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Farwe ll Building Street De troit 26, Michigan City ...... Se nd f ree copy of the BOOK O F T REASURES to Fraternity .... EDITOR , HI EI.IJ A D DIAMOND: The " O ctober" HIELD A D DI A~IOND ar AND rived tonight. It truly rings the bell. W hat ~HI~tll DIAM~ND a rema rkable tor our American men a1e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY writing from Bougainville to achen ! And what a gloriou chapter i Pi Kappa lpha's Founded at the University of Virginia, •farch 1, 1868, by Julian Edward comribution. Wood , Littleton Waller Tazewell, James Benjamin Sclater, Jr., Frederick I u pect 1 get ju t a bits ntimemal when Southgate Taylor, R obertson Howard, and William Alexander. T go through the page , and ee the names J . BLANFORD TAYLOR, EDITOR of so many of the fell ows whose friendship became a pc,·so nal thing with me while Office af Publication, 114 East Second Street, Little Rock, Ark. set ving as Traveling ecretary of the fra ternity. Changes of address and subscriptions should be sent to F. H . Hart, There is a confident note in your review Executive Secretary, 771 Spring Street, N. W., Atlanta, Ga. Both old and and in those of Free Hart which i indi a new addresses should be given. Life subscription $10 for tho e initiated Live of how well yo u who are admini tering before Sept. 1, 1927. Per year, $2. Alumni ra te, per year, $1. the affair of the fraternity are feeling it Articles and photogTaphs for THE SHIELD AND DtA MOND are cordially pulse. invited and should be addressed to ]. Blanford Taylor, 3708 H ycl iffe Vi~ Roby's " An wer to Lee asey" i m- Avenue, St. Ma tthews, 7, Ky. bolic of the vibrant spirit which young men returning from the blood conflict will re a sert, and ca t to the pattern of the )'ears VOLUME LIV, No. 4 APRIL, 1945 ahead. If yo u are adding scores, I would like to be just one of the men who believe that THE SHIELD AND DIAMO ND is published four times a year a t J1 4 East Second St., Little ne ither fraternities or fraternali m will be Rock, Ark., in July, October, January, and April by the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. relics of the war. As we move into a po·t Entered as second class matter, O ct. 14, 1937, at the Postoffice at Little Rock, Ark., under war period the cry w ill come for more fra Act of March 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in ternities with more fraternalism, and mon: Section Jl03, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized June 16, 191 8. service. I expect a ll fra ternities and not the least Pi Kappa lpha to exhibit courage and leader hip in thi era. CONTENTS CH AR LES L. FREE f AN, BA, pringfield, Ill. + IIKA Business --ITKA -- ED ITOR , m ELD AND DIAMO 'D: Natio n a l O fficer ' Page.·------2 Your kindness in mailing me the October War Memoria l F und______4-5 number of T I·IE I·II ELD AND DIA~IO D is gen Founders' D ay Observed ______l 2 -15 uinely appreciated. I was sorry m y illnes preve nted me from promptly compl ying with your request [or an article; but I fear, + IIKA and the War at best, l could furnish nothing that would be of interest to our brothers who are so Once vVe Were Ten ·------28-29 absorbed in this bitter struggle. Uncle Tom, th e Engineer______3 I It is of interest to see how man JTKA 's They Meet in the Strangest Places______33 a re in leader hip and winning such laurels in this truggle. Other W ar N .ews·------23-43 I must congra tula te you on publishing such a fine magazine. The fraternity cer + IIKA Spotlights tainl y ha taken on wonderful li fe and vigor since the early days when we were merely Harold fa n sfi eld of Boe ing ·------6-7 a Southern socie ty. 1,000 H o u r Under the Sea______8-9 RICH ARD ORME FUN , 9. Atlanta, Ga. B a ron of Box Tops------1 O-Il - - ITKA -- A n other ITKA in Congres ·------19 EDITOR, SHIELD A D DIAMO ND: + IIKA Departments I am attaching the ballot from the current issue of THE SHIELD A D DIA~IO N D in regard Gold Stars------24-25 to the cover. (Pictures of Chapter H ouses.) P erm a n e n tl y Pinned ·------45 l a m a graduate of niversity of ·Missouri (1942) and hence an alumnu of the Alpha Directory ------4 7-48 Nu Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. I received m y .f.A. in phy iology from the niversity of Toronto in lVfa y, 1944. From March until August of th is year I was on a war research CLIP AND MAIL TODAY~w~~~w~~~w~~~~-~~~w~----, project of the RD at Princeton Univer ity, PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY and in eptember, I begin the academic year at Washington quare oll ege of ew York 771 Spring Street, N . W. University as a teaching fellow and graduate Atlanta, Ga. student in the department of cherni try. Please change my a ddress to ______DA1 B. LEYERLE, A ' New York City. --ITKA--
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1 • NATIONAL OFFICERS' PAGE • To: AU SMC's and Other Chapter Officers being operated in an efficient manner, solvent and ready to REPORTING se rve the active and alumni member . While ther.e is no objection to the S. C. 4 R eports which My work wi ll bring me to man y of the chapters for visits. are being se nt to the National Office by various chapters It is a real thrill to meet and learn to know so many of you please remember that the S. C. 4 Report is due only at the perso nall y. I come as a representative of our national broth beginning of the normal school year in September or October. erhood to strengthen the link between you and the National (Of course, S. C. 4 Reports should be se nt in on men who Office and all the other chapters. Please fe el free to call on return tO school at any time after the fall session begins but me if I can ever b.e of assistance. only on such men. ) The S. C. 5 Reports can be sent at any ROBERT D. LYN , Ass istant Executive Sec'y. time and hould be ent whenever men leave the chapter. T he National Office uses the S. C. 5 R eport to start THE --llK A - - SHI ELD AND DIAMOND moving to rece nt actives who have be To: All Members come alumni. • THE FIRST CHAPTER to be revived to an active Please do not forget that the S. C. 7 and 8 R eports are status after a state of inactivity for the duration is Omega at due around June I , or at the end of the normal school session. the University of Kentucky. The Historical Sketch for the yea r 1944-45 is due an y H ard hit by the war, the male enrollment at the Univer time between May 15 and June 15 but must be in by June 15 sity fell low and Omega Chapter dwindled to one man and in order to avoid the penalty provided by the Constitution. then none. But this was not for long as an alumni commit tee was appointed at the 1944 Founders' Day dinner at Lex Please continue to bear in mind the importance of col ington to plan to revive the chapter. lecting initiation fees before initiati on and remitting the ational portion along with the S. C. I R eport and Th. C. 2 Through the effort of the alumni in the Lexington Report to the National Office immediately after the initia vicinity and John U. Field, Kappa, district president for tion. Kentucky and T ennessee, four men have been initiated . They are Donald H all, Stamping Ground, Ky.; Bernard Please do not overlook the Constitutional requirement Abell, Louisville, Ky.; Robert Carter, of Charleston, W . Va., that each chapter must furnish the National Office the and Joe D. Botto, of Munfordville, Ky. monthly financial report. "We feel that the Fraternity is fortunate in having these SUPPLIES four men," Field sa id. "They are deepl y interested in Pi We regret that it is necessary to inform the chapters and Kappa Alpha and their membership makes a fine contribu the Fraternity at large that book matches ca n no longer be tion to the Fraternity." furni hed. Beca use of war priority rulings the Diamond Kappa Chapter assisted Omega alumni in the reactiva Match Company ha notified us that they can no longer tion of the chapter. The new chapter, with alumni guidance, fu rni h book matches. Other supplies can be furnished as immediately began plans for expansion through a rushing fo rmerly and these include so me r ushing material such as program. the small bookl ets and THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND . There J. BLA FORD TAYLOR, National Editor. is a strong likelihood that the little rushing pamphlet, The Doorway to l'Tienclship, wi ll be reprinted sometime soon and To: All Members wi ll be furnished to chapters at co t. + LIVING MEMORIALS-those that will serve a use ful function in community life-lead the choice of memorials GENERAL ACTIVITY to the heroes of World W ar II. The Fraternity at large continues ro prosper and initia These will replace the cannon -in-the-courthouse-lawns tion of the first eight months of the schooi year 1944-45 ex and such useless memorials of the last war. It will be recalled ceeded the t~ e l ve months of the year 1943-44. At least six that a Harvard professor said of Grant's Tomb: "General or .eight chapters that were partially inactive have started to Grant gallantly overcame his enemies, but he will never over rush and pledge again. Great numbers of G.l.'s, or former come his monument." se rvice men, are joining the various chapters and about 15 chapters have G.l.'s as pre idents with most of them doing It is a living memorial that Pi Kappa Alpha proposes a splendid job. to honor her war dead. Not only a thing of beauty ar~h it ec ·with kinde t regards to each of you, turally, it will provide a shrine for all members of the Fra ternity and their friends and a permanent depository for war FREEMA 1 H . HART, Executive Secretary. records and mementoes. To: All Chapter Officer , Actives, and Alumni In a recent Associated Press survey, it was found that ince 1921 , when my oldes t brother became a Pi Kappa tentative plans call for a metal-covered civic center shaped Alpha, I have known and loved the Fraternity. One of the like a B-29 bomber at Baton Rouge, La., memorial parks in unanticipated joys of my life ha been the opportuuity to Chattanooga, Tenn., and Omaha, community forests in New become a member of the National Office staff. On J anuary England, an opera house in San Diego and an airport in San I of this year I assumed my new duties. Francisco. It has been a source of pride to find our National Office J. BLANFORD TAYLOR, 1ational Editor. 2 Our ~ulure? asks National Secretary Pulcipher
+ O N THE 77th birthday of ationall y, the Fraternity sta nds well terni ty member he itate tO acknowl Pi Kappa Alpha, the time demand that above the average in number of chap edge, of which many men eem to be we forego pleasures of looking through ters which can be labelled as "active," ecretly ashamed. T hey give their time the album of the p as t and examine, at well above the average in number of and energy to other youth movements. least briefl y, the pattern of the future. men on undergraduate chap ter rolls, T hey boast of their con tribu tion to or 1ot that we would dismi ss entirely well up in the top bracket of fraterni ga nization operated to inspire leader- from memory the names and faces of ties with the largest number of initiates hip in boy, to re tore crip pled hildren those who have made it possible for Pi and, compared with its entire 77 years to health, to encourage athletic competi Kappa Alpha to live through three of existence, Pi Kappa Alpha today is ti on in you th, to build Chri tianity and quarters of a century. Not that we in by far the stronge t financial position to encourage freedom of political and would forget for one moment the n ames in its histor y. religious thought. Why can we not lift of T aylor, Alexander, Scl ater, H oward, It is an interesting fact that, during our college fraternity ideals above the Tazewell, Hughes, ummey, Rice, Ar the most hectic days ever faced by the tigma of horseplay, beer bouts, freak buckle, Smythe, Foster, Powers and Un colleges of th e land, when enrollments initiation , and educational roustabout derwood . But the rushing tide of Time are depleted, when turnover is great, that eems to prompt an etemally de sweeps on and new horizo ns challenge when many school are groping for the fe nsive attitude in so many fraternity our vision. best way to carry on in the future-espe men? W hy should fraternity men hesi tate to proclaim their allegiance to or We hear n ew concepts of human re ci all y for the best way to p rovide prac ti cal education for the returned veteran ga nizations that base their existence on lationships-between peoples, races, na "the mo t complete personal develop tionali ti es, colors and castes. Sectional - Pi Kappa Alpha shows the stronge t cash position in its history. Every ac men t of its member , intell ectual, physi ism is broken down. Continents and cal and ocial,"-to quote the Fraternity oceans are spanned, n ot alone by com count due from a ch apter is a curren t year 's account. Our endowmen t funds Criteria of the ational Interfraternity munication and transportation, but by Conference. creeds and credos. W e talk not so much are the largest in history. Our re e r v~ these day of internation al pacts and strength-financially-is in an ideal po i H ere, the Criteria declares, is a broth alliance a we do of under tandings and tion to meet the demands of rehabilita erhood which affirms its loyalty and re reciprocal relationship . vVe look out tion after the war. For such a favo rable sponsibi li ty to the aims and purpose of today over the broken barriers of bound situation, we owe great credit indeed to the institution at which it has chapters, ary lines, languages, religions, and phi th e conscientious and effi cient manage that is dedi ated to the promotion of losophies of social and economic exist ment of our Executive Secretary, Free conduct con istent with good morals and ence. vVe talk about this new outlook man H art. good ta te, that seeks to timulate sub and discuss its implications in terms of stantial intellectual progress and supe " po twar planning." W e attempt to ap W E T H ER EFORE find ourselves on rior intellectual achievement, that sets a praise the value of the pas t and to apply a solid fin ancial foundation on which to standard of wholesome living conditions new and better standards to the future. build in the post-war era. T hat tremen and ound business practice in organiza dous asse t must be cultiva ted carefull y. tion and individual fi nance among its Possibly it would be helpful to survey New in terests, new attitudes and new member hi p. the comparative merits and faults of the standards of the postwar world will at entire fraternity system. Perhaps some Certainly there i nothing in that set tract coll ege undergraduates and alumni of pr in ci ples which should cause a man lessons could be learned from the some alike. Superfi cial fri end hips and super times troubled history of our own orga n to hide h is membership, to excu e a lin fi cial societies will find diminishing at gering loyalty to a et of Greek letters, iza tion. But rather let us take stock of traction amid the multiplicity of de what we have in the credi t column on to make apologetic explanation of an mands on the time and intellect of the affiliation that stands fo r the arne prin this 77th anniversar y and specu late on college student and the college gradu what lies in the future. ciple of truth and loyalty and mu tual ate. helpfulness that the whole world is seek I WE H AVE, of our one- time high of I do not propose to attempt to set ing today! But in the postwar era, how 88 ch apters, currently about 65 groups forth here any new· criteria fo r the col ca n we re-e tabli sh the fraternity on a which maintain some se mblance of or lege fraternity which will seek to bolster foundation for which we need make no ganization today. ot all of them have its attraction for men, either young or apology? complete roster of offi cers and not all old. That criteria stands. parall el with of them gather regularly or carry on the still broader princi ples of the Crimea 0 FAR S Pi Ka ppa Alpha is con chapter activities as such. During the Conference and the conferences which cerned, we must find the an wer for our current year, however, 53 have initiated are still to come, con fe rences bringing selves. In a sen e, the wa r may prove men and it is expected that a few more together representatives of all nations to have been a healthy re torative. For, chapters will introduce new members seeking an in ternational state of har ahead of us is the opportunity in the into the bonds before the present col mony which is exemplified in the ideals po twar years, to do a con tructive job lege session ends. A dozen chapters of genuine brotherhood on whi ch the of rebu ilding. have recovered their houses from the coll ege fraternity is based. I am sure that no one in this room Army or Navy or the sorority or room ha an y illusions as to the superiority of ing hou e operator who took possession And ye t there must be some shortcom during the earlier days of the wa r. ing in a brotherhood which many fra- (Continued on Page 46) J JOHN MALONEY JOHN SPARKMAN WILLIAM E. CHRISTIAN Library Committee Alumni Committee Gold Star Committee Bonds Roll In For War Memorial Fund • 0RGANIZATIO work for H eroes of World "'' ar I will be honored urge yo u not to wait for yo ur brochure the drive to raise 250,000 this year for also. or for a solicitor to .call, but to senti a Pi Kappa Alpha ' "' ar Memorial John A. McCann, chairman of the immediately your bond to Executive Building is well under way, according taxes and legal affairs committee, ob Secretary Fr.eeman H. Hart, 771 Spring to Campaign Director Harold E. Rain tained the following oral opinion from Street, N. W., Atlanta, q a., or to Har ville, and a number of gifts h ave been the Burea u of Imernal R evenue on old E. R ainville, ll S. LaSalle Street, r.eported. Eighteen men are member of large gifts: Chicago 3, Ill." the Keystone Chapter, indicating that "A library and general building for The vVar Memorial Fund Trustees they have given a 100 War Bond or housing memorabilia of the Fraternity are Milo ]. W arner, Toledo, chairman; the equivalent in cash. " " " thrown open to the public, con Fletcher D. Richards and Albert E. Rainville sa id chairmen had been ap tributions for this purpos.e would be Paxton, both of New York. pointed in practically every state and deductible by the individual contribu Chairmen are Senator Wayne Morse, that the sta te chairmen are n aming their tors on their own income tax r eturns." Memorial Site; Paul E. Crider, Archi committee members for a campaign The first brochure and card asking tectural Design; Herbert Helsing, Con which will give every member of the [or contributions for the fund were struction; John U. Field, History of Fraternity a chance to h ave a part in mailed out at the rate of 6,000 a week World W ar I; ' 1\Tilliam E. Christian, the establi shment of a permanent h ead beginning March 20, R ainvi lle said. Gold Star Chapter; John Sparkman, quarters, library and shrine in memory " It wi ll not reach all memb.ers be Alumni; Robert Lynn, Interfraternity; of the almost 300 men who have made ca use we do not have their correct ad Senator A. B. Chandler, Dedication; the supreme sacrifice in World War II. dresses. It is for that reason that we (Continued on Page 36)
PAUL E. CRIDER VICTOR l\'1 . ROBY DR. FREEMAN H. HART Ardtitectu.ral D esign Undergraduate Committee History of IIKA 4 COL. FRANKLIN S. FORSBERG CHARLES K. PAYNE SENATOR ALBERT B. CHANDLER History of World War II Special Gifts Dedication Commillee 18 Charter Keystone Chapter; Trophies Needed + E I GHTEEN men J1 ave con donor to the Key William E . Christian, tributed the equi va lent of a $100 bonrl stone key which i Mdntoch , Fla. ------·--··----·------· Florida Harvey B. Clarke, or more, but less sketched on t h i s deceased _____ ----·------·------·------·Duke than 1,000, and page. James L. Coker, thereby have be For the I a r ger Hartsville, ··------· onh Caroli na donors, those giv Charles E. Craw, come members of La fa yeue, Jnd. ------Carnegie the Keystone Chap in g a . 1,000 E J , E. Etherton, ter of the War Me bond, its equi va Carbondale, Ill. ------lllinoi Charles L. Freeman, morial Fund cam lent in cash or Springfield, IlL ______,Vash in gton niv. paign, according to more, the Diamond Herbert Reising, Harold E. R ain Chapter has been Washington, D. C. ______lllinois esta blished. A Dia Brig. Gen. Leroy Hodges, vi lle, dir.ector. deceased ______Washington and Lee T hese contribu mond key i given Gov. Clarence W . l\'leadows, tions, received up to those donors. A Charle ton, W . Va ..... W ash ington and Lee ketch of the key H erbert l\'li ller, to April I, have Des Moine , la. ------· Iowa tate been in cash, E also is hown. Col. Enoch R. Needles, bond or G bonds, 'fember of the Key tone Chapter and Washington, D. C. ______l\J isso uri chool their college follow : of l\fine R ain vill e sa id. A Harvey T. Newell, Jr., cash contribution of $75 is the equiva J , Gordon Bohannon, J ackson, l\fiss. ·------· l\f i lisa ps Petersburg, Va. ····------Wi ll iam and Mary lent of a 100 E bond and entitles the and Virginia (Continu.ed on Page 36)
JOHN U. FIELD SENATOR WAYNE l\'IORSE ROBE RT LYNN History of \Vorld War I lemorial Site Conunillee Interfraternity Committee By VIRGIL G. PETERSON Beta-Beta Chapter + AT 1:38 p. m. (EWT) J.Jaro/J Warwfie/J last June 15, the bells on teletypewriters in newspaper offices throughout the na tion jangled excitedly as the machines began to spell out one of the year's big gest news stories: ''The War Department announces The MAN BEHIND thf that B-29 Superfortr.esses have bombed the nation's leading writers, met in J apan for the first time." The big Superfortress was cloaked in secrecy from the time of its inception, Wichita early last May, where Mansfield It was the signal for one of the most and was known only to a comparative and his assistants, in cooperation with intensive and best covered stories of the handful of aviation and Army people. the Army Air Forces Public Relations, war- the story of the B-29, Boeing's Mansfield had learned from the War De had laid out a complete schedule of ac great bomber which was heralding a partment, however, that certain details tivity. They were addressed by high whole new era in aviation. of the ship could be released to the gen Army officers, including Brig. Gen. H. The man behind the story of the B-29, eral public on the day that the airplane S. Hansel, Jr., one o£ _the ..organizers of as it flowered forth on the front pages first went into action. the now-famous 20th Air Force, who told of newspapers from coast to coast, was them of how rhe plane would be used. In preparation for that day, Mansfield Harold Mansfield (BB, '34) , Public R e J. Earl Schaefer, manager of the Boeing "sold" the W ar Department dn the idea lations Manager of Boeing Aircraft Com Wichita plant, described to them the of permitting a select group of newspa pany. great country-wide production program per and magazine writers to inspect the laid out for the big ship. They toured It was Mansfield who had carefully B-29 at the Boeing Company's big plant the factory, saw the planes taking form set the stage for the B-29 story, and he at Wichita, Kan., on the assurance that in the huge final assembly areas, and did it in characteristic fashion, typical of the information would be held for later the man who at 33 ranks as one of the then, to climax the trip, were taken for release. nation's leading public relations authori a ride in one of the sky giants. ties. The group, comprising nearly 100 of (Pi Kappa Alphas attending the Wich ita press conference included Merle Miller, A, of Yank, and Richard G. Baumhoff, BA , of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.) (Chief Engineer of the Wichita plant is Harold Zipp, rB, the subject of an ar ticle in the July, 1944, issue of THE SHIELD AND DIAMOND.) Thus it was that the American public, long thirsting for authentic information on the much-rumored B-2 9, got the com plete story immediately when the War Department gave the signal. First per son by-line stories about the airplane, its background and history, its flying quali ties, its dimensions, its capabilities and many additional details, including pho tographs, instantly appeared in news columns alongside the War Depart ment's terse announcement that the planes had been over Japan. That it was- one of the best covered stories of the war is all the more remark able and all the more a feather in Mans-
EDITOR, SHIELD AND DIAMOND: I continue to enjoy and appreciate the fine job you're doing ~ RICHARD G. BAUMHOFF, BA , Former Editor, Shield and Diamond. \ EDITOR, SHIELD AND DIAMOND: I wish to take this opportunity to thank you f?r the excellent job you did on the B-29 m your July, 1944, issue. VIRGIL G. PETERSON, BB, Harold Mansfield, right, public re record-breaki ng transcontinental News Bureau Manager, lations manager of Boeing Aircraf t flight Jan. 9, 1945, from Seattle. Boeing Aircraft Company. Company, congratulates A. Elliott The ship averaged 383 miles per ------Merrill, pilot of the huge Boeing hour on the trip. Other members field's hat beca use it came only a we.ek C-97 transport, as he steps from of the crew follow Merrill /rom after D-Day in Europe and in the midst the plane onto National Airport, the plane. Washington, D. C., follotDing a of the Saipan landings. Yet it was given 6 ~TORIES of the B-29
equal prominence on the from page valves man y more details than ju t that with these momentous news .evem . of storie in new and advertising col Boeing's B-29 is but one of a half umns. H is is the res ponsibility of rela dozen planes which Mansfield has intro tions between the company and the vari duced to the world. Most recent is the ous communities where plants are locat C-97 transport, the giant double-decked ed. With a staff of more than 40 per transport counterpart of the B-29 which sons, he handles relations between the made the front pages early in J anuary compan y and it employees, sponsors in after a spectacular record-breaking flight plant shows, has charge of plant publi from Seattle to Wa hington, D. C., in cations, radio shows and movie fi lms, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 50 seconds. Mans supervises community drives, and a great field had preceded the C-97 to Wa hing many other activities. ton .to lay pLans for its first public an In J anuary the Seattle Chamber of nouncement. H e was at the airport to Commerce presented the Boeing Com meet the plane on its arrival and to fol pany, through Mansfield, the 1944 a low through on the announcement plan. tiona! Award of Merit, for bringing In similar fashion, he has publicized about the be t national publicity to Seat the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress-first by tle during the year. In making the introducing it to the world, then by award, Chamber officials said that Boe countering the unfounded critici m lev ing was selected not so much on the eled at the plane by British critics who quali ty of its products, which is common scoffed at it a a "fl ying target," and knowledge, but on the excellent presen later by lending impetus to the man y tation of Boeing advertising and public favorable stories which came as a result ity materials. of the B-l 7's unequalled performance in Mansfield is characteristic of many battle skies over Europe. successful public relations men, in that The high-fl ying Boeing Stratoliners, he avoids the limelight and remains in the ocean-girding Boeing Clippers, and the background to guide the show like the mammoth Boeing B-15 bomber in a skilled marionette artist. His personal like fashion have been presem ed by modesty is refl ected in the objective and Mansfield to the world public. sincere quali ty of Boeing's public an nouncements, which have se t a high But his position as public relations mark in the profession for accuracy and manager of a firm which employs some reliability. 85,000 persons in fa ctories in Washing ton, Kansa and British Columbia, in- At the University of Washington he served as editor of the U. W. Daily, and upon graduation worked for a Sea ttle dail y newspaper before assuming his present position with Bo.eing in 1936. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi and resides with his wife and two pre-school daughters at 1941 47th Avenue, S. W ., Seattle.
--IlK A-- Some of the Boeing planes about tvhich Harold Mansfield has pub licized are, /rom top to bottom, the Boeing 314 clipper formerly oper ated by Pan American Ainvays and now serving as tvar transport car riers; the B-29 Super fortress, the aerial dreadnaught avhich is rain ing destruction on Japan; the B-17G Flying Fortress tvhich has been establishing battle records in many theaters; the C-97 transport tvhich holds the transcontinental speed record; the 307 Stratoliner, the avorld's first altitude-condition HAROLD MANSFIELD ed commercial airliner. 7 By JOHN MALONEY Delta-Alpha Chapter (Reprinted by special permission from The beginnings of this unusual under mits, and not too much fun to W esley. The Satuulay Evening Post, CofJyright taking were not so smooth as they might fost of their respective periods on the 1945 by The Cu1·tis Publishing Co.) sound in the telling. From ew York, ocea n floor were spent untangling either + EIGHT years ago, W esley the two eager amateurs, determined to the helmet hose line, the camera line, [rAJ and Constance Muell er, newly mar become professional in their work, had the line used for signaling or using the ried and anxious to decide upon a life taken the inland waterway down to the snips to eliminate a sharp corner of their ·work they cou ld do together, walked into Florida keys. The first thirty days there armor . a ewark photo-equipment hop and wer.e spent making experimental shots. Each time Connie walked around a asked for the manager. "W e know prac They lost ten pounds each, ran out of coral ledge, she seemed to come fa ce to ti ca ll y nothing about photography," they food and water, came perilously near fa ce with an extra-large barracuda and told him, "but we want you to outfit u suffering sunstroke and broke out with be shaking so badly she could not hold for making underwater moving pictures salt-water rash, only to find later that the camera still. While one of them and give us some printed instructions they did not have one recognizabl e im was down, dubiously eying the monsters, for using the equipment." As both of age recorded on a large quantity of ex the other would be near sunstroke in the them now declare when projecting what pensive film they had exposed. sc ientists and professional cameramen dinghy overhead. DURI G CO IE'S first dive, for acclaim as the outstanding underwater If the desire to record a wonder world instance, a strong current sweeping out pictures in existence today, "It was just that few land-bound mortals ever see between the islands knocked h er over, as simple a that." had not amounted to a driving passion, water got into her helmet, and she r ecov The outfitter made a good job of it. that month in the keys might have cool ered her balance-and the helmet- just The Muellers were loaded down with eel their enthusiasm and sent Connie in time to see a large and toothy barra cameras and filters, chemicals and de back to teaching school while W esley re cuda staring h er full in the face. They veloping pans. To complete their equip sumed his profession of designing indus found, too, that being under water for ment, they scoured boat yards and water trial machinery. R efusing to admit de long intervals had the surprising effect fronts of New York, Connecticut and feat, they moored their crui er and went of fogging their memories. "Under such 'ew J ersey until, in an old car barn at back to New York to check their mis conditions," she said, "it's no wonder Whitestone, Long Island, they located a takes and improve their equipment. that we made every mistake in the book. 40-foot double-ender cruiser that seemed But it is a wonder that we ever lived to More confident now, the Muellers capable of staying afloat. A few months recognize our boners." headed for the Bahamas and the clearest later, against the advice of families and water possible. On this second venture, fri ends, they sailed south out of New Everywhere they turned, the young they had rigged up a gasoline-e ngine York harbor, looking for water clear couple had been warned-even by pro driven air compressor, so that both could enough for photography by which they fessional fishermen-of the ferocity of work under water simultaneously and could r.ecord life in that fantastic world sharks, swordfish, barracuda, sting rays, remain under as long as they de ired that li es beneath the surface of the sea. octopuses and all the larger animals and fi sh frequenting the se mi-tropical waters which frequently wa for as many as six To date, the Jog of the cruiser Luray around the keys. All available r ecords hours or until hunger drove them up. shows that since that time they have of what had happened to divers there Their first few dives here convinced spent more than 1000 hours on the ocean seemed bad. Both of them now admit them that this was their spot, and they floor, studying, photographing and, in that some of these tall tales were be located a lagoon unfrequented by com many instances, taming all sorts of sea lieved, and this inspired Wesley to "in mercial fi sh ermen, dropped their anchor creatures from lowly jellyfish to sharks, vent" a method of circumventing at and settled down-under fifteen to twen morays and sea turtles. From months least some of the danger . ty-five feet of water- to become acquaint 1pent around the Bahamas, whose clear ed with potential subjects for their cam waters are ideal for their work, the From extra ducts h e had aboard the eras. ocea n·s fl oor there i as fam ili ar to them Luray h e made copper strips and fash as your front lawn is to yo u. Drop them ioned makes hift armor-plated diving TH T LAST PHRASE is no exagger under water anywhere around the is suits strongly resembling Don Quixote's ation. They actually trained the fish to lands and they can tell you from one jousti ng outfit. The only pinch about pose for them while eating from their glance ju t where they are, and prob the suits was that they did pinch. They hands or during their frequent playful ably can point to a fi sh they h ave tamed had to use the cutters so often to snip moods- for the Mueller proved for them to eat from their fingers wh il e getting away uncomfortable corners that before selves, and their movies have proved to the photographs you see on these pages. the suits could be altered to perfect fits skeptics such as yourself, that most fisq, The Muellers now are quite profes most of the armor h ad been eliminated. including ray and harks, h ave about the sionaL They make movies in olor, stills But by that time they had discovered ame sense of humor as a three-months in black and white, and though they that so-called monsters of the deep were old pup. Food in the form of chopped have an independent income, most of so alarrned b y the weird outfits that they conch or b arracuda was the first calling could hardly be coaxed within camera their work i done on ass ignment from card they used in that strange commu range anyway. interested people, mostly museum , col nity, and it worked when liberally sprin leges and s ientific societies. The cruiser Tho e fir t few eli ves-one of them kled with true scientific patience. Luray is their permanent home, and would be down while the other worked when they are not on expeditions, it is the air pump in half-hour stint -were They soon found that fi h do not like anchored at Eau C allie, Florida. nightmares to Connie, as he now ad- to be tared at, and wilJ immediately 8 dart away in alarm if they feel them selves too much the center of attraction. In their weird-looking diving suits, Wes ley and Connie spent many hours get· ting the fish accustomed to their quiet presence among them. A two-foot N assau grouper was the first reef dweller really to accept them. He learned quickly that if he hung around the Luray his food problem was solved. Gradually, others of his species began coming for their h andouts, too, but that first friend tuck closest of all and eventually was to star in hundred of feet of film. Today, neither Con- ranee nor '\1\Tesley can eat grouper-or any other fi h, for that matter- with much gusto. "It might be one of our The march of Wesley Mueller, rA, friends," they sigh. antl Mrs. Mueller into one of their 11wny unde rsea photographic expe The Muellers' annual expedition to ditions. It was not until after John clear-wa ter regions is always equipped Maloney had written the accom for at least six months away from ca h panying story of the Muellers did h e learn that Wesley was a Pi and:carry centers. '\1\Thenever they need Kappa Alpha. fresh fi h for food, one of them always watches with a glass-bottomed bucket to see that the other does not get one of their friend on the line. V\Then they first embarked on this uil dertaking, there were few popular books to serve as accurate guides for identify ing what they saw, and it was just as difficult to eparate fish stories from fi sh facts. Further to complicate their chosen vocation, very little underwater photo equipment was manufactured for sale. Engineer W esley was forced, by a system of trial and error, to develop both waterproof camera containers and the technique of using them. Both of them reali zed that one of their first objectives must be to overcome fear and to determine how dangerous their In this Constance and Wesley potential subjects reall y were. With ad Mueller photo, Mr. aml Mrs. Muel mitted timidity, they would stand to ler commemorate spending 700 gether on the hard white sa nd of the hours undersea by taking their own pictnre. ocean fl oor with twenty-five feet of water over them and let a shark satisfy his curiosity concerning these strange in truders into his domain. Both of them, fo r instance, had been using white rub ber gloves as part of their diving suits, because they showed up better in pic tures. Before many dives h ad been com pleted, hungry fi sh had nibbled holes through them and were working on white soles of their boots. Thus they confirmed what ponge divers and sal vage workers had found-that fl ashing white objects are always tempting as pos sible food for both large and small fi sh. Carrying their experiments still fur ther with barracudas, they soon devel oped the theory that a fish's whole phi losophy of eating centers around wheth er the object desired as food appears to Friendly barracuda, rock fish, be "bite size" or not- which, after all, grouper and snapper swim near 1s merely an underwater version of the the Muellers who are the first undersea team to actually tame (Continued on Page 44) fish in their natural haunts.
9 By JOHN REDDY Copyright, 1945, by Esquire, i nc., 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. (Coronet, February 1945) Raymond R. Morgan, Alpha-Sigma + You'vE probably never heard of Raymond R. Morgan; but chances are that someone you know has ''1? mailed him nickels, dimes or perhap$ even quarters. In return, he may have (/..:Jaron sent back seeds, books, silk stockings, sun glasse , model airplanes or pottery. For Morgan, a six-foot, four-inch Hollywood Raymond's first approach was from Then the United States entered World advertising man, is the daddy of the ra the something-for-nothing angle, when War I against Germany and the next dio premium or "hook," and gets more he began peddling the Saturday Evening day Morgan enlisted in the Navy. He mail than Frank Sinatra. · Post in his home town of Sonora, Calif. made 16 Atlantic crossings and stayed in Morgan is also the father of the "soap The Post offered a Sheiland pony free the service for two years after the Armi opera," but it is as the Baron of the Box to the boy who sold the most copies, and stice. Tops that he has made the most lasting the lure was irresistible. When Morgan finally got out of the impression on radio, not to mention the Yes, he won, and by the time he was Navy, he returned to find that his car U. S. Post Office department which has 15 and going to high school, he had business had disappeared during the had to cope with his blizzard of box tops $800 in his bank account and was dream years he had been away. Undaunted, over the past 20 years. ing of bigger things. One day he pecked he went to San Francisco and obtained Recalling his decision to enter the ad out a letter on a typewriter to Henry a position in an advertising agency for vertising field, Morgan will tell you how Ford announcing his wi llingness to be $100 a month. After a spell at that, he he gave him elf a stiff test on the odds come agent for Mr. Ford's new horseless drifted to Los Angeles and sold electric for his success. He cast about until he carriage. waffle irons. found what the public wanted to buy Some time later a stranger climbed He was selling the waffle irons in Chi least, and concluded that it was a grave. off the little spur-line Sierra R ailway cago when he received a letter from a train and announced that he was a rep With that macabre inspiration he ap California friend offering him a job as resentative of Mr. Ford, looking for a proached the advertising agency of the sales manager of the McMillan Oil Com now famous Forest Lawn cemetery in Mr. Morgan who wished to become the pany in the Golden State. Ford distributor. Glendale, Cali f., suggesting that they ad Morgan rushed back to take the job vertise on the radio. "We'll use the sub When the Ford agent was told that and found a joker attached to it. The tle approach," urged Morgan. "We "Mr. Morgan" was a 15-year-old high company had a big filling station in won't talk about death. We'll talk about school boy, he almost had a stroke. But wealthy Beverly Hills that was a failure, life." rather than return to San Francisco and Morgan was given the task of find without accomplishing his purpose, he ing something that would attract cus Dubiously, the agency agreed, and the set out to find someone else to fill the tomers. program was inaugurated, dramatizing job. He tried to get livery-stable own The station had a rickety radio unit the stories behind the various pieces of ers to handle his cars, but the proprietors attached, so Morgan decided to lure elu fine statuary at Forest Lawn. were skeptical of the new-fangled con sive motorists in via the airlanes. He The first script featured the story of traptions, especially their ability to nego made the first radio offer-and certainly Michelangelo's Moses, and told how the tiate the steep mountain trails of the what might appear an incongruous one sculptor, after toiling for years over the Sonora country. As a last resort he went to rich Beverly Hills citizens-a budget statue, stood back when it was finally to yo ung Morgan. book free to all customers who would completed, and finding it startlingly "Look," he told the gangly youngster, come in for gasoline. lifelike, demanded, "Speak! Why dost "if you'll buy two Fords and promise to Not long after R ay had made that first thou not speak?" take 15 more the first year, I'll give you announcement on the air, a long black When the image remained dumb, the the agency." limousine glided into the station and a artist, in a rage, flung his hammer at it, A Ford in those days cost .$685. The young man in the tonneau ordered 10 chipping a piece out of one knee. local banker, impressed by Ray's $800 gallons of gas and asked for the free This was fo llowed by a radio an account, loaned him another 600 and budget book. It was the late Irving nouncer breaking in to say, "Folks, to Morgan became the first full-fledged Thalberg, one of Hollywood's wealthiest see a reproduction of Michelangelo's im Ford agent for Sonora. movie producers. mortal Moses with the chip out of the Working after school and over week The free budget book boomed the sta knee, drive out to Forest Lawn Memo ends, he managed to sell his quota of 15 tion's sales from 200 gallons a day to rial Park tomorrow." cars the first year. By the time he was some 2,000 and reminded Morgan of the The line of cars fi ll ed with curious 18 and ready to enter the Univ.ersity of value of an old principle that has since people awaiting their turn to see the California at Berkeley, young Morgan become his advertising watchword-"To tatue the next day so impressed Mr. was making a couple of thousand dol get something- give something." Morgan wi th the potency of radio that lars a month selling Fords. Casting about for more attractive bait, he has used it almost exclusively in his \1\ford of the boy-wonder car salesman he originated what was probably Amer advertising ca mpaigns ever since. H e got around and R ay was offered a part ica's first "soap opera"-Chandu the Ma says : "You have to learn to read, but nership in a small-town Packard agency. gician, one of the first five-a-week radio anyo ne who isn't deaf can listen to a H e accepted it and managed to combine serials, which was sponsored by the radio," but add that there are only a salesmanship with coll ege. By the time White King Soap Company. few appeal that are sure fire: (I) Some he was a senior at the university, he and Chandu started on the Pacific Coast thing for nothing; (2) A bargain; (3) his partner had a flourishing $30,000 and was so successful that Morgan went Superstition; (4) Curiosity. automobile business. East and sold it to the Beech-Nut Pack- 10 ing Company of Canajoharie, . Y. The "hook" this time was a kit of magic tricks to anyone mailing in five Beechnut gum wrappers. The show was aired on five Eastern stations and in one week, according to Morgan, 86,000 requests for magic tricks were received. This overwhelming re spon e soon exhausted the upply of magic kits in the country and se nt Mor gan posthaste down to Asbury Park, N. J., to persuade a defunct clothes-pin manufacturer to reopen his factory for making magic kits. This was in 1930- Depres ion days but Beech-Nut business soared, and Chandu went onto a chain of stations. But Morgan's success reached really diz zy proportions when he launched a radio program called Tonight's B est Buys for the Folger Coffee Company in 1937. This was a glorified rummage sa le. Lis teners to the show phoned in, describing Here is Raymond R. Morgan, Al:, Al:, vice president of the Richfield articles they had for sale and announcer left, and Tom Brenmnan, of the Oil Company, of Los Angeles, John Nelson rattled them off at the rate Breakfast in Hollywood radio pro whose Mother's Day letter to of 458 words a minute. Six stenogra gram looking at the February issue Mother Camper, of Alpha-Sigma, of Coronet in avhich the Morgan appeared in the April, 1944, issue phers answered as many telephones in story appeared. Brother of Ray· of The Shield and Diarnorul. the KNX broadcasting studio, in Holly mond Morgan is Frank A. Morgan, wood, typing out names, descriptions and prices and feeding them to Nelson White King box top. tel, hired Ray to make a formal report as fast as he could sputter. The biggest mail-pulling program in analyz ing why business wa ailing at his The first night the program went on radio right now is Breakfast at Sardi's hostelry. The answer was give n in fi ve the air, the deluge of calls put three ex which Morga n hatched over a soft-boiled words-"You need a new manager." changes out of order, burned out the egg with Master of Ceremonies Tom Marshall was flabbergasted at being generator which operated the busy sig Breneman four y.ea rs ago. This show billed 150 dollars a word for thi cryptic nal and caused the telephone company recently drew around a million letters, advice; but he followed it and the hotel to withdraw its facili ties. After hurried accompanied by dimes and box tops, in prospered. conferences and the installation of spe six days. That deluge so impressed pic Although Morgan pays for three min cial Jines, the next program drew 167 ture producer Edward Golden that he is utes of expen ive commercial time on thousa nd attempted calls in 15 minutes. now making a movie ba ed on the pro each quarter-hour network program that Folger Coffee ales went up 16 per cent. gram. broadcasts his advertisemen t , hi an· ·when it comes to "give-aways," Mor Morgan believes that the best ideas nouncements are made in s ven words. gan ays books and seeds are always sure are simple, and that anything worth This fact alone hould ea rn him a lasting fire. In an average year before the war, while ca n be aid in a few words. place in the heart of long-suffering lis he gave away around a million books for This Morgan brevity always has been tener to long-winded commercials, and the White King Compan y, disposing of characteristic. Seth Marshall, while own a permanent niche in radio's hall of thousands of Bibles for a dime and a er of the famed Arrowhead Spring Ho- fame.
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• N AT IONAL S ECRETARY K. + T HE 1945 Founders' Day + FI FTY active and alumni D. Pulcipher was the chief speaker at dinner of Birmingham alumni was held members of the three Kentucky chapters the 25 th annual Founders' Day dinner Mar. 12 in the Tutwil er H otel with of Pi Kappa Alpha observed Founders' of the St. Louis Alumni Club, at the 175 persons present. D ay with a d inner at the Lafaye tte Ho Gatesworth H otel, Mar. I. His address, T h e program included the call to or tel in Lexington and heard a stirring details of which are given elsewhere in der by W alter Coxe, the blessing by address in memory of the Fraternity's this issue, was a challenge to the frater the R ev. J. Rupert McGregor, introduc· war dead given by Executive Secretar y nity system to rise to the n ew horizo ns tion of the guest toastmaster, Garner Freeman H. H art. of a changing world and fit itself to Lester, of J ackson, Miss. · Sharing the speaking program with meet the n eeds and ideals of the postwar him was Dr. H enry Noble Sh erwood, college generation. National President R oy D. Hickman led a tribute to the brothers who h ave KA P, who explained the Dumbarton H e told also of the remarkably good joined the Chapter Eternal. R eports Oaks Conference. H e dwelt on the relative success P. Kappa Alpha has had from the active chapters were given by part youth will h ave in enforcing this in maintaining its undergraduate organ J oe Neal Blair, for Delta; District Presi plan and the peace o f the world. At ization in the tribulations of war, and dent A. H . Knight, for Upsilon; Marett the conclusion he conducted a question he was able to decl are: "Pi Kappa Al Maxwell for Alpha- Pi, and Bob McKay and answer session on the plan. pha today is by far in the strongest fi for Gamma-Alpha. Dr. Sherwood pointed out the simi nancial position in its history." There larity of the Dumbarton Oaks plan to were no delinquent accounts due from H . H. Grooms, n, in troduced the guest chapters, h e added. H e praised the man speaker, Kentucky's L t. Gov. Kenneth that of the League of Nations and called ag.ement of Executive Secretary Freeman H . T uggle, n, who spoke on " Pi Kappa attention to the League provisions that H. H art. Pulcipher, former Nationai Alph a Looks Ahead." Governor Tuggle h ave proved to be of world-wide benefit Editor, was introduced by Richard G. gave President H ickman a commission since they were established. T he Inter Bauml1off, who succeeded him in the making him a Kentucky Colonel. national Labor Office and the epidemio editorial post. J oe Barrett gave the nominating com logical office which exchanges informa Attendance was about 75, wives being mittee's report and the fo llowing offi tion between nations on communicable included this time, as h as been done cers were elected : Vastine Stabler, pr.esi diseases were among the benefits men dent; Grooms, vi ce president; Mel In fro m time to time in the past at the St. tioned. gles, A Z, treasurer, and Fra nk Hicks, Louis Founders' Day sessions. For the r A, secretar y. Dumbarton Oaks, which provides for first time, Beta-Lambda of Washington an organization known as U nited N a U niversity was not present en masse, as tions, is not so intrusive as the League the wa r has temporaril y cl osed that of Nations, Dr. Sherwood said. Dum chapter. One of the speakers was Dexter barton Oaks p rovides for the use of force M. Stephens, an alumnus, who is acting to keep world peace while the League for the prese nt as SMC of Beta-Lambda's did not. orga niza tion. Alpha-Lambda reported a healthy sit Other speakers were J oseph A. Shee u ation with two actives and ten pledges, han, former national officer; Charles L. all of which are expected to return n ext Freeman, former traveling secretary; year. Kappa, wh ich has maintained a Henry F. Chadeayne, Cornell alumnus, full chapter, also reported several new Democratic nominee for mayor of St. pledges. Prof. W . W . Downing, of the Louis; Walter Haddaway, new alumni University of Kentucky, told of plans to presiden t, who told the solemnly atten initiate several men into Omega chap tive gathering of the post-humous ter, which has been inactive for the last award of the Legion of Merit to Capt. two years, in order to h ave a working R obert Sherwood, Beta-Lambda's one nucleus when the fall term starts. time SMC, who gave his life in Panama, Prof. Carl Fields, AA, was toastmaster. and Freel Behle, retiring alumni presi District President J ohn Field told of the clen t. other two ch apters in the Kentucky District President R obert M. Close T ennessee District, Zeta and Sigma. T h e was toastmaster, enlivening the evening former is on e of the larger ch apters in wi th able and humorous introductor y Miss Lillian Davis, KA, of Knox ville, was named " Dream Girl" by the Fraternity and Sigma, with only one remarks. Songs were Jed b y A. W . Zeta Chapter at the Fou nders' Day active on the campus, is planning for Mois.e, who often h as fulfilled that func dinner Mar . 2 . She is a sopho more in the College o f Hom e Eco renewed activity n ext fall with the trans tion at these gatherings in the past. nom ics at UT. fer of two men from Zeta. 12 At the Birmingham Founders' Day Alton Osteen, Alton Osteen, Beta tional Presitlent; Mrs. Kenneth H. clinner, the following, from left, Kappa; Mrs. Walter F. Coxe, Wal Tuggle, Lt. Gov. Kenneth H. Tug were seatecl at the speakers' table: ter F. Coxe, Alpha·Delta; Garner gle, Omega, of Kentucky; Mrs. H. Mrs. /. Rupert McGregor, J. Rupert Lester, Alpha-Iota, of Jackson, H. Grooms, H. H. Grooms, Omega; McGregor, Beta; Mrs. A. H. Knight, Miss.; Mrs. Roy D. Hickman, Maj. Mrs. J' as tine S tabler, L. J' as tine Anclrew H. Knight, Alpha·Pi; Mrs. Roy D. Hickman, Beta-Delta, Na- Stabler, Gamma·Alpha.
At Charleston: + THIRTY me m b e r s and brothers from the surrounding area of the Charleston Alumni Chapter cele brated Founders' Day with a banquet on March 9 at the Edgewood Country Club. The Charleston Chapter has just re cently been reorganized after a lapse of several years. Some of the Alpha-Theta brothers had been meeting periodically for a social get-together when it was de cided to enlarge the group to include all IIKA's in the area. There was some deliberation over this step since the war conditions were taxing the time of the members, but it was also remembered that lTKA was founded dur ing the turbulent days of war. The wis dom of proceeding was proven by the fine attendance at the Founders' Day banquet in spite .of high water and bad weather. Brother "Tiny" Packer, who had been scheduled as the principal speaker of the ev.ening, was unable to get through flood waters. Brother Beverly Broun, of Charleston, was substituted. He paid tribute to Governor Meadows, who is to be awarded the Distinguished Service A ward for the year. Brother Broun also outlined some of the highlights of IIKA history. Governor l'vfeadows, in a brief ad dress, told of what IIKA has meant to him both in school and his later prac James W. Hudson, z, '99, left, re· Briscoe, II, '92, at the 1945 Found· ceives a Golclen Chapter member· ers' Day clinner at Knoxville. tice of law. ship certificate from William N. 13 At the Charleston Alumni Dinner at Donald Cork, R. D. Ketchum, Robt. Coleman, Jr., Sam White, L. Edgewood Country Club were, seat Henry Littaker, W. P. Edwards. J. Dempsey, Brad Barr, Emerson ed from left, C. Lee B euhring, C. Standing: C. E. Anderson, F. W. Salisbury, H. N. Rife, Fred Phelps, J. Gibson, B everly Broun, C. K. Robinson, J. N. Harmon, Hugh Marion Stratton, S. C. Hill, Ike Payne, Gov. Clarence W. Meadows, Mills, Chester Yater, Buster Laing, Rector. J. H. Kisner, Judge Ira J. Partlow, Chester Yater, Jr., Harry Lathes, Governor Meadows Wins Distinguished Achievement Award
+ Gov. CLARENCE W. M EAD· "Whereas, the members of the frater liberty and honor for which it stands. ows, rr, of West Virginia was announced nity deeply mourn the passing of our "Be it further resolved, that the offi as the 1945 recipient of the Alumnus beloved brothers, Maj. Rudolph F. Bos cers of the Alumnus Alpha-Theta Chap Alpha-T heta Distinguished Achieve telman of Beta T au Chapter, killed in ter of Pi Kappa Alpha convey to their ment Award at the annual Founders' Alaska; Capt. Robert E. Sherwood, BA, widows and loved ones our heartfe lt Day dinner of the Chicago alumni at killed in the Canal Zone; and Pvt. Rob sympathy and our own deep sense of the Electric Club, Mar. 2. The award ert Roulette, rP, killed in action on the loss/' was presented by Arthur S. Bowes, B
16 Clark Is ·chosen Chief Justice t J UDGE ALBERT ?\1. CLA RK . ~ . of the Supreme Court of J'vli sso uri. became chi ef ju ·tice of the tribunal in 1\ farch. .-\l so a member of the court is Judge Lawrence M. H yde, AN, who was elected presi ding judge of the court's Di vi ion I. Judge Clark attended the Founder~ · Day dinner at Columbia a nd found that Pi Kappa Alpha is ca rrying on there <~ lth o u gh severa l other fr <~ t e rniti es have closed for the war. Judge Clark was born Mar. 4, 187!!, in Lawson. i\•fo .. a nd was educa ted in J. W. HUMPHREYS th e Lawson public schools. Presbyterian Col lege of Upper Missouri and Vander JOHN L. GILMORE bi lt University. He was married J an. 28, 1906, to Miss Georgia Architects Bessie Zimmerman, of Lawso n, and they Gilmore Heads have three daughters, Mr . David H ar ri so n, of Maryv ille, Mo.; Mrs. Powell Honor Humphreys McHaney, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Ber Law School Alumni · nard Galbreath, of Long Island. • J. W. H UMPHR EYS, A..l., nf Admitted to the bar in June, 1900, he + J oHN L. GtLi\lORE, BA, of Atlanta, has been .elected president of se rved as prosecuting attorney of R ay St. Loui s. has been elected presid ent of the Georgia chapter of American Insti County from 191 3 until elected to the the Law Alumni ssociation of Wash tute of Architects. state legislature in 1917. He served un ington Unive r ity. A member of the finn of Barili &: til 1920 and was a member of the co n A native St. Louisa n, Gilmore rec<;ived Humphreys, he i al o a member of the stitutional convention in 1922-23 and hi s ,LL.B. degree in 1928 after attep9i!Jg Georgia Engineering Society and was re se rved as a state enator from 1931 to Uni versity High <~ nd St. Loui Uni~r er, cently awarded a commiss ion to design 1939. His term on the Supreme Court sity. He is a member of the city, .tat ,~ a 750,000 junior high school building. ex pires in 1948. :llld national b <~r
'+ UNIQUE among Naval hos chief of se rvice, it was explained. Be pitals is the one at San Diego of which cause the patient load at the San Diego Capt- J ohn C. Ruddock, MC, USNR, hospital is I 0,000, such an administra one of the outstanding members of tive plan would be unwieldy. Alpha-Sigma Chapter an.d a winner of Captain Ruddock sa id the Medical the Chicago Alumni Chapter's Distin Services, whi ch handles all types of pa guished Achiev.ement Award, is chief of ti ents except neuro- psychiatries, is com medicine. prised o f two kinds of pati ents, almost A description of the 'hospital proce evenl y divided. They are: (I) those dure was outlined by Captain Ruddock with disa bling diseases, and (2) those in a recent issue of Dry '· Dock, the hos with chroni c and trivial ailments. pital publication. "Such a case load is constant as long "With a phy~ical establishment unique as the military population is constant." ' in the history and developmem of hos Captain Ruddock wrote. ''ln time of pitals, and ca ring for an activ.e, revolv war, however, this population and the ing case load of several thousa nds of pa resultin0 pati ent case load flu ctuate. tients, the Medical Services Division of The case load also flu ctuates with the this hospital makes a major contribu tempo of battle and the receipt from the tion to the mi ssion of the Medical De battle fronts of the sick and wounded. partment of the Navy-to keep as many "The problem faced is the proper care men at as many guns as many days as and disposition of such a large and fluid possible," wrote Captain Ruddock. case load of patients-approximately ten DR. JOHN C. RUDDOCK Functioning under Captain Ruddock times the population of the usual civil is an assistant chief of medicine and ian hospital. These pati ents include all with laboratory facilities '\deled, each heads of eight sections. The Medical types: building becomes an individual unit Services occupy all of unit No. 2, which " I. The acutely ill. hospital, especially adapted to the care are buildings converted from the struc "2. The chronically ill. of one type of patient- tures which housed the Sa n Diego Ex "3. The patient suffering from a position. " It is not unusual to designate wards contagious dis.ease. "It i the use to which these buildings to a ce rtain type of patient, but here, "4. The patient who is about to be have been put that makes the Medical entire buildings are so designated. Un returned to duty. Service of th.is hospital unique not only der this system, it is possible to have "In addition to the care of patients in the Navy but among civilian hospitals ward~ containing over 250 pati ents." on the Medical Services alone, hundreds as well," Ruddock explained. "Divided In the organizational plan of Navy of pati ents are referred to the medical and partitioned with diet kitchens, med hospitals, there are two main divisions officers from adjacent activities for con: ical officers' and nurses' stati ons, and medicine and surgery-each headed by a sultation." Dr. WilliamS. Bean, USPHS Official Dies in Maryland • DR. WILLIAM SMITH B EAN, itiated by Mu Chapter when he enrolled The next year he was medical officer at M, chief of the hospital division of the and was a delegate to the New Orleans Ellis Island and then fo llowed assign United States Public Health Service in convention when the Fraternity was na ments in Mobile, Pittsburgh, Norfolk Washington, D. C., died Nov. 26, 1944, tionalized. and Baltimore. at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He Graduating from Presbyterian in 1909 Of four surviving sons, two are mem was buried in Greenlawn Memorial Gar with an A. B. degree, he received his bers of Pi Kappa Alpha. They are: dens, Spartanburg, S. C. M. D. in 1944 at the University of Vir Capt. William S. Bean III with the Dr. Bean was the gtma. There too he was active in Pi Signal. Corps at Camp Pinedale, Calif. son of the Rev. Kappa Alpha and was a member of Pi He was graduated with honors in 1939 W i 11 i a m Smith Mu, the Ravens and Phi Beta Kappa. at Carnegie Tech. There he met Miss Bea n and Kather H e entered the U. S. P. H. S. as an Mary Slocum, of Pittsburgh, and they ine Fleming Bean. interne in the Iarine Hospital at Bal were married in 1942. They have a son. of Augusta, Ga., timore and 30 years later returned to Ca rlisle Slocum Bean. and was born Se pt. that institution a~ medical officer in Howard Carlisle Bean, an ensign . in 9, 1890, in Sumter charge. One of his earliest ass ignments the Naval Air Forces, was graduated County, South Car was medica l o fEi ce r on the Coast Guard from H ampden Sydney. olina, where his cutter Androscoggin and in 19 17 was George Adam Bea n and Jose ph San father was pastor detail ed to the pell agra inves ti gation in born Bean, twins, are in Naval trainin ~. Dr. Bean of h i s to r i c M t. Spa rtanburg, S. C. In 1939 Dr. Bean and Mrs. Bean Zion Church. While there he met Miss Sophie Willis planned a transcontinental motor trip He spent his boyhood in Clinton, S. Carlisle and they were married in April. for the family. C .. where his father was editor of South 1918. After several ass ignments, he spent Other survivors were his mother, and t> m Presb,>terian and professor at Pres 1924-25 in special research in the College three sisters, one the wife of Lt. Both byterian Coll ege. Young Bea n was in- of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. well Graham, M.
18 meet r!ed JJeal'l: He's In Congress, Too Spark ma n on the fl oor of the Hou e and incumbent, orris Poul en. made himself known to the Alabaman. Prior to hi election to the council Healy wa immediately welcomed to the post, he was production manager of the Pi Kappa Alpha delegation in Congress very Cohe ive Company of Lo An which includes Se nators Andrews of geles. H e was a director of the Holly Florida, Chandler of Kemuck y and wood State R elief Association in 1939. Mor~e of Oregon and R epresentati ves El Pueblo al o sa id of H ea ly: Clark of North Carolina, Clements of "Of tall, gangly stature, H ealy make Kentucky, Colmer of Miss issippi, Gath a tremendous appeal to the vo ters wi th ings of Arkansas and R obertso n of Vir his sincerity and honesty of purpose. He ginia, in addition to Sparkman and is a terrific campaigner, attending hun Healy. dreds of meetings, making innumerable El Pueblo, publication of City Em talks, and meeting thou "But the crowning testimon y to Dr. Lafferty's work i the uccess tha t has been g iven him and the sea l of the Holy Spirit's approval, as seen in the fruits of his labor a nd leadership. All who kn ow our Bible School are aware tha t it has been grea tl y ble sed of God. All the vi ible results of Dr. Laf£erty's work bear a more e loq uen t tribute to his worth to our church than an y word can bear." His son, Ro bert H. Lafferty, Jr., also DR. ROBERT H. LAFFERTY is a member of Beta Chapter. Herald-Tribune Writer Has High Praise for Senator Morse • lltGH PRAISE [or Senator be to a tribunal appoi nted by someone R epublica n nomination for enator from Wayne Morse, B;:;, by i\fark Sulliva n in o ther than the \ <\1 fC chairman." Oregon which he won and he wa s suc· a copyrighted article in the Mar. 15 issue· Sullivan cited the incident a a ign ce (ul in the electi on. lt is pertinent of The H erald-Tribun e wa s given after tha t this " dangerous trend" may be re that Mr. More i a cholar in the law. Morse ca ll ed a ttention of the SenaLe to versed. H e was dea n of the University of Ore· the fact that the Manpower Bi ll ga ve the gon Law chool." Su IIi van continued: WMC chairman the right to require "Important in this incident are the On the ma tter, the article quoted workers to take certain jobs but allowed Morse as saying: appea ls only to a tribunal appointed by man who caused it and his background. the chairman himself. Senator Morse is a liberal, and a trong "'There is gTowi ng up in thi oumry one, but a liberal in the true se n e- thc a trend toward "' " + administra ti on of "Senator !orse, ri ing at the eleventh en e which says the main objective of law by the executive branch of the gov· ho UI·, aid he could not vote for the bi ll r·ea l liberalism is protection of the indi ernmen t through administrative officers in that form ." Sullivan wrote. " He sa id vidual citizen from arbitrary acts of gov who, in my judgment, do no t have their that an appea l from the WMC chair ernment. Until last year, fr. fl !orse opinions and views properl y checked by man to a tr ibun ~ l appointed by the was himself an offi cial of a govern· other branches of the government. I chairman was no true appea l a t all. mental agency, the \Nar Labor Board. think it is a dangerou trend. " " * I He asked that the a ppea l be to a tri He was thought of, loose ly and inaccu· think it is a bad principle of govem · bunal outside of the \<\IMC chairma n's rately, as a New Dea ler, though he ment " " " to give the power to pass control. H e would prefer that the ap showed restlessness about some trends upon * " * regulations to a tribunal peal be to a regular court, in the judi within his own ' "'LB and elsewhere in appoi nted by the administrator himself. cial branch of the government; but in the ew Deal. It was probably this "' "' " The citizen hould have protection any event he insisted tha t the appeal res tl essness which led him to seek the from arbitrary exercise of power. ' " 21 .I ,.. L .' wl Colonel Kohloss Named Alumni Secretary + CoL H E 'RY KoHLoss, T, 1894, the son of Robert Arthur and chief of the demobilization branch, Margaret Kohloss. H e received his B.S. planning· division, Army Service Forces, in electrical engineering from Auburn and stati oned at vVashington, has been in 191 5 and his M.S. from North Caro· appointed ational Alumni Secretar y !ina State in 1927. to replace the late Brig. Gen. LeRoy H e was commissioned a second lieu Hodges. tenant in the reserve corps in 1917 and T he new member of the Supreme was overseas in World W ar I with the Council was welcomed Into the Frater 38th Engineers. H e was promoted nity's offi cial circle by Presid ent Roy D. through the various grades to his pres Hickman, who sa id : ent rank which h e received in 1942. For the last two years he has been in "I feel that H enry's initiati v.e and the China-Burma-India Thea ter and the dri ve will bring the des ired results to Southeast Asia Command. the Fraternity in our alumni work." Jn 1921 he married Rowena M. Colonel Kohloss will attend the Smith and they have a son, Frederick meeting of the Supreme Council at J-1 . Kohloss, a second lieutenant with Chicago from July 4- 7. the Corps of Engineers with the 14th National Secretary K. D. Pulcipher Armored Division in Germany. has suggested that the council meeting Colonel Kohloss' hobbies were fool follow a similar procedure as in · the ball until 1915, baseball umil 1935, ten past. Various members will be assigned COL. HENRY KOHLOSS nis umil 1942. H e is a member of the subjects fo r discussion. The agenda will Engineers Club of Philadelphia, Army be prepared and copies se nt to all mem Colonel Kohloss was born In W ash· and Navy Country Club and the Society bers of the Council. ington County, Torth Carolina, Oct. 8. of American Military Engineers. Gray Goes to Florida Louise Suggs Gives Golf Exhibition in Atlanta + SAM GRAY, rT, on.e of the + LouiSE SuGGS, 21 , daugh T ournament at the Mi ami Country finest ends and tackles ever produced at ter of .Johnnie Suggs, ALl, 22, recemly Club, and went to the semi-fin als in the University of Tulsa, has signed a ga ve Atlam a's Bell Bomber Plam the Palm Beach Coumry Club tourney. contract as head basketball •coach and workers an exhibition of the driving She and h er partner won the Florida assistant football coach at Lakeland, form that made her the Woman's Mixed Two-Ball Tourney. Fla., high school. Southern golf champion for the dura tion. Suggs, the former Atlam a Cracker Before entering Tulsa U ., Gray made In recem competition, she took first star, is landsca pe engineer at the Bell · an enviable record in sports at New honors in the H elen Lee Dougherty plan t. Mexico Military Institute and New Mexico Aggies. H e played guard on the outstancling New Mexico Aggie basket ball team when it performed in Madison Square Garden several years ago. - - liK A-- Mrs, Massey Retires • MRS. MARIA M. MASSEY, widow of University of T ennessee's greatl y beloved Felix Massey, 2: , an out standing Pi Kappa Alpha, h as resigned from the university's history department beca use of ill health. She will make her home with a niece in Clarksville, T enn. --II KA -- Hatch at Reunion • PASCAL E. HATC H, BA , Springfi eld, Ill., bank president, was one of six members of the class of 1888 of Washington Uni ve rsity that attended a recent reunion at Alton, Ill. - - TIKA -- • EDWARD p HI L l p RAN DO LPH , lJJ, H, was one of nine students Among the many P e n n S t a t e Jr., 24 H a rri , J udd Z. , Lt., . i\Jarin(' orps- Kill ed in plane crash in Pacific, 1943. GA fMA ET : Ell io u , ;'\ la nin, .. Marine orps-Died o r injuries from fall. Stard Do) le, Clyde-Killed in outh arolin a, J a n ., 1945. Smith, C. Eugene, . S. Army- Killed in BETA M : Hooker, J efferson Davi , Lt., . . Arm y- italy, Nov., I 943. Swain, R obert A., Maj .. U. rm y-Killed R eported m iss ing in 25 It Was "Sweat" and "Bump'' All the Way By LT. CARL A. DAHLBERG Beta-Beta Chapter • BEFORE going into the • •• story of my leave, it seems best to defi ne the terms used in the title. "Sweat," in military terms, means wa iting around for the expected or un expected to happen. "Bump" means ge tting taken of£ a fli ght because of higher priority. My 15-day leave began Sept. 5, 1944. I arrived at the Miami airport about 2000 (8 p. m.) and was on an Air Trans port Command plane by 2200. W e first landed at Macon, Ga., then at Nashville, Tenn .. then at Dayton, Ohio, at noon the 6th and was bumped. At 1700 I ca ught a ride to Dall as, Tex., and was bumped there. It was becoming evident that it was not go ing to be an easy job to go to Seattle. but I was determined to make the trip as I had not been home since joining the Navy 25 months ago. The plane arrived in Dallas at 0300 of the morning of the 7th, so I went to the BOQ at East Loving Field and slept until 1100. This was much appreciated as the planes 1 had been riding had only bucket seats whi ch are plates of steel with small indentations. There are no back rests, and so the best manner of ge tting any rest whatsoever is to get on McSween Resigns From Tusculum + DR. J o H McSwEEN, B, who has two Pi Kappa Alpha sons in the service, has res igned as president of Tus culum College, Greenville, Tenn., be ca use of ill hea lth and will spend sev LT. CARL A. DAHLBERG eral months in Babson Park, Fla. top of the baggage and attempt to circumstances, and after cleaning up a Dr. McSween, former president of stretch out without getting one's body bit, I ate and walked around the city. Presb yterian College, served in the in a knot in the attempt. But the bed seemed my goal for the eve chaplain's corps in France in World ning so I had my first night's sleep in VVar I and ln er was departmental chap The ride west from Dallas started at over two years with blankets on, and lain for the American Legion. 0900 the 8th. We went to El Paso, Coolidge Field, Ariz.. and arrived at' what a treat! My only regret was that One of the sons, Capt. Allen C. Mc Long Beach, Calif., at about 1900. From I had to get up earl y next morning and Sween, M, has recently been promoted Long Beach, I was able to get a ride im go back to Hamilton Field. to regimental chaplain with the Fifth mediately for Hamilton Field, which is Army in Italy and has received the Le I arrived at the Fi eld at about 0900 just outside of San Francisco, arriving gion of Merit award. Formerly regi on the 9th. I immediatel y got a ride mental morale and recreation officer at about midnight. I went to the St. Fran supposedly to Seattle, but got only as Fort J ackson, Captain McSween was cis Hotel, very tired and hungry-having far as Sacramento and was bumped. I pastor of the Presbyterian Church at had only a sa ndwich and a glass of milk didn't argue much because the plane Forest City, N. C., before .entering the since early morning. The hotel first was carrying nitro-glycerine. service. His wife, Mrs. Bebe Dillard sa id they had no vacancies, but then Previously, I had made a reservation McSween, and their son, Allen, Jr., are asked me if I wanted to sleep in the on NATS ·(Naval Air Transport Com living at Clinton, S. C. BOQ . I was ushered into a room occu mand) for the nigh t of the 9th, and for Another son, Capt. William McSween, pied by four other officers. This, how· tunately I had not cancelled it when I M, is a line officer in Italy. ever, seemed quite suitable under the got the hop to Sacramento. I was able 26 to get a ride back to San Francisco with a plane that was going to top there on its way to Reno, ev. I took the chance of going back to San Francisco because the only way out of Sacramento was by train late that evening. I arrived at the Oakland airport and my reservations were waiting. Sa n Francisco is one of the most difficult cities in the countrv / to get out of and I considered mysel.f very lucky. T he avy plane took me all the way to Seanle where I arrived at 0300 on the morning of the lOth. My father came to the airport to pick me up. The next morning I call ed on mothers of friends in the service. The next morning (Sept. 11 ) I went to downtown Seattle, where I had prac ti c~d law for seven years. It seemed like I couldn't spend enough time with my business friends and associates down town. I left downtown about 1600, and met my father. Although he •and my mother live only six blocks from the Sandpoint NAS, my father had never been inside. I took him to the Ship's Servi ce and to the Officers Club, and he really enjoyed himself. After another good night's sleep, al though somewhat limited, my father and I got up at 0400 to go salmon fishing at Possession Point which is just off Whid by Island. We caught a couple of nice sa lmon, and was very pleased as I had promised fish from the West to my friends in the East. It never seemed cold to me when I had gone fishing be fore, but after two years in the tropics, my teeth really chattered. We left Seattle at 0500 Sept. 13 in a avy plane and arrived in Oakland about 1100. I decided to go to the Ala meda Air Station for the night. I h ad pi cked up an acquaintanceship with an ensign, and later that evening we went to the OHicers Club. We had to wait up until 0030 to call the airport regard ing a possible hop. At the club, we saw Cha~les Fan-.ell, Claudette Colbert, and Lt. Foster M. Pratt, BB, '40 , has rate India front B -2 9 bases in her husband who is also in the Navy. over 100 hours of combat time as China. Pratt, second from le ft, is co-pilot of a Boeing B-29 Super sh own in front of a B-29 named The hop did not materialize, so the fortress in the China-Burma-India "Spirit of Cleveland" at the time it next morning (Sept. 14) I again went theater. His recorcl inclutles &ev was dedicated at the Renton, Wash., about the job of sweating a ride. I went eral trips over the Japanese horne plant of Boeing Aircraft Company . to San Francisco but could not get a islands. He has m.ade nunterous With hirn are Army and civilian trips over " the Hurnp," avhich is principals who figured in the ride from either the Navy or the Army the popular d escription of the lofty plane's dedication. with my 4th class priority, I could not Himalaya mountains which sepa- get commercial air transportation for two days and then there was no promise. ge.t a plane, I had some halfway prom ence to ride on a B-17 . It was. One Finally about 1630 I went to the South ises, but I was afraid to take the chance, reall y fe~ l s important riding above the ern Pacific and told them I h ad to get so stayed on the u·ain. people in a big monster with four en Ea t. They said there were no reserva At Chicago I got a plane leaving al gines drumming in yo ur ears. W e ar tions left, and I told the clerk I would most immediately for Dayton. Just after rived in Savannah at 0300 on the 18th. getting cleaned up in Dayton, I received We arrived in Miami at 2000 on the stand if necessary. Apparently she felt a call that a B-17 was leaving for Savan 18th, and it was still po ible for me to sorry for me a she finally sold me a nah, Ga. I hurried over to the plane visit with my fami ly and re t up for one coach ticket for Chicago leaving at 1900. for two reasons-one, I wanted to get day before reporting back to duty where, I spent Sept. 15, 16 and 17 on the any possible ride available, and, second, as they sa y, "It is all over- but the fight train, although at every stop I tried to I thought it wotild be quite an experi- ing." 27 • T HE HARSH and unwel t:O me vo ice of the Operations Clerk star tled us lrom a sleep the morning- of Sept. 6. T oo sleepy to actuall y know what we were doing-, we cra wled out of Once We Were/0 bed, dressed, g-rabbed a helmet and oxy g-e n mask, and tore out of the "hut" just By CAPT. SAM TURNER, Alpha-Eta in time to ca tch the last truck to the mess hall. a truck o ut to m y ship. As we drove g t area, 1 no ticed eight fighters, high Breakfast consisted of the much pub around the perimeter of the airdrome, <-tl 2 o'clock. 1 could see them as the sun li cized "Spam" and ''powdered eggs." yo u could see the enormous dorsal fins rell ected o n their shiny surfaces. 1 called Too sleepy to ea t, 1 wandered over to of the "Forts" o utlined against the dark m y top turre t gunner. "Smitty, there are the " briefin g-'' room. I t was already haH sky. Presently the truck pulled up in eig-ht bandits, high at 2 o'clock, got 'em?" fill ed with fell o w , just li ke m yself, too front of "R aunchy," my plane. The " Roger," he answered, " they are too li ghts were o n a nd the ground crew was sleepy 10 know that there was a war far out, but 1 have my eyes on them.'' going o n. T hey were gathered in small busy getting- everything in readiness for Wha t seemed like a split second late!·. gro ups, discuss ing past raids, and pre the coming ra id . The rest of my crew the whole front end of the plane ex dicting what this one would be like. 1 was olf to o ne side cleaning their guns, ploded . I didn't hav.e to think twice to heard one fell ow say, ''Hope thi o ne a perpetual job in comba t. I walked over know tha t we had been hit, and bad. isn't back to the 'Vall ey.' " to give them a ha nd, but fo und that they were almost finished. i\ly first tho ug-ht was of the oxygen, tha t 1 knew what he meant, for 1 had been life-sa \'ing substance needed at high al on that raid to the Ruhr Valley, a nd 1 It was quite cold and foggy. as are all tiwdes. J had an awful time g-etting m y felt just as he did. It had been a roug-h September mornings in England, but I brea th. a nd thinking that perhaps m y I one. One serg-ea nt laug-hing-ly exclaimed, was swea tin g- despite that. walked over mask had become loosened, I reached to where the Crew Chief was sta nding-, "Why in the hell can't they Eig-ht this up to fix it. It was gone. All tha t re and started ta lking with him about the war in the daytime!" There was a feel mai ned w:t• a thin strip of rubber ing- of nervous tension in the air. It was plane as was my custom every mo rning around my face. I immediately mo tio ned before take-off. H e reported that every alwa ys like this just before we took orr to m y co-pi lot to head down and lose a to bomb Hitler's " Fortress E urope.'' thing was in top shape. After m y crew lo t of altitude. We wouldn' t remain had finished cleaning their g-uns, we ali ve over 30 seconds at that altitude, The "briefing-" officer stepped up to went into the tent. We just sa t there in without oxyg-en. I had previo usly pla n the map and slid aside the cover. Lord! the dark, smo king a nd thinking of home. 1 thoug-ht that m y heart would stop. ned that if something- should happen to Fellows all around me began to stir un The sun was just beg-inning to come 1 he oxyg-e n system, J would try to catch easil y in their sea ts. A few muttered un up when we started the engines. Yon the group that was fl ying below. and in der their brea th. One of them sa id, hall could hear their muffled roar all over fro nt of us. for the protectio n tha t they aloud, ''Jesus Christ, what a raid!" They the fi eld, as the pilo ts revved them up. could give in such an emerg-e ncy. Their had a red ribbon tha t marked the route At 5:30, the lead ship taxied in from of speed was too great for us. and we were to the target. It looked as if it stretched us. W e waited until our turn ca me. and unable to catch them. With disappoint cl ear across Europe. It was the longest after releasing the brakes, we moved ment in o ur hea rts. we watched the for penetra tion that h ad ever been sc hed forward to take our place in the line of miltio n leaving- us behind. Leaving- us ul ed fo r us into German y. Flying Fortresses taxiing down the run in the middle of Germany's air power. way. \Ve were alo ne over e nemy territory. Our targ-e t wa a factory in Stung-a n , Germany. One thing that worried us AS WE CROSSED the English Chan I was no lo nger the pilot of "R aun most was the fact tha t our ro ute led us nel, the air was literally filled with heavy chy." I had assumed an entirely differ ri g-ht thro ugh the " hea rt" of the Germa n bombers. No ma tter which way you ent role. T was comma nder of that small fi g-hter-belt. Most of the people in the looked , yo u could see groups of them. portion of the 8th Air Force, m y plane. States underestimate the German fi ghter T here was no do ubt about it. this was It would be the decisions I made that pil ot. Ask any Ameri ca n bomber crew. a big raid. W'e crossed the French coast "·o uld decide whether we would live or a nd yo u will find that he feels the sa me line. lying peacefully below us, a nd die. I looked at the instrument panel wa y that I do. The "J erry" is a profes headep [or our target. and saw that it was demolished. It was hanging in shreds. There wasn't a good sional ki ll er. C louds began to build up below u s, instrument left. The o nly thing se rvice Each of the " briefing" off icers gave and the further we went, the thicker :-tble was the compass in the roof of tht u the information that he speciali zed they became. We had no t g-one far when cockpit. that had missed the explosion. in , from " [] ak" to the target itself. The they completely covered the ground be The pilot of a plane that large reli es o n naviga ti o n oHicer gave us a time tick fo r low us. I h eard the bombardier calling instruments more tha n he rea li zes. In a our watches, so tha t we could sy nchro on the intercom, " OK, put on your heavy bomber you can 't fl y by the "seat n ize them with hi s. The room was quiet masks, we are going up. Give me a call of yo ur pa nts. " The help that we need as he sa id in a slow, heavy vo ice, "T hree when everything is okay." We were ed was gone. R emembering other fifty, three-fifty o ne, three-fifty two, cl imbing- in order to get over most of "Forts" that had blown to king-d o~ three-fifty three, three- fifty fo ur, hack!" the "flak" that we were surely to meet come under just such circumstances, I That meant tha t fhe main part of the when we reached the target. We leveled reached down · to ring the "bail-out" " briefing" was o ver, and I moved alo ng off at our bombing altitude, a nd turned alarm bell. As I did so, I looked down with the pi lo ts to the special " briefing" on the ta rg-et. vVe could see from there into the navigator's compartment. The tha t the " O ld fan " had for us. one of that it was covered with clouds. As we panel between our two com p art m e nt~ us were too happy about the coming approa c h ~ d the targ-et the " fl ak" bat had been blown away. I saw my navi dawn , and we sho wed it. teries bega n to o pen up on us. The air g-ato r a nd bombardier lying in a pool of After the " briefing" was o ver, I went was fillecj with the ugly, black bursts. blood . They both looked unconscious. out into the sti ll dark night, and caught About five minutes away from the tar- I knew that we couldn't jump and leave 28 rh em in the crippled plane, so I d ecided th at it would be a ll of us together that remained in the plane. Somehow. 1 just 1-.ll l.W th ;1 t " ·c cuuld man age. Jt was a good thing that I made this decision, for upo n looking down . I ,aw m y parachute lyi ng in ~ hreds on the lloor. I ha\'e no idea how last we went down . but the eanh loo ked as if it were approachi ng us at "express train" ~pe e d. J FELT A HAND o n m y shoulder, and upon looking around, I almo>t n1mited. My n avigator was Stil nding there. blood treaming down his l <~c e . I cou ld sec that he was in great pa in . and I shud- dered to think that r might not be able to help him. He wa:, tr y in ~ 10 tell me tha t we were l os in ~ ga> . \V e proba bl y had eno ugh to la st for· a iHnlt ;on hour. We were again jumped hv fi~l11 e r s . eight ME-llO's. I suppose that we looked like easy meat to rllf'm . m ·er German v by ourselves. with " ·h;ot thev thnught. 1111 protectio n. They m;~cle their att<~c k s so close that I could see the pi lots in th<' cockpits. Their first attacks were from the rear, until my t<~il gunner succeeded Four of our Navy fighters irulicate field, Calif.; Ens. J. Barnett, rr, in knocking two of them down. Thev with their fingers the 22 JafJ planes Jack son , M iss.; E ns. W . E. M iller, they have downed in. combat. From Louisville, K y ., arul E n s. J. Berk quickly changed their method of <~ tt a c k : le ft, they are Lt. W. H enry, Bakers- h eim.er, Fairmo nt, Ohio. Two of them were unluckv enough to fly beneath our plan e. where the ball to know that h e had confidence in me mass o f metal and paint. lt had a lmost turret gunner sen t them earthward. mea nt everything. Finall y the ta il hit. taken life since we had been fl ying it. twisting, burning wrecks. Fin;rlly locM· W'e bounced once-twice-three times, "She" had taken us through 16 raids over ing our "blind spot" they moved o,·er and then we stopped with a jolt, so hard Europe, a nd had brought us to safety. to the right side and turned in to m. that it broke my safety belt. \t\l e were ·· he," without a do ubt, like all queens, They fl ew so close that they h ad to pull still in one piece though. "died proudly." up in ord er to miss our cabin. I h ave I DOVE OUT of the window into the I mad e a count a nd found tha t the never felt so helpless in m y life. la ke. The water jolted me when I hit it. ball turret gunner wasn 't with us. They All I could do was sit there and watch The surface was oil y, and was covered had opened the turret h <~ t c h to pull him them blow m y plane out from under me. wi.th gasoline. I sti ll h ad on m y h eavy out, a nd found tha t h e was d ead . They Looking ah ead for some sign of sa fe fl yi ng boo ts, a nd they were quickly fi ll left him there. F-I e h <~ d gone down with ty, I spotted a lake. R emembering some ing with water. T hey began to get h ea vy, the ship. of the geography that J h ad in school. and slowly started dragging me down Pre entl y a launch ca me toward us. I thought that maybe it was our desti ward. The si nking plane wa creating Cli mbing aboard. l no ti ced that m y shirt nation. I h eard the top turret going off an undertow, and I wa being dragged Felt sticky, and looking down I sa w that above m y h ead . and looked up just in down with it. Making a desperate lunge. I was covered with b lood . I had no idea time to see one of our pursuers blow 1 caught m y fingers o n the edge of a th at I was wou nd ed . up in a blinding flash of light. Smittv hole in the wing. Stra ining, I pull ed I looked around at m y crew. They had hit him. but good . The lake was m yself up on the wing. were a ll quiet, except the bombardier. just in front of us now, coming closer T he remainder of the crew climbed who would whimper every n ow a·nd each minute. ou t of the radio-room hatch, and were then. H e Wi!S still out. The n aviga to r The plan e was going at a terriric nte releasing the li fe rafts. T he plan e had had given him a cou ple o f shots o f mor of sp eed , for the throttles had stuck in twisted in landing. and they were stuck. phine to ease the pa in . Sgt. Thornto n a "wide open" position when we were ' l\l' ith our finger and a screwdriver, had the b ack o f his head blown away. hit the first time. There was no way to which the engineer had , we ripped the Sgt. Gallo had a torn , blood y place o n reduce the speed. The wing contro ls covers off of the li fe raft compartments, his left leg. were shot up too bad to try a nd make and pulled them ou t on the wing. Cat· R eaching the dock. the men h elped any turns, so I just fl ew straight aheit cl rying the unco nscious bombardier, we us out o f the launch o m o the hore. with the nose pointed down at the sur piled into the rafts, and started paddling middle-aged wo m <~ n ca me forwa rd, a ncl face of the lake. When about 20 feet away from the si nking plane. Wha t a in broken E ngli . h told u. that he was above the water. I leveled our. ' "'e were sight she was. There were holes all over a doctor's a sistan t. An ambulance going so fast that the plane fl oated her that were big enough to crawl pulled up to the cl ock. and they load ed about six feet above the water for almost through. The fuselage had broken in mv bombard ier on board. a mile. I h ad the nose of the plan e up h alf, and the rudder had b een shot awav The doctor took 11. to his offi ce, so high I was afraid that we migh~ go to nothing at all. "Gawel amighty, Skip where he pa tched us u p. The wou r. d in over on our back a n y minute. p er !" my tail gunner exclaimed , " how m y chest con ta ined the fu e o f a 20 mm. T looked over at m y co-pilot. and s<~ " . did we ever get out of that me s?" '"' r. . hell. abou t the size o f a nickel. After sweat sta nding out on his face. "C.ood wer·e about 30 feet awa y when the last he had finished . T was ~ l a cl to take the luck. Bill!" I sa id. H e patted me on the of the plane slid beneath the oily sll1· glass o f brandy tha t the woman o ffered . back. and exclaimed. "You can do itr' face of the lake. T felt a lu mp come into And o ended the last mis ion of How comforting those words were. Just m y throat, For T had learned to love that " R aunchy" and h er crew. 29 ber, 1876, there are 13 men in the pic registered as a student from Giles ture; in August, 1877, there are 14 County in ·the fifth session of the col Epsilon Again members; and in 1878 there are II lege (1876-77), and he was initiated members. During those same years the into the fraternity on May 12, 1877. (Continued fro m Page 20) pictures of the Kappa Sigma fraternity Just look at the "recorded" interests above a charter for Epsilon Chapter on show from 12 to 15 members. In 1876 and honors of some of the men in the Nov. 21, 1873. The sessions ran for 10 there wa s a chapter of Sigma Alpha, chapter, and I think Brother Payne will months each, with the vacations usually but the following year these same men feel that his statements are conserva extendinrr from the middle of December b • seem to hav.e formed a local which now tive. until the middle of February. Thts was was known as The Black Badge Fra expl ain ed by the climate of Blacksburg, Captain Brown had been succeeded ternity; they retained their Sigma Al since the summer are always delight as first captain by Ker (Northampton) ; pha badge. Apparently Kappa Alpha, full y cool and pleasant, but the· winters A. R . Heflin was adjutant; M. L. Kilby Southern, survived only one year, 1877. was first lieutenant of Company A; G. are rigorous. Although the Board of Visitors in 1880 0 . Leach was second lieutenant of In the third catalogue, (1874-75), put a ban upon fraternities, y.et some Company B; Alex. Black, 0. T . Rad Brown was listed as a second captain; must have remained sub rosa on the cliffe, E. L. Handy wer.e sergeants. Gallion and vVootton had dropped out; campus, for as late as 1883 the Kappa President Minor had announced Rad and in the fourth catalogue, (1875-76), Sigma Kappa shows 31 members. Brown was the only charter member cliffe, .J. T. Jones, and Willcox as "dis left in the corps of cadets. He had now Though Captain Brown had left col tinguished" in their respective classes become first captain. lege by March, 1876, yet he and Gal ( 1876) . In 1877 Willcox was the re lion must h ave chosen the b.est men on In a picture of the cadet officers for cording secretary for the Y.M .C.A. Ker the ca mpus to "carry on." The picture 1874-75, that of Brown appears. Also was shortstop on the "College Nine," which still remains at V.P.I. of the 1876 G. Y. Ker is in this picture. and playing on the opposing team, group shows men interested in every "Dutch Alley," were Kilby and Handy. This "new kind of institution" to phase of college activities. If for no In March, 1877, The Gmy jacket tells teach agriculture and mechanics boasted other reason than that it was this chap in detail the elaborate celebration of of two literary societies from the first. ter which played hosts for the second the Maury Literary Society, pointing The Lee Society and the Maury Society convention of the fraternity at Yellow out that Willcox and ]. Marion Brown had most elaborate programs of decla Sulphur Springs in August of 1876, the of Wythe County had ably upheld the mations and debates. Two handsome picture should be preserved. As Brother affirmative of "Resolved, That the portraits of Lee and Maury, which for H art remarks in his story of this con Hope of Reward Is a Greater Incentive merly hung in their respective halls, are ve ntion (p. 82) : to Action Than the Fear of Punish treasured possessions of the V.P.I. li "Delegates came to the Convention ment." Unfortunately, perhaps, for Ep brary today. from only three chapters, Alpha, G:amt:J?a, silon, the negative side won the debate. The two societies flourished until and Epsilon, all of the others bemg Ill active at that time. In addition to the Heflin, who had been adjutant in 1928 when both became defunct. In delega tes most of the actives and some the first few s.essions of the college, the of the alumni from Epsilon attended." 1876, was elected president of the two societies combined to publish The In this sa me picture of 1876 appear Alumni Association for 1882-83. a posi Gray ]achet, a monthly magazine and John T . Francis and T. H . Willcox. tion which later was also filled b y newspaper. Jn its July issue of 1875 Brother H art gives credit to Francis as Brother Payne. appears the following note: follows: "In February, 1892, thanks to Jt is significant that the spirit of At the White Sulphur Springs (abo.ut the work of John T. Francis, of ·Epsilon, seven miles from Blacksburg) , Memonal friendship and loyalty instilled into the Day was a co mplete success. and to the efforts of Alpha Chapter, Pi corps of cadets by the earl y chapters on Part of Company A and B formed into Chapter, with four members, was char the V.P.I. campus contin'ued after 1880 one company, under the command of tered at vVashington and Lee at Lex to foster the spirit of fraternal organi Capt. Millard F. Brown, and ma~ched to ington, Va." (p. I 79) . With reference the Springs, and, by a good dnll, won zations. In 1916 the Board of Visitors many flattering com pliments from the to the Norfolk Convention of 1902, found it necessary to issu e another ban assembly. Brother H art again refers to one of this aga inst secret societies on the V.P.I. The portion of students who rode group: "Three other notables of the campus. there and did not drill, received a com early da ys were present: William C. --fiKA -- pliment from General Pres ton, wh!ch Dickson, one of the first initia.tes of was characteristic of that old soldter. He sa id it was "d-- poor militia that Alpha and a co-founder of Gamma; Washington Signs Paul had to he hauled about in ambulances." Judge Thomas Wilcox, of old Epsilon, • ORVILLE PAUL, BA , for The Gray .J acket, March, 1876, refers and, of course, that fine old Pi Kapp 30 General Mark W. Clark and Col. the port of Piombino, put in op his f oresight in e fficient employ Thomas E. Green, n and BM, sit at eration in four days. Maj. Gen. ment of his e ngineers in repairing the h ead of the table of the regi John P. Lucas pins the Legion of demolitions an.d his personal re mental m ess after inspection of Merit m edal on Colonel Green for connaissance in ntinetl areas. "Uncle Tom~~ Green of Texas and His Combat Engineers + THE 39th Combat Engi ing to one of the "legends" of the out For hi "exceptionall y meritorious neers regiment, under command of Col. fit. For want of something else to do. conduct" in .the performance of out Thomas E. Gr.een, II and BM, of Austin, they captur.ed the important Italian sea· standing services during the Sici li an Tex., is rounding out two years in the port of Piombino. campaign, Colonel Green has received front lines as a "jack-of-all-trades" unit. The engineers like to talk about their the Legion of Merit. (SHIELD AND DtA In addition to their record of 126 infantry missions. They landed with the i\'IOND, April, 1944.) bridges, 77 bypasses, 123 culverts, 24 ma R angers on D-Day at Gela, Si cily. There Colonel Green, formerly filtration jor road blocks and seven airstrips, they they cleared six minefields, built many pl am superintendent at ustin, was an have 450 Purple H earts. bypasses in the 38-day drive. At Saler officer in the Texa National Guard In addition to their r.egular duties no. the first battalion landed with the when that unit was federalized in 1940. si nce they landed at Oran in 1943, on infantry and engaged in bitter beach Guard when that unit was federalized three occasions they have taken up their fighting. The remaining two battaliom in 1940. M- 1 rifle and stormed Mediterranean came up in time to pilot assault boats He has two brothers in the service. beachheads. f01· the crossing of the Volturno. On the They are Capt. .J. E. Green, Bllf, who Three of the engineers set out in a Anzio beachhead, the engineers held a has just gone overseas, and Lt. George jeep one Jul y afternoon and carried flank position until relieved. '1. Green, 1nr. St'ltioned at St. Louis. their ri[les as a matter of habit, accord- For their many accomplishments they have won commendations from two Engineers building a bridge in the When rains m.atle this bridge un· Pietramala area in Italy. armies. a corps and thre divisions. safe, Engineers removecl it. 31 McGehee Brothers are ·Both Lieutenant Colonels at an Eighth Air Force station in Eng land in July, 1943, where he was on General Doolittle's staff. H e since has been reca ll ed to the U nited States for reassignment. H e has the Distingui shed Fl ying Cross with two oak lea f clusters for lead ing ships on bombing mi ss ioris and for making a trip over Bremen with only three engines rather than to turn back. H e has the Air Medal with three clus ters, the Soldiers Medal, and a Presiden tial U nit Citation in addition to his ribbons with battle stars. T he Soldier's Medal was give n when he ordered men away [rom a burning bomber which was loaded with bombs and taxied two n ying Fortresses out of the danger zo ne. H e took p 33 LT. JOHN R. McCRACKEN SGT. J. ARTHUR SANDERS LT. JOHN C. BROWN, JR. IIKA War Casualties Continue To Mount Sgt. J. Arthur Sanders Sgt. William T. Smart T / 5 Robert A. Moore • SGT. J. ARTHUR SANDERS, • SGT. WILLIAM T. SMART, + TECH. 5TH GRADE Roa Jr., 24, !l, armorer-gunner on a B-25, ro, '43, attached to the 75th Division of ERT A. MooRE, AA, died Nov. 11 , 1944, was killed in action D.ec. 27, 1944, over the First Army, was killed in action in at the Darnall General Hospital at Dan Feni, India, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Belgium Jan. 20, the War Department ville, Ky., while visiting his wife and J. A. Sanders, of Nicholasville, Ky. , informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eu parents at Georgetown, Ky., during a were informed. They received the Pur gene Smart, of Mansfield, Ohio. furlough from his post in Canada. ple Heart, awarded posthumously. Smart, 21 , trained at Camp Wheeler, A graduate of Great Crossings High He had served for three months in Ga., Pratt University, Brooklyn, and School, he lacked one semester of fin the China-Burma-India theater with Camp Breckenridge, Ky. He left for ishing at Georgetown College when he the Tenth Air Force. In 1942, while a overseas duty in Nov.ember, 1944. entered the service in 1942. He at senior at the University of Kentucky, In addition to his parents, he is sur tended the Signal Corps Radio School. he volunteered in the AAF and was vived by a sister, Betty, an Alpha Delta At Georgetown, he was a member of trained in Texas, Oklahoma and Colo Pi at Ohio University. the Glee Club and the Internationa·l rado befor.e receiving his wings at Las Relations Club. Vegas, Nev. He was at Columbia, S. C., In 1942, he was married to Miss Betty just before going overseas. Gains Leach and they have a son, Rob At the University he was a member ert Gains Moore, born three months of the R .O.T .C., Press Club, president after his father's death. of the Lamp and Cross honor society, --ITKA-- and assistant managing editor and col umnist on the K ernel, the student news Lt. John C. Brown, Jr. paper. He was a Mason and a member • LT. JOHN c. BROWN, JR., of the Christi an Church. rK, was killed Jan. 25 when the plane Besides his parents, he is survived by on which he was acting as co-pilot two sisters and a brother. crashed into Jamaica Bay, Long Island, --IIKA-- while on a regular patrol flight. ' It was his first flight since his return from the Lt. Kelly V. Fite African theater of war. + FIRST LT. KELLY V. Frn:, Born Aug. 7, 1918, in Durant, Mont., rA, was killed in action in Germany on Lieutenant Brown was graduated from Mar. 21 , 1944, his wife, Mrs. Louise the Anaconda public schools. He at Sibley Fite, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was in tended the Montana Schoql of Mines formed. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. one year and transferred to Montana Kelly V. Fite, Sr., and hi sister is Mrs. State College in the autumn of 1938. Mary Elizabeth Sparkman. SGT. WILLIAM T. SMART He was a se nior in M.echanical Engi- J4 neering when he entered the aval Air Capt. Ralph A. Wilmot Corps, Feb. 10, 1941. In college he was active in fraternity and intramural ac • CAPT. RALPH LLEN \i IL tiVIties. Talented musically he was a MOT, BIT , '40, wa killed Dec. 23, 1944, member of the coll ege band and orches while a pri oner of war of the German . tra. Commander of an anti-air raft unit The ensign's commi sion and wings of the Fir t Army, he had been mi ing were awarded at Corpus Christi in J an in action since Dec. 18. uary, 1942. He was advanced to li eu Captain Wilmot had been in the erv tenant (j.g.) in October, 1942, and full ice for three years, erving in Iceland,. lieutenant in October, 1943, and was England, France, Holland and Belgium. recommended for the rank of li eutenant before going to Germany. H e had re commander at the time of his death. ceived the Bronze tar medal for brav He served as an instructor at Corpus ery and heroism in Belgium. Christi from February, 1942, until Oc tober, 1943, when he was transferred to He is survived by his parents, Mr, a patrol squadron. He served in Africa and Mr . E. A. Wilmot, of Peoria, a from June until December, 1944. brother and a si ter. Lieutenant Brown was married to --IIK A-- T / 5 ROBERT A. MOORE Miss Harriette Perryman in Corpus Christi in March, 1942, who survives Lt. Jay M. Sink him, as do his parents, Mr. and Mrs. • FIRST LT. JAY MARVIN John C. Brown, and other relatives in INK, Z, was killed Sept. 24, 1944, in a Anaconda, Mont. plane crash in England where he was. --IIKA-- serving as a bombardier-navigator on a B-26 Marauder attached to the inth Lt. William T. Kent Air Force. • LT. WILLIAM THOMPSON The so n of h . and Mrs. J . M. Sink, KENT, AA, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. of Greenville, S. C., he was born Mar. I . Kent, of Bagdad, Ky., was declared dead 192 1, and attended hjgh school at Knox Oct. 28, 1944, one year after he had ville, T enn. He attended David on Col been reported missing on a flight from Gore Field, Mont., to Alaska. lege for three yea rs before enrolling au U. T. According to his log, he had embark ed on his 12th trip to Alaska and the Almost a year after he made applica Aleutians and, according to a friend on tion for cadet training, Sink was called the flight, Lieutenant Kent had cleared for induction and sent to anta Ana, Watson Lake, B. C., and headed for Calif., Hemet Field, Calif., and Roswell. Whitehorse, Yukon, when he evidently . M., for bombardier training. His. became trapped between snowstorms combat training was received at McDill, and forced down. Almost a month Fla., Myrtle Beach, S. C., and Godman, later, R.C.A.F. planes were still search LT. JAY M. SINK Field, Ky. H e w.ent to England in J an ing the route. uary, 1944. The 24-year-old flier began his train Lieutenant Sink had received the Air ing Jan. 15, 1942, at Maxwell Field, Medal with two ilver oak leaf clusters, Ala., and from there went to Bennetts Bronze Star medal for outstanding per ville, S. C., Sumter, S. C., and Turner formance of duty over France, and an Field, Ga., before being assigned to oak leaf cluster and everal commenda Romulus Air Base, Michigan. tions from uperior officer . His plane Kent attended Georgetown College wa over First Infantrymen on D-Day. from 1937 to 1939 and received his B.A . in Agriculture from the University of He had flown 66 mis ions and was Kentucky in 1941. His sister, Jane Kent, waiting to return to the states when he is connected with the American Print volunteered for a ferrying mission of ing House for the Blind at Louisville. carrying men and supplies to their new base in France. He lost his life in bad --IIKA-- weather within a mile of his base in Pvt. Robert J. Campbell England. + PVT. RoBERT ]. CAMP --llK A-- BELL, A8, was killed July 13, 1944, in Lt. John R. McCracken action in France. He was serving with the 90th Infantry Division. + LT. JoHN R . McCRACKEN, BA, was killed Nov. 10, 1944, in France. He was employed by the E. I. duPont de Nemours Company at Belle, W. Va., An account of his death was printed in when he entered the service. Hi the January issue of THE SHIELD AND mother is Mrs. Annie Campbell. PVT. ROBERT J. CAMPBELL DIAMO D. 35 Dr. E. Vernon Stabler, Lt. Paul E. Gourdon, Jr. Greenville, Ala ..______Alabatna • FIRST LT. PAUL EMILE Dr. Guy Van Buskirk, Los Angeles, CaJ. .______West Virginia GouRDON, JR., II, was killed in action Chaplain William P. Williams, July ll in France, the '"' ar Department USNR, Pensacola, Fla .._____ Univ. of South has announced. --TIKA-- The 25-year-old officer, the son of Mr. Gold Stars a nd Mrs. Paul Gourdon, of New York, (Continued from Page 25) was with a Field Artillery unit in Nor Killed during training in U.S., 1944. mandy. A law graduate at Washington Benjamin, William, U. S. Army, Infantry and Lee, h e had qualified to practice Killed on arm y transport in Mediterra· nean sea, May, 1944. a nd h ad planned to open an office after Nellor, Robert, U. S. Armed Forces-Killed the war. in battle of Midway. On Sept. 17, 1942, he was married to GAMMA OMICRON: Fox, John M. , 1st Lt., U.S. Army, Infantry Miss Mary Hunter Edmunds and they Killed in action, ov. 8, 1944, in France. made their home in Fayetteville, N. C., Smart, \<\lilliam T., Sgt., U. S. Army, 75th while Lieutenant Gourdon was station Inf. Div., lst Army-Killed in action in ed at Fort Bragg. He went overseas in Belgium, Jan. 20, 1945. LT. WILLIAM 0. YOUNG GAMMA PI: April and was stationed in England be Cherney, Robert H., 1st Lt., U.S. Army, 3rd Lt. William 0. Young fore the invasion. Div.-Killed in action in Germany, Dec. 2, Lieutenant Gourdon lost a brother in 1944: FIRST LT. WILLIAM OwEN Stevens, Paul, Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps + Bataan. Missing in action, 1945. YouNG, BIT, '43, was killed in action in --llKA- GAMMA RHO: Italy Feb. 21, 1945, while fighting with Sgt. Oscar L. Hardy Roulette, Robert H., Pfc.-Killed Nov. 29, the Tenth Mountain Division, the War 1944, in Germany. Member of 335th Inf. Department has announced. He had SeT. OscA R L. HARDY, Overholser, Bob, U. S. Air Force-Killed in + plane crash, Blytheville, Ark. b.een overseas only a month. re, of a First Army armored division, GAMMA SIGMA: Lieutenant Young was SMC of Beta tank commander, was killed Jan. 17, Hazlett, George W., Capt., U. S. Army Air 1945, in a train wreck in France. Corps-Killed in China, Aug., 1943. Pi chapter for three terms. He also was Strong, George W., Capt., U. S. Army-Died a captain in the ROTC, a member of the He enlisted in the fall of 1942 while July 9, 1943, after being invalided home Scabbard and Blade, and captain of the still a memb.er of from Southwest Pacific. University lacrosse team. the chapter and GAMMA TAU: Blind, Howard J ., Lt., U. S. Navy-Missing After graduation, he attended Offi trained at Fort in action since Sept. 11, 1944, serving cers' Candidate School at Fort Benning, Knox, Ky., a nd aboard submarine, USS Crevalle. Camp Cooke, Shaw, Robert Lee, Lt., U.S. Army-Killed on Ga., and was commissioned a second Anguar Island, Oct. 25 , 1944. lieutenant in January, I 944. He was Calif. He arrived GAMMA UPSILON: assigned to the Tenth Division, then at overseas a few days Jackson, Jean Delano, Lt., U. S. Armed Camp Hale, Col., and after training b e fore the acci Forces-Killed in action, Sept. 5, 1943, in dent. Solomons. there and at Camp Swift, Tex., went White, Charles, U. S. Armed Forces-Killed overseas in January, 1945. Sergeant Hardy in Southwest Pacific. --TIKA - - was g r a d u a t e d GAMMA CHI: Hardy from Natchez High George, Howard L., T /Sgt. , U. S. Army T / Sgt. Howard L. George Died in Navy hospital at Quantico, Va., School, and was a Jan. 21, 1945. + T / SGT. HowARD L. student at Mississippi State when he en Gray, John, SK 3/ c-Drowned off coast of GEORGE, r;::, died Jan. 26, 1945, in the li sted. Bermuda. Thompson, William, Lt., U. S. Air Corps Naval Hospital at Quantico, Va., of an A brother, Capt. T. M. Hardy, of the Missing in Alaska. abscess on the brain caused by infection Army Air Forces, has been missing in Vaughan, Thomas, Lt. (j.g.) , U. S. Navy from a cold, hospital authorities an action since July, 1942, in the China Killed in Pacific. Drowned in crash im nounced. mediately after take-off, although most of Burma-India theater. the crew was saved. He had b.een in the Army since Sep --IlK A -- GAMMA PSI: Andreola, William L., Lt., U.S. Air Corps tember, 1942, and was assigned to over Bonds Roll In Killed in action over Bremen, Germany, seas duty in February, 1943. He return (Continued [-rom Page 4) Nov., 1943. ed to the States from England in D e Learned, Noel F., Lt., U. S. Army-Missing John McCann, Taxes and Legal Mat cember, 1944. in action, Pacific theater. ters; Donald B.ean, Equipment; John McLure, Benjamin F., Lt., U. S. Army Air A native of Denning, Ark., George Maloney, Library; Col. Franklin S. Corps-Killed in routine flight. GAMMA OMEGA: had lived in Oklahoma for s.everal years Forsberg, History of World War II; Dr. Long, Lawrence J ., Cadet, U. S. Marine Air where he was a life insurance agent at l' reeman H. Hart, History of Pi Kappa Corps-Killed in training plane crash, Stillwater. He was secretary of the Still Alpha; Mrs. Courtney H. Hodges, June 4, 1941 , Pensacola, Fla. water Chamber of Commerce. Women's Auxiliary; Victor M. Roby, Robinson, William H., Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps-Killed May 12, 1943, on training Undergraduate, and Charles K. Payne, A charter member of Gamma-Xi , he flight, Everett, Wash. Special Gifts. DELTA ALPHA: was activ.e in 1936 in petitioning the --TIKA -- Jones, Kenneth, Ens., U. S. Navy-Killed in National Office for the charter. He accident on board ship, Dec. 14, 1942. also was active in alumni circles. 18 Charter Keystone Chapter Wallis, Donald G., 2nd Lt., U. S. Army Air Corps-Kill ed in action, Jan. 11 , 1944, over Funeral services were held in Still (Continued from Page 5) Germany. water and burial was in Pittsburg, Kan. J ohn L. Packer, DELTA BETA: Pittsburgh, Pa. ______Pennsylvania State Morrison, Erwin Harry, Lt., U. S. Army Air He is survived by a sister and two Harold E. Rainville, Corps-Killed in action. brothers. Chicago, Ill ..______Northwestern Sirak, Andrew Joseph, U.S. Army-Killed on maneuvers. 36 General Hodges receives the Grand After a tour of the battleground Officer of the Legion of Honor east o f the Rhine, Gen erals Eisen award from Gen. Alphonse Juin, hower, B radley mul Hodges confer chief of staff, French Armed at an airfield in Germany . Forces. Hodges' 1st Army 1st To Meet Russians + CouRTNEY H. HoocEs, '1', and our Third Army. Jn l\IIarch, 1944, were cond ucted with the highest degree commander of the First Army which General H odges was named Deputy of aggressivene s. With the fortuitous made the fi rst contact with the Rus- Commander of the First Army and seizure of the R emagen bridgehead, ians in an operation which cut azi landed in France in the initial in vasion. General H odge , with uperb skill, once Germany in two, recently added his On Aug. 1, 1944, he as u med full Army more p romptly changed the direction of fourth star to his rank. omination Command. the attack of his huge force o as to for the promotion was one of the first "W'hile stubbornly re i ti ng the ene take full ad va ntage of this opportunity acts of Pre ident Truman. Al o nomi my's determined efforts to cut the and to extend our fir t foothold beyond nated wa Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, T hird Army's upply line in the vicin the Rhine. By- pa sing the Ruhr, Gen Jr., a close fri end of General Hodges. ity of Mortain , Norm andy, General eral H odges' army of over 300,000 offi Several weeks ago the late President H odges pivoted h i troop about this cer and men has now advanced deep R oosevelt nominated everal off icer for base and forced the German into a into the vitals of Germany. the four-s tar rank, but did not include restricted pocket in the Falaise region. "In the operations on the Continent H odges or Patton. At that time several There they were an easy prey to air it has ca ptured more th an 400,000 pl·is members of the Senate Militar y Affairs and artiller y bombard men t. T h is pivot oners." Committee suggested that Hodges and movement involved whole corps in two hortly after the Fir t rmy had Patton also be accorded this recogni 90-degree changes of d irection, with seized the R emagen bridge across the tion. One of the first members of the co nstant pinching-o ut and reassignmen t Rhine and were extending their bridge committee to request this was Senator of divi ions. The e intr icate adju t head to send the first American troops A. B. Chandler, K and !1. ments demanded staff work' of the high over the fa med river and further into The Hodges nomination said: es t order. As a result a rn a jor portion 1azi-land, General H odge arrived for "General H odge wa Chief of Infan of the German Seventh m1y was de an in pecti on of the bridgehead. try when the Army was reorganized in stroyed. According to As ociated Pre s Corre March, 1942. Thereafter he successively "The operati ons of General H odges' spondent H oward Cowan, H odges ar· commanded the Army Ground Forces' Fi rst Arm y on the R oer River, in the rived "in the mid t of a shower of en- Replacement and School Command, Ardennes battle, and later in the Eifel, (Continued on Page 39) Promotions, Awards Won By IIKA's Everywhere + "\¥ILLlAM S. SMITH, A, son Lieutenant Young moved to the co of Mr. and Mr . James E. Smith, Ca pilot's seat and surveying the fir.e, de tonsville, Md., assistant surgeon at cided to try and extinguish it. He cut Headquarters, Eastern Defense Com off the fuel to the burning motor and mand, Governor Island, N . Y., has been with the gunner as co-pilot, took the promoted to the rank of lieutenant colo plane back to its base. nel. vVith more than 200 combat hours as Colonel Smith was graduated from a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress, the University of Virginia Medical First Lt. Richard A. Coll ey, AP, of School in 1938; he was a member of Nu Springfield, Ohio, has been awarded the Sigma u. He then erved a three-year fourth Oak Leaf cluster to the Air internship at Harper Hospital, Detroit, Medal for "meritorious achievement" at Mich., serving on the surgical service an Eighth Air Force Bomber Station in staff. England. Commissioned a first lieutenant in H e is the so n of Mrs. Esta Cornett, the Medical Corps, Michigan National Springfield. A graduate of the Spring Guard, in October, 1940, Colonel Smith field Senior High School, he was a jun was assigned to the medical detachment ior at Ohio State University before join· of the !77th Field Artillery R egiment. ing the AAF in February, 1943. H e was ordered to Federal service with that regiment in April, 1941, and served LT. RICHARD A. COLLEY " 1 think our emergency landing in first at Fort Knox, Ky. ; Fort Leonard Brussels after bombing in close support Wood, Mo.; and Fort Snelling, Minn. The Air Medal with two Oak Leaf of the ground forces at the Siegfried line clusters was presented to Mrs. Grace F. was m y most thrilling mission," said the Ordered in April, 1942, to the Ber Young, of Frankfort, Ky. , in behalf of muda Base Command, his detachment Ohioan. "We were just in time to cele her husband, First Lt. William A. was subsequently cited by the Base Com brate the city's liberation, and we had Young, II, a prisoner of war in Germany, mander for its excellent record. Colonel quite a time of it." Smith returned to the United States in at formal ceremony including a full dress Cpl. Howard Hines, rN, is in Paris parade at Godman Field, Ky., J an. 20. April, 1943, and was appointed regi with the occupation forces. Other Gam mental surgeon of an Eastern Defense The awards were for exceptionally ma-Nu men in the service include Sgt. Command anti-aircraft regiment in the meritorious achievement in aerial com J ohn H ershey, AAF in the South Pa Philadelphia area. bat over occupied France. As pilot of cific; Capt. L. C. Jurgenson and Capt. Colonel Smith is a graduate of the a B-17, his ship was hit by anti-a ircraft Arnold Carlson, both in England; Sgt. Command and General Staff School and fire as it left the targe t Mar. 28, 1944. J. E. Kaufman, in radar school. the Medical Field Service School. He On advice of the co-pilot, he ordered Capt. J. R. H es ter, !1, who was sta and Mrs. Smith, the former Rena String the crew to jump. \'\Then all except the tioned at the American Embassy in Pek ari of Detroit, and their daughter, Pris top turret gunner had left the plane, ing, China, has been held a priso ner of cilla Ellen, 4, reside on Governors Is the J apanese since the day after Pearl land, N.Y. H arbor. Lt. Robert B. "Speedy" Allen, rA, of His father, Judge W. H. H es ter, of Sheffield, Ala., is now stationed in In· Mayfield, Ky., sa id he had received only dia. He has be.en overseas three months. one communication from him-that "On Christmas Day," writes Sgt. Bern dated June, 1943, saying he was well. hardt Bauer, AA, from Paris, " three of At that time he was in a detention camp us went out to a French home for a near Shanghai with about 200 other pris meal that began at noon. To give you oners. an idea of what we had to eat and Capt. Hunter A. Causey, rr, who is drink, here is the menu : doing surgery in a field hospital in "Spanish porte, potage (vegetable China, writes that he enjoys reading soup), nails (believe it or not, they THE S HIELD A ' D DIAMOND. were good), white wine, cold meats with Guy A. Borkey, 0 , former District bread and butter, red wine, rabbit (sev President, has been promoted to the eral helpings), red wine, goose, ·new po rank of li eutenant colonel. He com tatoes, peas, red wine, salad (mostly gar mands the 37th Air Depot group and lic), cheese (Camembert and Pont also is executive officer for one of the l'Evique), white wine, chocolate pie, ap largest air force general depots in North ples, cake and jelly, coffee and cognac. Afri ca . "We finished the meal at 7 p. m. We Lt. Col. Deaderi ck Doak, AA, has ar sang Christmas carols, hotcha music, rived at his home in Middlesboro, Ky., Tipperary, etc., joining in with their on a leave after spending two and a half French songs through humming. After Samuel L. Fly, BZ, has been pro years in hospitals overseas in North Af moted to the rank of major at th e toast to France and America, we would AAF Central Flying T raining Com rica and Italy. yell, 'Hip, Hip, Hurray!'" mand headquarters at Randol ph H e last had charge of a hospital in Lt. Charles Herd, Z, is in a hospital Field, Tex. A partner in the law Florence, Italy. At the end of his leave in England suffering a· flesh wound in firm o f Jones and Fly, San Anto nio, h e is assistant staff judge ad he will go to a redistribution center for his foot. He wa in Paris recently. vocate f or the command. assignment. 38 (Continued from Page 37) Parkhur t of Tulsa, who now re ide in emy shell-fire, and one shell landed anta Barbara, Cali£. within 50 feet of the commander_ o Sgt. Monroe J. Bryan, Jr., rA, of one wa hurt-" heffield, Ala., has been reported mi - General H odges was given the com ing in action ince Mar. 18 over Ger panion of the Order of Bath by Field many, according to word received by Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in his wife, the former 1artha R o e Wil- ceremonies Mar. 20 on the W estern on, of Tu cumbia, Ia. The only on Front- of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe J. Bryan, of heffield, has been tationed in Eng The order awarding the Sil ver Star land with the Eighth Air Force since to Capt. Warren M. Stuart, IT, of Chi J anuary of thi year, entering ervice cago, says that on Aug. 18, 1944, he in October, 1943. He is an aerial gun "maintained his position with enemy ner on a B-17. hand grenades bursting so close as to shower dirt on him and small arms Leo . Hoegh, r , for everal years a barely clearing his h ead , to direct his member of the upreme Council and company in an attack" on a town in who entered the ervice a a econd France. lieutenant, recent] • was promoted to lieutenant colonel. In addition to his "Hurling hand grenades, Captain Bronze Star medal, he recently ha re Stuart killed two of the en.emy and ceived a Pre idential Citation. wounded another, and then perso nally led h..i s company in an assault on the Thomas Merritt Lowe, ¥, deputy M. E. Zeuerholm, BH, tationed at town, allowing his battalion to advance chief of staff, Mediterranean Thea Wa hington, has been promoted to ter of Operations, Army Air Forces, colonel. without delay," the order said. has been promoted to the rank of Captain Stuart recently was made bat brigadier general. He is a m e mber Pvt. Henry J. Kuna, Jr., AN, of the of the same chapter as Lt. Gen. 96th "Deadeye" Di vision, has been talion adjutant and is with headquar Courtney H. Hodges-North Geor ters company, some relief from the gia College. General Lowe's wife, awarded the Bronze Star medal for he strain of constant combat. Mrs. Etta E. Lowe, lives in Butler, roic service during the Leyte campaign. Ga. He is a friend of Brig. Gen. An automatic rifleman, the ci tation Capt. John H . Ferguson, B;::, of Oil Isaac W. Ott, P., now stationed in City, Pa., was awarded the Bronze Star France. said Kuna, "wounded once above the medal J an. 19 for meritorious achieve knee on the second day of the Leyte landed at Linbayen Gulf. ment in connection with military oper campaign, refused evacuation. • • • Lt. R alph C. White, rK, of Bozeman, ations against the J apane e at Rosario; Subsequently it was necessary to evacu Mont., figured prominently in action Luzon, P. L ate Private Kuna, but hi courage and undertaken by his avy Compo ite devotion to duty reflect the highest Before going to Luzon with the Sixth Squadron 5, Oct. 24, 1944, off Samar, standards of the mi li tary service." H e Infantry Division, h e was stationed in Philippine Islands. The squadron's has the Purple Heart and the Combat New Guinea and took part in the Maf fighter and torpedo planes sank two Infantryman's Badge. fin Bay and Sansapor campaigns. He J apane e heavy cruise rs and damaged Capt. Billy M. Sensing, B f, 25, of was wounded accidentall y in New another, damaged two enemy battle Guinea and aga in on Luzo n. ships with bombs and torpedoes, and (Continued on Page 43) The action in which he won the also damaged several other destroyer . medal was ca lled by the Associated A news release of Dec. 6 describes one Press the first real fight since the Yanks of the incidents of the encounter in which Lieutenant White wa involved. "The most unu ual experiences of the sq uadron's tour of duty were those which befell Lieutenant White. On Oct. 23, while over Leyte, Lieutenant White destroyed one J ap bomber and damaged another. The following day, after leading his section of Wildcats in trafing runs on the enemy fleet, he was forced to land on Leyte airfield to refuel and wa stranded there. After three dozen air raids on Leyte, they were finally able to 'hitch hike' a ride on anoth er warship and rejoin their carrier." Lieutenant ·white, a on of fr. and Mr . Charles T. White of Bozeman, was graduated from Montana State Col lege in June, 1939, and enlisted in the Naval R e erve Aviation Corp , Dec. 4, 1940. H e has taken part in the cam paigns against Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, U lithi, and Leyte. He was mar LT. RALPH C. WHITE ried in Dec., 1942, to Miss Thelma L. CAPT. W. M. SENSING 39 IIKA's Make Military History 'Round the World + LT. CoL. RoBERT E. BIBBY, Called to active duty in March, 1942, Ar, has been awarded the Bronze Star he trained for military flying at Morri medal at a French air base for the out son Field, Fla., ferried supplies to North standi ng manner in which he handled Africa and then joined the first score the per onnel problems of a Troop Car of crews which opened up the famous, rier wing, it was announced at the head Hump route into China. quarters of the First Allied Airborne After returning from over eas, he in Army, U. S. Troop Carrier Forces. structed B-17 pilots at Hobbs Army Air Colonel Bibby is the sole survivor of Field, Hobbs, N . M., and then was trans this father of all troop carrier units ferr.ed to Training Command H eadquar which was activated before Pea rl Har ters in April, 1943. bor. He was sa le representative for the Colonel H eath is the son of Mr. and American Airlines at Dallas, Texas, for Mrs. Edward J. Groesbeck, 304 First several years before entering the service. Ave., Salt Lake City. His wife, Mrs. Orle Ann Bibby, lives in Lt. (j. g.) Walter Q. Kendrick, rP, J ackson, Miss. has reported to the Armed Guard Cen Lt. Col. Percy H. Perkins, Jr., At::., who ter at New Orleans for assignment to was an Atlanta architect before entering sea duty following his period of train the Army, was awarded the Bronze Star First Lt. Henry T. Bure m , Z, is back ing. H e was office manager for the W . medal at a recent r.etreat parade cere in a ho .~pi tal in England after b eing F. McLaughlin Company of Chicago be wounded for the second time in the mony at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Battle of Ch erbourg. He previously fore entering the service. His wife, Mrs. The medal was Colonel Perkins' third had receit•ed the Purple Heart for Cordeli a Kendrick, and a yo ung so n li ve of this war, the other two being the another wound and the Silver S tar in Chicago. /or action beyond the call of duty. Purple Heart and the Moroccan medal. He entered the Army soon after C h e s t e r L. Ser He was cited for heroic achievement in g raduating from the University of geant, rrr, received action during his tour of duty in Italy. Tennessee and has been overseas his silver wings as for two years. At Camp Chaffee he is executive offi a Christmas gift at graduation exer cer of Combat Command B, 16th Ar nine out of every l 0 bombs dropped. mored Division. c i s e s D e c. 2 3 a t Activiti es of men and machines of the Lubbock Army Air He was commissioned in the reserve 8th Air Force Service Command in Eng F ield. A native of after graduation from Georgia Tech in land are being "covered" by S/Sgt. J ack Portland, Ore., he 1927. His fa ther, P. H. Perkins, lives H. Johnson, BZ, former Dallas advertis lettered in tennis, in Claxton, Ga. ing man. While serving as a press rela track and boxing Lt. Robert F. Panning, t::.B, has re tions representative, he sponsored an Se rgeant at the University of ceived the Air Medal, it was announced American "GI" show which toured the Oregon. at a Corsica-based B-25 squadron head British Isles for a year and at the end Submarines have a warm place in the quarters. Lieutenant Panning, of H am of the tour raised funds for the adop· hearts of Dr. D. R. Longino and Mrs. ler, Ohio, is fl yi ng as pilot with this tion of a London war orphan. Longino, of Atlanta, for within a period veteran bomber group which se t a Jose ph H. H eath, AT, the Salt Lake of 30 days both their sons were rescued world's record for accuracy during Sep City airli ne pilot who helped pioneer (Continued on next page) tember and October hits on targets with the Burma "hump" route, has been pro moted to the rank of lieu tenant colonel at the headquarters of the AAF Train ing Command at Fort Worth, Texas, where he is aide and personal pilot to Lt. Gen. Barton K. Yount. Colonel Heath was a pilot for United Air Lines before the war, fl yi ng between Salt Lake City and Denver, and is a for mer student of the University of Utah. His wife, the former J oan J anney, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. J anney of Garfield, Utah. His pre ent assignment is a combina tion of flying and administrative dutie for General Yount, head of the Training Command, and involves frequent fli gh ts to all parts of the command's nation wide system of fl ying and technical schools, where individual training is pro vided for virtually all AAF personnel, including pilots, bombardiers, naviga GEORGE "ED" CAREY tors, gunners and technicians. LT. COL. ROBERT E. BIBBY 40 (Continued from preceding jJage) from the Pacific by underseas craft. Capt. D. R. Longino, Jr., .\.!l, a B-24 pilot, was shot down over Yap and was rescued by a submarine. His brother, Navy Lt. W. B. Longino, was hot down off Guam and picked up by a submarine. T he brothers did not meet in the Pacifi c, although they missed each other four days at the Ad miralties. Lt. Col. Elbert H . mith, rn, coumy attorney of Dawso n County, ebraska, when he volunteered in 194·0, was with the Sixth Army in ew Guinea and is now in the Philippines. H e was S 1C in 1932. Lt. Frank . Snowden, AE, has report- ed to a avy ba e in the Pacific after 18 months at a aval Air Station. Pvt. J. 0 . Edwards, BO, recently re ceived the Purple H eart for wounds re ceived in France with the Third Army. Pfc. Donald Miller, ro, wounded while serving with the Third Army in E n s. Hugh B. Landrum, }r., AI, Alii, talk of their homes in Georgia France, h as returned to duty and is read y le f t, an d Lt. ( j. g.) Clarence Smith, af te r m eeting in the Pacific. to march to Berlin. He has written to hi mother in Lima, Ohio, for his Fra ternity pin, saying he had met a gi rl Reunion in the South Pacific who is eligible to wear it. + A s B·C H ASER ti e d up at Georgia), (2) that their horn e were Lt. H erbert H. Scott, BO, is at a naval alongside a minesweeper in a So uthwe t onl y 60 miles apart in Georgia (Lan operating base "Somewhere in the Trop Pacifi c port. drum at Columbus and mith at H o ic." An ensign and a lieutenant, junior gansv ill e), (3) that they sa il ed from In a 'l\l'ar Department release of all grade, struck up a conversation. The San Francisco within ix hours of each AAF pilots with more than 15 enemy ensign was Hugh Landrum, Jr., and the other, (4) that they were in ew Cale planes shot down, Maj. Samuel J . lieutenant was Clarence mith. donia at the ame time, rece ived orders Brown, r-r, is credited with l5V2- They learned (1) that they were both from the arn e stati on and sa il ed from Pi Kappa Alpha's (Landrum of Alpha the sa me port the ame cl ay, ye t they Ens. Norman ' l\l'ittkamp, AA, se nds the Iota at Millsa ps and Sm ith of Alpha-Mu had never met. following description of his Thanksgiv ing dinner from the Pacific: "I don't believe I will ever have any trouble was that several J apanese did Samp on, Y., trouble remembering this past T hanks not respect our T hanksgiving Day, and and his radio tech giving dinner. Actuall y I believe it took they continued to pester us throughout niCian training at Mi chi ga n City, us ix hours to eat it. vVe did h ave tur the afternoon. Incl ., the Univer key with all the trimmings. The only "' l\l'e'd sit down to ea t, take a mouth sity of H ou ton ful and their air defense would sound. and a v y Pi e r, So all hand would ru h from their meal Chicago. H e plan to their guns. The J aps would stay out to return to Cor of range of our guns but they'd be nell to complete haunting u for a while. Then the •'d his e n gineeri ng go away on! y to return about the time cour e. Floyd we were starting our meal agai n. Em. Dean l\ IcCormick, nr, wrote "' 1\Tell, when they finall y did come in from omewhere at sea. H e left San do e, you can bet the fell ow didn't Francisco Ia t ummer and is now in the wa te any time knocking them out of the LCI service. Dean reports that he gets sky so we could fini h our dinner in pl enty of K ration but is short on water. peace." The landing crafts roll o much that he sa he wi ll need a cradle when he get "'' illiam F. Floyd, ne, is a radio tech to hore in order to get some sleep. nician econd clas now in the Pacific theater. H e wa in electrical engineer Lt. Robert H. Price, Br, glider pilot ing with the class of '46 at Cornell when 111 the European theater, has been awarded the Air l\Ieclal and a Pre icl en- LT. HERBERT H. SCOTT he left chool in October, 1943, and vol "S on~ewhere in Tropics" unteered. H e received boot training at (Continued on next fJage) 'I I (Continued from preceding page) tial citation for his part in the invasion Baldwin Brings Home a British Bride of southern France. Since then he has participated in the air invasion of Hol • THOSE BUZZ-BOMBS are found, was the freedom, the lack of an land and has fl own several supply mis fairly terrible, admitted Lt. Frank G. anticipation of disaster which inevitably sions as a co-pilot of a large cargo plane. Baldwin, I, USN, and his charming Eng permeated the London atmosphere. Kenneth Shook, Br, is still flying lish bride, who reached his home m "H ere, we don't wonder whether Liberators from England. Farmville, Va., late in October. there'll be bombs this morning or to Charles Kupka, A Ed Wood, rP, wounded in action 111 France Sept. 7, has been moved to Mayo General Hospital. Lt. Samuel Behrend , Jr., r, a navi gator with the 15th Air Force in Italy, has been awarded the Air Medal. Lt. eill L. Britt, r, bomber pilot who wa shot down over Germany on his first trip, has been a prisoner of the Germans for two year . Maj. R ayford B. Whitley, II, r, has ~ward of the Bronze S tar m edal to Maj. Tom R. Taylor, 11, of Morgan been named operation officer of a 15th field, K y ., has been announced by Air Force Liberator heavy bomber base A veteran of 70 combat m iSS IOns, h eadq1tarters of the T enth Air in Italy. He wear the Distinguished Force . Executive officer o f the First Lt. M al co ln~ B. McR ee, T, o f operations section of the T enth, h e Flying Cro s, the Air Medal, a Distin Birm ingh am , A la., has been flying served in the Canal Zone be fore gui h ed Unit Badge and several cam 1oith a B-25 bomber group in th e Mediterranean area as a b o mbar going to the India-Burma theater. paign ribbons. H e recently sent a $25 W ar Bond d ier. The group has been playing to the W ar Me morial Fund. After Capt. Conrad Fowler, rA, of the Ma an important part in the " B attle graduating from the University of rine Corps, has been wounded for the of the Bre nner Pass." He is the K entuck y, h e worked in a bank at son of M r. and M rs. V. L. McR ee, Morganfield. second time in the Pacific. of Birmingham. both lor comment and to identify se quences. 1,000 Hours Under the Sea Through the years they have been fol pose . One of their most heartbreaking (Continued (rom Page 9) lowing their hobby profession they have experi ences came when, just as his fear evolved a three-part routine when their earthly cycle of survival of the fittes t. was bei ng overcome, they saw him grab working time is divided b,etween under Gradually, as this realization came to bed and eaten by a strange barracuda water scenes, photographing birds that them, their fear was replaced by practi that had wandered into their lagoon. follow the beaches and cliffs, and find cal caution. If a shark or barracuda During their first dives they learned ing and recording on fi lms the marine appeared which could regard them as that fi sh regard everything strange to life that co ngregates in tidal pools or on bite size, they h oisted themselves out of them as a n atural .enemy. Their con sand and rocks alongshore. Naturally, his territory until he passed on. stant attempts were to convince the fi sh the sunnies t part of the day is spent on Most fish register temperament by they were fri endly and were not there to the ocean fl oor. All their moving pic changes of color, as Wesley discovered catch or trap them. Th y h ad startling tures, which are breath-taking in both when confronted by a five-foot barra and somewhat shaming proof that fish subject matter and color, h ave been cuda cap able of severing a man 's arm have a keen r.ecognition of danger when made in natural surroundings and no with one snap. This ugly creature ap on one occa ion they hooked a r ed snap prop fish or reptiles h ave ever been used. pea red wh en one of them was feeding per with every intention of eating him. It's no wonder that both members of two sh arks while the other recorded th<;. He got off the line and disappeared, this close-working team derive outright meal with the camera. The intruder and took every other snapper in the vi amusement from watching horrifying drove the sharks away and pushed up to cinity with him. None appeared agai-n struggles between heroes and monsters where Connie had been passing out for several days. of the deep in studio-produced thriller chopped conch from a bucket. They They have numerous evidences, too, movies. "A diver's greatest enemies are could see him glaring at them in a spec that fish h ave surprising memories. his own fear and his own mistakes," they ulative sort of way, vibrating his fi ns They could return to a particular loca say. The word of this couple should be while shades of black anger fl ashed along tion many months after feeding the fish acceptable. Up to Oct. 15, they h ad his sides. They continued grinding the there, and find old acquaintances flock 1,030 hours on the ocean's floor to their camera, although Wesley pulled a bowie ing to them as soon as they began div credit on Luray's log. knife in anticipation of an attack, until ing. They are convinced that their --IT KA-- the film ran out. Connie then lifted tamed fish could recognize the bottom h er tripod to join Wesley in defending of their diving dingh y, too, for they themselves while they maneuvered a ter would be followed when they changed rifyingly slow retrea t up the chain to anchorages, although the fish deliber Gamma-Phi Aids their boat. ately would avoid a commercial fishing Despite that incident, one of Connie's boat or other strange craft. T hey also Wake Forest Fund most devoted underwater friends was a wou ld retreat when strange divers de GAMMA-PH! Chapter of four-foot barracuda with an entirely dif scended into their haunts, even in the + Pi Kappa Alpha became the first active ferent disposition, which competed with Muellers' suits, but would flock around campus organization to support the the grouper and a four-foot shark for when either Connie or Wesley was wear Wake Forest Enlargement Campaign b y. h er affections and attention. ing one. From observation and actual tests, adopting a plan which will contribute ·w esley first b.egan feed ing the young they learned that sharks hunt mainly b y between $2,700 and $3,000 to the cam shark to find if, as some claim, it had to a se nse of smell , and, as migh t be sup paign. turn on its back to take food. By the posed, wi ll eat .practically anything, The p la'n will go into effect with the time this was disproved, the creature was whil e barracuda depend almost entirely beginning of the summer session, and so tame that it would come to rest like on sight to find their food, and will not came about as a result of the r eali za tion a spoil ed child in Connie's arms, begging eat anything that is not fresh. In crawl by leading members of the chapter of h er to stroke its sa ndpapery sk in. ing around coral reefs, both of them at the n eed of the Wake Fore t E nlarge That same shark, together with the tim es received small cuts and, although ment Drive for active su?port among g rouper, later h ad a part in one of the their se nse of pain was dulled by pres campus organizations. Muell ers' most exciting underwater mo sure, th ey could see the thin wisps r e At the beginning of each se me ter the ments. "\1\'ith their two pets hovering sembling gray smoke which is the college bursar will assess each member around, they were attempting to coax an blood's appearance in green sea water. $1.50 a month. eight-foot lemon shark to eat and be On such occasions, they would suspend T his plan will be continued for 10 photographed, when a moray eel, one of diving operation immediately, for th.e years. On the ba is of the present 20 the most dreaded of all underwater crea- vicinity ;vas likely to be crowded with members, this will result in a contribu tures, app eared and wanted in on the sharks drawn by the smell within a short tion of $270 a year. handout. "\1\'esley' hand wa covering time. They found, too, that even small er Becau s.e of the small number of fra the bucket containing chopped barra fi sh become crazed and even recklessly ternity men at present on the campus cuda as he ca utiously watched the large ferocious when the smell of blood as comp ared to p eacetime numbers, the shark approach. Thoroughly impatient, reaches them. IIKA campaign is expected to yield con the moray slithered up 'unseen and de To pass warnings of danger or to call siderably more than the minimum $2,700 terminedly nudged Wesley's h and off the other's attention to something inter in the years immediately after the war. the bucket with his head and proceeded estin g, Connie and We ley have devel President Elmer Barbour declared, to h elp himself whil e Connie, frighten oped a system of h and signals that h as with reference to the n ew scheme, that eel , but remembering that pictures were proved very effective between them. the IIKA's figured that with. the total what they were after, ground away. During underwater action and when goal of the Enlargement Campaign set During four seasons in the Bah amas, more detailed instructions have to be at $7,000,000, it was the duty of ever y the •luellers worked with a rockfish, pas eel between them, a small blackboard W ake Forest student to aid in raising trying to get him friendly enough to with ordi nary schoolroom chalk is used that figure. 44 Permanent/'! Pinned econd Lt. Richard Price haw, l''l', and ll!is J ane Wei h, of Alban , 1• Y., August, 19-H. t home: 124 Colonial Drive, Wil· mington, ., near where Lieutenant Shaw is tationed . Lt. Fred i\f. Renfro, l\f , BC. , and \\!iss onsuelo Chavez, ept. I, 1914, at olumbia, ~- Ens. J ohn H erringer, BC. , and i\ fi J anice Kiech, ister of Ens. 1aurice Kiech , Bt.. ug. 6, 1944, in J onesboro, Ark. Lt. (j.g.) Benja min Franklin Carter, J r., l':\1 , and Miss Joyce Ann Br idges, l'B , of H ig hland Park, I ll., Jan. 3, 1945, during his lea e ~t home in Ottumwa, Iowa, after I i momhs sea duty with a 1av patrol bomber quad ron. Pettv Officer First Class Charles H erndo11 Hale, AN, and Mi s Mary Virgi nia Forman, daughter of 1rs. J ohn R . Forman, of Deni son, Tex., early in 1945 at Denison . Hale is the son of Mrs. Charles P. H ale, of Co· lumbia, Mo. He enl is ted in the Navy in Hubert D. Pogue, Bet>, '41, and 1\'IRS. ARTHUR BREWE R Y eouwn Second Class· Josephine J an uary, 1942, and has j ust returned from Lunghi, of Somerville, N. J., Jan. two a nd a half years in the Pacific. 28, 1945, in Washington, D. A rthur Mann Bre we r , rA, of Louis C., J oe Payne Vv'alker, r A , and Miss Mary ville, K y., son of M rs. Grnce Galt where Pogue is em electrical e ngi Moore, X!1. Brewe r , of Cartersville, Ga., nnd n eer for the Bureau of Ships, Navy De partment. A t home: 1800 Lt. R eed D un n, AI. and Miss Barbara Miss Jean Constance Gray, daug h Butts, X!1, 1ov. 8, 1944 , Carmel, Cali f. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Gray, 19th Street, N. W. of Jefferson, Ind., Mar. 24, 1945, at Harbison Memorial Chapel, at Louisville. A musical progrmn pre· ceded tire double ring cer e m o n y. B est rn.nn was Herbert Porter, rA. Bre we r is ch ief che mist for Tube Turns, Inc., Louisville. To Gentrv A. Shelton, JC , and i\ !r . Mary Ingle McGill SheltOn, X!1 . a son , Will iam All en Shelton, Feb. 13, 1945, in Lex ington, Ky. To Lt. Willia m K. Widger, Jr., rM, a nd Mrs. Widger, a daughter, Dorothy Grace, in June, 1944, at Maxton, N. C. To Lt. Lester G. R oll ins, r f. and Mrs. Rollins, a daughter. Patricia Lynn, Dec. 12, 1944, at Meridan, . H . To Lt. Gl enn Dobbs, rT. and Mrs. Dobbs, a on, born Apr. 3, 194·5. Lieuten ant Dobbs, with the Army ir Force in the Pacifi c, is a member of the ew York club of the AII -Ameri a professional fooL ball league. To Lt. John P . Dolman, BIT, and Mrs. Dolman, a son, J ohn Phillips Dolma n, J r., i\ fay 22, 1944, whom Lieutenant Dolman has never seen. H e has been in the Pacific for the Ia t 17 months and took part in operation in the Marshalls, Maria nas, Carolines a nd Jwo Jima. Mrs. Dolman i Richard Cleasby, SMC of Gamma h ead Lake, Calif., the couple made the former Dodie Porter of Moylan , Rose Eta, and Miss Dorothy McCaffrey their home in W estwoocl Hills. A Valley, Pa. we r e married Feb. 12, 1945, in St. veteran of the North A frican cmn Paul the Apostle Catholic Church paign, in which he was n Coast To Capt. Geoffrey Do lman, BIT. and in W estrvood II ills, Calif. Cleasby Guard.mwn, Richnrd is ntte ntling l\'frs. Dolman, a daughter, " Ka thy" Dol· is the son of Maj. David J. Cleasb y the Uni.versity of S outhem Cnlifor man, fall of 1943. Captain Dolman, who and Mrs. Cleasby, of W estwood nin under the V r.te rcm.s R elwbilitn has been with the econd Armored Divi Hills. The bride is tlfe daughter of tion Act and is majoring in archi sion in North Africa and France, saw his Mr. and Mrs. Edward II. McCaffrey, t.ecture. daughter for the fir t time when he re of Omaha. After a week at Arroro- wrned LO the Sta te for medical treatment. 15 in the bes t interest of the entire group. It should oHer social opportunities, edu What Is Our Future ? ca tional stimulus, athletic competition, (Continued from Page 3) ti ve ratholes to save a bi t of pride and reasonable regulation of living habits a weak chapter which may never be a without regimentation. our fraternity or its membership. Pi cr.edit to itself, its alma mater, or the Kappa Alpha has never boasted an ex These things are not easy to attain. fraternity whose name it bears. cessive number of famous men, million They require guidance of more than or dinary understanding. Perhaps this can aires, generals, politicians, cartoonists or LET US FIND out what colleges will statesmen. It has always been a frater be provided by an alumni advisory lend helpful cooperation to the growth ni ty of good citizens, of congenial per group, perhaps by a resident faculty and development of wholesome frater member or graduate student, perhaps sons, who gave it a modicum of support nity chapters! Let us determine whether whi ch has enabled it to carry on suc by a parents' group, or a housemother their policy, curriculum, administration - or a combination of several· of these. cessfull y among the larger fraternity attitude and foresight, provide the groups of the country. It may be the responsibility of the na groundwork for training young men who tional fraternity to provide guidance It has had its good chapters and its will live up to the ideals of Pi Kappa through such perso ns or by more fre bad chapters. It has acquir.ed a number Alpha. Let us carefull y appraise the quent consultation, practical assistance, of fa irly prominent athletes in college, present worth of existing chapters and and cooperative advice b y paid counsel a reasonably large percentage of houses determine what they need, to maintain ers. and their accompanying mortgages, a a standard of which Pi Kappa Alpha ca n reputation of being a Southern frater be proud. T o accomplish these objectives, every chapter group must be individually nity, of having a melodious Sweetheart If the basis for such a chapter is not strong-strong in every sense of the song, and o f having a badge attractive there-in men, reputation, alumni sup word. T o achieve strong chapters re enough for many girls to want to wear it, port, potential membership, college co quires selectivity. It is my proposal that even though its design violates most all operation- let us not hang on until our the es tablished rules of heraldry. we immedi ately survey every college equity is entirely wiped out. Let us where we have had a charter to deter As we look forward to these postwar take what asse ts we have and invest them mine whether its postwar program pro year -and let us hope they are close in more promising fi elds. Let's consoli vides fe rtile ground for the kind of a upon us-shall we be content to let n a date our position. Determine where sup group Pi Kappa Alpha wants. If it ture take its course, to let those chapters port is needed. Furnish it in sufficient doesn't, let's withdraw the charter. If which somehow garner a few members, quantity. Instill determination and in it does, let's require the chapter to meet struggle back to the status of an "active" telligence in our operations. Let's pick chapter, with men of uncertain quantity and choose and invest cautiously in an minimum standards in physical housing and quality, to start again soliciting era fraught with threats of inflation. and to finance that house on a solid alumni for funds to build a chapter The time to plan is now. basis under supervision of our Chapter house and then let it deteriorate and House Commission. Let's provide a per You may very properly demand a pro become a liability as so man y have in gram of detailed planning for the future manent, acti ve, working chapter coun the past? from your Supreme Council. I do not s.elor or a competent housemother- or Or shall we sit down and plan our pretend to speak for more than one both. Let's recognize the impracticali strategy for the future with well-calcu member of the Council. But I do wi sh ties of our present District Pr.esident sys-. lated foresight and a goal that will at to advocate several specific proposals for tern and augment it with closer National least strive to instill in the hearts and our postwar program . Office assistance, in cooperation with minds of young men those ideals which It is my firm conviction that we must the District President. are so often repeated so automati cally in make Pi Kappa Alpha attractive to col our ritual? Let's place the chapter's financial af lege men in a substantial way. Boys who fairs in the hands of the school, so far H ow shall we go about rebuilding? have faced the realities of IiEe-and death as collection of fees and payment of bills Will we let our returning service men itself- in combat, will demand more is concerned and let's take the budgeting do the job? Will we trust to chance to than social frills, a white columned por· revive somnolent chapters? Or will we and supervision of finances out of the plan constructive aid for those chapters tico and a jewelled pin for their time hands of amateur accountants and make worth salvaging, place our national re and money when they are invited 10 them the responsibility of a capable, sources at their disposal, nurture their join a fraternity. paid comptroller, either an alumnus or growth, make them strong? professional accountant. THE PI KAPPA ALPHA chapter of Now is the time to stop and to con the future should offer real companion Mature, adequate supervision; clean, sider whether our goal is the training sanitary, comfortable housing; sound fi and discipline of the individual, in order ship, intelligent discussion, encourage ment fo r self-e ducation, self-discipline, nance, constant alumni cooperation. that he may be a more useful member These are the things that will attract of society, or whether we are intent on moral and financial integrity. The Pi men of quality, men who have in them rivalling the Statler Hotel system. Now Kappa Alpha chapter should offer these the stuff from which character can .be is the time to decide whether our na boys sound guidance, provide ca mpus tional organization and our chapters are contacts among student leaders and fac developed. going to be easy marks for real estate ulty advisors. It should offer business This is not a program of mere wishful promoters and careless individuals who and professional opportumues .from thinking. It is a program of great pos would rather squander their money than among its alumni membership and their sibilities-but it will require hard work pay their bills. Now is the time to de business connections. It should offer on the part of all. Are we read y to do cide whether we wa nt to invest fraternity wholesome college living conditions the job? Will we accept the challenge? funds in sound housing properties with physical and moral. 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