Acacia Triad - December 1943 - Vol. 38, No. 1

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VOLUME THIRTY-EIGHT • NUMBER ONE • OCTOBER-DECEMBER • 1943

The Cover THIS COVER CARRIES a European scene of other days, showing two dock hands waiting for the incoming tide bringing ships and welcome work. The etc~­ ing, "Between Tides at Dieppe," is by Stanley Anderson and is from the First International Exhibition of Etchers and Engravers, by courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago.

This Issue of the Triad As you will note, this issue of the TRIAD is a combination of the October and the December issues. This was done as a matter of economy and expediency but is not an indication of the future policy of the magazine.

Everything can't be blamed on the war, but in this case the work of organizing and printing the TRIAD has been retarded considerably by the shortage of printing help and editorial assistance and since publication had been delayed, it seemed the wise thing to combine issues. We ask your tolerance.

As a wartime economy, fewer photographs and plates will be used, and less time will be put into layout. Our war issues will emphasize news of men in service, doings of alumni in general, chapter news, and as complete a record of service men and addresses as is possible. You can assist us by sending in all news that comes to your attention. Much of what you see in the TRIAD is up to you and others like you.

Special features will not be discontinued, but they will be restricted considerably. The TRIAD is now being read by more men than ever before and it is b eing sent to all parts of the globe. Wherever you are, it is a fraternal handclasp from Acacia.

THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY .

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It was long an established fact that Acacia had no sister, or sweetheart, pin and that the official badge was to be used for this purpose. However, from the many demands from men in the Service for sweetheart pins, we have had the official jeweler design a smaller Acacia badge for this purpose.

The Acacia Sweetheart pin is an exact replica of the official badge in miniature and may be ordered from the nationa} offices. Price: $11.00.

President's Annual Report Acacia's national president Walter W. Kolbe, has prepared a report of progress for distribution to alumni of the Fraternity. The report is comprehensive of every phase of the activity of the Acacia Fraternity and is presented in three sections: Progress1939 to 1943; Financial Statements and Reports; and Postwar AcaCia. This report may be had from the national headquarters ·upon request.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Exodus From the West Coast

Thomas Uragami

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Honor Roll

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Oklahoma Explains Fraternity "Freeze" War Measure, John G. Hervey

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Preserving a National Shrine

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Prayer of Icarus

Joseph R. Wilson

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The Two Brothers

S. B. A. 10

Christmas 1943 .

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Amplifications and Ad Lib Thumb Your Nose at the Sergeant Acacians the World Over .

Jack Erwin 12 David O'Meara 13 14

Scudder Georgia 17

The Valley of Never

Acacia Sweetheart Pin

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A Tale of Little Red Riding Hood

Bob Anderson 17

Letters

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Pictures for an Acacia Album

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Doings in the Chapters

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Directory of Members in the Service

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Entered as second·class matter at the post office in Fulton, Missouri. The TRIAD is the official publication of the Acacia Fraternity, a general college fra· ternity, originally founded by and restricted to Masons, founded at the University of Michigan, May 12, 1904.

Published by The Ovid Bell Press, Inc. , 1201·5 Bluff Street, Fulton, Missouri, during the months of October, December, March and May . .

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Notices of change of address, including form 3578, subscription orders, and corr espondence of a business nature should be sent to Acacia Fraternity, 7001 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, or to the Acacia Fraternity, 1201 ·05 Bluff Street, Fulton, Missouri.

JOHN C. ERWIN, EDITOR 7001 N. Clark Street

Chicago, Dlinois

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Herschel L. Washington, 1322 Commerce Building, Kansas City, Mo.; Cecil H. Haas, 1109 Iroquois Street, Detroit, Mich.; Luther G . Andrews, Stuart Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

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Exodus From the West Coast

By TOM URAGAMI (The war has affected every American young man and here is a story of a young man of the sort who seldom comes to our attention-the American born of Japanese parents in this country. After learning to know him, we asked him to write this article of his experiences. They are not experiences we are likely to know about but they are certainly a part of the present American scene. It is a story of the evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast to eventual relocation centers, and from there . . . well, we'll let him tell his story.

(Tom Uragami was born twenty-six years ago in Los Angeles, California.

He was schooled there and had completed four years of a five-year course in architecture at the University of Southern California when the war began. He is a member of Tau Sigma Delta architectural fraternity, and Delta' Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity. One of his main interests is aviation and he has his private pilot's license.-ED.) Pearl Harbor! That was a tough day for all Americans to take. It was a day that has changed the lives of all of us to an incredible degree. Men, many of whom had never been out of their own locality, are now fighting a global war in all its far reaches. Those on the home front have changed their occupations and daily lives to an extent that even a "reasonable facsimile" of previous existence is not now possible in most cases. For those of us of .Japanese ancestry in this country, the ¡scene changed rapidly.

When the first harsh news of the treachery at Pearl Harbor reached us, many questions came into our minds because of our racial features and ancestry. What would happen to us?

Something would. Would we be given a chance to fight? Would we be interned? Certainly, we could not remain in -status quo.

I was born, raised and educated in Los Angeles, and had spent all my life there. My life, as far as I could determine, was just about that of every other Tom, Dick or Harry. However, since the war, there have been many radical changes necessitated by circumstance, and myself and others like m e were "moved east." I have read many accounts of our men fighting in the hell overseas and it is certainly not for us to gripe.

At the time of Pearl Harbor I was

employed by the architectural section of the U . S. Army Engineers Corps, which, at that time, was vitally engaged in preparing plans for buildings to be erected at military air ports and cantonments throughout the Southwest. It was my privilege to draw plans for many of the massive structures necessary to the operations of new air bases. Ironically enough, it was also my rare privilege to draw the plans for a temporary type barrack which was soon to become my new home-though I certainly did not know it at the time. I enjoyed my work anl was thoroughly engrossed in it, but by January of 1942 the air was tense and uneasy, and there were rumors of invasion and sabotage.

Most concerns employing Americanborn Japanese were letting them go.

I was dismissed the middle of February. Uncertainty became the keyword of our life; changes occurred rapidly; many of our neighbors had already le:ft; telephones had been disconnected; curfews had been established and we were confined within a certain radius of our homes. Finally the Western Defense Command issued the evacuation order, and disposing of our personal goods and property became our major problem.

Those evacuees who decided to sell rather than store their goods soon found that they could get little more than a fraction of the value of their possessions. Enterprising individuals, many of whom had come long distances, were buying up the goods of the evacuees on their own terms, knowing that they were forced to sell.

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Many of the evacuees, rather than sell the accumulations of a lifetime for only a few dollars, gave their goods away, frequently to charitable institutions. Our local nurseryman gave his entire property and stock to a neighboring soldiers' home. I was able to realize more from the sale of my car than my father was able to get for all his possessions and restaurant furnishings, which at least gave me some money with which to face the future.

Preparations for evacuation of the area were under way and everything was full of the hustle and bustle of packing and leave-taking. At first word went 'round that whatever baggage we could carry by hand was permissible. Well, my toothbrush was ready. Then word came around that anything which could be taken in an individual's car would be allowed.

Official orders soon clarified matters and we were permitted to move our be: longings either by government-provided vans or by our personal cars which was more than we had expected at first. By this time, receipts had been given us for our radios and cameras which would be returned to us at som~ future time.

On the morning of May 1, 1942, we greeted the neighbors at our designated rendezvous-for this was "E" day for our district. The sight was a conglomeration of people, old and young, interspersed with heaps of household articles. Old trucks and jalopies, the loss of which wouldn't matter much, were piled high with wash tubs, bed springs, cooking utensils, bedding, and all sorts of nondescript household goods. After we had all assembled we were given identification tags by the M. P.'s, and our racial exodus began, with a jeep and motorcycle escort. What a sight we must have made as we crept along the Arroyo Seco speedway. We were on our way to the Santa Anita Race Tracks, which had been converted into a temporary assembly center.

Fabulous Santa Anita! The Santa Anita of fame and many fortunes was now to become the home of 18,000 unprecedented visitors. Here the machinery and equipment for a small city was established. Existing buildings with the exception of the clubhouse, were all used. The grandstand served as an assembly place and for outdoor schoolrooms. The Turf Club offices housed the administration. The concourse, formerly used for pari-mutuel

The Triad, October-December, 1943 lines, was converted into a mess hall; backdrop . . . The Sunday evening the jockey grandstand was used for record concert hour . . . Fourth of religious and funeral services and the July festivities ... The Anita Funita locker rooms were altered for hospital carnival . . . Dancing on the sloping uses. The inner circle of the track be- promenade in front of the stands _ . . came a victory garden. The adminis- Talent show . . . Marshmallow roasts tration of the center consisted of a . . . And then, that crap game which Caucasian personnel whose function was raided. I heard about that the was to organize and direct the various next day! departments needed for the center Our living accommodations were unwelfare. The evacuees also partici- usual-especially for those who lived pated in the administration and other in the converted stables. Some said the attached duties. Professional men in familiar aroma of the horse was still normal life, such as doctors and law- existent in their quarters, which, I yers, continued to serve in their re- would say, was not unnatural! Other spective fields. Cooks and waiters quarters were constructed in the huge were recruited for the mess hall, and parking area. When we arrived, artists contributed their talents for groups from San Diego, San Pedro, posters and sign painting, and so on and other parts of Los Angeles who along the line. For professional groups had been sent on before were on hand the wage scale was set at sixteen dol- to greet us. Registration was a bedlars a month, twelve dollars for semi- lam, followed by medical examinaskilled, and eight dollars for other tions, luggage inspection for contraclasses. As work was set up, the band, and then assignments to bargreater percentage was employed in ' racks. Looking for our personal lugthis latter bracket, which included gage in the mountains of inspected hundreds of men and women engaged luggage was a big puzzle. After cartin weaving camouflage netting for the ing our things for a few blocks we Army, office workers, cooks, farmers, came to what we called "home" for a etc_ Since the center at Santa Anita while. This was the building which was only temporary, large-scale and turned out to be the barrack my pencil productive program was lacking, there- had designed several months before. by putting a great burden on the rec- The design had been altered only to reation department in order to keep facilitate prefabrication, otherwise the the majority from becoming restless tar-paper-covered rough sheathing of and idle. A recreational organization the walls and roof and the oil-treated was soon begun with a fellow from wooden floor remained the same. Each Notre Dame at its head. He was as- barrack was partitioned into six sisted by churchmen, Y. M. c_ A rooms, a few measuring 8 ft. by 20 ft., workers, teachers, Scout leaders, and and the others 12 ft. by 20 ft. Our many athletes, and soon a program family of six was assigned to a larger was under way.

Outdoor sport room. How we managed to put six leagues, boys' and girls' clubs, Scout cots, baggage, sundries, and ourselves troops, dances, and various games into this room is now almost a mystery were organized. This became one of to me. Suffice it to say that living conthe most important organizations in ditions were crowded and privacy, the center_ My working days were none. Cleanliness was also a problem spent in the design section of the rec- at the outset. For the first few months reational department, being one of the only showers were over a halffour former architectural and engi- mile away from us, and then there was neering students who comprised the only one shower for each thousand group. It was our job to draw plans residents. The community washroom of nurseries- and club houses which was a hundred yards' walk and then were to be constructed from salvaged you had to wait your turn. The mess scrap lumber_ We also remodeled ex- hall pad a seating capacity of three isting barracks and laid out playfields thousand but we still had to wait in on the inner circle of the Anita Chi- lines that measured blocks in order quita training track Many of our proj- to be served three times a day. Some ects were never realized, but in the became so tired they just went withmain we accomplished quite a bit with out eating. After dusk the evening was pierced with the incessant weavthe available materials.

There are many incidents which ing of searchlights, lighting up our stand out in my mind from these days. translucent screen windows as they There were days in which time did swept by. Young couples who sought seem to stand still and was heavy, but the cover of darkness for a nocturnal there were many others that were stroll certainly found it a little displeasant. I remember our young peo- concerting! I know. Despite the inconple's church services held in the grand- veniences necessitated by the bringing stand with the beautiful and inspira- of so many people together in a small tional Sierra Madre mountains as a area, I did not hear any utterances of

3 bitterness or rancor. The movement was decreed in a spirit of pioneering adventure and everyone learned the value of a sense of humor. I remember one night about three o'clock in the morning when a latrine had a line of ailing stomachs waiting to get in. The coincidence hit us all.

Towards the summer's end we were told to prepare for another move.

Needless to say, the thought of seeing sidewalks and billboards, railroad trains and other people of the outside world was welcome.

The plan now was to relocate small contingents, being moved by train at two-day intervals, to the newly built relocation centers located in inland states. Fortunately, residents of former districts were to be moved together. We were told that our camp was in Granada, Colorado, and on the morning of September 21 we were off on what was the first train ride for many of us, and also the first time out of the state of California. Our route was a devious one through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and then Colorado, and for three days and nights we stayed on the coaches. Looking out of the window on the fourth morning I saw the orderly array of our newest home.

The Granada relocation center was an area of a mile square enclosed by high barbed-wire fences, situated on a low hill just south of the little town of Granada, in southeastern Colorado.

It was quite barren and the scenery was uninteresting. There were frequent dust storms and I became better acquainted with some rattlesnakes and centipedes there. However, the sanitary facilities were much better than at Santa Anita, the housing was better, and there was less congestion. the camp was sectioned into thirty-six blocks, each block containing ¡ twelve barracks, a mess hall and laundry combined, and a large washroom building. These barracks measured 20 ft. by 120 ft. and were partitioned into six rooms, each accommodating a family.

These barracks were much more substantial, with inner wall paneling and ceiling. There . were regular doorsnot the barn. type as at Santa Anitaand the windows were glassed. The floors were surfaced with loosely laid bricks. Cots, quilts, and a coal stove were issued by the government. We built our furniture from emptied crates and other scrap lumber which resulted in some weird pieces.

The governing body of the center was the War Relocation Authority.

Both the personnel at Granada and in the assembly center were most friendly, courteous, and understanding. At Granada many of these administrators

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4 and educators ate and slept with us and there were many pleasant evenings of interesting discussion and ragchewing. Here the organization was similar to that at Santa Anita but more emphasis was placed on total employment and education. Each block became a community enterprise and the morale was improved. The wage scale was raised to nineteen dollars, sixteen dollars, and twelve dollars for each of the previously mentioned groups, and everyone was given a clothing allowance. Grade schools were established on a regular and accredited basis with full day education for the pupils. However, the real purpose of the relocation center was to relocate those of us into normal civilian life who were eligible to leave camp. The process was slow at first, for job offers were few, but gradually the machinery of the W. R. A . has oiled its gears until now many hundreds are being released weekly.

During the first few months the only outside employment available was the harvesting of the sugar beet crops. In order to help with the harvest a proper clearance was necessary and those who had been investigated by the F. B. I. took this opportunity. These men from relocation centers were instrumental in saving much of the region's crops.

Next, domestic jobs appeared on the help-wanted list. After the opening of W. R. A. offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and other mid-western cities, varieties of offers began to pour in. Meanwhile the Army opened enlistment for volunteers either to the military intelligence school or to the newly formed American-Japanese combat battalion.

I recently noted in a Chicago paper that an American-Japanese unit had pushed through to Benevento in Italy and in their baptism of fire had rescued twenty-two Yank paratroopers who were trapped behind the German lines.

In this rather odd but no longer unaccustomed environment of the relocation center, I became busy in an effort to keep occupied. The grey matter was becoming a little mouldy, I feared. In October I tried to re-enroll in school. Due to the conversions of many of our places of higher leaming to military purposes and study, 1 found much difficulty. It was imperative for a p erson in a relocation center who was seeking admission to college to negotiate with the National Student Relocation Council, an agency formed at the request of the War Relocation Authority to aid the relocation of evacuated students. Thanks to the tireless efforts of this council many were able to resume their studies. I was accepted at the Yale school of architec-

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Died in Action ROBERT PHELPS DAVIDSON California

WENDELL CLARK JOHNSON Cornell Died in Japanese Prison Camp

CARL AUGUST OSBERG Cornell

ROBERT WILLIAM KITTREDGE Northwestern

BILLY EDWARD CARSON Oklahoma

HENRY MARTYN DOUGHTY Oklahoma Died in Japanese Prison Camp

ARTHUR DEANE

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Died in Service EARL REXFORD BOYD Cincinnati

MILLARD MacDONALD BENNETT George Washington

ROBERT DENTON HUMBERT Ohio

War Prisoners of Japanese PHILIP HENRY FARLEY California

LYCURGUS WALDEMAR JOHNSON Colorado

MERLE STEELE ROBIE Cornell

WILLIAM CLINTON BLACKLEDGE Indiana

FREDERICK CLARK AMOS Kansas

GEORGE LUTHER VERITY Oklahoma

Reported Missing J. B. LONG Oklahoma

Awarded Navy Cross ELMER LLOYD MAUL

CARL AUGUST OSBERG

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ture, but military authorities could not ~~Freeze" clear that school for my attendance.

Finally, I negotiated with the Civil Service Commission in an attempt to be reinstated to my former job with the engineers, only in a mid-western

By JOHN G. HERVEY, Dean locality. I was also eligible for a Civil Service position as an airway and airOklahoma '23 port traffic controller and had also applied for that. After many weeks acRecently three universities have banned fra t ernities " during t he wa1¡," which complishing nothing to this end, I decided to take my chances in Chicago has occasioned much comment among fraternity people. This action was taken and asked the W. R. A. for a release. at Dartmouth College, the University of Oklahoma, and at Oklahom a A & M In order to get a release it was neces- College-frequently called Oklahoma State. Dartmouth has lon g had an ansary to have either a definite job offer tipat hy to college fmterniti es, but such action in the middle-west cam e as a suror an invitation from a hostel, usually p?¡ise. Below, Acacian John G. Herv ey, dean of the law school, acts as spokesman run by religious groups. I obtained ari for the University of Oklahoma and explains the situation on t hat campus. invitation from the Brethren Hostel in Chicago, and with $50.00 grant from s MANY of you may know, fra- Council, and it was only after the adthe government towards my new life ternity activities on this compus ministration had agreed to the fr eezand a G. I. one-way coach fare, I came . were frozen with the establish- ing order upon the occupancy of a to the "Windy City." ment of the first unit of service trainees. fraternity pr operty that the local I couldn't help feeling self-conscious The matter received careful considera- chapters unanimously agreed to make when I first arrived in Chicago. News tion, and it strikes me that it might be their properties available to the Uniof the beheading of Doolittle's flyers worth while to print something in the versity. It was the thought, both of the was in the current headlines and the TRIAD respecting our freezing order. fraternity groups and of the adminisfeeling was more anti-Jap than ever.

It is hardly accurate to say that we tration, that the activities of each fraFor some people it is hard to realize have placed a ban on fraternities as a ternity would cease at the same t ime, that while our faces are Japanese, war measure, or that "fraternities have and that the freezing order would everything else is thoroughly Amer- been discriminated against during this permit each and all to r esume activities ican. I would be as much out of place ¡war." We have accorded the same at the same time at some future date. in Japan as the average American citi- treatment to all fraternities on this Seven fraternity properties have zen-even more so, as I, being oriental, campus. We have required the with- been rented by the University subject would be ridiculed for my western drawal of no charter. At present fra- to that understanding, and to reways. With misgivings I entered the ternity activities have been frozen, and linquish the freezing order at the mostreets and crowded buses. However, this for reasons which we believe all ment would, we feel, be a breach of I soon found that the general public fraternity men can appreciate, al- faith with those groups and cause the here was not reactionary and every- though there may be a difference of University no end of trouble. thing turned out well. Within a few opinion as to the wisdom of the action I have visited numerous points in days I was employed as an engineer- taken. the state since the freezing order bedraftsman by a concern engaged in The University, unlike many sister came effective, and I know that it has producing materials for the armed institutions, has few dormitory facili- been applauded gener ally by the public forces. Ironically enough, a week later ties. It became apparent quite early and by fraternity men in particular in word came through that I could attend that the University would have to have Oklahoma. I have had many GreekYale and a few days after that I was the use of fraternity houses if a train- "letter men tell me that they thought offered a job with the Army Signal ing program of any size should come that this order was wise and necessary Corps at Fort Monmouth, N. J. I have here. As Fraternity Coordinator, it in view of the peculiar housing cir cumfound that Evanston, just outside Chi- was my task to determine the condi- stances existing at the University of cago, where I am now living, and the tions subject to which fraternity pr op- Oklahoma, whereas less than a half company for whom I'm working are erties would be made available to the dozen have protested the action taken. most friendly and understanding and University for the housing of prospecThere is another aspect of the local I will probably stay here for the dura- tive armed service trainees. Lengthy situation with which out-of-state fr ation. The fact that Evanston is closer discussions were had with the repre- ternity men may or may not be fato Minneapolis where my girl friend sentatives of various fraternities and miliar. Adjacent to Norman on the teaches in the Army Specialized Train- there was a decided reluctance on the north is the U. S. Naval Station at ing School, than points further East, part of any group to make its property which some 3000-4000 avia tion cadets didn't have much to do with my deci- available for the said purpose and at are being trained. Adjacent to Norman sion to stay here. Not much! the same time permit continued opera- on the south is the Naval Aviation In closing, I would like to define tions by its competitors. The local In- Technical Training Center at which three words commonly used in identi- terfraternity Council, therefore, re- more than 10,000 men are being t rained . fying the Japanese in the United quested that the administration freeze The city is filled with armed service States : fraternity activities the moment a fra- trainees. These Naval Training Bases Issei (pronounced ee-say). means ternity house was occupied by armed adjoining Norman create an acute "first generation." It refers to those service trainees. That suggestion was housing problem for us. Norman who were born in Japan and are alien made by the Interfraternity Council normally has a population of appr oxiJapanese in the United States. without the exertion of any pressure mately 15,000, but w ith the officer and Kibei (pronounced kee-bay) means whatsoever by the University admin- civilian personnel attached to the Bases returned to America. The word refers istration. The freezing of fraternity the population has doubled. You can to Japanese hom in this country (or activities was, therefore, suggested contemplate the resulting housing and invited by the local Interfraternity (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 17)

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Preserving a National Shrine The Story of the Persistent Efforts of George E. Nitzsche for an Independence Hall National Park

By JOSEPH R. WILSON Past National President of Acacia Franklin '06 half a century ago, I had fully appreciated the remarkable privi- tributions he made towards . achieving the privilege of studying law in lege they had in beginning their law the ultimate goal he had in mind, that the most historic group of build- studies in those historic shrines. My of having the federal authorities take ings in the United States. The Law own love and sentiment for those these buildings over, together with School of the University of Pennsyl- quaint buildings was shared by only adjacent blocks of city real estate, and vania, for a period of almost five years, a few. This may have been due to the establish a "United States Independfrom 1895 to 1900, was temporarily beauty and glamour of the new law ence Hall National Park." This he has located in various historic buildings at school building in West Philadelphia. done most cheerfully. I am, therefore, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Phila- My friend Nitzsche was the outstand- here giving as accurately as I can, the delphia, generally known as the "In- ing exception-he was all sentiment. result of various interviews with him. dependence Hall Group." Among the His store of anecdotes about the Uni- I am doing this in the hope that it may buildings occupied by the University in versity of Pennsylvania is probably stimulate and inspire others to accomthose historic surroundings were "Con- more numerous and richer than those plish and achieve things worth while gress Hall" and a building to the east of any other living alumnus. Because by sheer persistence.

It was about 1882 when Dr. Nitzsche of it, now partly replaced and restored of our mutual interest in the historic with an arcade ; also the "New Court environment of the law school from saw the State House, as it was known House," which even then was quite old, 1895 to 1900, I have asked him to tell in his youth, for the first time. When but since it was not part of the original something about his activities in con- a school boy at Nazareth, Pennsylgroup, was demolished years ago. All nection with those years of the uni- vania, his mother brought him to Philaof the buildings stood in Independence versity's history. Knowing of his life- delphia on a visit, which was quite a Hall Square, and the New Court House long interest in this group of American trip in those days. While the distance was on Sixth Street directly south of landmarks, and of his enthusiastic ef- was only seventy miles, it meant an Congress Hall. The city of Philadel- forts to acquire for them a setting ali-day journey, partly by stagecoach, phia, the owner of these buildings, adequate to their importance in Amer- and then by two railroads. When he permitted the university to occupy the . ican history, I requested from him also was taken to Independence Hall and buildings just mentioned until the new some material on suggestions and con- the Liberty Bell, he was thrilled, as law school building of the university in West Philadelphia was ready for occupancy. Because of unexpected construction difficulties encountered the new Law School building was' not ready for occupancy until February 22, 1900, when it was formally dedicated with most impressive ceremonies, international in character.

It was in those historic quarters at Sixth and Chestnut Streets that I met George E. Nitzsche, who was destined to become my life-long friend, and a founder of the Franklin Chapter of Acacia. When I entered the university he was the bursar and secretary of the law school. Incidentally, I became president of my class in my first year, and I have enjoyed the distinction of having been president for forty-three years-a record, I am informed, which has never been duplicated at the University of Pennsylvania. Although our class was the last class to have studied in Congress Hall, I doubt whether Law students of the University of Pennsylvania leaving the Independence Hall many of those who were students there

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group of buildings on Feb. 1, 1900, for the last time.

The Triad, October-December, 1943 are so many Americans, to have thus brought so vividly before him many of the episodes of the little school history book. However, I'll let him tell his own story: "When, in the spring of 1895," herelated, "I was ready to enter law school, I had the thrill of those childhood days all over again. I was delighted with the thought that I was to have the opportunity of studying law in the most historic group of buildings in the United States. Being a lad from the Pennsylvania Dutch country, whose great- great- great - grandfather had fought in :the Revolutionary War, and who had often rehearsed the events of history in his mind's eye, the glamour of this unusual opportunity impressed me greatly, and I may have been somewhat emotional, and perhaps a little too sentimental. Be this as it may, I have had many thrills during the past forty-eight years, when I have meditated upon those days.

"A year after I entered the law school, in the fall of 1896, to help defray expenses, I took part-time work as assistant to the dean, which gave me opportunities to explore every nook and corner of those historic quarters. After graduation I remained as secretary and also as bursar of the law school and was put in physical charge of the buildings under the direction of the dean, and I took the responsibilities of office most seriously. I recall the many hazards that confronted us daily, especially from the carelessness of students, who smoked at all hours and in all parts of those sacred buildings. They may not have been as thoughtless as I supposed, however, and some must have had considerable sentiment for them. Perhaps this was evidenced when, as I recall it, a hole having been made through the east wall of the second floor of Congress Hall-probably at the instigation of a committee in charge of the contemplated restoration -a number of students removed some bricks as souvenirs. While I would have valued one of those souvenirs I felt that it would be sacrilege to take one.

"On another occasion, our janitor called my attention to a large pile of coal dust in the cellar of Congress Hall, probably caused by a generation of janitors scraping coal from the pile with a rake as our janitor did. I called the contractor's attention to the fire hazard of that pile of coal dust, whereupon he ordered the pile screened, removed several loads of dust and, incidentally, gave the university several additional tons of coal. That pile of dust must have been the accumulation of several decades. Such problems and hazards confronted us frequently, and

7 I was glad to see this hazard thus removed. It is possible that I may have been unduly exercised at times but I loved those buildings and I felt my responsibility keenly and took no chances.

"I do not think that many of the students realized what an unusual opportunity they had in those revered halls ; certainly no other American law students studied law in quarters mor e hallowed. On the last day at Congress Hall, a photograph was taken of the students leaving those historic buildings for the last time. Thinking that this photograph might keep the memories of those days in the minds of these students, I had them offered for sale at cost, and but few orders were taken. Some time afterward, I solicited funds from the 700 or more men who had studied there, for the purpose of commemorating in bronze this episode in the history of Congress Hall. In this venture my friend, Don M. Larrabee, assisted me. He was one of the few students who did have a real interest.

However, the Philadelphia Art Jury refused to permit the tablet to be placed either upon the walls of the building or on the sidewalk, so I finally changed the wording of the tablet somewhat, had it cast, and the tablet now adorns the walls of the Law School Building of the University of Pennsylvania, where I trust it will remain indefinitely for the edification of the thousands of students who have studied and will study there. The inscription on the tablet is as follows: " 'The Law School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1900 occupied the historic building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets known as Congress Hall; also the building which stood directly south of it known as the New Court House. This tablet is erected by the members of the classes of the Law School of 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902, who cherish the memory of their student days spent in Congress Hall. In this Hall Congress sat from 1790 to 1800. Washing ton was inaugurated in 1793 and John Adams in 1797 as President of the United States; and Jefferson as V iceP?¡esident in 1797. Anthony Wayne, an alumnus of the University, was made Commander - in- Chief of the Army in 1792; and on December 19, 1799, John Marshall, then a member of C~ngress, in announcing the death of Washington offered the follow ing resolution: "That a Joint Committee of both Houses be appointed to report measures suitable to the occasion and expressive of the profound sorrow with which Congress is penetrated on the loss of a citizen, first in war, first in

peace, and firs t in t he hearts of his cou ntrymen ."'

Many of those who subscr ibed to this tablet have since become pr ominent in the affairs of the nation, city and state. Among them is a Justice of the Supreme Court of t h e United States; several judges in va r ious fed eral courts ; a number now in the Supreme Cour t of Pennsylvania, and in other states; and many in var ious county courts thr oughout the country.

"Scores of exciting episodes occur red during those five years at Sixth and Chestnu t Streets. Some I recall with pleasure-others with regrets and sadness. There were pr otests against faculty rulings, student mass meetings, class fights and riots, a spectacular demonstration against an order of the librarian obliging all students to wear coats in warm weather, mild protests against negro assistants, commotions caused by students becoming mentally unbalanced, expulsions for gambling, several suicides, the suppression of a law club for various irregularities, and some arrests. However, interesting though accounts of these incidents might be, they have nothing to do with Congress Hall except that they occurred there. In this connection, I recall a student patriotic mass meeting at the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898, when a large number of students volunteered for service. On this occasion there was a flag raising-the univer sity flag appearing on the top of the pole on the roof of Congress Hall, and then the newly adopted Cuban flag. Not long after, there came a riot call from the director of public safety, accompanied by a squad of city policemen, to ascertain why 'two alien flags' had been hoisted over a public building, especially without the Amer ican flag topping them. After much excitement this thoughtlessness on the par t of the well-intentioned students was corrected.

"Even before I entered the law school, I spent several year s of my youth in the vicinity of Independence Square. While preparing for law I was a clerk in a law office in the Drexel Building at Fifth and Chestnut, and almost daily my duties took me into one or more of the buildings known as the 'Independence Hall' group. Some of those buildings, as I stated before, have been demolished, or altered and restored. The building of the Amer ican Philo~ophical Society in Independence Hall Square, directly opposite the Drexel Building, was then partly occupied by various stock brokers a nd bankers-to me almost a sacr ilege, since it was the home of the oldest scientific society in America, organized in 1766 as the Junto by Franklin. In-

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8 cidentally, this was also the home of the University of the State of Pennsylvania for a few years after 1789, which, by the way, was the first University in the United States to be known as such. By special permission of the State then the owner of the Independence Hall group of buildings, the University used the Liberty Bell to call its students to classes. Well to get back to my clerkship, every day I had occasion to visit one or more of those buildings in which were located the various county courts, the prothonotary's office, etc. The U. S. Supreme Court Building, I think, was then occupied for various city purposesthe Director of Public Safety, and the Central Police Station which was in the rear basement; where I saw prisoners committed quite frequently. Even those prisoners, to my way of thinking, had reason to boast a little about the fact that they had the privilege of spending some time in a jail located in one of the most historic blocks of land in the country. Part of Independence Hall's first floor was then used as a museum of historic material, and the second floor as the quarters for select and common councils of Philadelphia.

I observed many occurences in that group of buildings which seemed like desecrations to me. My feeling of reverence for those historic monuments has never changed, and when they were finally restored it was a source of real happiness to me. I have always felt that they should be owned and operated by the United States and thus become a shrine in which every American citizen had a personal pride and interest.

"Of course, even prior to my own time, these buildings had been used for many private and public purposes, and later in 1918, it became the birthplace of the Czechoslovakian government. It was most gratifying to me, when nineteen years later, I received word from Colonel V . S. Hurban, the Czechoslovakian Ambassador, that President Benes had awarded me 'in consideration of your generous co-operation and active interest in behalf ¡ of our country,' the Czechoslovakia National Order of the White Lion, and that I was to receive the decoration from the Ambassador at a formal ceremony to be held on May 281937, in Independence Hall in front of the famous Liberty Bell. I value this recognition more highly than any other honor I have ever received.

"My interest in these landmarks has never ceased, and I have continually endeavored to keep their importance and significance before the public.

During my forty-eight years at the University of Pennsylvania, I used one

method which I think was effective. I volunteered my services to acquaint out-of-town students with the richness of Philadelphia in historic shrines. I also published and distributed special guide books, wrote many articles, and for more than thirty years organized groups of students and took them through Independence Hall and the many historic sites in Philadelphia and vicinity. These groups were frequently joined by the public, who were invited. 'Know Your City' groups were also organized at my suggestion by the old City Club and similar bodies. The object in arranging these itineraries was to give students and visitors, as well as native Philadelphians, an opportunity to get acquainted with the priceless historic shrines of Philadelphia. Many times I was asked why Philadelphia did not do more to publicize its treasures, as Boston and other historic cities did.

For instance, in back of Independence Hall, I would dwell upon the fact that Philadelphia had had two tea parties, the first one being sixty days before the Boston Tea Party, the latter being commemorated with a huge bronze tablet, and which has been featured in all American history books. But in Philadelphia there is nothing to remind the public about its tea party. I would also dwell upon the 'first public reading' of the Declaration of Independence on July 8 by John Nixon from a platform in Independence Hall Square erected for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus. Many times I have been asked why such incidents are not commemorated in some substantial permanent form, and it has been embarrassing to me to explain this indifference. Also hard to explain were questions about the Barry statue located in the Square which carries the inscription, 'Father of the American Navy.' Hundreds have told me that they had been taught that John Paul Jones was the 'Father of the American Navy.' Frequently I have been embarrassed because of the seeming lack of appreciation on the part of Philadelphians for their heritagea heritage which many of our fellow citizens take as a matter of course.

"During the thirty or more years of conducting these historic pilgrimages, I made friends from all parts of the world. Many interesting and humorous incidents occurred on these trips, but I shall here cite only one of them.

During the summer of 1928 or 1929 I was arrested at Seventh & Market Streets where stood the house in which Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. On the steps of the Penn National Bank, then occupying the site, I explained to a large

group of students the historic significance of that spot. A policeman who had joined the group for a few minutes (probably thinking that I had something to sell) told me that I was under arrest 'for giving misleading information'-according to the newspapers The policeman proceeded to tell the students that what I said was 'all bull,' and that 'the Declaration was written and signed in Independence Hall, two and a half blocks from here.' In all events, the policeman would listen to no explanations from me, so I asked one of my Philadelphia students in the party to take the group to Independence Hall where I hoped to join them again in half an hour. I was then hustled in a patrol wagon to a local station, but someone had evidently notified the central police office of the incident, since Mr. Mills, the superintendent of Philadelphia police. ordered me brought to him when I arrived at the local station. After explanations, he gave the cop a severe curtain lecture, tore up the charges, and ordered him to get a taxi to drive me back to Independence Hall, where I arrived just about thirty-five minutes after my arrest. Of course, this episode was much improved upon by the local papers and an Associated Press dispatch resulted in letters from friends in all parts of the country.

"Many times during the last thirty years-in fact almost ever since the law school left Congress Hall in 1900 -have I explained to students and visitors the possibilities of giving the Independence Hall group of buildings a more dignified setting. From 1924 to 1926 Philadelphia passed up a splendid opportunity of accomplishing this during the construction of the Delaware River Bridge. It would have been comparatively easy and simple then to have condemned the three city blocks up to Chestnut Street and thus have given both the bridge and Independence Hall a more dignified approach. With this idea in mind and realizing that the city owned the Independence Hall group of buildings, I proposed that the buildings and the suggested approach be taken over by the Federal Government as a 'United States Independence Hall National Park.' I had been actively interested in such a proposition for years, had written many newspaper articles, produced and published drawings, and also addressed various gatherings.

These proposals enjoyed considerable publicity in the press, and I felt that persistence in such tactics might bring about the object I had in mind. Again and again I was discouraged by those who maintained that the city would never relinquish its ownership in Inde-

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PRAYER OF ICARUS from Lauro

de Bosis

Soul of the world, Force of the cosmos, Unknown Whom we revere, this heart, I offer thee!

Grant that I follow my Guardian Spirit through the sky, and equal with deeds of life, the speed of thought.

Thou Who seest all things in the immeasurable sea of the future, if it must be that I fall, grant that my blood be forever fertile and live again in every age_ Grant that my name be the pledge of courage, that my sons dare more than the unchanging laws allow; grant that this way to which I consecrate myself be one day the common heritage of the redeemed sons of men; and if I die, may this my death seem to the living far more beautiful than any life they know.

Through me may love of great deeds burn more strongly in them; may they yearn with' more ardor to vanquish all that seems forbidden to the impetuous will of man.

0 God, Eternal, I consecrate to Thee, in this day of glory, myself, and all those who, at the price of life, shall carry forward toward the Holy City the sacred flame of thy Spirit.

Father, find on my wings!

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10 pendence Hall. In various ways I tried to bring to the attention of the city authorities the fact that, if it were taken over by the Federal Government, it would relieve the city of a large annual budget for maintenance, upkeep and repair, besides improving that entire section of Philadelphia. I finally got in touch with a number of Congressmen, had several interviews and entered into a large con-espondence with them, as I also did with representatives of the Department of Interior. After making several trips to Washington, I was at last assured by a Feder al official that if Philadelphia would do its part, and if some philanthropic citizens would co-operate, there would be a likelihood of my dream of years becoming a reality. Somewhat later I again visited Washington with a committee of citizens and various members of the Board of Trade and had a conference with other officials of the Department of Interior, which proved to be the most hopeful and encouraging meeting up to that time. I felt certain that at last the movement had been launched.

The Board of Trade, I learned, had done a great deal of planning for the section east of Independence Hall.

However, so far as I knew, the thre~ city blocks in front of Independence Hall, in which I was primarily interested, had not been included, but it was finally agreed to take that section into consideration also, which to me was gratifying. I felt that the three or four blocks east of Independence Hall Square and the three city blocks to the north, with Franklin and Washington Squares, might become the nucleus of a "United States Independence Hall National Par k" covering eight to ten city blocks, which might ultimately give the city a larger National Park than we had dared to hope for. However, nothing definite was ' done. Some years after, when the city had a large deficit and no ready funds, I suggested, rather facetiously, that the city sell the Independence Hall group of buildings to the Federal Government, and thus enable the city to discharge some of its obligations, and at the same time save the large annual budget for maintenance and also enhance the beauty of the city. Unfortunately this was somewhat garbled by the press and the radio, an.d the mayor, stated in an interview that In: dependence Hall was not for sale, and that 'Nitzsche will next want to sell my sh irt.'

"As a matter of civic pride, I made a number of surveys of the properties in the three city blocks in front of Independence Hall, got the assessed values of various years of the properties involved, analyzed them, and had

The Two Brothers This was the first-born, and the Nation's pride, _ Eloquent, charming, destinate for power, A kingly presence that contrived to hide, A subtle softness. 'Til decision's hour, How could they know, those ones who led the State, He was too frail to bear an Empire's weight?

This was the second son, the quiet one, His speech uncertain, and his manner shy, His Candle dim beside his brother's Sun; The great ones of the realm would pass him by With casual deference as ¡he stood apart.

How could they know that England was his heart?

Until the darkness came, who judged aright This candle which illumines England's night?

S. B. A.

several drawings made of suggestions to transform the section into a simple but dignified setting and have it dedicated as 'The United States Independence Hall National Park.' Aside from the historical and sentimental features of such a plan and its many advantages to the city, I pointed out how it would attract tourists from all parts of the world. I contrasted my suggestion for Philadelphia with what was accomplished at Williamsburg, Virginia, pointing out that the total cost would be only a fraction of the cost of restoring that Colonial landmark. The late Dr. Seneca Egbert, who went over the plans with me, made a suggestion of having the thirteen original states finance the project by purchasing the three city blocks and have each state erect thereon reproductions of their most historic buildings. In this I agreed, but suggested that it would be more effective to have such buildings erected on the east side of Fifth and the west side of Sixth, and not within the three city blocks in question.

"It has often occurred to me what splendid results might have been accomplished if the millions of dollars spent on the Sesquicentennial of 1926 had been used for bringing into being the suggested Independence Hall National Park. It probably would have cost less than half as much and such a park would have .given the city and the nation a permanent memorial of its 150th Anniversary of the birth of the nation-something that would have given pleasure and inspiration to countless future generations of Americans for all time. Today the Sesquicentennial is only a sad memory to most ~of us oldsters.

"After all these years of hope and anticipation, I finally learned in 1942 that there was a movement on foot to organize an Independence Hall Association for the purpose of preserving that venerable group of buildings, as well as others, and improving their surroundings. When the Association was finally perfected and a charter granted, I realized that, with the cooperation of most of the city's patriotic organizations represented in its membership, the dream of almost half a century was now on its way toward becoming a reality. This was apparent when Judge E. 0. Lewis, president of the Association, appeared before the City Council on December 21, 1942, and urged the Council to authorize the mayor to sign an agreement submitted by the Department of the Interior. The authorization was given and later the agreement was signed in Independence Hall itself. While this made it a national shrine, the city still retains ownership. However, the group is now under the joint control and operation of the United States_and the city.

Although the agreement may be ended at any time on a year's notice, it is doubtful whether that right will ever b.e exercised by either party. The important fact is that it became the first definite step toward accomplishing the greater dream of a 'United States Independence Hall National Park' which will, I trust, include the three city blocks in front of the Hall, and perhaps later the Delaware River Bridge Plaza, Franklin Square, the two blocks beyond which would connect it with Spring Garden Street and thus with Franklin Parkway, and ultimately some of the blocks and historic buildings east of the Independence Square and probably everything down to the Delaware River, as once planned by the Board of Trade. These plots might become a National Park of almost 150 acres. Another suggestion that might foster this goal is the one I made when the World War II started in 1939, of having the Peace Conference in these historic quarters, and at the same time there organizing the "United States of the World." This suggestion has attracted wide attention in the press and over the radio and has been taken up by such men as A. D. Quaintance of the Colorado Bar whose suggestions have appeared in the Congressional Record, and who states that Independence Hall is the place to organize a world patterned after our own United States.

"Whatever is done with these old landmarks will undoubtedly be a credit to the nation and to Philadelphia, and, let's hope, to the world. It is an honor (Continued on page 21)

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Amplifications and Ad Lib Lay That Pistol Down Riding on the tail of more important news announcements in the month of October came the disclosure that " Little Caesar" Petrillo had decided to allow certain recording companies to make records. Of all things! Agreements were signed and the boys who :flashed their union cards were back in the studios and ready for work.

The first recording under the new agreement was made by Bing Crosby, which is all right by us, but the selection brought on an attack of melancholy. You've probably guessed it" Pistol Packin' Mama."

A Finer Mental Screening Army and Navy officials are still trying to solve the p~oblem of screening out potential psychiatric cases to a better degree, for mental trouble continues to be the greatest single cause of disability discharges. The present system is also open to criticism because a good many acceptable men are being rejected because of lack of real selectivity in the methods used in the psychiatric examinations at induction centers.

Selective Service is now installing a new system of compiling medical, educational, and social records of all men who are presented for induction, which will enable examiners to have a better background on mental case histories in particular.

Cold Hands A young married couple we know has just returned from their honeymoon in Canada, where they had their share of experiences, ·one of which had to do with a Scotchman. Now very seldom do we run onto a Scotchman in kilts here in the States, so few of us are prepared for what may happen.

Our friends first met their kilted Scottie in the bar of their hotel and his tones were ah·eady more than conversational. Lear ning that they were on their honeymoon, he started things' off to a roaring start by asking if they had any children. He furthermore volunteered that he had the formula for a happy marriage, himself being a confirmed bachelor. Extending their r adius, they soon lost sight of him and didn't see him again until much later in the evening, when they entered an elevator.

In the elevator was a small group of people ranged around the central weaving figure--the Scotchman. As the group ascended to their various floors, none was quicker to notice the chilly quiet than the clansman. Looking about him he suddenly ducked and gathered his skirts to his burly knees: - "Whoops!" he said, "Somebody's got cold hands! "-and walked out onto his floor, leaving an elderly lady blushing furiously in his wake.

W afflebottoms An organization in Washington that is recent to the current scene is the Waffiebottom Club, so named because its businessmen members wait long hours on cane-seated chairs in government anterooms.

HJohnny Got a Zero" Demaree Bess may have had something there when claiming that the Axis, as far as Germany and Japan were concerned, was just a myth.

Some weeks ago, London listeners to a German propaganda radio broadcast were amazed to hea·r a voice singing in English, "Johnny Got a Zero." Perhaps the Germans aren't up on the American vernacular of "zero," but in any event should consider Tojo and allow him to save face.

Floors Please The help shortage is reflected in many things these days and even the toniest stores are having their troubles.

We .heard that this happened during the Christmas rush at Marshall Field's but we'd hate to be pinned down to it.

Well it seems that there has been quite a turn-over among the elevator girls and lately some of them haven't had quite enough time to go through the finishing school process. We'd have liked to have known this one, for rea-

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sons that are obvious, and would be willing to bet that she carried a little pearl-handled job in her purse.

Arriving at the top floor, our operator began enlisting passengers for the descending trip. Among them was an imperious dowager of the usual type for this kind of story, and as the elevator descended and stopped at each floor, she would ask if it were the main floor. The girl bore up under this interrogation and finally arrived at the qlain floor, whereupon the dowager asked, "Is this the main floor?" The girl swung around, hand on hip, shedding what restraint she may have had; -"And what the hell do you think it looks like? Du Barry's boudoir?"

Maybe Jeff Davis We don't want to involve ourselves in any political implications, but there is a story we feel urged to pass on to you. A certain salesman was calling on a gentleman of the Old South and before going very far in his conversation, asked: "You are a Democrat, aren't you, sir?"

"Why, sir," replied the old gentleman, "Mah granpappy was a Democrat and mah pappy was a Democrat, and Ah've been a Democrat all mah life. Ah'll have you know Ah voted for Roosevelt the first time. Ah voted for Roosevelt the second time, and the last election Ah voted for Roosevelt the third time. What's more, Ah'll probably vote for him a fo'th time. But Ah tell you, sir, if them damnyankees don't nominate someone else soon, this hyar country's goin' to the dogs."

Cigarettes vs. Cornsilk All our resolutions to cut out smoking in the past have proved rather futile, but now we see where, resolution or not, we will have to. The Department of Commerce has forecast that cigarette manufacturers will receive only 58 per cent of the tobacco they used in 1942. However this may not mean that big a cut as manufacturers can draw on their warehouse supplies; and of course, we can expect an addition of "something new." Some of us may even resort to cornsilk.

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Christmas Diet Vincent Starrett has called our attention in one of his reviews to one of Alexander Woollcott's best contributions to seasonal lore in his posthumous volume, Long, Long Ago. It is the comedy of two troupers who, on Christmas day, found themselves almost penniless. They did, however, still have their hotel room and decided that with care they could manage there for a while longer. A real Christmas dinner being out of the question, the male member of the duo sneaked in a sausage and a loaf of bread under his topcoat. Then they ordered up soup from the hotel kitchen because it came with salt and pepper and some nice little pats of butter, and on all this t.hey dined royally.

Later, when they asked for their check, the waiter replied, with an 0.

Henry finish, "There are no checks tonight. This is Christmas and the guests are allowed to order anything they like. It's all on the house. Are you folks on a diet?"

13 Considering that many friends Are practically due, The whole thing now on me depends To tell them what to do.

No doubt you all would rather not Be made to march all day, That's why I write this parting shot ~o use as well you may.

The first day that you get to camp You'll meet a man with stripes Who'll make it clear that he's the champ Of military gripes.

Don't whisper to the guy behind, "He won't get tough with me."

Just keep this good advice in mind, And simply wait and see.

For very soon the sergeant will Attempt to make you work, And then you enter for the kill And call the guy a jerk!

Of course you'll take him by surprise, He won't know what to do, And then you tell the other guys He can't get tough with you.

You wake up in the guard house and Your chin feels very sore.

You make a vain attempt to stand ..

You land upon the floor.

So while the other fellows drill And sweat and march around, You simply lie there very still, In comfort on the ground.

The New Way We just heard about a boy who went into a draft induction center and had to take off his clothes and was halfway through the examination before he could explain that he had just been trying to deliver a telegram.

(David has gone in search of his Goliath, but we hope he took more than a sling-shot. Our rhymster and cheerful assistant on this and other issues of the TRIAD has at last packed off the wife and child and has just entered the service of our country. We'll miss David O'Meara and his good editorial assistance and would have liked to have given him a send-off that would have floated a battleship. We don't think he's going to like sergeants-he says zebras have them too--and as a parting shot we present his flip of the hand.-En.)

Thumb Your Nose at the Sergeant There comes a time in each man's life, If not yet thirty-eight, When even if he has a wife The draft board sets a date.

Of course you may consider this A trifle too extreme, But though it's not civilian bliss, Still, brother, you can dream.

I simply offer this advice To show you how you can Avoid the part that isn't nice In our enlistment plan.

I've shown on no authority A new and easy way But, gentlemen, please don't quote me, I just got my 1-A. DAVID O 'MEARA

Cloud Control Requested A senator in Washington is probably forming an investigation committee as a result of a letter he received from one of his constituents. This fellow has a victory garden, it seems, which he has tenderly nutured from a waste plot to a potential land of milk and honey. He has sweated over the hard soil and has invested a substantial part of his earnings in fertilizers, seeds, tools, and what-not-to say nothing of impending doctors' bills from overwork. All this seems to have been to no avail. The only water the plot had seen so far was from a:n adjacent well.

There had been no rain and the wouldbe son of the soil was indignant.

Under other Presidents we had rain, especially under Coolidge and Hoover, but the fellow registered his protest against a rainless administration. Poor cooperation. When last heard from, the senator was knee-deep in the files of t he Department of Agriculture, trying to locate the Co-ordinator of Cloud Control.

Heigh Ho! Play Ball (A recent New Y01¡ker has called our attention to the game of basebroll as played in England. The following is the London Times' man's report of two baseball contests, one of them a no-hit game, for his newspaper.)

BASEBALL AT WEMBLEY

THROWING AND CATCHING FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

More than 21,000 people watched the two baseball games played at Wembley Stadium on Saturday in aid of the British Red Cross.

In the professional game the United States Air Force beat the United States Ground Forces by one run, scored in the second innings, to none. In the amateur game that preceded it the United States Army (Central Base Section) beat a Canadian Forces team by six runs to three.

The loudest applause of the afternoon greeted the massed pipe bands of the Canadian Army who, with a variety of plaids swirling in the breeze, were a really magnificent sight. They were accompanied by a small white dog of uncertain origin who was completely at home with them.

But the baseball in the second game was the best that has been seen in this country for some years. The crowd took it much more kindly than they had taken to the American football played in London in May, partly because although many of the finer points were naturally lost to them they could follow the game more easily, and partly because the action of the game flowed more smoothly. The pitching was too good for the batting, but what mostly impressed visitors was the astonishing accuracy of the throwing and catching. With one possible exception every catch in. both games was held-and held moreover, with nonchalant ease. One other point was the almost nervous anxiety of players and substitutes to keep on throwing the ball.

They had been at it in practice since soon after breakfast, but when in the game itself a batter was out the fielders drew in and the ball was flung from one to another with lightning rapidity before being tossed to the pitcher.

The pitching of Sergeant Brech for the¡ Air Force was the feature of the game, though one feels that the Ground Forces, who wore dark blue uniforms, may have been somewhat dazzled by their opponents,. who, when they were gathered together, looked like a bed of geraniums in full. bloom.

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14 tion of a blast furnace plant at Duluth, Minnesota; a blast furnace and coke oven plant at Provo, Utah; and a blas.t furnace, open hearth power plant and rolling mill at Monclova, Mexico.

Brother Seaver has served on the Board of Governors of the University of Michigan Club of Chicago. He has a son, James P., now a junior in the University of Michigan Engineering College.

Acacians

the World Qyer

Brings

Jap

Souvenirs

Lt. Frederick W. Luebke, Michigan '39, was home on leave recently after spending a year as a Navy fighter pilot in the Pacific. He brought home with him several souvenirs from encounters with the Japs-and he really did meet up with the Japs. He has a long, long story to tell, but some of his outstanding experiences include being on the Hornet at the time of attack, raids on Jap strongholds in the Pacific, attacks on the Tokio Express, bringing reinforcements to Guadalcanal, and others. He was grateful for the opportunity to rest and relax before going on to Lee Field, Jacksonville, Florida, as an instructor in advanced combat tactics.

Executive Promotion Jay J. Seaver, Michigan '12, has been elected Vice-President of Day & Zimmerman, Inc., Engineers, with main office at Philadelphia, and branch offices in Chicago and New York. He began his career as a draftsman in 1912 with Arthur McKee and gradually worked up to the position of VicePresident of Arthur McKee & Company. In 1928, he joined H. A. Brassert & Company of Chicago, as VicePresident, where he remained until 1940. He then became associated with Day & Zimmerman, Inc., and went to Burlington, Iowa, where he had charge of the construction of a shell-loading plant being built for the Government.

Last year his company expanded into the design and construction of steel and iron plants with Mr. Seaver in cha rge. Within the last year he has supervised the design and construe-

Elected to Opera Society Committee Charles A. Sink, Michigan, '08, President of the University Musical Society, has been informed of his election as a member of the Medal Award Committee of the American Opera Society.

The award involves the selection of a recipient of the David Bispham Memorial Medal. The Society, organized in 1920, is purely cultural, and during these years fifty-nine medals have been presented to composers of Amer~ ican opera. Others selected for the honor include Dr. Karl Krueger, newly-elected Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Deems Taylor, and other nationally known musical figures.

ard Oil Co. (New Jersey). After January 1 he will be located permanently in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, in the head office of that company.

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Cecil H. Haas, Kansas '26, is with the office of Chief Council Bureau of Internal Revenue. He represents the government in the trial of tax cases before the Tax Court, for the offices of the Technical Staff of the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Columbus, Louisville and Cincinnati. He is located at 2920 Carew Tower, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lieut. Richard W. Evans, Northwestern '34, is now stationed at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Va. He and his wife are the parents of a son born recently, so they now have a boy and a girl in their family.

Base Executive Officer

Chapter Eternal CARL EDWIN LADD Cornell '12

Carl Edwin Ladd, Cornell '12, Dean of Agriculture at Cornell University, died at his home in Ithaca on July 23.

He had served as a member of various government commissions and committees and was well known in the field of agriculture. In 1928 he was an adviser in agricultural economics for six months in England, and had traveled extensively. He was the author of several books and many articles on farm problems, and edited several publications.

He is survived by his wife at Rolling Hills Farm near Freeville, N. Y., a daughter and two sons.

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Perry W. Shrader, Kansas '20, is now a member of the law firm of Gage, Hillix, Shrader, Hodges, Cowherd & Phelps, Bryant Building, Kansas City, Missouri, ¡ Gage, the senior member of this firm, is the present mayor of Kansas City. Perry devotes most of his time to federal and state tax matters.

He has two daughters, the elder being a sophomore in college.

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Merrill W. Haas, Michigan '32, is Chief Geologist for the Eastern Division of Venezuela for the Creole Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Stand-

LT. COL. OLIN G. BELL

Oklahoma '20 Lt. Col. Olin G. Bell, Oklahoma '20, Base Intelligence Officer at Peterson Field, Colo., for over a year has been made Base Executive Officer replacing Lt. Col. Ellsworth French, who was transferred to another base. 1st Lt. Collins C. Clark, former assistant to Colonel Bell, was named to succeed him as Base Intelligence Officer.

Enlisting in the army in May, 1917, Colonel Bell was selected for officer training. He served in the Inspector General's Department throughout World War I, and in 1919 was retired to inactive duty with the rank of captain. Returning to active duty with the army air force in June, 1942, he attended military intelligence school be-

The Triad, October-December, 1943 fore reporting at Peterson Field, where he was assigned to duty as Base Intelligence Officer_ A graduate of both Oklahoma and Cornell universities, Colonel Bell holds degrees in geology and is a member of several scientific, geological, and engineering societies. After teaching for a time at Cornell University, he accepted a position with the Humble Oil and Refining Company of Houston, Tex. In connection with this work he traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico, and South America.

He lived in Mexico for a number of years.

Permanent residents of Houston, Colonel Bell and his family are at present making their home at G reen Mountain Falls, northwest of Colorado Springs.

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Army Air Crash Victim

Sheets of Gold The home-front members of most of the Acacia chapters seem to be taking their work quite seriously and are doing a good job. Supplementary news letters are being sent out to the men in the service and recent graduates of chapters by enterprising individuals, and the response from the fellows is terrific. -These letters are crammed full of news of fellows overseas and elsewhere, and are circulated mostly to recent actives. Most of them are just mimeographed, but they are sheets of gold to most of the fellows. This is one of the finest ways we know of keeping up that "tie that binds."

Ohio State has pretty much established Ned Will as its central correspondent for that chapter, and he is doing a job that is much appreciated.

At Northwestern, Walt Kolbe, Bill Ross, Roy Clark, and some of the other old stand-bys are getting out The Wildcat Acacian which is rivaling the alumni publication, the Purple Pyramid. Washington S tate has issued an "irregular publication" through the efforts of Boyd Mills and Dick Hampton at 1903 Alpha Road, Pullman, Washington. It is just what the fellows have wanted.

Other chapters are undoubtedly putting out similar publications, but as yet none have come to our attention.

The National Offices are always glad to receive copies of these publications, as there is much news in them which can be used in the TRIAD. Help us by keeping the news going out and coming in.

Stanley C. Herold, Stanford '09, is consulting petroleum geologist and engineer in Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in 1926.

A / C ROBERT D. HUMBERT Ohio State '44

Aviation Cadet Robert D . Humbert gave his life in training to be a pilot for the Army Air Forces when his training plane crashed near the Chickasha, Okla., airfield on September 27.

H is parents received word of the crash a few hours before they were to have boarded a train to visit him.

Bob enlisted in the Air Corps on October 19, 1942, while in his sophomore year at Ohio State University, and was called on January 28 of this year. He received his basic training at Keesler Field in Biloxi, Miss., and was at Pre-flight at the University of Alabama. From there he went to Classification at Kelly Field and Randolph Field at San Antonio, Texas. He was assigned to the W & B Flying School at Chickasha for his primary training and was to have received his wings next March.

Major General G. C. Brant in writing to his father, said: "General H. H. Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, has directed that the enclosed wings be presented to you in honor of your son, Aviation Cadet Robert D . Humbert, who gave his life in training to become a pilot in the Army Air Forces. This insignia would have been his badge of achievement on the completion of his training.

"You can rightly share the pride which would have been his on receiving these wings. The Army Air Forces present them in honor of his memory."

Bob was born in Canton Ohio October 6, 1922, and was grad~ated from the Middlebranch High School there,

with honors, in 1940, where he had been voted the most outstanding senior. He served on the student council and was a member of HI-Y Club.

At Ohio State, Bob joined the Acacia Fraternity and was made captain of his pledge class and on his initiation became one of the outstanding leaders of the chapter. In college he was active in campus affairs, where he was popular and well-liked. He was considered the best of his class of 250 cadets at the W & B Flying School at Chickasha and was the first to solo with only 7% flying hours to his credit.

At the time of the accident, he was Cadet Lieutenant in charge of his own squadron.

Robert Humbert is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D . Humbert of 3115 West Tuscarawas St., Canton, Ohio ; a sister, Mrs. Helen Weaver; and a brother Corporal Jack Humbert, now in Sicily. This Acacian has achieved undying honor and esteem from his brothers and all who knew him.

We Congratulate Oscar C. Hull, Michigan '13, who recently observed his sixtieth birthday.

He has been prominent in Detroit legal circles for the last thirty years, and was chapter advisor at Ann Arbor for a number of years.

He is a newly elected member of the Detroit Library Commission, past president of the Michigan State Bar Association and Detroit L egal Aid Bureau, former member of the Detroit Board of Education, former member of the executive committee of the American Bar Association and member of the Michigan Legislature in 1929 and 1931.

Mr. Hull was born July 22, 1883, at El Dorado, Kan. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1909 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1913. In 1914 he began the practice of law in Detroit. He received an honorary LL.M. degree from the University of Michigan in 1936.

He is a senior partner of the law firm of Oxtoby, Robison & Hull, which he joined in 1921, and a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, D etroit Yacht Club, Detroit Club and Ingleside Club.

He resides at 915 Longfellow Detroit Mich. ' ' The job that American colleges are doing in developing technical skills and leadership for the Army through the Army Technical Training Program was praised today by Maj . Gen. James A. Ulio, Washington, D. C., adjutant general of the United States in a program during which he and B~ig.

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16 Gen. Clayton S. Adams, Illinois '23, director of the Army postal service, were awarded honorary master of arts degrees by Lake Forest College.

The degrees were conferred by Dr. Ernest A. J ohnson, new president of the college, in the First P resbyterian Church, Lake Forest. The ceremony was attended by Army and Marine Corps officers, 400 uniformed men students at the college who are taking the A.S.T.P., and the girl student body.

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The announcement of the engagement of Lt. (j.g.) George A. Heinemann, Northwestern '40, to Jacqueline Holsinger was made by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester M. Holsinger, of 923 Jackson, River Forest, Ill.

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Especially in these times it is with interest that we note the recent initiation held at the Indiana chapter.

They initiated seventeen men. Congratulations and fraternal orchids to you, Indiana, for such good spirit.

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Lieut. Russell F . Becker, Illinois '31 , has been given a leave of absence for the duration by the Bowman Dairy Company, Chicago, and is now on duty as Navy Market Officer for the Eighth Naval District, New Orleans, La.

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Cor p. William James Neill, Northwestern '42, has announced his engagement to Ensign Mary-Judith Fort.

They are both from Evanston-way but met in Washington, D. C. Bill is in the Courier Service, stationed at Fort Myers, Va.

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William Melgaard, Northwestern '39, and his wife have announced the birth of a son, Peter Christian, on last August 18. Two other Northwestern Acacians have also become fathers lately. Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Morton on October 7, a son, John Elliott Morton. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spunner Wilson on July 27, a second daughter, Gwendolyn Ann.

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Major George E. Nitzsche Franklin '06, has been appointed b~ Captain M. W. Bradley, of California, as a member of the National Valley Forge Memorial Committee, of which General A. A. Fries, of Washington, D . C., is National Chair man. The purpose of the Committee is to erect a permanent memorial, sponsored by the "National Sojourners" at Valley Forge Park, in Pennsylvania. The "Sojourners" is a national body of Commissioned Army and Navy Officers of the United States, who are also Masons.

Congressmen Lose Spelling Match The congresswomen can outspell the congressmen. Four of them carried off the honors recently in an old-fashioned spelling bee conducted by Speaker Sam Rayburn at the National Press Club.

Rep. Albert Gore (D., Tenn.) was bumped off on "satellite" and so was Rep. Noah M. Mason (R. , Ill.) before Rep. Clare Luce (R., Conn.), first of the women to fall, slipped on "supersede." The author-playwright insisted there was a "c" in it, and the men put three "t's" in satellite.

Rep. Mike Mansfield (D., Mont.) missed "acquiesce" (leaving out the "c" ). Our own Acacian, Rep. Francis Case (R., S. D .) , Northwestern '21 , muffed "colossal," putting two "l's" in the middle. Rep. Jessie Summer (R., Ill.) and Rep. Margaret Smith (R., Me.) breezed through such tough ones as "ichthyology," but then both fell down on "Albuquerque." They got the idea it was "Alber--." Rep. Frances Bolton (R., 0.) spelled "postscript" with only one "s."

The final count was nine mistakes for the men and eight for the women.

Major Karl C. Leebrick, California '11, later of Hawaii, the Far East, Syracuse, and president of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, is now with the Specialists Reserve Army and has just completed a course of Military Government at Fort Custer, Michigan.

He is now stationed with a similar class at the University of Chicago. He may be addressed at the Blackstone Mansions, 5514 S. Blackstone, Chicago, Ill.

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Loiel S. (Pete) Ryan, Jr., Northwestern '43, retiring Venerable Dean in April, was called by the Navy last summer and spent three months training in New York, but has now joined the ranks of the disappointed 1-C's. He recently accepted a position with Arthur Anderson and Company, public accountants, and works out of their St. Louis office. He may be addressed at 3801 West Pine St., St. Louis, Mo.

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1st. Lieut. Donald H. Marshall, Wisconsin '41, son of William J. Marshall, a Founder of Acacia, has been transferred from England to North Africa and has been in Algiers. He is now interpreter and translator at the Allied Force Headquarters with the North African Economic Board.

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Lieut. John E. Senn, Ohio State '39 is with the Air Transport Command: He flies on a route from Florida to Chungking, China, and to Cario, Egypt.

Before entering Air Transport he was a department head with the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and is on leave of absence.

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Dr. Carl Sneed Williamson, Missouri '17, of Green Bay, Wise., a colonel in the army medical corps, has been elected to honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Missouri, along with two other Missouri alumni. He will be initiated into membership at a later date.

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Dr. Derrill M. Daniel, Cornell '33, recently assistant professor of Entomology at the Geneva Experiment Station, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel and awarded the Silver Star for distinguished service in action.

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Clelland Cole, Kansas '27, with his business partner, Sen. Ernest Briles, extended operations and has bought the St. John News. Clelland and Mrs. Cole have moved over and have taken charge of the newly purchased newspaper and have their hands full. Likewise, Senator Briles, getting out the Stafford Courier, their original paper, by hirpself, is another busy man.

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Lieut. (jg) Dick Treece, Kansas '40, put his YP boat in at a harbor over on yon side of the world-"Somewhere in the Pacific where the sun is like a curse, and each long day is followed by another slightly worse." He found a remarkable number of other Jayhawkers from Kansas there to greet him. Among Acacians he has met are Ensign Charles P. Myers, '34, on a small bqat of some kind chasing Japs; and 1st. Lieut. Raymond D. Tripp, '39, now becoming friendly with a flying fortress at Hendrick's Field, Fla.

Note on Icarus The Prayer of Icarus used on page 9 in this issue of the TRIAD is from Ruth Draper's translation of Lauro de Basis and was taken from Candles in the Wind by Alan Knight Chalmers of New York.

In case you have forgotten this old Greek myth, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, an Athenian skilled in architecture and inventiveness. For King Minos of Crete he built the labyrinth and later incurred that monarch's anger. For this he was imprisoned.

Daedalus and his young son, Icarus, escaped by means of feather wings which he had fashioned. Icarus was ~arned not to fly too high, but in his JOY he flew too near the sun and the wax on his wings melted and he fell to his death in the sea.

The Triad) October-December) 1943 (This is the third issue of the TRIAD in which poems of Scudder Georgia have appeared. We have long been acquainted with his versatilities and are presenting two new poems in this issue. Below we find the subtle flavor of a dreamy Poe-like quality in "The Valley of NeverJJ-a place weJve all reserved for ourselves in moments of reverie. The other poem "Solitude JJ is presented on page 21 in this issu~­ -Eo.)

cessfully. Certainly fraternity men generally, together with the University, would deplore any such condition as that.

The question of whether the members of a particular chapter on the campus should be permitted to maintain a nucleus and to hold meetings on the campus in university property is one to which we are now giving considerable thought, but I am unable to say whether the freezing order will or will The Valley of Never not be lifted to that extent. The maintenance of such a nucleus is now My haunts near the deep, sunken river banned under the freezing order, and That rolls on its infinite way we should prefer to await further study Through the dark, misty Valley of Never before making any change therein.

In the land of perpetual gray, We have, too, the problem of public Are carefully hid from the searcher, (Though no searcher has yet come to opinion. The one aspect of fraternity stay)_ life which is most commented on both locally and in the press is the social My Valley is compassed by mountains activities. All too often the impression Forbidding and grim to the eye, has gotten abroad that fraternity men Wherein play my all-constant fountains operate a high-class country club, that Whose liquescent plumes lave the sky they spend most of their time in purWith their silvery, shadowy spray-tips, suit of the more abundant life, and Assuaging sad clouds that surge by. that study is of secondary importance.

Even though this impression be erroAlone do I walk in the quietneous and even though the fraternities, And no earthly sounds scar my ear With their harshly cacophonous riot; beginning a year ago, took construcBut softly there floats, sweet and clear, tive action to correct it, yet it prevailed The murmur of slow flowing rivers and was a source of considerable comEver moving, yet constantly near. ment and embarrassment not only to fraternity men but to the University The path that leads down to my Valley Repeatedly, parents whose sons are Is not made of granite or clay. in the armed service have said that if Attempt not to scale its dim alley the draft board had taken the fraterWithout my consent, or away To the depths far below you will hurtle; nity men on this campus who gave precious little of their time to studies I, alone in this world know the way. and had left their boys here, their boys Don't tempt me to leave my strange region would be doing serious work.

Whose darkness is brighter than dayI can assure you and fraternity men Where unnamed pleasures are legion generally that the University of OklaAnd numberless dreamiads hold sway. homa has not banned fraternities on In my dark, misty Valley of Never; this campus. Also we are not conscious In my land of perpetual grey_ of any discrimination against them.

-ScuDDER GEORGIA The decision was reached only after mature consideration, and all members of the administrative staff who participated in the deliberations leading Oklahoma Explains thereto are fraternity men. The order (Continued from page 5) was invited by the representatives of crisis and the effect as respects houses the local fraternities, and only two loformerly utilized for the housing of cal groups have suggested the modiUniversity students. The net result fication of the action taken, and that in has been that the University has had the face of the favorable vote of their to rent some fraternity houses for the representatives in the local Interfrahousing of civilian students. The ternity Council at the time the matter Acacia house is now occupied by wo- was under consideration. So far as I men civilian students. am aware, the national officers of only You can appreciate also that the two groups have opposed the action number of civilian me~ students at this taken. The National Secretary of each institution is small, that there is not fraternity which maintains a chapter now the material available as in former on this campus was supplied with a years, and that if fraternities continued copy of the freezing order, and national on this campus the leadership would officers are therefore conversant with pass to seventeen- and eighteen-year the situation here. We believe that old boys. We realize that they have this action will redound to the best innot the experience and the mature terests of the fraternity groups, the University of Oklahoma, and the pubjudg~ent to operate large houses sue-

17 lie generally. Let me assure you that we ~re open-minded, Teceptive to suggestwn, and quite willing to revise or modify the order as experience and right reasoning demonstrate our error.

Exodus From West Coast (Continued from page 5) Nisei) who spent all or a lar.ge portion of their lives in Japan and who have returned to the United States. This group is the one which has caused trouble and which is most likely to be disloyal. They have been segregated as much as possible and I understand that they will be deported.

Nisei (pronounced nee-say) means "second generation." The word identifies the children born and reared in the United States, of Issei.

Needless to say, I am of the Nisei.

A Tale of Little Red Riding Hood

by Bob Anderson Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived all alone with her mother in a dismal thirty-room mansion in the outskirts of Los Angeles. She had a red raincoat with a hood to cover her head, and since the sunshine in California comes down by the bucketful, she often wore her raincoat and they called her Little Red Riding Hood.

One morning while she and her mother were having a glass of tomaH> juice before going to bed, her mother said, "Little Red Riding Hood, today I want you to take this quart of Bourbon and this package of marijuana cigarettes to your grandmother."

So that afternoon Red Riding Hood set out to go to her grandmother's house. She had to walk as the local ration board only gave them an A card for the limousine, and that was just enough to back the car out of the garage, have it washed, and put back in the garage again. The route she had to take brought her past the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine. On the corner stood an issue of the male species with a 1-A suit on a 4-F figure.

He twirled his lengthy key chain as his fangs drooled and his eyes became saucer-like at the approach of our heroine.

As she walked by, bubbling from head to hips with sex appeal, his lips puckered into a low whistle and he gave out with the all-too-famous call of the Wolf. Being a very innocent young lady, Red Riding Hood raised her nose and walked briskly by, paying (Continued on page 21)

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three at this time. The one we had met earlier was made high chief of the whole works. With him were two lesser chiefs who were to be over several villages on neighboring islands. One of them, a small fellow, was wearing a Marine green uniform. During the installation there was some sort of vote or oath of allegiance for, with each one, there was a question asked and a show of hands. This was all spoken in the native tongue. As each of the chiefs was installed, the committee of men vested with the job stacked their hands on the head of the new chief and pronounced some sort of blessing on him. been further garnished by flowers and After the installation there was a recepDear Brothers: Recently it was my good fortune to • branches. The men followed the women tion line at the altar to which we were witness an event of considerable impor- and children. It was truly a remarkable urged.

Outside the church a native band had tan ce in these par ts. For the first time sight-the black natives dressed in all since 1900 the natives- Melanisians- in- the gaudy colors they could find, walking gathered. It was composed of several stalled a new chief-in fact a group of down a street of palms with the back- guitars and ukuleles played by some of chiefs. One w as the super-chief or head ground of blue sky and sea. It wa:s a sight. the men. A procession was started with half a dozen young men dressed in white we will long remember. of all the villages, and the others were shirts and trousers over which they wore At the church we met the missionary chiefs of single villages. , The trip to the island where the cele- and his wife and son. They are New grass skirts. They hopped from one foot to the other to the tune of "Tramp, Tramp, bration was to take place was as unevent- Zealanders who have been here for five ful as it was w et, since we had to cross years. The first missionaries came in 1870. · Tramp" as they led the parade. Behind them came the band and then the chiefs Their son replaced them until his death several miles of open water in an open boat. As we neared the beach it became in 1938, when the present one was sent. followed by flower girls. It seemed that evident that some event of importance The natives had previously invited us to the natives were as eager to witness the was taking place because of the many the church, but it was the missionary who procession as we because they swarmed made it known to us that we were the around, ahead and alongside it. This canoes pulled up on the beach and the decorations about the village. As usual, honored guests. He showed us where we "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" procession rewere to sit in the church which was built traced the path taken earlier to the when a boat appears near the beach, the natives old and young r an down t o w el- in the form of a cross with the altar in church.

Back at the village again, preparations come the stranger s. The women and girls, the center. The women sat one one side as always, stayed in the background. With and the men on the other. The church were getting underway for the feast. The the aid of the natives our boat was soon was constructed of cement whitewashed previous day about a dozen pits, approxinside and out. The roof was tin painted imately six feet in diameter, had been dug pulled up on the beach and m ade fast.

As soon as we went ashore we could see red, of course. The pews were wooden and lined with rocks. Fires were started in the pits the evening before. Early in mor e evidence of the celebration. The benches.

The service was started with a song, the morning the ashes were raked out entire village was festooned with flowers, and the n atives themselves showed it in the tune of which was familiar, but the and some of the rocks removed. Yams words were entirely strange to us. With wrapped in leaves· were placed in the pits their clothing. There were m ore women and a few hot rocks put on top of them. the aid of a songbook, which had the and girls pr esent than usual, and they were dressed in bright colors- red, blue, words only in the native lingo, we were Two hogs were laid on top of the yams green, yellow ; even the men were garbed able to follow, and soon found ourselves "spread-eagle" and the whole thing covin rainbow-hued clothes. The chief, to singi~g with the rest, much to the ap- ered with banana leaves and covered with whose h ouse w e were take11, was wearing proval of the natives who were watching the remaining rocks. On top of this were a bright yellow sport shirt, blue t r ousers us closely. There was no accompaniment, placed more banana leaves. It was in this condition that the food was being disbut the song was started by a note from with a white belt and blue-gray tie-a the native preacher who shared the pul- tributed. A committee of three men, one sheik if there ever was one. Around the chief's h ouse, which was a frame bunga- pit with the missionary. After the sing- of whom had a five-foot piece of sugar low, w.er e ga ther ed th e older men from ing there was a prayer by the native, a cane, was allotting the food. As the vilthis and neighboring villages. They were bespectacled man with a gray goatee. lage or group of villages which was to get clothed in everything from Army wool to Following that, the missionary gave his a particular pit was decided, the man Nave w hites. with the cane beat on the pile and called sermon, a phrase or sentence at a time Shortly after our ar rival, one of the which was translated by the native. The off the names. After all the food was disolder m en came up to us and asked for text of the sermon was taken from Tim- tributed the natives began to take it out the correct time. The event was to start othy 2: 1-3. If there had been a sign out of the pits and to the spot where they at the church at 10: 00, and he wanted to in front naming the sermon, it would have were to eat. About this time we were h ave it on time. About zero 9: 45, an old carried the title "Authority." It pointed informed that there was food for us also. gray-bearded man came r unning out into out somewhat the relationship between We were escorted to a long shelter under a clearing alongside the chief's h ouse and the missionary, the French planter and which was a table set European style. made an announcement in the native the natives. The natives were instructed Each place had a plate, a knife and a fork. tongue. The only words we could under- to obey the authority over them.

Our food consisted of broiled chicken, stand were the last two-"ten minutes." It The reaction of the natives was, as yarns, French bread, native butter (which reminded one of a town crier announcing would be expected, from deep attention was very greasy) , bananas and chocolate that the meeting was to star t in the chur ch to sleep. The women in particular leaned or cocoa. in ten minu tes. At any r ate his announce-· forward on their arms crossed on the During the meal we had an opportunity ment got the native populace star ted for back of the benches ahead of them and to talk with the missionary and learn th e church . appeared to be sleeping. One little boy something about the natives. Since the Strangely enough, the women and chil- lay down on the cement floor at his coming of the American forces, the wealth dren h eaded the procession to the church mother's bare feet and went sound asleep. of the natives has increased many times. abo ut a mile distant. The w ay w ru: A t the close of the sermon, the native The French and British planters are conthrough a palm-lined avenue which had pastor led in the installation of the chiefs, · cerned over their workers when they

The Triad, October-December, 1943 again have a market for their coconuts, for once the natives get a "fortune" cached away they refuse to work again, and most of them are now getting to be wealthy.

One of the most startling facts we learned was that on this particular island 100 per cent of the natives have the yaws (a form of syphilis). It is evident even in small children by the way their bodies break out in ugly sores.

After our own meal we watched the natives preparing their food. The table consisted of a dozen or more banana leaves spread out on the ground. On this were placed the two hogs which had been cooked in the pit and many bundles of yams. Along with the cooked food there were raw yams and sugar cane. All of the youngsters were chewing on pieces of cane, and most of the men were sitting around the edges also chewing on sticks of cane. The natives would eat .nothing_ else until each one had his own piece of meat and yams. When the food was all divided and a portion was ready for each person, they sat down to eat.

Having gorged themselves, the natives began to work off their repast by dancing.

At first only the younger ones took part.

The band had been strumming away throughout the meal and was still at it.

While they played they were seated and all facing the center where one of them had a book with the words to the songs in it. So far as we could tell this was all the "score" that they had. For the dancing they played such tunes as "Seeing Nellie Home" and "La Cucuracha." To this music the natives did the more or less esthetic dances as portrayed by the movies.

The highlight of the afternoon was a war dance put on by one of the villages from farther north. For this dance they had three sections of bamboo secured in crotches about four feet above the ground.

The rhythm was maintained by one man beating on the bamboo with a couple of • sticks. The dance, in outward appearance, was a contest to see which of the halfnaked men could make the most noise and raise the most dust. Their costume consisted of palm leaves around the waist, across the chest and around the ankles.

To this was added a touch of war paint in the form of powder dusted over one eye.

First the drummer at the bamboo had a solo part and all the rest crowded around him; then suddenly they all broke out into wild shouts and yells, at the same time stamping their feet and running around the drummer. Then with a grand rush they ran in to the center and with a final yell the whole thing started over again.

During the course of the afternoon we talked more with the missionary and learned that the dancing, singing and eating would go on until everyone dropped from exhaustion. The celebration would probably last at least two more days even though it had been in progress for two already. This was the big day ; the others were just to build up and taper off. Already some of the natives who lived on the nearer islands were loading their

19 canoes with the left-overs of meat and yams and heading for home.

Lt. (j.g.) John F. Munn Michigan '38

Dear Brothers: I have appreciated getting the TRIAD a lot. The last was about the best issue I've seen, no kidding. The article by Dr. Wickenden was the best horse-sense analysis I've seen.

Enclosed is one dollar for a year of the TRIAD. Guess I could get it free, but I'd like to pay if I can, to sort of even things .

You guys don't realize the scarcity of good reading material in places like where I am now, and where I will probably be from now on, sq keep up the good work if possible.

I am enclosing my new address for your service list.

Fraternally yours, Boa. Pvt. Robert L. Burns Kansas '38 Dear Brothers: I am now in an advanced twin-engine flying school of the Army and am an instructor and like it very much. We are soon to get some B-25's here and will have an established school for them by the first of the year.

Texas may have its faults, but it has its good points too. For the year 'round, the climate just can't be beat. We are almost 5,000 ft. high and the nights are always cool. Other things are also plentiful and enjoyable, especially beautiful women. However, I had to work a long time before Miss Betty Barnett of Dallas consented to announce our engagement about two weeks ago. All I could give her then, to bind the bargain, was a pair of silver wings and a ring, but she will be wearing my Acacia pin as soon as my mother can send it to me. As you can see, all's well in Texas. Wish that were true of the world.

Sincerely, Bruce D . Johnson, 2nd Lt., F.A. Iowa State '41 Dear Brothers: I have been carrying a May copy of TRIAD around with me ever since I got it and I've been intending to write for just as long.

I suppose my Army life hasn't been any better or any worse than that of many other fellows, so I won't go into a discussion of that. Let it suffice to say that from St. Petersburg I was sent to Buckley Field, Colo. I was there for about five months, and then I was recently sent to Amarillo, Texas. Colorado is wonderful, but the less said about Texas, the better.

I did have a very pleasant surprise here, though. A letter was forwarded to me from Buckley, and it was from Max Cole, one of the fellows from the K. U. Chapter. Upon looking at the return address, I discovered he was here in Amarillo. Of course I hunted him up, and we've had a number of get-togethers since then.

Enclosed ar e a few addresses and names of some of the fellows not appearing in the May TRIAD. John Bondeson is now a S / Sgt. and is in England. I hear from him quite fre quently. I don't know wher e Tommy Meyers is, but Ned Martin, in a recent letter , told me that he (Ned ) was just off desert movements in California.

Max Fessler is now a lieutenant and the lucky stiff is stationed at Winfield, Kansas. Practically in his own back yard .

I haven't heard from Bob Burns recently and don't know wher e he is. Meanwhile, I'd like to hear from you-a short note at least.

Sincerely and fraternally, FRED .

Fred Stubeck Kan sas '42

Dear Br others: I was in St. Louis recently and while there I saw Roy Heintz. He asked me to write you what information I could on the Service Roll of the Acacia Chapter at Missouri.

Carl Huffman ('43) is now a second lieutenant in the Army Supply in North Africa. Carl Pfotenhauer ('39) is a technical sergeant in the Signal Corps and is stationed in England. Dave Pfotenhauer ('42) is now an Army Air Corps cadet, as is also George Ferguson ('43). Vic Ellis ('43) is a second lieutenant in the Medical Corps here in the United States. Roy Wilhelmsen ('42) is a private stationed somewhere in Georgia. Don Lowery is a sergeant in the Marine Corps and has spent over 27 months at Pearl Harbor.

Clem Powers of way back is now a full lieutenant in the Navy. Vic Sparling ('43) is a sergeant in the Signal Corps, and is stationed at Camp Crowder, Missouri, along with his wife and y ear-old son.

Last, myself, Raymon Shelly ('42) , a Merchant Marine Radio Officer and am stationed in New Orleans.

I would be very happy to hear from you and would appreciate it if these boys could receive copies of the TRIAD. Fraternally, Raymon Shelly Missouri '42 Dear Brothers : It has been a long time since we hoofed it over the Penn campus. I was fingering through an ancient copy of the TRIAD that finally caught up with me after many months, and it got me to thinking that it was about time I wrote. First, a brief case history of yours truly: I was at Fort Hamilton until about the first of last March, and the 19th of that month found me landing in Africa. However, there is a little that h appened before that date. When I was assigned to Fort Hamilton, just 90 miles from my girl's home in Riverton, N. J ., I naturally made the trip over there every week end, until the middle of September (1942) when we were married. She was at Drexel while I was at Penn. We had a four-day honey- ¡ moon and then we set up in an apart-

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20 ment in Philadelphia at 22nd and Pine Streets, and I commuted between there and New York- inasmuch as Margie had a job in Philly. Then came North Africa.

I was assigned to a Traffic Control Station and was made commanding officer in a small town for about a month, and then I came into headquarters to work.

One day while walking down the street in this Arab-infested city I ran into Bob Sakers. He's now a lieutenant in the Infantry. The last news I h ad from him, he was in Sicily. Many battles have been fo ught since then and no word, so I'm beginning to wonder.

Work was plenty interesting for a time, but gradually quieted down. Soon there wasn't even a good air raid to pep things up anymore. Last June I had some business up in Tunisia, so I had a trip by air up that way. I visited the battlefields that were still littered with wrecked tanks and showed many signs of fierce struggle.

Saw Tunis and Bizerte and the scene of the German last stand before BizerteMateur. While in Tunis I took time out to be a tourist and visited the ruins of ancient Carthage. I must say, they were in much better condition than those more recently created. My ride back was in a British bomber. I sat on the floor-bomb bay doors to you-and I kept hoping the bombardier wouldn't open the damn things by mistake. I've managed to hitch many rides on motor convoys to various points of interest, historically and otherwise. Right now, though, we are all anxious to be moving again. One gets restless when too long in one place.

Keep sending the TRIAD overseas.

Sincerely and fraternally, MARK. Lt. Mark B. Wunder Franklin '42 Dear Brothers: I just finished reading the May issue of the TRIAD which followed me 'til I received it. The article by J . B. Powell I am taking over to put in our Military Library; it is excellent.. ..

It was also interesting to see the names of those men who have joined us in the Life Membership Group. The roster of Men in Service is a great help. Keep up the good work.

Fraternally yours, Major Karl C. Leebrick California '11 Dear B rothers: Maybe you'll be interested in a little of what and where, etc., I've seen. I've been overseas about a year now. Been to New Caledonia, in Guadalcanal, New Hebrides, New Georgia (Munda), Baaga, Rendova and Arundel. When we arrived in the South P acific we made quite a landingwere in the "President Coolidge." We've been in the Munda campaign from the beginning. ~he outfit I'm in has seen plenty o_f front lme work-in fact most of the time. The various pictures you may have seen of jungle fighting, conditions and the

like, are all too true. They are the ordinary-not extraordinary. The fellows have lived under and in conditions where if they were told they'd have to, they wouldn't think it possible. Experience showed differently. Incidentally, the original fellows in the outfit haven't seen a civilian or a white woman in all this time.

Wouldn't we like to see civilization! Walk on something besides mud, have a good bed and hot bath!

Fraternally yours, BoB. Robert L . Scott Cornell '36

Dear Brothers: I've been as busy as t hat proverbial bee, but am finally neglecting my studies to write. I started my A .S.T.P. work the first week in August and have been going around in circles ever since. The work is difficult because there are so many courses we have to take. We have to retire at ten-thirty every night, so that eliminates the midnight oil business. I passed my first term, not with flying colors, but as an average-painfully average-student.

I'm still going strong after the second four weeks.

My first term was at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. I had a good time there and met several interesting fellows.

I rather like being s~ationed here in Dayton as it is a large town and there are many things to do. This afternoon some of us went to the Art Institute and heard a mediocre organ recital. After that we spent the rest of the afternoon browsing around.

Ben (Howard) is now in Oakland Calif., and is working in a warehouse. H~ is quite disgusted because his store keeper's training seems to have been for nothing. He's applied for V-12, but has heard nothing yet. The Howard family is really getting an education out of this war. My sister finishes her nursing course next month. After her internship I doubt if she'll join any of the services as she is engaged to a Navy man.

I have not heard from Jack Fox for several months now. One of these days I hope to get a chance to write him and find out all the news. For aU I know, he's overseas.

We had classes on Thanksgiving but have heard that we get off for Christmas.

I think I shall be able to make it home if only for a few hours. That is about th~ only thing I don't like about Army lifeyou can't "take off" when you want to ga somewhere.

Yours fraternally, JIM.

James Howard, Indiana '44 Dear B rothers: You probably will be rather startled to finally hear from me-it's been much too long-a lot has happened since I left school last April. . I :vent. to Fort Bragg for my basic trainmg m Field Artillery, but I was far from

satisfied as it looked as if we were to be made instructors for the duration, so I applied for Aviation Cadet and was transferred to Greensboro, N. C ., and subsequently to the University of Pittsburgh for my college training. I was to stay there four months, but by working things right I was sent down here to the classification center at Nashville, along with a Sigma Nu from Cornell. If I pass all the tests here I'll start my real training in about a month. I have my fingers crossed.

Bob Humbert surely pulled a tough one.

I had a letter from him about a week before he was killed and he was telling me all about his training. Since we had been roommates, it knocked my pins out for a while.

How is everything with the Fraternity?

I would like to think that plans are under way for a bigger and better organization after th~ war. I think the immediate postwar period is a potentially great era for fraternities and it's the ones who make their plans now who will be the ones to make a go of it. I'm glad we are taking care of our interests as we are.

I'd like to order a new "Sweetheart" pin for my Mother for Christmas, if you can get it to me by that time.

I'd like to hear from you, and say hello to all the fellows for me. Bill Huston is down here too and I saw Curt Porter at Fort Bragg. Heard that Rusty (Craft) was married. Don Hoeffel is at Penn State and Bob Beerbower is in A.S.T.P. About time for taps . . . so long.

Fraternally, BILL. William J . Bowen, Ohio State '43

Dear Brothers: Time has passed so rapidly that this letter is indeed belated but nonetheless sincere, I assure you. I meant to write sooner but I have just returned to the base. You no doubt have read about the fall of Lae and Finschafen. It was my good fortune to rest upon a hill overlooking the opening attack of Lae and follow closely into Finschafen. Mine was entirely the problem of supply and I merely watched the operation, but I know that there is nothing that you read at home or in the books that can describe such an attack; it defies description. Not because of the magnitude-certainly the attacks in Africa were on a much greater scale-but the unique difficulties of a wild jungle and the civilized solution. The Japs are completely befuddled at our methods in this type of an operation and cannot operate successfully against it.

When I return I want to describe ' what I saw in detail, but it is not censor-free.

Today marks the second anniversary of my call to active duty and the beginning of the third year in service. The time, happenings, scenery and world have changed so rapidly that it seems longer than merely two years ago. I received a very nice letter from Carl Johnson and a~ writing to him on the morrow; it goes Without saying that I was certainly glad to hear from him.

The Triad, October-December, 1943 While on this last operation I received my promotion to captain. It came as rather a big surprise as having fought so long and hard I had quite frankly put it out of my mind and resigned myself to the rank of first lieutenant for the duration. This, nonetheless, did not dull my happiness at receiving the announcement.

Have been promised a combat leave in December and am joining Jean in Sydney and we will then proceed south to Melbourne for Christmas and New Year's.

There is one good thing about being in actual combat as long as I have (a year and 30 days); you get used to it so that you don't think about the shells and bombs (if you stop to think you might just as well retire as a first-class case of psychoneurosis) , and you are granted the privileges of combat leaves where you can get away and live as you jolly well please for a few weeks and travel scot&ee and see many things you would never have the opportunity to see otherwise. I have been mighty lucky so far and on the next operation may not fare as well, but I wouldn't trade places with one of those monkeys back in the States. The life. is hard, but when the job is finished I'll be a better man for it.

Never did think much of Mrs. Roosevelt, but she really packs a punch. After her trip over, there has been a big change.

It seems as though we have been put on the distribution list. Had fresh meat, eggs and butter the last few weeks for the first time in 11 months in this neck of the woods. Didn't realize how much I had missed it.

The nurses have been following close on our heels wherever we have been going; this was not known to the (censored) who were operating elsewhere. One day, however, a division or so sailed into port razzing the army: "You can relax now; the situation is well in hand." One of the boys piped back: "Are you the (censored)? We have been expecting you for two weeks now. Our nurses arrived 30 days ago." This was a fact and the ( censored) shut up like clams. I wanted to tell this story, because it is representative of the morale and fighting spirit of our army over here. To date we have fought defensively against overwhelming odds with little or no support from the U. S., but now priority to England has relaxed and we are beginning to see the fruits of the home front. As long as we can laugh as these boys I command, and can joke as they can, we can't lose. You can't whip a sense of humor.

Sincerely, DAN.

Daniel J. Macer, Captain Northwestern '39 Dear Brothers: Just a note to let you know I'm still alive and kicking. I got the May issue of the TRIAD and was glad to receive it. We made a landing on an island which had been occupied by the Japs who left in apparent haste. We were unopposed, so about all we have seen of war is the tension, the mud and cold and rain, the hard

21 work and the tiresome chow. But we are set up and now functioning and are reasonably comfortably situated. The Jap installations are interesting-their hospital for instance is a series of hand-dug caves.

There are several entrances to each cave, and the caves extend into the hills for a couple of city blocks. It's quite an experience to explore them.

Another interesting part of this show is the fact that we were with Canadian troops. I met several of their officers and have found them interesting to know.

They know some darn good songs that would pep up those roughhouse dinners on Friday evenings at the House!

Fraternally yours, ALLAN.

Lieut. Allan M. Cress Illinois '39 Dea1¡ Brothers: Captain J . A. (Tommy) Thompson has called my attention, since I last wrote you, to the fact that we have another Acacian here at Peterson Field, Colorado. Strange to say, but we three have been very good friends for over a year now, but neither Capt. Thompson nor myself realized that Lieut. Col. Bell had likewise traveled the same sands as we, until his name was noticed in the Service Roster published in the TRIAD. Lt. Colonel Olin G. Bell is, I believe, a charter member of the Oklahoma Chapter and was¡ also a member at Cornell when he was at school there. He was recently made Executive Officer of Peterson Army Air Field, and I am enclosing some material on him which you may care to use in the TRIAD. As for myself, I have just received orders which permit me to attend a nine weeks' course at the Adjutant General's School at Fort Washington, near Washington, D. C., in Maryland.

Fraternally yours, M. E. Volle Illinois '32

N arrow-Mindedness It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottles ; the less they have in them the more noise they make pouring it out.__.:.Alexander Pope.

Preserving a National Shrine (Continued from page 10)

now to have the privilege of working and co-operating with the newly incorporated Independence Hall Association which is destined to make the dream of years come true. I realize now that it would have been difficult to accomplish anything definite without the backing of such an organization.

It is gratifying to me to have had a part in the launching of the idea of a National Park in Philadelphia and that by keeping at it persistently the idea

has been kept alive. It is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when this idea will become a greater project than any of us dared to visualize."

Tale of Red Riding Hood (Continued from page 17)

little if no attention to him, but being certain to drop on the pavement a map of the city of Los Angeles with the course she would take marked in red pencil and her grandmother's house checked with a huge cross.

The Wolf hailed the nearest taxicab and hurried to Grannie's joint so as to be there when Little Red Riding Hood arrived. A rriving there, he found Grandma in her silk pyjamas trying to get some sleep after working the swing shift as a r iveter at Lockheed Aircraft. He promptly gave her a quart of Scotch, locked her in the closet, and took her place in bed. Soon Red Riding Hood tapped lightly on the door and entered. She took one look at the occupant of the bed and said, "My gosh, Granny, you look like hell. You'll have to stop drinking so much." Then, as she approached closer to the bed, she said. "My what a big nose and mouth you have, Grandma ; don't tell me you've gone in for plastic surgery."

Just then the Wolf jumped out of bed without any pants on and he started to chase Little Red Riding Hood through the house. He couldn't catch her, however, as she was wearing a dress of fast color. Luckily for our little heroine, the air-raid siren sounded just then, and since the Wolf was an airraid warden in his local area, he had to put on his pants and leave.

My, was she glad to see him go! Red Riding Hood was a nervous wreck, and after he had gone she released Granny from the closet and they each had a straight shot to calm their nerves.

When Red Riding Hood returned home and told her mother how the Wolf had followed her and chased her through the house, the mater sat openmouthed with amazement. She promised never again to send Little R ed Riding Hood on a journey like that.

"Cripes," she said, "if that's the kind of stuff you run into, I'll go myself."

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ScuDDER GEORGIA

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Pictures for an Acacia Album

1. Teufel and Homsher with the Purdue Intramural participation trophy-their second in a row.

2. Fisher and Homsher of Purdue enjoy a photographic relaxation.

3. Purdue's V. D. Homsher and S. D. Fischer pose in front of the present chapter house.

4. Ned Will, Ohio chapter's correspondent.

5. Some Purdue Acacia " Joes" dabbling in the Wabash flood.

6. Jim Hardenburgh, Franklin chapter, sends us a picture from Alaska of his pals up there.

7. Bob Blue takes down the Purdue Acacia shingle for the duration.

8. Ed Klein and Bob Blue move out for the Army.

9. Don Haxton and Tom James are Army buddies from the Ohio State chapter.

10. Edward Kar, Ohio State, poses in his new Army togs.

II. Bill Huston. Ohio State, in Guadalcanal.

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<1Joings tn the Chapters California Greetings, Fellow Acacians, wherever you may be!

Early in June of this year the California Chapter seemed doomed to fold. A few of the fellows upon returning to school in July gave V. D. Vic Dugger a vote of confidence and pledged themselves to the almost hopeless task of keeping the chapter house open. And it is with pride that I report now that their tenacious efforts have been rewarded and Acacia will remain open at least for another year.

Under the able direction of Bob Weber, the interior of the house has been completely done over this summer. Rooms have been painted and improved, new fixtures have been installed, new rugs and drapes have been put in, giving the house a cozy atmosphere that it lacked in the past. Too much credit cannot be given Bob for his diligence and persistence ; under extremely adverse conditions he went ahead with the job of renovation and fol lowed it through to a successful conclusion.

New pledges this semester are Clark Smith, Junior, San Jose; William Medlin, Freshman, San Francisco; Gerald Ruskin, Freshman, Chicago. While this semester's rushing program hasn't been eminently successful, the fellows are already looking forward to next semester.

With only three other fraternities active on campus, the "pickin's" should be excellent.

Emory Thomas, aviation cadet, now stationed at Eagle Field, Dos Palos, California, dropped by the house a few days ago to talk over old times. He was on ·extended leave after receiving a bad head injury when another plane landed broadside into his. Emory was certainly glad he had his rabbit's foot with him because the propellor from the other plane hit him only a glancing blow, demolishing the rest of the plane as it went on through.

From up Montana way comes news of Golder DeWitt who also was able to walk away from a plane crash. In his own words, Golder says: "We came in a little too fast for the landing and the damn thing did two complete flips. Being tough, I wasn't hurt, but some of the other boys got shaken up a bit."

"Slugger Rowe" is now stationed on a ship in New York City. Being a lovable character, it might be interesting to quote verbatim what the "Slugger" had to say in his last letter. "At 10:00 in the morning, the Filipino mess attendant shakes you awake, so you have to throw the covers back real quick so when you eat your breakfast in bed you won't drip on the covers. After a while a beautiful Wave comes around and gets you out of bed.

Then you mosey down for a shower. You member of the Ashler Trust Company don't have to shave unless you want. Trustees to fill the unexpired t erm of Bob After the shower you can either go back Borders, resigned. George has been acto bed or adjourn to the bar for 6 or 7 tive lately helping in this work.

Chapter Adviser Marion Huber has revodka Collins. Then we have tea until cently purchased a new duplex apartment lunch. After lunch it is plenty tough.

Usually we have a game of poker, pool at 3360 Morrison Street, Clifton, Cincinor cribbage until dinner; after dinner we nati. For the duration, Marion expects t o have dancing until midnight; then we hit keep the Chapter and Ashler Trust Headthe hay. Sure feels good after a hectic quarters in the large den and game room of his basement. Should the chapter day. THIS AIN'T THE NAVY." "Slip" Martin and "Sleepy" Dixon are house soon be rented to some agency, all now stationed at the Santa Ana Air Base chapter files will be kept here. Cincinwhere they are taking their basic flight nati Acacians may address all news items training. Cliff Misener, Don Goodwin and and letters to this central office hereafter.

Fred Anderson are in Seattle, Washing- George Patterson will call for mail as ton. Cliff and Don are in the Navy, while chapter secretary.

Bob Borders, former Venerable Dean, Fred is in the engineering department for the Boeing Aircraft Corp. Harry Larsen has gone to Florida for a short visit with is working for a construction outfit at his folks. He will soon begin work as a Hanford, Washington; he wishes more of member of the Naval Research Departthe fellows would get in touch with him. ment of Harvard University. Bob has been" in the Naval Reserves but as yet has Bruce Dwelley is stationed at Scott Field Illinois, where he is taking up radio work; not been called.

Ed Price and Carl W. Schreiber have Eddie Prewett is an MP at Camp Beale. been enrolled as military cadets at U . of He is back after a short sojourn in Utah.

C. "Bill" has recently returned from It is with regret that I report the deaths Camp Eustis where he has received his of Lt. Robert P . Davidson, U. S. Army Air Corps, killed in action over England on · basic training.

Cecil Carleton and Jerry Hagaman are June 17, 1943, and Lt. Bernard C. Jensen, U. S . Marine Air Corps, killed in action busy at Purdue as naval cadets. Both find it difficult to convince the Comin the South Pacific on May 11, 1943.

At this time I should like to make a mander that Cincinnati dates are essential. personal appeal to all Californians to Don Gallentine is now a cadet at Notre please send all information they may have, no matter how insignificant it may be, to Dame. Don was our efficient house manSecretary Hubert Friend, 2340 Piedmont ager before he joined the naval ranks.

Avenue, Berkeley, California. This is We are sure that he can run the Navy and very important as a circular letter is now Notre Dame just as efficiently.

Randall Graham Gilliss returned to Cinin the process of completion. If it is a cinnati September 22 for his marriage to success it will become a monthly feature.

Miss Betty Beatty, daughter of Dr. Beatty GEORGE W. CROYLE of Auburn Avenue. The wedding took place in the pr esence of the immediate family at Mt. Auburn Presbyterian Church. Best of luck to you, Graham.

Graham was recommended to Officers' Cincinnati Candidate School at Camp Davis, N. C. Jack Van Wye is in officers' training at Fort Monmouth.

Cincinnati fraternity houses have not Walter Baude of the U. C. faculty is as yet been taken over by the Army or now in Africa with the finance depar t Navy for housing purposes. School offi- ment of the Army.

Harry Morlatt seems to be having rich cials are expecting a large contingent of soldiers soon, but this has been the usual experiences in the New Hebrides where disappointment since the first of the year. Bob Reiman has recently flown to chat Little has been done to help the fraterni- with him for a few hours.

Bill Richards is in the heart of the New ties as a result. About October 15 a new army group of advanced electrical stu- Guinea fighting area. He writes frequentdents should arrive at the Engineering ly, but the censor is probably too active for some interesting stories from him.

College for special training.

Paul Azary is now in New York with George Patterson was returned to civilian life from the army after completing an Army band.

Paul Hoffie was recently returned on a his basic training at Camp Eustis, Virginia. George will complete his course furlough from an air cadet camp at San in Business Administration at the College Antonio and in Arkansas. He expects anof Commerce and also take a lead in Aca- other assignment quite soon. ; Link Ralph is now an ensign in third cia campus activities. Recently he has been appointed the Acacia Fraternity command on a troop landing ship. He

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says his men are the best bunch in all branches of the service. Columbus had nothing on Link when it comes to crossing the Atlantic in small boats. If anyone can get the boys to shore, we know Link can do it.

Steve Kirch is now in the service from a recent enlistment.

William Wuest is now a lieutenant colonel in charge of the Officers' Candidate Board at Camp Davis Anti-Aircraft School. Congratulations, Bill.

Lt. John Sigler graduated third high in a large class at the Officers' Candidate School at Camp Davis, N. C. We are proud of you, John. .

Ed Zuercher is at Great Lakes m Naval Training. Ed Colaianni is in the A.S.T.P. at the University of Alabama.

Bill Klahm, our former Venerable Dean, completed basic training at Camp Lee with honors. His address is Co. D, 6th Q.M.T.R. Bldg. T 229, Camp Lee, Va. James Hoefling is now stationed with the F.B.I. at Springfield, illinois. Jim calls for a visit each time he is at home.

Captain James Tewel has recently completed an advanced staff desert training course and is ready for a foreign assignment.

Lt. Commander Jack Greenawalt Fellowcraft is now in charge of a group of Seabees in Rhode Island. He expects foreign service soon.

Many of the men in service are anxious to pay on their building fund notes now.

The Ashler Trust Co. Trustees have hesitated to make such collections, but the response of the men in service seems to be most encouraging. Almost all are meeting their payments on time, and hope, in this way, to get the chapter completely out of debt by the end of the duration.

Ralph Alexander completed an audit of Acacia books as well as those of Ashier Trust before the new trustees assumed control of both active and alumni chapters. Ralph says this is possible if all take the same attitude. The audit made possible the cancellation of the second mortgage. He also recommended refinancing at a lower interest rate. This was granted.

Thanks, -R alph, for your efforts.

Captain Edwin Rice is now stationed with the Coast Artillery at Montauk Point, N. Y. Al Steinbach has recently returned from a naval landing job in Sicily. Bob Best and Heckert write that they really like the army. No one is surprised at that.

Bernal Woodward, Syracuse Chapter, has been returned to civilian life and is now employed as an executive with the Beau Brummel Tie Co. David Dexter is now at Camp McCain, Miss.

James F . Johnson has recently been announced as engaged to Miss Jane Cameron of Cincinnati. Pvt. Roland Wagner, Battery C, 126 A A H Bn., is now at Camp Haan, California. He likes it.

Women have now been admitted to courses in t he College of Engineering.

This is for the duration need of technical trained co-ops. The group is rather large.

MARloN H . HUBER, Cha.p ter Adviser

Colorado When we last heard from Colorado Chapter in August, their house had been leased to the University for naval use, but there were still twenty active members left on the campus. They had been holding meetings, had pledged three men, and were expecting to carry on chapter activities although in a restricted form.

Cornell A letter received in September from Prof. Gustave F . Heuser, Chapter Adviser at Cornell, informed us that there were only six Acacians on campus there, three of whom are in Navy programs. Of course, these conditions preclude any rushing and pledging, although the undergraduates and alumni endeavor to get together occasionally. There may be a few more members in school since the new term began on November 1.

rangements with the University and the Army will be, but we have been assured that they will be fair to the fraternities.

After the war, when conditions in the country and the University are again normal, we shall have to cooperate to become reestablished on the campus. For some .time there will be keen competition, and all of us will have to work hard and be on the lookout for substantial and representative undergraduates. In the meantime, we are asking all to give serious thought to this matter.

We should also appreciate receiving information from alumni in the service, with rank, rating, etc. It is proposed to erect a bronze tablet on the walls of Acacia, listing all of our service members.

No meeting of the Acacia Alumni was called last spring because of the upset condition of the house, and since there had been no kitchen in operation for almost a year. However, we are hoping to have a reunion somewhere next fall.

GEORGE E. NITZSCHE AND W. R. HocKENBERRY

George Washington

Franklin As. you probably know, the University, along with other higher educational institutions, has been hit hard in these trying days. All departments have suffered severely. However, the U. S. Army and Navy will have approximately 4,000 service men here for the duration for technical or professional training. All of these student soldiers are in uniform and under strict military discipline. They live in our dormitories and in the fraternity houses and take their meals in the Palestra, which has been fitted up as a mess hall with a seating capacity of almost 2,000.

The campus, therefore, has taken on quite a military aspect. Many of the fraternities had already closed their houses because of lack of members. The University took over most of the larger fraternity houses as barracks. This was the lot of the Acacia House, where forty soldiers (medical students) are now quartered.

Acacians having occasion to enter the house, must receive a permit from the authorities. The undersigned have taken care of the interests of Acacia to the best of their ability. The more valuable furniture, rugs, carpets, pictures, relics, etc., has been stored in the chapter and reception rooms and in the chapel. These have been sealed up, and boarded over; the pool room, kitchen and breakfast room have also been locked, the authorities having no use for them. The library and the dining room are being used as general lounging rooms for the men. So far we do not know what the financial ar-

The George Washington Chapter had a very quiet summer with only six actives on the rolls after June 15. During the last few months the following fellows left us for the armed services: Ralph David, Harry Mc'Naughton, Arnold Flottman, Austin Childress and Willard Whittaker.

All these changes were of course deeply felt in the chapter, but their full consequence came only a few weeks ago, when our corporation suddenly rented the house, and ordered the chapter to vacate the house by October 1.

Without a house since the end of September, the George Washington Chapter has still managed to remain active up to the date of writing this article. After losing our house, we have been meeting on Mondays in Columbian House, and we hope to be able to rent a few rooms near the University very soon.

Our new pledges, Gery Arkoian, Gordon Banerian, and Bill Lesniak, played a large role in keeping the chapter active.

They were pledged in November, and we hope to initiate them during the Christmas vacation.

At a recent meeting the following fellows were elected to office: John Ledbetter, Venerable Dean, and I.F.C. Delegate; Charles Daubanton, Senior Dean; and James Sparks, Treasurer. These posts were vacant because of losses to the armed services, except that of V. D. which was vacant because of resignation.

On the campus we were unable to put on any large social functions due to our lack of rooms, but we hope to be able to put on something fairly soon in cooperation with another fraternity.

A few weeks ago it was announced by the Registrar that Acacia had obtained

The Triad) October-December) 1943 the highest scholastic average of all fraternities at George Washington University for the second semester of the 19421943 school year.

Generally speaking, the writer feels that the chapter is now at its lowest possible point, and that there will be less trouble if we manage to survive this year.

Whether this will be possible I do not know, but we will certainly do our best to keep Acacia active at George Washington.

CHARLES J . H . DAUBANTON

Illinois There are only two fraternities on Illinois campus which are in their own houses -Acacia and Lambda Chi Alpha. The army does not plan to take over the Acacia house at present, and the actives who will be in school hope to do some rushing this fall and, if possible, to fill the house with actives and pledges. It is reported that the prospects look good.

The house¡ was operated during the summer as a rooming house, but two or three actives and alumni rushed and initiated four men. The fall term opened on October 13, and we hope to have more information later on.

A letter from Lt. Carleton J. Jacobson informs us that Charles S. Monnier has been a Major since last March. He was a captain commanding a company of combat engineers when the Americans made the first landings in Africa in November, 1942.

Carleton Jacobson also tells us that when he graduated as second lieutenant from the Army Administration School in Fargo, N . D., in June, 1943, his commission was handed to him by Brigadier General Clayton S. Adams, also an Illinois Acacian. We thought this was a rather unusual occurrence.

F . A . Bush has been a lieutenant colonel for about a year. He is Post Special Service Officer at Camp Grant, Illinois.

Lt. Mervin E. Volle has met Captain Joseph A. Thompson, a member of the Colorado Chapter, at Peterson Army Air Field, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He writes: "Captain Thompson is the only Acacian I have run across during my service of more than a year in the Army.

You will be interested to know that we celebrated Founder's Day in appropriate fashion at the officers' club at the base.

Captain Thompson had some pictures taken, and no doubt will be writing you directly and send you a copy of the picture for publication in the TRIAD." Ralph Gould writes that he was very much surprised to run across Earl Garrett, also of the Illinois Chapter. They are both taking navigator training at Ellington Field, Texas.

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Indiana "Balancing on the Br ink" could be the title of the role to be played by Acacia of Indiana in the coming semesters. One of the four fraternities on the campus still functioning as such (most houses were relinquished to the university ), Acacia is in the spotlight of local attention. Because of the rapid depreciation of a new building, I. U. chapter would lose money rapidly if the house were turned over to the university, since our house is the newest on the campus.

Proceedihg in the face of great difficulty, our chapter held a special summer initiation in August. The men initiated were Leon Bidwell, Earl Rogers, Jim Greene, Kent Bates, and Bob Kohlmeier, of whom Bidwell, Rogers, and Kohlmeier are already helping win the war in their 0. D.'s. New officers were elected for the coming year. The V. D . is Gene Latham; Senior Dean, Jake Ruch; Social Chairman, Charley Jarrett. Our Treasurer is Leon Dunkin, Jim Greene is Secretary, and Bob Gimmer is Pledge Master.

The nine actives now in the house, together with faculty members and other actives then awaiting call by Uncle Sam, pledged more than a score of new men during the summer and just before school started. The pledges are: Tom Baker, Mt. Vernon; Frank Fisher, South Bend; Dick Fulwider, Lebanon; Bill Shanks, Lebanon ; Monty Montgomery, Greenfield ; Jim Davis, Elwopd; Otis Young, Mt. Vernon; Max Simmons, Wabash; Bill Scholl, Evansville; Bill Ritchie , Evansville , George Waldschmidt, Fort Wayne; Frank Neff, Fort Wayne ; Neal Webster, South Bend; Bob Belden, Evansville; George Smith, Portland; H. T . Risley, Oakland City; Warren Stevens, Kokomo; Irwin Leary, Greenfield; Dick Peed, Richmond; Rene Kiefer, Kokomo; and Bill Crane, Fountaintown.

The pledges have elected for their officers: Bill Ritchie, President; Frank Fisher, Vice-president; Bill Crane, Secretary; and Neal Webster, Sergeant-at-Arms.

In spite of obstacles, Indiana Acacia plans to have many of the same social activities as were held ante bellum. Getacquainted record dances were held with the Chi Omegas and the Tri Delts, and a tea dance was held after the WabashIndiana football game, Saturday, October 2.

Though not yet eating at its own table, the chapter is laying plans to start October 1. Thus I. U. Acacia has begun the 1943-44 school year.

FRANK NEFF

Kansas State The Kansas State Chapter house has been leased to the college and is now oc-

cupied by ASTP m en . Mr. K enney L. Ford, Chapter Adviser, informed u s t hat t here were ar ound fifteen men enrolled in the summer session , and that they h eld occasional meet ings in his home and h ad one picnic. Some of these men h ave now gone and he did not anticipate much activity for the fall session . The Acacia Alumni Association is lookin g after th e property.

Michigan After a prolonged absence of news of the activities and affairs of the Michigan Chapt er, we come again to the limelight as the fall term starts. Our house, now shared with the Alpha Tau Omegas, is one of four still operating on the Michigan campus. The summer term closed with the initiation of two pledges, Henry Hosmer and Jack Kelso. The initiation was highlighted by the participation of Mr. Henry Hosmer, Michigan '16.

Due to the shortage of active manpower, Arlie Trahern now holds the offices of Venerable Dean and Senior Dean; Elbert Kennedy, Secretary and Treasurer; and Bill Clark, Junior Dean and Social Chairman. The position of House Manager has been disposed of for the duration, as his duties have been taken over by the Alpha Tau Omega House Manager. Nine active Acacians and one graduate are now living in the house, while two actives and a pledge are staying in the Navy dormitories, and one civilian active is living elsewhere. We also have one member in the A.S.T.P. group on the campus. Fred Nagel, Northwestern Chapter, now in the Coast Guard, is also on the Michigan campus.

One of the big events of the summer term came on October 16 when Bryce Broughton, '43E, w as married to Doris Wood in Jackson, Michigan. Ten members of the chapter attended the wedding and three acted as ushers. Arlie Trahern, Carroll Brown, Dick Widman, and Warren Shelley hung their pins during the summer term.

We are very lucky in that we have had two parties this fall following the Notre Dame and the Wisconsin games. Incidentally, we wish to apologize to the Wisconsin Chapter for the trouncing Fred Bryan, Acacian now in the Navy V-12 group, assisted in giving them on November 13.

Both parties were well attended, with over sixty actives, alumni and friends coming to the former, and approximately one hundred people attending the latter, which was sponsored jointly with the Alpha Tau Omegas. Both parties consisted of buffet dinners immediately following the games, and dancing to records played over Al Kennedy's public address system later in the evening.

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26 campus is in full swing with over 100 fel- in a gang of draft-dodging engineers aided lows signing up, and the Mother Chapter by seven future admirals from the ROTC is in there fighting to get the cream of the and V-12 Units stationed on campus. The crop. The number of rushees is ver':( ~gh university generously asked us to leave in proportion to the number of c1~11ian our house to accommodate a marine unit, men on campus, and those of us still re- so rather than argue, we consented to maining in school are taking full adv~­ the agreement. Actually, it's a good deal tage of the fact that the ratio of men, ill- since we get the rent plus extras for deeluding civilians, soldiers and sailors, and preciation and replacements. So if any of you Joes from the other chapters are women is one to one.

Bob Soukup, Bob Opdyke and Bryce unceremoniously evicted when you arBroughton graduated after the summer rive at our former home, don't curse the term, and all three are now holding do~ chapter; we're just being _patriotic. A~d good jobs in industrial concerns as engl- don't give up the search e1ther. If you re neers. Soukup, former V. D., is now work- in uniform you can find some of the gang ing for Douglas Aircraft at Los Angeles, in Barracks Numbers 14, 15, ' 16 and 20. while Opdyke is attending the Chrysler Otherwise, the best place to come is 1822 Graduate School for Engineers in De- Sherman which is a university dormitory, troit. Bryce is now in Cleveland. War- and which holds five of the civilian engiren Shelley, a last-term senior, is plan- neers; Webster, Phalen, Bogan, Moorhead ning to enter the graduate school next and Ross. Other men scattered in offterm, and expects to be married in June. campus rooming houses are Martin, DickIn closing, the chapter wishes to extend inson, Jones and Burmeister. So that's a cordial invitation to all Acacians to drop the housing situation in the proverbial out to the house whenever they are pass- nutshell. ing through Ann Arbor.

No ¡ doubt the other chapters and our HENRY HOSMER own members want to know what the chapter is doing to keep in the swim in these troubled times. In the first meeting of the. year-which we held in the Tech.

School-the boys all expressed the desire to get going with a social program, rushing, regular meetings, and to continue .with the newly organized active chapter Minnesota publication, The Wildcat Acacian, which made its appearance this summer as a supplement to the Purple Pyramid and to Six active members were planning to the TRIAD. Most of the contents are simbe on the Mi~esota campus, three of ilar to these except that it is more perwhom would b~ with the military units.

However, the chapter had already pledged sonal since circulation is limited to recent actives of our own chapter. five men during the summer, and hoped The boys are also making plans for a to secure more since their table would big social season, and have hopes of oboffer an ince:otive for potential men. It was expected that Acacians in Service on taining use of the local Masonic Temple campus would be able to attend meetings for some of their parties. A couple of the other fraternities want us to go with them every other week. The fact, too, that the on a formal downtown, and sentiment chapter house is out of the area used for seems to favor that too. Parties will be military purposes, gives them certain adlimited to Saturday nights to accommovantages. The Minnesota members are date the Navy boys. Another plan which very determined to carry on in the face of is in progress is to meet together for Sunpresent difficulties, an'O. are doing so, sucday dinner at one of the Evanston restaucessfully. rants. It seems evident that we will not entirely lack each other's company.

Reports have been pouring in from recent actives. Neal Leach seems not so happy about living 20 feet below sea level near New Orleans. He hopes the dikes will break to end the suspense. Bob Northwestern Meynen has given up his career as a "Seabee" and is learning the ropes at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

What ho! Here's the report on that Freddy Bruce, Navy Air Corps, has commerry band of Acacians who used to hang pleted pre-pre-flight and has been transout at Lincoln-at-the-Drink, but are now ferred to pre-flight school. His majesty, temporarily scattered over ye earth's far H . William Coleman, is to be found in reaches. From far and near they send Syracuse University studying (?) the greetin's to all, both from the home base German language so that he can rule and from the other chapters. We have Berlin with the Army of Occupation. A some news about almost everyone, and if couple of V-mail letters from Johnny we don't have the facts we will use our Southworth and Chuck Willis describe imaginations. To you who think that war the wonderful scenery of Hawaii. Johnny means the collapse of fraternities, hold reports that Chuck has found himself a your fire. "Business as usual" is our pol- cute girl who happens to be of oriental icy for the duration. vintage. Warren Ball, one of our wilder The nucleus of our chapter seems to be pledges from last year's class, stopped en

The Triad, October-December, 1943 route from Camp Grant to the University of lllinois where he, too, is getting training in military government. Will report further when we get more news.

It was with regret that we learned of the death of Jack Erwin's mother on October 26. She had been ill for four years, and is survived by Jack's father, brother Bill, and two sisters.

One more item of interest to most of the chapter. "Jaso" White has joined the ranks of the married; his wedding to Miss Bette Christiansen of Charles City, Iowa, took place in that city late in September.

So now Jim has two bosses, if you include Uncle Sam. Corporal White was one of our popular (?) treasurers a couple of years ago. .

Before we call a halt we want to give our salutations to our many brothers and pals from other chapters whom we've met in the last few years. Keep pitchin', fellas, and we hope to see you all when we get back into our house. So long, gang!

BILL Ross

Ohio So proudly we hail! Yes, we hail all those who are in the armed forces of our country. For once you old grads who always look forward to seeing familiar names in your TRIAD must accept seeing new ones, for now we serve a different purpose; now we are keeping up contacts between the scattered members of our service. The fellows want to know just wher.e this one or that is stationed, and we are doing our best to tell them.

Here, in Columbus, we work much the same as usual. Classes began here on the 28th of September, and those of Ohio State will remember the hurry and bustle, and the bewildered new students which mark any college's opening days. Meanwhile, in other. colleges all over the nation, Acacia men are working, no vacations, and it's tough. Yet they are doing a job to be proud of, to stick to, and come home from, victorious. Let me cite a couple of cases: One of our outstanding pledges, Ed Kar, Private, is at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va. (71st AAFI'TD, Flight A). Here he is working industriously to become a top-rank meteorologist. Ed says : "I sure do miss the gang and the fun we had; hope I'll be back in a couple of years." Another university man is Pvt. Robert Scott. Scotty is at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, lll.

(Co. A, 3667th S.U., A.S.T.P.), and is in the first term of the A.S .T.P. mechanical engineering course. Scotty writes the most cheerful letters of anyone, and says optimistically: "How long I stay here depends on me, so I'm gonna do a good job!"

Of course by now you all know that Curt Porter and Betty, are married, but the best part of it is that they're back in Columbus again. The Lieutenant and the Mrs. are keeping house at the Neil Gables

The Triad, October-December, 1943 Apts. (34), and Curt is teaching military at Ohio. That makes two married Acacians, just fresh from the · fraternity, living in our midst, for "Woody" Willis is also here with his wife.

Many of the fellows have traveled a lot, and Aviation Cadet Bill Huston is no exception. Bill first went into the medical corps, but is now learning the tricks of the flying trade, and is at Penn State College, State College, Pa. His address is 330th AAFCTD, Bks. 2L Listed among our other college men are A. S. Ralph Jones, at Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio. He is one of the V-12 men, and his address is 2nd Co., 1st Platoon, U.S.N. Trng. Unit V-12, Bks. No. 3, 163 N. Franklin, Delaware, Ohio. By now both of our Herrman brothers are serving away from here, with Dave at Baldwin Wallace (307 Merner-Pfeiffer Hall, Berea, Ohio) and "Pete" at Yale University (V-12, 1512 Yale Station, New ·Haven, Conn.) where he is studying engineering.

One old dependable is Bob "Beery" Beerbower, now Pfc., at the South Dakota School of Mines. Bob says the school is small and a good engineering college, but a little overcrowded now. To make life interesting, Bob is staying at the Triangle House and was glad to meet up with an Acacian from Purdue. · One thing that never fails to make a dark day bright is to run into another fraternity brother.

The fellows are finding that · out more and more as they are shuttled about the country. "Beery's" full address is Box 383, ASTU 4766, Co. A , South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, S. D. You know how things get around. It seems that one of Ohio Chapter's men heard an announcement over the radio, and in no time flat the rest of us knew that Tommy James, our star footballer, got a furlough to go to Evanston, illinois, to play in the all-star game there. Tommy is now in a replacement camp in the medical division, and can be reached currently at Co. A , 4 Bn., P .R.D., Pittsburg, Calif.

P. S. It's now Pfc. James.

Sgt. Donald Haxton has at least sent us a note, and is he busy! Don is in charge of Special Services and sports for his organization. You know he's in the 47th Air Force Band at Casper, Wyo. He's continuing his career in music, and says nothing is going to ·keep him from returning to Ohio and getting his degree in music. Don also writes us that Cpl. Ernie Rice is there with him and has the job of being one of the buglers. The boys all love him for that.

Long ago we wrote that we thought Karl Buck must be lost. We are now glad to report that he is in training at Great Lakes, TIL He has finished his boot training and is now in an out-going unit. He writes that the Navy has certainly agreed with him, as he weighs 23 pounds more than when he left here and looks fine.

Also, he has been made a platoon leader and now has a rating of Phm. 3/ C. His address is Co. 1038, Bks. 210 B . North, OG. U., Great Lakes, Ill. Another Pfc. of whom we're proud is Don Berens, now delving in the depths of

27 Radar at Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C. You know how Don writes-a typical day, he says, runs like this: "Get up, chow, classes, chow; classes, chow, classes, and then sack time." Don seems to be working hard, and keeping up with the rest of that tough radar class. He says the life isn't bad, but different from anything he's encountered before. I know a lot of our men who can say that too. A bit of news that comes to us secondhand is that our champ "Lefty" Davis, now a Pfc., got into a bit of a scrap with some sailors.

As I heard it, he "cleaned up" on them and is confined to camp indefinitely. But he just grinned and said it was worth it.

Knowing Lefty, we sadly regret the lot of the poor sailors. No doubt they regret it also.

Jack Bronson leaves here for the V-12 training on the 14th of October. Johnny Burroughs has made a little trip to the hospital, recovered in fine style, and hopes to see service in the Marines soon.

The latest address available for George Painter, who is at last located, is Co. D, 4th Bn., E.R.T.C., Ft. Belvoir, Va. We think he is still Pvt. Painter. A letter just arrived about Ralph Leever. He has fin'ished his nine months of training at the Boston Maritime Training School and is now a Radio Technician with the rank of ensign. After a ten-day furlough he leaves for San Francisco. We hope to hear more in the future. Information has been streaming in to "ye olde secretary," and we find that John Skinner is in the 1st Telephone Co., Sig. Bn., Class 51 A , Camp Lejeune, New River·, N. C. And now it is with sadness that we note the death of our outstanding and much loved brother, Robert Denton Humbert, who was killed in an air crash near the air base at Chickasha, Okla. Bob's outstanding personality, as well as his scholastic record and his many friends speak for themselves as achievements to be envied. We can say nothing to add to what he has done, but we will miss him.

As all things must come to an end, so must this article. If you weren't mentioned in it, drop us a line at 98 E. Tulane Rd., Columbus, 2, Ohio, and keep us informed as to what you're doing. Although we may be separated, nothing can destroy the esprit de corps of Ohio Chapter of Acacia. And remember our byword-no matter whether we are· in the Army, the Navy, the Air Corps, Marines or Coast Guard-we're in it.

NED WILL

Oklahoma Since all fraternity activity on the University of Oklahoma campus was frozen by the Board of Regents in the middle of July, Acacia has joined forces with Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha Tau Omega, and Delta Upsilon, and all are now living in

the D. U. House. With the coming of the Army and Navy t rainees, all fraternities were asked to lease their houses to the university fo r use in housing military and civilian students, and most of them immediately volunteered their property.

Two houses have been set up as "Greek Houses" in which the r emaining fraternity men can live and maintain a social organization. Although social life must be h eld at a minimum, we have entertained pledges from various sororities at dessert and dancing, and high-lighted the fall semester with a formal dance on Friday night, October 15. Remaining Acacians on the campus are: Forest Simon, Franklin Barker, Walter Finley, Charlie Heard, Jack Brown, Lester Brown, John Donaldson and Rex Kenyon. .

Charlie Heard has made a good showing in the Sooner backfield, and has worn the red and white in every game to date.

Heard is a Navy Reservist and will be called to active duty on November L He will be stationed here in Norman, Okla., for college work under the V-12 program.

Letters from the boys in the service come in often enough to let us know where they are and how they are doing.

Jack Steele, last year's V.D., and Kenneth Shilling, S.D., received their commissions during the summer. Steele is in the Tank Destroyers at Camp Hood, Tex., and Shilling is in the Field Artillery at Alexandria, La. Both boys completed four years of university R.O.T.C. before going into O.C.S. this summer.

Odell Stone is not far from a commission in the Army Air Corps. He completed pre-flight in class 44-D at Camp Maxwell, Ala., and is now ill advanced training at Mason City, Iowa. Stone enlisted in December ahd was called to active duty about the middle of February.

His previous training was taken at Sheppard Field, Texas, and at Nashville, Tenn.

James Samara has completed basic training in Camp Wallace, Tex. When we last heard from him he was being shipped out of Wallace, but where we do not know. Samara was initiated last year.

He hails from Tonkawa, Okla., and was a Junior in pre-law before his induction into the armed forces.

Bill Valentine and Wilton Jones are studying engineering at Kentucky State Teachers College under the Army Specialized Training Program. Both boys were in the enlisted Reserve and were called during the early part of May. Their basic training was taken at Camp Maxey, Tex. Don Hartman continues his college work with the Navy V-12 at Southwestern College, Georgetown, Tex. Hartman is a sophomore in the School of Business and entered the Navy on July L Lt. and Mrs. Harry Scoufos announced the birth of a son last month. Scoufos was a Marine Reservist and received his degree in Pharmacy from the University in May. He completed 0. C. S. in August. ·Mrs. Scoufos is the former Alice Lyle, Alpha Chi Omega.

Lloyd Lane is taking basic training in the Anti-Aircraft school at Camp Callan,

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28 San Diego, Calif. Lane was inducted in June of this year. He h ails from Oklahoma City.

Louis Mor gan is attending the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in Oklahoma City. Morgan is in the Army under the A.S.T. program. His brother, and likewise an Acacian, Bob Morgan, w as inducted into the Army in May. He has completed his basic training and was assigned to a STAR Unit.

Buddy Whitworth and Glenn Weesner are taking basic training in the Army Air Corps. We do not have Weesner's present station, but Whitworth is at Sheppard Field, Tex. Edward Heard is taking further cgllege work at the University of Wisconsin under the A.S.T .P. Heard was a Junior in the School of Arts and Sciences here, and was inducted in March.

Mrs. Ethel K. Rood, our hostess for seven years, is now serving as hostess to the University Freshmen Men's House in the former Delta Chi Fraternity House.

And now it is with sorrow that we must report some casualties in our ranks. Lt. Billy Edward Carson, '40, was killed by the Japs in Australia. Captain Henry Martyn Doughty, '26, died of malaria in a Jap prison camp. Lt. J. B. Long, '40, a pilot of a flying fortress, was reported missing over Germany. Lt. George Luther Verity, '38, is a prisoner of the Japs.

This about completes the record of Acacians here and elsewhere from the Oklahoma Chapter, or at least the record of those we know about. Best regards to the other chapters and the boys therefrom.

REX KENYON

Penn State Randall Jacobs is now a Captain in an engineering detachment somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. He is the son of Rear Admiral Jacobs, Chief Personnel Officer of the Navy.

William S. Dye Ill is now a Staff Sergeant with the Air Transport Command and is stationed with the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron in Washington, D. C. J. Martin Fry, '17, is the head of the Agricultural Extension Service of the college in the state, and by virtue of this position he has charge of the county agent work. During t he past summer, this service, under his direction, set up work camps for boys and girls and supplied them to farmers in need of help. Many crops in this and neighboring states were saved by this means.

David P . Osborne, a graduate of Temple Medical School and a member of the Penn Sta te Chapter, is now a commissioned officer in one of the militar y medical services.

go through regular initiation for a long Marvin 0 . Lewis is medical cadet in one time, but "Roundy" Eifler makes up for of the Philadelphia medical schools.

John D. Garber, Jr., has just completed two men. his graduate work and been granted a Following fast in the footsteps of "J. T." Ph.D. in chemistry at the Universi~y of Kimbrell, who graduated this summer, Illinois. He has taken a position with the Bob Fischer is now Editor of the Purdue Sun Oil Company. Also, I believe he has Engineer and a Catalyst pledge as well. recently married a young lady from ChiOther activities men include Young of cago.

Hugh G. Pyle and Stanley H. Campbell the Engineer; Homsher and Graumlich are both connected with the Extension of the Debris staff; Gallatin, president of Service of the college. Hugh has charge the ASME and on the Engineer staff; of the Informal Instruction Division, the Teufel of the Exponent and president of lectures, etc., and Stan is one of the Dis- . Sigma Delta Psi (athletic honorary); trict Representatives.

Wheaton of the Exponent; Blue of Wf3AA; WILLIAMs. DYE, JR. Neil;mn of the Purdue Playhouse; and Price of the orchestra. We try to emphasize our activities and thus keep Acacia on the Purdue map as well as give our boys valuable experience.

Athletically, we again hit the jackpot this summer. Under the capable leadership of Teufel, we swept the badminton, Purdue golf, and archery tournaments, and ended a very successful summer season with everything, including the all-campus par"Be it ever so humble, there's no place ticipation trophy, well in hand. This is like home." These words certainly ring our second trophy in a row and we are true for us of the Purdue Chapter. Last July, for patriotic reasons as well as now looking forward to a third. Baseball is in full swing at present, to be followed others, we gave up our chapter house to the Army, and since that time have been by touch football, steeplechases, and basketball. In the varsity sports we are ably holding sturdily together in a frame house here at 120 Andrew Place. This represented by Young, Neilson, and Price house seems to have just one of every- -all in cross-country.

We lost four good seniors at the end of thing: one phone, one bathtub, one lavthe summer term. Kimbrell, Forbes, and atory, and only one-need I go further?

Although somewhat crowded for room "Louie" Horth left for jobs-still as civilians-and Klein went to Annapolis in with our sixteen boys, we enjoy our fraternal fellowship and do not think we the Navy. We miss all our boys and wish we could see them back. However, Palmade a mistake in sticking together.

With the army gnawing constantly at mer and Price, our farming engineers, our ranks, we are endeavoring to keep our have returned from their summer on the rushing program, going and hold our mem- farm, and are quite a boon to our slimming ranks. Without an Ag in the house, bership up to an operating level. On the we engineers have no one to insult excampus at the present time we have cept the Science students. Bob Blue is twelve actives and four pledges in the house; three actives living out; and our the only representative of the Science two V-12 sailors, Flexon and Perkey, at School-poor boy.

Surprise! Our original "GI" boys are Cary Hall. However, this list is to be coming back to old Purdue! Jake Coychanged soon, for "Little Abner" Campbell leaves us this week (for the army of ner and Van Darrow are here already; course) , and another pledge, Bus Wil- Shedd, "Gert" Pope, "Beat Up" Miller, liams, follows soon. So you see how it and perhaps Alexander are arriving soon.

But our Enlisted Reserve boys are by now goes.

We are happy to have our two loyal scattered from coast to coast-some in cooks, Miss Parrish and Mrs. Reagen, A .S .T .P ., as Cochran at Harvard, and back with us again. Since we have no others all around in far-flung camps, like kitchen or dining room facilities, we have Doug Horth in the Colorado ski troops.

We hear that our confirmed bachelor, consolidated with the Phi Delts next door, using their facilities and our cooks. Both Capt. Burkhart, is now married. Well, of us are well satisfied with the bargain. well, I wonder how she did it.

"Moneybags" Homsher was promoted Some of our more romantic souls have to V.D. in our last semester election, with been doing more than study at night lateNeil Teufel ta~ing over the job of treas- ly, and as a result we've lost three pins. urer. Other house officers are as follows: Darrow, Neilson, and Baughman are the Senior Dean, Bob Fischer ; Junior Dean, lucky boys, and they seem very happy Bob Blue; Secretary, Bob Young; TRIAD about the whole thing. The rest of us are Correspondent, Wayne Price. Many un- still "just looking." orthodox developments have arisen in Even though we don't have our big this different house, but these officers can chapter house, our "welcome" mat is handle anything. A late summer initiastill out for any Acacians in the Purdue tion brought three good boys, Ray Nuding, vicinity, especially for our service men.

AI Graumlich, and Dick Eifler, into our We'll try to keep the home fires burning fraternity. This is the smallest group to till you get back.

WAYNE PRICE

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Syracuse Mr. Everett E . Enos, Chapter Adviser at Syracuse, writes that although the chapter house has been taken over for the use of service men, the few Acacians left on the campus are holding together and having their regular meetings, although very informally. He also writes: "We always have our latchstring out for the members of Acacia. As a result, nearly every boy who has come back on leave has made a visit, even though for only a few minutes, at 1111 Euclid Avenue."

One Gift He Will W elÂŤ:o.ue Washington At the present time, this Chapter Adviser has no active chapter at all. It seems that the members of the Washington Chapter of Acacia are all able-bodiedat least the armed forces seem to think so -and therefore, since the active chapter has all gone to fight for freedom, naturally the Chapter Adviser must tag along.

In short, I have taken my first physical for the Service and am going to Ft. Lewis for my final sometime this week. Consequently, the next time you hear from me, it will probably be Pvt. Seeliger. I have four brothers in this war and I am the last of the Mohicans, so I'd better get in there and do my share quick-like.

The Washington Chapter House has a new composition roof of heavy red shingles. Other parts of the house have been renovated and remodeled so that it will be in excellent condition throughout for the boys when the victory and the peace have been won. The occupants of the house, thirty coeds, are giving it that ladies' touch-besides helping to pull the chapter out of the hole financially.

Lt. Commander Werberger has been stationed in Seattle for some time at Pier 41. He has seen action in Alaskan waters.

Several of the actives are with the Signal Corps in Seattle, namely Weems and Trafton. Robert Johnson is with the Marines, and "Bud" Stewart is with the Navy.

Bernard Anderson, our genial treasurer, started out as an office boy in an insurance broker's office some two years ago, and he now owO:s the business. Here is a true instance of startling success.

Earl Lagergren is a specialist in piecing together the wounded warships, and is progressing with undue rapidity toward being consulting engineer. In case the writer is called to service, Brother Lagergren will take over the office of Chapter Adviser. His address is 19 Aloha Street, Seattle.

This seems to be about all the news from Washington Chapter of Acacia for the present.

CLARENCE SEELIGER, Chapter Adviser

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Data on Service Men Needed The National Headquarters requests data of Acacians in the Service. A directory of Acacians in the armed forces such as appears in the TRIAD will have its best value if it is reasonably complete and accurate, which it can be if every Acacian on Uncle Sam's roster or his brother in civil life or his mother or some member of his family, informs this office of his change in address, rank, etc. In addition, we request names of men as they join the armed forces. If a permanent mailing address is given, the TRIAD w ill be sent there, otherwise it will go to the latest service address in our files.

Please send information at once to : ACACIA FRATERNITY, 7001 North Clark Street, Chicago.

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These Men Honor Their Country and Fraternity Relatives and friends of Acacia servicemen are requested to mail to the National Headquarters qloss photoqraphs of these men when casualty reports are received. The TRIAD is eaqer to continue to qive these heroes ·their riqhtful recoqnition.

Acacians in the service who are stationed on the North American continent receive copies of the TRIAD whether subscribers or not. All camp and service libraries-there are 252 of them-receive several copies of the TRIAD reqularly. This will do much to keep the men in touch with the Fraternity and enable them to qel in touch with mim located in the same camp or station.

IF YOU KNOW of any man in the service whose name and address does not appear below, you will do him a service by forwardinq his name and address to John C. Erwin, Executive Secretary. Acacia National Headquarters, 7001 Clark Street. Chicaqo, Illinois.

A penny postal will do the job.

Major Henry C. Miller. Quartermasters Corps.

Clifford A. Misener. U. S. N., Seattle, Wash.

Kenneth M. Moore, West Point Military Academy.

Lt. Commander Wriqhl C. Morton, U. S. Navy.

Bancroft A. Nelson, U.S.N., Phoenix, Ariz.

Lt. Col. Frank A. Pettit. 365th Engineers, Camp Campbell, Ky. Thomas R. Pray, U. S. Army, Ellington Field, Tex. Edward A. Prewett, U. S. Army, Camp Beale, Calif.

Charles A. Richardson, Av/C, HAAF, Hondo, Tex. Ted E. Rowe. U.S.N., New York, N. Y. Fred Rueqer. U.S.N., Westwood, Calif.

Ernest H. Saqehom.

Robert L. Smith, U.S. Navy Signalman.

Major Carlton 0. Stallman. APO #637, New York, N.Y. Robert Emory Thomas, Army Air Corps, Eagle Field, Dos Palos, Calif.

Lt. Wayne W. Waters. Navy Medical Corps, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Lee B. Williams. Army Engineers.

Capt. Georqe C. Woolsey. Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va. Martin Dean Yeaman. U.S. Army, Camp Roberts, Calif.

CINCINNATI

Charles E. Allen.

Zoltan Paul Azary.

Walter A. Baude. Capt., Finance Department, APO #600, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Stanley Bennett, Pfc., Co. E-4, 3651 S. U. ASTP, Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor, Mich.

William J, Bertsche, Lt., U. S. Army Ordnance CALIFORNIA Dept., Remington Arms Co., Illion, N. Y. Mason Ayer.

Robert Best.

Robert J, Ball. U. S. Army, Fort Belvoir, Va. Charles R. Borders, U.S.N.R. Lt. Edward W. Bowes. Univ. of Calif. , ROTC E. Rexford Boyd, Army Air Corps, Killed in Dept., Berkeley, Calif.

Service.

Craiq L. Conway. U. S. Army, Camp Roberts, Cecil W. Carleton. V-12-C. Engr., Purdue Univ., Calif.

West Lafayette, Ind. Lt. Lawrence T. Crawford, Naval Office of E. R. Colaianni. ASTP, Univ. of Alabama.

Procurement, 703 Market St., San Francisco, Maurice Embertson, Lt., Air Corps, 6151 WinCalif. throp, Chicago, Ill. Paul Dallas. Box 132 A, Oakley, Calif.

Robert L. Enqlert.

Lt. Robert F. Davidson. Army Air Corps. Killed Georqe M. Enos, Lt. Col., U. S. Army Ordin action. nance, 32 Edwards Ct., Fort Thomas, Ky. Golder DeWitt. Army AiJ Corps.

William J, Faqaly.

Roy E. Dixon. Army Air Corps, Santa Ana, Don Gallentine, Naval Cadet, Univ. of Notre Calif.

Dame.

Shelton Downey, U.S.N., Ithaca, N. Y. Norwood C. Geis, Lt., U.S.N.R., 3512 Cornell Capt. Robert F. Duttle, APO #4003, c/o PostPl. , Cincinnati, Ohio. maste r, New York, N. Y .

John Calvin Gibbons.

Bruce G. Dwelley, U.S. Army, Scott Field, Ill. William D. Edwards, U.S.N. , Treasure Island, James H. Giles, Jr.. Lt. Randall Graham Gilliss.

San Francisco, Calif.

Maurice B. Goodwin. Army Air Force.

Lt. Phillip H. Farley, U. S. Army. Prisoner of Gerald Haqaman, Naval Cadet, Purdue Univ.

Japa nese.

Robert Heckert.

Robert J, Force, U.S.N., Berkeley, Calif.

Ferdinand H. Hodde. Lt., {jg) U.S.N.R., San Major Charles 0. Garrells. Army Air Corps, Francisco, Calif.

Moffe tt Field, Calif.

Melvin 0. Johnson.

Donald Goodwin. U.S.N. , Seattle, Wash.

Georqe N. Kibler.

Lt. John Hall, Jr., Btry. C-316 C. A., BB Bn., Steven R. Kirch.

Camp Tyson, Tenn.

Wi!Jiam Klahm. Co. D. 6th Q .M.T.R., Bldg. T Richard Hirschfeld, Navy Air Corps, San Luis 229, Camp Lee, Va. Obispo, Calif.

H. Jack Lissenden. Co. F., 4th Q.M. School Ralph B. Hofer, Navy Air Corps, Corpus ChrisRegt., Camp Lee, Va. ti , Te x.

Albert N. Minton.

Kenyon H. Hook, H. A. 2/c, Co. 155, 15th Harry W. Morlatt, Sgt., Camp Shelby, Miss.

Btry, Camp Hill, U. S. Navy T. C., Farragut, Idaho.

Les Mustard.

Bernard C. Jenson (Pledge), U. S. Marine Air Edwin F. Price. Cadet, Univ. ol Cincinnati.

Corps . Killed in a c tion.

Lincoln Ralph, Ensign.

Felix Karrer.

William 0. Ramey.

William Reed Keyes. U.S.N., Berke le y , Calif.

Robert D. Reiman, Lt., 42nd Bomb Grp. Det., Major Merle C. Kline, U. S. Army, APO #502, Fresno, Hammer Field, Calif.

Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Edwin S. Rice. Capt., Air Corps, Montauk Major Karl C. Leebrick, Civil Affairs Training Point, Long Island, N. Y .

School, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. William F. Richards. Lt., APO 929, c/o PostLt. Joseph A. Lowe, U.S.N., c/o Fleet Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. maste r, New York, N. Y. John J, Ritchie. Capt., Ord. Dept., 3355 Werk Georqe W. Martin, Army Air Corps, Santa Rd ., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ana, Calif.

Carl Oscar Schmidt. Jr., Capt., 5701 Hamilton Lt. Robert L. Maxwell. U. S. Army.

Ave., College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Carl Schreiber. Cadet, Univ. of Cincinnati.

John Siqler. Lt. Fred Stork.

James D. Tewel. Capt., Ord. Dept. General Staff and Command School, Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.

Robert E. Thompson. 2nd Lt., Air Corps, 117 Masonic Ave., Monroe, La. Jack Van Wye, Fort Monmouth, N. J. Roland Waqner. Btry. C, 126 AAH Bn., Camp Haan, Calif.

Richard I. Wiqhtman.

William Wuest. Lt. Col., A.A.A. School. Bldg.

1847, Camp Davis, N. Car. Edward A. Zuercher. Naval Trng. Sta., Great Lakes, Ill.

COLORADO Georqe S. Barrus (Pledge). NV-12, 370 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

Roy Harold Berqman. Capt., A.T.C. Liaison Officer, Army Air Base, Topeka, Kan. Harold 0. Bowen (Pledge), NV-12, 370 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

L. J, Brunton. Lt. Col. Office Chief of Ord., Rm. 2B519B, Pentagon Bldg., Washington, D. C. Joseph M. Choun, NV-12, 491 Bigelow, BouJ:" der, Colo.

Shelby C. Cooke. NROTC, 209 McKenna, Boulder, Colo.

Robert B. Eckel, Co. B. ASTU, 3707 Wecota Annex, Brookings, S. D. William Keith Edmonson. Lt., Co. H., !57th Infantry, 45th Division, Camp Berkeley, Texas.

Barnett F. Felkner. NV-12, 269 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

Clyde W. Fosler. NV-12, 370 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

Homer D. Gatchell. NV-12, 932 14th St., Boulder, Colo.

James R. Gurley. NV-12, 235 Harding, Boulder, Colo.

William J, Hanna. Pvt., Co. C, 29th Sig. Tr. Bn., Camp Crowder, Mo. Richard C. Harder, Pvt., 841 5th East, Salt Lake City, Utah.

James M. Hurley, Pvt., Medical Technicians Corps, Rockford, Ill. Herbert E. Johnson, NV-12 , 180 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

John Johnson, Cpl., Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, Colo.

Lycurqus Johnson. Lt., Prisoner of war (reported) in Philippines. (Postage Free) U. S. Army, Interned in Philippine Islands, c/o Japanese Red Cross, Tokio, Japan. Via New York. (25 word limit.)

William H. Jones-Burdick, Capt., Base Weather Sta., AAFIS (!Pl. Bryan, Tex. R. Joel Kremer. Sq. E-5, Bks. 1, NAAC AAFCC, Nashville, Tenn.

Clarence J, Krieqer. NV-12, 180 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

Clarence I. Lemoine, Air Corps, Pharm. M. 2/c, Alaska.

John F. Lewis, S/Sgt., APO #40, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Roy B. Lewis, Pvt., Co. A. 508 Prcht. Inf. Regt., lsi Bn., Fort Benning, Ga. J, A. Lunsford. Lt.-Col., Army War Show.

Elmer J, Maul. Lt. (jg), c/o Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif.

Carroll B. McCampbell, Marine Corps, Men's Dorm. , Boulder, Colo.

Richard E. McCosh, NROTC, 115 McKenna, Boulder, Colo.

Elbert D. McNeil. Med. Unit, Fitzsimmons Hosp., Denver, Colo.

E. J. Meikel. Lt., P.O. Box 72, Kersey, Colo.

Carl A. Moore, Capt., Army Weather Station, Federal Bldg., San Francisco, Calif.

Ralph Moore. Sgt., Med. A. Corps, Officers Candidate School. Abilene, Tex. Thomas A. Peterson, NROTC, 306 McKenna, Boulder, Colo.

The Triad, October-Decem ber, 1943 Charles F. Poe, Col., Qmtr. Corps, North Africa.

Willard W. Rusk, Jr., Pvt., D.E.M.L. 8th Sta. Complement, Ft. Sill, Okla.

F. Burton Smith, Jr., Cadet, A.S.N., 17087250, Sqd. A-2, A . A. Fee, Nashville, Tenn.

Feay B. Smith, Lt.-Col., Camp Adair, Oregon.

Jon Sucher, Pvt., U. S. Army Signal Corps.

Joseph A. Thompson, Adjutant, Hdq. 2nd Photo & Reconnaissance Mapping Grp., Peterson Army Air Field , Colorado Springs, Colo.

Robert W. Truscott, Lt. (jg), 834 E St., Salida, Colo.

William F. Utlaut, NV-12, 221 McKenna, Boulder, Colo.

Arthur P. Valiton. A/C. TSAAFTTC. Gr. 4, Sq. 5, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn.

Craiq M. Ward (Pledge), NV-12, 369 Bigelow, Boulder, Colo.

William S. Wriqht. Pvt. , 330 A.A.F. Band, Midland, Tex.

COLUMBIA M. G. Spooner. Major, Sub-Depot Commander

Air Corps, 403 Third Ave., S., Columbus: Miss.

31 Merle Steele Robie. Japanese prisoner of war.

Robert L. Scott, Sgt., APO #43, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Walter J. Sickles, Lt., Co. D, 66 Bn., 14th Rgt., Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. Joseph Smith, A.S. Kenneth J. Sorace, Lt., Pendle ton Field, Ore. Harold Bertran Spofford, 116th James River Dr., Newport News, Va. Ronald E. Stillman. Lt., Fie ld Arty. Schl., Marine Base, Quantico, Va. Edwin J. Sunderville, Major, Quartermasters Depot, Atlanta, Ga. Arthur L. Thompson, Cpl., O.C.C. #82, Ft. Sill, Okla.

Walter Vail. Lt. , U.S.N.R., Medical Corps, c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. Earl Westervelt, Pvt., APO # 32285254, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Ralph H. Wheeler, Seaman 2/c, Naval Trng.

Station, Sampson, N. Y. E. J. Whitcomb, A.R.M., 31C, U.S.N., 2p Sq. 32, N.A.S., Moffett Field, Calif.

John G. Williams, Ensign, Jacksonville , Fla ..

J. P. Woodford, Pvt., 37th A.A.F.C.T.D. Unit E, Clemson, S. C.

CORNELL

Charles W. Albert, Lt., 400 W. 44th St., Miami Beach, 40, Fla. Thomas J. Bacon. Cadet, S.C.V. 3 A 21 A.S.T.P., Co. C Bogwell, N. C. State College, Raleigh, N. C. H. C. Ballard. Pvt., A.C.R., Burlington, VL K. R. Bartlett. Lt., Btry B, Newport, R. I Clarence F. Bent, Capt., Lawrence Warehouse Merrimack St., Lawrence, Mass. ' Richard C. Bonser, Ensign.

Ernest W. Brackett. Major, QMTR Corps, Rome Air Depot, Rome, N. Y. Robert C. Bradley. Capt., Co. "M," 519th Q.M. Trk. Reg!., Camp Jos. T. Robinson, Ark. J. W. Bryant, Cpl., Mitchell Field, Long Island, N.Y. Austin M. Connelly, Pvt., Co. C-1213th RC., Ft. Niagara, N. Y. Carl L. Cook. Capt., A.A.F SA.T .. Orlando, Fla. Charles E. Crittenden. Tech. Sgt. Karl M. Dallenbach, Major, U. S. Army, Univ. of Ill., Champaign, Ill. Derrill M. Daniel. Lt. Col., 0-235096, APO # 1, c/o Postmaster, New York , N.Y. Burtt D. Dutcher. Cpl., 16th Sig. Div., Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Alfred Haqedorn, Lt., Air Corps Materiel Div., Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

Leo Hamalian, L., 02047675, Station Hospital, Drew Field, Tampa, Fla. Georqe Hawley, Cpl., Drew Field, Tampa, Fla. Roy Stephen Hawley. Ft. Sill, Okla.

Warren W. Hawley, Capt., 39lst Armored F.A. Bn., Camp Pickett, Va. G. F. Heuser, Jr .. Lt. (jg), Fleet Post Office." San Francisco, Calif.

Henry L. Hood. Ft. Sill, Okla.

Stanley Hoyt, Pvt., Air Corps.

Burton Inqlis. Ensign.

David L. Johnson, Pvt., Ft. Devens, Mass.

Wendell C. Johnson, Pvt., Died in Jap prison camp.

Jarman G. Kennard. Lt., APO 3367, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Arthur C. Kulp, Pvt., APO #951, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Henry N. Little, Fort Andrews, Boston, Mass.

Phillip Loomis, Capt., Brooks Field, Tex. Raymond Lull, Air Corps.

Carl Osberq. Ensign, Naval Air Corps. Killed in action.

Carl Otto. Pvt. (Pledge), A.S.N. 32657868, Camp E. 376th Inf., APO #94, Camp Phillips, Kans.

Preston L. Peach. .

Robert L. Petrie, Lt., APO #860, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Raymond L. Rider. Tech. Cpl., 4th Bn. MOP, Jackson, Miss.

DENVER

J. Arthur Th~mpson, Capt., 7th Photo Recon.

Sqdn., Army Air Base, Colorado Springs, Colo.

FRANKLIN Edwin P. Buqbee, Lt., Columbia Army Air Base, S. C. H. C. Care, Pvt., 14th Medi=l Trng. Battn. , Co. "C," 2nd Platoon, Camp Pickett, Va. Robert Dando. 2nd Lt. , Fort Monroe.

Marion Grey Fields, Ferry Command, U.S.N. Frank W. Frick, Pvt., Co. A, 36th Sig. Trng. Bn. Camp Crowder, Mo. James G. Hardenberqh, Pvt., APO 942, c/o Postmaster, Seatte, Wash.

Norman P. Mortensen, Capt., Air Force.

Samuel W. Price. Lt., U.S.N.R., Washington,

D. C. Monette L. Rider. U. S. Army.

RobertS. Sakers, Lt., APO #9. c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Charles A. Stein, Pvt., Co. C, 14th Bn., Ft. McClellan, Ala. S. Francis Thoumsin, Sgt. , U. S. Army.

Earl B. Unqer, Capt. , Quartermaster Corps, Schenectady, N. Y. Karl W. Wendell, II, A/C, Cadet Det., Class 43-54, Te nt #4. Buckingham Army Air Field, Fort Meyers, Fla. Mark Wunder. Lt., APO #700, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.

GEORGE WASHINGTON Walton S. Allen, Lt., Signal Corps, U.S. Army.

Wallace Little Ashby, Cpl., Ill th S.R.D., Company, c/o Postmaster, Bend, Oregon.

Wil.liam Clark Ashby. Pvt., Co. A , A.S.T.P., Mississippi State College, State College, Miss.

William L. Balestri Millard MacDonald Bennett, Ensign. Killed in Service.

Richard Blaxton Berryman, Seaman, U.S.N. Medical Corps, Norfolk, Va. Georqe D. Beveridqe, Army Air Corps.

Ivan Booher. Sgt., Finance Dept. U. S. Army.

Albert P. Brodell, Pvt., Co. A, 65th Armored Inf. Bn. , 20th Armored Div., APO #444, Camp Campbell, Ky .

Alfred T. Bronauqh.

Howard K. Carlson, Sgt., Hq. Co., 125th Armored Engineers, APO #446, Camp Chaffee, Ark. Robert I. Carter. Lt., Army Air Corps, Perrin Field, Tex. Eldred C. Cavett, Lt. , Army Air Corps.

Austin B. Childress, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. Curtis A. Christianson. Navy Intelligence.

Emory W. Clapper, Lt., U.S. Navy.

Herman Elza Conyers. Warrant Gunner, U.S.N., San Francisco, Calif.

Ralph R. David, App. Seaman, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. Robert Alfred Dearth, Lt., U.S.N., Washington,

D. C. Milton Lee Dennis . Major, Finance Dept. U. S. Army , Washington, D. C. Lyman H. Dishman, Capt., Q .M. Corps, U. S. Army.

William Joseph Ellenberqer, Capt., Pentagon Bldg., U.S.A. Signal Corps, Washington, D. C. Frank Farkas, Lt., U.S.A. Air Corps, Tulsa, Okla.

Charles H. Fleck, Capt., APO 730, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

Arnold L. Flottman, Pvt., Co. D. 3664th S.U., A.S.T.P .. 717 Langdon St., Madison, Wis. Jerry N Griffin, Lt., U. S. Navy Joseph Robert Grille. Pfc., Personnel Sec., Co. B., H.Q., Camp Howze, Tex. Gordon B. Grimwood. Pvt., Co. B, 1548th Service Unit, P. 0. Box 1835, Univ. of Ky., Lexington 29, Ky. John Lyman Hall, Seaman, U.S.N., Norfolk, Va. Willard L. Hammer, Pvt., U. S. Army.

William Helvestine, Lt., U.S.N., Washington, D.C. Samuel G Holderman, Pfc, Armored Forces, U. S. Army, Ft. Knox, Ky. Robert Georqe Howie. Lt. , c/o Fleet Post Office , San Francisco, Calif.

Richard E. Hurdle, Air Cadet, U.S.N., Rensselaer Tech. , Troy, N. Y. Georqe T. Kelloqq.

Weldon L. Maddox, W .O. (jg), American Legation, Office of Military Attache, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Stanley Irvinq Maque, Pvt., Army Air Corps.

Harry P. McNauqhton, Pvt., U. S. Army.

James Milton McQueen, Capt., U.S.M.C. Theron Bromley Morrow, Lt. Comdr., U.S.N. Supply Corps, Washington, D. C. Leonard Durnell Peterson, Ensign, U.S.N. Air Corps, Jacksonville, Fla. Stanley W. Peterson, Pvt., U. S. Army James Henry Platt. Major, U. S. Army.

Ben B. Points, O.C.S., U. S. Army Air Corps, Miami, Fla Georqe Milton Rice. Lt., U.S.M.C., Quantico, Va. Edward Donald Robertson, Lt. U.S.N. William Harvey Seabrooke, U.S.N., Bermuda.

John P.. Sorenson.

Otto Edward Trilety.

Thomas William Waqner. Lt., U.S. N. Richard Myers Warfield, Cpl., 17th Sig. Serv.

Co., 533 Randolph St., N. W., Washington, D.C. Alfred J. Washinqton, U. S. Army.

Willard J. Whittaker, Pvt., U. S. Army.

Richard S. Wilkinson. Pic., 30th T.S.S. , Bks., #796, Scott Field, Ill. Robert Wineland.

Frank L. Wood.

HARVARD Thomas Pierce Roqers. Major.

Mere! S. Saqer. Capt.

Frank E. Tressle·r. Major, Ea tontown, N. J. Otis M. Whitney. Capt., Camp Edwards, Mass.

ILLINOIS Clayton S. Adams, Brig-Gen., U. S. Army.

Paul Adams. Pvt., M.R.T.C. Band, Camp Barke ley, Tex. Roy Adams, A/S, 31 C.D.T., Flight N, Arizona State College, Tempe, Ariz.

David W. Andre w s . Cpl., Co. C, 8lst Eng. Bn., 106th Inf. Div., 3rd Plat., APO 443, Fort Jackson, S. C. Reid Antle. S 2/c, Br. 408, Serv. Schl., USNTS, Great Lakes, Ill. E. E. Atherton. Lt., APO #882, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.

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32 R. V. Augenson. Pvt., Sec. II, Tmg. Del. #2, A.A.F.T.T.C. Univ. of Wis., Madison, Wis. Delmond " Gus" Bangert. Ensign, Sage # 6, Naval Tmg. Schl., Cornell Univ. , Ithaca, New York.

Robert J, Bartels, A/C, BTC #I , Sec. 2605, Sq. E., Boca Raton Club, Boca Raton , Fla. Arthur E. Bass.

Russell F. Becker, Lt., Navy Market Office, Poland & Dauphine Sts., New Orleans, La. Robert P. Bishop. Pvt. , 88lst A/B Engr. Avn. Bn., VII Increment, 1st Plat., Westover Field, Mass.

Jack R. Brink.

Fred Brockob. Lt., Co. C, 29th Bn., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. John Bullington, Lt., BOC #85 , Fort Sill, Okla.

F. A. Bush. Lt. Col., Post Special Service Officer, Camp Grant, Ill. C. T. Caldwell. Capt., U. S. Army.

John A. Chase. Major, U. S. Army.

Howard S. Claus. Pvt., 336 Fit., 34th Sq., 509th Trng. Grp. , B.T.C. #5, Kearns Field, Utah.

R. H. Clements, Capt., Commanding Hdg. Btry., Anti-Aircraft Artillery, C.A., Seattle, Wash.

Claude D. Collins. Capt., U. S. Army.

L. H. Collins. Major, U. S. Army.

Joseph M. Cook.

Allan M. Cress. Lt., APO #730, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

J, R. Davis. 3rd Engr. Schl. Reg!., Co. R-29, 6th Plat., Fort Belvoir, Va. Roy Ferrette, Pvt., Btry. B, 28th Bn., 7th Reg!., Sec. 4, F.A.R.T.C., Fort Sill, Okla.

Charles H. Fletcher. Lt., APO 927, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Donald L. Foote, Co. D, 62nd Bn., 1st Plat., 13th Reg!., Camp Robinson, Ark. Earl Garrett. A/C, Navigation Wing-Grp. 19, Sq. D, Flight 2, Ellington Field, Tex. Robert Garrity. Pvt., Co. D, Bn. 62, 1st Plat., Reg!. 13, Camp Robinson, Ark. Leo Gorenz. Btry. A-27, Bn. 7th Tmg. Reg!., F.A.R.T.C., Fort Sill, Okla.

Ralph Gould, A/C, 44-2-7, AAF Navigation School. San Marcos, Tex. Raymond E. Gregg. A/C, Sq. B. Flight 3, 308th AAFFTD, Stamford, Tex. Floyd Herzog. Pvt., 2nd Area·Bks . 1229, Scott Field, Ill. Laverne G. Hoener. S 26, Co. B, Sec. I , U. S. Sig. Schl. Sunny Gym., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Ralph V. Hollman, Major, 5173 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, Fla. R. W. lmpey. Lt., Weapons Dept. , T.D. School.

Camp Hood, Tex. Carleton J, Jacobson. Lt., Special Serv. Unit Trng. Center, Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Clifford A. Kaiser. Capt.

R. C. Kimbrell. Major, APO #85 , c/o Postmaster, Los Angeles, Calif.

L. W . Kolb, Ensign.

Edward E. Miller. Pvt. , ASTP STAR Unit, Univ. of Nebr., Lincoln, Neb. Jack Miller.

James E. Miller. Ensign, U. S. N. C. S. Monnier. Major, APO 9, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. David A. Monson. Pvt., B-6th, Bks. 2521, T.E.R.T.C. , Fort Riley, Kans.

E. Glendon Moore. Pfc., Co. B, 30 th Engineers, Ft. Belvoir, Va. James Pearson. Lt., APO 472, Fort Bragg, N.C. Richard F. Pedrick, Pvt. , Med. Det., A .A.F. Basic Flying Schl., Gree nwood, Miss.

S. R. Pemberton, Sgt., APO 512, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

James R. Pitcher, Lt. , Btry. I, OCD 99S, Camp Davis, N.C. Harry L. Plunkett. Ensign, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.

C. R. Reifsteck. Pvt. :Richard Roe. Cpl., Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Md.

William E. Rominger. Capt., 462nd Serv. Sq., AAF, Walterboro, S. C. Allen Sapora. Lt., U. S. Army.

Robert Sapora. Lt., U. S. Army, Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. Henry Schmidt. Pvt., Plat. 162, Recruit Depot M.C.B., San Diego, Calif.

W. R. Schmidt. Major, U. S. Army.

P. 0 . Shere, Pvt., Co. C, 27th Bn., S.C.R.T.C., Camp Crowder, Mo. George Slezak, Pvt. Army Air Force Trng.

Ctr., Med. Corps # 5, Kearns Field, Utah.

E. A. Smith, Major, U. S. Army.

W. H. Stevens, Pvt., Co. 5, 323 Tmg. Bn. , APO 81, Camp Rucker, Ala. Dana Stewart. A/S, Army Air Force, 63rd C.T.D. (AC), Sq. D. Sec. 12, Knoxville, Tenn.

Raymond H. Stone, Cadet, AST Unit 3710, Van Zile Hall Dorm., Kans. State College, Manhattan, Kans.

John T. Stringer. Capt., Station Hospital, Ft. Sill. Okla.

Dan C. Swickard. Pvt., Casual Del., C.R.T.O., Fort Riley, Kan. C. J, Taylor, Capt., 1757 N St. N. W ., Washington, D. C. D. G. Turner. Lt., Ads. Adm. GP Hdq., SMAAF, San Marcos, Tex. E. L. Verkler, Sgt., 262 Q. M. Bakery Co., Camp Bowie, Tex. Everett M. Volle. Lt. , APO 668, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Henry Volle. Lt., Co. C, First Bn., Camp Ritchie, Md. Mervin E. Volle. Lt., Base Postal Officer, 2nd Photo Grp. , Peterson Army Air Field, Colorado Springs, Colo.

William W. Watkins. Pfc., APO #33, Los Angeles, Calif.

D. R. Wehling, Pvt., Co. D, 2nd Plat., 102nd Bri. Med. Replacement Training Camp, Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark.

INDIANA Quentin Alcorn.

Donald W. Anderson. Pfc., Service Btry ., 76 Field Arty. Bn., Belmont, Calif.

Darrel Dressel Becker. Ensign, Naval Air Station, Breezy Point, POQ, Norfolk , Va. Leon Bidwell.

Robert E. Bitner. Lt. Col. 0-17371 , c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

William C. Blackledge. Capt., Japanese prisoner.

Eugene W. Brown. Lt., 514 Redwood Ave., Dayton, Ohio.

Robert William S. Bulmer. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. Joseph R. Campbell.

Robert W . Cottingham.

James B. Cox. Donald F. Crooke. Pvt., 35576732, Co. E, !84th In£. Amphibian Tr. Force #9, Fort Ord, Calif.

Louis Culmann, Sgt., Finance School, Finance Dept., Ft. Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. Richard Eugene Derby. Pvt., 400 School Sq., Flight 319 "D," Keesler Field, Miss.

George Dittrick, Lt., 2d Training Regiment, Ft. Benning, Ga. Hal Victor Driver.

Robert K. Eifler. Lt., 4801-9th St., N., Arlington, Va. Frank Forkner. Lt. William A. Forkner.

John Clifford Forsyth.

Willhite Foster. S/Sgt., Finance Del., Harding Field, Baton Rouge , La. James P. Gaddis. Pvt., Btry. F, 248th C.A., Fort Worden , Wash.

Dr. Roger Hanna. Major, 204 N. Wisner St., Jackson, Mich.

Guy Willard Hazel. Lt., APO #5, U.S. Army, c/o Postmaster, N.Y. Ordine M. Heine.

James Howard, Cpl., SCV 3414 STAR. Univ. of Alabama, University, Ala.

Fred Huff.

Troy Hutto. Major, Hq. 6th Regt., ASTP, Fl Benning, Ga .

Charles Jarrett.

Frank Johnson.

Lilburn R. Kemp, Major, Kelly Field, Tex. Herbert Kennedy.

Henry L. Kibler. 1st Lt. Carson Henry King, Lt., APO # 260, Ft. Benning, Ga. Robert G. Kluth. Naval Air Sta., Norfolk, Va. Robert Kohlmeier.

Howard Allen Larkin. Tech. Sgt., APO 814, c/o Postmas ter, New York, N.Y .

Donald E. Mann. Pvt., 4th Plat., Co. C, 7th Bn., Camp Wheeler, Ga. Robert S. McCracken.

Donald W. McMurtry. A /C John P. Newlon.

Charles E. Parr. Pvt. Robert Bice Place. Pfc., 3-511 1980, APO # 959, c/o Pos tmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Conley Poole.

Donald E. Queller, Co. C, 52nd In£. Tr. Bn., Camp Wolters, Tex. Maurice A. Robison. F C 3/c, Adv. Fire Control, Class JO-ME-4B R/S Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. Arthur Eugene Rodenberger. Lt., Co. E Basic 35 , Jst S. T. Reg-SSSC, Fort Benning, Ga. Earl Rogers.

Mark H. Rudolph. Co. D, 3rd Tmg. Bn., Camp Wheeler, Ga. Richard H. Russell. Pvt., AST Unit 4759, 3545 Henrietta St., St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Russell F. Sanders, Lt. Cmdr., N. N. H., Portsmouth, Va .

Booth John Scholl. Co. C-2, Government Isla nd, Alameda, Calif.

Branson Smith. Pvt. , 4th Pla t. , Co. C, 7th Bn., Camp Wheeler, Ga. Oscar Smith.

Robert B. Straesser. Lt., Camp Chaffee, Ark. John K. Summerville. Pvt., Btry. C, 4th Bn. 2nd Reg., F.A.R.T.C., Fort Bragg, N. C. James E. Tedford. Pvt., 4th Plat., Co. C, 7th Bn., Camp Wheeler, Ga. Ray C. Thomas. Lt~ Col. , APO #515, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

John William Thompson. Pvt., R-21-E, Bks. 65, Trng. Sq. 12, Jacksonville, Fla. Thomas William Thompson.

Paul E. Tombaugh. Col. Jack F. Turner. T /Sgt., Hq. Btry., 389 A.A. (AA) Camp Haan, Calif.

Guy Wellman.

Ward Williams.

IOWA William F. Coultas, c/o Fleet Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Paul E. Custer, 1st Lt. , U. S. Army.

IOWA STATE Donald L. Beachler.

Percy J, C. Brown, Lt., Ord. Officers Candidate Schl., A berdeen Proving Grounds, Md. George A. Buck, Lt., Hq. 862, F. A. Bn., 63 Div., APO 410, Camp Van Darn, Miss.

Wayne R. Chambers. Pfc., Co. B, 30th Engineers, Ft. Belvoir, Va. · Keith B. Chandler. Lt., 7th F. A. Observ.

Bttn., Camp Shelby, Miss.

Earl B. Dahl. Capt., APO 942, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

H. Robert Denney, H. A. 2/c, Bldg. 59, U. S. Naval Hasp., Chelsea, Mass.

George D. Downing. Lt., 12th Observation Sq., Fort Sill, Okla.

Kenneth B. Fisher. Sgt., APO # 602, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Bob Hagg, Pvt., APO 942, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

Earl Harris.

Truman Edward Hienton.

Bruce D. Johnson. Lt., F.A., AAFTEAFS, Marfa, Tex.

The Triad, October-Decem ber, 1943 Harold Kirk, Major, 76th Inf. Div. Arty., Ft. George G. Meade, Md. F. B. Lanham. Lt., 94th C. A., Camp Davis Wilmington, N. C. ' John M. Larimer, S 2/c, Rec. Sta. 495, Summer St., Boston, Mass.

Walter E. Lauridsen, A.S.V.-11, U.S.N.T.S., Co. E-2, McFadden Hall 424, Ithaca, N. Y. Richard G. Maire, U. S. A., c/o Infirmary R. R. C. 1773, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

James Allen McArthur.

W. L. Neidigh, Lt., Hdq. & Hdqs. Co., APO 825, c/o Postmaster, New Orleans, La. Russell R. Newell. A/C, AAF AFS, Brooks Field, Tex. Charles Boyd Oldsen. Welch Hall # 111, A.S.U.S.N.R., V-12, Ames, Iowa.

Forrest Pitsenberger. Cpl., Records Section ' Fort MacArthur, Calif.

R. E. Proctor. Lt., Hq. School Troop Brig., Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. Ralph S. Secor. Lt., U. S. Army.

L. 0. Temple, Midshipman, USNR, New York, N. Y. Harry Thornberry, Ensign, Ward Island, Corpus Christi, Tex. John H. Wessman, Lt., 325 E. 20th St., Olympia, Wash.

Karl Wester, Capt., Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss.

Keith S. Wood. Capt., Flight Trng., Hendricks Field, Sebring, Fla. Werner H. Zugschwerdt, Lt.-Col., Edgewoqd ArsenaL Md.

KANSAS F. C. Amos. Capt., Japanese Prisoner of War. Allen Anderson, 2nd Lt., Marine Aviation Corps.

F. Crocker Bacon, Capt.

Carl T. Baer, Lt.-Col., Engineers, 328 Blue Bonnet Blvd., San Antonio, Texas.

Robert Baughman, Radio Tech., 1st Class.

John Bondeson. S/Sgt., APO #634, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Robert L. Bums. APO 7185, c/o Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Max L. Cole. Amarillo, Tex. Donald D. Dannenburg, 2nd Lt., Chemical Warfare Service, Huntsville ArsenaL Ala. Max E. Fessler, Lt., Box 345, Winfield, Kans.

Carol J, Freeman. Lt. Ural Elmer Horton, U. S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md. Warren J, Livengood, NAS - NOB, Norfolk, Va. Ned A. Martin. T/S, APO #81, c/o Postmaster, Los Angeles, Calif.

Robert Arthur Perry, !27th Obs. Sq., Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Sam H. Pinder, Lt., Army Air Force, Kissimmee, Fla. Lloyd H. Ruppenthal. Major, APO 625, c/o Postmaster, Miami, Fla. Leon A. S. Sherwood, Capt., Eng., Camp Claibourne, La .

Chester K. Shore. Major.

Schiller Shore. Officer, Camp Robinson, Ark. John Fred Stubeck, Pfc., 905 Trng. Grp., Bks. 1201, Amarillo, Tex. Richard F. Treece. Lt., Overseas.

Raymond D. Tripp, Lt., Hendricks Field, Fla. William R. Ward. 1st Lt., Ft. Rosecrans, Calif.

Edward 0. Willeford, Lt., instructor in the bomber school at Albuquerque, N. M. M. Clinton Wood, Air Corps.

Clyde Woodman, 2nd Lt., Chemical Warfare, Edgewood ArsenaL Md. Frank D. Yaussi, Army Air Corps.

KANSAS STATE C. W. Brown. A. S., Receiving Ship, San Francisco, Calif.

Guy Buchanan, Naval Trng. Sta., Aviation Maintenance, Memphis, Tenn.

E. S. Donovan, Pvt. R. C. Eychner, Capt., Box 85, BR. C, Monterey, Calif.

33 Harold W . Frasier. PFC, 51 8th Ord. Unit Trng.

Center, Mississippi Ord. Plant, Jacksonville, Miss.

LeRoy F. Fry. Pvt., A .F.T.T.C., I.M. 21-43 Curtiss Wright Tech. Inst. •. 400 N. Paul~ St., Glendale, Calif.

Keith 0 . Hodgson, Pvt., Btry. A, 56th AA Trng.

Bn., 2nd Plat., Camp Callan, San Diego 14, Calif.

George Kerr, Capt.

W . R. Wichser. Pfc, 87th B. Hq. and A.B. Sqdn., Army Air Force Adv. Flying School, Victorville, Calif.

Leonard E. Wood, Pvt. , Btry. G, 56th A. A. Trng. Bn., Camp Callan, San Diego 14 Ca~ ' '

MICHIGAN Robert Boswell, Ensign, U.S.N. Wilford H. Brown, Battery A, 34th Battn., Fort Sill, Okla.

Fred J. Bryan. U.S.N.-V-12 , Ann Arbor, Mich.

T. Kay Buchanan.

Russell J, Buster, Co. E, !51st Inf., APO #38, Camp Livingston, La. Weimar Christman. Lt., U.S.N.R., Cambridge Mass. ' James Churchill, Pvt., Co. A, 3872nd ASTP Unit, Murray Annex, Okla. A & M College Stillwater, Okla. ' J. Ross Clark.

John F. Durr.

Albert E. Eastman.

John B. Green.

Allen J. Grieger.

Arch H. Hall.

Arthur Hills, Army Air Corps Band, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

Douglas H. Hoard.

J, E. Hutchinson. Lt. Douglas C. Jeffrey. Lt., APO 942, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

Stewart A. Kingsbury.

William E. Leeder. Ensign, Navy, San Diego, Calif.

F. W . Luebke. Lt., Instructor, Lee Field, Jacksonville, Fla. Richard J, Mann.

Joseph Matt, Lt., Tank Automotive Center, Detroit, Mich.

John H. Moehlman.

Carl A. Moore, Lt., Air Corps Replacement Center, Santa Ana, Calif.

John F. Munn, Lt., c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

John F. Paup.

John Pierson, Ensign, U.S.N. Wilmer G. Pierson.

R. W. Pomeroy, Capt., Medical Corps, 9th Armored Div., D. S. 0 ., Fort Riley, Kans.

Walter J. Roberts.

Claude Gene Sherry, U.S.N.T.S., Great Lakes, Ill. Herbert E. Smith.

Richard M. Spath.

Howard L. Spracklin.

Richard G. Widman.

John E. Wunch.

MINNESOTA Sidney P. Alexander. Lt., Co. A, 338th Inf..

Camp Shelby, Miss.

William A. Allen, Ensign, B.O.Q., Rodd Field, Corpus Christi, Tex. Gordon G. Anderson, A/C, Cent. State Teachers College, Stevens Point, Wis. Richard Anthony, Cpl., Co. F, Sec. F-ASTSCSU 1149, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn.

Richard Barnes, Sgt. Conrad Blomberg. Av/C, 402 First Ave., N. W., Mandan, N. Dak. Fred Chandler.

Walter Cox. Col. Lawrence E. Englund. Seaman, Navy 8040, Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif.

Lynn Fenstermaker, Ensign, Navy Supply Corps Schl., Harvard Graduate Schl. of Bus. Admin., Boston, Mass.

G. W . Glarner, Lt., Supply Officer, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Allan Harrington. U. S. Coast Guard Benefit Entertainment Unit.

Frank E. Hollar, Capt., 1001 Third, Coronado, Calif.

Harold B. Jensen, Rm. 604 B. Johnson, USNR Midshipman's School, New York, N.Y. Russell Johnson, Lt. Wallace Kienast. Cadet, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex. Walter K. Knox. Col. George Larsen. Pvt. 1115 T E F T S, A A FA F S, Marfa, Tex. Russell 0 . Larson, American University, Bomb Disposal School, Washington, D. C. Linton Lehrer. Pvt., 995 Q.M.T. Co., Camp Edwards, Mass.

John H. Livingston. Cpl., APO 501, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. · Dr. A. A. Love, 1321 Acton St., Berkeley, Calif.

Gordon Lundin, Lt., 467th C.A., Bn. AA, Camp Stewart, Ga. Tom Barnard Mathison, Capt., Adjutant, 14th Coast Arty., 3rd Batt., Fort Flagler, Wash.

Robert McDonald, Ensign, Naval Training School, (Communications) Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass.

Robert McNaughton, U. S. Coast Guard, c/o Captain of the Port, Wilmington, Calif.

A. Milberg.

J, Montgomery. Lt. Merle Morris, Ensign, USNR. In Pacific.

A. Nelson.

Gerald F. Oppel, Ensign, Army-Navy Trng.

Schl., Brainard Fie ld, Hartford, Conn.

Ellwood Peterson. 89th Inf. Slw., Camp Carson, Colo.

William C. Pohtilla, Ensign, Vero Beach, Fla. Robert Ramin, Pvt., Co. D, 302 Qmtr., Btn. 1851, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex. William Stanley Roberts. Lt., Army.

Robert Shober, Lt., Co. B, 52nd Med. Trng.

Bttn. , Camp Barkeley, Tex. Gordon Starr, Chief Petty Officer.

Robert Tiffany, Lt., 358th Inf., 90th Div., Camp Barkeley, Tex. Lyle Victor. Pvt., Army.

James N. Zellmer.

MISSOURI C. E. Barkshire. Lt.-Col., U. S. A., Boston, Mass.

William Brandt. U. S. Army.

Virgil L. Dann, Batte ry 6, 2d Platoon, O.C.S., Camp Davis, N.C. Fred L. R. Eistrup.III. Lt., Fort Bragg, N.C. Victor A. Ellis. 2nd Lt. , U. S. Army Medical Corps.

George Ferguson. Cadet, Naval Air Training School, Maryville, Mo. Ted Fitzwater. Cpl. Jesse Gittinger. Capt.

Thomas W. Griffin. U. S. Army, 415 Cherry St., Jefferson City, Mo. Frederick L. Howard, U. S. Army.

R. B. Howie. Cpl., Hdq. Sqdn., San Bernardino Air Base·, San Bernardino, Calif.

Carl Huffman. Lt. , APO 398, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Craig B. Johnson, Cmdr., Medical Corps, U. S. N., 515 Montauk Ave., New London, Conn.

Samuel Charles Kraus. Jr.. U. S. Army.

Roland Lanser. Capt., FARTC-14 th Regt., FL Bragg, N.C. Donald Lowery. Sgt., USMC, Hawaii.

Mervin Mansager, 1st Lt., Special Se rvices Officer, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

Paul C. McMillan. Lt., U. S. Army, California.

Robert McMillan, U. S. Army.

Elmus L. Monroe. U. S. Army.

Carl Howard Ceder. U. S. Army.

Joseph H. Peck. Lt., U.S. Army.

Chester J, Peters. Lt.-Col.. U.S.M.C.R., Naval Air Base, Gardner, Kans.

Carl Pfotenhauer. Tech. Sgt. , U. S. Army, APO #887, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

The Triad, October-December, 1943

34 David E. Pfotenhauer. Cade t, Army Air Corps.

Clement A. Powers. Lt., U. S. Navy.

James F. Reid, Lt. , Air Corps, Lemoore Army Air Base, Lemoore, Calif.

C. Wayne Roush. Lt., Administration Office, Army Air Corps, Ne w Mexico.

Conrad Vernon Schmidt. U. S. Army.

Reed Alfred Schmidt. U. S. Army.

Ray Shelley, Me rchant Marine Radio Officer, Rm. 25, Carol Hotel, Ne w Orleans 15, La. Lawrence K. Smarr. Lt., U. S. Army.

Robert Smith. U. S. Army Air Corps, Alabama.

Victor E. Sparling. Sgt., Signal Corps, Camp Crowder, Mo. Robert Stauffer. U. S. Army Air Corps.

John D. Warner, 9th Co., 2d Battn., lsi STR, Fort Benning, Ga .

John A. White. U. S. Army.

Roy A. Wilhelmsen. Pvt., U. S. Army.

NEBRASKA Dick Bloomingdale, U. S. Army Air Corps, Charlesgate Hotel. Boston, Mass.

T. M. Bodie, Lt., c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

James Bordwell. U. S. Army Air Corps.

Ed. Burroughs. Sgt., U. S. Army.

David Cramer, Lt., U. S. Army Engineers.

W. K. Dalton, Lt., APO # 255, c/o Postmaster, Los Angeles, Calif. â&#x20AC;¢ Robert Douglas, Medical Corps Reserve, Y. M. C. A ., Lincoln, Nebr.

Lloyd Dworak, Naval Air Corps, 4232 Mason St. , Omaha, Nebr. .

Ned B. Eastlack. Cpl., APO 668, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Frederick W. Groth, Pvt., Pawling, N.Y. FrankL. Johnson, Ensign, B. 0. Q. Bldg. 661, Room 261 , Naval Air Station, Dallas, Texas.

Jerry Mayburn, U. S. Army Air Corps, 35 11 C Street, Lincoln, Nebr.

James McDougal. Lt., U. S. Army, Field Artillery.

Georqe Meier. Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps.

Gordon Milligan, U. S. Army Air Corps.

HarYey Minnick, Ensign, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. James Miinnick. Pvt., U. S. Army.

Harold Patterson, Cpl., U. S. Army.

Robert Shoemaker. Spartan Aircraft, Tulsa, Okla.

Charles I. Slagle, Pvt., Amarillo, Tex. Roy James Smith. U. S. Army Air Corps.

James Smith, U. S. Army Air Corps.

Keith G. Van Neste. Lt., U. S. Army.

Elton Wiley, U. S. Army Air Corps.

Guy H. Williams. Lt., AAF Hdq. , Washington, D. C.

NORTHWESTERN Donald J, Anderson, Major, Army Exchange Serv. , 25 W. 43rd St., New York City.

Warren Ball, Pfc. , Co. D, ASTP, SCSU 1149, Calhoun Coli., Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn.

Lloyd J, Benefiel, T/ S, APO 874, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Leslie W. Bennett. Lt. Com., (D. E. 132) c/o Flee t Post Office , New York City.

Benjamin L. Bion, Capt., Special Service Officer, 37lst Combat Team, Inf., Fort Huachucha, Ariz.

Ashton Bisbee, Sgt., U. S. Army Station Hospital, Med. De l., Camp Blanding, Fla. Roland H. Bolyard, Pfc. , Bks. 829, 93rd, Scott Fie ld, Ill. Edward Raymond Broezel, Pvt., !67th Eng. Com. Bn., Med . Del., Camp McCain, Miss.

Bobb E. Brown. S/Sgt., APO #730, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash.

Fred A. Bruce. A/C, Bat. VII, Plat. #3, U.S.N. F.P.S. V-5 , Greencastle, Ind. Roqer 0. Case, Sgt., 36048840, APO #520, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Charles Cederberg. Lt., Co. A, 64th A.I.B., Camp Chaffee, Ark.

Richard M. Chadwick. Lt. Com. , 1660 Naglee, San Jose, Calli.

Robert F. Chapler. Lt., 0497531. APO #1223. c/o Postmaster, New York City.

James R. Cleland. Lt., 455th Bombard. Sq., Langley Field, Va. Craig Clemons, Lt. (jg), c/o Fleet Post Office, New York City.

Howard Coleman. Pfc., Station Hosp., Army A. W. Base, Syracuse, N. Y. William 0. Cummings, U.S.N. Thomas Philip Davies. Lt .. U.S.N.R., Box 25, Fleet Post Office, New York City.

J. L. Dutcher. Ph.M. 1/c, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Curtis M. Erickson. Lt. (sg), USNR, Gunnery Dept., Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Richard W. Evans, Lt., 117 Chester St., Norfolk , 3, Va. Jerome W. Finnigan. TM. 3/c, Fleet Torpedo School. Class 2Q-44N, U. S. Naval Repair Base, San Diego 36, Calif.

Delphin W. F!oberq. Pvt., APO #5, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Benhart G. Fred, W. 0., 157 Inf. Band, APO 45, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

William H. Friedrichs. Naval Unit, N.W. Univ., Evanston, Ill. Walter M. Gibbs, U.S.N.R.O.T.C., Bks. 15, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. Carl Elmer Haglund. Lt.-Comdr., Res.: c/o Harwood Farm, East Falls Church, Va. Sherwood E. Hall. Lt., Bat. C, 9th Bn., Fort Eustis, Va. George A. Heinemann. Lt. {jg), U.S.N.A.T.S., Olathe, Kans.

Merton E. Hill. Lt., Insp. Div. Mat. Comd., Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

Arthur C. Hoelck. Pvt., Sq. A, Barracks 415, 22nd Trng. Grp., AAFTTC, Jefferson Barracks , Mo. Charles W. Holmes. Fleet Post Office, New York, N.Y. Wayne H. Holtzman. U.S.N.R.O.T.C. , Bks. #15, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. George Jansen, Ensign, Res. 1660 Wood Street, Dubuque, Iowa.

H. P. Johnson, Lt. , Office of Qmstr., DavisMonthan Field, Tucson, Ariz.

Arthur E. Keary, Pvt., 879th Guard Sqdn.

Clerk, Brockley Field, Mobile, Ala. Walter A. Kelley. Jr., Cpl. , 4766th A.S.T. Unit, S. Oak. Schl. of Mines, Rapid City, S. Dak. Robert W. Kittredge. Ensign. Killed in action.

Jack T. Kroner, U.S.N.R.O.T.C., Bks. 20, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill. Robert Thomas Laechle, Cpl., Co. L, 376th Inf., APO 94, Camp Phillips, Kans.

Neal E. Leach.

Neal E. Leach. Pvt., Co. "C," 3rd T.C., Tng. Bn., New Orleans, 12, La. H. Verne Loeppert, U.S.N.R. Rm. 420, 430 E. Huron, Chicago, Ill. Daniel J. Macer, Capt., APO #503, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

R. A. Marks. Lt., N.A.S., Pensacola, Fla. William J, Masoner. Jr., Lt. {jg), USNR, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Newell Macartney. A/C, Grp. 4, Sq. C.-44B, Maxwell Field, Ala. William L. Melgaard. Lt., Philadelphia Q.M. Depot, Philadelphia, Pa. Leon 0. Meyer, Lt., APO #645, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Robert C. Meynen, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va. William B. Miller. Pvt., STAR Unit, Sec. W, The Armory, U. of Ill., Champaign, Ill. George E. Morgan, Ensign, c/o Fleet Post Office, New York City Frederick E. Nagel, V-12 , Ann Arbor, Mich.

William Neill, Cpl., Army Courier Service, Bldg. # 105, Fort Myers, Va. Charles J, Nelson. Lt., Co. A , lst Battn., ERTC, Fort Belvoir, Va. John E. Ortmeyer. Roosevelt Military Academy, Aledo, Ill.

Carl F. Parker, Lt., Box 295, Chanute Field, Ill. H. C. Perry. Lt., U.S. Naval Hospital. Ward C, Room 12, Soq., Seattle, Wash.

Bob James Present, Midshipman, Tower Hall, Rm. 301, Chicago, Ill. Howard Ringholm. Pvt., AST, Co. 12, Bar. 30, Univ. of Ill., Champaign, Ill. Gordon Robertson. Sgt., 526th B. Hq. & A. B. Sq., A.A.F.C.C., Nashville, Tenn.

Horace H. Southworth, Cpl., 373rd A.A.F. Band, Marfa, Tex. John D. Southworth, APO 33, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Frank T. Spangler. U.S.N.R.O.T.C., Bks. 20, N. W. Univ., Evanston, Ill. James D. Summers. Jr.. A/S, V-12, Bldg. # 15, N. W. Univ., Evanston, Ill. H. C. Ullmann, T /S, Hq. & Hq. Co., 593rd E.B. & S.R., Fort Ord, Calif.

Robert Vucha. A/C, Sq. C, Barracks D, Southern Aviation School. Camden, S. Car. Sam H. Walker. U.S.N.R.O.T.C., N.W. Univ., Evanston, Ill. John Weaver. Lt. Col., APO #512, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. James 0. While. Cpl., 16144718, Army FInance School, 52nd Class, Wake Forest, N.C. Robert V. Wilcox. Army A9,m. School, O.C.A. #2. Co. A , Grinnell, Iowa.

Charles A. Willis. APO 33, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Edward M. Wones. Pfc., 3663rd Serv. Unit, ASTP, Loyola Univ., Chicago, Ill. Fred T. Woods. Pfc., Co. G4 , 365lst S.U., ASTP, Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor, Mich.

James C. Wulliman. Pvt. , ASTU #1188, Providence College, Providence, R. I.

OHIO Marvin J. Banton. Canal Zone.

Robert C. Barnard, A-4-2, F.A.R.T.C. , Fort Bragg, N. C. Robert Beerbower. Pfc., Box 383, ASTU 4766, Co. A, S. D. School of Mines, Rapid City, S.D. Don Paul Berens. Pfc., USMC, Co. B, Sig. Bn., Bks. 323, Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C. William Judson Bowen, A/S, Sq. G3, NAAC -AAFCC, Nashville, Tenn.

Jack A. Bronson. Navy V-12.

Karl F. Buck. 3/C Phm., Co. 1038, Bks. 210 B. North, OG.U., Great Lakes, Ill. John D. Burroughs.

Floyd Craft. 2nd A.A.F., LTD, Hotel Stilwell, Pittsburg, Kans.

Richard Cross, A-4-2, F.A.R.T.C., Fort Bragg, N.C. Harold Richard Davis. Pfc., Bks. 13 B9, Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.

Howard Farley, A/C, Oxnard Field, Calif.

AI Lewis Grosjean. Major.

Donald James Haxton. 47th Air Force Band, Army Air Base, Casper, Wyo. David T. Herrman. 307 Marner-Pfe iffer Hall, Berea, Ohio.

"Pete" Herrrnan (Pledge), V-12, 1512 Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.

Donald E. HoeHel. AST STAR Unit, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Robert D. Humbert, A/C. Killed in Service.

William Huston, 330th AAFCTD, Bks. 21, Penn State College, State College, Pa. Thomas L. James. Pfc., Co. A, 4 Bn., PRD, Pittsburg, Calif.

Otto A. Jiskra. Pvt., 363rd Schl. Sq., A.C., Barrack 464, Lowry Field, Denver, Colo.

Ralph W. Jones, A/S, 2nd Co., lsi Plat., V-12, Bks. #3. 163 N. Franklin, Delaware, Ohio.

Edward G. Kar. Pvt., (Pledge) 7lst AAFTTD, Flight A, Univ. of Va., Charlottesville, Va. Orville K. Knight, Capt., U. S. Army, Camp Atterbury, Ind. Ralph C. Leever. Ensign.

James Mahaffey. U.S.N.R.-U-5, Carroll College, Helena, Mont.

The Triad, October-Decem ber, 1943 Paul A. Newell.

Kenneth E. OeHler, Lt., c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Georqe A. Painter. Pvt., APO #871, c/o Postmaster, New York, N . Y. Curtis H. Porter. Lt., Neil Gables Apls. (34), Columbus I, Ohio.

Donald Rader. A/C, Res. Sq., Sec. III, Bks. 131, Nashville, Tenn.

Carleton E. Rice. 47 Air Force Band, Casper, Wyo. Robert Scott. Pvt., Co. A, 3667th S.U., A .S.T.P., Bradley Institute, Peoria, Ill. John E. Senn. Lt., APO #606 , c/o Postmaster, Miami, Fla. Loren E. Senn. Med. Student, Ohio Univ., 361 E. Tulane Rd., Columbus, 2, Ohi'o.

John Skinner. 1st Tel. Co. Sig. Bn., Class SIA, Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C. William E. Tetrick, S/Sgt., 365th A.A.F. Band, Gore Field, Great Falls, Mont.

Don A. Walter. A/C, (Pledge), Killed in Action.

D. J. Whitacre. Capt., Station Hospital, N.O.S.A., New Orleans, La.

OKLAHOMA William C. Alston. Lt., Med. Corps, Army Air Base, Dalhart, Tex. Olin G. Bell, Lt. Col., Base Executive Officer, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colo.

William H. Bollinqer, Capt., Ft. Bragg, N.C. Alfred D. Brown.

Bill E. Carson. Lt. Killed in action.

Bryan T. Cole, Major, Field Artillery School, Ft. SilL Okla.

Leon Davis, Capt.

Henry Martyn Douqhty. Capt. Died in Jap prison camp.

Ernest E. Ervin, Lt., c/o Fleet Post Office, New York City.

Robert G. Gillespie. U. S. Marines, San Diego, Calif.

Clarence Bill Greqq. Lt. Don Allen Hartman. Navy V-12, Southwestern College, Georgetown, Tex. Charles Monroe Heard. Navy V-12, Norman, Okla.

Edward F. Heard, A.S.T.P., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Harlan D. Johnson, Lt. Wilton N. Jones, Engineering Dept., Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Ky. Henry Huqh Kidd.

Leo Kraun, Flight Instructor, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Lloyd C. Lane, Anti-Aircraft School, Camp Callan, San Diego, Calif.

J, B. Lonq. Reported missing over Germany.

Ernest L. Mcintyre.

Jack E. Moore, Lt., Ellington Field, Houston, Tex. Jerry B. Morqan, Camp Barkeley, Tex. Louis A. Morqan, School of Medicine, Univ. of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Okla.

William Robert Morqan.

Merton E. Munson. Lt. Col., APO #90, c/o Postmaster, Los Angeles, Calif.

Thomas V. Munson, Major, 256th F.A. Bn., Camp Gordon, Ga. Jones H. Quarles, Ensign, c/o Flee t Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Dr. Henry D. Rinsland. War Department, Washington, D. C. Clark Roach. 808 Aviation Bn., March Field, Riverside, Calif.

James K. Samara.

Walter Phillip Schefle. Lt., Camp Barkeley, Tex. Harry Georqe Scoufos. Lt. Kenneth Shillinq, Field Artillery, Alexandria, La .

Lendell Earl Steele. Tank Destroyers Sq., Camp Hood, Tex. John P. Stewart, Capt., Camp Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo.

35 Odell Elemer Stone, Adv. Training, Army Air Corps, Mason City, Ia. Kenneth M. Taylor, Lt., c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

William D. Valentine, Engineering Dept., Kentucky State College, Frankfort, Ky. Georqe Luther Verity, Lt. Prisoner of Japanese.

Glenn E. Weesner, Army Air Corps.

Bob Gardner White, Camp Barkeley, Tex. Forrest K. Whitworth, Army Air Corps, Sheppard Field, Tex. Stanley E. Williams.

Edward M. Woody. S2/c, U.S.C.G.-MBTS, Co. 39, Brooklyn, 29, N. Y. Carl Zimmerman, Little Rock, Ark.

OKLAHOMA STATE William E. Bettes. Lt. , U. S. Army.

Clenton E. Crain. Capt., 0-350989, APO #929, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

Jack Elliott, U. S. Army.

Frederick P. Fulton, Lt. , 333rd Bomber Grp., Dalhart, Tex. Paul J, Lemley. U. S. Army.

Lloyd Lunqer. Pvt., U. S. Army.

Paris Perswell. Pvt., U. S. Army.

Gerald T. Shannon, Capt., C.E., APO # 551, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. y: Charles R. Taylor, Camp Barkeley, Tex.

PENN STATE Richard Abbott. U. S. Army.

Ernest Berkaw, Ensign, Washington, D. C. William S. Dye. III. S/Sgt., Hdq. & Hdq. Sq., A.T.C., Washington, D. C. Robert Fortenbauqh, U. S. Army, Coast Artillery, Ft. Eustis, Va. John F. Gillespie, Lt., 440 Green Street, Augusta, Ga. Donald W. Hallman. Pvt., ACF, 68 Colg.

Trng., Det. West Hall, Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. Randall Jacobs, Capt., Engineerin9 Del., Southwest Pacific.

Robert Jones. Pvt., U. S. Army Officers' Training School, Fort Bragg, N.C. Harry Douqlas Kutz, F. C. Robert Lee. Ensign, Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Marvin 0. Lewis, Med. Cadet, Philadelphia.

Walter Lowry, Air Corps.

Robert L. Meyer, Pvt., U. S. Army, Co. B, 305th Engrs. Bin., APO #80, Camp Forrest, Tenn.

J, Richard Myers. Lt., U. S. Army, 906th F. A .

Bn., APO #81 , Camp Rucker, Ala. David P. Osborne, Military Med. Service.

Warren W. Parke, lsi Lt., U. S. Army.

John M. Rolin, Jr.. S.M. 2/c, Fleet Service Schools, Norfolk, Va. Georqe K. Schubert, 1st Lt. , APO #640, c/o Postmaster, New York City.

Lloyd H. Shenefelt. 2nd Lt., U. S. Army, 389th In!., 98th Div., Camp Breckenridge, Ky. E. Gates Shull, U. S. Army, APO #252 , Dilworth, N. C. David C. Sims, Pvt., Trng. Unit #6, 723 M.P. Bn., Newport News, Va. Marshall Smith, Ensign , Pittsburgh Recruiting Office, Pittsburgh, Pa. Raymond B. Stein, Pvt. , STAR, University (P.O.), Ala. Robert H. Strasmyer. Sgt., Overseas.

John P. Thomas. lsi Lt., Overseas.

Richard E. Walck. 2nd Lt., APO New York City.

William F. Whitby. Jr.. Pvt., U. S. Army.

PURDUE F. S. Alexander, Pvt., Co. C, 1st Ord. Tmg. Regt. , O.R.T.C., Plat. # 3, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md Robert Stanley Allen. A.C.S., Sq. A, Sec. 25, 60th C.J.D., Ac., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa .

G. R. Allison. Capt., BOC # 95, Ft. Sill, Okla.

How ard Ayers, Lt.-Col., Hdqrs. 2nd Army, Memphis, Tenn.

W. H. Bach, Capt., O.A.C.-Inst. , Fort Sill, Okla.

Howard A. Baldwin. Lt., CEC, USNR, U. S. Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.

Frank L. Baynes, Capt., Off. Cand. Class #77, O.C.S., Fort Sill, Okla.

Herman R. Bentley. Jr .. Pvt., So. L, 3rd Regt.

Ord. Trng. Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Samuel G. Betounes, 2nd Lt., 203d F. A. Reg., Fort Bragg, N. C. H. M. Bettqe. Capt., C. A. C., R. 0. T. C., Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Roy E. Bray, lsi Lt., Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio.

J, R. Burkhart. Capt., U. S. Army, Fort Bragg, N.C. C. M. Callis. Capt., Fosler Field, Air Corps, Victoria, Texas.

J, E. Carsman, Lt. (jg), U. S. Navy, 625 N. St. Paul St., Baltimore , Md. R. E. Clark. Capt.

James R. Cochran, ASTP, Harvard Univ.

E. N. Cox. lst Lt., Fort Bragg, N. C. J, H. Coyner. Pvt., Co. C, lsi Ord. Trng. Regt. , O.R.T.C., Plat. #3, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. J, V. Crabb, Col., 345th Bomber Grp., Columbia, S.C. Van 0. Darrow, Pvt., C-7-3, F.A.R.T.C., Ft. Bragg, N. C D. Doqqett. Capt., U. S. Army Air Corps, Scott Field, Ill. G. B. Ely, Col., Sheridan Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans.

M. A. Embertson, lsi Lt., Air Corps Materiel Div., Warren Ave., Dearborn, Mich.

H. R. Entrekin. Major, 5th Armored Div .

U. S. Army. Home address: Vincennes, Ind. John D. Flexon, Navy V-12, Cary Hall, Purdue Univ.

J, M. Fore. lsi Lt., Hq. Chesapeake Bay Sector, Ft. Monroe, Va. G. S. Gilbert. U. S. Army Air Corps, Stockton Field, Calif.

H. E. Gommel. U. S. Army, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.

W. S. Green. Major, Dept. Signal Office, Overseas.

William J. Guenther. Capt., 30th Coast Arty.

Trng. Bn., Camp Wallace, Tex. Harry L. Harris. lst Lt., 2nd Battn., lst Trng.

Reg., Fort Bragg, N.C. W. E. Heltzel. Major, C.O. 69th Signal Bn .

APO 402, Nashville, Tenn.

Earle J, Hienton, Jr .. VMD 284, Mag. 15, Kearney Mesa, San Diego, Calif.

G. J, Hopkins. Cpl., U. S. Army, Recruit Service, Lafayette, Ind. H. P. Horstman, 2nd Lt., 852d Ordnance Co., HAGS , Harlingen, Texas.

Douqlas R. Horth, Colorado Ski Troops.

Andrew N. Kandis, Av/c, Sq. C-44A, 308th AAFFTD, Stamford, Tex. L. H. Kemmer, lst Lt., APO # 252, Fort Bragg, N.C. Edward W . Klein, Navy.

C. D. Kuhn. lsi Lt., Flight Test, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. · E. C. Leisure, APO #871 , c/o Postmaster, New York City.

William H. MacPherson, Lt. , #685, Camp Gordon , Ga. J, B. Madden, Lt.-Col., PMST, Stanford University, California.

C. D. McAllister, Col., Army Air Base, APO #625, Miami, Fla. N. R. McManus, 2nd Lt., Co. B, 774th T. D. Battn., Camp Hood, Tex. James Edward Miller, Pvt., A-7-3, . F.A.R.T.C., Fort Bragg, N. C. C. J, Mounsey, Pvt., A.A.F., College Tmg. Del., Jefferson College, 3615 Grande!

Square, St. Louis, Mo. R. J. Nelson. Pvt., AST STAR Unit, Univ. of Wyoming , Laramie, Wyo.

The Triad, October-December, 1943

36 W. J, Parvis. 1st Lt., 46lst Bomber Sqdn., A.A.B., Casper, Wyo. Russell C. Perkey. V-12, Cary Hall, Purdue Univ.

J. W. Petry, U. S. Army, Co. E, OCS, MRTC, Camp Barkeley, Texas.

Wallace Pope. Pvt., C-7-3, F.A.R.T.C., Fort Bragg, N. C. R. A. Ratcliff. 1st Lt., 80th F. A. Battn., APO #6, Nashville, Tenn.

J, G. Richards. 1st Lt., APO #953, San Francisco, Calif.

H. N. Riise, Ensign, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. Albert S. Rogers. 1st Lt., 2nd AF, 18th Rep!.

Wing, Salt Lake City, Utah.

W. C. Royer. Capt., Signal Corps, c/o Signal Officer, Oakland, 4, Clail.

Wayne L. Shedd. Pvt., C-7-3, F.A.R.T.C., Fort Bragg, N.C. Frank E Skinner, Pvt .. Co. A. 29th Med. Trng.

Bn., 1st Plat., Camp Grant, Ill. A. E. Snyder, 2nd Lt., Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Indiantown, Pa. C. J. Snyder. Capt., BOC #94, F.A.S., Fort Sill, Okla.

F. G. Spencer. Lt.-Col., Selective Service, 40 East Third Street, Columbus, Ohio.

John G. Steinebach, Pvt., Btry. D-12 AA, R. Trng. Bn., Fort Eustis, Va. H. E. Tabbert. Capt., Municipal Airport, Wichita, Kans.

R. H. Tweedle, 1st Lt., 79th Div. Signal Co., Camp Blanding, Fla. J. 0. Vansickle. Capt., U. S. Army Air Corps, Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill. J. R. Wergin. A/C, Flying School, Mollett Field, Calif.

F. L. Zimmerman. Lt. (jg), Naval Ordnance Lab., Washington Navy Yard, Washington,

D. C.

SYRACUSE

Warren M. Bartholomew, Midshipman's Schl., Rm. 1604, Tower Hall, 820 Tower Ct., Chicago, Ill. Clinton Richard Bartlett.

William Leonard Beil.

Warren L. Bouck, Plc. , U.S. Army.

Harry G. Brewster. Ensign, U. S. Navy Air Corps.

Clifford Deibler. Pfc., Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Ga. Myles W. Esmay. Sgt., Bombardier, U.S. Army Air Corps.

Vernon H. Farney, PFC, U. S. Army.

William G. Foster. Cadet, N.A.S. , Pensacola, Fla. Arthur D. Gutman, 2nd Lt., Killed in Action.

Dale Hackett. Pvt., Trng. De t. AAFTTC, Flight B, Sec. 7, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Gordon Henderson.

L. Edgar Hoffman, Jr., 2nd Lt., U.S. Army 12th Trng. Co., O .O.C., AFRTC, Fort Knox, Ky. Marlon F. Jacobs, 2nd Lt., U. S. Army Engineers.

Donald E. Jameson. Ensign, U.S.C.G.R., Flee t Post Office, New Orleans, La. Robert W. Jones. Plc., U. S. Army.

Franklyn Nelson Linton, Pfc., Academy of Aero, Jackson Heights , Long Island, N.Y. Fred Loll, Pvt. , Bldg. 1, ASTS, Manhattan College, Bronx 63, New York, N.Y. Ernest Robert Lyon.

Jerrold H. Moyer. Pfc., U. S. Army.

Kenneth E. Nichols, Naval Trng. Schl., 307 Lyon Hall, Cornell Univ. , Ithaca, N. Y. GiUord Pierce. Cadet, U. S. Army Air Corps.

Nicholas Ransier. Major, Artille ry, Camp Kilmer, !'{. J. Francis H. Scranton. Cadet, Co. E, 2 Rest., O.M. Schl. , Camp Lee, Va. George Lawrence Sholtes. Sgt., U. S. Army.

Stephen K. Smith. 2nd Lt. , U. S. Army.

Augustus Tracy. Jr .. 2nd Lt., Sq. C. 0 . -Hq, Grp. III, Moody Field, Ga.

George Clifford Casebolt.

Robert C. Devoe, Lt., 32nd Infantry, Fort Ord Calif. ' Carroll E. Dow, ASTU, Wash. State Coli., Theta Chi House, Pullman, Wash.

Delmar W. Dow, Pfc., Co. A, Drays Cottage, ·ASTU , SCU 4764, Univ. of Wyo., Laramie, Wyo. Richard D. Ellett.

Donald R. Faulkner. A/S, V-12 Unit, USNR, TEXAS PT 5, Univ. of Kans., Lawrence, Kans.

Norman M. Haas. Lt. R. Chester Day. Lt., 734 Royal St., New OrEiner Hendricksen. leans, La. W. B. Wardlow. Chemical Warfare Service. · Henry Clark Hewitt. Seaman 1st class, U. S. Coast Guard.

D. A. Webb, Pvt., A.A.F.T.S., 622 T.S.S., Leroy D. Holcomb, Ensign, USNR. Barracks 1951, Rt. #7, P.O.B. 372, Fort Howard Hopkins, 822 Ord. Base Depot, Camp Worth, Tex. Santa Anita, Arcadia, Calif.

Horace Omega Young, Capt., Army Inspector Donald Hughes. Cpl., 49th AAF Band, Fort General's Office, POE, New York, N. Y. George Wright, Spokane, Wash.

Elver Huntley.

WASHINGTON Charles C. Johnson, Lt., APO #7, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.

George Barker, Ensign, U. S. Navy.

David Padgam. U. S. Navy, Univ. of Idaho.

E. Cordon Baxter, lst Lt., Infantry, U.S. ArmY. John Raymer.

Raymond Beman, U. S. Army.

George Reymore.

Everett Blakely, 2nd Lt., Air Corps.

Chuck Schmelzer (Pledge), Petty Officer, Howard William Blank, Cadet, Air Corps.

Univ. of Kansas.

Robert Carstensen, lst Lt. , Air Corps.

Marshall Allen Search. Lt., Aerial PhotogK. P. Corson, Major, U. S. M. C. R., 2d Engirapher, U. S. Army Air Forces. neers, Ind. Marine Div., F.M.F., San Diego, James N. Shepard, Lt., APO 972, c/o PostmasCalif. ter, Seattle, Wash.

William Dexter, Cpl., Btry. A, 912 F. A. Bn., Donald H. Skinner.

Camp McCain, Miss.

Clarence 3mith.

Allen Erickson, Col., Aviation, Fort Lewis, Ralph Smith.

Wash.

John Veatch, A/S, 14th CTD, Lynchburg ColJohn H. Evans, Coast Guard Air Station, lege, Lynchburg, Va. Miami, Fla. George Warner, A/C, 44-C, lOth AAFFTC, Glen Gwin, 2d Engineers, Army Transport Gary Field, Blythe, Calif.

Service.

Robert L. Wright.

John E. Hansen, AFRTC, Supply, Ft. Knox, Verne E. Zellmer.

Ky. William Hawkins, Ensign, U. S. Navy.

WISCONSIN Jack Henshaw, Pfc., Signal Corps, Seattle, Charles D. Ambelang, Jr. Wash.

Donald Anderson.

Harry H. H~wiU, Officer, U. S. Army.

Hiram D. Anderson, Jr. Kirby Jackson, Major, Chemical Warfare, John W . Baum.

U.S. Army.

Robert Baum, Overseas.

Leo Jacobson, c/o Fleet Post Office, San FranWilmer Behling, Air Corps. cisco, Calif.

Ray Dahlquist. l'iarold Johnson, lst Lt., Air Corps, Grey Field, Phillip Drotning. .

Washington, D. C. Roger Evans, Pvt., APO #7128, c/o PostmasRobert Johnson, Marines. ter, New York, N.Y. W. L. Charles Johnson, (Coast Guard), 1 i534 James C. Femrite.

Greenwood Ave., Seattle, Wash.

Robert Knox, Lt. Cmdr., U. S. Coast and GeoKenyon Follette. detic Survey, Washington, D. C. William Gaterman.

Kenneth MacLeod, Sgt., Hdqrs. Fourth Army, Floyd Guttormsen.

Presidio of San Francisco, Calif.

Palmer G. Harwood, Engineering Corps, Neil McConnell, Ensign, U. S. Navy Air Corps.

Overseas.

Thomas Murphy, Ensign, Special Training at Robert Holmes, Cpl., Co. L, U. S. Army Cornell.

Finance School, N. C. 0. Sect., Wake ForRobert Donald Nelson, U. S. Army Medical est, N.C. Corps.

Grant Jones, Army Medical Corps.

L. Howard Price, 2nd Lt., Coast Artillery, Glenn S. Kengolt.

Seattle, Wash.

John F. Kotick, Lt. , 567 AAA (A W) Bn., Camp Arvid K. Reed, Capt., Engineer Corps, U. S. Haan, Calif.

Army.

Hugh Kuechenmeister, Jr .. Lt., C.A.C. Jack Stark, 2nd Lt., Coast Artillery, U. S. Army.

Donald H. Marshall, Lt., APO #512, New "Bud" Stewart, Navy.

York, N.Y. Arthur G. Sykes, lst Lt., U. S. Army, Fort Donald Mees, Lt. Lewis, Wash.

Earle Sherman Metcalf.

Milton Trafton, Sgt., Signal Corps, Seattle, Donald R. Olson.

Wash.

Peter Pappas, Lt., C.A.C. (AA), Maple Hill, Frank E. W. Ward, RCAF, Ottawa, Canada.

Camp Davis, N. C. Sam Weems, Signal Corps, U. S. Army SeatWilliam Ritter, Sgt., Air Corps. tle, Wash.

Vernon Schroeder, Univ. of Wisconsin, MadWilliam Werberger, Lt. Com., U. S. Naval ison, Wis. Reserve.

Conrad Shearer.

Ralph Yeaman, Lt., Naval Air Station, PensaJames S. Storey, Lt., 36th Div. Massachusetts. cola, Fla. Bort B. Sumner, Commander, U.S.N. James Vaughan, Major, Personnel Dept., lsi WASHINGTON STATE Div. , Signal Corps, Washington, D. C., 808 N. Wayne St., Arlington, Va. Bruce Beasley.

Richard Wagner (Pledge), Air Corps.

William Bennett.

Gerald Ward, Major, 955 Conroy St., BirTheo. Britt. mingham, Ala. Sid Buckley, Pvt., ASTU, 3918 Co. B, 2262 Martin Wendt.

Le Conte Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

Ralph G. Unger. Major, overseas.

Raymond Unger.

Vernon C. Unger. Pvt., 8th Army Airforce Band, Gulfport Field, Miss.

Frederick R. Walpole, Air Cadet, 309 AAFFTD, Sikeston, Mo. MortonS. Winters. Pfc., U. S. Army.

Nicholas K. Zauner.

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FRANKLIN-Ph il ade l phia, Pa. Inactive. Address a ll communications to William R . Hockenberry, Chapter Adviser, Logan Hall, Univers ity of Pa., Ph il ade l ph ia, Pa. GEORG E W AS HINGTO N-Wash ington, D. C. Address a ll communica t ions to C h a rl es Dauba n ton, Secretary, 3330 Stephenson Place, N. W., Wash ington, 15, D. C. ILLINOIS-501 E. Dan iel, Champai gn, Ill. I n active. Address all commu nicat io n s to J. K . Tuth ill, Chapter Adviser, 714 W. Green St., Champaign, Il l.

I NDIAN A-702 E. Third St .. Bloomington, Ind. Venerable Dean -Euge n e G. Lath a m, J r. Secretary-James E . Gree n. Correspo n dent-F r ank Neff. Chapter Advise r-Prof. Har o l d F. L u sk.

512 Hawthorne D r. , B l oomington. F inancial Adv iser-Prof. D. Lyl e Dieter l e, 715 S. Woodlawn, B loomingto n .

IOWA STATE-Am es, Iowa. Inactive. Add r ess a ll co mm un icatio n s t o George He ndr ic k son , Chapter Adv iser, 2850 Leek Ave. , Ames, Iowa.

K NSA S ST A T E-Manhattan, Kansas. Inact ive. A d dress all co mm unications to Kenney L. Ford, Chapter Adviser, 1516 Leavenwo r t h , Man h attan, Kansas.

1\UC HIGAN-1923 Ge d des Ave .. Ann A r bor, Mich. Ve n erab l e Dean-Arli e R. Trah e r n. Secretary-E l be r t S. Kennedy. 'T'RlAD Correspondent-Henry Hosmer. Chapter Adviser-C . Russell Pryce, 1411 E. Park Pl., Ann Arbo r , M ic h . Fina n c ia l AdviserHerbert Wagner, 8 R idgeway Ave ., Ann Arbor.

OKLA HO l\I A-Norman , Oklahoma.

Inactiv e.

Address all communications to Cecil H . Brite, Financial Adviser, 917 Chautauq u a Ave ., Norman, Ok la .

PENN ST A T E-State Coll e ge, Pa. Inactive. Address all c ommunicat ions to G. Wi l mer Knouse, 251 Ridge Ave., State College , Pa. PURD UE-120 Andrew P lace , West Lafayett e , Ind . Venerabl e Dean -Paul T . Hamsh er. Secretary-Robert G. Young. TRIAD Correspondent-Wayne K. Price. Chapter Adviser- W. A .

Knapp, 1305 Ravinia Rd., West Lafayette, Ind. Financia l Adviser-W . A . Knapp.

SYR ACUSE-Syracuse, N. Y . Address all communications to E. E. Enos, Chapter Adviser, 1111 E u c li d Ave ., Syracuse, N. Y. WAS HINGTO N-8eattle, Wash., Inactive. Address all communications to Magnus Olausen, V . D ., 5004-17th Av e ., N. E ., Seattle, Was h .

W ASHINGTON ST AT E -Pu ll man, Wash. Inactiv e . Address all co m m uni cation s to C li fford D . Jacobs. Chapter Advis e r, 606 Oak St., P ull man , Wash .

WI SC O NS I N-Madison, W is. Inact ive. Addr·ess all communi c ations to W. Dav id Ha u fe, Chapter Adviser, 1316 W . D a yton St., Madison, W is.

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