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DR. CH ARL ES HERM A N F U LTO N Dr. Charles Herman Fulton, Director of t h ~ Misso uri School of M ines and Metall urgy from 1920 to 1937 and Research Pro­ fessor of M etallurgy for two years thereafter, died at Butte, M on­ tana, on April 9, 1944 following a brief il lness. Dr. Fulton had been serving as Professor of Metallurgy at the M ontana School of M ines, having returned to the teaching profession from his retire­ ment at Roll a under the Carnegie Foundation to help out in the

':'j I MMY MILLER (left) and "LAZY D AISY" war effort, joining the staff of the M ontana School of M ines September, 1942. Lt. James G . Miller II was awarded the second Oak Leaf Dr. Fulton came to MSM in the fall of 1920 and during the C luster to his Air M edal for five additional combat missions over seventeen years he was head of the institution, the school made Germany according to announcement from the War Department. outstanding progress. Upon taking charge, he immediately began Jimmy enco untered a unique experience in bringing his Flying a study and revision of the curricula to bring it in li ne with other outstanding schools in the country. During his administration the Fortress, the " Lazy Daisy," back from a fli ght over Germany when Ceramic department was added to the curricu la and other major a piece of fl ak struck the propeller of the plane and so damaged it changes were made. The school's growth was rapid under his that the propeller vibrated so badly that it seemed impossible to administration with the enrollm ent more than doubling and at the bring it back to its base in . When so me 400 miles from time of his retirement in 19 37,78% of all the graduates of M SM England, Ji mmy called to his crew telling them that if any of them had his name on their diploma. Dr. Fulton, during his long and brill iant career, gained wide­ wanted to bai l out it would be OK, that he was going to try to spread fame as an expert metall urgist and a capable educator. H e take the ship home. T he crew all agreed to stay with him, although was the author of two widely used books in the metallurgical it looked as if the " Lazy Daisy" would never make it to its home engineering fie ld. H is " Manual of Fire A ssaying" published in hase. Then, by strange coincidence, a second piece of fl ack fired 1937, and " Principles of M etall urgy," published in 191 0 were from a German p lane on the ground knocked the damaged propel­ used in metallurgical co urses throughout the country. Dr. Fulton was born of American parentage in Ludwigshafen ler completely off of the plane. Jimmy and his crew ca me on into am Rhein, Germany, July 16, 187 4. He was educated at Pratt England on the three remaining motors without further mishap. Institute in Brooklyn, N ew York and at Columbia University ' Photo Courtesy St. L oui s P ost-Dispatch ( Continued to Page 3) Page 2 M S M ALUM N U S

The Old Bell at the Missouri Sch oo l of Mines PROFESSOR STERLING PRICE BRADLEY DIES By M. H . CAGG Professor Sterling Price Bradley, retired teacher of English at It is the bell , yes, the grand old belli Missouri School of Mines and M etallurgy, and widely known Its somber chimes I hear. Missouri educator, died at his home in Roll a on April 6 at the age "The Miners have won l " it loves to tell , of 82. H e suffered a stroke on April 1 from which he did not A s it has for many a year. recover. A song fOT the bell, the gmnd old be!!' Professor Bradley was born at Auxvasse, Missouri, on N ovem­ A s it Tings faT campus and town, ber 18, 1861. H e was educa ted at the University of Missouri at While its lar·go swing WOT~S a rnagl:c spe ll. C olumbia, Missouri, Kirksville T eachers Coll ege at Kirksville, As it shower·s its melody down. Missouri, and H arvard University at Boston, M assachusetts. And what do its iron tones recall In 1897, when Green County voted supervision of the county T o some who sojourn here? schools, he was appointed by Governor Lon V. Stevens as G reen The come- back days, the good football County's first superintendent of schools, which position he held In the games of yesteryear ; until 1905 . The snake-dance spirals, the great band-play, Professor Bradley came to Roll a as superintendent of Roll a With the festal JOYS and so ng, schools in 1914. In 192 1 he became A ssistant Professor of English The revelries of the too-short day, at the Missouri School of Mines and M etallurgy, and held this And the gala ni ght soon go ne. position until he retired in 1936 at the age of 75. Professor Bradley is survived by his wi fe, one daughter, Mrs. Our precious friends, whose forms are gone, Jarvis of Roll a, and one son, M ajor General Lester Bradley, Com­ Whose lives were eternal springs, mander of the 96th D ivision at Can~p White, Oregon. General Their words and smiles in our hearts live on II Drad ley fl ew from Orego n upon being notified of his father's In mem'ries the old bell brings. f: il lness. Through heat and cold of fifty years, ~, With magic born of sun and frost, This sweet-toned bell has calmed our fears DEAN CURTIS L. W ILSON DELIVERS r [ T hat the Miners' game was lost. EIGHT COMMEN CEMENT ADDRESSES Sometimes, pehaps, in a thoughtless day Dean Curtis L. Wilson's popularity throughout the State as II From the tower where long it's stood, a public speaker is again indicated by the fa ct that he has been tE M en, wanting for metal, will haul it away, invited to deli ver eight high school commencement addresses this But neither for gain nor good. spring, two of them being repeat requests from last year. Dean Wilso n delivered the address at the high school com­ B For long as the sons of the School of Mines mencement at Bunker on A pril 20. H e delivered the com mence­ S< Are among the children of men, ment address at the Winona hi gh school on M ay 3; Birch Tree, St T hey'll think of the days when they "held the lines" M ay 12 ; at Roll a on M ay 16; Potosi, M ay 17; Desloge, M ay 18; p. And the bell that proclaimed it then. Esther, M ay 19; and H annibal on M ay 25. Dean Wilson deliv­ Then, a so ng faT the bell, the gmnd old bell! ered the commencement address fer the Desloge and Roll a high As it Tings fOT campus and town, schools last year. While its lm·go swing WOT~S a magic spell ------A s it showeTs its melody down. (CopyriSlll by the a111hor) LT. W M. DICKMA N '40 DOW N IN GERMANY JAMES L. H EAD W ITH W PB FOR DURA TION Lt. Will iam Dickman '40, a member of the air force crews that James L. H ead' 16 is the author of an article in the February 1944 have been bombing Germany, was shot down over Germany ac­ cording to word received by Bi ll's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lou:s a- issue of the Mining Congress Journal entitled, " Bauxite, Alumina d and A luminum Ingot." " Babe" is Chief of the Raw Minerals Dickman of Sedali a, Missouri. All members of the damaged plane Branch A luminum and M agnesium Division W ar Production were seen to leave the plane by parachute and it is assumed that Board. H e is on a loan basis from the Chil e Exploration Company, Bill is a prisoner of war in Germany although no offi cial word has been received to that effect. Bill was on his fourteenth trip over P probably for the duration. [, ------enemy territory at the time he was forced to leave his ship. W M. SMOTHERS '42 COMPLETES Dill was acti ve on the campus of MSM during his four years \Ii in school here. H e was president of the Engineers' Club, a mem­ tf DOCTOR'S DEGREE AT ROLLA pi William Joseph Smothers of Popl ar Bluff, M o., received the ber of Theta T au fraternity, participated in Intramural Sports, was a member of the Student Council and of the Independent m degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Missouri p, on June 16 and is the first student to complete all of his work for Board of Control. On graduation he went with the Shell Pipe the PhD degree at the School of Mines and M etallurgy at Roll a. Line Company and was stationed at Cushing, Oklahoma at the t:me of his enlistment in the A ir Corps. nl Smothers first enroll ed at Missouri School of Mines in Septem­ 01 ber of 1936. H e received his Bachelor's degree in Cerami c Engi­ neering in 1940 and his M aster's degree in Ceramic Engineering tl in 1942. H e continued his work in Ceramic Engineering, study­ PHIL LEBER GIVEN LEGION OF MERIT ing under Dr. Paul G. H erold in the Ceramic Department, and M ajor W alter P. Leber '40 Ins been awarded the Legion of received the PhD degree from the University of Misso uri at M erit according to a release from the W ar Department for work Columbia on June 16. in the construction division in the Army Engineers in England. The Missouri School of Mines is a Division of the University Phil graduated in Mining- Petroleum option in M ay of 1940 rank­ of Missouri, and candidates for the Doctor's degree enroll in the ing first in a class of 153. H e entered on a C urators Scholarship Graduate School at Columbia and, whil e doing their work at Roll a in 1936 and won the Tau Beta Pi Slide Rule as the H onor M an receive the degree at Columbia. of the Freshm an class the foll owing spring. H e won the A. P. The subject of Dr. Smothers' dissertation for h is degree was Green Scholarship award at the beginning of his senior year, and Sf 81 " A Study of the Fl ow Properties of Concentrated C lay-W ater on graduation he was awarded the Saber as the outstanding a\ Mixtures." ROTC student of the year. I( MSM ALUMNUS Page 3 DIES ;lish at DR. EDWARD L. CLARK STATE GEOLOGIST (nown MSM ALUMNUS he acre Iss ued quarterly, in the interest of the graduates and Dr. Edward L. Clark id n~t former students of the School of Mines and M etallurgy. has been named by Gover­ Subscription price 50 cents, included in Alumni Dues. nor Donnell as State Geol­ ogist to succeed the late Dr. ovem· E ntered as second-class matter October 7, 1926, at Post H. A. Buehler. Dr. C lark lUri at Office at Rolla, Missouri, under the A ct of M arch 3, 1879. had been serving as A ssis­ ;svill , c Officers of the Association tant State Geologist si nce C ARL G. STIFEL, ' 16 ...... P1'esideYlt the resignation of H. S. "Qun ty J AM ES L. H EAD, '16 ...... Vice-President M cqueen some months Green GUNNARD E. J OHNSON, ' 16 ...... Vice-President previous. ~ held H OWA RDM. K ATZ, '13 ...... Sec1"etary -T reasu.rer Dr. Clark served for ten years as professor of geol­ Rolla ogy at Drury Coll ege in nglish DR. CHARLES H. FULTON DIES Springfield and since 1942 d this (Continued from Page I ) he had been serving as tech­ School of Mines, graduating there in 1897. In the spring of 1911 , nical advisor for the W ar the Universi ty of South Dakota conferred upon him the honorary , Mrs. Prod uction Board for the degree of Doctor of Science. He was head of the South Dakota Com· states of Missouri, Kansas, ene ral School of Mines from 1905 to 1911 when he became assoClated N ebraska and Oklahoma, with Case School of Applied Science as professor of metall urgy. Ither's part of this time as district He remained at C ase until 1920 when he took up his duties at manager for the WPB at MSM. J oplin. This work has He was a member of the Missouri Academy of Science, brought Dr. Clark into inti· DR. E DWARD L. CLARK Ameri ca n Institute of Mining and Metall urgical Engineers, Theta mate contact with the industries engaged in the production of SSES Delta Chi, Sigma Xi and T au Beta Pi fraternities. mineral resources in M issouri and this area, giving him valuable ate as Dr. Fulton is survived by his wife, Mrs. M arion Fulton, who experience for his new position. ; been was with him at the time of his death, and a son-in-law and daugh­ Dr. Clark received his bachelor 's degree from Drury, in 193 1 ~ this ter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cooke of Essex Fall s, N ew Jersey. received his master 's degree from the University of Iowa, and in Funeral services were held at the White Funeral Home in 1941 his doctor's degree from the University of Missouri. Butte with the Rev. Thomas Ashworth offi ciating. The body was com· As state geologist, Dr. C lark will also serve as ex-o ffi cio mem­ sent to Spokane for cremation, the ashes being returned to his 1ence· ber of the State Highway Commission. summer home near Deerfield , South Dakota where they were Tree, Dr. C lark has appointed John G. Grohskopf, MSM '30, as placed in the family burial plot alongside of his parents. . ll' 1 : Assistant State Geologist. deliI" The faculty, at its meeting on M ay 2, adopted resolutions of I high appreciation of what Dr. Fulton's work had meant to MSM and of sympathy for his family. FACULTY PARTICIPATES IN ------~------MISSOURI ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ALLEN L. OLIVER GIVES \NY A number of the members of the faculty participated in the COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS annual meeting of the Missouri A cademy of Science held on the IS that Allen L. Oliver, prominent attorney of Cape Girardeau and ca mpus of St.Louis University on April 20-2 1- 22 and 28-29, 194 4. nl'ac· member of the Board of V isitors of the University of Missouri, Dean Curtis L. Wilson spoke before the general sessions on the Lou:s delivered the commencement address at the commencement exer­ subject " International, Race, and Industrial Relations." At the plane cises held on M ay 31 in the auditorium of Parker H all. same session, Rev. James B. M acelwane, S.]., Director, Depart· d th at The subject of Mr. Oliver's address was " The Other Sixty ment of Geophysics, St. Louis University, read a paper entitled, rd has Percent." He pointed out to the graduates that their schooling so "A T ribute to Dr. H. A. Buehler, late State Geologist. " ) over far would represent only about 40% of their success in life and Before the engineering section of which Professor]. B. Butler, what they made of themselves from this on would depend upon head of the Civil Engineering Department of the Missouri School rear; their handling of the other 60 % . He stressed the need of their of Mines and Metallurgy was chai rman, Professor E. W . Carlton memo personal development and urged them to take part in their com­ read a paper entitled, " Engineering Trai ning for the Construc­ ,ports, munity life as well as in their professional fi eld and to play their tion Field," and Professor Clifford W. Eshbaugh, also of the Mis­ ndent part as a good citi4en as well as a good technologist. so uri School of Mines and M etallurgy, read a paper entitled, I Pipe Foll owing Mr. Oliver's address, Dean Curtis L. Wilso n an­ " Photogrammetry at Rolla, Missouri." Before the section, at the nounced the honors list and this was followed by the conferring Professor W. ]. Jensen read a paper entitled, " Group Instruction of the degrees by President Frederick A. Middlebush. in the Communications Laboratory." Carl T. A. Johnk, of the After the degrees had been co nferred, Dean Wilso n ca lled to Electrical Engineering department, also read a paper entitled, the pl atform William Stephens Thomas '94, 32 15 N . E. 42nd "Ultra·High-Frequency T echniques." r avenue, Portland, Oregon, and presented him with the fifty year ion oi alumni recognition badge, pointing out Mr. Thomas' contributions graduating number. work to the fi eld of metallurgy during the past 50 years. Theodore T wo professional degrees were awarded. Peter Paul Ribotto oland. Stewart Delay '94, 515 W es t M ills Street, Creston, Iowa, was also '39, 517 N. Lake street, Ishpeming, Michigan, was granted the 'rank' awarded a recognition badge but was unable to be present. These professional degree of Engineer of Mines. John August Short '38, are the two surviving members of the cl ass of '94. af5lup Box 462, Roll a, Missouri, was awarded the professional degree of . Man A total of 41 degrees were conferred. It was the small es t Ci vi i Engineer . A P. spring commencement since 1919 although there were a total of Most of the graduates entered military service, the larger part 80 degrees awarded in January and there will be about 20 degrees of them entering the N avy as Ensigns. A few went into industry. f and awarded in August, which will bring the total degrees awarded I;ding A complete directory of the class will be carried in the September fo r the year up to about 140, which is still well under the normal Alumnus. Page 4 MS M ALUMNUS

BLUE KEY PUBLISHES ROLLAMO WEDDINGS With the decrease in enrollm ent brought about by the students George C hedsey '40 and M ary Ell en Forrester of Indiana, entering military service, the Roll amo bOtrar's Camp Beale, Cal., home address H otel M arysvill e, Marysvi ll e, Cal. Society of Photogrammetry. He is head of the Aerial Surveys and 1925 Reproduction Section of the Soil Conservation Service. His home ell of ]. N. Foster is fa ctory manager of the Curtiss-Wright Aero­ is at Tacoma Park , M aryland. lIa on nautical Company at Lambert Field, St. Louis. Jimmie's company ]. N. Conley give his address as P. O . Box 137, lola, Kansas. is engaged in the manufacture of the huge Curtiss Comm andos. ,'ood, 1932 me at They were recently visited by Lieutenant General William Knud­ se n, director of production for the Army. Floyd E. Richardson is li ving at 646 N . Barksdale, M emphis, George D. Gaines lives at 5500 Michiga n avenue, Kansas Tennessee. City 4, M o. Robert F. Hippler is now at 78 1 Laurel street, San Jose, Calif. Foster Carry Nix is director of research, The Sharples Corp., George ]. Koch lives at 1002 N ew York avenue, Cape May, Philadelphia, Pa. N ew Jersey. ING Charles Irving is now livi ng at Bensenville, II I. M anuel ]. Grillos is now at Hanna, W yoming. Leo E. Shire is with the Beech Aircraft Corporati on, Engineer­ 1933 rester M ajor W arwick L. Doll 0-286089 is with the 11 23 Engineer tment ing department, at Wichita, Kansas. His home address is 20 Lake­ side drive, Eas tborough, Wichita 1), Kansas . C. Group at Camp M cCain, Mi . .1 etal­ H arry Federow visited the campus on April 27. H e is apply­ WII­ 1926 ing for Commission in the N avy. His home addres is 112 S. Na­ Trw­ M ajor Daniel Kennedy is overseas, his address being APO c/ o tional, Springfield , M o. Con- Postmaster, N ew York, N.Y. Robert H . Latham Jr. is a Lt. Col. in the Engineers. Ray Kollar is living at Route 1, Everso n, W ashington. Ray L. Brae utigan is Seni or Research Engineer on Electrical ld re­ Edmond C. Hunze gives his address as General Delivery, Logging Problems with Sinclair Prairie O il Company in Tulsa , er his Las Vegas, N evada. Okla. His home address is 41 0 1 S. Union, Tulsa, Okla. 3utte, Lt. Col. Dryden H odge writes from somewhere in the South A. A. Pollock gives the address 360 S. Union avenue, Cran­ ing to Pacific giving his address as APO #709, c/ o Postmas ter San ford, N ew Jersey. I

St. Louis 12, M o. Shell P ipe Line Corp., and holds the position of Senior Engineer. August I. Koopsmann i super.intendent of Lehm ann M achine His home address is 623 E. Cherry, C ushing, Okla. Co., St. Loui s, M o. - Jack R. G latthaar gives his address as 10 Summit drive, Col­ John E. Harro I is living at 7808 Phi ll ips Ave, C hi cago 49, Ill. linsvill e, II I. T. M . Patten is with the Louisiana O rdnance Pl ant at Shreve­ . Lt. H arold S. Kidd visited the campus on M ay 15. H arold i port, Louisiana as a sistant superintendent. H e visited the campus with the U.S. E ngineerin a Department at O maha, his home ad ­ n April 27, 1944 . dress being 2907 Jackson, O maha, N eb. H. L. H armon gives his addres as 2963 W ashington avenue, Lt. R alp h A. Beckman is now in Engineers School, Ft. Bel­ G ranite C ity, III. voir, V a. M orris Turken gives his address as 2914 First avenue South, J I . Gentry, CEC, USNR, gives his address as 4329 Spruce Seattle, W ash. street, Philadelp hi a 4, Pa. Russe ll 01 mon i uperin tendent of Open H earth Depart­ Richard R. H ynes is living at 114 Orin street, Pennsylvani a ment, G ranite City Steel Co., G ranite C ity, III. T wp., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. L. C. Spieres i now assistant to the President, Gener,d M etal Le. A. E. Rhodes gives the address H q. 9th 130mb Group, Co., and giv es his home address as 5701 Boyle avenue, Los Dalhart, T exas. Angeles, Calif. Thomas Finley gives his new address as 7319 Burrwood drive, 1936 N ormandy, M o. Eugene J D,Lil y i with the Archi tect En rs., 1012 Ihltimore, Captain Edgar F. Pohlm an has received the Sil ver Star for Kan as C ity, M o. outstanding service in Italy. 1937 C. E. Boulson is electriGl l engineer with the Sho-M e Power Frank Appleyard is quarry superin tendent for the U.S. Gyp­ Cooperative, Inc., at M arshfi eld , M o. H e was on the camp us on sum C mpany, Alabaster, Mich. F rank was in South Ameri ca M ay 25. with Braden Copper Company for four years, returning to the 1940 States on M arch 1. Frank is married and has a baby girl one year Hubert A. H ayden gives his address as 709 E. Broadway, old. Ponca C ity, O kl a. C harl es F. Benner is now with Remington Arms Co., Ilion, Lt. John R. Klug gives his a.ddress as H / S Co., 166th Engr. N ew York. Bn. , Camp M cCain, Miss. John P. Ba lke is now in ,1 N aval Trai.nina School, N avy Yard, 1st Lt. Franklin D . Priebe gives his address as APO 689, c/o Anacosta, D.C. Postmaster, N ew York, N.Y. Andrew K. Shores is living at 911 0 E. M il ton, Over land 14, Ensign Edward L.Rueff gives his address c/o Fleet Post Office, Missouri. San Francisco, Calif. W. W erner C ulbertson has been promoted from Captain to Pfc. G . E. W all ace is in an Engr. Unit Trg. C enter, Camp M ajor in the Army. M ajor Culbertson is stationed at Frankfort Claiborne, La. Arsenal in Philadelphia, Pa. Thurman M . Thomas gives the address 505 N. H eckwith, Pete F. M attei gives rt Fleet Post Office address, San Fran­ M ,llden, M o. cisco, Calif. John W. M etcalf is li vi ng at 11 69 Ursula avenue, University J W . M cLaughlin aives his ,lddress as East Third street, City 14, M o. W ashington, M o. Lt. and Mrs. C lyde Cowan have announced the arriva l of M ,uion Snow A lexa nder now gives his address a.s A viator, Lt. a baby girl , E l i za b e t!~ Estermay, born in W oodford, Essex, Eng­ Comdr. USNR, 275 Bartram Rd. , Riverside, III. , (home address). land on M arch 6, J 944. Kenneth Bly is in the T echnical Department of the Aluminum 1938 Company of America in Ka.nsas City, M o. R . C. Tittd is li vi n l at 27 17 Edwards, A lton, III. C. W . 13entley is living at 1566 Orchard G rove, Lakcwood 7, R y W . M atthews is living ,1t 310 an Beni to, S,ln Francisco O hi o. 16, Calif. M a jor W P. Leber gives an address A PO 113 , N ew York . M ajor J P. Fari s Jr. is with the 6th Processing G roup, H ering­ Lt. Roy A. Fleschner is at the Hq. AAFTC, Pathson Field , O. ton, Kans., AAB. M ajor Faris was married in August of J 942 to Ens. Powell Dennie is an instructor at Whiting Fi eld , Milton, M ary M orris Al len of an Antoni o, T ex . Florida. M ajor Eugene B. Lani er is at Hq. 2/c R, Fort Belvoir, Wash­ Hubert C.Heinicke is livi ng a t 41 52 Fairview avenue, St. Loui s ington, D.C. 16, M o. Richard C . R eese is stationed at the Reno AAB, Reno, N ev. Lt. George L C hedsey is at Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, M o. C larvel R. C urnutt li ves at 704 S. W as hington, c/o O. D. Lt. John F. W elch is stationed at the j02nd Training Group, Lewis, W arrensburg, M o. Sheppard Field, T exas. Lt. Col. Hueston M. Smi th is executive o Ri cer of one of the Lt. (j .g.) John A. Emery is so mewhere in the Pacific. His pi oneer engineering units in N ew G uinea. The uni t with whi ch address is USS Kitkum Bay, Fl eet Pos t Office, San Francisco, Cal­ he ca.me oversea in M a rch 1942 was one of the first of its type to if. Jack W:l.S married las t Aua ust to Miss Audrey Browning, of ,lrri ve in N w G uinea, and is largely res ponsib le for tra nsform ing M iami , Fla. M rs. Emery is making her home in San Diego, Calif., the jungle into one of Gener,ll M a.cArthur's largest Southwest and rather expects Jack back to th e States some time in the imm e­ Pac ifi c bases. It klS constructed all' fi elds, roads, bUJ Idl ngs, hos­ di;1,te f uture. pital and all other type military install ati ons. Elmcr H . Peters is studio engineer with R adio Station KSD A ll en M . G laser giv s ,1Il address c/o Distri ct Engineer, in St. Louis. His home address is 85 54 Lowell avenue, St. Louis. c USED, S'lva.nnah, Ga. F. A. W onn Jr. is now li vin g at 605 W . 27th street, Wilming­ S. . Braun is applying for commiss:on in the N avy. H e gives IT ton, Delawa re. h:s home address as 5879 R hodes, St. Louis 9, M o. Ly nn R icae is a fo rema.n .in the R ailroad Spike D ivi sion of Lt. Frederi ck M . Muell er is stilted :It the U.S. N ;lva l Air Sta ­ J ti on, Public W ork s Department, Corpus C hristi , T exas. Rep ublic Steel in C hica o. Lynn has a. daughter M arcia Jean, who is :1. yea r old. H e gives his home address as 1645 East 85 th street, 1939 C hi cago, III. F red N . Taylor visited the campus on M ay J. Fred works fo r C,~pt. N. P. T ucker .is now in Italy. - M SMA L U M NUS· Page .7 Major Chas. C. Ward is now in Italy. A. P. Renwick is living at 1819 Eas t St. T errace, Kansas City, Col· 1st Lt. George Fort gives address APO N o. 493, c/ o Post· M issouri. master, N ew York, N.Y. Lt. Carl \V as hburn gives the address Co. F 2nd Bn., 1st Regt. A WOTC, Drew Field, Fla. lid is 1941 , ad· Thomas R . Beveridge is now at an Army Air Base, T opeka, Lt. S. T. Delpopolo is in the Air Force at Salt Lake City, Utah. Kansas. :' '. N orman Baker is now in 422 nd Base Unit, Sqd. A. T aa F., Lt. Ben E. W eid le is on foreign duty. Ben writes· thllt he is Bel· T onopah. N ev. having some interesting experiences, one of them being a 'chance W . E. Crockett gives an address Rt. 6, River roa d, Trenton, to see Prime Minister \\T inston Churchill. Ben even maintains ru(e N ew Jersey. he had a drink with the Prime Minister. Ben's address is Engr. Marvin E. N evins is living at 53 19 Cote Brill iante avenue, Secti on, Base Headquarters, APO 759, c/o PM, N ew York, N .Y. ania St. Louis 12, M o. Ens. G . R. Shockley gives an address 1070 G lendon avenue, F. H . Hoener is living at 320 Park road, W ebster Grovcs 19, Los Angeles 24, C ali f. OUp, Misso uri. Lt.]' D. Nicholson is in the AAF; WFTC at Santa Ana, Cal. Brendon P. C armody lives at Du Pont H otel, Wilmington, Ens. John C. A llen, USNR, is now in a N ava l Combat Deml. fll'C, Delaware. Unit, USNATB, Fort Pierce, Fl a. N. D. Jaffe gives an address 1390a M ontclair Ave., St. Louis Fred. Wm. O lde is at the C . C. Base Field, Ft. W ayne, Ind . for 12, Missouri. Carlyle G . Schauble is with the Seismograph Service C orp. Lt. Frank K. Kyle is commanding offi cer of an engineer dump and gives the address Box 476, Sulp hur, Okla. )\\,er truck company, attached to one of General M acArthur's largest John W . N evin gives his address as 107 G lastone Blvd ., Kan­ ~ on forward areas. Kyle has been in this forward area for the past sas City 1, M o. He is applying for commiss ion in the N avy. 18 months, having arrived in the Pacific in early April, 1942. Arthur W . Wilson lives at 127 S. Fourth street, Decatur, Ind. Frank was with the Carnegie Illinois Steel Compa ny at Gary, In· A / S G. C. Brockman is an aviation student at Hobbs, N ew il'ay, diana before entering military service as a reserve offi cer. M exico. D. M . Falkingham gives an APO address c/ o PM, N ew John W . Love gives his addres's as 14 5 S. H ardesty, Kansas :no[, York, NY City, M o. . " I ' .". ",." , Lt. (j.g.) W. H. Bourne has a Fleet Post Offi ce address, San E. C. Conary is chi ef chemist and metall urgist of Cast Armor ( 0 Francisco, Calif. Plant, with the America n Stee l Foundries, Chicago, III. Ernest F. King li ves at 15 Lake avenue, East Lynn, M ass. Capt. Philli p 1. H endricks 0- 463930 is wi th the 993 rd Engi­ ilice. Clinton V. N ewman is te5ting engineer with the Midwestern neer Treadway Bridge Co., APO N o. 20-A c/o Postm aster, Division of the Chase Brass & Copper Co., located at 11 55 Bab· Shreveport, La. amp bitt road, C leveland 17, Ohio. Arthur T aylor G uernsey is stationed at the U.S. Naval Air C apt. N athan D. Jaffe is on a foreign assignment, his address Station, Kodiak Island, A las ka, as an ensign in the N avy, His being APO 527 Postmaster N ew York, N.Y. 11th, home address is 5166 W aterman avenue, St. Louis, Mo. ]. ]. Sprillger has an address 401 S. Laclede Sta. Rd., W ebster Edward]. C laassen now lives at 804 Park place, Austin 22, Groves 19, M o. ril ry T exas. Charles O. Koch gives an address of 75 10 Brunswick avenue, Lt. Joseph C. Knittel gives the address Co. A. 9th Arm'd, W ebster Groves 19, M o. Engr. Bn. APO #259, c/ o PM Camp Polk, La. G. R. Couch is with the Magnesium Reduction Company at 2nd Lt. Eugene Gottschalk, Air Corps, is stationed at Selfridge Luckey, Ohio. His home address is 625 W est W ooster, Bowling Field , M ichigan. Green, Ohio. A. K. Cook is with N orth America n Aviati on in Kansas City, num W ash Adams now gives his address as 119 Briarcl iff, H adden­ his home address being 32 1 W ard park way, Kansas City, Mo. field, N ew Jersey. Keith was on the ca mpus on M arch 7. xl . Earl Ruth is assilyer with Kennecott Copper Corp., Ray, Ariz. H arold August Krueger is general mine foreman, St. Louis Lt. Edward F. H oll and spent about three weeks leave in the Smclting fi' Refining Co., Baxter Springs, Kans. 'ork Lt. R. M. Brackbill is now at an Army Air Base, Spokane, 10. U nited States and was on the campus on April 14 . Ed has had about two yea rs of duty in N ew Zealand and this is his first trip W as hington. lton. back to the United States since going to N ew Zealand. Charl es Sherman Black Jr. was wounded in action in Africa Herbert A. Volz, gives the address Platoon 139, ROMCB, according to word received here. Chic is reported by his Colonel San Diego 41 , C alif. to be in bad co ndition. The wound was incurred in rescuing a group of trapped American boys and according to his Colonel Mo. James Katz, is on an overseas assignm ent with the Air Corps. the action was far beyond the call of duty. "Oup. Jim was promoted to Captain just before lea ving. Ray A . Kell y is now li ving at 11 35 Partridge avenue, Univer­ A. G . H acker is a M ajor with the 11 22 nd Engr. C. Group, sity C ity, M o. HI; Camp San Luis Obispo, C alif. Stanley M. Ku lifay gives an address of 2632 Hickory street, Cal· George Ambrose who is with the Phillips Pet. Corp. , at St. Louis, Mo. g, of Borger, T exas, li ves at 120 W. Grand street, Apt. 5. Lt. Harold Rueff is with the USS Fulton, c/ o Fleet Post O ffi ce, :ahf.. Sa n Francisco, Calif. nme' 1942 V ernon Thomas M cGhee is a first lieutenant, Corps of Engi­ James R . N evin Jr. A / S is stationed at Co. 867 USNT C, neers, U.S. Arm y, Longview, T ex. G reat Lakes, Ill. Emile Oscar Dahlen is mine industrial engineer at W ylam George P. Dahm gives his address as APO 975 , c/ o Pos t­ Mine, T ennessee Coal, Iron fi' Rail road Co., Birmingham, A la. master, San Frilncisco, C alif. C lyde Durphy has been commissioned in the Navy and IS in training at Princeton University. . Paul Decker is with the Missouri State Board of Hea lth, JO of Morehouse, Mo. Kenneth RofFm ann is an ensign in the Navy assigned to' Cor­ , who nell University for training. Ken and his wife Connie are liv ing R . A. Pohl gives his address as 4464 Russe ll avenve, St. Louis at 96 1 E. State street, Ithaca, N.Y. ' treeL• 10, Missouri .. ' .. Lt. Austin E. Schum ~lJi and Mrs. Schuman announ ce the birth Frank E. Johnso n gives his address as Box 204, Kaw, Okla. of a daughter Elizabeth Ann, at G reenwood, Miss. Austin is s t a~ Page 8 MSM ALUMNUS lion .<..1 ill Camp M ax y, T xa s in lh Ordn,lI1C I pl. A / John A. M az~o ni is with the AAFTTC at Yale Univer­ A / .I ohn L. Za.gal;1 is omplcLin g his b;l ic pi lo t. Lrillnln g :ll ity, N ew H,lV n, onn. lh · 2 1H AAF i1;lsc nil, N wport, Ark . H will go into his Ad­ J,un s V . (lrmll liv s at 2 L,lurel ,lV nue, M a sen,l, N . Y. vane ·d Pi lN Training soon ;Ift rth 15th of .Iun for it nin w ks Lt. J T. Adam is now in the 98 1 t E ngr. M 'lint. Co., Camp cours ' . arson, 0 10 . .I o visited the campus M ay 22. ... apt. K. A . S how,dt I' is now in Italy. En . W . E. Klund, USNR, i now stationed at Ft. chuyler, Lt. R. M . Bra kbill is now in Ital y. Bronx, N .Y. Dill wa in Roll a on April 25. Lt. O. H. Taylor is now in Italy. Roh rt L. J-J anllil give hi home acldr S5 a R.ur,d Delivery Lt. Thomas R. B v ridg now giv s hi ;lddr 5S as A PO 520 # 1, lay, N w York . c/ o PostmaslT, N ew York, N .Y. .l am e Higbie I olh mu is ample foreman, Am ri can Zinc Co. .la ck Witt has h en promovd to ;lptain. H has I" eiv d th of T nn s e, M il ot, T nn . Sil ve r SCII' for outstanding 5 rv i in Italy. Howard 13 . Li ley li v ;It 35 W oocl ide av nue, Buffalo, N .Y. .I ohl1 S. H;lrris is li vin g at 60 1 N .W . 38th stl" t, Ok lahom;l .I ohn A . W a ht I' W,l kill ed in :In airplan crit h on the we t C ity, Okla. '{),l t re ently acco rding to inform ati on I' ceived from Ji m C lover. 194 Wilhur Antonia Haley i ilssi t;U1t min engin r, U . . Fu I 0., Hiaw,ltha, tah . .Ia k Flcs hli IS ;In ensign in t.h e Navy. H ' is an engin' ' I' oOi ­ LL. Don;dci . mith 05 44 ~00 i with o. B, 156th Engl'. ( ) 'cr Oil a min ' swc per assign 'd to th South Pa eifi . nn., P.O. Unit # 12, :U11p ook , alif. H;lrry . Ahl is in th · Navy SUlt ioned at ;In Fran i 'CO, ,dif. C orge L Tuer Jr. give hi addr a 1/ , J (RT) A , Lt. .I . L. Shaf I' Jr. now giv s hi s addr a A I"'O 230, c/u o. I 188, U NT , r ,It Lake, III. Postmaster, N ew York, N .Y. Roh rt Hartl 'h is I' . 'ar I m h;lllical engin I' at til ; . ' : 1' raft 1944 Engin " rs Lahoratory at th National Advisory ommitte for Roh rt W . Roo giv hi ,lclclre a 10 12 Penn ylva ni a A ve., A, ronaut.i in lev I;lnd, Ohio. M onac,l, Pa. Stanb , S. D:lh;d, .. N ;lval R ' rv, wa on tl1 ampus Rob rt R. h fIi Id tecl Company of .Iun · 5. Stanl ·y had ompic t d on phas of his N avy trall1ln g ;lnd wa goin g for fu rth I' instru ti on. Hi s hom addr 'Ss is I (n d elt 10 16 N ;lv,d Train - trollgstr 'et, W ;dlingLO n, N ..J. K ·nn·th H. M oo ll 'y giv an addr 58 80 l Y2 N ." .. str t, Mu 'kog ' ,Okla. Mari ol K. M ,lin is now li ving at Wink, T xas. N . O tho l . S If liv s at 6 178 Etz ·II ;lV nue, t. Loui s 14, M o. E. C nt Johann 's i ;It the tanl y luh 54 W nd II ;w nu , PitL s ~ Id , M a s. Lt . .I a k R d was m; lrri ·d April 10 ;It pring fi Id , Mi oun to Mi s Martha Ruth h ' IIh ;lrdt, of pring fi Id . Ir 'n avic visit d the arnpu during th w k of M ilY 7. I rell l; is with th R ·s 'il rch D 'pa rtm ' nt of R v I' opp r ;lnd Bras. at Rom , N.Y. H I' hom ;Iddr SS is 200 W est )ard n ', Romc, N .Y. Eltallor C ihson S2/ i now in th pa rs tation ' d a.l A SSl; m- Ily J-Iot '1, Sea ttle 4, W ash. Harv ' y I3 Hrnett gives his addr ss as 1000 Langdon, Alton, III . e l ndon l . .I ' tt Wil ' on th ' campus on April 22 and is with North Am ' ri an A viati on in Kansas iL Y. Hi · hom illklr S' is 900 ';lst. 9t.h str ' t, Kiln sas ity, M o. Paul Osuskygiv s his pr 's ntiiddres ' as :l2 40E.C riln g Av '., C udahy, Wi . .I ohn V . Bolall d .II' . Wil S on th ' ampU$ on M ar h 9 . .J ohnni · is wit.h the .J ohn V . Boland onSlrll 'lion 0., 27 15 I il llOn ;IV nu , St. Louis, Mo. John V . I ri o'oll 's pI' ·se nt. add r s i' I ~89 N. 40th . tr t, i ve rt is E;lst St. Lou is, LI i. ma y he S. J-1. I ur t giv's his ad II' ·ss as 7~O Br o~) k l in ', Apt. :1, Louis­ vill e, Ky. Loui s ra . is mpl oy ' d ;l chemi cal engin I' hy the Phi ll ip R' O . K;lst ' n gave his addr 'ss as 7~() 1 l3urrw(l(ld drive, Nor- I l,; trol um ompan )' at Borger, T xa . Loui wa ma rrie I rec ntly 1Il ;lndy 2 1, Mo. in t. Lou i . a nd he ;lnd hi bride ar mak i ng thei I' hom at Borger, E. C. Burk il nd F. M . Kri ll give their add r S " S as 148') ' . T ex'lS. I 07 t h SLIT 't, I 'veland, O hi o. Ha ns ehm oldt i wit.h t.h I hill ip P trol um ompan}' at (;id 'on R. Me)' 'J'S is li vin g at ~ 7 1 9 Pas' o, Ka nsas it y, Mo. Borger, T exas. Han ' vi it d th campu on M ay 22. Hi mail ,ld ­ li cnry Kurusz givcs an ilddr 'S5 of 47 J-I oll y driv , W ' hster ~r() v ' s dr 55 at Borger i Box ~9 1 . 19, Mo. W arren' Larson has h n commi sioned an ensign in t.h e N avy Ccorge Fi ew'g T giv l;S his addr 'SS as 4272 I-loll y av ' nU l; I ') , ilnd i sta t.i oned :It Tu 'son, Ari ~ ., ror indo trination training. Missouri. 1945 C . W . Sutt erfi ·Id is no w ill the \)R~ rd Eng l' . Ma.int. Co.,