The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, July 15, 1943, Image 3
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, Page 3 ’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. The New Tourist Camp Opposite College on Highway 6 Tile Baths - Simmons Beds COLLEGE COURTS P. O. 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