BRIGADIER GENERAL
E. R. CHRISMAN
L I EU T. C 0 L 0 N EL FLOYD HATFIELD
Fifty years of service is the enviable record of Idaho's "Grand Old Man" of military, Brigadier General E. R. Chrisman. Entering West Point in 1884, he graduated in 1888, and entered upon a colorful career, during which he experienced foreign service in the Philippines, and again in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. General Chrisman has seen Idaho's unit develop from a diminutive corps of one hundred to its present formidable strength of one thousand. Retired from active duty in 1932, General Chrisman still maintains an active interest in the corps by acting as advisory counsel and teaching military history and law. Ably directing the unit is Lieutenant Colonel Floyd Hatfield, transferred from the Presidio of San Francisco, California, to replace Lieutenant Colonel Allen Fletcher. The long and varied service he has rendered serves as a qualifier of his opinion that Idaho rates very favorably with any R.O.T.C. unit in the country. Colonel Hatfield, whose name appears on the general Staff Corps eligible list, is a graduate of the Infantry School, the Command and General Staff School, and the Arkansas Law School.
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