart. He succeeds WALTER SCOTT,
’36, who is now associated with the Triple
A program out of Washington, D. C.
LT. LAILE H. THOMPSON is living
at 912 Booker Street, Brownwood, Texas.
FLOYD M. WILKES has moved from
Orlando, Florida to Route 5, Floydada,
Texas.
1938
Wedding Bells— EVERETT C. PAULS.
Proud Papas—MAJOR SIDNEY L.
LOVELESS, CAPT. ROBERT H. HART-
MAN.
LT. FRANK J. ALTICK is attending the
School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph
Field. He was transferred to Randolph
from Camp Pickett, Va. He hopes to be-
come a flight surgeon.
DR. GEORGE R. BURCH, first lieuten-
ant in the Vet Corps, is stationed in
Iran.
PFC. ARTHUR H. COURTADE is at-
tending Army Air Force Training Engi-
neering Operations Clerical School at
Stillwater, Okla. He was formerly at St.
Petersburg, Fla.
LT. JAMES D. CARTER, 0-365325, is in
foreign service, and may be addressed
APO No. 37, % Postmaster, San Francisco,
Calif. His wife makes her home at 3028
University Drive, Fort Worth.
1ST. LT. VERNON D. CHADWICK is
located at Atlantic City, N. J., where his
address is Hq. O. R. T. C.
CAPT. RICHARD D. VITEK graduated
in instrument flying at Bryan Field on
April 18. Capt. Vitek came to Bryan Field
from the AAFBFS at Garden Citq, Kan.
LILLARD G. WILMETH, Ebony, has
been promoted to the grade of first lieu-
tenant at Camp Wolters, Texas. In civilian
life he was employed by the Soil Conser-
vation Service.
LT. EDWIN J. ZABCIK is temporar-
ily stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.,
with Special Training Bn., Co. A, ERTC.
He will later be assigned to the Engineer
Replacement Training Center at Camp
Abbot, Oregon.
Ensign Les Cummings
ENSIGN LES CUMMINGS, formerly
with the Trinity Portland Cement Co. in
Houston, has been commissioned by the
Navy and is taking an indoctrination
course at Dartmouth and Princeton. He
was co-captain of the Aggie football team
in 1936 and for three years played block-
ing tackle and line backer for the Ag-
gies. He is immediate past Secretary-Treas-
urer of the Houston A. & M. Club, and
has been living in that city since 1938. Mrs.
Cummings is continuing to make her home
at 2534 South Blvd., Houston.
CAPT. JOHN E. DERSHIMER, former-
ly with the State Highway Dept., is on
the instruction staff at Fort Belvoir, Va.
1ST. LT. CHARLES B. FOSTER is
somewhere in the South Pacific, and has
been overseas for a year and a half. His
address is APO 930, % Postmaster, San
Francisco.
1ST, LT. RUFE S. BYNUM, JR. gets
his mail at APO 913 ¢, Postmaster, San
Francisco, Calif.
1939
Wedding Bells—LT. JERRY VAUGHN,
JR., LT. HAROLD E. REDMOND.
Proud Papa—CAPT. JAMES H. KADEN.
Silver TAPS—I1ST. LT. JACK W.
MATHIS, JR.
PAUL H. AINSWORTH is located at
the U. S. Engineers Field Office, P. O.
Box 733, Victoria.
1st Lt. J. H. Brantley
1ST. LT. J. H. BRANTLEY, AAFAFS,
Pampa, Texas, was recently promoted to
that rank. His home is at Corsicana.
CAPT. BILL BURTON gets his mail at
1840 Grandview Avenue, El Paso, Texas.
CAPT. JACK G. W. COOPER is an
engineering officer in the Army Air Force,
Williams Field, Ariz.
CAPT. LUCIEN J. COQUET has re-
cently reported to the C. & G. S. School at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He was recently
at the Ordnance Depot in Shreveport, La.
MAJOR FELDER W. CULLUM is com-
manding a troop carrier squadron in the
Southwest Pacific. He left A. & M.
to go into the Air Corps, and has seen
service in Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Aus-
tralia and other Southwest Pacific posts.
ROBERT L. DOSS is attending Officer
Candidate School at Fort Sill, Okla., and is
| a member of O/C Class No. 70.
2ND LT. OSCAR FORESTER, of Smith-
ville, is a prisoner of war in Germany,
according to announcement received by
his father, Oscar F. Forester, Sr., of
Smithville.
BEN GEARHART has been in the U.
S. Vet Corps somewhere in India since
last November. His address is APO 628,
% P. M., NYC.
HARRY F. GOODLOE, formerly _of
Dallas, is connected with the Agronomy
Department of the University of Wisconsin.
LT. B. M. “MIKE” HACKEDORN writes
from APO No. 785, % Postmaster, New
York, ‘There is now no confusion and
things are well organized and running
smooth here in the Middle East and North
Africa. Am enjoying myself immensely,
seeing places and things and having a
good time doing my meagre bit to help
run Rommel and his once-proud Afrika
Korps into the Mediterranean. Aggies are
as thick over here as dead Germans, and
every stop we made coming over last fall
found the same condition.”
THOMAS H. HALTOM, JR., formerly
of Bryan, is making bombers at the big
Fort Worth Consolidated plant, and lives
at 3022 University Drive, Fort Worth.
LT. NEELEY FARQUHAR is instructor
at Fort Belvoir, Va., after graduating
from O. C. S. at that post. He reports
numerous other Aggies up there and all
omg well. 1940
Wedding Bells—LT. JAMES D. PAT-
TON, LT. ORVILLE D. PROPPS, JR.,
ENSIGN GARRISON SMITH, LT. GEO.
A. JONES, LT. EDWARD A. DROLESKY,
LT, JACK CALHOUN.
Proud Papas—E. W. “BILL” CARLL,
CAPT. WM. R. “BILL” LEDBETTER,
1ST. LT. BEN A. GLEASON, ERNEST
L. STREB.
Silver Taps—CAPT. GLEN C.
SON.
LT. CLINAL E. BARR, who has been
at the Fitzsimons General Hospital, Den-
ver, Colorado, is now at 500 West 10th
Street, Bonham, Texas.
C. D. BARRIER is Asst. Co, Agr. Agent
of Nueces County, and lives at Robstown.
His P. O. Box No. is 647.
LT. JOHN C. BIBBS has been promoted
to a Captain. He is still located at Frank-
fort Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa.
CAPT. GEORGE T. BIRD is a member
of the Third Air Force, Tampa, Fla., and
is at Headquarters there.
LT. RONALD W. BOOKMAN gets his
mail at A. P. O. 528, ¢% Postmaster, New
York,<N. Y.
1ST. SLT. PHILIP. BRIDGES, A/C
00662241, gets his mail at APO 634, %
Postmaster, New York, N. Y. His father
received a cable not long ago stating that
Philip had landed safely and was well.
ROLO-
CAPT. O. F. BREWSTER is in the
32nd Armored Regt.,, APO 253, Indian-
town Gap Military Reservation, Pennsyl-
vania.
LT. WILLIAM C. BUIE, communica-
tions officer at Camp Chaffee, Ark., has
been promoted to captain. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Buie of Mertens.
LT, SIDNEY R. CLARY is with the
502nd Parachute-Infantry at Ft. Bragg,
N. C. He was transferred there from Ft.
Benning, Ga.
LIEUT. JAMES M. CONNOR, JR., Mid-
land, was recently graduated from pilots
preflight school of the San Antonio Avia-
tion Cadet Center.
LT. C. J. CURLEE, 0-1100938, may be
addressed APO 502, ¢ Postmaster, San
Francisco, Calif.
LT. HOWARD L. DALTON is in the
U. S. Marine Corps and his address is
FMF T C Tank Battalion, Jacques Farm,
Camp Elliott, San Diego, Calif.
LT. LAMAR W. DAVIS, JR, (A. C.),
0-409727, is piloting an English Spitfire
over foreign soil. His address is APO 525,
¢, Postmaster, New York, N. Y. He wrote
his mother, Mrs. Lamar W. Davis, Sr., 249
W. 22nd, Houston, that when he meets an
Aggie it is like home-coming day, and he
has met any number.
ENSIGN K. FRANK ROBINSON
ENSIGN K. FRANK ROBINSON, U. S.
N. R. is on foreign duty and trying to
learn to speak French. Before sailing he
put in training periods at Harvard, N.Y.U.
and the Anascotia Air Station. His ad-
dress is Navy 231, % Fleet P. O.,, N. Y. C.
LT. ALBERT D. SCHULTZ is with the
12th Field Artillery Battalion, Fort Sam
Houston, Texas.
LT. JOE B. DORAN is assigned to the
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus, Mich. a
LT. JAMES E. EPPERSON of Rock
Springs, gets his mail at APO No. 3842,
% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
LT, DONALD E. FORMBY was dis-
charged from the Navy because of physi-
cal disabilities. He is now employed as a
Representative with the U. S. Civil Serv-
ice Commission and is assigned to the
branch office of the 10th Region at 312
Fidelity Bldg., Dallas. Donald receives his
mail at 137 Woodin, Dallas.
W. W. GREIF, CM, writes from Bar-
racks S-4, Camp Endicott, L. I., and asks
for the present address of his former
“roomit,”” L. H. JOHNSON.
LT. LEWIS M. “PAT” GROVER moves
around so much he wants his AGGIE sent
to Box 103, Three Rivers, Texas. At pres-
ent he is at the Lexington Signal Depot,
Lexington, Ky., taking an Advanced Depot
Course in Signal Supply.
LT. V. A. HARVILL is living at R. F.
D. 1, Colton, California.
CONRAD S. HINSHAW is with the U.
S. Engineer Office, 629 M. & M. Building,
Houston, Texas.
1941
Wedding Bells—ENSIGN CURTIS O.
HAMILTON, LT. JOHN P. McKINNEY,
ENSIGN! J, WOODROW WILSON, CAPT.
RAYMOND J. BERGER, LT. WILLIAM
E. HILL, LT. WM, E. BLAIR, PVT. WIL-
BUR D. BUTTRILL, CPL. GEORGE AL-
EXANDER.
Proud Papa—LT. JOHN E. MARTIN.
Silver Taps—CAPT. JOHN H. DUN-
CAN, LT. ARTHUR C. LE PAGE, ROB-
ERT T. KISSINGER.
CAPT. THOMAS L. MARSHALL has
been transferred to Victory Field, Ver-
non, Texas. ;
CARL HAL McCORKLE, who went im-
mediately into the air forces after grad-
uation in agricultural education, is pilot-
ing a Flying Fortress, and has seen ex-
tensive action in Europe and North Af-
rica. His home is in Comanche.
SPL. ALEX B. MOSESMAN, having
recently been promoted to that rank, is
stationed at Perrin Field as an assistant
to the flight surgeon. Mrs. Mosesman lives
in Sherman.
LT. HAL PENDLETON recently en-
tered pre-flight navigation training school
at Ellington Field.
LT. CARL READ is in Camp Howze,
where he recently was promoted to that
rank, The silver bars which he wears are
the ones which his father, Dr. Carl Read,
Bridgeport, wore during World War I.
LT. JOHN H. ROBINSON is with the
air corps at Santa Ana, Calif. He was for-
merly at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.
WILLIAM M. ROUNTREE, Garden
City, is now a second lieutenant, U.S.M.-
C.R., Marine Barracks, Naval Air Sta-
tion, Maui, T. H.
JERRY S. SCOTT was recently promot-
ed to the rank of lieutenant (jg) U.S.N.R.
at Fairfax Field, Kansas City, Kan., where
he is assigned to Naval Air Transport
Squadron UR-3. His civilian address is
14 E. 56th Terrace, Kansas City, Mo.
LT. ELMER F. SMITH received his
commission from Officer Candidate School,
Miami Beach, Fla., recently. His home
is Fort Worth.
LT. ED A. TIMMONS who has been
in command of an army engineer com-
pany in England for the past eight
months, is now in Africa living in the
mountainous section in a pup tent, work-
ing day and nighet trying to finish his
job on time. He writes: “We know what
the boys up at the front or going through
and intend to help them all we can.”
Timmons is one of five Timmons bro-
thers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Tim-
mons, Amarillo, with the armed forces.
His wife resides at Amarillo.
LT. FRANK E. WALKER, JR., formerly
at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., is now with
the Air Borne Infantry at Fort Benning,
Ga,
CAPT. JAKE L. WILK, JR., recently
received that promotion in the army air
forces at Eagle Pass.
1942
Wedding Bells—J. ARCH HUGHSTON,
LT. JOEL I. McGREGOR, JR., LT. FOS-
TER LEE LEMLY II, JERREL B. RAPP,
LT. GEORGE J. OGDEE, LT. WILLIAM
P. MAROSKI, LT, JOHN H. ALLEN.
Proud Papas—LT. PAT L. KELLY,
TOMMIE E. STUART.
Silver Taps—T /SGT. THOMAS H. GIL-
LILAND, LT. (j.2.) CHARLES W. GEAR-
HARDT.
JACK ASHWORTH is taking training as
a pilot at the Army Air Base at Santa
Ana, Calif., where he has been made a
flight lieutenant,
LT. JOHN H. ALLEN, 5434 Goodwin,
Dallas, and LT. RICHARD L. CRUTCH-
ER, JR., 1760 Franklin St., Beaumont,
were among the recent graduates of the
Lubbock Flying School, Army Air Forces.
PVT. WESLEY BALLMAN, formerly
at 19-43—Boeing School of Aero., Oak-
and, Calif., is now removed to A.A.F.B.F.S.
Independence, Kan.
ROBERT C. BUIE is assistant county
agricultural agent at Tyler, Texas.
Former Aggies at Ft. Bliss but now
on foreign duty are: LT. BEVERLY L.
BYRD, LT. FRANK P. BLASSINGAME,
and LT. LUKE MOORE. They may be
addressed APO 3792, ¢% Postmaster, New
York, NIX.
SECOND LT. VESTAL H. CARAWAY,
Houston, was a recent graduate from the
West Texas Bombadier Triangle, having
been in the Big Spring Echool.
LT. MURRAY F, EVANS is assistant
registrar of the station hospital at Camp
Stoneman, Calif.
LT. GENE H. FLEWELLEN, 210 E.
Park St., Big Spring, Texas., was a
recent graduate from the Ellington Field
flying school. He was in attendance at
A. and M. from 1939 to 1941.
LT. CURRAN L. GARRETT has been
at Camp Hale, Colorado, since January,
and reports the work very interesting. LT.
A. K. KING, ’4,2 is also stationed at
Camp Hale.
LT. JOHN P. GILREATH, Memphis, is
at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, address, D-28-7,
F.A.R.T.C.
MILTON B. GOLDBERG, seaman sec-
ond class, Houston, was recently graduated
from the Aerographers Training School at
Lakewood, N. J., a unit of the Naval
Air Station at Lakehurst, home of the
Navy’s blimps. He received the rating
of aerographer, third class, and has been
assigned to duty at naval ship and shore
stations as weather boserver.
FIRST LT. DANIEL N. HENDRICKS,
JR. gets his mail at APO 634, ¢ Post-
master, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Hendricks
is living at 6717 Edloe, Houston.
LT. JACK HOLLIMON has been trans-
ferred from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Camp
Young, Calif.
LT. JACK ILFREY, who attended A.&M.
from 1938 throufgh 1940, is one of the
American aces in the North African
sector. He has been in that area for
over four months, has six Nazi planes
to his credit, and has been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air
Medal for 40 sorties and a trans-Atlantic
flight, He was recently given a new as-
signment. Lt. Ilfrey is the son of F. W.
Ilfrey, 3122 Robinhood, Houston. He left
A.&M. to enter the air forces.
W. E. JAPHET is doing sales work in
his father’s business. He lives at 2501
Riverside, Houston, Texas.
LT. ROY D. KELLEY, Houston, re-
ceived the Air Medal for action with the
Eighth Air Force in Europe and North
Africa. He wrote his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Kelley, 1308 W. Gray, tha
he had coffee in London with Bebe Dan-
jels and Ben Lyons and that King George
had inspected his ship. He is a Flying
Fortress pilot.
Melancon
LT. JAMES E. MELANCON, whose
home is at 853 Club Drive, San Antonio,
Lt. James E.
recently graduated from the Lubbock
Advanced Flying Training School of the
Army Air Force.
LT. BENJAMIN R. McCONNELL, JR.,
0-465947, is at APO 885, ¢ Postmaster,
New York, N. Y. He says ‘This, is an
interesting country, but there is no place
like Texas. I've met many Aggies both
here and in Africa.”
LT, JAMES H. McHANEY is on for-
eign duty and gets his mail at APO 45,
% Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
LT. PAUL W.-KNAPP, Houston, is at-
tending the new division officers’ course
at the field artillery school, Fort Sill,
Okla, He reported there from his station
at Fort Bliss, Texas.
LT. H. M. LOCKER, JR., son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Locker of Richland
Springs, has fully recovered from four-
teen wounds received in one of his reg-
ular early morning ‘milk run’ bombings
of Bizerte in Tunisa. He has received the
Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Air Medal
with two Clusters. He recently started
back to North Africa after a thirty-day
convalescence furlough in Texas. He was
co-pilot of the famed Flying Fortress,
“Dixie Demo.” Locker has been in the
air forces since July, 1941, and went to
England in the summer of ’42. Before be-
ing transferred to North Africa, he made
numerous Flying Fortress raids over the
continent. He attended A.&M. from 1938
through 1941.
LT. GEORGE OGDEE writes: “Every-
thing O.K, and the army is a great life.
Miss the college a lot, but hope to get
back some day. Would like to hear from
some of the fellows of the class of ’42.”
His new address is: APO 4090, % Post-
master, San Francisco, Calif.
LT. JOE BILL PIERCE, 0467905, is
with an armored engineer battalion at
Camp Campbell, Ky.
LT. W. H. REBER, JR, LT. DON
GABRIEL, LT. JOHN W. JENNINGS,
and LT. J. W. BROWN are on active
duty in the far northwest Pacific area.
LT. JOHN F. ROUGARNAC, Houston,
recently received his commission from
officer candidate school at Miami Beach,
Fla.
LT. MALCOLM SHAW, JR. is with
the 328th F. A. Bn., APO 85, Shreveport,
La.
LT. ALTON W. SISSOM is stationed
at Drew Field, Fla., having been trans-
ferred from Hamilton Field, California.
The address of ENS. ROBERT L.
SKRABANEK, U.S.N.R., is now: 9 Fleet
Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.
LT. ANDREW C. SORELLE, JR., Hous-
ton, has reported for the basic part of
his flying training as student officer at
the Enid, Okla., army flying school,
LT. ED A, THOMAS of Amarillo is in
North Africa with the Army Engineers.
LT. P. HA “PETE” TUMLINSON is
attending a twin-engined AAF advanced
flying school, at Douglas, Ariz., where
he reports that there are few Aggies.
A/C ROBERT E. WOODHAM has been
transferred from Santa Ana, Calif., to the
Air Forces training detachment at King
City, Calif.
LT. GEORGE A. RHEMAN, JR., U. S.
M. C, R., is in the Marine Barracks,
Fensacola, Florida.
PVT. EDWARD M. SCHUYLER’S ad-
dress is now Co. B, 58th Bn., 12th Train-
ing Regt., Camp Robinson, Ark.
LT. LEROY W. SHAVE gets his mail
at APO No. 762, ¢% Postmaster, New
York City, 'N.=Y.
LT. R. G. SKIDMORE is on foreign
duty and may be addressed APO No. 939,
Seattle, Washington. He was promoted
from a second to a first lieutenant on
March 1. Mrs, Skidmore lives with her
parents, MR. AND MRS. T. P. LACKEY,
’20. “Red” Lackey is associated with the
S. W. Bell Telephone Co. in Kansas City,
Mo.
LT. JOE SKILES, former Student Aec-
tivities head, is now assistant military
intelligence officer for Basic Training Cen-
ter No. 6, St. Petersburg, Fla.
LT. MARSHALL SPIVEY received his
promotion to first lieutenant about two
months ago. He is assigned at present to
Hq. 1st. Q. M. Salvage Depot, Camp Lee,
Va., but hopes to be sent overseas soon.
LT, JACK B. TAYLOR may be ad-
dressed 97th Inf. Div., Camp Swift, Texas.
He was formerly at Ft. Sill, Okla,
LT. JESSE A. TEAGUE is located at
the Corsican Air Field, Corsicana, Texas.
He was transferred from San Antonio.
LT. LASSITER THOMPSON, El Paso,
now has four and possibly five German
planes to his credit. A member of the Af-
rican invasion force, the P-40 pilot has
been overseas since October, 1942.
TOMMY STUART is with the Texas
Livestock Commission at Fort Worth. Ad-
dress, 1307 Oak Knoll Drive.
CAPT. RICHARD TITLEY has returned
to the West Coast and is stationed near
San Diego after several months absence
doing special work. He reports recently
running into CAPT. FERDY REED, ’40,
and LT. JACK HOLLIMAN, ’42. Capt.
Titley’s home is in Dallas,
A/C DELLIE VOELKEL, Yoakum, is
now enjoying a case of measles at the
Army Air Base Hospital at King City,
Calif. He is with the 8rd Army Air Force
Flying Training Detachment there.
LT. BRADFORD A, WADDLE is with
the F M F, Camp Elliott, San Diego, Calif.
OLIVER WAGNER is an Electrical
Tester in the Motor Division of the West-
inghouse Electric and Mfg. Company at
the East Pittsburgh plant. Oliver gets his
mail at 319 Swissvale Avenue, Edgewood,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
LT. W. T. WOFFORD has been in the
North African theater of war four months.
He advises: “Tell the boys to concentrate
on that bull-text because they have to get
up pretty early in the morning to get
ahead of the Heinies.” He may be ad-
dressed APO No. 3802, % Postmaster, New
York, N. Y.
1943
Wedding Bells GENE WELDON
CLARK, LT. GEO. W. TURRILL.
JACK ANTHONY BAIRD has been
commissioned an Ensign in the Naval
Reserve and reported to Fort Schuyler,
N. Y., for indoctrinal training. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Baird, Omaha,
Texas.
CHARLES P. BEASLEY has been ap-
pointed assistant county agricultural agent
for Tom Green County with headquar-
ters at San Angelo. :
F. A. CARRADINE, CM3/¢ may be
addressed ¢% Fleet Post Office, . San
Francisco, Calif. He is in a Naval Con-
struction Bn.
JOHN WILLIAM CHAMPION is liv-
ing at Route 2, Decatur, Texas. He took
Dairy Husbandry while at A. & M.
LT. ROBERT T. COOPER has just
completed the battery officers training
course, Field Artillery, at Fort Sill, Okla.
CAND. PAUL P. CHEATHAM is at-
tending Officer Candidate School at Ft.
Sill, Oklahoma. His address is O. C. C. 69,
Ft. Sill. He’s had a tough break—having
spent the past six weeks in the hospital.
PVT. ALFRED H. CONRAD, ASN
38203408, is assigned to the 560th Heavy
Bomb. Sqdn., 388th’ Heavy Bomb. Group,
Army Air Base, Wendover Field, Utah.
CADET ARCHIE I. FLOWERS is re-
ceiving navigator training at Ellington
Field, Texas.
The following Aggies are at the follow-
ing mailing address: Co. P 29, 2nd Plat.,
3rd Engr. Sch. Regt., U. S. Army, Ft.
Belvoir, Va.; B. T. FLOWERS, S. B.
DIXON, T. J. BOLLING, E. A. TSC-
HOEPE, G. B. CAPERTON, S. A. SMITH
and D. R. SUTHERLAND, and are at-
tending Officers Candidate School. Candi-
date Flowers reports: “This is one place
you really work, but none of the Aggies
are falling under the strain.”
EVERETT R. GLAZENER, who received
his degree in Industrial Education, is
teaching in the U. S. Naval School at A.
& M. He expects to enter the Navy him-
self in the near future.
OLIN E. GOLDMAN is working as an
engineer in the Douglas Aircraft Company
at Santa Monica, Calif. His residence ad-
dress there is 225 San Vicente Blvd.
CHARLES R. HANCOCK is living at
1738 Ash Street, Lawton, Okla.
LT. L. R. HOLLAND is Asst. Com-
mandant of Cadets at Edqrs., Aviation
Cadet Detachment, AAFBFS, Garden City,
Kansas. His add duties include: Plans and
training officer, Intelligence officer, Sen-
ior tactical officer, and Summary court
officer.
AVIATION CADET VINCENT E.
HORTON, JR., is attending the AAF Pre-
flight School (B-N) at Ellington Field,
Texas.
A/C BASIL L. HOYL has been class-
ified as a pilot and is taking his pre-
flight work in Sa. 59, Flight “C” S. A.
A. A. B. Santa Ana, Calif. He reports
ten Aggies in his same squadron.
tioned with the Amphibian Engineers at
tioned with the Tmphibian Egineers at
Camp Edwards, Cape Cod, Mass., and
reports that it’s been plenty cold.
PVT. ALBERT L. KOTZEBUE is as-
signed to Company B, 88th Training Bat-
talion, Camp Roberts, Calif.
DR. RICHARD D. MACY wishes his
TEXAS AGGIE sent to 8171 Cordova,
Dallas.
JACK M. MEADOR has been promoted
to First Lieutenant at Chanute Field,
Ill. He is supervisor of the instrument
division in the department of advanced
courses there.
A/C WILLIAM CHARLES MERRILL is
at aSnta Ana Army Air Base, Santa Ana,
Calif.
LT. CHARLES G. REHMET, Alice, is a
recent graduate of Blackland Flying School,
Waco.
CPL. JAMES L. ROBERTSON, JR., re-
cently had quite a tussle with meningitis
at Ft. Sill, Okla. His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Linton Robertson, live in Bryan.
Now stationed at Brooks Field is LT.
JOHN F. ROUGAGNAC. After serving
seven months in the Air Forces, he was
selected to attend officer candidate school
at Miami Beach.
LT. POWELL A. SCHEUMACK, Vic-
toria, is a recent graduate of Moore Field,
Mission, Texas.
LT. EARL H. STEVENS has been made
station veterinarian of the Fifth Ferry-
ing Gp., Hq. & Hq. Sq. at Love Field
near Dallas. He will have charge of food
inspection.
LT. JOE H. TABLEMAN is with the
6th Armored Div., Camp Chaffee, Ark.
He was formerly at Ft. Sill, Okla.
RONDA H. WHORTON, JR. gets his
mail at Box 294, Roscoe, Texas. As a stu-
dent at A. &M. Whorton took animal
husbandry.
LT. WM. H. YANCEY, of Grapevine,
is on active duty at the Army Air Base,
Dow Field, Bangor, Maine.
2ND LT. DONALD L. ZEDLER is sta-
tioned at the Alliance Air Base, Nebr.
following attendance at the Pratt & Whit-
ney Training School at Hartford, Conn. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Zed-
ler, ’17, of Houston.
1944
WEDDING BELLS—Lt. Grover W. Fer-
guson.
Silver Taps—AVIATION CADET JOHN
J. DEE, JR.
LT. ERNEST ROY CLIFTON, JR. is
stationed at the Naval Air Training School,
Corpus Christi. His home was at Kermit,
Texas at the time of enlistment.
It is now SGT. MORRIS “JACK” CROW,
because he was promoted recently at Camp
Beale, Calif. In a recent letter to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Crow, 2418
Clarendon, Dallas,
purchase seven $100 U. S. Defense Bonds.
SOLON E. ELLIS, JR., recently received
his second lieutenant’s commission and
the wings of a pilot at the Roswell, N.
M. Flying School. He is a twin-engine pilot.
CPL. GENE HOLUBEC, formerly of
Caldwell, is stationed at Truax Field, Mad-
ison, Wisconsin.
PVT. R. DOUGLAS LANCASTER is
taking A. A. F. pre-flight training at
Oklahoma City University, Okla. City. He
has been made squadron commander and
reports that it keeps him plenty busy.
A/C W. H. MERRILL, JR., is a mem-
ber of the AAFFTD, Greder Field, Pine
Bluff, Ark.
LT. LUCIANO B. HERBERA is enroll-
ed as a student officer in the Army Air
Forces Preflight School for pilots at Max- -
well Field, Ala.
LT. JAMES C. RIVENBARK was re-
cently commissioned at Fort Belvoir, Va.,
and has reported to Greenville, S. C. air
base. Prior to his enlistment last Septem-
ber he was employed by Rollins & For-
rest, engineers at Camp Maxie and Camp
Howze. He is with the Army Engineers.
2ND LT. SAM F. SEMO, JR., Houston,
reported recently to Harte Flying Field.
His former station was in Hawaii in the
Field Artillery, and he was returned to the
U. S. to attend officers candidate school
at Ft. Sill, Okla.
PVT. HARLAN E. WRIGHT'S new ad-
dress is 608 Training Group, PP, Carlene
Hotel, A. A. F.:T. T.°C., ‘St. ‘Petersburg,
Fla.
W. L. BUTLER is taking bombardier
training at Ellington Field, Texas.
ALFRED H. CONRAD is in the Air
Corps and has been in the service several
months. He was sent first to Keesler Field,
Miss., where he spent five months. He
next went to the Lockheed Airplane School
at Vega, Calif., for study and then mov-
ed to Salt Lake City and is now located
at Wendover Field, Utah, where he can
be reached ¢% 560th Bomb. Sqdn., 338th
Bomb. Group.
" STEVE CREWS III, Karnes City, is
in the Navy and is stationed at San Diego,
Calif.
PVT. JOE N. HOLMGREEN, son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Holmgreen, Bryan, has
been sent to College Station for preflight
training. He was stationed at Sheppard
Field, Texas.
PVT. HARLAN E. WRIGHT is training
with an Air Force Group in St. Petersburg,
Fla. He is assigned to the 62nd Wing, 610
Training Group, Poinsettia Hotel.
he enclosed money to
1945
WEDDING BELLS—Lt. Grover W. Fer-
ard.
PVT. RICHARD H. CREW, JR. is in
the U. S. Marine Corps, Unit 1005, hav-
ing enlisted in April, 1942. He has been in
the Pacific war area since the fall of
’42, and may be addressed ¢ Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif.
FRED C. McDANIEL, JR., of Houston
graduated recently from the Naval Air
Training Center at Corpus Christi and was
commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the
USMCR. Lt. McDaniel took his primary
instruction at the Naval Air Station at
Dallas and was transferred to Corpus
Christi for his advanced training.
WILLIAM SMOLIK, Karnes City, is in
the Navy and stationed in San Diego, Calif.
PVT. BRYCE C. GIBSON, 1811771, is
in Squadron D, Sec. 12 of the 91st A.A.F.
College Training Detachment at Shawnee,
Okla. He expects soon to be leaving there
for flight training.
CECIL W. WARREN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Warren, Ennis, is now in the
army and stationed at Fort Eustice, Va.
PVT. GEORGE W. BOWLING, 18073596,
is in Squadron E, Platoon 1 of the College
Training Detachment at George Peabody
College, Nashville, Tenn.
CADET WILLIAM L. BUTLER, Karnes
City, is receiving Aviation Cadet training
at Ellington Field as a bombardier.
A/C JOHN ERWIN has completed pre-
flight training at the Univ. of Ga., and
is now stationed at the Naval Air Base
at Memphis, Tenn.
Returning from Casablanca, JOHN COL-
LINS “JACK” WORTHINGTON is at-
tending midshipmen’s school in New York,
at the completion of which he will be
commissioned an Ensign.
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