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TABLE OF CONTENTS

No. 6

.- War Story — Continued 371

,;r,-at American Nature Writer 398

:ji. .kre 33rd-1)egree Masons 403

(-)d(1 Bits of Fiji History 407

a Snug Little Nook by the Fireside 410

vs Qui Fuerunt Sed Nunc Ad Astra 413

:Is of White Star Dust 416

- • Hrre, There and Everywhere 420

Pook. on Phi Gamma Delta's Shelf 425

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430

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Oregon Chapter Twins Missing in ActionThe unusual situation of twins being missing in action has developed in Phi

Gamma Delta, as word comes tha! Private First Class Edward E. Atiyeh (0,'45) and Private First Class Richard A. Atiyeh ( Oregon '451 have not

heard from since December 16, 1944, when the 423rd United States Infani,,the 106th Division was attacked by the Germans in Belgium.On that day the enemy advanced against the 423 rd's position, possibly An

that they were -green- troops. The regimental headquarters sent back a int'that it was destroying its equipment. The entire division lost more thanmen otissing and thus was neutral iced as an effective unit.

PHI GAMMA DELTA

Our War Story—Continued

hen Gun Flashes of Fronts Give Way to Flames in

Fiji Fireplaces, What Stories the Boys \X/ill Tell!

By CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17

Editor of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA

WHEN the gun flashes of the

Rhineland give way to the flames

Fiji fireplaces (to borrow a

from Lieutenant Richard A.

,alter [Washington '39] in a letter

his chapter). the Derring-Do Deltas

the current transcending conflict will

• ,heir stories with all the license

'e-scarred veterans. and youthful

.rs, now too young for the un-i-

will listen with fraternal venera-

Ard plenty of stories those veterans

for more than

jis are now in

•;tttle. That num-

rt.presents about 40

-nt of the living

,rship of the fra-

r!.1,y,

me, our brothers

to pay the in-

tariff of total

hteen new names

-ted in the roster of

whose deaths in ac-

.. ave been confirmed

•

since the last issue of THE PHI GAMMA

DELTA. They bring to 135 the total

number who have met battle deaths.

It is estimated that almost as many

have died in uniform, although not at

actual battle-grips with the enemy.

Killed in action:

WILLIAM BODKIN BAUER-

SCHMIDT (Bucknell '43), marine corps

lieutenant, who died on October 5, 1944, of

wounds received in action at Peleliu. Palau

Islands. He was hit by Japanese sniper fire

while in the vicinity of The Five Sisters.

Lieutenant Bauerschmidt was with the First

Marine Division and was

veteran of the New Guinea

and New Britain engage-

ments. He was born in 1921

in Ridgewood, N. Y.

BOYD BLAINE CHAM-

BERS. JR. (Denison '43).

air forces captain, who was

killed in action over Italy

on January 1, 1945. Son of

Fiji Sire Boyd B. Chambers,

Sr. (Denison '06), "Pete"

was born in Cincinnati in

1921. He entered West Point

in 1940 and was graduated in

June. 1943, standing 29th

in his class of 540. He was

commissioned a second lieu-

372 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA

*N„DiEs, WITH FIR:•T MARINES

1E Lieutenant i 11 iatn B. Rauersehmidt(Mc-knell '43; died after being hit by a

sniper's bullet in the action at Peleliu.

tenant of engineers and later received hispilot's wings. Going overseas as pilot of aP-47 Thunderbolt, he was based on Corsicawith the 12th Air Force and helped supportthe invasion of Southern France. Later hewas stationed at Grossetto and Pisa; Italy,in liaison with the 5th American Army. Hewas operations officer of his squadron andmet his death while on a strafing and bomb-ing mission. He was a brother of CaptainMarshall Chambers (North Carolina '44).JAMES BILBY CL7RRAN (Los Angeles

'39t, infantry lieutenant, who died in Franceon July 16, 1944, of wounds received inaction in the area of St. La the previous day-Bilby

. was born in Blackwell, Okla., in 1917.

At U. C. L. A. he was manager of the crewand voted an outstanding senior. He receivedhis law degree from Stanford in 1942.

WILLIAM RHEA DABNEY, JR.(Davidson '44i, infantry first lieutenant, whowas killed in action on December 23, 1944,

while a prisoner of war ofgovernment. Lieutenant Dabneyseas in October with the 78t1Division. His regiment wentshortly after reaching Belgian S011 d'tenant Dabney 's battalion was cut nC vGermans during the Ardennes break-.Rhea was born in Jackson, Tenn.. ,At Davidson he was head of the stud,.and President of Delta Kappa Chapter.

EDWARD JOHNSON FA'ANS (due '46), infantry first class privatewas killed in action on November Iwhile advancing as a Browning arifle carrier in the 3rd American .)Arracourt, France. He was born inapolis in 1924.

WARD CLAYTON FREII Nebraska '43), infantry second Ii ant,who was killed in action in Gem r onDecember 13, 1944. He had beenfront five weeks with the 13th Uniti, aInfantry. He is buried somewhere inglum. Ward was born in Stromsburg, Nin 1918.

FREDERICK GRAY FULTC,(Idaho '43), infantry lieutenant. WI saskilled in action on September 21, 1944, t1/4!tileserving with the 3rd American Army. Htwas a replacement officer and had beenFrance only eight weeks. -Fritz" wasvery effective house manager at MuChapter during his senior year. 1.1, ,born in Spokane, Wash., in 1919.

LAURIE JONES GREENLEAF (M'42), air forces first lieutenant, whokilled in action over Germany on Nove:.

8, 1944. Laurie left college during his j.year to enlist in the R. C. A. F. Lau

transferred to the American air forces .

went overseas in May, 1944, and had

cited for "outstanding courage and 'proficiency in the execution of aattack upon a heavily-defended darn.

was born in Lewiston, Me., in 1919 andwinner of numerous trophies in outl,

motor competitions.

WARREN ARNOLD JONES (I.geles '46), air forces first lieutenant,killed in action over enemy-held F:November 17, 1944. He had been •Thunderbolt with the 9th Air Force all,.

completed more than 40 missions. Warr

was born in Los Angeles in 1924.

an

he

.STAV DONALD KJOSNESS

(Ida-

,;), air forces second lieutenant. who

,Aed in action on June 8, 1944, while

as a bombardier on a combat

over the Cherbourg Peninsula. He

i wounded while on a raid over

D-Day, but insisted upon going

his crew on the expedition which re-

in his death. For his gallantry he

was

'Id the Distinguished Service Cross

sly, the citation for which appears

item. Donald was horn in Spokane in

EDWARD LEE McGOWAN

.l), air forces first lieutenant, who

in action on April 15, 1944. while

.'le Rumanian oil fields. He had

. in Italy. He was born in 1920 at

Ms. N. Y., and was a brother of

G'owan (Brown '42). an account of

-1 for the Silver Star is recorded

columns.

• \N DOUGLAS MUNSON (Col-

air forces major, who was killed

in July 19, 1944, while on a combat

,ver Germany as a fighter pilot of

rbolt in the 8th Air Force. Douglas

e American Eagle Squadron of the

t• Force before America's entry into

He then transferred into the Yankee

,rps and received promotions from

of second lieutenant to that of

the age of 23. He had a total of 105

over enemy territory to his credit

won the Distinguished Flying Cross

) Oak Leaf Clusters. At the time of

- mission he was on a bomber escort

strafing an airfield near Stuttgart,

:y. Douglas was born in 1920 at

:Fgh, N. Y.

t ANK RUSSELL NEUSWANGER

-aska '32), infantry captain, who wa,

n action on November 11 (Armistice

1944, while in action in the Metz area

3rd American Army. Youngest of

brothers who were members of

Delta, Frank was born in Gree-

, in 1908. The others are William F..

-zer (Colorado College '13), Peter

wanger (Colorado College '16).

!•:euswanger (Nebraska '17) and

Neuswanger (Colorado College

•,,re going into the service Captain

ifger was in business in Blackfoot,

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HARVEY JUSTICE RHUE, JR. (De-

Pauw '42), infantry second lieutenant, who

was killed in action in Germany on Decem-

ber 17, 1944. He had been in combat 27 days

when he was killed. Harvey was born in

Greenfield, Ind., in 1920.

JOHN JACKSON RILEY (Washington

'47), infantry sergeant, who was killed in

action in France on December 2, 1944. He

had been named principal appointee to the

United States Military Academy by one of

the senators from the state of Washington

and at the time his appointment was an-

nounced he had been reported missing in

combat. John was born in Seattle in 1925.

THOMAS ARTHUR SCHULTZ (Cor-

nell '40), marine corps first lieutenant, who

was killed in action on bloody Saipan on

June 22. 1944. Lieutenant Schultz embarked

for overseas duty with the 4th Marines in

the Pacific theater in January, 1944. He

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AN AIR CAPTAIN FALLS

Ia. Captain Boyd B. Chambers. Jr.

(Denison

'43) of the air forces was killed in

action

over Italy on New Year's Day. 1945. He

was

a son of Boyd B. Chambers, Sr. (Denison

'06).

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HE GAVE HIS LIFE AT ST. 1,6gi Lieutenant James PiThy Curran (Los An-!Ides '39) died of wounds received as aninfantry officer in the St. 1,6 thrust.

commanded a battery of 36-millimeter can-non on Namur Island during the invasion ofKwajalein Atoll. He landed on Saipan onJune 15 and was killed a week later byartillery fire while taking out the wounded.Thomas was born in Baltimore in 1917.STARR SHELLEY SUTHERLAND,JR. (Washington '44), infantry first lieu-tenant. who was killed in action in Germanyon January 4. 1945, while serving in the 3rdAmerican Army. He had gone overseas lastSeptember. At Washington Starr was avarsity football and tennis player and amember of the Oval Club. The day beforehe was killed he wrote his mother that"... it's home, peace, security and health thatmean the most to us here. I'll be home againsoon to wiggle my toes in front of the fireand put on a nice clean shirt." Starr washorn in Klawack„Maska, in 1921.CHANDLER BURBANK WEEKS(Pennsylvania '40), infantry first lieutenant.

who was killed25. 1944. Chanand received hisattached to thecommunicationsdays of combat.Mass., in 1917.

in action in Fran,.arrived in Englan •baptism of nre in ;9th American I.),officer. He died :u• -Chan was born ;

Missing in action :

RUSSELL BRUCE ALVIS (Pvania State '46), air forces sergeanhas been missing since December 24,when he set out on an operational fla top-turret gunner on a B-24bomber.

EDWARD ELLIS ATIYEH'45), infantry private first class, an,:.A.RD ALEXANDER ATIYEH'45), infantry private first class, tohave been missing since December(See frontispiece.)LOUIS ALFRED BAUER

'43), air forces lieutenant who ha•turned from a combat flight overbourg on January 22. 1945. He wion a P-47 Thunderbolt,ROBINSON BILLINGS (Colgate '36)

air forces lieutenant-colonel, who is uported after a flight on January 11, 194the Burma-China area. He has beenseas since April, 1944, and last June

• ticipated in the first B-29 raid on .1abombing Yawata.

KENNETH FRANK HODSW:State '42), air forces first lieutena, ;has not returned from a B-29 raid on oon November 29, 1944. He was flyn,the 20th Air Force. Kenneth is a

Brigadier-General Fremont B. H•gon '20). commanding general , •Orleans Port of Embarkation.CLYDE VERNON KNISE12;

(Tennessee '41), air forces major. wh.‘been missing in action since Janu1945. when he went forth on a missiLuxembourg. Clyde put in more t•-4combat hours as a P-40 fighter pilwSouthwest Pacific and was then tearto the European front as a squadroilmander.

HARRY R1GLEY MELTON_bama '34), air forces colonel, wan,ported since November 25. 1943. W:commanding officer of the 311th l• •

ia

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e 10th Air Force, his plane was

manese ack-ack. The scene of the

as Burma and Colonel Melton

.1 bail out and disappear into a

rated mountainous region.

VIN PERRY SCHAFFNER (Alle-

44), infantry first class private, who

ten missing in action with the 414th

nt Germany since December 12,

He had been overseas since last August.

a on of Perry B. Schaffner (Alle-

;',RGE AYRES WILDHACK (Pur-

, naval reserve lieutenant, who was

Tinian in a torpedo plane on June

when his airplane was seen spinning

one wing shot off. He was co-captain

Purdue swimming team.

* * *

nsuners of war :

!BERT STANLEY AUBRY (Rutgers

. air forces lieutenant, whose parents

received a card in Robert's handwriting.

that he is a prisoner of war in Gee-

He was first reported as missing in

. after having been shot down over

...sIavia on January 15, 1945, while flying

the 18th Air Force.

RICHARD LEE NEAL (Purdue '46),

i)rces second lieutenant, who is a prisoner

ar at Stalag Luft No. 1 in Germany,

having been shot down near Leipsig,

7:aany, on October 7, 1944.

DWARD ROTH'WELL SHELLY

nnsylvania '46), sergeant of infantry in

106th (Golden Lion) Division, who had

retyarted missing in action in Gerniair.

lircember 21, 1944. A prisoner's cn:

in him, dated January 16, said that hr

• "safe and not injured."

••••

as a Japanese language expert am who while

attempting to talk with some Airrounded

Nips in a cave on Tinian Island was wound-

ed by a hand grenade.

KENDALL T. DEMPSTER (Union

'46), infantry private, who won a Purple

Heart in France.

JAMES C. KENNEDY (Kansas '44),

infantry sergeant, who was wounded on

December 12, 1944, in action with the 3rd

American Army in France.

JOHN H. LATHE, JR. (Western Re-

serve '44), infantry private, who received a

severe wound on November 16. 1944, when

he was hit by a high-explosive shell in the

Hurtgen Forest battle.

RALPH E. LIDSTER (Denison '36).

infantry first lieutenant, who has been

awarded the Purple Heart for a battle

wound.

* * *

The wounded (Purple Hearts for the

cal purple hearts) :

FOSTER D. ARNETT (Tennessee '43),

.:341try first lieutenant, who was wounded-ale serving in the Southwest Pacific.

JOSEPH C. CARABELLI, JR. (Deni-

- '7), infantry second lieutenant, who

eived a Purple Heart for a battle

Nt L. DECKER (Richmond '43).

'Attu was attached to the 2nd Marines

Du's As GERMAN PRISON ER

First Lieutenant W. Rhea Dabney (David-

son '44) of the infantry, former student body

president at Davidson, was killed while a

prisoner of the Germans.

,


B. A. R. PRIVATE KILLEDC, Private First Class Edward J. Evans(Purdue '46), who was a Browning auto-matic rifle carrier, lost his life in Francewhile serving with the 3rd American Army.

ROBERT J. MAcIVOR (Ohio State '35),infantry first lieutenant, who, recuperatingfrom a superficial wound, wonders if thecopy of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA which heleft behind him in Germany will be dug upand "read by a generation of Americans yetto come." (Lieutenant Maclvor's father wasthe commanding officer of the unit of theRainbow Division in the First World Warin which your Editor servex; )RUSSELL K. ROBINSON, JR. (Ohio

Wesleyan '42), infantry lieutenant, who wasslightly wounded in Germany. LieutenantRobinson carried with him through theFrance, Luxembourg and Germany advancethe side-arms which his uncle, Clarence D.Mills (Ohio Wesleyan '16). veteran of theRainbow Division, brought back from theFirst World War.

MILES C. SHOREY, JR. (Cornell '34),infantry major, who was nicked on May 18,

1944, while serving in Norm,175th United States Infantry

*

Duke et decorum est pro p,!,-1The following Fijis have ,!1.,1service, although not at •with the enemy:

BARCLAY BOYD BEEw'38), air forces captain, was killed u.her 30, 1944, in Puerto Rico, when •he was piloting went into a craslHe had been assigned to the Pue:center as assistant flight director a-.worthy combat service in Europeparticipated in missions against su,as Bergen, Norway; Hanover andburg and was wounded over Parisher 31, 1944. He had been decor;the Silver Star, the Distinguishe

His STAR IS GOLDENSecond Lieutenant Ward C.

(Nebraska '43) of the infantry mad,preme sacrifice while pushing forGermany with the 13th United States .

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\O iIj R FALLEN KNIGHT

,:ant Frederick G. Fulton, Jr. (Idaho

infantry was killed in actionte

.nly a few weeks after his arrival a

(molt officer in the 3rd Americo,

Army.

377

Aleutians, on December 29, 1944, while

enroute home on a leave during which he

was to have married a Stanford sweetheart.

He was born in 1919 in Ishpeming, Mich.,

and is survived by a Fiji brother, Edgerton

Cooley, Jr. (Stanford '42).

THOMAS COUCH, III (Berkeley '44),

air forces second lieutenant, was killed non-

battle in Italy on December 6. 1944. Lieu-

tenant Couch had completed 22 missions as

first pilot of a B-25 and had been awarded the

Air Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters. At

Berkeley Tommy was a member of the track

team. He was born in Sacramento in 1921

and was a nephew of John Couch (Stan-

ford '15), a former major league baseball

player.

HENRY MARTYN HALE, JR. (Rut-

gers '451, air forces second lieutenant, was

killed in the crash of a four-motored bomber

in a take-off at Hunter Field, Ga., on Jan-

the Air Medal and the Purple Heart.

Beebe was born in 1914 in Alton. Ill

i.,ERT THOMAS BURKE, (Penn

• '45), ensign flyer, was killed

-y 10, 1945. when his fighter plane

tamale flight. He was born in Springfield.;1{9127 Francisco

Bay while on a

\RLES VINCENT CASE, JR.

•achusetts Tech. '33), engineer corps

t•titenant. was killed non-battle on May

3. in the North African Theater. He

• in 1911. His parents have donated

the Malcolm Cotton Brown Corp.,

114 Company for Mu Iota's house.

poration in memory of Lieutenant

:)ERICK BRONSON COOLEY

• d '42), air forces second lieutenant,

•,illed in an airplane accident at Adak.

SHOT DOWN ABOVE GERMANY

41, First Lieutenant Laurie I. Greenleaf

(Maine '42) of the air forces was fatally

wounded while on an attacking mission over

a German-held objective.


5, 1944, in Italy. He was a15th Air Force. He was born in Ch1923.

AN AVIATOR GIVES HIS LIFE41 First Lieutenant Warren A. Jones (Las. 1 11Odes 46) of the air forces had completedmore than 40 missions when he was killed inaction over enemy-held France.

nary 19. 1945. He was born in Westfl,-ldN. J., in 1923.

0 S A R EDMUND PENDLET(iN( Texas '39), infantry corporal, was killedin an automobile accident at Tonopah, Ne-.on January 15. 1945. He had been in militar.)service for three years and at his death wasan instructor in a camp at Tonopah. He wasborn in Shamrock. Tex.. in 1919.JAMES WILLIAM PRATHER, JR.(Indiana '371, junior grade lieutenant, waslost at sea on December 18. 1944, in thesinking of the U. S. S. Monaghan by atyphoon in the Asiatic area. LieutenantPrather was a veteran of nine major en-gagements in the Pacific Theater. He wasborn in 1916 at Wheatland, Ind., and was anephew of Clinton C. Prather (Indiana '16).JAMES WILLIANI SWINDELL(Georgia Tech. '45), air forces first lieu-tenant, as killed non-battle on December

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For gallantry and intrepidityrisk of life above and beyond -of duty, the DistinguishedCross has been awarded 1.)osthlv to Second Lieutenant G.Kjosness (Idaho '42) of the airwho not only risked his Inc -for freedom's sake. In thesthe cited:

For extraordinary heroism in actionthe enemy, June 6 and June 8. 19June 6, 1944, Lieutenant Kjosness washardier on a B-26 airplane on athe Cherbourg Peninsula. Shortly 7,f•

WINS D. S. C. Posmumousl yC. Second Lieutenant C. Donald IsIdaho '42) of the air forces retiecombat over Cherbourg two days a'had been wounded and was killed. ARepublic has awarded him the Distin

Service Cross.

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fellow fliers, reflecting the highest traditions

of the armed forces of the United States.

Of such stuff are Fiji warriors made!

* * *

The Silver Star (for gallantry in ac-

tion) has been awarded to First Lieu-

tenant Edwin Francis McGowan

(Brown '42) of the marine corps for

the following reason:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity

while attached to the 1st Battalion, 21st

Marines. 3rd Marine Division, during action

against enemy Japanese forces at Empress

Augusta Bay. Bougainville. Solomon Islands,

on December 16, 1943. When his machine-

gun platoon was pinned down by intense

hostile fire while covering the advance of a

rifle company, First Lieutenant McGowan

courageously assumed an exposed position

MEETS HIS FATE IN RUMANIA

1.;eutenant Robert Edward Lee Mc-

Brown '43) of the air forces. firs'

missing in action while on a born)

ka mission over the Rumanian oil fields, is

now presumed dead.

cnemy coast Lieutenant Kjosness was

rendered unconscious by a shell frag-

Regaining consciousness just before

the target, he assumed his post and

the bomb load with devastating

.11though he had not fully recovered

his wound, Lieutenant Kjosness on

- asked to fly as bombardier on another

atrrniely hazardous mission. At the moment

.,Inhs were released on the target he

,t and mortally wounded by a large

,ment. Upon hearing the command

the bomb bay doors, knowing that

e doors were closed the airplane

lobably fall out of formation and be

-!et for enemy fighters, he used the last

fast ebbing strength to obey the pilot's

•• and died with his mangled left hand

clutching the bomb bay lever. The

,m and devotion to duty displayed by

'enant Kjosness was inspiring to his

YOUTHFUL MAJOR IS KILLED

Douglas Munson (Colgate '42), an air

forces major at the age of 23, survived more

than 100 missions in the European theater

and then was fatally wounded by

ack-ack

while strafing Stuttgart.

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THE GOLDEN CHAIN BROKEN(I, One of fiz•e blood brothers in the bond,Captain Frank R. Neuswanger (Nebraska'32) of the infantry was killed in action near

Metz.

and pointed out vital targets to his men.enabling them to deliver an effective attackagainst Japanese emplacements. Immediatelytaking charge of a machine gun after thegunner was fatally wounded, he continued todirect the vigorous assault and later, whenthe leader of the rifle company was injuredby enemy fire, skillfully assumed command.Realizing that the position had become un-tenable, First Lieutenant McGowan coollydirected the withdrawal of his units, stead-fastly remaining behind at his weapon tocover the evacuation. His daring initiativeand resolute devotion to duty in the face ofgrave peril were in keeping with the highesttraditions of the United States naval service.*

The Legion of Merit is awarded bythe United States Navy and the UnitedStates Army for exceptionally meri-

torious conduct in the performoutstanding services.

Another Fiji has recentlythis decoration. He is Colonel RWeaver Hocker (Missouri '12,Fac.), who has been thus cited:• . . for exceptionally meritoriousin the performance of outstanding secommanding officer of an importantdebarkation in India from January 1,to June 1, 1944. By his ability, resouness, and untiring effort, Coloneldeveloped an efficient and well co.,7unit which was able to debark andpersonnel entering the China-Burmatheater on troop transport. During thegency which occurred on April 14, 1c-::explosions and fires threatened dt -of all port facilities, his outstandinvship in taking prompt action to preventther disaster and in organizing salvage

His LIFE FOR LIBERATION41 Second Lieutenant Harvey J. Rio-(DePauw '42) of the infantry hadcombat 27 days when he was fatally

ing the advance toward German.

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THE SAD HAND OF DEATH

leant John J. Riley (Washington '47)

infantry will not become a cadet at

• Point, to which he had been appointed.

!er he was killed in action in France.

,r the removal of wreckage, were in a

measure responsible for the early re-

ion of port operations. His keen fore-

in visualizing future developments, and

'red and tactful approach in meeting

any problems and emergencies which

.ed the reception and processing of

at this port, contributed in a marked

..e toward the success of all such activ-

.n this theater.• * *

le following decorations below the

the Silver Star have been

led to the Fightin' Fijis:

iv Distinguished Flying Cross (for

or extraordinary achievement in

: Major Victor G. Aubry (Rut-

'39), with Oak Leaf Cluster; C,aptain

lt Chambers (Denison '43), killed in

Second Lieutenant George H. Fritz

-,bia '44), killed in action.

381

Navy Distinguished Flying Cross: Lieu-

tenant George A. Wildhack (Purdue '39),

missing in action.

Army Bronze Star Medal (for heroic or

meritorious service against an enemy not

involving aerial flight) : Lieutenant-Colonel

Charles B. Aycock (North Carolina '29),

Major James W. Campbell (Kansas '38),

medical corps: Captain Peter S. Combs

(Stanford '37). medical corps; Lieutenant-

Colonel Chan F. Coulter (Iowa '25), Cap-

tain William W. Kreis (Tennessee '38), First

Lieutenant William J. Lyman, Jr (David-

son '43). Captain E. Dare Meacham (Wit-

tenberg '42), Major Charles B. Miller (Alle-

gheny '40), Major Richard A. Plata (New

York '39), Sergeant James R. Pemberton

(Illinois Wesleyan '46). Major Miles C.

Shorey, Jr. (Cornell '34). Major Kurt R.

Stoehr (Northwestern '39). Major Robert

K. Zimmerman (Rutgers '36).

A FATALITY AT

41 Lieutenant Thomas .4.

'40) of the 4th Marines was

fire while evacuating the w

He was a veteran of the

operation.

SAIPANSchultz (Cornell

killed by artillery

ounded at Saipan.Kwajalein Atoll

382 PHI GAMMA DELTA

First Lieutenant Starr S. StithJr. (Washington '44), a formerfootball and tennis star for the HThe Sigma Tau Service Letter,terpiece of its kind, recently publia letter which Starr had written toold chapter in Seattle. Its phis so compelling that we givegeneral fraternity:Being over here has impelled inrifically deep and far-reaching prplied in our army and nation —

heretofore been rather dormant. It •described in words. It is like a haEin a football game running down thiheaded for the goal line with hi: \oakdamn team knocking the opponents on their"whose-got-it." I am a member of the tewe're all kicking hell out of Jerry andwill all share in the affair evenly and

STAR ATHLETE IS KILLED41 First Lieutenant Starr S. Sutherland, Jr.I Washington '44i. varsity football and tenni,-player for the Huskies, was killed TOW,serving with the 3rd American ArmyGermany.

Navy Bron:e Star Medal: Lieutenant(j. g.) William A. Hanger (Pennsylvani.:'40), Lieutenant (j. g.) Barnum L. Jenkins.Jr. (Richmond '40), Captain George MLyon (Denison '16), medical corps; Cap-tain Thomas E. Norpell (Denison '41),marine corps.Army Air Medal: Captain Boyd B.Chambers (Denison '43), with three OakLeaf Clusters, killed in action; CaptainHenry C. J. Evans (Syracuse '38), SecondLieutenant George H. Fritz (Columbia '44),with one Oak Leaf Cluster; First LieutenantJohn C. Saunders (Denison '44), with oneOak Leaf Cluster; First Lieutenant FrancisH. Sherry (Williams '34Navy Air Medal: Lieutenant (j. g.) Fran-cis X. Delone (Pennsylvania '42).

* * *Elsewhere in this issue is recordedthe sad news of the death in action of

QUICK END TO HIS COMBATIQ Only seven days after he went intoFirst Lieutenant Chandler R. Weed•.sylvania '40) was killed in France .

with the 9111 American Division.

T

:as

THE PIII GAMMA DELT \

•in and prove to the world that we have

dub no ,'")ne can challenge. You brothers

the air corps, artillery, quartermaster,

corps and all — you never hear this

ianity doughboy say you aren't a great

t. Don't think we infantry boys don't

with pride when you air corps boys fly

- your way to blast that damn Jerry.

QMs think we aren't proud as hell

ng in those so much needed sup-

i sin prouder than I can say to be an

• 171,1iiher of this great team. Everyone

- doing your best. We can't lose this

the fourth quarter in the Rose Bowl

.e are leading by a hell of a good score.

vitt run it higher and absolutely can't

When it's over I will look every

-ion straight in the eye and say, "Broth-

`nerever you are. you did your part"

I will thank God I am an American

•ext to that I'll thank God I'm a Fiji.

.1 do have a few scores to settle. One

ed, one for West. one for Pigeye, one

i'atsy, one for Ralph, one for Bud [all

a Tao war fatalities] and a hell of are for a hell of a lot more brothers.

* * *

id(lened by the death in action of

tenant James Bilby Curran (Los

:eles '39). former Field Secretary

\V. Johnson (Los Angeles '36)

written the following tribute, en-

.4d Astra'. :

s has come this morn that you, any

.ler,

77:41 our fateful death on foreign field

,ittic. there in France. I ask, "For

'I need not ask. It is apparent.

were there, selected from among us.

7y with force of arms a threatening tide

' would engulf not so much us, as persons.

'other heritage, our ideals, tenets,

e concepts we have taken from our

,'Idersnurtured that they might have greater

meaningr younger men who follow in our

footsteps.

sat not long ago as in a cloister

heard from youths scarce older than

ourselves1.f.tterna1 doctrine —faith and hope and love,

383

MISSING IN ACTION

111. Sergeant Russell R. .41vis (Pennsylvania

State '46), top-turret gunner on a R-24 bomb-

er. is missing in action.

Stemming from the world's revered religions,

The precepts of a democratic life.While other youths in other lands were

plotting.4nd training in the methods of destruction

To tear down all those things for which we

stand.

Yet now the end of holocaust draws nearer

Through sacrifices such as you have made

For liberty and brotherhood and justice.

For truth. compassion. and a sense of right

That will shine out and tear asunder darkness

Which these iconoclasts set on the world.

Is that indeed the answer to my question?

Is it for that you died? I think it so.* * *

And now here's a brigadier-general

who has been hiding his light under a

bushel!Not until one of his chapter-mates

told us did we know that George H.

-s

A.A.1 A -.Irv-4 Ts. -1

3 8 4 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA

UNREPORTED IN LUXEMBOU'Re,111 Lieutenant Louis .4. Bauer (Rutgers '43)of the air forces has not returned from a

bombing mission over Luxembourg.

Decker Lafayette '24j. at the age of43, has a star on each of his shoulders.A revised roster of Phi Gamma Del-

ta's general officers in the Americanarmy follows:

Lieutenant-General — Robert L. Eichel-herger (Ohio State '07).

Alajor-General — Elhridge Gerry Chapman(Colorado '18).

Brigadier-Generals-- Thoburn K. Brown( Tennessee '10), Clovis E. Byers (OhioState '21), Leroy P. Collins (Union '05),George H. Decker (Lafayette '24). HobartR. Gay (Knox '17), Edgar E. Glenn(Georgia Tech. Fac.), air corps; FremontB. Hodson (Oregon '20). Paul W. Johns-ton, Sr. (Allegheny '14), reserve; FrankE. Lowe (Worcester Tech. '08), reserve;Ward H. Mans (Kansas '14), Hugh T.MaYberrY (William Jewell 'IS), ErnestMoore (Missouri '29), air corps; Haig

Shekerj ian ( Colgate '10), Morris,Stayer (Wittenberg '03. Lafayettemedical corps; Sumner Waite (MaineLyman P. Whitten (Massachusetts'20), air corps; Charles A. ‘`.(Gettysburg '14).

Our general officers in thecorps are as follows:

Major-Gener(,l: Clifton B. Catesnessee '16).

Brigadier-General: Leroy P. Huntkeley '14).

Our highest-ranking officer it tnavy is Commodore James E. l'ioat(Dartmouth '12).

Our sole Canadian general "ftI;rigadier Hubert B. Keen!,( Toronto '23).

• • *

"Yank in Italy" is a featured colunin the Stars and Stripes. An issue of thesoldiers' newspaper in February carriedan interesting contribution to the cf,i-umn by Sergeant Stanley M. Swint..!1

(Michigan '40), a member of the el!- -

torial staff. It is here reprinted as

excellent example of soldier journal.-- and escape reading:

bloatNcE— Serious students of war c. -location have done their best. They've writ'treatises on how war affected widows, •phans and the divorce rate. They've orat: •about re-housing and moaned the declinethe banana trade with Central America. l'nobody has paid any attention to the eff,of war upon dogs. Some say Albert Pays:Terhune might have done the job justhut he's dead.Take the case of Smuts, who is 13-yea-

old and blind. A shaggy dog is Smuts. 11curly black hair is long, his nose is alwacold and his tail forever wags. Smuts Ihad one helluva time in this war.Any dog will tell you food is mighty i,

portant. During the pleasant years of pG.Smuts had a bone to gnaw on — a tastyof horsemeat to chew upon. His mistressa British-born woman wed to an Italiphysician — saw to that.

war brought hunger. Food disappeared

the market Even horsemeat brought

,asric prices upon the mushrooming

black

'Alt For a while Smuts ate dried blood.

'-ightening but it's really very tasty.

..ed it. And then dried blood was

ei out to humans. The only thing left

-Srnuts was soup made from leafy garden

let2k faithful dog would be the last person

the wcrld to complain but vegetable soup

a going a bit too far. Smuts took a firm

-.-vegetable-soup stand. His mistress pleaded

Id Smuts is made of stern stuff. For

three

f held out in a hunger strike. The

lay. at lunch. Smuts sniffed the

le soup and coldly turned away.

• about ten yards and then decided

:nciples may he very well hut a fel-

..ot to eat. Smuts wheeled and ran like

devil hack to the place and he's been

vegetable soup ever since.

, brought the clandestine radio. Each

jv ins British mistress barred the blinds

'stened to BBC. She was very cautious

-(t the Germans were close hy. A chance

an unexplained bark, might bring

,-)wn. Smuts was very good. When the

..ondon voice mentioned Premier

;. of South Africa, Smuts pricked

ears but he never harked: or so the

goes.There %Nas an escaped prisoner, too. a

•': African named Barney. Barney had

.i,ed five times and been recaptured after

escil escape when he tried to work through

the German lines. This time he decided to

let the lines come up to him and he hid in

Florence with Smuts' mistress and her bus-

W'hen the Germans came to inspect

icy did often— Smuts might have given

whole show away by sniffing at Barney's

hiding place or harking. He was always

cit although when only the family was

nSionisuts and Barneywere inseparable

n

In peacetime a Florentine dog used to get

ut a good deal, especially if he lived

:(ng the spacious hill estates as Smuts did.

.ere would be a morning walk and social

is at a tree here and a fire hydrant there.

lilts couldn't go out at all after the war.

the first place a lot of people were hungry

1 as an American Indian can tell you. dog

,at has its points.

Then there would be resentment among the

THE PHI GA:\IIA DELTA

neighbors and poor if they saw a dog be-

cause they knew you fed him. Needing food

desperately for themselves they naturally

were bitter and it would have been difficult

to convince them Smuts lived on vegetable

soup. All during the war there was only the

garden for Smuts to walk in and of course

no other dog can visit the trees in your

garden.

As fighting flared in Florence last summer

Smuts' hillside manor was shelled. Three

times artillery hit the house. There were air-

bursts. Any dog who helps conceal escaped

Allied prisoners and listens to the secret

radio knows how to handle a situation like

that, though. At the first sound of artillery

Smuts would scuttle for the basement Maybe

he was scared. It seems a lot more likely.

though. that Smuts figured the whole thing

out. He just wasn't going to let a stray

piece of shrapnel upset his postwar aim of

385

No WORD FROM THIS OFFICER

41.. A veteran of the first B-29 raid on

Japan,

Lieutenant-040nd Robinson Billings (Col-

gate '36) is missing in the Burma-China

theater.

11011

386

A GENERAI:S SON MISSING(I. First Lieutenant Kenneth F. Hodson(Ohio State '42) of the air forces has notreturned front a B-29 raid on Tokio. He isa son of Brigadier-General Fremont R.Hodson (Oregon '20).

eating horsemeat again instead of vegetablesoup.* * *

The rumor is bruited about thatLieutenant James Richard Young (LosAngeles '44) and his platoon have beencredited with raising the first Americanflag in the Philippines after the libera-tion.The Bureau of Public Relations ofthe War Department always as help-ful as it can be to TILE PHI GAMMADELTA, says that it has no informationwhich would make it possible to sub-stantiate the report.What Fiji can help verify the rumor—and, oh br'ers! if we could get apicture!

THE PHI GAMAIA DELTA.

A gracious letter has crime toheadquarters of the fraternity fromhighest-ranking Devil Dog. MGeneral Clifton B. Cates (Ten'161, whose picture appeared 011cover of the March issue. It afollows:

Enclosed find my check for $5 inof my graduate dues for 1945.Please note my correct address. ftlittle additional data on myself ---keep the record correct: Took comn.the Fourth Division !Marines) on .T•1944. on Saipan and commanded it :ngthe Tinian operation, For these two ge•ments the division was awarded the I resi-dential Citation with star.Censorship regulations now permitsay that I am at sea and headed foragain.• . . best wishes to . . . all loyal Fijis.

* * *

Notes concerning the "k7 H.:bold" in the service of HisKing and Emperor:M. Albert Menzies (British Columbiawho was graduated in medicine from Que,-,),College in February, is interning at Kings:.,::

General Hospital as a member of the R. c•A. M. C. . • . Captain Kenneth W. Re,-1(British Columbia '44) is with the Seafort' sof Canada overseas.... Ian Weir McDonri,l(British Columbia '43) is with the Southea-:Asia Command of the Royal Canadian A'Force. . . . Pilot Officer Lyman W. Or-(Toronto '43) is posted to Calgary. .address of Flight Lieutenant F. Lor-,Hutchison (Toronto '22) is O. P. RR. C. A. F. Station, Dartmouth, N. S.

* a *

Devil Dog department. News 0:Fijis who have the situation well Hihand :

The following Fiji marines are receivint,mail through the Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif.: Lieutenant Theodore F. Sht:(Colgate '44). Private First Class Fred,E. Croft (Illinois Wesleyan '45), Lieutemiii.William A. Florsheim (Gettr;burg '43).Lieutenant Jack Hood Vaughn (Michigan'43), Private First Class Harold W. Greene

THE PHI GAMMA DELTA

n 4 Major Frank J. Weriban, Jr.33), Lieutenant Norman Elliott

tenni 44), Lieutenant Alfred B. Beers

'44), Lieutenant John J.

'431, Sergeant John J. Meckes

St.):, '45). . . Private Henry A.

'vn +Stanford '46) is at Mare Island.

. William Shoop (Washington and

sun '411 has been promoted to the rank

ijor. He has been in the Southwest

.• for two years and was wounded in

T1 during the Saipan operation. . . .

,:nant William S. Rollins (Bucknell '44)

:ewhere in the Pacific theater. .. . The

editor of The Chevron, corps news-

is Private First Class Norris Anderson

raska '44). The Chevron is a weekly,

a circulation of 80,000. . . . Captain

.Ed H. O'Rourke (Colorado College

ominanded an assault company in the

landings of the Fifth Marine Divi-

Iwo Jima. . . . Second Lieutenant

Bremier, Jr. (Pennsylvania '44) is in

'acific theater, as is also Corporal AI-

N. Borman (Missouri '46). . . Cor-

S. Neil Harle (Missouri '46) is in the

_ at Berkeley. Calif kn International

"),)to reproduced in American news-

vealed Captain Thomas E. Norpell

:1 '41) of the Third Marine Division

-ining a dugout on Iwo Jima, from which

I apparently made a desperate effort

Jap's honorable head only visi-

.. William A. H. Barton. Jr. (Massa-

, setts Tech. '45) is an officer candidate at

t.amp I,ejeune, N. C. . . . Major Robert D.

(Bucknell '40), a veteran of the Pacific

_Ting, is at Quantico, Va.... Lieutenant

:.z eyincuith K. Symmes (Yale '45) is at

,erry Point, N. C. . . . Private First Class

:cis J. Martin, Jr. (Columbia '46) is at

is Island, S. C. . . . Private Richard D.

(Purdue '47) is at Camp I,ejeune.

. . Second Lieutenant Frank Horsley

,hington '45) is credited in newspaper

itches with having destroyed a Jap Zero

had been disguised with American

unia on its wings and fuselage. The

)- plane was on a field at the northwest

Negros Island in the Philippines when

-!ant Horsley made two low strafing

:t-spite anti-aircraft fire, and destroyed

387

nibalian sailormen, of no value to theenemy, we hope, except to put the fear

of God in his heart.

Although censorship forbids the publishing

of the names of stations and ships of navy

men, the following Fijis are receiving mail

through the Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco:

Ensign John P. Anderson (Missouri '43),

Ensign Robert Mansur (Missouri '44), En-

sign John B. Scott (Missouri '42), Ensign

John Stabler (Missouri '43), Seaman First

Class Richard Sarvis (Missouri '44), Lieu-

tenant (j. g.) John L. Davies, Jr. (Allegheny

'40), Lieutenant (j. g.) David M. Kinzer

(Allegheny '41), Ensign Lawrence W. Kelley

(Amherst '44), Ensign Henry P. Outten

(Amherst '42), Lieutenant Robert R. Rosson

(Berkeley '31), Lieutenant Joseph W. Bailey

(Chicago '31), Lieutenant Maturin B. Bay

(Chicago '29), Lieutenant (j. g.) Frederic

A. Graber, Jr. (Colgate '42), Ensign Theo-

dore A, Weager. Jr. (Colgate '41), Lieu-

* a *

United States Navy intelligence.

Tidbits of information about the can-

FAILS TO RETURN TO BASE

Major Clyde V. Kniscly, Jr. (Tennessee

'41) of the air forces, veteran of the Pacific

air fighting, is reported as missing overLuxembourg.

388

A COLONEL Is UNREPORTEDQ No word has been received concerning thefate of Colonel Harry R. Melton, Jr. (Ala-bama '34) of the air forces, who was shotdown over the mountainous region of Burma.

tenant Ralph H. Dreyer (Columbia '29),John T. Hannah (Davidson '45, Texas '45),Lieutenant-Commander William B. Wingo(Georgia Tech. '31), Captain George F.Prestwich (Gettysburg '19), LieutenantHenrie C. Shuler (Gettysburg '29), Lieu-tenant (j. g.) John E. Howe (Kansas '38).Lieutenant-Commander Henry F. UlrichI Minnesota '23), medical corps ; Lieutenant(j. g.) John W. Martin (Missouri '31),Ensign Louis S. Campbell (Nebraska '35),Lieutenant W'illiarn T. Martin, Jr. (NorthCarolina '42), Lieutenant Cornelis E. Groene-wegen (Occidental '28, Stanford '28), EnsignHarold D. Gross (Occidental '45), EnsignJeffrey R. Townsend, Jr. (Occidental '46),Ensign Henry A. Bickel (Ohio State '44),Lieutenant William P. Carey, Jr. (OhioState '27), Ensign Dallas D. Dupre, III(Ohio State '44), Lieutenant (j. g.) DonaldP. Morris (Ohio State '34), Lieutenant(.I• g.) Arthur A. Vanosdall (Ohio State

THE PHI GAMMA DELTA

'39), Ensign Robert B. Kyle (Co.::leyan '38). Lieutenant Jack D.Wesleyan '48), Ensign Fro!(Oklahoma '46), Chief Plia-Melvin K. Battee (OregonJason D. Lee (Oregon '37),Adelbert 0. McIntyre (Oreguo _tenant-Commander Avery W.(Oregon '29), Pharmacist's Mate Sec'Class Richard G. Livingston (Oregon Stat'42), Ensign Robert C. Ashcom (Pitts '38), Radio Man First Class Hugo M.Leidenroth (Pittsburgh '331. Ensign RolandJ. Elliott (Richmond '46), Lieutenant (- g•)Elmer R. Struyk (Rutgers '36 'William McB. Dehn (Washington -sign Richard R. Myall (William Je:i. -4),Lyman G. Wickwire (Yale '41). . .following Fijis are receiving mail thryaghthe Fleet Postoffice, New York City:tenant (j. (j. g.) Edwin Wilks, III (Br ,en'43), Quartermaster's Mate First Class Wal-ter E. Jansen (Brown '45), Lieutenant jD. Stapp (Colorado '33), Lieutenant Ty,.1,Dillard (Davidson '28), Radar TechniFirst Class Berry W. Bercaw (Indiana .4Purdue '44). Ensign Alvin C. Bush (N,Carolina '45), Lieutenant (j. g.) PaulSeverin (North Carolina '41), Lieuten,..(j. g.) John W. Gorby. Jr. (Northwest'29), Chaplain Edward McNair (Occide:::35), Ensign Merton E. Sawtell (Ohio W,leyan '45), Ensign Jack K. Chandler (Ok:homa '39), Quartermaster's Mate Sec!Class Tom P. Hadley (Oklahoma '45). Li,tenant John D. Ligon (Richmond '34). ce:,guard: Lieutenant (j. g.) Charles J. It.Phail (Srracuse '42), Lieutenant (i•James W. Woods, Jr. (Tennessee '3'.medical corps; Lieutenant Geortre L. Mart'(Wabash '24), Ensign William E.(William Jewell '44), Lieutenant t,Richard P. Embick (Wisconsin '41),corps; Ensign Richard M. Colgate (Yal.t'45), Lieutenant-Commander Donald I,Wright (Yale '38). . . E,nsign Robert l'Shakely (Washington and Jefferson '431 at:Ensign Robert H. Sturman (Colgate '46) a:.in amphibious training at Little Creek,• • . Louis C. Wollenweber, Jr. (Colorac'47) is a hospital corpsman at Norman, Ok1.3• .. Ensign John N. Rupp (Washington '34is at Harvard. . . . Formerly aboard tlpU. S. S. Chanango, Lieutenant (j. g-) Virg'L. Towner, Jr. (Bucknell '40) is now billet&in Pensacola, Fla. . . . Lieutenant (j- 8.;


)hE Kristenson (Occidental '40) is

7eir ( anc g .)

Archerstationin E el1Portland,i My e(.tenant61;ii)

.e '41) is at Livermore, Calif. . . Yen-

Second Class Paul W. Jones (Ohio

,,leyan '36) is in the public relations office

Farrag-ut, Ida. . . . Lieutenant 9. g.)glades W. Austin (Pennsylvania '30) is

on

tile staff at Great Lakes, Ill. . . . Captain

F. Lane (Pennsylvania 'II) is at

• receiving station in Boston. . . . Ensign

'ert F. Stengelin (Pennsylvania '43) is at

air Hutchinson,i )HKans.Herbert

anes. .stationin enant (

kenberg (Wittenberg '30) : "Serving as

,nery officer aboard a transport, it was

pleasure to see the following brothers

a pilgrimage to Fijiland: Lieutenant

g.) Charles T. Bridgman (Iowa State

, Lieutenant 9. g.) Samuel G. Jenkinsinois '29), Lieutenant (j. g.) E. Bruce

-tzel (Brown '29) and Ensign Donald B.

:tchinson (Colgate '45). This was not, of

:rse, their destination and it took place

-.le months ago, so no military secrets are

divulged.". . . Lieutenant John R.

.iller (Idaho '38), flying a Wildcat, took

-t in the invasions of Palau, Leyte and

::gayen. He is now in Jacksonville, Fla.

. This magazine has previously reported

death in action of Ensign Daniel Ryan

:dell. It can now be revealed that he was

,ard the submarine Amberfack, which was

.:k in Pacific waters by Japanese action.

. Edwin K. Solid (Washington '47) is

the V-12 at the University of California

Los Angeles.... Peter H. Burnett (Yale

_ is in the training school at, of all places,

Lrvard. . . Walter M. Miller (Colorado

-;) is a midshipman at Camp Endicott.

Y. • .. Ensign Carl B. Henrichson (Kan-

,as '44) is at San Diego, Calif. . . . Lieu-

tenant (j. g.) William R. Gilgore (Union

'29) is at Fort Ord. Calif. . . . Lieutenant

Robert D. Woodward (Berkeley '39) is at

the supply depot of the air station at Seattle.

• • • Lieutenant Harold E. Kubly (Wisconsin

'27) is on the staff of the midshipmen's school

at Notre Dame. . . . Lieutenant-Commander

William T. Rimes (Denison '31) is on the

staff of the air transport service at Oakland,

Calif. . . Lieutenant Charles M. Jones

!Ohio Wesleyan '38) has been transferred

to the receiving station at Pier 92, New

York City. . . Lieutenant Robert T. Jones

Bucknell '36) is on duty at Norfolk. Va.,

which some sailors do not like. . . . HarveyHarman (Pittsburgh '22). former footballcoach at Pennsylvania and Rutgers, has beenpromoted to full commander. He is on a newcarrier. . . . Seaman First Class GeorgeHopper, Jr. (Wittenberg '32) is in radio

school at Gulfport, Miss. . . . Lieutenant

(j. g.) Edward R. Bartley (Indiana '42,

Washington and Jefferson '42) is with a

coast guard unit in the Pacific. . . . PredictsLieutenant Harrison Smith (Kansas '36)

aboard an attack transport in the Pacific:

"I am looking forward to seeing many Fijis

soon in Japan itself.". . . Lieutenant (j. g.)

John S. Atwater (Denison '35, Western Re-

serve '35) writes to Lambda Deuteron that

he visited the grave of Marine First Lieu-

tenant John L. Pratt (Denison '41), who was

killed in action on August 12, 1942, in

Guadalcanal. ... Lieutenant Edwin S. Elgin

(Missouri '40) is instructing in Ventura air-

craft at Lake City, Fla. . . . Lieutenant

William K. Caler (Georgia Tech. '32) is

INFANTRY PRIVATE MISSING

(I, Private First Class Calvin P. Schaffner(Allegheny '44) is missing in action with the

414th Infantry in Germany.

S.

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r-1)

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390 THE PHI G

PLANE IS DOWN at AT TINIANIkNazy Lieutenant George A. Wi!Aria.(Purdue '39) was bombing Tinian in a tor-pedo plane when he was observed to go intua spin with one wing shot off. No trace hasyet been found of him.

executive officer of a battalion of Seabees inthe Marianas. . . . Lieutenant (j. g.) Wen-dell Hall (Texas '42) is aboard a ship in theAtlantic. . . Fijis come to the supply corpsschool at Harvard and Fijis go. But theypause often enough to have beer and pretzelstogether and to enjoy the hospitality of IotaMu at Massachusetts Tech. . . Robert B.Fullerton (Colorado '45) is a midshipmanat Notre Dame.... David C. Gartley (Occi-dental '47) is in the V-12 at SouthernMethodist University. . • . Lieuttnant-Com-mander Hunter B. Gilkeson (Kansas '32) isat San Pedro, Calif. . . Lieutenant (j. g.)'John A. 13ookhout (Amherst '38) has seen.a lot of service in Atlantic waters. . . . TheBank of Guam, possibly the only one in theworld housed in a quonset hut, reopened forbusiness in March, with Lieutenant-Com-mander 11'illiam Bradley Willard (Dart-mouth '26) as manager and cashier, accord

AMNIA DELTA

ing to an Associated Press dispatch.the Japanese captured Guam in Dec1941, the bank cashier, now a prisonerJapan, destroyed all the paper money.bank building was destroyed by theinvasion bombardment last July, but nvault containing its records remained in'Commander Willard in peace time ispresident of the National Savings and TCo. in Washington, D. C.... Ensign RM. Rinnan (Northwestern '44) reportsseven alumni of Phi Chapter had a reu•on Christmas day on a small Pacific• • . When the Japanese attacked and •the United States minesweeper I fove::Lingayen Gulf two days before the invaof Luzon, Ensign James H. F. Tr.,•(Northwestern '45) escaped aboard aWithin an hour he was picked up by artu,minesweeper. . . . Dr. Ralph W. Jack'26), former Miami Beach physician,been commissioned a lieutenant-commaiin the medical corps and is aboard a vcin Pacific waters. . . . Resting from .strenuous life of a pilot in the Pacific Mei.Lieutenant Robert R. Tweedle (Wabashis at the hospital in San Diego, Calif.Lieutenant Stanley A. Tweeclle ( %Val.'32) and Lieutenant 1 j. g.) F. W. 1(Northwestern '43) are aboard theship in the Pacific. . . . Lieutenant (j. zJames Truesdall (Denison '36) is receiv.mail in care of the Fleet Postoffice,West, Fla. . . . Ensign Benjamin Weisba...(Amherst '44) is at the air station in Jack-sonville, Fla. . . . Lieutenant-Commarf]Griswold L. Bouteiller (Amherst '30) isduty in Washington. . . Seaman Seco.Class Lucius T. Grose (Arizona '46) is a rteorological student at Lakehurst, N. J.Lieutenant Edward J. Galway (Brownis at Camp Peary, Va. . . . Ensign CharWade Snook, Jr. (Berkeley '46) ha,in training at Newport, R. I. . .tenant (j. g.) Charles A, Bailey ((J'39) is in the Pacific with a landingunit. . • . Apprentice Seaman Harm.Craig (Chicago '46) is in the V-12 at A .sas Agricultural and Mechanical Colleg,Apprentice Seaman Charles W. Moffer

(Washington '43, Alabama '43) is in the \at Columbia University. . . LieutenaeStanley B. Atkinson (Indiana '35) is at tiYarmed guard center in Brooklyn. . . . Lies:tenant (j. g.) Richard Lloyd Jones, Jv(Wisconsin '32) has been on leave in th,


.tates after a six-months' mission to the Brown (Purdue '44) is at the coast guard

lippine Islands, where his ship carried academy in New London, Conn.

.asands of tons of bombs to the base of * * *-flies at Leyte. He has been officially corn-

nded. Dick in peacetime is general mana-

' of the Tulsa Tribune. Lieutenant (j .g.)-kin Lloyd Jones (Wisconsin '33), editor

:he Trib., is a communications officer in

Philippine waters... . Lieutenant (j. g.)

Tr G. Meek (Pennsylvania State '32) is

4te Philadelphia yard.... Chief Specialist

Edward Chatlain (Wittenberg '41) is

...oiled in Cleveland. . . . Lieutenant-Corn-

-der Henry A. Sherman (Columbia '25)

it Camp Kearney, Calif. . . . Lieutenant

-nley I. Craft (Richmond '30) is in the

fare and recreation department at Samp-

. N. Y. . . . Ensign Douglas R. Dobson

ashington and Jefferson '43) is stationed

Norfolk. . . . Heber R. Carter, Jr. (Ten-

-Se '45) is in the V-12 at Rice Institute.

Specialist Allen C. Morgan (New York

is at Camp Peary, Va. .. . Commander

crt B. Simons (Kansas '30), medical

is at the ammunition depot, Hingham,

. . William F. Quesenberry, Jr.

-1c-e '43) is in aviation training at Pen-

Fla. . . . Lieutenant (j. g.) Clifford,;rey (Hanover '43) is in the mine school

Yorktown, Pa. . . . Apprentice Seaman

.rshall R. Brownell (Wabash '47) is in

V-12 at Union College. . . . Lieutenant

g.) Robert B. Crew (Northwestern '33)

in the office of the chief of operations in

ishington.... Ensign Vernon J. Anderson

.wa '36) is at the air station in Quonset

int, R. I Npprentice Seaman William

Schmitt (Illinois '44, Denison '44) is in

V-12 at Oberlin College. So is Appren-

• Seaman George C. Sternad, Jr. (Ohio

csleyan '47). . . . Commander William C.

baty, Jr. (Alabama '24), medical corps, Le-

. ri of Merit, is at the staff and command

->ol of the marines at Quantico.... Phar-

Mate John W. Bradley (Tennessee

is at Camp Detrick, Md. . . . Chief

.rrant Officer John A. Sloan (Ohio Wes-

'29) is at Chula Vista, Calif. . . The

-s of Lieutenant-Commander William

Robb (Pennsylvania '34), former Field

r'retary of Phi Gamma Delta, is Staff,

mairlant, Naval Air Station, Norfolk,

. . Ensign Richard E. Clarke (Brown

') of the coast guard is at the submarine

,ining center in Miami. . . . Richard J.

Hither-and-yon notes about the Fijisin the United States Army as well asthe Army of the United States, with nosequence of mention according to rank:

The following Fijis are receiving mailc/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.. at theA. P. 0. given, when available: TechnicalSergeant Jerry W. Gwin (Alabama '45),

887; .Lieutenant Felix R. Helms (Alabama

'43), 18011; Sergeant Paul K. McWhorter,Jr. (Alabama '45), 18081; Lee M. Otts(Alabama '44), 26; Major Charles B. Mil-

ler (Allegheny '40), 403; Corporal Osborn

Belt (Allegheny '43), 350; Captain John W.

Prout (Allegheny '37), 121-B; Captain Rich-

ard H. Horn (Allegheny '36), 102; Tech-

nical Sergeant James J. Pysher (Allegheny

AVIATOR IS PRISONER

11:1„ Lieutenant Robert S. Aubry (Rutgers '45)

of the air forces is a prisoner of war in Ger-

many after having been shot down overYugoslavia.

S1.0.0 ..E-i:"111Eln--4._


A OF TilF, GERMANSSecond Lieutenant Richard 1.. Neal (Pur-due '46) of Me air forces is a prisoner of warat Stalag Luft No. 1 in GermanY. He wasshot down near Lcipsig.

'45), 339; Lieutenant-Colonel William H.Puntenney (Arizona '41), 29; LieutenantFloyd Williams, Jr. (Arizona '38), 557;Lieutenant Joseph M. Billion, Jr. (Berkeley'44), 557; Lieutenant Robert S. Allen(Brown '46), 520; Lieutenant Donald M. Jo-seph (Brown '44), 218; Sergeant Abram J.S. Gaskill (Brown '25), 403; SergeantThomas A. Dvorsky (Chicago '42), 339;Lieutenant Robert W. Hughes (Chicago'37), 452; Captain James E. Watson, III(Colgate '41), 17798; Captain Frank E.Brown (Colorado '23), 67; Frank M. Truby(Colorado College '30), 884; Private FirstClass Jacques W. Duffy (Columbia '44),333; Corporal Murray L. Jones (Columbia'34), 366; Lieutenant William H. Chamber(Cornell '43), 5; Lieutenant William G.Clark (Dartmouth '41), 595; SergeantHoward R. Mobley (Davidson '30), 887;Private Richard C. Christian (Denison '46),

447; Staff Sergeant Stephen B. Minton.(Denison '42), 149; Arthur H. Gem(DePauw '43). 447; Lieutenant -ColRussell C. Kuehl (DePauw '28), 4.44; Litenant William C. Brandon (Florida '4512; Staff Sergeant Henry C. Hill (GearTech. '33), 558; Lieutenant Mike L. Kova(Hanover '39), 16583; Lieutenant EarleThatcher, Jr. (Hanover '43). 16852-AT-Captain Richard C. Williams (Hanover '3517999; Lieutenant Vernon R. Dawson (Idho '42). 372; Private First Class \WilliamGreene (Illinois '45), 518; Harry 0. Andeson, Jr. (Illinois Wesleyan '42), 45; Lietenant Benjamin R. Arnold (Illinois Weleyan '36). 667; Private First Class I. '-Rust (Illinois \Wesleyan '47), 200;E. Prentice (Indiana '39), 254;Walter E. Brinker (Iowa '38), 17351:tenant Hamilton D. Carson (IowaPrivate First Class Charles W. V.(Iowa '46), 104; Corporal Stephen C. iishaw, III (Kansas '45), 649; Captain H.D. Ritchie (Kansas '40), 557; Lieuten,Russell D. Voorhees (Knox '31), 44; -•:ate Carl Eisen, Jr. (Lehigh '45), 520; Li'tenant Ernest F. Andrews (Maine '3-432; Lieutenant Sheldon K. Howard (Ma..'39), 17567; Private First Class RobertHeath (Michigan '46), 569; Major Mar.J. Her (Minnesota '27), 557; PrivateClass Roger H. Newhall (Minnesota '41345; Major James W. Guest (Misso •'39), 411; Clinton G. Sweazea (Misso!:.

'40), I6926-AJ-4; Captain Harlan G. Hutcins (Nebraska '30), 513; Lieutenant Bt-nard E. Ingram (Nebraska '39), 667; StaffSergeant Taylor C. Waldron (Nebras','36), 740; Private Firm Class John A. l‘tCorkle (New York '45), 17808; LieutenaWilliam C. Thoma (New York UH562; Lieutenant James B. Carg)liCarolina '36); Lieutenant Gordon E. 6‘,0hart (Occidental '35), 17665; Lieutena,Robert F. Snyder (Occidental '33, ()repState '33), 230; Sterling L. Hill (Ohio Sta''37), 469; Lieutenant Ralph E. Lamprna(Ohio State '38), 492; Private First Cla,Louis J. Hendricks, Jr. (Ohio Wesleya'47), 17796; Corporal Charles S. Huffma:Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan '44), 350; Lieutenar•Edward H. Jones (Ohio Wesleyan461; Major Frederick T. Merchant ('Wesleyan '33), 887; Lieutenant Russei.


Ro,binsoil. Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan '42), 80;

wgea• nt Edward F. Saville (Ohio Wes-

'46) 412- Private John M. Hall, Jr.leanOklahoma '47), 15668; Captain Joseph W.

1.•ciip,.- (Oklahoma '41), 520; Lieutenant

'-'bert A. Tatlock (Oklahoma '43), 461;

„Tutenant-Colonel Varley H. Taylor (Okla-

-.,,Tra '30). 5357; Captain Richard H. Wit-

n (Oregon '32), 562; Private Hal B. Ana-

alt (Oregon State '46), 28; Lieutenant

'tree J. Brisbin (Oregon State '44), 76; Cor-

:,:ral Charles S. Crookham (Oregon State

5L89; Captain Howard Z. Fretz (Pennsyl-

nia '38), 508: Lieutenant Frank K. Mayers

Pennsylvania '45), 520; Lieutenant William

Newing (Pennsylvania '43), 316-A; John

Shidemantle (Pittsburgh '41), 443; Cap-

:.;:n William A. Campbell (Purdue '42),

2b3; Private First Class Thomas H. Leath

Richmond '45), 417; Lieutenant Howard S.

:arto (Rutgers '39), 583; Corporal Kenneth

3. Barrett (Sewanee '45), 15379; Private

rrst Class Richard F. Outcault, Jr. (Stan -

rd '45), 444; Sergeant John L. Twitchell

Stanford '35), 18246; John S. Hafer

Syracuse '35), 5955; Private David T

(Tennessee '47), 15371; Lieutenant

humas S. Garrett, III (Texas '42), 557;

Hvate George I. Goodenow (Texas '33),

'543; Captain George J. Hucherson (Tex-

'29), 200; William H. Champlin (Union-3), 257; Captain Preston R. Clark (Union

431; Lieutenant James R. Davidson, Jr.

,'abash '44), 85; Staff Sergeant Philip C.

Jr. (Wabash '46), 345; Private John

Owens (Wabash '46), 507; Private First

:ass Milo F. Vale, Jr. (Wabash '47), 78;

Rene L. Tallichet (Washington and Lee '36).459; Private Allan B. Kortz ( \Western Re--ve '46), 454; Private John H. Lathe, Jr

,Yestern Reserve '44), 598; Kenneth C

.dley (William Jewell '33), 95; Sergeant

ward A. Appell (Williams '33), 258; Ma-

'Eric F.. Oulashin (Williams '36), 787:nant Jerome K. Travers (William

%; Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Barr,

Fac.), 253; Lieutenant William E.inert (Missouri '44), 15661; Lieutenant

•:lph M. Major (Missouri '43), 403; Lieu-

'ant John C. Nowell (Missouri '43), 84;.eutenant Charles G. Ross (Missouri '43),

1-!euteriant LeRoi Dixon, Jr. (Missouri '41),

The following Fijis are receiving

do Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal., at

e A. P. 0. listed when available: Private

First Class Samuel A. Hess (Amherst '43),958; Lieutenant-Colonel Robert P. Kirk(Arizona '33), 201; Captain Richard P.Jones (Berkeley '37), 72; Lieutenant War-ren F. Myers, Jr. (Berkeley '45), 18103;Corporal William A. Smith, Jr. (Brown'45), 17943; Sergeant Gerald Finsen (Buck-

nell '38), 923; Lieutenant John H. Roehn(Denison '41), 950; Lieutenant Henry H.Triebel (Illinois '33), 241; Lieutenant

George D. Herring, Jr. (Lafayette '33),

322; Howard J. Stagg, III (Maine '37),

17984; Private Culver Davis (Minneapolis

'37), 703; Lieutenant William D. Rhodes

(Missouri '44), 957; Lieutenant Robert R.

C. Miller (Nebraska '44), 18273; Lieutenant

Milton B. Cash, Jr. (North Carolina '44),

711; Lieutenant Glosser M. Young (North

Carolina '33), 301; Lieutenant Jack H. De-

Voss (Ohio State '41), 710; Captain George

A. Grossman, Jr. (Ohio State '40), 4305;

CAPTURED INFANTRYMAN SAFE

dl, Sergeant E. Rothwell Shelly (Pennsyl-

vania '46) of the infantry was captured in

Germany while serving with the 106th Ameri-

can Division. A card from him reports that

he is "safe and not injured."

•

l•-• WA 1.1. _1..1.1 17\ 11

394 THE PHI C;AIM.-\ DELTA

MARINE WINS SILVER STAR(1. The going against the JaPs at EmpressAugusta Bay, Bougainville, was tough theday when First Lieutenant Edwin F. Mc-Gowan (Brown '42) of the marines displayedthe gallantry which won for him the Silver

Star.

Lieutenant Raymond P. Heap (Oklahoma'43), 928; Lieutenant Richard E. Cook(Oregon State '42), 81; Captain John W.Mackie, Jr. (Purdue '39), 18141; Lieuten-ant Issac C. \Vright, Jr. (Syracuse '39),244; Lieutenant Joseph Addison, Jr. (Vir-ginia '43), 16212-AJ-59; Colonel Julian G.Hearne, Jr. (Washington and Jefferson '26),244; Lieutenant Howard T. Eaton, Jr.(Western Reserve '39), 18278; James H-LaMent (Williams '42), 15633; SergeantGeorge M. Simson (Williams '43), 181::;Lieutenant William D. Rhodes (Missouri'44),957; Lieutenant Clifford B. Smith (Mis-souri '41), 920. . . . Second LieutenantCharles E. Brew ick (Iowa State '46) wasnavigator of "Round-trip Topsy" on aneventful trip over Germany which resultedin the Flying Fortress being brought back

to its base in England with two en_most of the oxygen system shatti:struments useless and a wound,aboard. . . . Jack Hargrove ((Jr'40) and Lee M. Otts (Alabama '-enlisted men, are with the famed 26tsion under General Patton. "You'lltwo in the deepest foxholes from thereports Jack to TRE PM GAMMA. . . Frank Austin (Tennessee '40) isschool of maintenance for 11-29s at 'Field, Colo. . . Captain \Villiamgem, Jr. (Nebraska '34) is cunnecte,;civil affairs in France.... Private Peter I,.v(Amherst '43) is stationed at Iraq.... Pri-vate First Class Samuel Rump (Amher-:'44) is in the signal corps in England..Private James Doucett (Amherst '44) w:soon complete his course in the Corm:.Medical School. New York City.... Tren,feet got Sergeant Walter F. Simmelink,(Iowa State '43) and he has been hospitalizt,iin England, after service in Krautland...Private First Class Thomas P. Hans(Union '45) is a senior instructorradio mechanics at Truex, Wisc. . . . FirstLieutenant Cyril H. Hebrank, Jr. ( JohnsHopkins '42) commanded the show, "Here'sYour Infantry," which toured the UnitedStates in the interest of war bond sales...Private Randolph N. Moore, Jr. (Kans.,'46) is at MacDill Field, Fla. ... Licutena.Orville W. Nichols, Jr. (Indiana '41) isFort Meade, Md. . . . Major Harold LuskFlint (Columbia '14) is at Miami Beach.Fla. . . . Lieutenant Howard P. Barfield(Georgia Tech. '42) is at Wright Field, 0. .. Major Richard N. Fickett, III (Georg.Tech. '28) is stationed at Camp Plane,New Orleans, La. . . . Captain Richard -Paulsen (Idaho '41) is in the Pentagon Bldi.Washington, of all places, D. C. . PrivarFirst Class Robert L. Mueller (Illinois '44is at Fort Benning, Ga. . . . RichaStillinger (Idaho '43) is on special assigmerit in the South Pacific. . . . Lieutena.Arthur E Peterson, Jr. (Colgate '46) iFFort Ord, Calif. . . Lieutenant Hari,Scurr (Colorado College '44) is at iLewis, Wash.... The Germans used to haa 350-foot launching site for V rockets ne.:Euskirchen. They don't have it any mor,Credit Lieutenant David S. McClure (ILnois Wesleyan '45) ... Lieutenant Chard,W. Mills, Jr. (Arizona '37), nephewArchon Secretary Abbot P. Mills (Willian

THE PHI GA-MMA DELTA 395

4 at Eagle Pass, Tex. . . Captain ited Lieutenant Robert G. Packer (Lafa-

. Fifield (Arizona '38) is at Fort yette '43) with being commander of the first

Kans. . . Lieutenant Waldo G. American company to reach the Rhine op-

Jr. (Colgate '41) is at Pratt, Kans. posite Duesseldorf. An Associated Press

ieutenant Austin M. West (Knox '34) war correspondent called him "six feet

of

Fort Bragg. N. C. . . . Private First Brooklyn valor." Bob has been thrice

- Walter L. Scott (Columbia '46) is at wotmded. . . Lieutenant Fred P. Gilbert,

Lee, Va. . . First Lieutenant Roger Jr. (Iowa State '43) is at Bulkley Field,

.irrier (Pittsburgh '33) is in the in- Denver, Colo. . . . Lieutenant Harvey log-

school at Fort Henning, Ga. . . • ham, II (Iowa State '43) is at

Goodfellow

,nant Wallace B. Poteat (Richmond Field, Tex. . . . Lieutenant George

C. Ber-

-i at Casper, Wyo... . Lieutenant Wil- ry (Missouri '43) is at Camp

Bowie, Tex.

K. Tate (Tennessee '46) is at Camp Private First Class Robert H.

Krohne

0. Washington. D. C. • . . Private (Missouri '43) is at Camp Maxey, Tex.

,lier C. Walker (Worcester Tech. '41) . . . Lieutenant John B.

Cool (Ohio State

Camp Wheeler, Ga. . . . Major Robert '41) is at the air base in Mount

Home, Ida.

ernley (Wisconsin '41) is at Peterson Lieutenant Robert Haklisch (New

York

Colo. . . . Lieutenant Neil Haig

...ington '41) is at Camp Bowie, Tex.

44) is at Fort McClellan, Ala. . . . Cap-

i.ieutenant Tracy C. Dickson, III

(Yale tam Hugh 0. Maclellan (Cornell '35) is

in the air forcec at Richmond, Va. . . •

is at Camp Gruber, Okla. . . . Private

Class Chester Simmons (Yale '45) is

'amp Campbell, Ky. . . . Private First

Stephen A. Loftus, Jr. (Colorado '46)

Fort Benning, Ga.... Private Michael

Passantino, Jr. (William Jewell '43) is

..emoore, Calif.... Lieutenant Robert N.

-in- (Syracuse '35) is at Camp Wheeler,

. . Captain Edward G. Davis (Idaho

•_ is based at Palm Springs, Calif., after

a tour of duty on a B-26 in Italy.... Private

izene Taylor (Idaho '42) is an interne in St.

:is, Mo. . . . Private Gus Stewart (Idaho

is at Camp Beal, Calif. . . . Corporal

.en Stanley (Idaho '45) is in the chemical

,rfare service in Europe. . . Private First

iss Roger Hungerford (Idaho '45)

dying in the weather school at Ashville.

an.. . . Sergeant Ted Yocum (Idaho '45)

in France with an infantry outfit. . • •

:te First Class Richard Thomas (Idaho

is a medical corpsman in England. . . •

Major Jerome C. Taylor (Tennessee '36,

Davidson '36) led an attack which snatched

tack several French towns overrun by the

Nazis in the early days of the counter-

offensive. . . . Lieutenant-Colonel Julian G.

jr.(Washington and Jefferson '26)earne, has written another song. "Phi

Gamma Delta

Through Wars and Peace." Colonel Hearne

1- with the infantry on a South Sea island.

. Lieutenant Russel G. VanMetre (Colum-

(ia '42) is on Saipan.. .. Second Lieutenant

Irvine H. Forkner (Columbia '43) is at

Maxwell Field, Ala Newspaper dis-

patches from the Western Front have creel-

LEGION OF MERIT FOR COLONEL

C. As commanding officer of an important

port of debarkation in India, Colonel Richard

Hocker ( Missouri '12, Yale Fac.) dis-

tinguished himself "by his ability. resource-

fulness and untiring effort." His accolade:

The Legion of Merit,


Private Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. (Cornell'46) is in the medical detachment of the387th Infantry at Camp Cooke, Calif. . .Lieutenant Robert E. Lowry (Illinois '44)is at the Douglas Factory School at LongBeach, Calif. . . Private Robert H. Kirk(Kansas '43) is at the weather station inPratt, Kans. . . . Major Hugh R. Bishop(Lehigh '38) is at Patterson Field. 0. . . .Lieutenant Grant B. Stetson (Lehigh '39)is at Fort Dix. N. J. . . . Private ThomasGriffith Morris (Lafayette '46) is at CampShelby, Miss. . . William P. Chandler, Jr.(Arizona '44) is in training at the air fieldin Pecos, Tex.... Captain William J. Bolin(Davidson '41) is at Fort Riley, Kans. . . .Private Donald M. Palmer (Pennsylvania'47) is at Camp Wheeler, Ga. . . Lieuten-ant Alvin L. Flake (Oregon State '44) isat Camp Gruber, Okla.. . . Lieutenant Ed-mund J. Dienz (Arizona '41) is at Kearns.Utah. . . . Private William B. Coulter(Pittsburgh '46) is at Camp Barkley, Tex.. . Lieutenant Frank A. Pritchard, Jr.

(Washington '42) is at Camp Robinson, Ark.. . . Camp Polk, La., is the station of Pri-vate Joseph IT. Fluckhouse (Minnesota '45)and of Private John B. Burns (Kansas '45).... Thomas F. Hayes (Nebraska '46) is inCompany 8 at West Point. . .. Major Rich-ard G. Taft (Oklahoma '34) is at the airbase at Santa Ana, Calif. . . . John LeeHoyt (Northwestern '46) is an aviationcadet at Brooks Field, Tex. . . . ColonelLawrence B. Wyant (Ohio State '18), aregular officer, is at Fort Devens, Mass.• . . Lieutenant Robert W. McKinney (OhioWesleyan '41) is at the air base in Pueblo,Colo. . . . Lieutenant Loren Logan (Mis-souri '38) is at Dalhart, Tex. . . . The airfield at Tonopah, Nev., is the station ofMajor Robert P. Doolittle (DePauw '29).... Harry N. Beak (Illinois Wesleyan '31)has been promoted to the rank of captain.He is at Craig Field, Ala.... Captain Rich-ard G. Tiling (New York '41), a veteranof combat in the Pacific theater, is in theaircraft laboratory at Wright Field, 0. .Lieutenant Thomas P. Hull, Jr. (Texas'41) receives his mail at A. P. 0. 603, doPostmaster, Miami, Fla. . . . LieutenantJames J. Harrison (Michigan '41) is atColumbia, S. C. . . . Corporal Drury H.Cargill (Missouri '44) is in a photographicgroup at Jefferson Barracks. Mo. . . . Cap-

tain Daniel C. Easterday (Nebraska 'is at Ford Ord, Calif. . . . Corpora!Clark Voss (Missouri '46) is in a --company at Camp Gruber, Okla. . . rt.vate Ebert Weidner (Ohio Wesleyan .44is in the 113th Infantry at Camp' PickVa. . . . Private Robert W. Griffin (Okla,homa '46) is at Crile General liospitk-Cleveland, 0. . Captain Luther L.haver, Jr. (North Carolina '37) is at TGeneral Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.Nicholas G. Cristofalo (New York '43) isan officer candidate at Fort Belvoir, Va.

. Lieutenant William D. Patterson (P--,-sylvania '43) is at Finney general H,Thomasville, Ga. . . . LieutenantSher-y, Jr. (Northwestern '41) is in13th Airborne Anti-Aircraft at Campall, N. C. . . . Private First Class C:R. Hungerford (Idaho '45) is in tweather station at Charlotte, N. C. . .Major Richard B. Ott (Idaho '19) is .7the Presidio, San Francisco. . . . LieutenantJames R. Barracks (Illinois '44) lives in abarracks at Fort Sill, Okla. . . . Priv:-William B. Thomas (Indiana '46) is in th,public relations office at Childress Field,Tex. . . . Albin W. Heggen (Iowa State'45) is at Ellington Field, Tex. . . . Pri-vate George 0. Clifford, Jr. (Wabash '4tis on duty at the regional hospital in Wa.tham, Mass. . . . Returned from overseas.Captain Herbert T. Condon, Jr. (Wash-ington '36) is now stationed at Little RockArk. . . . John H. Finefroc.k (Western Rserve '39) is in the medical administrat-corps at Fort Lewis, Wash. . . . Capt.Frank B. Packard (Washington '30) -cal corps, is stationed at Palm S;Calif. . . . Lieutenant A. Howe Tod,'high '44) is at Fort Benning, Ga. . .PHI GAMMA DELTA cannot be toocommended for its war reporting," ,Captain Theodore G. Coursault (M1—'34) from the exchange service in San Fraycisco. Sem per muchobligedius! . . . CaptainGuy M. Hamm, Jr. (William Jewell '31.,is at Craig Field, Ala. . . . Lieutenant Wil-liam A. Simpson (Syracuse '42) is at CampMcCoy, Wisc. . . . Lieutenant Walter 11Smith (Oregon State '41) is in the engineersat Camp Bowie, Tex. . . . Captain tVilliarn0. liVaid (Oklahoma '32) is at Wilmingto!:.Calif., where he has to do with troop move-ment Major Paul B. Jenkins (Michigan

THE PHI GAMMA DELTA397

.dical corps. is at the general hos-

(Rutgers '42) is serving has received the

Camp Grant, Ill. . . . John R. Rode-

distinguished unit badge. . . . Wendell P.

ashington '47) has received a first Knowles (Rutgers '38) is a

major in the

appointment to West Point. . . . field artillery in Germany.

. . . Charles E.

John J. Vater (Oklahoma '44) Farnsworth (Rutgers '41) is a staff ser-

xandria, La. • . . Lieutenant-Colonel geant in the field artillery at

Camp Detrick,

Barr, Jr. (Yale Fac.) is with the Md. . . . Lieutenant Robert

Raney (Texas

ad Armored Division in Europe, '43) is in a bombing squadron which is

itti Lieutenant-Colonel William E. toucheing the Krauts. . .

Sergeant Robert

Minnesota '27) and Lieutenant-Col- C. Jones (Oregon '43)

is with the glider

tle Brown (Illinois '29). • . . Lieu-

infantry in France. . . . Corporal Jess M.

Robert W. Finley (Oklahoma '45) Shinn (Oregon '41) has

been with the 36th

englneers at Fort Jackson, S. C. Division from the African and

Italian cam-

Major Richard L. Downing (Okla- paigns up to the Rhone

River drive. . • •

is at Fort Monmouth, N. J. . . . Captain William P. Freehof

(Missouri '41)

•:.! Donald Holt (Alabama '46) is in the is public relations

officer with the IV Army

7ces at Palmdale, Calif. . . Lieu- Corps headquarters in the

Pacific area. . . .

Harry R. Lawton (Berkeley Lieutenant Joseph Finley

(Missouri '42) is

is at Tacoma, Wash. . . . Sergeant in the special service

office at Camp Camp-

C. Brown (Arizona '35) is at Santa bell, Ky. . . Perry W. Fisk

(Wisconsin

. . . William C. Holdsworth '46) has been in the

European theater for

erst '42) is at Camp Shelby, Miss. more than a year. . . .

Lieutenant Milo T.

:olonel Charles W. Moffett (Alabama Oakland, Jr. (Illinois '43) is

commanding

.5 in the air judge advocate branch at a B-24 in Italy....

Lieutenant George Loy-

;Lctical center in Orlando, Fla. . • . ering (Wisconsin '46) and Lieutenant

.,,sant Robert F. Kresge (Western Re-

Charles Luke (Idaho '45) are pilots in the

'45) is at the station hospital. Camp same squadron in Italy. .

. . First Lieuten-

t-ler, Ga .......... two years in Africa, ant James M. Stiver

(Purdue '43) is chief

and Italy, Major John E. Flemming engineering officer of a B-29

squadron at a

wn '33) is stateside. . . Lieutenant base in \Vest China. . .

. Lieutenant-Colonel

P. Gilmore (Allegheny '34) is at Frank W. Roberts

(Colorado College '31)

man, Arm. . . . Lieutenant Edward H. is a member of the

staff and faculty at the

(Alabama '44) has returned from field artillery school in

Fort Sill. Okla. . • •

• and is at Camp Hulen, Tex. . • . Second Lieutenant Joseph

P. Harle (Idaho

.tcnant Morris L. Heath (Dartmouth '42, Missouri '42) is

with the engineers in

is at Fort Bragg. N. C. . • •

mood G. Miller, Jr. (Davidson '46) is

Stanford University, Calif. . . . Lieuten-

ant Durwood E. Steed (North Carolina '28)

is at George Field, 111.... Lieutenant James

Parriott, Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan '45) is in

'ombing group at Grand Island, Nebr.

Private Roger S. Everett (Brown '47)

at Camp Blanding, Fla. . . . Lieutenant

Ralph T. Holsapple, Jr. (Virginia '45) is

at Camp Roberts, Calif. . . . Captain Albert

J. Krabbe (Purdue '34) is at Borden Gen-

eral Hospital, Chickasha, Okla. . . . Lieu-

tenant John A. Beall (Ohio Wesleyan '38),

m tdical corps, is at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.

Lieutenant Harold E. Eisele (Oklahoma

k) is in a medical composite company at

Camp Ellis, Ill. . . . The air force outfit

with which Captain Leonard M. Zubko

• France.... Private James F. Hudson (Mis-

souri 46) is Al.•Lieutenant Robert A. Tatlock

(Okla-

homa '43) and Lieutenant Edward H. Jones

(Ohio Wesleyan '38) are in the same bat-

talion on the Western Front. . . . Lieuten-

ant-Colonel Hamilton C. Eastman (Yale

'31) and Lieutenant-Colonel Robert J.

Wardle (Georgia Tech. '34) are at adjoin-

ing desks with an engineers' outfit in France.

Major Philip F. Partington (Yale '31) is

in the medical corps.... Private First

Class

Carl Eisen, Jr. (Lehigh '45) is

communi-

cations clerk in a B-24 Liberator with the

15th Air Force in Italy.. . . Private Junius

Earle Dunford, Jr. (Richmond '47) is with

an infantry outfit in Italy. . . . Lieutenant

Ralph E. Manning, Jr. (Florida '46) is in

the air forces at Buckingham Field, Fort

Meyers, Fla.

. tank battalion in France.

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