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THE BATTALION Thursday, October 1, 1959
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Fish Drill Team Prospects
Some 120 freshmen reported yesterday in
hopes of becoming members of the Fish
Drill Team. Organized in 1947, the team
represents the freshman class as an expert
drill unit led by its own elected officers.
Members for the team will be picked
through competitive drill and through satis
factory academic progress.
Football Faig
When you’re in Mobile for the
game visit the Esquire Steak
House where you’ll find the best
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town.
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I.Ed. Club Plans
For Fall Functions
Tuesday Evening
A meeting of the Industrial Ed
ucation Club will be held Oct. 6
to make plans for the fall func
tions.
At the first meeting of the year
the club elected Don Ingram, pres
ident; Don Bullock, vice president;
Sam Meeks, secretary; Gayle
Moore, treasurer; J. Griffith, soc
ial chairman; Rip Gorman, pro
gram chairman, and Seth Hanovice,
reporter. Pinky P,inkerton was
elected representative to the Engi
neering Council.
The club meets regularly on the
first Tuesday in each month in
room 108 of the Mechanical Engi
neering shop building at 7:15 p.m.
Coffee and doughnuts will be serv
ed.
Two by Two
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Gen. Babcock
To Command
Army Reserve
Maj. Gen. C. Stanton Babcock
has assumed command of the VIII
US Army Corps (Reserve) with
headquarters in Austin.
As corps commander, General
Babcock commands over 120,000
Army reservists as well as all ac
tive Army personnel assigned to
the Corps headquarters, the 22
area command (USAR) offices’
and three sector commands thru-
out the States of Texas and New
Mexico. He also is responsible for
the administration, training and
supply of all Army Reserve units
in the Corps area.
Babcock recently returned from
Paris, France, where he was Chief
of the Joint Military Assistance
Advisory Group. Prior to this as
signment, he commanded the 2nd
Armored Division.
Entering the United States Mil
itary Academy at West Point in
1921, Babcock was graduated on
June 12, 1925 as a second lieuten
ant of Cavalry and assigned to the
5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division
at Fort Clark, Tex.
After a course at the University
of Michigan in the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies, Babcock went to
Tokyo in 1938 as a language offi
cer and spent three years study
ing Japanese military units. In
1941, he became Assistant Military
Attache to Japan and was serving
•in that capacity when World War
II started.
From 1942 to 1943, Babcock
served in the Intelligence Section
of the War Department General
Staff and General Headquarters,
Southwest Pacific Area. In 1944,
he was a member ofYhe Joint War
Plans Committee of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. In 1945, he was
assigned to III Amphibious Corps,
Fleet Marine Force, and served
with the 1st- arid 6th Marine Di
visions in the Battle of Okinawa.
During the battle, he was wound
ed and evacuated to the United
States in May 1945.
Upon release from the hispital,
Babcock served as War Depaz’t-
ment member of the Far Eastern
Commission — an International
Commission charged with estab
lishing policy for the occupation
of Japan. In 1946, he was trans
ferred to General Headquarters,
Far East Command, and became
Chief of Plans in the Operations
and Training Section.
In 1950, he returned to the Uni
ted States to become Military Ad
visor to the Honorable John Foster
Dulles in the negotiations of the
Treaty of Peace with Japan.
From 1951 to 1953, Babcock
served in New York and Paris as
Military and Political Advisor to
the U. S. Representative to the
United Nations. In the latter part
of 1953, he was Defense Depart
ment Representative at the Pre
liminary Political Conference in
Korea. On Jan. 19, 1954, he was
promoted to Brigadier General and
again assigned to the Far East.
He reported for duty as Assist
ant Divisin Commander, 7th In
fantry Division, on Feb. 4, 1954.
Later that year he returned to the
U. S. and was placed on loan to
the Department of State and ap
pointed Counselor of the U. S.
Mission to the United Nations and
Deputy to Ambassador Henry Ca
bot Lodge, Jr.
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