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tor of the Presbyterian Church at
Menard, Texas ,and reports a 3-
day hunt last fall with D. D. Steele
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Menzies, "21.
Eubank is one of three A. & M.
mates who are pastors in the
Presbyterian USA Church.
J. R. Strange is with Magdalena
Fruit Co., Santa Marta, Rep. de
Colombia, S. A.
Harry G. Bimmerman is located
at 1000 Wynnewood Ave. Carr-
croft, Wilmington, Delaware. . . .
Leo R. Ebeling still in Waynes-
bere, Pa., 606 W. Main St. . , .
Lt. Robert J. Meitzen is at the
Roswell POW Camp, Dexter, New
Mexieo. . . . Lt. Col. O. L. Dockum
is Chief of the Machinery and Op-
tie Section of the Mil. Gov. Re-
ional Hdgs., Wiesbaden, Germany,
and is happy to be baek in his old
line of mechanical engineering.
His mailing address is Det. E-5,
2nd Mil. Govt. Bn.,, APO 758, c/o
P. M, N. VY.
1923
Ben F. Brown
Box 1405, Waco
Henry Rush, for 156 years mana-
ger of 2a Marlin hardware firm, has
been elected President of the Tex-
as Hardware and Implement Asso-
ciation,
PT. Lewis Jones, Plant Extension
ineer for the Southewestern
Bell Telephone Co., Kansas City,
Mo., was recently elected secre-
tary-treasurer of the Kansas City
A. & M, Club.
H. S. Kerr has moved to San
Antonio 3, Texas, 1011 Avant Ave.
Ernest R. Duke has completed
his assignment as Chairman of the
National War Board and is re-
turning to Tulia, Texas, to take
over the operation of his farms
in the irrigated section of the Tex-
as Panhandle.
Major John A. Gorman has re-
turned from service and teaching
Animal Husbandry at the Univer-
sity of Wyoming, at Laramie, Wyo.
While overseas he taught at the
Biarritz Am. Univ. from August
to December 1945.
Wilborn K, Smith still gets mail
at Box 162, Franklin, La.
1924
R. M. Sherman
Central Texas Iron Works, Waco
‘Lt. Ira B. Baccus, USNR, gets
mail e/o Elec. Eng. Dept. USN,
Annapolis, Md. . . . . Edgar C.
McFadden’s mailing address is
4006 Woodland Drive, Dallas, Tex-
as. . . . Major James T. Clarke has
been assigned as executive officer
of Artillery Trng. Det. 3, Fort
Sill. He wears the Bronze Star, and
five battle stars, and served as
Executive Officer of the 155th F.
A. Bn., which participated in the
Salerno and Riviera landings. Mrs.
Clarke has been making her home
im El Paso but plans to join her
‘husband at Fort Sill.
Major E. B. Calvin is now on
terminal leave after having been
in the army three and half years,
the last two and half being on the
Atomic Bomb project at Oak Ridge,
Tenn. After January 1, 1946, he
will be with the P. & M. Const. Co.,
9001 Denton Drive, Dallas, Texas,
on all types of building construc-
tion. His office ‘phone number is
Dixon 4-2601.
1925
R. C. Armstrong ;
3439 Wichita, Houston 4
Demmie H. Cox was recently pro-
moted to the rank of full Colonel
and is now on terminal leave at
Houston. He has spent five years
in the Army, the past two of which
were spent in the South Pacific, a
year in New Guinea and a year in
the Philippines where he com-
manded an Engineer Regiment and
later an Engineer Service Group.
He plans to return to his former
position as Vice-President and Man-
ager of the Houston Office of The
Texas Gulf Construction Co., 2008
S. Wayside Drive.
Ray W. Wilson has been appoint-
ed Assistant Manager of the cat-
tle, sheep and swine departments
of the Fort Worth Southwestern
Fat Stock Show to be held March
8-17. He is a member of the Edu-
cational staff of the National Cot-
tonseed Products Association and
a veteran in livestock and agricul-
tural affairs of the Southwest. His
office is at 618 Wilson Bldg., Dallas
1, Texas.
Lem E. Sweatman is Sec. Treas.
.of the Ft. Worth, Trinity an
Granbury National Farm Loan As-
sociations with offices at 702 Dan
Waggoner Bldg., Fort Worth 2,
Texas. . . . Thompson C. Coleman
gets mail at Box 303, Wills Point,
Texas. . . A. L. Elliott is with the
Southern Minerals Corp., 411 N.
Broadway, Corpus Christi, Texas.
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. . . Capt. Walter C. Youngs, Jr.,
is with Clinton Engr. Works, Box
56, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Major R. A. Gonzales is a “Mis-
ter” again and getting mail at
302 Delaware, Dayton 5, Ohio.
Marlin D. Lewis, who was Major
Lewis of the Army until just re-
cently, has been appointed full-
time manager of the Taylor Cham-
ber of Commerce. He was serving
as part-time manager and also
vocational agric teacher of the
Taylor High School before entering
service. He has just returned from
overseas, having spent the last
period in Japan.
1926
Jack Williams
Box 196, San Marcos
Lt. Col. Russell G. White is back
in San Antonio after a long time
in the CBI Theatre.
Lt. Col. Andrew J. Longley is
on terminal leave and temporarily
residing at 1307 Bell St., Wichita
Falls, Texas.
Major Steve A. Debnam has re-
turned to civil life and expects to
return to Midland to make his
home. He was formerly county
agent there and also in the terrac-
ing business. Major Debnam was
one of a number of agricultural
experts whose work was highly
praised in rehabilitating some of
the European areas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brewster have
arrived back in College Station
after spending the Christmas holi-
days in Mexico City.
Col. Edward L. Wilson is home
at 6646 Wildwood, Houston, after
serving as Head of the 52nd Quar-
termaster Depot in Belgium, where
he had 18,000 men under his com-
mand. Before going into service he
was sales engineer for the Alamo
Iron Works. Upon his release from
service, Col. Wilson plans to enter
the building or construction busi-
ness in Houston. He wears the
Bronze Star and three battle stars
for the Normandy, Northern France
and Rhineland campaigns.
J. T. Murrell is still in Pitts-
burgh 30, Pa., and getting mail at
P. O. Box 2038 . . . . Marill M.
Barnard advises that his company
has changed its name from Bowen
Motor Coaches to Continental Bus
System. He gets his mail at 521
E. Lancaster St., Fort Worth. . . .
Ardis N. Saxon is with the Graybar
Electric Co. 400 S. Austin, Dallas
2, Texas. . . . Daniel G. Talbot has
changed his address to 3712 Crest-
haven Terr., Fort Worth, Texas.
Col. Geo. J. Eppright, Austin,
Texas, was recently presented an
award in a special ceremony at
Wright Field, for exceptionally
meritorious service in the Medi-
terranean Theater from July 9,
1943, to May 8, 1945. A veteran of
22 months duty in North Africa
and Italy, he holds, in addition to
the legion of merit, the distinguish-
ed flying cross and three bronz
stars. :
Lt. Col. Robert K. Eason is Air
Communications Officer of the
Sixth Air Force, APO 825, c/o P.
M., New Orleans, La. . . Jack Tur-
ner gets his mail at Route 8, Box
400, Fort Worth, Texas.
J. Gordon Gillespie is with the
Producers Livestock Commission
Association at the National Stock
Yards. His mailing address is 3903
Canterbury, Normandy 21, Mo.
1927
Allen R. Menger
111 West Travis St., San Antonio
Proud Papa: Allen Menger.
Silver Taps: Oran Dorsett Disch.
Harold Mayes retired from serv-
ice with the rank of Captain and
has returned to his former posi-
tion of Plant Superintendent of
Austin Brothers, the same firm
he has been with since graduating
in 1927, with the exception of the
time he spent in service. Mailing
address: 1815 Coombs St., Dallas
1. ... Col. Horace L. Reynolds ahs
returned to civilian life after five
years of service, 40 months of
which were spent overseas, and will
return to his former position with
the Allis-Chalmers Co. with mail-
ing address 1800 N. Market St.
Dallas. Col. Reynolds has received
the Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of
second Legion of Merit and was
also decorated by the Italian Gov-
ernment for outstanding service in
Italy.
W. B. Cook, retired recently with
the rank of Captain, is living at
3301 Eighth St., Port Arthur, Tex-
as, and temporarily is helping his
father-in-law with his steamship
agent business.
Capt. Walter D. McElroy has re-
turned to the College to do grad-
d | uate work in the field of Agricul-
ture, after serving a year in the
Pacific. He was released from serv-
ice in November.
1928
J. F. Blount
Box 431, Amarillo
Harold M. Jinks is back in civ-
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San Antonio
Club Prexy
Leon Braskamp, ’29
Leon Braskamp, ’29, recently
elected president of the Alamo A.
& M. Club of San Antonio, is San
Antonio manager of the West Coast
Life Insurance Compay of San
Francisco. He spent several years
on the Pacific Coast after leaving
A. & M. and before returning to
San Antonio. His office is in Suite
1524-25 Alamo National Building.
Braskamp is a 32nd Degree Scot-
tish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He
holds membership in the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, the Life
Underwriters Association, the
American Legion and the Life Man-
agers Club.
The Alamo Club meets for lunch
every Monday noon at the Robert
E. Lee Hotel, and Braskamp in-
vites any visitors to join with
them.
Other officers of the Club in-
clude: Albert M. McNeel, ’25, vice-
president; Louis W. Hartung, ’29,
secretary; and C. J. Stromberger,
’26, treasurer.
Braskamp succeeds W. W. Flan-
nery, ’33, as president. a
ilian life at Piggott, Arkansas.
Loyd W. Sheckles, Jr., recently
promoted to full Colonel is at 508
Coke St., Yoakum, Texas .... Cy-
rus A. Galley has changed his
address to 848-17th St., Moline, Ill.
.... John L. Heim, Jr., is with
the State Highway Dept., Brown-
wood, Texas. . . . Albert V Bow-
ers has been released from service
with the rank of Lt. Col. He is
back at his work as Construction
Foreman of the Southwestern Bell
Tel. Co., 105 Auditorium Circle,
San Antonio.
Major Jack F, Criswell was a re-
cent visitor. on the campus after
serving in Europe for two years.
He expects to be released from
service soon. Mailing address: 2212
Indian Trail, Austin, Texas. :
Albert S. Milikien has moved to
Sugar Land, Texas. . . . Richard
P. Cocke still holds forth at Larch-
mont, N. Y. 314-4 Larchmont
Acres . . . James H. Blackaller
may be addressed at 335 W. Gra-
mercy Pl, San Antono 1, Texas. .
. . Capt. Lovic P. Perdue, Jr., has
been released from service. and
returned to his old job with the
Southwestern Gas & Electric Co.,
Texarkana, Ark.
1929
Austin C. Bray
Box 264, Dallas 1
Proud Papa: Wendell E. Scarlett.
Dr. Frederick H. Weston recent-
ly moved his Reese Optical Com-
pany to the Commonwealth Bank
Building in San Antonio. He re-
turned to private practice last fall
after extensive *military duty.
Lt. Col. Jack P. Clark, 401 Coke
St., Yoakum, Texas, served on the
Hdgs. Staff in the ETO. He is back
in the states on terminal leave.
C. R. Hiner has moved to Corona,
New Mexico.
James H. Galloway is with the
Humble Oil and Ref. Co., Encino,
Texas. . . Col. Benjamin H.
Pochyla has been awarded the dis-
tinguished service medal in Tokyo.
He was commended for his work as
executive officer of the Southwest
Pacific area from March 1943 to
June 1945. Before going into serv-
ice, Col. Pochyla was with the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
J. A. Reynolds
Dreyfus & Son, Dallas
Curtis M. Everts, Jr., has been
promoted to the rank of Major and
is now Sanitary Engineer for the
State of Oregon, 816 Oregon Bldg.,
Portland.
Major D. H. Taylor is on termi-
nal leave at 3244. Cockrell St., Ft.
Worth. He was with the Regional
Office of the Soil Conservation at
Fort Worth before going into serv-
ice.
E. W. Wilson was recently elec-
‘ted president of the Kansas City
Club. He is Stock Foreman for
Philipps Petroleum Co., Box 268,
Kansas City, Kan,
Major Raymond L. Rogers is do-
ing occupational duty in Germany
and getting mail at Hq. XXIII
Corps., APO 103, c/o P. M., New
York.
Col. George G. Smith recently
released from active duty has been
appointed sales manager of the
Texas Construction Material Com-
i! | pany, according to an announce-
ment by W. Emmett Sampson, 08,
® | President. Smith’s address is 2330
Bolsover Road, Houston 5.
The Texas Construction Material
Company is capitalized at one mil-
lion dollars and operates 13 units
in Liberty, Fayette and Colorado
Counties, It is one of the biggest
distributors of sand, gravel and
other building material of the
Southwest.
Col. Smith went on active duty
from the Texas Portland Cement
Company, Waco, and was on the
War Department General Staff.
He was a member of the U. S.
Military Advisory Committee at the
famous Teheran, Quebec and Casa-
blanca conferences. He has been
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal, Legion of Merit, and
six other citations. During his ac-
tive duty he served both in the
ETO and the Pacific.
Joe E. Brown, Box 9155, Houston,
He played center on the Aggie
football teams of his day.
Cpl. L. I. “Dick” Criswell, For-
ney Texas, was released last year
after ‘serving 18 months military
service.
Perry D. Jefferies got out of the
service in November and is con-
struction supt. for the H. B. Zachry
Co., Laredo, Texas. . . . Francis
R. DePasqual is in New Braunfels.
Capt. E. B. Needham is the Dis-
trict Engineer of the U. S. Public
Health Service Malaria Control
Program in Marion, Arkansas. He
gets his mail at S. A. Engr. (R)
PHS 3616, Marion, Ark. . . . Capt.
Kenneth H. Butler continues to
get his mail at 4511 Keating Ave.,
Dallas. . . . Major Lester Hanks
is back at College Station after
two year§ overseas. He wears the
ETO ribbon with 3 battle stars, and
the American Defense Ribbon.
Lt. Col. A. B. Duke is home at
3633 Ave. B., Fort Worth, after 34
months service—19 months in the
Middle East and 15 months in the
Pacific. Among other decorations,
he was wearing the Bronze Star for
performance of duty in New
Guinea.
1931
C. R. “Dick” Coneway
Humble Oil & Ref. Co., Houston 1
Mr. and Mrs.: Lt. Ralph M.
Sawyer.
Proud Papa: W. J. Chadwick.
Major George Bushong has re-
turned to his home in Dallas after
a tour of overseas duty. He was
joined there by Mrs. Bushong and
their children where they will re-
open their home. Mrs. Bushong
and children have been making
their home in Bryan with. Mrs.
Bushong’s mother, Mrs. C. A. Sear-
cy while the Major was overseas.
John R. Wenmohs was a campus
visitor in January on official busi-
ness in connection with extensive
shipping of livestock to Europe, He
is in the Agricultural Rehabilita-
tion Division, UNRRA, with head-
quarters in Washington, D. C.
Since going with UNRRA he has
spent considerable time in London,
Yugoslavia and Austria. He was
formerly with the Extension Serv-
ice.
C. S. Basinger has changed his
address to 6051A Cates Avenue,
St. Louis 12, Missouri.
Major Chester C. Schaefer has
returned from overseas and living
at 503 E. Courtland Pl.,, San Anto-
nio 2, Texas . . .. Col. Frank New-
nam is home after a year and half
in China. His home is at 2850
Orange, Beaumont. . . . Lt. Col.
Jack N. Nahas is stationed at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kan., 624 McClellan.
.... Col. Marvin Sledge is in com-
mand of the 4266th AAFBU at
McClellan Field, Calif. . . . . Ma-
jor Henry Timmerman is having
a stay in the Madigan General Hos-
pital, but has mail sent to his
home in Georgetown, Texas.
John H. Ilse is in the*Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Service,
Dept. of Justice, Del Rio. He has
a daughter 9 and an “Aggie” 4 , .
.. Col. H. A. “Tex” Eddins has re-
turned to his job with Stone and
Webster, 49 Federal St., Boston,
Mass. “Tex” went with this firm
immediately after graduation and
has been with them since, with the
exception of the time he was in
service.
A. G. McKain was retired from
service with the rank of Major
and living at Center, Texas.
James B, Fitzpatrick has moved
to Sherman, Texas, and gets mail
at Box 708.
Lt. Ralph M. Sawyer is out of
the service and Manager of the
Coca Cola Bottling Works, DeFu-
niak Sprigs, Fla. :
1932
Col. Luther E. Bell
Box 335
Del Rio, Texas
Morris W. Collie, Jr., has re-
from three and half years overseas
service and living at 1407 W. Hollo-
way, Midland, Texas.
Lt. Col. James W. Hunt is on
terminal leave at 521 East Church
St., Marion, Ohio, but plans to re-
turn to Houston some time in the
near future. :
Capt. Everette Frazier has been
hospitalized at the Boling Field Sta-
tion Hospital, Mitchell Field, Long
Island, N. Y. :
Robert P. Gregory has bought a
home in Houston and will move to
that city sometime the latter part
of Janary. His present address is
Henderson, Texas . ... Col. J. W.
Gibbs is enjoying terminal leave
at Rosebud, Texas, after five years
in. the army, fifteen months of
which were spent in the Pacific. He
plans to return to the Soil Conser-
vation Service in Greenville in Feb.
Col. Gibbs commanded the 672nd
Amphibian Tractor Bn., which par-
ticipated in the liberation of 2146
American internees from the Los
Bonas Internment Camp, south of
Manila. Among his decorations are
the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Amer-
ican Defense, American Theater,
Asiatic-Pacific with Bronze Ar-
rowhead and three campaign stars,
Victory Medal World War II, and
the Philippine Liberation with one
Campaign Star.
Sam Tayloe was a central figure
in a recent special article in Col-
liers Magazine, telling the remark-
able story of the success under his
management of the huge Rio Farms
Inc., in the Rio Grande Valley, His
address is Ed Couch, Texas, and he
is also Chairman of the Hidalgo
County A. & M. Club.
Vernon G. Davis is back in Dallas
getting mail at Box 5394.
Col. Morton P. “Bozo” Brooks is
back in Stephenville with his wife
and daughter after serving in the
ETO. Col. Brooks was G-1 of the
71st Inf. Div. through combat and
after hostilities he was made Com-
mandant, University of Nancy,
France, under the Army Educa-
tional Program.
James H. Caddess is a “Mister”
again and living at Bryan, Texas.
He has been on active duty for
four and half years, spending 31
months of this time in the CBI.
Major L. Bonham Jones has been
released from service and has be-
gun practicing medicine at 643 New
Moore Bldg., San Antonio, Texas.
His last assignment was on Oki-
7
nawa where he was Chief of the
surgical service with the 6th Sta-
tion Hospital.
Lt. Col. Geo. J. Fix, Jr., former
Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations
for the Army Air Forces head-
quarters in Washington, has been
awarded the Legion of Merit for
his part in development of bombs,
fuses and chemical munitions. His
home address is 4907 Stanford,
Dallas, Texas.
933
Tom C. Morris
1408 W. Main St.,
Waxahachie, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs.: Theodore T. Car-
ter.
Proud Papa: R. Li. Elkins.
W. T. Evans is back from over-
seas and at 2970 Ave., C., Beau-
mont, Texas. . . . Capt. Harry C.
Stakes has been transferred to Ft.
Benning, Ga. . . . Lt, Col. Willie
K. Palmer is doing cotton research
work and has offices at 210 Pro-
gressive Bldg., Bakersfield, Calif.
Major Jerome A. McDavitt, 1519
W. Kings Highway, San Antonio,
arrived in San Antonio last No-
vember 1 to be reunited with his
wife, son and parents after 4!;
years absence, most of that time
in a Japanese prison camp. He was
captured at Corregidor after fight-
ing through the Bataan campaign.
When released he was the ranking
Allied officer at the Omine Machi,
Japan, prison camp. McDavitt has
completely recovered from his ex-
periences. Mrs. McDavitt and their
son were with him in the Philip-
pines but were evacuated to the U.
S. in May, 1941.
Capt. Milton Falk is on terminal
leave at 2720 Meadow, Dallas . . .
Walter D. Russell gets mail at
Route 4, Box 853, Waco, Texas . .
. . Lt. Col. Ralph E. Rinn is at
Brooke General Hosp., Fort Sam
Houston. . . . Class Agent Tom C.
Morris (Lt. Col.) is back in civilian
life at 1408 W. Main St., Waxa-
hachie, Texas, and in the frozen
foods locker business.
Jack W. Sheckles recently promo-
ted to the rank of Capt. he re-
turned to his home in Yoakum aft-
er 42 months in the ETO.
J. E. “Ed” Moeller was separ-
ated from the Ordnance Dept., as
Captain in December and is back
with his old company Sheffield
Steel Corp. He is located in El Paso
as District Manager covering New
| Mexico, Arizona, Old Mexico and
El Paso. . . . Theodore T. Carter
and his bride, the former Miss
Frances Trammell, are living at
2007 W. Summit Ave., San Anto-
nio., Theodore is with the Wild
Life Control Service.
Capt. Ralph Thompson, Hub-
bard, Texas, was a recent visitor
on the campus while on sick leave
from the William Beaumont Hos-
pital, in El Paso.
L. W. Storms has received his
release from service and has ac-
cepted a position with the Stand-
ard Oil Co., in Caracas, Venezuela.
Major Storms served in the War
Petroleum Adm. under Ickes ac-
three years in Washington. Mrs.
Storms and their children will re-
main at 804 S. College, Bryan,
Texas, until suitable living quarters
can be secured in Venezuela.
1934
Lt. Col. T. N. Gearreald
Fairfax, Virginia
James R. Atkins gets mail at
Box 306, Richmond, Texas.
Sgt. Geo. W. Shert, has re-
turned to the ranks of Mr. and is
presently living at 4221 West 14th
Ave., Amarillo, Texas. He was a
recent campus visitor looking for
an apartment. He and Mrs. Short
are making plans to return to A.
& M. in Feb. He was an architect
in Amarillo prior to the war. He
expects to complete work for his
degree in both architecture and
structural engineering. Short was
in the Army for three years and
saw extensive overseas duty in
France, Germany and Austria in
the 10th Armored Division,
Capt. Stoney M. Stubbs is back
in the states and enjoying termi-
nal leave in Austin with his wife
and children. Capt. Stubbs was
with the Accounting and Statistics
Dept., at the Gollege before going
on active duty.
Capt. Jesse B. Rawls, Jr., was
a campus visitor in January. He re-
turned to the States in December
after overseas duty in Manila and
is at present getting mail at 1031
Rockwood, Texas.
Lt. Col. John Forrest Smith, one
of the most decorated World War
II veterans of Houston, has re-
ceived the distinguished service
cross recently. Col. Smith who has
been released from active duty is
now working for the Crosby Dril-
ling Co. in Natchez, Miss., returned
to his home to receive the medal.
Col. Smith is a veteran of 220 days
of combat and four years in the
army. He holds the croix de guerre,
the silver star, purple heart, bronze
star and ETO ribbon with three
campaign stars.
Edwin H. Hill is a member of
the Heidt Architectural firm that
was named winner of a $1,000
award in the Chicago Tribune's
$24,000 Chicagoland Prize Homes
competition. The firm had just
opened its offices in the First
National Bank Building at Orange,
Texas, six days before the award
was given.
Lt. Col. Clifford M. Simmang
of the 32nd Infantry Division is
back at the College and will return
to his teaching position with the
Department of Mechanical Engi-
neering. Col. Simmang entered ac-
tive duty in 1941 and went over-
seas in May, 1944, joining the 32nd
Inf. Div. in New Guinea. He saw
combat duty in Leyte and Luzon
and served as part of the Occupa-
tion Forces in Japan. Mrs. Sim-
mang has made her home in Bry-
an, while her husband has been
overseas. - -
S/Sgt. Harry D. “Bob” Seay is
home at 1117 Forest Ct., Ashland,
Ky., after serving three years in
the Pacific.
Lt. Col. George H. Fairbanks,
3100 Lovers Lane, Dallas, is on
terminal leave from the army after
having served in both the ETO and
the Pacific. Col. Fairbanks, his
wife and their daughter will make
their home in Dallas. .
1935 "
Maj. Frederick W. H. Wehner
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Henry D. Mayfield has just been
released from military service, and
arrived in Bryan and College Sta-
tion January 4, after 41% years of
military service. He will begin the
private practice of architecture in
Brazos County.
T/Sgt. Carl A. Giesen is in
Bruck, Austria, Hq. Co. 242nd Inf,
APO 411, e/o P. M., N.' VY. pe
Jack Ferguson, 160 E. Fourth
St., Corning, N. Y., sends in a
thoughtful gift in memory of Per-
kins Gardner Post, 35, killed in
action in China a year ago. :
Lt. Odell. M. Conoley is serving
with Hdqtrs. 6th Army, G-3 Sec.,
APO 442, c/o P. M., San Francis-
co, Calif. Mrs. Conoley is making
her home at 3104 Kingsley St., San
Diego 6, Calif.
Lt. Charles R. Pierce is back
home from the Pacific and getting
mail at 500 Orchard St.,
Texas.
1936
Dudley J. Lewis
3732 Westcliff Road, N.
Fort Worth, Texas.
After serving in the Arm
four and half years, Lee E.
over
ames
Bowie,
has returned to the Texas Agri-
cultural Experiment Station as As-
sociate Poultry Husbandman
charge of breeding work with chick-
in
ens and turkeys. James was dis-
charged as a Lt. Col. and received
commendation from the Chinese
combat command for service as
combat liaison officer representing
the U. S. Army with the 50th Chi-
nese Division in the CBI.
H. Morris Williamson recently
received his discharge from service
and is back in Bryan with his fam-
ily. Morris returned to his old job
with the Farm Security Adminis-
tration. 2:
Class Agent Dudley J. Lewis is
on terminal leave, after almost five
years active duty with the U. E.
Engineers. His address for the pre-
sent is 3732 Westcliff Road, N.,
Fort Worth, Texas, but he will re-
turn later to his former position
with the Humble Oil and Refining
Co. He ranked as a major at the
time of his discharge. :
Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins has been
added to the staff of the Office of
Student Affairs. Wilkins was a
hi letter man in sports, earning
is
1935, and served as team captain
in the latter year. He lettered in
basketball in 1934, 1935, and 1936,
and in track in 1935 and 1936. He .
was called to service in 1941 and
served with an airborne division,
earning the Bronze Star and five
“T” in football in 1934 and |
campaign stars. He is married and
has two children.
Capt. George
been transferred to the Lincoln
Ordnance Depot, Springfield, Ill.
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OUR BIG JOB FOR THE BELL SYSTEM
From far off places must come many mo-
terials needed to make your telephone—
including flax, mica, asphalt, tungsten,
Then the mines must yield copper,
iron, lead, aluminum, chromium, zinc,
nickel, coal, gold, silver—all required
in telephone apparatus.
Raw materials must be brought together in Western Elec-
tric plants, where skilled workers and marvelous machines
turn them into vost quantities of complex apparatus.
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service for you.
adtimony, cobalt, tin, platinum.
In addition to making the apparatus, West-
ern Electric also installs the maze of equip-
ment that is your telephone central office.
supply unit of the Bell Telephone System, Western Electric
has one of industry’s most complex jobs.
Today we are working full speed ahead on equipment not only
to meet immediate telephone needs, but also to carry out the
Bell System’s $2,000,000,000 post-war construction program.
This vast program promises a record in peacetime production
at Western Electric—with a level of employment higher than in
“the years just before the war—and better-than-ever telephone
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wrist—yet
job this giant strander does.
Making telephone cables no larger than a man’s
i ds of wires—is the
Farms of this country must supply
essential products and by-products
—such os cotton, wool and leather.
Twenty-five domestic varieties of
wood enter into the nation’s tele-
phone service. Their uses range from
switchboards to poles and booths.
Wiring an intricate switchboard—through which your voice will
. go—calls for skilled hands. Remember that switchboards and cable
are just two of thousands of items you use when you telephone. \
Telephones, wire, cable and countless other products go out
to 29 Western Electric distributing houses—one or more of
c
which supplies the needs of your Bell Teleph pany.
Western Elecfric
MANUFACTURER
PURCHASER
DISTRIBUTOR
INSTALLER of Central Office Equipment
FOR THE BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM,
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