The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, July 15, 1943, Image 3

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    THE TEXAS AGGIE
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943
mander at Camp Pickett, Va., in the
Field Artillery.
ROSCOE SEYLE who lives at Magno-
lia, Texas, is engaged in the Lummus
Company on construction of the new
Sinclair butadiene plant in Houston. He
spends his weekends at his home, Wistaria
Farm, at Magnolia. He has a son in A.
& M. at this time.
CAPT. CARL T. SPRAGUE recently
transferred from Houston is in the Specil
Service Branch, Har. Eighth Service
Command, Room 1311, Santa Fe Bldy, Dal-
las. He is assistant Army Emergency Re-
lief Officer. He was formerly on recruit-
ing duty in Houston.
1923
FIRST LT. W. BYRON HOPE, McKin-
ney, is in the U. S. Air Forces at Scott
Field, Ill.
J. A. PATTON is with the Texas Com-
pany at Lafeyette, Louisiana.
COL. O. P. WEYLAND, U. S. Air Corps
veteran, gets his mail at 4334 Windom
Place NW, Washington 16, D. C.
1924
CAPTAIN E. B. CALVIN has been
transferred from the District Engineers
office, San Antonio, to duty with the U.
S. Engineers at Knoxville, Tenn. His ad-
dress will be P. O. Box 1111 that city.
CAPT. FREDERICK H. DOWNS, JR.
gives us something new in the way of his
military unit. He is in the AMGOT and
his address is APO 777, New York.
LT. GEORGE R. MARRS, USNR, Mrs.
Marrs and their daughter, Marilyn were
visitors on the campus in June. Marr’s
former Vice President of the Texas Pow-
er & Light Co. has been in the Balboa
canal zone for the past 14 months. His
first assignment after reporting for duty
was the reorganization of the Shore Patrol
at Balboa. He is now executive officer of
his unit. He gets his mail at Box 48, Navy
121, ¢, Fleet Post Office, New York City.
1925
JAMES BERNARD BATY, is in the
U. S. Corps of Engineers, in the N. W.
Div., APO ¢% Pm, Seattle, Washington.
He is the former Head of the Dept. of
Civil Engineering at Queens University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
CAPT. THOMAS R. BLACK was recent-
ly promoted to that rank. He is Motor
Transportation Officer, ASF Unit Training
Center, N. O. Staging Area, New Orleans,
La.
VICTOR LeMAY, Fort Worth, has been
promoted ot the rank of Capt. He is as-
signed to the progress branch of the con-
trol division, Eighth Service Command,
Dallas.
CLAUDE MAST is manager of the
Brenham Cotton Mill at Brenham. On a
recent visit to Dallas he reports seeing LT.
COL. JOHN J. LEDBETTER, ’25 and
CAPTS. HERBERT TATUM, ’24 and
PAT LIPSCOMB, ’25, all officing in the
Santa Fe Bldg, at the 8th Corps HQTS.
J. B. (COTTON) MEITZEN is with the
Humble Oil & Refining Company and re-
cently moved from Mobile, Ala., to New
Orleans, 2316 American Bank Bldg.
CHARLES HOWARD VALENTINE, Pa-
lestine, has been promoted to the rank of
COL. in the U. S. Army. He is Chief of
‘Staff of the 28th Infantry Division at
Camp Gordon Johnston, Fla.
CAPTAIN. W. C.. YOUNGS has been
transferred from the District Engineers
office, San Antonio, to duty with the U.
S. Engineers at Knoxville, Tenn. His ad-
dress will be P. O. Box 1111 that city.
1926
K. ANDO gets his mail at Route 6, box
439, Dallas.
NORMAN A. BROWN gets his mail
at 330 Southern St., Corpus Christi, Texas.
CAPT. DAVID O. DAVIS, Belton, was
‘recently promoted to that rank and is
.camp inspector at Camp Bowie, Texas. He
‘was formerly with the Soil Conservation
Service. Y
H. E. HAMPTON, professor of agrono-
‘my at Texas A. & M., has been awarded
‘his Ph. D. degree by the University of
Missouri. He has been on leave of absence
‘to do graduate work for the past two years
‘but has returned to A. & M. to resume
“his teaching.
LT. ROBERT F. HUGHES, former ma-
nager of the Houston office of the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company, is sta-
tioned in Camp Robinson, Arkansas.
LT. COL. ROBERT J. MARTIN, form-
erly with the U. S. Weather Bureau in
“Washington, D. C., is now in an AAA
outfit at Ft. Bliss, Texas. -
FORD MUNNERLYN, manager of the
Central Texas Division of the Seaboard
Life Insurance Co., with offices and head-
quarters at College Station, broke all pro-
duction records for total volume of paid
‘business during one month this spring.
‘Ford and Mrs. Munnerlyn have two child-
ren and live in a beautiful home in South
Oakwood, College Station.
JACK TURNER is rapidly becoming a
national figure in the purebred Hereford
cattle world. Since graduation, he has been
associated with Hereford breeding herds
and has his own purebred herd now, which
‘he is. running on the Silver Crest Farm
near Ft. Worth. At a recent auction, he
sold 800 head for an average of $898. The
top bull sold for $13,000, the second high-
est price ever paid for a bull at a Texas
auction.
LT. JULIUS A. STEIN whose wedding
was reported in the previous issue was
married to a former high school sweet-
heart whom he met after a lapse of ma-
ny years. They were married in the home
of Lt. Col. Hugh E. Wharton, ’28, in Fort
Worth. Both Stein and Wharton are from
San Antonio.
RALPH H. WATTINGER is a member
of the firm of Grannis, Thompson, Street,
& Wattinger, General Contractors, of Char-
lotte, N. C. Wattinger’s address is 3207
Brook Road, Richmond, Va.
1927
RED FACES ARE BEING WORN by
both Assn. President Jake Hamblen and
the Editor of the Texas Aggie. In the De-
velcpment Fund Report in the preceding
issue the President was incorrectly listed,
being put in the 1925 class instead of pro-
perly in the 1927 class. The President de-
clares he has nothing against the ’25ers.,
but that he wants to be properly listed
after all the promotion he has given the
Development Fund.
L. D. BLACK, District Manager for the
Lone Star Gas Company at Ennis, has re-
ported for duty as 2nd Lt. in the U. S.
Coast Guard at Camp Wallace. Fe was
given a big farewell party by Lone Star
Gas Co. enployees and friends on the eve
of his departure. He and Mrs. Black have
a- son, Laurin, Jr.
MAJOR SAM. F. BREWSTER, who is
stationed at the Air Transport Command
Headquarters at Washington, C., re-
turned in early June from a 35,000 mile
trip that carried him to many faraway
points of the globe. Among some of the
men he reports seeing. are Lt. L. L.
Franke ’28, and Col. Paul A. Cunyus ’27.
CAPT. SAM D. CAMP is the Base S-4
at Sedalia Army Air Fie'd, Warrensburg,
Mo. Mrs. Camp and their daughter are
with him and live at Sedalia. Sam reports
hearing recently from Capt. John E. Mit-
chell ’28, who is in the Quartermaster
General’s office in Washington, D. C. He
also reports 1st Lt. Clair E. Smith ’29,
located at the Sedalia Army Air Field.
CAPT. CLARENCE C. DAVIS has
changed his address to 2800 Marrow Ave.,
Waco, Tex.
COL. PAUL A. CUNYUS who has been
in North Africa since the beginning of
that campaign, is covering lots of terri-
tory. On a recent official trip during one
week he was in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Suez,
Cairo, Benghasi, Tripoli, Sfax, Sousse,
Kairouran, Tunis, Old Carthage, Cape Bon
and several points in between.
JOE F. FRANCIS has been named supt.
of the Lone Star Companies gasoline plant
at Gordon, Texas. He has been with the
Lone Star since his graduation.
BURRIS C. JACKSON has been pro-
moted from Capt. to Major. He recently
completed a tour of duty at a port of em-
barkation on the Atlantic seaboard. His
home is at Hillsboro, where he is post-
master. He is well known in national
political circles, and in the world of
cotton.
WAYNE E. LONG has been promoted
from Captain to Major and is stationed
at Camp Crowder, Mo., where he is on
the Staff Judge Advocate and Intelligence
Officer of the Staff and Faculty, CSCS.
‘He recently completed the C. & G. S. at
Ft. Leavenworth. Prior to entering the
Army he was a member of the Mech. Eng.
‘Faculty of the College.
MAJOR R. CLINT WAKEFIELD has
‘been transferred from California to Camp
‘Pickett, Virginia.
CAPT. GILBERT A. YOUNGS is
charge of the U. S. Engineers Corps area
office located in Bryan. The office will
have charge of several counties in this
area. Capt Youngs supervised construction
of the new AAF Field at Bryan. .
MAJOR FREDERICK J. ZAK, 171 South
Broadway, Nyack, N. Y. has been promoted
to the rank of Lt. Col. He is Post Signal
Officer at Camp Shanks. Following gradu-
ation from A. & M. he took his Masters
Degree at M. I. T., then went with the
Virginia Electric and Power Company.
He was called to active duty in February
1942, and served in the office with Chief
Signal = Officer in Washington, then at
the Brooklyn Army Base, and at Camp
Kilmer, N. J., before his transfer to Camp
Shanks. LT. COL. and MRS. ZAK have
a fourteen year old son, Frederick, Jr.
1928
LT. COL. JOHN J. BROWN complains
that the TEXAS AGGIE is moving him up
a bit too fast, when it recently reported
him in charge of an Infantry Div. at
Camp McCain, Miss. Maj. Gen. Percy W.
Clarkson, ’15, commands the Div., and
Col. Brown is a member of his General
Staff, G-4. Brown writes that for a Lt.
Col. to see his name in print as being in
charge of a Div. is quite a jole. The Editor
extends apologies, but believes Col. Brown
could handle the assignment if necessary.
LES CABANISS, who has been senior
resident engineer with the State Highway
Department office at Paris, has been
commissioned a 1st Lt. and has reported
to Camp Belvoir, Virginia.
CAPTAIN A.V. CHAPIN, U..S. Air
Corps, lives at 2455 Meridian, Miami, Fla.,
where he owns his own home. His phone
is 5-0378, and he invites any wandering
Aggie to give him a ring, or stop by for
a visit.
LT. “AE. “BRICK "LOWE js in". a
Coast Artillery Battalion (AA), at Ft.
Bliss, Texas. Although one of the first
donors to the Development Fund, his name
was omitted from the report in error, and
the Editor extends apologies.
LIEUTENANT W. C. JOHNSON is in a
Petroleum Distribution Unit in Africa
and receives his mail through APO 759,
% Postmaster, New York, New York.
MAJOR CECIL MATHIS is with Head-
quarters lst Aamy Corps, APO 301, %
Postmaster, San Francisco, California.
G. R. “OLIE” OLSON has been appoint-
ed Lt. (jg), USNR, and assigned to the
Hydrographic Office, Air Navigation Div.,
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. The
appointment was like homecoming to
him, since he lived in Washington several
years.
CLAUDE F. PIPES has been promoted
to the rank of Captain and is Battery
Commander of a 90 MM Battery. He is
stationed at Burbank, California. He was
a Safety Engineer with the Employer’s
Casualty Company in Texas before going
on active duty.
H. F. SCHLEMMER, Post Engineer at
the Mexia, Texas, Internment Camp, was
recently honored by his associates when
they presented the A. & M. College Libra-
ry with a gift of two fine books in memo-
ry of Mr. L. C. Schlemmer, the father of
their friend and associate. The books were
suitably inscribed and placed in free cir-
culation in the A. & M. Library.
MAJOR H. H. TRACY is on active duty
in The Chief Engineering’s Office, W=sh.
D. C. A brother, Maj. GEORGE H. TRA-
CY ’27, is in the U. S. Engineers Corps
at Marfa. Their family home is at Post.
1929
CAPT. EUGENE H. WILDER was re-
cently promoted to that rank in the Army
QM Corps. He is in the Subsistence Div-
ision QM Depot, Oakland, Calif. His per-
Fanent address is 2288 Rust St., Beaumont,
exas.
MAJOR W. HOWARD BADGETT re-
cently completed the C. and G. S. School
at Ft. Leavenworth, and has returned to
Camp Hood, Texas. Prior to going on ac-
tive duty, he was a member of the En-
gineering Experiment Division of the
A. & M. College. He declares that no man
has really been to school until he has
been to the C. and G. S., which according
to Major Badgett, is no kindergarten.
LT. H. C. BRINKOETER has moved
from the Internment Camp, at Lordsburg,
New Mexico, to Fort Benning Ga. He was
manager of the Central Power & Light Co.
at Beeville before reporting for active
duty.
MAJOR JACK P. CLARK was recently
promoted to that rank at Fort Bliss, El
Paso.
LT. ALEX A. FISHBACK, JR., has been
on active duty since April 1942 as Post
Engineer at the Florence Internment
Camp, Coolidge, Arizona. He was former-
ly with the U. S. Geological Survey.
WwW. M. “BILL” FORMAN lives at
Lakeside Plantation, Proctor, Arkansas.
He sends a gift to the Development Fund
to be listed in the name of his youngest
brother John A. Forman ’31, as a grad-
uation present on the latter’s completion
of ‘0, .C. 8S.
A. L. HAYNES is Executice Officer on
one of the ships of the Lykes Bros. S. S.
Co., 17 Battery Place, New York, N. Y.
LT. HAROLD “FU FU” JOHNSON is
somewhere in England with the U. 8S.
Engineers. His home is at Yoakum.
CLIFF B. MARSHALL of Silsbee, Tex.,
has been promoted to rank of Capt. and
is a regimental adjutant at the Eng. Am-
phibian Command, Camp Edwards, Mass.
MAJOR GEORGE H. MOORE has been
promoted to LT. COL. at the A. A. F.
Technical Training School, Gulfport, Miss.
He helped plan and build that field and
was the first officer assigned there.
LT. COL. JOHN C. MORGAN is some-
where overseas gets his mail at APO
501 % Postmaster, San Francisco, Califor-
nia.
MAJOR CLYDE R. NICHOLS is now
located at the U. S. Military Academy,
West Point, New York. He is teaching
Electrical Engineering during the regular
session, and Coast Artillery work during
the summer. Nicho's has keen doing teach-
ing since his graduation and prior to be-
ing called to active duty, served as head
of the Engineering Dept. at the Arkansas
Polytechnic College, Russellville, Ark.
B. F. NORMAN, JR., was incorrectly
listed in the 1926 class in the Development
Fund report. He received his M. E. degree
in 1929, and is with the Freeport Sulphur
Company at Freeport.
W. W. SCOTT for several years City
Manager of Bryan, resigned recently. He
has made no announcement of his future
plans. He received his degree in Civil En-
gineering and has been engaged in Muni-
cipal Management for many years. While
City Manager of Bryan he directed a wide-
spread program of improvement and con-
struction in that city.
CAPT. R. N. TALBOTT came to the
rescue of Association President J. P. Ham-
blen, ’27, at a recent meeting of the Na-
tional Capitol A. & M. Club in Washing-
ton. In the midst of President Hamblen’s
speech, an air raid test turned out all the
lights, but Capt. Talbott came to the rescue
with a carefully shielded flashlight to
enable Hamblen to deliver his message.
Talbott is stationed in Washington.
W. L. WARD, Box 642, Gocse Creek,
was erroneously listed in the 1939 class in
the Development Fund report. He writes
that he would like to be ten years younger,
but still wants to be in the ’29 class. He
is teaching E. M. T. classes in
engineering drawing at Goose Creek.
LT. COL. KURT A. WELGEHAUSEN
is attached to an Ordnance Section Base
Hq., APO 600, ¢% PM. N. Y. C. He was
with the Guardian Trust Company, Hous-
ton, before going on active duty. Other
Aggies in his neighborhood include Canvt.
Alfred O. Nicholson, ’28, Dallas; Lt. Ro-
bert N. Jennings, ’28, San Angelo; Major
Arthur P. Carter, ’28, Rio Grande Valley,
and - Lt.“ Col.--Wm. ~C. "Morgan, Jr., 29,
Cotulla, Texas and Roy»' Oak, M‘ch
LT. ALBERT -D. WHITE has been
promoted to 1st Lt. and assigned to Camp
Maxey, Tex., as an instructor in Chemical
warfare. He recently visited his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Finley R. White, 4416 Taos,
Dallas.
1930
LT. ROBERT T. COX gets his mail at
118 and Doty Ave., Hawthorne, Calif.
LT. ALTON B. DAMERON., is Asst.
Special Service Officer, US Air Corps,
somewhere in Alaska. His address is APO
938 ¢,; Pm, Seattle, Washington. He sends
good wishes from all the Aggies in the Far
North.
ROBERT M. ELDER, formerly Physical
Director of the Y. M. C. A. at Ft. Scott.
Kansas, has been inducted into the Armed
Services, and is now having his mail
sent to Runge, Texas.
JESUS M. GARCIA is located at Mon-
terrey, N. L. Mexico where he is in the
general contracting business. He reports
that a brcther in the class of ’35 is City
Engineer in Tampico, Mexico, and a bro-
in ther who is a member of the class of ’45
is now in the U. S. Army.
MAJOR HUGH W. HILLIS, Beaumont,
is in a Chemical Lab. Co., in Australia.
He reports seeing many other Aggies out
there, among them Lt. Col. John C. Mor-
gan, ’30; Lt. Col. B. A. Schriever, ’31;
Major F. Frank Day, ’30. He says they
are all getting along fine.
LT. W. L. “BILL”. HUGHES, JR., has
received his commission in the Air Force
after graduation from OCS in Florida, and
will be stationed at San Antonio. He for-
merly taught in the. Houston Public
Schools and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Hughes, College Station.
CAPT. DENNIS C. LENTZ, formerly with
the Soil Conservation Service, is on ac-
tive duty somewhere in Calif.
MAJOR C. L. MARSHALL is overseas.
His address is APO 528, ¢% PM, New York
City. Mrs. Marshall is living at 1106 Fair
Oaks Rd, Houston.
MAJOR ALLEN G. MCMAHAN is
back in the States after considerable ser-
vice in the South Pacific. He is in the
Hdq 8th Bn A. F. R- "1. .C.,. Ft. Knox, . Ky.
CAPT. BILL PORTER, Kaufman, for-
merly with the Soil Conservation Service,
is stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif.
FIRST LT. WILFRED R. STARK of
Taft, Texas, has reported to duty at Sel-
fridge Field, Mich. He received his com-
mission after attending the Officer Train-
ing School at Miami, Fla. last fall. He was
transferred to Selfridge Field from Shep-
pard Field, Tex.
OLIVER W. THOMPSON has been ap-
pointed dairy specialist for the A. & M.
College Extension Service, succeeding G.
G. “Hoot” Gibson ’29, who resigned re-
cently to become manager of the Neal
farm interests near Waco. Thompson had
been county -agricultural agent at Gon-
zales since 1938, and has had a wide
range of dairy experience.
MAJOR JOHN H. TURNER has been
transferred from the District Engineers
office, San Antonio, to duty with the
U. S. Engineers at Knoxville, Tenn. His
address will be P. O. Box 1111, that city.
JOHN R. WEAVER has been promoted
to the rank of Major. He is commanding
officer of the induction station at Tyler.
1931
LIEUTENANT T. JOE ANDREWS is
in the Coast Artillery (AA) at Fort Bliss.
He reports that his former roommate,
Lieutenant Edwin Knippa, is somewhere
in North Afica with the Engineer Am-
phibian Command.
MAJOR EARL J. BERRYHILL has
been transferred to the Army Air Base,
Rapid City, S. D., where he is Executive
Officer, Bomb. Group.
LT. COL. STARLEY N. BOKKIN,
Grapeland, was recently promoted to that
rank at the Ft. Benning, Georgia, Infan-
try School. He is commanding officer of
the 1st Bn of the Second Student Train-
ing Regt. Prior to going on active duty in
December 1941, he was with the Texas
Power and Light Company in Trinidad.
CAPT. L. "I." “*(BUSTER) ‘BURNS is
stationed at Fort Reno, Okla. He was a
successful rancher and race horse breeder
at Yoakum before entering the service.
CHARLES R. “DICK” CONEWAY is
with the Humble Oil Refining Company
in’ the Production Department, at Hous-
ton. He has been with this Company
since shortly after his graduation.
LT. JOHN A. FORMAN has been com-
missioned following graduation from O. C.
S. at Camp Davis, N. C. He is in the
Anti-Aircraft, and is now stationed at
Camp Edwards, Mass.
LT. COL. CHARLES F. GIRAND is
stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina
where he receives his mail ¢% APO 443.
LT. DAN S. INGLISH of Bonham, has
arrived safely in Australia, where he is
with the U. S. A. F. After leaving A. &
M., he served for nine years as secretary
to Congressman Sam Rayburn in Washing-
ton, then took an executive position with
the National Housing Administration. He
volunteered for the Air Force last July,
was commissioned at Miami, Fla., and
promoted before sailing overseas.
PHILLIP JACOBS is Vice President
of the Galveston A. & M. club and gets
his mail at 304 21St. 3
LT. (jg) J. D. MITCHAM, USNR, is on
duty at the U. S. Naval Engineering Ex-
periment Station at Annapolis. Lives at
200 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis, Md.
NEWMAN LONG, formerly of Dalas,
is in the FBI.
CAPT. FRANK W. PARENT is com-
manding a Headquarters Company in an
Armored Infantry Regiment at Camp Polk,
Louisiana. }
LT. CAMERON SIDDAL is stationed
at Ft. Ord, Calif. Mrs. Siddal and their
young daughter are there with him. He
was formerly Entomologist for the A. &
M. Extension Service.
_ LT. COL. MARVIN SLEDGE has been
in India for the past fourteen months. He
commands a Service Group there in the
Air Force, having succeeded Col. C.
MacNair ’24, recently returned to this
country. Mrs. Sledge is living at 1360
Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo,
Calif.
LT. ALFREDO E. STEIN writes bro-
ther Julius that he is finding the Pacific
ocean as large as it’s said to be. He is in
a Malaria Control unit, APO 3681, %
PM, San Francisco, Calif.
MAJOR HENRY TIMMERMANN is a
member of the staff of a fighter command
somewhere in New Guinea. He received
his overseas orders in September 1942
while attending the Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
CAPTAIN LE ROY C. ZAPALAC, a
former company E Infantryman and Sbisa
Volunteer, is now commanding officer of
the New Braunfels Branch San Antonio
Army Service Forces Depot at New Braun-
fels, Texas. He received his commission
in the Quartermaster Corps in September,
1940, and became a captain in April 1943.
Attention has been called to the omission
of Wm Mark Curtis from the group of
Aggies present at the famous April 21,
’42 Muster on Corregidor. He has been
reported a prisoner of war, and his name
was among those sent to the War Depart-
ment as being present at the famous Cor-
regidor Muster. For some unknown reason
his name was not included in press re-
ports of this effect, and thus was not
picked up by the association. The omission
was discovered by Lt. (jg) Ernest J. Hol-
comb, ’35, now at the U. S. N. Preflight
School, Chapel Hill, N. C. Mrs. Curtis is
now living at 343 North McLean, Memphis,
Tenn. A son, Wm. M. Curtis, Jr. was born
just two months before Capt. Curtis was
assigned to the Philippines. The Aggie
regrets the omission of Capt. Curtis’ name
from the Corregidor Muster meeting but
is happy to have its records corrected.
MAJ. T. E. CARTER is the Regimental
S-3 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
CAPT. AND MRS. W. B. COKE, Wood-
ville, Miss, recently returned there after
a 10 day furlough spent in Bryan.
CAPT. ISADORE LEVINE, 1808 Had-
ley, Houston, is attending the new division
orticers course at Fort Sill, Okla. He was
with the Shell Oil Co before entering the
service.
STAFFF SGT. W. F. (FUZZY) DOU-
GLAS, former Bryan insurance man, is in
the Flexible Gunnery School, Buckingham
Army Air Field, Ft. Myers, Fla.
MAJOR CLAUDE M. EVANS, A. C.,
has been transferred from Fort Logan,
Colorado to Mitchel Field, New York. He
is in the A-4 staff of the First Air Force.
His address is 12 Hempstead Ave., Rock-
ville Centre, L. I. New York.
CAPTAIN VIRGIL A. GARCIA is a
Field Artillery officer with Headquarters
1st Army Corps, APO 301, ¢% Postmaster,
San Francisco, California. He reports that
Major Cecil Mathis ’28, is the only other
Aggie in his corps so far as he knows.
LT. (jg) HOWARD W. GIDEON, U. S.
N. R., gets his mail ¢ Staff of Composac,
% Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.
MAJOR ROBERT E. HENRY, of San
Antonio, was recently promoted to that
rank. He is officer in charge of the Rifle
and Anti-Aircraft Ranges at the Camp
Lee QM A. R. T. C., Va. Prior to enter-
ing the service, he did aerial photogrophic
mapping, and later was a civil engineer
in flood control work with the U. S. Corps
of Engineers. Major and Mrs. Henry are
making their home, temporarily, at 231
Hinton St., Petersburg, Va.
MAJOR JACK M. JORDAN is. living
at 715 Kentland Drive, Neosho, Missouri.
MAJOR BURTON W. KARSTETER is
in an Armored Regiment and gets his
mail at APO 259 ¢% Pm, Los Angeles,
alif.
MAJOR ELEHUGH LEVY has been
transferred to Camp Swift, Texas. He is
in the 816th, T. D. Bn.
LT. (jg) GEORGE T. MARION has been
in Officer Training School at Camp
Peary, Va., where he is a member of the
Navy Seabeas. For the past two years
he has been chief of the fortifications
section for the War Department during
the building of Army bases at an Atlantic
[
base. His home is at Dallas where Mrs.
Marion and their three children are now
residing.
MAJOR JOHN T. MASSINGALE is
with the Corps of Engineers and is at
present Post engineer at the McLean, Tex-
as, Internment Camp. Massingale’s home
ir at Sherman and he has been on active
duty since November, 1940. He served as
Engineer Officer on the construction of
Camp Wallace at Galveston, as area en-
gineer on the planning of Camp Maxey
at Paris and later as engineer in charge
of construction of the Tank Destroyer
Center at Camp Hood.
CAPT. HERMAN T. MCWATTERS,
Pittsburg, Texas, was wounded in action
in North Africa. No additional details
heve been received. :
CAPT. ROBERT L. MELCHER gets
his mail at LaGrange. His present military
assignment unknown.
S. A. “DOC” MERCER is with the
Humble Company at Yoakum where he is
office manager.
MAJOR W. C. O'DOWD, Cleburne, Tex-
as, writes interestingly about small de-
tails of life in North Africa. He tells of
paying $4.00 to $6.00 for a small bundle
of laundry and says he consoles himself
with the thought that there is nothing else
to do with money anyway. He is in a
bombing group, APO 520 ¢% PM, N. Y. C.
Major O‘Dowd was in the Pacific and
narrowly escaped capture when the Japs
attacked in December 1941. His assignment
‘now in North Africa has really made the
war a global conflict for him.
LT. COL. JOHN U. PARKER secretary
of the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.,
was recently promoted to that rank. As a
student of A. & M., he was a senior yell
leader and known to his classmates as
“Two-Gun Herman from Sherman.”
MAJOR FRANK ROARK is somewhere
in the Pacific northwest.
LT. COL. GEORGE E. SCHUNIOR of
the Adjutant General’s Office, Washing-
ton, D. C., was a recent visitor to Texas
on official business.
CAPT. HOWARD L. SQUIRES, former
employe of Reed Roller Bit Co., Houston,
is an Ordnance property officer at Camp
Chaffee, Ark. He and his wife live at Fort
Smith.
1933
T. D. CRADDOCK, County Agent, Hamil-
ton, recently spoke before the congrega-
tion of the Methodist Church there, out-
lining the needs of a new Methodist Church
at College Station.
1ST LT. H. DURST, Ord. Dept., offices
in the Fisher Building, gets his mail at
17631 Fielding Ave., Detroit, Mich. The
“Preacher” was scheduled to be in Texas
when the recent race riots occured in
Detroit, which may have been significant.
CAPT. J. M. GOODWIN is stationed at
Hickman Field, Hawaii. He and Mrs.
Goodwin and their infant son, Bill, were
living at Hickam when the Japs struck
on Dec. 7, 1941. Mrs. Goodwin and young
Bill were evacuated three weeks later and
are now living at Bandera, Tex.
MAJOR HENRY T. HALL, ’33, Hous-
ton, is somewhere in North Africa.
CAPT. EARLE B. HARBEN is living
at 2508 Elizabeth Drive, Brownwood, Tex-
as. He expects to be there till fall, when
he hopes to leave construction work for
troop duty.
CAPT. MARTIN F. LUDEMAN is
commanding an Ordnance unit at the
Mississippi Ordnance Plant, Flora, Miss.
MAJOR W. P. MACHEMEHL is in an
airborne infantry division. His home is at
Bellville, Texas, but he was with the
Guardian Trust Company in Houston be-
fore being called to active duty, about
two years ago. His wife and small daugh-
ter are with him in Tennessee.
CAPT. FRED MARSHALL SHAW has
been promoted to Major at Ft. Benning,
Ga., where he is stationed. He was a star
baseball pitcher in his Aggie days, then
with the Soil Conservation before going
on avtive duty.
1ST LT. CHARLES E. MCMURRAY is
a Liasion Pilot in the Field Artillery, and
is Flight Commander of his division. He
is overseas, APO 36, ¢ Postmaster, New
York City. Mrs. McMurray is living at 911
Bayland Avenue, Houston 9, Texas. Mec-
MURRAY received his degree in Civil
Engineering.
A. J. MILLER has changed his address
from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to Box 391,
Borger, Texas.
CAPT. CHESTER A. PEYTON i
announced a Japanese prisoner on June
14. His wife lives in San Antonio.
TUG S. PFEUFFER, a native of New
Branufels, is still making his home in that
city and is serving as Postmaster.
1ST LT. J. W. RICHARDS, JR. is as-
igned to the new Rainbow Division, Camp
Gruber, Oklahoma.
MAJOR RALPH E. RINN was trans-
ferred from Indiantown Gap, Pa. to New
Orleans. He and Mrs. Rinn are living at
4729 Carondelet. His assignment is at
Harahan, La.
CAPTAIN CHARLES K. SEAMAN, JR.
is in Africa with an Engineers Petroleum
Distribution Unit and receives his mail
through APO 759, ¢% Postmaster, New York
City, New York. He reports that 1st Lieut-
enant W. C. Johnson ’28, is in his unit
and is the only Aggie he has seen for some
time.
LT. JACK W. SHECKLES of Yoakum,
is overseas, APO 871, ¢% PM., New York
City.
MAJOR WILLIAM E. STEELE, JR.
lives at 4119 “W” St., N. W. Washington,
D. C. He was Chairman of a recent meet-
ing of the National Capitol A. & M.
Club, and entertained the group with a
showing of the 1939 Aggie-Tulane Sugar
Bowl game. -
CAPT. BERNARD F. SULAK, is over-
seas in Hq. 2nd Bn., 49th QM Trk Regt.,
APO 700 ¢% Pm. New York, N. Y. Mrs.
Sulak lives at 1513 Westlake, Wichita Falls,
Texas.
MAJOR ROYCE E. TUCKER has re-
turned to Haq. Third Army, Fort Sam
Houston, after attending the C & G. S.
School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
LT. COL. JACK W. WHITE is with the
Army Air Force Bombardier School at
Childress, Texas.
W. N. WILLIAMSON, who received his
Masters Degree from A. & M., has been
appointed Special Agent for the Extension
Service, with headquarters at College Sta-
tion. For the past four years, he has been
county agricultural agent at Cleburne.
MAJOR E. J. (POP) WILLSON is now
stationed at Camp Adair, Oregon, after
transfer from Camp Forrest, Tenn.
WILLIAM N. WORTHAM is located at
Goldsmith, Texas where he receives his
mail in Box 217. He reporic that he has
been unsuccessful in entering the service
through the Marine Office Procurement
Board or the Army Engineers but antici-
pates that his draft board will call him
in the near future.
1934
CAPT. CARY M. ABNEY, JR. Mar-
shall, was omitted through error on list
of A. & M. men captured on Bataan and
now a Japanese prisoner of war. He is the
son of Carey M. Abney, Sr., ’02, Attorney
of Marshall, Texas.
CAPT. JOE ASTON, JR., Hq. Co., APO
442 ¢, PM, San Francisco, Calif., writes
from Australia that he has seen classmate
Marion Cook and Tom Uhr and also ran
across Pete Comnas ’39. Capt. Aston’s wife
and young baby are living at Farmersville,
ex.
LT. E. W. BUCHTIEN is in an Engin-
eering Bn., Yuma, Arizona.
FELIX BURTON is Assistant Couty
Agent at Henderson. .
LT. JOSEPH B. LLOYD has been pro-
moted to Captain at the San Antonio
Aviation Cadet Center. He was formerly
superintendent of schools at Johnson City,
and is a past president of the Chamber of
Commerce of that city.
IKE LOEWENSTEIN,
baseballer from Brenham,
Sergeant in North Africa.
CHARLES MAST was promoted to Ma-
jor in May. He is in U. S. Engineers at
the Eighth Service Command, Santa Fe
Bldg., Dallas.
LT. RHEYBURN E. (BUD) NOLAN
whose home address is 717 W. Pafford St.,
Fort Worth, recently won his commission
by completion of Officer Candidate School
at Fort Benning, Ga. He was inducted in-
to the Army in November, 1942.
CAPT. HARRY G. SEELIGSON is still
on duty at the A. A. F. Advanced Flying
School, Altus, Okla. He was in their furni-
ture business in San Angelo before report-
ing for active duty.
E. G. SMITH, Prof. of Physics of A.
& M. is credited with suggesting valuable
revision and changes greatly improving
the General Electric Co. Psychrometic
Chart. The chart is widely used by Archs.
and engineers. The story of its improve-
ment and the part played by Prof. Smith
is carried in the May issue of the Clima-
teer, published by the General Electric
Co. at Bloomfield, N. J.
CAPT. JOHN F. SMITH expects to have
former Aggie
is an Army
a younger brother enter A. & M. this fall.
John is stationed at Camp Barkeley, Texas.
CAPT. CHARLES A. TOSCH, JR., U. S.
A. F., is administrative officer at a port
in Greensboro, N. C. He was called to ac-
tive duty in 1941.
LT. K. E. ZIMMERMAN has been trans-
ferred from the District Engineers office,
San Antonio, to duty with the U. S. En-
gineers at Knoxville, Tenn. His address
will be P. O. Box 1111 that city.
1935
CAPT. RICHARD ALEXANDER is over-
seas, location unknown, but gets his mail
at 1605 Wentworth, Houston, Texas.
MAJOR JOHN P. BARRON of Bryan
and Dallas, has been awarded the Legion
of Merit for exceptionally meritorious
services at an island base in the south Pa-
cific. He was engineering officer of an
Expeditionary Task Force. He went on
active duty in the Corps of Engineers in
1941 from his position as assistant engi-
neer for the Dallas Power & Light Com-
pany. He is engineer officer with the Ser-
vice Command for his South Pacific base.
GEORGE D. COMNAS who is with the
Humble Company in Houston, recently
purchased a 72 acre farm near Houston.
LT. COL. ODELL M. CONOLEY, U. S.
M. C, has been awarded the Navy Cross
for gallantry on Guadalcanal. His home
is at Amarillo, Tex., and he played on
the Aggie football teams of his day. He
entered the Marine Corps as an honor
graduate upon graduation.
ODELL M. CONOLEY, Amarillo, and
BRUNO A. HOCHMUTH, Houston, have
been promoted to the rank of Lt. Col.
U. S. Marine Corps. Both entered the
Marine Corps as honor graduates follow-
ing their graduation in 1935, and are re-
gulars in that Service.
FRANCISCO C. FUENTES sends a gift
to the Development Fund from Aptdo 39,
Mexicali, Mexico.
MAJOR KAY HALSELL, Bryan, re-
cently spent a leave with his parents. He
is stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., with a
Tank Destroyer Bn.
FIRST LT. RAY C. HARBEN, Chemical
Warfare, is stationed at Gadsden, Ala., and
paid a recent visit to his home at Richard-
son. He was met there by his brother,
Capt. Earl B. Harben, ’33, U. S. Engineers.
JAKE C. HATTOX has been appointed
County Agricultural Agent for Menard
County with headquarters at Menard.
CLARENCE E. HEATON has been with
the American Red Cross for some years,
and at present is an Assistant Field Su-
pervisor at Honolulu, T. H.
CAPTAIN F. H. HELM, JR., is at Camp
Barkeley, Texas, assigned to an Infantry
Division Headquarters.
MELVIN B. HILL was incorrectly listed
in the 1937 class of the donors to the De-
velopment Fund. He received his degree in
1935, and is a member of that class. He is
fighting on the food front, as the County
Agent at Nacogdoches.
LT. JAMES T. “TED” JONES, former
Aggie baseballer and more recently with
the Santa Fe Railroad at Temple, is: in
North Africa with the RR Bn. They went
over in February and have done a tremen-
dous job in developing and maintaining
railroad facilities in that area. His address
is APO 763 ¢% Pm, New York, N. Y.
T /SGT. J. H. KELLY is in the Medical
Dept. and now on Desert maneuvers. His
address is APO 182, Los Angeles. He writes
that the Medical Dept. may be a strange
place for a graduate in Accounting but
that he is happy in his work.
CAPT. ROLAND CURTIS MADELY,
U. S. A. F. has been transferred from
Sheppard Field, Texas, to Selfridge Field,
Mich. He was formerly with the Soil Con-
servation Service at Abilene. Mrs. Madley
and their two sons are residing at 2435
Harper Ave., Mt. Clemns, Mich.
1ST LT. J. W. MAREK, of the Chemical
Warfare Service, is in a Tng Div with
Hdq, Ft. Snelling, Minn.
1ST. LT. ERVIN B. McLEROY recent-
ly spent a short leave with his mother at
Bryan, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter. He recently graduated from the Flex-
_ible Gunnery School at Laredo. Prior to
going on active duty last October, he was
county agent at Crockett. He is now sta-
tioned at the Laredo Army Air Field.
PVT. JACK B. ROACH is “Mr” Roach
again, and thereby lies a story. When called
to active duty, he lost his commission by
failure to pass his physical examination.
He was later drafted and served in the
Army at Camp Swift. Recently, his knee
gave him trouble, and he was placed in
the hospital. His orthopedic surgeon was
amazed that he had stood up to six mouths
service in the Army. He is back on his
old job ,as Secretary of the Coryell County
A. C. A., Box 272, Gatesville, Texas.
CAPT. WILLIAM H. SEAMAN has been
transferred from the District Engineers
office, San Antonio, to duty with the U.
S. Engineers at Knoxville, Tenn. His ad-
dress will be P. O. Box 1111 that city.
CAPT. COURTNEY A. TIDWELL re-
cently transferred to the Air Service Com-
mand, and is C. O., 91 st Depot Supply
Squadron, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.
1ST LT. JAMES L. WEATHERBY has
reported for duty with the Transportation
Division at Ft. Slocum, N. Y. Mrs. Wea-
therby and their two children will remain
at their home, 274 Kendale, Dallas.
CAPT. F. W. H. “FRITZ” WEHNER
gets his mail at Box 44 Station O, New
York City. -
LT. WALTER M. YOUNG is on active
duty somewhere in Calif. "
IST. 12 RS. STEPHENS :ig ‘back =in
the Coast Art. after returning from Ven-
ezuela and is now stationed at Camp
Hulen, Texas. He attended the Camp Wal-
lis A. A. Gunnery School before his as-
signment to Hulen.
1936
LT. GERALD WAKEFIELD is stationed
at the Midland Army Air base. 8
CAPT. HAROLD KITTLEBAND is sta-
tioned at Luke Field, Ariz.
CAPT. T. O. ALLEN, former district
engineer at Anahuac for the Humble Co.,
is an instructor in the U. S. Signal Corps
at Fort Monmouth, N. J.
ENSIGN JAMES E. BOOTS, JR. is on
foreign duty. Mrs Boots lives at 5639 Good-
win, Dallas 6, Texas. He was with the
Remington Arms, Inc. and General Elec-
tric Company, before entering the Navy.
He studied Aeronautical Engineering at
California Tech before going into the
Navy Air Corps as a Naval Engineer.
OTIS COWSERT, Senior Assistant at
the Triple A Has., College Station, suffered
a broken leg early in June while visiting
his father’s ranch at Rock Springs, Texas.
He fell from a windmill and broke his leg
lege Station.
CAPT. JOHN M. CRADDOCK, former
assistant building mgr., for the Humble
Co. of Houston, is in the Signal Corps at
Kelly Field, San Antonio.
MAJOR L. A. EVANS is stationed at
the VIII Corps Headquarters, Brownwood.
LT. BOSE “BUD” GORMAN is station-
ed with the Harrison Prov. Gp., U. S. A.
F., Salinas, Calif. He reports temperatures
up to 118 in the shade, if there was any
shade.
ENSIGN CHESTER W. INGRAHAM,
USN, gets his manl at ¢% Fleet Post Office,
N. Y. C. His home address is 222 East
Eleventh, Chanute, Kan.
CAPT. J. P. “JACK” JOHNSON would
like to' know the whereabouts of classmates
C. F. “Prexy” Roberts, Harvey ‘“Hookum”
Cullinan, Clarence ‘Birdie’ Heinen (Camp
Rucker, Alabama) ‘“Twacka’ Melton and
other members of old ‘E’ Btry. F. A. of
’36. Jack has been overseas for 16 months.
He is in an Ordnance Office Hdgs., APO
922, San Francisco, Calif. The above men
should write him and also advise the
Ass’n. office of their correct addresses.
LT. D. CLARK KINDEL, was recently
commissioned in the Marine Corps after
completing the officers training course
at Quantico, Va.
CAPT. JAMES A. MARTIN, former
rancher at Dryden, Texas, is on active
duty somewhere in Calif.
MAJOR WILLIAM S. MCCULLEY, who
received his Masters Degree from A. M.
and later taught here, is Chief of the
Chemical Section of the USAF, Tinker
Field, Oklahoma. Major McCully served
as CWS tactical officer at A. & M. when
first called to active duty.
MAJOR ROBERT S. SHERWOOD, Col-
lege Station, has been promoted to that
rank. He is in the administrative office,
enlisted men’s school at Fort Belvoir, Va.
MAJOR ORMAND R. SIMPSON, U. S.
M. C. Unit No. 705, ¢% Fleet PO, San
Francisco, Calif., sends his regards to his
many friends. He is somewhere in the
Pacific and has been out there for some-
time.
CAPTS. RICHARD C. HALTER & THO-
MAS F. STEPHEN, JR., are somewhere
in Australia, members of a Chemical Lab.
Co., APO 923, San Francisco, Calif.
ENSIGN PERCY A. TARDY, JR. of
Bryan, recently graduated from the Naval
Reserve Officers’ School at Tucson, Ari-
zona. He was a chemist in an oil refinery
at Beaumont, prior to entering the Navy.
LT. JOHN T. WHITFIELD, JR., re-
ceived his commission In April, and is
stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif. He
in two places. He makes his home at Col- |
came up through the ranks and has at-
tended Army Schools at Camp Walters,
Ft. Benning, and Camp Roberts. He re-
ports a recent visit with the family of
CAPT. JOHN CROW ’35, killed in action
in New Guinea. MARION CROW, bro-
ther, is still in South America on special
work for the Caterpillar Tractor Company.
LT WHITFIELD and the two Crow bro-
thers were linesmen on the same Aggie
football teams.
MAJOR WILLIAM TAYLOR WILKINS
is in England and sends regards to his
friends. He is in the VIII Area Air Sup-
port Command, APO 638, New York, N.Y.
1937
LT. OLEN W. ABBOTT is somwhere in
North Africa with an Air Depot Group.
W. ALLEN BLOODWORTH is teaching
Vocational Agriculture at Lott, Texas.
CAPT. WELDON C. BUTLER is with
the Service Company, APO 708 ¢% PM, San
Francisco, Calif.
MAJ. RICHARD N. CONOLLY has bean
made Director of Station Services at the
Blackland Army Air Field, Waco. He was
formerly commandant of Cadets. Major
and Mrs. Conolly and the young son reside
at 1819 North Tenth St., Waco.
WILLIAM RAMSEY HARRIS is Mgr.
of the Harris Funeral Home, McKinney,
Texas, and is active in civic and business
affairs of that city. He is President of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, Director of
the Rotary Club, Deacon of the First Pres-
byterian Church, and active in the Masonic
Lodge. He and Mrs. Harris have three
children.
CAPT. W. H. KELLEY, has been promo-
ted to Major and transferred to the Hda.
AF RTC. Fort Knox, "Ky.
LIEUTENANT R. H. MCCALL, USAF,
is stationed at the Army Air Base, Clovis,
New Mexico, in a Bomb, Sqdn.
“GREATLY EXAGGERATED” was the
answer from CAPT. A. ROSS MEADOR,
JR., to reports that he had been killed. He
is alive and well and stationed at Fort Ri-
ley, Kansas. He and Mrs. Meador make
their heme in near-by Junction City. The
reports of his death came about through
the similar names of Capt. Meador and Ma-
jor Aubry R. Meador, Jr., ’35, who was
killed recently while on maneuvers in Tenn.
CAPT. EDWIN H. MOORE, Dallas, has
been promoted to MAJOR. He is stationed
at Camp Campbell, Ky., with the Main-
tenance Division.
MAJOR H. L. PEAVY and CAPT. J.
A. FORD are assigned to the VII Corp
Has., Brownwood.
CAPT. WALLACE P. RICHMOND,
in a QM Regt, Hdg In New Guinea, has
been overseas for over a year.
MAJOR FOSTER C. SMITH has been
transferred from California to Camp
Pickett, Virginia.
CAPT. JOHN DOUGLAS SMITH, 308
Hyde Park, Houston, has enrolled as a
student officer in the A. A. F. Pre-flight
School, Maxwell Field, Ala. He was a
petroleum engineer when he went on ac-
tive duty in March, 1941.
MAJOR BRUCE N. SPENCER has been
made executive officer in a searchlight
Bn. of the anti-aircraft division at Long
Beach, Calif. Prior to entering the ser-
vice he was with the Atlantic Refining
Co. His home address is 3202 Princeton,
Dallas. 3
CAPTAIN J. SHERWOOD SPIVEY is
with the 90th Division, Camp Barkeley,
Texas. He reports that Lieutenant Robert
T. Cornes ’41, and Lieutenant Perry
Beville ’38, are both officers in his com-
pany and that Captain Raleigh Jackson
’38, is in his Regiment. Spivey is having
his mail sent to 22101 South 10th Street,
Abilene, Texas.
CAPT. ERCELLE H. STAPLES is in
the Corps of Engineers, Headquarters
Western Base Section, somewhere in Eng-
land. He has been there for a year. Mrs.
Staples is living at Kyle, Texas.
CAPT. A. E. “DUTCH” VOELKEL is
stationed at Camp Lockett, Calif.
CAPT. GEORE C. WARNER is station-
ed at Camp Bowie, Texas.
CPL. WILLIAM L. WEDEL has been
transferred from Ky. to Camp Maxey,
Tex. He is in the Enl. Repl. Det. Pool.
CAPT. JOE B. WHITE, JR., Bryan, has
received his commission at the Tampa
Air Base. He was in the Inf. before trans-
ferring to the Air Corps for Pilot training.
1938
CAPT. DAN W. AMSLER is assigned
to the Inf. School, Academic Dept., Weap-
ons Section, Fort Benning, Ga.
CAPT. W. W. ARMISTEAD is in the
Veterinary Corps and at present is living
at 812 South Barker, El Reno, Oklahoma.
WILSON B. BUCKLEY is with the Soil
Conservation service at Russellvile, Ark-
ansas, He plans to enter military service
soon.
LT. WARREN E. CHURCH, holder of
the Distinguished Flying Cross for out-
standing performance as a USAF pilot
in North Africa, is back in America and
Lopes to visit his family at Colorado City.
He is a former Aggie tackle and before en-
tering the Air Force was with the soil
conservation service. His father is Mr.
Joe Church, Alamo Hotel, Colorado City.
Texas.
CAPT. FRANK O. CLOUDT is in the
Field Artillery at Camp Bowie, Texas.
CAPT. TRUMAN COOK is on overseas
duty, according to a recent report from
a returning traveler. -
CAPT. E. J. CRANE, Dallas, has been
promoted to the rank of Major in the
U. S. Marine Corps. He lead the first Ma-
rine contingent ashore on the invasion of
Guadaleanal, and holds the Navy Cross.
CPL. BROWNRIGG H. DEWEY, JR.
Bryan, is stationed at the Hobbs Army Air
Field, Hobs, New Mexico. After graduating
from A. & M. he studied law at the Uni-
versity of Texas.
LT. CHARLES F. DIBRELL has been
transferred from Hondo to Tarrent Field,
Fort Worth.
T. A. HIETT gets his mail at 611 Kirk-
man Street, Lake Charles, La. Warren
Davis, ’38, he reports also in Lake Charles.
FIRST LT. PRICE HOBGOOD has re-
ported for duty at the Carlsbad Army Air
Field, New Mexico. He was formerly with
the Soil Conservation Service.
A/C AVERY T. JACKSON has com-
pleted his basic flying training at the
Lemoore Army Flying School, California.
CAPT. JOHN F. KEETON is in the
Coast Artillery at Capitola, Calif,
CHARLES D. KROEGER, BM 2/ec,
U.S.N. A.B.D., Marine Instructor, Hue-
neme, Calif., wants the Texas Aggie sent
to him there.
MAJOR ALEXANDER NORDHAUS,
JR., is in a Haq., Eng., Reg’t. somewhere
in North Africa. He lost his T-blanket last
year when he moved from Ireland to Afri-
ca and writes about securing another one.
No soap for the duration.
W. C. O'NEAL has changed his address
to P. O. Box 840 Corsicana, Texas. He is
with the Soil Conservation Service.
CAPT. JAMES E. PINNEY is attach-
ed to the Headquarters of an Island Air
Command, APO 502, San Francisco, Calif.
Mrs. Pinney is living at Cleburne, Texas.
CAPT. JACK M. ROGERS, formerly
with the Retail Credit Company at Houston,
is taking basic flight training at Goodfel-
low Field.
LT. PAUL P. ROSE is stationed in the
Engineer Replacement Training Center at
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. For a year he
has been training recruits for replacements
in Combat Engineer Units. He hopes him-
self to see more active service in the near
future.
CAPT. OSCAR SEWARD III has been
recently promoted to that rank and 1s
stationed at Camp Swift, Texas. He is the
son of Colonel O. A. Seward, 07, now on
active duty with the U. S. Corps of En-
gineers at Fort Lawton, Washington. Capt.
Seward has a ranch near Lipan, Texas,
and plans to go back to it after the war
is over.
LT. GEORGE A. SINGLETARY of
Bryan, who has been in Australia for
the past nine months, is being transferred
to new fields. He recently enjoyed a pleas-
ant surprise when he met up with an
old classmate and another Brazos County
boy, Lt. James Alexander, ’38, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, ’23, College
Station.
CAPT. C. M. STATUM has been trans-
ferred from the Topeka, Kansas Army Air
Base to the Army Air Base at El Paso.
LT. JOHN E. TROTT has been trans-
ferred from Carlisle Barracks, Pa., to
the General Hospital at Atlantic City,
N
a
LT. and MRS. A. R. TURBEVILLE live
at 19221 Burwel St., Bremerton, Wash.
He was recently promoted 1st Lt.
CAPT. TROY P. WAKEFIELD has
been put in charge of all classification ac-
tivities for the Flying Training Command,
A.A.F. with offices in the Texas and Pa-
cific bldg. in Fort Worth. His work nec-
essitates traveling over much of the U.
S. and he reports seeing many A. & M,
friends on those trips.
LT. C. A. “BUDDY” WILSON, APO
525, New York City, reports lots of Ag-
cies in his vicinity, among them being:
LTS. JACK BROWN, ’37; FRED STAL-
LINGS, ’36; and CHARLES HAMNER,
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’40; MAJOR M. J. LANDRY, ’36; and
CAPT. R. A. BELL, ’35.
LT. HERMAN YEZAK
Fort Benning, Ga.
1939
LT.WENDELL H. BARNETT was criti-
cally injured in a plane mishap last
January in Salina, Kansas, but is nearing
a complete recovery at Fitzsimons General
Hospital, Ward 6, Denver, Colorado. He
Yopes! to be released for duty in the near
CAPT. ASC BASSETT, area engineer
at Texarkana, has been transferred to the
Engineering School, Fort Belvoir, Va.
_ PVT. LOGAN W. CREWS reports see-
ing lots of tis country at Uncle Sam’s
expense, and expects to s . Hi i-
dress is APO 4016, New nore. His ad
1ST. LT. DALLAS L. CRISWELL, Cal-
vert, is stationed somewhere in Alaska.
LTT
is stationed at
OM S. DARROW is in the En-
gineers, and receives his mail at APO
460, % Postmaster, Los Angeles, Calif.
Darrow has been in the service eighteen
months and at last report, was just
ready to go on resert maneuvers.
MAJOR JESSE J. DEAN has been
promoted from rank of Captain. He is
in the Motor Transport Division. Mrs. Dean
is residing at present with her parents
at 2314 Fulton, Houston.
LT. LEVI L. DIXON is in an Engr,
Avn. Bn., APO 644, ¢% Postmaster, New
York City. In the same Bn., he reports
IST. SLT. “WILLIAM -R.- “BOB’> "PARR,
’34, and 1ST. LT. IRA KIMBROUGH, ’41.
LT. ROSCOE B. DOOLEY sends his
gift to the Development Fund from some-
where in the South Pacific. His address is
APO 43 ¢, Pm., San Francisco. He reports
receiving copies of the TEXAS AGGIE,
though badly delayed.
LT. ROBERT L. DOSS, former “Batt”
editor, kas been commissioned- following his
graduation from O.C.S. at Ft. Sill, Okla.
He is returning there for a special course
in Motors.
ENSIGN OLAN KLINE FITTZ gets
his mail at Hamilton D-23, Soldiers Field
‘Station, Boston, Mass, He expects to be
there at least until November.
LT. PARKER P. FITZHUGH is some-
where in North Africa with the 202nd Mil-
itary Police, APO 302 ¢% Pm, New York
City. N. Y. Mrs. Fitzhugh lives at 822
S. Mont Clair, Dallas, Texas.
LT. OSCAR F. FORESTER is a prisoner
of war, at Stalag Luft III in Germany.
His bomber was shot down January 3rd,
over France. He was not injured. Mrs. For-
ester lives at Smithville, Texas. ...... ............
FIRST LT. J. G. (PETE) FRY has
been attending the Field Artillery School
at Fort Sil, Okla., after spending the past
year as assistant post property officer
with the Quartermaster and Ordnance of-
ficer. He reports recent correspondence with
CAPT. JOHN LEE MILLER, USMC, who
is in the Pacific theatre and who reported
he had spent 32 days behind the Japanese
lines on Guadalcanal. Pete also reports
Tommy Hardison in India with the En-
gineer Corp and getting along well.
CAPT. LEONARD E. GARRETT, Beau-
mont, Army engineer attached to an
Inf. division, has been awarded the Silver
Star for gallantry in action last Decem-
ber on New Guinea. His home is at Pitts-
burg, Texas, but he was with the Magnolia
Company at Beaumont when called to ac-
tive duty. Following his citation in New
Guinea, he became ill with tropical fever
but recovered in Australia and has return-
ed to active duty.
REX GOLSTON has been promoted to
the rank of CAPTAIN. He is Post Quar-
termaster at the A.A.F. Basic Flying
School, Marana, Arizona.
PVT. THOMAS H. HALTOM, JR., whose
father is a veteran emp'oyee of the Chem-
istry Department, is now in the service
with Company B, Engineer Regiment, Camp
Claiborne, La.
EARL B. HAMILTON is Chief Engi-
neer of the Buckeye Tool Corp, Dayton,
Ohio
MAJOR DEXTER L. HODGE and. LT.
O. L. (GAT) GARRISON are somewhere
overseas, APO 364, N. Y. C.
CAPT. MACK "B.  HODGES,  JR., €is
stationed at the Engineer Section HQ 3rd
Air Force, Tampa, Florida.
MAXWELL LANDON has moved from
Houston to Dallas, and his new address
is 2801 Kings Road.
MR. and MRS. W. H. (BILL) LEGRAND
live at Triumph, La., where he is an en-
for the Gulf Oil
gineer producing oil
orp.
ENSIGN D. B. McCORQUODALE writes
that he is ‘goin’ huntin’ ”. He is in
the Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, %o
Fleet, P. O., San Francisco, Calif.
Erraium
The Aggie regrets an erroneous news
items on May 27th, reporting the birth of
a son to CAPT. and MRS. WILLIAM
G. NORTH, of Fort Riley, Kansas. The
repert is a errcr. Capt. North is assigned
to the Cav. Board at Fort Riley.
LT. HENRY K. PORTER, Relton, has
graduated from the Army Air Flying School
at Pampa.
AUGUST E. PRUGEL has resigned as
County Agent of Schleicher County to
accept a position with the Federal Land
Bank of Texas. He is now located at
Sonora, Texas, as Secretary-Treasurer of
the loan association which serves Crockett,
Sutton 2nd Schleicher Counties.
OLIN G. RIVOIRE has moved from Ft.
Worth, to 705 Cherokee Trace, Grand
Prairie, where he has purchased a home,
He is a Methods Engineer, specializing in
elecirical work with North American Avia-
tion Inc., at Grand Prairie.
ENSIGN K. FRANK ROBINSON, USNR,
is in the Northwest African theater of
operations. Net
SGT. WOODROW W. STEPHENSON is
with the U. S. Corps of Engineers, and
is now stationed at Peterson Field, Colo-
rado Springs, Colo. He eniisted last Sep-
tember. He reports a recent letter from
James A. “Red” Carrigan, former Aggie
basketball player and now on duty some-
where in the South Pacific. He asked for
news about Ens. Ernie Pannell, former
Aggie All-Conference tackle, also in the
Navy.
LT. WILLARD THOMAS, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Thomas of Weatherford,
is a prisoner of war in Germany after prev-
iously being reported as missing in action.
It is presumed his plane was shot down
over Germany and he bailed out and made
a safe landing. He had previously made
numerous raids over Germany as pilot of a
Flying Fortress.
18ST. LT. ROBERT L. TOSCH, U. S.
Signal Corps, is stationed at Camp Murphy,
Fla., where he is an instructor at a Radar
School.
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