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The Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 20 No. 1, October 1942
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H T'S the best day you ever They're finding that merican in we are lighting today. Beca use to W kn ew? morning in spri ng dustry which crea ted things like the morrow we shall have new materials when you " ere just six years old ' cJ ctric refrigerator, the radio, the like plastics, new developments like The day you graduated? The first automobil e-and made these avai labl e television, new sciences like elec time you knew she loved you?When to almost a vv hole peopl e-can become tronics to work with. Because to you bought your firs t car? a great weapon to defend the prin morrow we shall return with new No! It's today' ciples whi ch have made America vigor and new vision to the task of strong and free. They're di scovering making tomorrow better than today. It's today, for young America, that the merican standard of li ving General Electric Co., Schenectady, because schools arc better, homes arc has not made them soft, as Jess form ew York. more comfortabl e and healthful, and nate nations have sometimes sneer the future holds more opportunity ingly contend ed, but has given th em The volume of* Gen* e *ral Electric war than ever before. added reserves of strength and knowl pt·oduction is so higll and the degree of It's today, for grown men and edge and skill for a time of crisis. secrecy 1·equired is so g~·ea t that we women beca use they're working T here's only one da y better than cannot tell you about it now. When it can and lighting for something worth today. be told we believe that the story of in whil e. They're lea rning ag·a in the rea l dustry's developments during the war resou rces f Am eri ca and the true It's tomorrow! years will make one of the mostfascinatin g strem!th of ...\ meri can manhood and Beca u tomorrow we shall have chapters in the history of industrial wominhood. establi shed the principles for whi ch prog7·ess. D. A. SKEEN, '09, NEW ALUMNI PRESIDENT, SENDS MESSAGE TO ALL U.S.A.C. STUDENTS
The recorded membership of needs and possibilities, and a the Alumni A ssociation of the feeling of personal gratitude." U tah State A gricultural College Alumni offi cers have found a is now in excess of 6,000. At fi ne response in every alumnus one time every one of these grad whenever a call has gone out in uates was an enthusiastic booster behalf of the College; however, for the College and its program it is felt that too many alumni of work, and each was made a and friends of the school, ab better citizen by his active cow sorbed in their immediate per tacts at the College. In the suc sonal interests, have lost their ceeding years as the College has immediate contacts with the grown, its influence has extended U SAC and permitted their in through the service it has ren terest to lapse. Whatever infor dered. Alumni have carried its mation they may have concern training back into their respec ing the institution is out-of-date. W e as offi cers of the A ssocia- tive communities or into their D. A. Skeen, '09 new fi elds of activity. tion therefore propose to renew Alumni President sets pace for new program those contacts with fresh infor- The Alumni of the College mation on the College, its rapid stand like soldiers enlisted in the ly expanding war service, and its cause of advancing the interests comprehensive and vital services M any communities in the of the College and the service to the State of Utah. As an state have local problems with which it is rendering the people Alumni A ssociation, we owe which the College could be of of the state. It is on this army that to its members; as members, service. M any of them present that the College depends and we owe that to the College. opportunities for development has a right to depend whenever with College guidance. It is a It is the plan of the officers any challenge arises. duty the College owes to search of the A ssociation to organize out these problems and oppor This has been the creed of this year's program so as to tunities and lead in their solu our alumni: "The alumni of a reach each alumnus in the state. tion and development. state college are, fi rst of all, good The state will be organized into citizens; they desire fo r the col convenient zones with a chair As a means of stimulating lege only what all good citizens man as a key man for each zone, such activities it is proposed that desire-whatever may be neces who will be asked to assemble at an early date zone chairmen sary to make the college of the and organize the members with and their committee members be greatest service to the state. in that zone. Speakers will be invited to gather at the College They should ask for nothing for provided by the Alumni Associ for a tour of the campus, re the college which cannot be se ation to meet with these groups search laboratories, orchards and cured by the fullest and frankest and with service clubs and farms, dairy and poultry units. publicity. The only respect in Chambers of Comm erce in the From this visit should come a which the relation of the alum respective areas for the purpose sounder knowledge and a more nus differs from that of any of giving first-hand, up-to-date comprehensive understanding of other citizen of the state, is in facts about the College and its what the College is doing for the knowledge of the college's service program. Utah and its citizens.
Page 3 Sons and Daughters of Utah State Alumni ------.----*
ALICE FAYE HOBSON age six months. Daughter of Faye Perry Hob· on '40, and Dean Hobson, '39. Mr . Gertrude Perry, familiar fi gu re at the College Bluebird, i the proud grandmother.
NANCY JANE PURCELL age nine month . Daughter of Captain and Mrs. A. L. Purcell of Camp Wolter , Mineral Wel ls, Texa . Mrs. Purcell is the former Var· dena Vickers, '35.
RALPH ORSON HYER age ven months. Son of Lt. Gardner 0 . Hyer, '4.0, now in Hawaii, and Lola ilsson Hyer, '39, of Logan.
JUDY CHRISTINE NIELSEN age seventeen months. Daughter of LaVone Bott iel en, '40, of Brigham City and Lt. Wm. Durrell (Quig) ielsen, '38, now ta tioned at Fort MacArthur, California.
PATRICIA MEIKLE age eventeen months. Daughter of Mildred Wakley Meikle, '37, and Allen Meikle, '39, of Logan.
BLAINE DEE SYMONS age ix year , and
MARGENE SYMONS age three year . on and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo . . Symon of Logan. Mr. Symon graduated in 1927.
Page 4 UTAH STATE'S SONS GO TO WAR
A Tribute: Missing in Action--* From far-flung 01ttposts come letters from the boys who were students in my advanced ROTC classes. I am proud indeed of the progress they have made in both the army Private First Class Ferrin C. Hol and the marine corps since leaving the jeson, Jr., '39, has been reported miss t·wnpus. From my friends in those services ing by the U. S. War Department. I hear that the boys from Utah tate more F errin enlisted in the U. S. Air Corps than hold their own. At the service schools, at Salt Lake on August 22, 1940, and in the fi eld and in the service of supply, was stationed at Hamilton Field, Cali rapid has been their advancement. To those fornia, f or two months. In October he who have left these walls, and to those who sailed for the Hawaiian Islands and follow, the character and scope of their in November he embarked for Manila. eff orts here have borne and will bear splen o further communication has been did fruit. received from him by his father at "Carry on." Smithfield, Mr. Ferrin C. Holjeson, Sr. LT. CoL. BEN B. BLAIR, Corporal Ray Dallin Freston, ex Coast Artillery Corps Aggie, a machine gunner with the ow stationed at Utah State army air corps in the Philippines, is missing in action or possibly a pris oner of war in Japan. After joining the army, Ray was stationed tempo Military News--- * rarily at Fort Hamilton, Texas, and at Fort Douglas, Utah. He left for the Philippine Islands in October 1941, ac cording to his grandparents, Mr. and 1914-30 Mrs. E . C. Freston of Mt. Pleasant. Clyde P. Baugh, '40 Brigadier General John Kenneth Blaine Hales, ex-Aggie, is missing Cannon, '14, bas assumed command of Dies in plane crash on California coast in action in the Philippines. Blaine the First Interceptor Command at was serving in the army as an inter Mitchel Field, New York. He is preter. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. charged with the responsibility of pro Archie Hales of Spanish Fork. tecting the Atlantic seaboard from War Casualties---* I enemy air attack. Prior to his new Lloyd Foster Perry, ex-Aggie, 'has appointment, Cannon bad been serving been reported missing in action at as chief of staff of the First Air Force The first coast artilleryman, officer Bataan, according to a war communi at Mitchel Field. or enlisted man, killed in action in the cation received by his mother, Mrs. Max L. Gowans, '26, reports from present war was First Lieutenant Wil Gertrude Perry of Logan. Lloyd, after San Diego, California, that be is now liam G. Sylvester, ex'39. Lieutenant two years at the USAC, enlisted with with the Marine Corps, medical unit. Sylvester was killed by an enemy the army air corps in October 1940, Melvin J. Bankhead, '30, formerly a bomb at Pearl Harbor on December 7. and a year later was transferred to traffic engineer for the county of Los In his honor the navy department has the Philippines. named one of its newest mine planters Angeles, bas been called to active duty Aggies, Captain Warren A. Starr, with the U . S. Army. He holds the the U.S.S. Sylvester. Lieutenant Sylvester attended Utah '33, Lieutenants Bob Hey, Charles Kas rank of captain in the coast artillery ler, Jack Taylor, and Major Howard division. State from 1935 to 1938 and was com missioned in the coast artillery reserve E. C. Breitung, ex-R.O.T.C. officer at 1933-35 here. Fellow officers, including First Utah State, ·were on Bataan and Cor Captain Clayton Clark, '33, a spe Lieutenant Newell R. Bullen, '37, were regidor during its heroic siege. cialist in the radio signal corps, has lavish in their praise of alumnus Syl been teaching radio at Camp Haan, vester. Los Angeles, but expects to be trans Clyde P. Baugh, ex'40, second lieu ferred to Oakland soon. Mrs. Clark is tenant in the Navy Air Corps, sta Morris Ezra Shaw, ex-Aggie, was the former Helen Brown, '31. tioned at San Diego, California, was reported killed in action in England Allen G. Douglas, '34, a first lieu kmed when a pursuit plane he was piloting on patrol duty crashed. Lieu according to a report released by th~ tenant with the army medical corps, is Canadian air force in which he held doing research work in bacteriology tenant Baugh received his primary and parasitology at Fort Leonard and secondary flight certificates at the the rank of flight sergeant. He en Wood, Missouri. He received a Ph.D. Logan-Cache Airport. On September listed in the Canadian Air Force in degree from the University of Cali 30, 1941, he went to Cal-Rarero Field, July 1940, and was sent overseas in fornia in 1940. Ontario, California, for air corps train the following October. Parents of Captain Paul D. Keller, '34, is at in~ . then later was transferred to Luke Morris are Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shaw tached to the U. S. Army medical Field, Phoenix, Arizona. There he of Ogden. r.orps at Camp Claibourne, Louisiana. graduated Aoril 27. Clyde was the son Captain Ray R. Rencher, '37, of the Mrs. Keller, the former Maurine Flint, of Mr. and Mrs. Wilford F. Baugh of Logan. U. S. army air corps, met his death '32, is making her home at Layton. September 7 in a plane accident in the Lieutenant Alma Pratt, '34, is now John K. Meibos, '40, ensign in the Republic of Panama, according to a with t hP. Civil Engineers Corps, U. S. naval air reserve, was killed when a training nlane he was piloting crashed letter received from Mrs. Rencher, the aval Reserve, assigned to Norfolk, f ormer Merle Fra ier, '38. Ray had Virginia. at the Corpus Christi air base on August 22. John, an instructor at the been stationed in Panama since Janu Milton A. Madsen, '34, Instructor in navy station, was on a routine train ary 2, 1942. Mrs. Rencher and her two Animal Husbandry at the USAC, was ing flight when the accident occurred. children, Diana, 4, and Ray Jr., 16 inducted into the army in August. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. months, have been living in Grand (Continued on page 8) Meibos of Salt Lake City. Junction, Colorado.
Page 5 With the CJacuity FORESTRY DEAN LEA YES CAMPUS; ACCEPTS POST AT OREGON STATE COLLEGE Paul M. Dunn, Dean of the School of Forestry since its creation in 1938 and profe or of fore try since 1931, re igned eptember 10 to accept the po ition of Dean of the chool of Forestry at Oregon tate College, orvallis, Oregon. The appointment became elfecLive ptember 20. To Dean Dunn goe a great d al ------ of cr dit for building th e U C for e try chool to its present nationally r cognized tatus. Takinu over the dir tion of the Dr. John C. Carlisle fore try chool is acting Dean Dr. L. Assumes major war responsibility A. toddart, professor of range man agement. He is a graduate of Colo rado State Coll eo-e with both bachelor War Service Calls Assistant and rna ter's degree . He . ecured his To President Ph.D. at the University of Iebraska Dr. John C. Carlisle, A sociate and upon graduation accepted a po i Professor of Education and i tant tion with the oil con ervation ervice to th e President of th e College, ha in Wa hington. ev n year ago he accepted th e po ition of uperintend· came to his present po t where he ha ent of Education at th e Japane e re· won outstandina recognition a an location center at braham in central ·authority on range manao-ement and Utah. Dr. Carli le i on temporary fore try. leave of ab ence from the USAC. It is anticipated that more than three thou and pupil ranaing in age Faculty News Briefs level from nursery chool to high chool seniors will be enrolled in Prof. L. R. Humpherys, '12, was one of 200 representative educational lead Dr. L. A. Stoddart reaular classe under Dr. Carli le's ers from 47 states who attended the Appointed Acting Dean of Forestry upervision. More than three-fourths National Institute on Education and of the adults concerned are native the War, held in Washington, D. C., born American citizens and govern August 28-31. New R.O.T.C. Staff * * * ment official are e pecially de irou Prof. Joseph R. Jenson head of the Members Named that every effort be made to maintain physical education department, in the school on a effici ent a level as August attended a pecial two-weeks' Three Utah State graduates, all pos ible. Total population of Lhe course at the avy' pre-Oight phys prominent in campus affairs when ical education school at St. Mary's center may reach 10 000. they were here as tudents, have re College, California. turned to the campus as officers to Dr. Carlisle expects to return to the * * * College at the opening of winter J. Whitney Floyd, '36, Extension Leach military science and tactics in quarter on January 4. Forester, returned to the campus this the coJl ege ROTC regiment. summer after a year on sabbatical Replacing oth er offi cer who were leave. ordered to duty with troops, the three • THE YOUNGER FACULTY * * * are Li utenant Paul Grace, '31; Lieu Professor and Mrs. Wayne Binns an Major Ben B. Blair of the College nounce the birth of their first child, a R.O.T.C. officer staff, was advanced to tenant Rennell J . Smith, '29; and boy, in June. Professor Binns has been the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in July. Lieutenant J . Mark Holme , '28. called to service with the army from * * * (Mrs. Grace is the former Geneva his status as a reserve officer. Prof. Evan B. Murray, '27, attended chaub, '30. ) * * * the University of Chicago during its Profes or and Mrs. Ral11h Calvert summer se sion, where he has com The new officers replace Captain announce the birth of their fit·st child, pleted course requirements for his doc Ralph P. Ward, now in orth Caro a girl, born in July. torate degree. lina; Lieutenant Robert J. Bunker, * * * * * * Margaret Henriques, College lib now at Fort Monroe, Virginia; a nd Professor and Mrs. L. Mark Neu rary sta ff membet·, joined tl1e WAACS Lieutenant William Durrell Nielsen, berger have added another boy to their in Septem ber and is awaiting call to family. They have two other boys. now stationed at Fort MacArthur, leave for Fort Des Moines, Iowa California. * * * where he will enter taining. Dr. and Mr . Ru sell Rasmussen are * * * Major Eldon Stock, '34, and Lieut. also rejoicing over the arrival of their Prof. August J. Hansen, '11, in- Phillip Bullen, '36, officers on the first child, a girl, hom in July. structor in woodwork at the College campus last year, were ordered back * * * for 35 years and assistant in the Li to the U A for another year. Major Dr. and Mrs. D. Wynne Thorne an brary for the past 12 years, died sud nounce the arrival of a girl. They have denly on September 13 while on a Lo ck later wa ent to a special gen one other child, a boy. visit to California. eral taff training school in Kansas.
Page 6 : (! {7) d By R AY TELSO ', '35 1 C&he QJCOYe CJJOa~ ports Ectitor l Logan Herald Journal
AGGIE FOOTBALL PROSPECTS STIR ALUMNI 1\ HOPES FOR CONFERENCE SHOWING That prosperity which i ble ing many an agriculturist this fall didn't pass over Dick Romney and his Farmers of Utah State. There'll be a ·BiD' Blue team to carry the Aggie grid banner \ hen the co n Ferrin Sondregger, '43 ference open October 9 with the Utag oppo in g Colorado University in the Captain of Aggie Grid Team Ogden Stadium. A backfield of 190- pounders, an ex peri enced forward UTAH STATE'S 1942 wall , and lot of fin e greenling stock FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Utah State Coaching Staff which wi II fatten up on T formation October 3- strategy a th e weeks roll by, make Contributes Five to Services Regis College at Logan. Since America, out of neces ity, Logan prospects brighte t ince the October 9- heyday of Kent Ryan. became war-minded, Utah State ha Colorado at Ogden (night). U. Much different from the u ual contributed five members of it coach October 17- " ponyback" ball carrier is thi year' ing taff to the fi ghting arm of the Utah University at Logan. array of backfield a pirant . Bi D' nation. October 24- George elson, sophomore son of Fir t to leave was J. K. "Ken" 0pen (Probably Fort Douglas) trainer Doc el on, tips the scales at Vanderhoff, assistant to Head Coach October 31- 192. Other lated for the fullback Dick Romney, who entered army serv Brigham Young at Provo. slot are Gail Duncan, Bruce Osborne ice as a lieutenant and has since been N ovember 7- and LeRoy Gregory. promoted to rank of captain. Joe Colorado State at Fort Collin . CompetinO' for an assignment at White ide left his post a freshman November 14- right half are Ro Morri , Evan Sor coach for active duty and i now a Denver at Denver. captain in the army. November 21- en on, Bill T witchell and Chuck To Utah State last fall came H. B. Wyoming at Logan. Goodwin , while Jack Seifer ling, Butch "Bebe" Lee as basketball coach. From November 26- Gutke, Bill Russell and Melly Wood Utah State Ia t December went Coach Wichita at Wichita, Kansas. with their eye on the left half post, Lee, an ensign in the navy. Charle round out th e fi eld of halfbacks. Clark, frosh mentor, followed Bebe, Beca u e of his experience with gaining a commission as ensign. Aggie Football Material Romney' T model, Burns B. Crook Then, during the summer, Robert W. ston, on of Burns R. Crookston, Burnett, co urt mentor who succeeded Scarcely Touched By War ex'l 3, seems fa vored for the quarter Lee, chose a naval career. Demand of the armed ervice back post, with Ralph Maughan set carcely touched the Aggie football to follow in hi brother Murray's camp this fall. fo otsteps at the center po t. Romney Begins 25th Year Most of the pro pective players Two 195-pounder , regular of Ia t At Utah State either have signed up for advanced sea on, fill the guards berth - Bob E. L. "Dick" Romney this fall en military trainin O' at the college, joined Choate and Glen "Lefty" Sorenson. tered his 25th consecutive year a armed service re erves, or else are Captain Ferron Sondregger and Joe head coach and director of athletic under the 20-year age limit. Ingersoll rate be t bets for tackle at Utah State. Since December 1917, Of cour e, if the draft boards begin duties. he has guided the sports destinies of dipping into the 18 and 19-year-olds, Dick Griffin and Dick Howard, re the Farmers to three Rocky Mountain then the story wi ll be different. But turning semi-regulars, lead in compe conference grid championships, four by that time, the grid season for this tition for the end assignments. basketball title , four track and field year wi ll be over. It's admitted that the Big Seven crowns. ephi Schwab, reserve center, is a conference will be tough this fall When Harry Hughe tepped out private in the army, and John Putnik, Utah will have a big and capable of the grid-coachin O' office at (\>lorado regular end Ia t year, is a flyin g cadet. quad; Colorado Buffaloe expect to State, Dick remained as dean of foot That' all who are absent because of reap golden harve t ; Denver Pio ball mentor in th e intermountain military tatu . neer want to leave the circuit in a country. His service record place Among the gridders who have blaze of O' lory. But the Aggie of him second in the nation from point joined either the naval or marine Logan will match punche with any of coaching continuou ly at one co rps re erve are Harold Gutke, back; of th em, and the crop the Farmer chool. Only Bill Alexander of James Martin, guard ; Jack Gilbert, harve t from th e Big Seven a rid fie ld Georgia Tech has a better core sheet. tackl e; and Dick Howard, end. won't be corn!
Page 7 MILITARY NEWS (Continued from page 5) Aggies in Foreign Service December Issue Oren J. J one , '35, enlisted in the for members of the *quartermaster Lt. E"dwa rd L. Scartezina is sta Lt. David Thomas Clark, stationed * tioned at Fort Leonard Wood, Mis army air corps on June 9. He was corps at Fort Warren, Wyoming. at Fort Cronkhite, California, has been assigned to the replacement training CaJ>tai n Ralph P. Ward, after spend souri. He married J essie Ray, ex ordered to Fort Monroe, Virginia, to center at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. ing the summer at the Boise Barracks Aggie '43, in August. attend an officers' training school. Clyde E. tewart, '35, formerly em Reservation at Boise, Idaho, has been Lt. Clifford D. tock is with the Pvt. Charles Howard Henry entered ployed at the College by the federal transferred to Camp Davis, North motor transport school, Fort Crook, the army on June 18 and is now with government, after entering the army Carolina. Ralph married Pearl C. Mor Omaha, Nebraska. the medical detachment at Camp this summer has been selected for ad rison on June 7. Lt. Ray R. Canning is with the army Rucker, Alabama. vanced radio training in Chicago. Pvt. Dale Steed is with the army at at E l Paso, Texas. Leo Brown Merrill is a cadet in the San Luis Obispo, California. He and William Don F ronk joined the army 1936 Elizabeth Emm ett, '41, were married Navy at Corpus Christi, Texas. Lt. Frederick R. Baugh is stationed June 6 and is now with the army med E nsign Me rvin S. Peterson reported in Carson City, evada, February ical corps at Camp Barkeley, Texas. at Camp Callan, San Diego, California. 1942. on July 1 at the Puget Sound Navy Wayne mith, of Logan, has joined Pvt. Alfred J. ewby sends greet Yard at Bremerton, Washington, for a t he merchant marines branch of the 1938 ings from Camp Carson, Colorado, three months' period of training, after Maritime service. He has been em Paul N. Spencer and Leonard Chas. where he is "waiting a crack at the which he transferred to Fort Schuyler, ployed at the Ogden supply depot since Kea rl recently joined the army. Axis." BrorLx, New York, for an additional his return from a two-year mission to Lt. W. Du rrell (Qui g) ielson is Joseph J. Nemanic is attending the per.iod of training. In a recent letter, California. stationed at Fort MacArthur, Califor U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipman's Mervin reports meeting two former Arthur D. Smith, assistant professor nia. Mrs. ielsen, the former LaVone school in New York City. Aggies-Ensign P. J. Dalley, '42, and of range management at t he College Bott, '40, and daughter, Judy Chris Carl L. mi t h, appointed ensign at Pvt. Von Duce. and president of t he Logan Junior tine, are making their home in Brig the U. S. Naval Reserve Pre-flight Lee E. Olsen, private first class, is Chamber of Commerce, has been called ham City. School, is stationed at St. Mary's Col at the Station Hospital at Hill Field, to active duty as a second lieutenant Wend el R. Wilken, after completing lege in California. Mrs. Smith is the Utah. with the army air corps at Miami, all required work on his doctorate former Helen Theurer, ex-Aggie. F lorida. Mrs. Smith is the former degree, except thesis, at the University Lt. Ray Hugie, stationed with t he Grace Jennings, '39. of Wisconsin, is now attending Officers' Burt F rank Rou e is '\vith the U. S. army engineering corps in Missouri, Corporal Ri ch L. F inlinson has been Candidate training- school at Fort Army at. Camp Roberts, California. has now been transferred to Califor Pvt. Lloyd E. haw is another nia. ordered to anti-aircraft officers' candi Monroe, Virginia. From College Campus to World War Fronts date school at Camp Davis, North Aggie at Camp Callan, California. Keith S. Boyer, second lieutenant, is Carolina. 1939 The R.O .T.C . training program becomes importa nt as the tempo and demands of war increase. Lloyd married Karma Campbell on now stationed in San Francisco. Mrs. Willia m H. Bennett entered the Milton F olkman is serving in the July 19. Boyer, the former Helen Bott, ex'43, is residing there with him. army June 5, and is now stationed at U.S. Army. ed L. Jen en has been inducted Second Lieutenant Reuel Lamborn Willa rd Reed La r on, on a 90-day Fort Douglas. Bill was county exten Darwin B. Mo rgan enlisted in the into the army and is now stationed at has been transferred from Fort Flag Army Air Corps furlough, has been Alm a r. Brinkerhoff, William L. sion agent at Price, Utah, before his army February 20, 1941. He is now Fort Si lls, Oklahoma. Letter From Hawaii ler, Washington, to Camp Davis, North working on the army hospital at Brig Matthews, both of the class of '42 induction. with the quartermaster regiment of ham City. were il1ducted into the army in A u g~ Gene Hansen entered the army Jan Carolina. Lt. Wallace Sorenson, after complet the motor division, A. P. 0 . 309, Ta Gordon Almon Van Epps is attend ust. ing his medical degree and interning coma, Washington. uary 21, and is now stationed at Fort c/ o U . S. Engineers Lt. Dean Webber, after six weeks Douglas, where he is employed in the training maneuvers in Virginia, has ing a Midshipman's School in New Royal B. Henderson is now in the two years at the New York Hospital, Earl Sells is in the army at its air Honolulu, T. H. York City, where he is training to a Signal Corps of the army and is un New York, has been ordered to active base at Tucson, Arizona. personnel di vision of the reception August 27, 1942 been stationed at San Diego, Calif. center. commission as ensign. dergoing training at Fort Monmouth, duty with the Cornell University Base Garr Thompson was ordered to ac Dear Secretary: Corporal Lloyd Ra melli has been New J ersey. Hospital unit at Fort Banks, Boston. tive duty with the army on August 14, Homer tephen on is attending of I am rather late in getting these ordered to the anti-aircraft officers' Lt. Ru sell Liston is stationed at at Camp Callan, California. He is a fi cers' training school at Fort Francis notes to you, but I hope they arrive in candidate school at Camp Davis, North Fort Cronkhite, California. Mrs. Lis Lt. Leo William J ex is stationed at 1937 second lieutenant in the Coast Artil E. Warren, Wyoming. Mrs. Stephen time to be of some use. The following Caroli na. ton is the former Luana Hansey, ex Fort Rosencrans, San Diego, Calif . Edwin L. Peterson, dean of men at lery reserve. son, the former J ean Hansen, '41, is list of Aggie alumni contains the Private F ir t Class Roy W. Bean,~. of Aggie. Keith Hill Blanchard, ex'42, has the BAC and coordinator of the civil residing in Fillmore. names, date of graduation and present Hamilton Field, air base near ::san E. LaVan Hendricks is a clerk in completed preliminary flight training ian pilot training program at Cedar 1940 general location of the fellows I have Francisco, California, has been ap the military intelligence division of at the Naval Reserve aviation base City, has been ordered to active duty Captain Vern Crockett of the U . S. Jack Rodney Moo re, having com pleted primary flight training at the been recently associated \vith : pointed to the engineer officers' candi the army and is stationed at Camp Oakl and, California, and has been as~ and is now in foreign service. Mrs. Marine Corps was in Logan visiting date school at Belvoir, Virginia. Roy Adair, Corvall is, Oregon. signed to the "University of the Air" Peterson is the former Zetta Benson, recently after a ten-month stay in Ice U. S. aval Aviation base at Oakland Capt. Herbert Armstrong, '38, U. S. airport, California, has been transfer Army, Hawaii. enlisted in the army January 15, 1942. Lt. P reston D. Johnson has been sta at Corpus Christi, Texas. '38. land with the U. S. forces. He is sta tioned at Fort Mil ey, San Francisco. E phra im Rosenberg is army supply Lieutenant A. W. Swinyard is in tioned at San Diego for the present. red to the naval air station at Corpus Lt. Robert Simpson, '39, U.S. Army, Private iles dell Hess has en Chr.isti, Texas, for an additional three Hawaii. roll ed in a special course of instruction He married Annalou Merrill, ex-Aggie, sergeant at the army air base in Salt structor at the officers' training school Albert Pearson reported for active on May 29 . Lake City. duty in the Naval Reserve in April at months' training, after which he will Lt. Harold Simpson, '41, U. S. Army, at the Signal Corps' school at Camp Oakland, California. receive his navy wings. Hawaii. Murphy, F lorida. Noble Wri ght F ishburn is now with (Continued on page 14) Grandison Gardner, '14, Lawrence C. Davis is at present at Elm er Paul Boyle has completed Lt. Burl Hermanson, '41, U. S. the U. S. Coast Guard at Alameda, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with the Immi primary flight training at the naval Army, Hawaii. 1942 California. Made Brigadier General ltration Border Patrol, which has un reserve aviation base at Oakland, Cal Lt. Donald Horsley, '41, U. S. Army, Lt. Evan A. Baugh is located at Fort Ross G. T homas is in the army at Lt. Commander Sidney ifornia, and has transferred to Corpus Hawaii. Camp Call an, San Diego, California. der its supervision a large detention Lt. J . Wendell Homer, '39, U. S. Worden, Washington. By President camp of Japanese aliens. Chri ti, Texas, for advanced instruc David A. Latimer is an aviation Hue J ewkes enlisted in the Naval R. Stock, '22, Directs Radio High honor came to another of Utah Co rporal Shirley Mad en, ex-Aggie, tion. Army, Hawaiil cadet at Kelly Field, Texas. Reserve, but hasn't been ordered to State's sons when in August President Irving Abbott, '39, construction Training School has been appointed to an officers' train Cli fford . Potter enlisted as an work, Hawaii. Emerson H. Kennington is instruc active duty yet, according to the latest Roosevelt recommended to the U. S. ing school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He army aviation cadet F ebruary 1. He information reaching the Alumni Of Directly responsible for and in Senate the promotion of Grandison B. C. Smith, '4j , U. S. Marines, tor at the U . S. avy Aviation Service has been stationed at Fort Lewis, is undergoing training- at Santa Ana, Hawaii. School at Jacksonville, Florida. fice. charge of the naval radio training Gardner, '14, from the rank of colonel Washington. California. Lt. Jonathan J. Norris is stationed school of aviation material at Corpus to brigadier general in the United Eugene Hawkes, '39, was here on a Ja mes Cla re Reed has enlisted with F ir t Li eutenant H. Blaine Bank Melvin Hines is stationed with the at Carrizozo, New Mexico. Christi, Texas, is Lieutenant Com States Army Air Corps. head is an instructor at the Central mission, but left for home not long the U. S. Marine Reserve Officers' mander Sidney R. Stock, '22. E leven army at F ort George Wright, Wash ago. Corps. F rank Mockli is undergoing naval General Gardner obtained a reserve Instructors School at Maxwell Field, offi cer training at Columbia Univers months ago t he navy call ed him from '> ffi cer's commission at the USAC and Montgomery, Alabama. ington. I have already told you the import F arrell J ay Mohlman is in the army Horace J. Gunn enlisted in the army ant facts concerning myself. I was at ity, New York City. his position as associate professor of later served as an officer overseas in Loui Toschi, instructor in the and is stationed at Camp Call an, Cali radio and aviation at the Coll ege and the first World War after obtaining a officers' training program on J uly 29. tending school at the University of fornia. Baton Reid Bowden has enlisted un avy's physical education training , der the special naval training program assigned him t he job of developing a Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford Uni Program, has been transferred to the Mrs. Gunn, the former Nadine Madsen, California until last Christmas, at Lt. a muel Lee Av is is with the versity. He remained in the army Great Lakes Training Station at Great '41, is making her home in Brigham which time I embarked for Hawaii, (V-7) and is now at Notre Dame Uni vast radio training program. anti-aircraft division of the army at versity, Indiana. after the war, studying aviation. Lakes, Illinois. He has the rating of City. having been employed by the U. S. Camp Stewart, Georgia. He married Commander Stock is now director of When the Nazis began the invasion chief specialist. Bert B. Robi n entered the army as Engineers. Traveling the island of Dawna Wheeler, ex-Aggie. A. J a mes Paulos, housing superin the largest radio material school in of France, he was sent overseas with an aviation cadet in the latter part Oahu from aft to stern in the capacity tendent at the Tooele Ordnance Depot, the nation-a school comparable in five other aviation observers from the 1941 of a surveyor has been my principal Lt. Lynn Q. Hollist is serving in the informs us that he '\viii leave within of July. coast artillery at Fort Rosecrans, Cali size to the USAC and concerned only United States Army. After his return Elwood Barrett is now with the occupation since my arrival. Further the next few months for the Marine with advanced training. On the campus he was placed in command of eight army and is located at Fort Meads, Vern B. Anderson, chief specialist details cannot be made public. fornia. He married J ean Birch, ex Corps Officers' Training School at in the U . S. aval Reserve, has been Aggie, in April of this year. he is given credit for the introduction army air corps plane testing fields in South Dakota. I just received my copy of the last Quantico, Virginia. and advancement of the aviation F lorida, where he is now stationed. R. Theodore J{owalli and Niles ordered to report to the U. S. Naval issue of the Quarterly and appreciate Lt. Dale Miller is stationed at Seat Grant P. Grandy is in the army and He s were recently · inducted into the Training Station in Great Lakes, Illi tle, Washington. ground school and radio course work General Gardner has two brothers in your kindness in sending me the copy. stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mis at the College. Logan, Dr. Willard Gardner, '12, soil Army. noi , from orfolk, Virginia, for a May the coming isl"ues be as interest Dee Whi tesides is a corporal with souri. physicist at the USAC, and Rulon S. Lt. Clyde Taylor R iggin on is at period of training, after which he will ing as the last. the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Russell B. Hicken is Junior Store Commander Stock is another son of Gardner, affiliated with a Logan bank tending the air corps gunnery school be assigned to duties in recruit train Sincerely, Cooke, California. He married Joan keeper at the U . S. Army Air Corps Utah State that has brought national ing firm. at McCarran Field, Las Vegas, Nev. ing at Great Lakes. tan Gessel, '39. Ro evear on June 26. base at Wendover Field, Utah. recognition to himself and alma mater. What the c7ilumni c7£re C])oing tative for Albers Milling Co. His ter Melba Hamson is teaching at the ritory covers all of northern Califor Pingree School in Ogden. nia. Mrs. Kirk informs us that they W. Adrian Wright, Co-president of have a daughter, Shirley, who enters the Salt Lake Alumni chapter, has just high school this year. (A good pros received an appointment of adminis pect for the USAC?) trative officer for the state OPA office. Adrian was formerly Utah director of 1927-31 finance and WPA state administrative Reese Maughan, '27, received his officer. In his new post he will have degree of doctor of education from the charge of personnel and other OPA University of Cincinnati at the annual administrative details. Mrs. Wright is commencement. Dr. Maughan entered the former Edna mith, '32. the University on a scholarship in 1940 . He has just accepted an import 1934 ant post at Delta, Utah, with the Bertie Mae Evans has given up her Japanese resettlement project there. teaching position in the Logan Junior Vernon Love, '27, Aggie gridder of High School and is now employed at years past, is manager of a service a war industry center in Rhode Island. station in Hinckley. Vernon will be Edna Page, instructor in home eco remembered as the only coach in nomics at the USAC, taught at Johns Hinckley history which took that high Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Mary school's cage team to a state cham land, during the summer period. pionship. Ross Leonard has been appointed Dr. Coral Gordon, '27, wife of James director of the Utah State Fish and Bolin, is a practicing physician and Game department by Governor Her surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. bert B. Maw. The August appointment Ellen Beaumont-Warner, '27, is liv took Mr. Leonard from the post of ing in Portland, Oregon. She is the director of the make-work program of wife of Dorus Warner, and mother of the state welfare department, where four boys, ages two to eleven. he has been emplo yed for t he past Aria McKinnon-Tikkaner, '27, is liv year. The new director is a native of Orvi lle L. Lee, '22 ing at 342 South Downing, Denver, Emery county and former mayor of Appointed Chairman of Utah AAA com Colorado. She has a young daughter, Huntington where he was known as mittee and Utah State USDA war board Lois, age 41;2. the "boy mayor," being 24 years old A. J . Merrill, '27, has been named when elected in 1934. regional director for the western divi Dr. Park D. Keller resides in Den 1916-25 sion of the office of defense transpor ver, Colorado, where he is interning Lillian T. Ostlund, '16, is head of tation with headquarters in Denver, at the Colorado General Hospital. Dr. the Home Economics department at Colorado. He is on leave from the Keller married Julia Hunter, a regis the Mark Keppel High School, Los interstate commission where he was tered nurse, in 1940. Angeles, California. senior lawyer in charge of enforce Dean F. Peterson, Jr., who received ment of ICC trucking regulations in a doctorate of Civil Engineering from Albert E. Thomas, '16, died at his the New York district. He has his the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in home in Salt Lake City, August 23, of doctorate degree in law from the Uni 1939, is cost and progress engineer on a heart ailment. He was a retired versity of Chicago law school. locomotive engineer for the Bingham Judge George Darrell eilson, '28, and Garfield railroad company. was recently married to Jeannine Mad H. Grant Ivins, '17, was appointed eleine Balog. Two years ago, after Utah state director of the Office of co moleting an enviable record as pros Price Administration by Leon Hender ecuting- attorney for the government son, OPA administrator at Washing in Washington. D. C., he was appointed ton, D. C. He will have charge of ra by President Roosevelt to the police and traffic court bench. tioning, price control, consumer activi Cleopha Richards-Probst, '30, re ties, and other divisions of the OPA si des at Malad, Idaho, with her three in Utah. so ns, Reed. Merrill, and J. Brent. Her Orville L. Lee, '22, has been ap husband, Reed G. Probst, '30, is serv pointed chairman of the AAA com ing as a chaplain with the U. S. Army mittee of Utah. As chairman of the in Australia. committee, Mr. Lee automatically be Hope Reeder, '31. has been placed comes chairman of the Utah State in charge of the Library of Informa USDA war board, the agency which tion at the Brown University's John directs the Department of Agricul Hay Library in Rhode Island. This is ture's part in the war effort. a kev center of war information. Miss Ralph Parke, '23, is manager of Reeder is a former reference librarian Cloverleaf Dairies in Los Angeles, Cal at the USAC and has a B.S. degree in ifornia. library work at the Columbia Uni versity. Ralph B. Sanford, '23, died at his June Wood-Fotheringham, '31, is home in Ogden, August 23. Mr. San now li ving at Milford. ford was principal of the Ogden Senior High School and former principal of 1932 the Weber County High School. He has been prominent in Utah educa George F. Picot, after graduating tional centers for the past twenty from Gonzaga University of Law at years. Sookane and passing his bar examina tions. has accepted a post as auditor George Piranian, '36 Harvey Kirk, '25, lives in Chico, in chief of . the western branch of a Ex- Rhod es sc hol ar now at Rice Institute, California, where he is field represen- firm in Denver, Colorado. Houston , Texas
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the Pine Bluff Arsenal at Pine Bluff, Cl uff Snow, coach at Soda Springs, Arkansas. Mrs. Peterson is the former Idaho, for the past two years, has been Be sie Carter. They have one daugh appointed football coach for Bear ter, Linda Jeanne, two years old. River High School in Tremonton. Parker Pratt Fillmore is the man Maurine Christensen-Alley and hus ager of the J. C. Penney store at band, Stephen L. Alley, are living _in Eureka and is making an outstanding Salt Lake City. They have two chil- success of his work there. dren, Kathryn and Stephen '!"· . Dwain Pearson, Associate Farm Roy Bi hop, another Aggie grad m Management speciali st, has . been the Eureka area, is principal of the transferred to the Farm Secunty re Tintic High School and superintendent gional office in San Francisco. of the Tintic school district. Mrs. Russell L. Humpherys has been ap Bishop is the former Ruth Barton, '35. pointed State Associate Price Spec~al Dr. E. Milton Anderson is now em ist in charge of dry goods, working ployed as Assistant I:Jorticulturist. at under the Office of Price Administra the University of Flonda Sub-Tropical tion. For the past several years Russ Experiment Station, Homestead, Flor has been employed in Logan where he ida. Mrs. Anderson is the former was active in civic affairs, taking a B:! rnice Ashdown. leading role in the local vocational guidance program. Dr. George Max Beal is assistant 1936 marketing economist with the Cali Marjorie Stevens is now employed fornia State Department of Agricul as secretary in the office of the sur ture. He and Mrs. Beal, the former geon at Fort Douglas, Utah. Virginia Smith, live in Sacramento. William Thatcher Adams graduated Dr. Beal received his doctorate degree from Co lumbia University this spring last spring at the University of Wis with a degree of doctor of medicine. consin. Dean Henderson has been appointed 1935 head coach at the Shelley High Sc~oo_l. Allan Th omas, '39 Mrs. Henderson is the former MarJOrie Personnel officer a nd editor of " Utah O rd Lynn Kloepfer is now an attorney Burrup, '36. . for a title insurance company in Sac nance News" at Utah O rdnance Pl ant in Minette R. Cad ·on was appomted Sa lt Lake C ity. ramento, California. Mrs. Kloepfer is home demonstration agent for the the former Marguerite Fonne beck, Utah Agricultural Exte!lsi~n Service '37. Both attended the '37 Class Re in the Summit-Morgan d1stnct. Gerard J. Klomp is technician in union in Logan at commenment time. George Piranian, teaching fellow in charge of the Star Valley Soil qon Lynn S. Barker is music instructor math and candidate for his doctorate servation District at Afton, Wyommg. at the Ammon High School, Route No. degree at Rice Institute, Houston, Jay F. Anderson is music. instruc~or 3, Idaho Falls, Idaho. at the Senior High School m Spanish Mandell Spencer, who will soon re Texas, reoorts his marriage to "Joe" Fork. He received his master's degree ceive an M.A. degree in the school of Wills on December 22, 1941. Congra from the University of Idaho last drama at the University of Washing tulations! spring. Mrs. Anderson is the former pencer Taggart and Ila Smith-Tag ton, is now stage manager for. ~he Erma Bambrough, ex-Aggie. They Showboat theatre and scene techniCian gart are making their home in Ber~ have two children, Julian and Steven. for the school. eley. California, where Spence IS Ruth Mae Graham-Manning is an tear.hing assistant in. the _departme~t other North Ogden resident. Husband of history at the Umvers1ty of Cah is M. ephi Manning and the couple fornia . have one child. G rad uate Joins Cast of Jean Lenkensdorfer-Liljenquist gives Eugene A. Hart, after two years' Cleveland T heatre her occupation as housewife, and her teaching at Sells, Arizona, has re address as 3160 Bracken Woods Lane, turned to Utah, according to informa Harold I. Hansen, '37, promi Cincinnati, Ohio. She married L. B. nent in student theatricals while tion reaching the Alumni Office; _he Liljenquist in 1938. They have one now lives at Provo. Eugene marned at the College, has received one son. of the most outstanding recogni Mildred Young in 1938. tions ever accorded a speech 1937 Joseph W. Andrus is an engineer for major of the College when he Frank R. Parker is music instructor the U. S. Soil Conservation Service at was offered, and accepted, a con at Weston High School, Weston. Ida Panguitch, Utah. tract with the permanent acting ho. Frank has completely nearly all Cullen now is now employed at the staff of the Cleveland Play the requirements for a master's deg1·ee Cache Valley Hospital, Logan, as a House at Cleveland, Ohio. The at the University of Idaho. laboratory and X-ray technician. Cul Play House, nationally recog Charles Rich · heJ>herd is teaching len came to Logan from a similar posi nized community theatre project seminary at Hyrum, Utah. Mrs. Shep tion at Idaho Falls, Idaho. for the past twenty years, has a herd is the former Edith Funk, '32. usan Painter-Higgins is making permanent staff of three di Stuart Hardman was recently ap good in her chosen profession-keep rectors, fifteen acting staff mem pointed to the position of technical ing house. She lives on Route No. 2, bers, and approximately 100 ap director for the school of drama at Ogden, Utah. . prentice students, and last year the University of Washington, Seattle, Helen Lois Westfall-Mahoney IS a had a paying audience of 110,000 Washington. bride of last June. She married Dr. W. L. Mahoney, Heber dentist. people. Plays are scheduled for Clark B. Hardy reports from 4307 six nights each week in each of Holladay Boulevard, Salt Lake C~ty. 1938 the two theatre auditoriums. He is district foreman for the grazrng Harold has his master's degree Richard Preston received a doctor service. Mrs. Hardy is the former ate degree in medicine from th~ Was.h from the University of Iowa. He Minnie Cox, ex-Aggie. married Betty Kotter of Salt ington University in St. Louis, MI~ Lake City, a former student of William Garbett is now employed souri, in June. He will serve h1s the University of Utah. with the Burroughs Adding Machine interneship at the St. Louis County Company in Salt Lake City. In Janu Hospital. Mrs. Preston is the former ary of 1941 he married Barbara Smith. Marion Skidmore, '38.
Page I I William A. Hoski on is attending David Madsen Welling is teacrung th University of Illinois where he is at the Deaf and Blind School in Ogden. working on his doctorate. Mrs. Welling is the former J ean Stew Roma Barton Poynor and husband, art, '36. Russell Poynor, ex-Aggie Prof., have T homas Raymond Robbins is time spent the summer in Danville, Illinois, keeper for the Public Housing Admin where Russ has been employed at the istration at Tacoma, Washington. Wabash Ordinance Powder Plant. Har ry D. Grace is fire control assist They and their young daughter, Betty, ant at Valyermo, California. seven months, plan to return to Purdue George Burke Maxey is geologist University in September where Russ with the djvision of ground water , teaches. U. S. Geological Survey. He is sta Roy L. Shipley is another soil con tioned at Salt Lake City. servationist. He calls Duchesne, Utah, Lila Elia on is teaching at Hyrum, his home. Utah. Glenn B. Ada ms, formerly assi tant Esther Watson-Bowen, after teach editor of Western Farm Life at Den Marian I. Feulner, '41 ing one year at Parowan High School, ver, has been commissioned an ensign married Louis C. Bowen in F ebruary. in the aval Reserve. He reported for Landscape architect and draftsman for Vin ton Merrill, who completed re duty at otre Dame, South Bend, Indi Provo City and Utah County quirements for graduation from the ana, on August 11. USAC this past year, is a student at the orth Pacific Dental Coll ege at 1939 Bird Refuge at Brigham, has been ap Portland, Oregon. Kirk B. Turner, graduate as istant oointed manager of the Willipa U . S. Willard W. Bruce is principal of the at Michigan State College, received Bird Refue;e at Ilwaco, W ashil1gton. Junior High School at Montpelier, his M.S. degree a year ago and now Rulon T ueller has resigned h is post Idaho. is workjng on rus doctorate. He mar as Lo~an City Health Officer and Sani Bessie M. Grock-Winchell is living ried Fern Ingram, an Oklahoma A & tary Inspector to accept a civil service at Wells, evada. he married Frank M grad. nosition with the Idaho State Board of Winchell, ex-Aggie, in J une 1941. They Valdo D. Benson has accepted a Health. A. E van We tern. '41, has J1ave one child, a boy. position on the national defense sav been appointed to succeed Mr. Tueller. Virgil Calvin Waldron is teaching ings staff. He will have supervision school at Tremonton, Utah . of the defense savings program among 1940 farms in t he eleven western states. Jay J ensen is instructor in physics 1942 Mrs. Benson, the former Ruth Wat at the USAC. Joseph R. Qu ayle is doing splendid kins, '38, and daughter Laurlie, will Hettv J ean Fonnesbeck has returned ly in his new position at Star Vall ey join Valdo in Washington, D. C. to hP.r home in Logan after completing High School, where he is vocational Vivian Wil on pencer is emplo:ved an L. D. S. mission in tl1e eastern agricultural instructor. as librarian at the Dixie Junior Col statPs. Elwin W. tevens has received a lege, St. George, Utah. J ohn Broberg h aR been anpointed civil service appointment with the Betty Young has completed require h >~c;ketb::~ ll coach at South Cache High United States Forest Service in W y ments for a California teachjng cer Srol1ool. Hvrum, Utah . oming. He wi ll work in the Medicine t ificate. and was awarded a contract Low<> ll Ra"'"'llSSPn, former assistant Bow ational Forest. to teach at Orland, California. <;llTJPl'visor of the farn1 SPCUritv admin S pencer Daines has accepted a posi J ay P . iel on is draftsman for Con i <: b·<~tion ::~t Pro"O. 1 tah. was named tion with the Rural E lectrification Ad solidated Aircraft at San Diego, Cali C>~,·hnn COUl't.v A
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e Mr. mul Mrs. Oral Aclam.s, of Holly living in Logan. Herb graduated in '38 wood, California, announce the arrival of a and is stationed in Hawaii. son, their first child. Oral graduated in * * * 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Bybee, '39, are * * * rejoicing over the arrival of a son. Dr. and Mrs. E. Mil ton Anderson, of Mrs. Bybee, the former Oralie Cragun Homestead, Florida, are the happy of Smithfield, graduated in 1932. parents of a boy, born August 12, 1942. * * * Dr. Anderson graduated in 1935. Mrs. Lt. and Mrs. E lmer C. Cox are the Anderson is the former Berniece Ash proud parents of a son. E lmer gradu down, ex-Aggie. ated in 1942 and is now with the army. * * * * * * Captain and Mrs. Herbert C. A•·m e Mr. aml Mrs. Sylvan Erick son, of strong announce the birth of a son Logan, are the hap py parents of a son. May 24, 1942. Mrs. Armstrong is the former Helen Rice, ex-Aggie, and is Sylvan graduated in 1928. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Dee F raughton, of An- derson Dam, Idaho, are the proud par J o eph Marvin Miller, who took his ents of a baby girl, weighing nine degree from Utah State this spring, pounds. This is the second child of is deputy Utah state auditor. Mrs. the couple. Dee graduated in 1937. Dick Harris, '42 Mi ll er is the former Hazel Crockett, Injured in t ra ining plane crash on July 7. ex-Aggie of 1924-25. * * * Now re covering at home in Brigham C ity. Maurine Cook-Winterton has been Lt. and Mrs. Rex Gooch, of Fort working as a dietician in the Tacoma Worden, Washington, are rejoicing General Hospital during the summer. over the arrival of a daughter, born tend Harvard for 18 months, after Wheatley John Taylor is teaching at June 26, 1942. Lt . Gooch was gradu which he will obtain his master's de P la in City, Utah. ated in 1941. gree in business administration and a J ack Major is affiliated with the * * * second lieutenant's commission in the Great Basin Experiment Station at Mr. and Mrs. Lothair Grant, of She- Quartermaster's Corps of the U. S. Ephraim, Utah. He plans to attend nandoah, Iowa, are rejoicing over the Army. the University of California this fall. birth of a 7 %, -pound son. This is t he Ralph J . Chadwick is employed as Ly1m Parker is teaching at the Deaf first child of the Grants. Lothair herdsman at the experiment farm, and Blind School in Ogden. graduated in 1939. University of Alaska at College, Alas Genevieve S. Clayton now calls Chi * * * ka. cago home. Genevieve is secretary to e Mr. arul Mrs. J' ern Hales are the Willard K. Maughan is employed the assistant treasurer of the Univers proud parents of a baby girl, born in Salt with t he engineering department at ity of Chicago. Lake City. This is the first child of the the Lockheed Aircraft Company in Willia m E. Rader is studying at Cor ·ouple. Mrs. Hales is the former Lucille Burbank, California. nell University on a commercial fel Farnsworth, a graduate of 1938. Rex Walker is employed by the Ry lowship. Mrs. Rader is the former * * * berg Co nstruction Company. He lives Bernice A. Rubin, ex-Aggie. Mr. and Mrs. John Hawkins, of Lo- in P leasant Grove, Utah . Alice Randall is teaching in the Og gan, are rejoicing over the arrival of Elden H. Williams is expecting to be den Public Schools. a daughter. J ohn graduated in 1936. called to the service in September or Lois J. Peter on is teaching home * * * October. He married Lot tie Berndt, economics at the Star Valley High Lt. Colonel and Mrs. Lewis Jones ex-Aggie, in July. School at Afton, Wyoming. announce the arrival of an 8%-pound Emer E. Broadbent has been ap F loyd S. White and Reed Allen, both son. It is the first poy, but the fourth poi nted County Agricultural Agent at of t he class of '42, have accepted child for the couple. Colonel Jones Panguitch, Utah. teaching positions at the high school graduated in 1936. He is now stationed Ray L. Jones taught at Bear River in Tooele. at Fort Lewis, Washington. High from December until J une, when Ella LaVere Adamson is P. E . in * * * he was appointed principal of the Star structor at the Park City High School. Mr. and Mrs. Ray L. Jones, of Afton, Valley Seminary at Afton, Wyoming. J. Lewis Robinson has accepted an Wyoming, are the proud parents of a Mrs. J ones is the former Sibyl Nelson. appointment to teach at Madison High, girl. Ray was graduated in 1942. They have one child. Rexburg, Idaho. * * * Sibyl Wilkinson is principal of the Kat herine Rasmussen is teaching at e Mr. an.cl Mrs. Jay K nudson, of Smith- L. D. S. Seminary at Bancroft, Idaho, Green River, Utah. fi eld, are rejoicing over the arrival of their for 1942-43. F ranklin Oliver Westfall is a junior first child, a boy. Jay graduated in 1938. Barbara Cordon is supervising a physicist at the Bureau of Standards * * * nursery school in Ogden. at Forest Glen, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Grant R. La mb an- Laura t ratford has a civil service Phyllis Gardner will teach at Lehi nounce the birth of t heir first child, a position with t he Department of Com this year. son. Grant graduated in 1937. merce - Airway Observer in the Robert W. Martin is chemist in the * * * Weather Bureau at Seattle, Washing plastic division of General E lectric at Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Madsen, of Elko, ton. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. evada, welcomed the birth of a son, Dick Harris is at home in Brigham Roberta F ay Roberts-Berrey is mak the second child of the couple. Clyde City recuperating from a training ing her home in Pensacola, F lorida, graduated in 1937. Mrs. Madsen is the plane crash on July 7. He was await where her husba11d, David Berry, is former Rose Lowe. ing call to the U. S. Air Corps at the stationed as an Ensign in the U . S. * * * time of the accident. · aval Reserve. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Murray, of Salt Glen Albert Carey is a welder in the Helen Wintch is personnel manager Lake City, Utah, announce t he arrival shipyards at Alameda, California. at the Manti parachute plant. of a son, born on J uly 6, 1942. Boyd Margaret Pot ter-Perry is living in Arthur F rank Wendel is a junior graduated in 1942. Mrs. Murray is t he Los Angeles. She married Norman L. chemist for the U. S. Salinity Labora former Ardis Webb, ex-Aggie. Perry, a dentist, in August. tory at Riverside, California. (Continzted on page 14)
Page 13 The Class of '64 (Continued from page 13) MILITARY NEWS - PROMOTIONS Mr. and Mrs. William Ogden, of (Co ntinued fr om page 9) Glascow, Montana, welcome the arrival of a girl. William graduated in 1942. * Ernest W. Lundahl, '36, has* been Mrs. Ogden is the former Elgia Tay 1923-1933 promoted to captain in the army air lor. Major Gordon Y. Croft, '23, has re corps at Geiger Field, Spokane, Wash * * * cently been appointed Quartermaster ington. He is an air base guard ad • Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Poole, of Hyrum, at Camp San Luis Obispo, California. jutant at the field. announce the arrival of a son, the first child His wife is Carma Hunsaker Croft, '43. Gerald Hansen, '36, has been pro of the couple. Cliff graduated in 1939. Harold C. Bateman, '25, has recently moted to captain in the U. S. Army at * * * been promoted to the rank of major Camp Haan, Riverside, California. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood W. Rasmuson in the U. S. Army. He and his family announce the arrival of a son, the first now reside at 7405 Monte Vista, La child of the couple. Mrs. Rasmuson is Jolla, California. 1937 the former Fawn McFarland, of Han Dr. R. V. Larson, '29, has received Arthur E. Holt, stationed at the sen, Idaho, and a graduate of 1941. a promotion to the rank of major in Ogden Air Depot, has been advanced * * * the reserve medical corps of the U.S. to the rank of captain. Dr. Harold N. Rosengreen and Dr. Army, according to word received from Gordon Egbert, son of Professor and Edith Gordon Rosengreen, practicing Fort Lewis, Washington, where he is Mrs. S. R. Egbert, '23, has been pro physicians in Seattle, Washington, are stationed. After graduating from the moted to the rank of lieutenant in the the proud parents of a son, the second College, Dr. Larson studied at George navy aviation corps. With the promo boy of the couple. Harold graduated Washington Medical School. In 1937 tion came a transfer from Key West, in 1923 and Edith in 1924. he set up a private practice in Smith Florida, to Jacksonville, Florida. * * * field. He was called to active duty in Haymond Malouf has been commis Lt. and Mrs. Richard Ryan, of River October 1940. sioned a lieutenant (j.g.) in the med side, California, are the happy parents David H. Calder, '30, recently com ical corps of the U. S. Naval Reserve. of a boy. Dick graduated in 1!:141. Mrs. missioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Ray was awarded his doctor of medi Ryan is the former Carol Campbell of Navy Air Force, is attending the navy cine degree in 1941 at the University Logan. officers' training school at Quansent, of Maryland. He married Ausdrig * * * Rhode Island. Lt. Calder is a former Piranian, ex-Aggie, in November 1941. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sonne, of Los member of the state legislature and William S. Heitz, now stationed at Angeles, California, are rejoicing over trustee of the Utah State Agricultural El Paso, Texas, has been promoted to the arrival of a boy-June 19. Dean College. the rank of captain. Mrs. Heitz is the graduated in 1934. Jesse G. Nelson, '33, a former teach former Lois Hovey. * * * er in the Logan Junior High School, Ray K. Petersen has been commis e Mr. arul Mrs. Rayrnoud Stowers an has been promoted to captain. He is sioned a second lieutenant in the Quar nounce the arrival of their first child, Shir stationed in southern California. termaster Corps at the officers' train ley Ann, born May 29. Mrs. Stowers is the Paul T. Sant, '33, called to active ing school at Camp Lee, Virginia. He former Maurine jackson, 'N41. Ray, a duty in March 1941, has been promoted is now stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash graduate of Oklahoma A & M, received his to captain. ington. master's degree at Utah State this spring. Farrell Johnson, Jr., has been pro * ~:. * 1934-1936 moted to the rank of captain in the Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thompson, of Walter E. Schonfeld, '34, has also U. S. Army coast artilery corps at Logan, are rejoicing over the arrival been promoted to captain at Camp Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was of a daughter, the first child of the Callan, California. He has been with called to active duty in 1940, serving couple. Fred graduated in 1936. Mrs. the army six years. first at Fort Barry and Camp Haan, Thompson is the former Blanche Car Eldon M. Stock, '34, was promoted California. don, '37. to the rank of major on July 14. In Robert B. Harrison, stationed at * * * September Major Stock was ordered to Camp Tyson, Paris, Tennessee, has M.r. and Mrs. Louis Tremelling, '39, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to attend been promoted to the rank of captain announced the arrival of their first a special nine-week course in the com in the Army. child, Ray, born May 18. Louis is affili mand ·and general staff school. Mrs. ated with the F.B.I. They are making Stock is the former Montana Gud 1938 their home in New York City. mundson, '34. Eldon G. Hanson, assistant school * * * Clark Theurer, '34, has been ad secretary of the Air Force Advance Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wadsworth vanced to the rank of captain in the Flying School, Mather Field, Califor announce the arrival of a girl-August coast artillery, anti-aircraft division, nia, has been advanced to captain. 31. Mrs. Wads worth is the former at Inglewood, California. He is now Joe Lacey has been promoted to cap Josephine Morrell. Douglas graduated in North Carolina attending officers' tain. He is stationed at San Diego, in '37. training school. California. * * * Woodrow Wilson, '35, stationed at Don W. Painter was among the first Mr. and Mrs. Dee Wangsgaard are Fort Mason, San Francisco, has been officers to report to the new army basic the happy parents of a son, born May advanced to captain. flying school at Lemoore, California. 18. Dee graduated in 1936. Mrs. Miller Ryan, '35, intelligence and op Don, who has been stationed at five Wangsgaard, the former Florence Gay, erations officer at the Harbor Defense different bases prior to his last trans graduated in 1935. Command post at Fort Winfield Scott, fer, has just been promoted to the rank California, has been promoted to cap of captain. tain. Gerald Lee Simmons and Marden New Life Members Ralph Gutke, '35, has been pro Arthur Turner, ex-Aggies of '38 and moted to captain in the coast artillery '40, respectively, were commissioned Welcomed Into Association at Fort MacArthur, California. second lieutenants in the U. S. Army Fi've alumni members have com Ross H. Plant, '35, has been pro Air Force at Lubbock Army Flyjng pleted payments for Life Memberships moted to captain at Camp Callan, Cali School at Lubbock, Texas, on July 3. in the Association and have been fornia. Ralph A. Nelson has been advanced awarded certificates since our last list Eric A. Rundquist, '36, has been pro to a sergeant in the U. S. Army at ing: Brigadier General J. Kenneth moted to captain at Fort Lewis, Wash Camp Sutton, North Carolina. Ralph Cannon, '14, Mitchell Field, Long Is ingtim. enlisted in the army in May. land; Mrs. Frances Winton Champ, Morris B. Sjoberg, '36, recently com Ross Barney, who is instructing '39, Logan; J. Fish Smith, '16, Salt missioned first lieutenant at Bowan pilots on Navy patrol bombers at San Lake City; LeRoy D. Christensen, '28, Field, Boise, Idaho, has been trans Diego, California, has been advanced San Bernardino, California; and Dr. ferred to Alamogordo Air Base, New to the rank of lieutenant senior grade David S. Jennings, '12, of Logan. Mexico. in the U. S. Naval Air Corps.
Poge 14 THE UTAH STATE ALUMNI QUARTERLY Published quarterl y by the Uta.h State A gricultural College Alumni A ssociation. Entered as second-cl ass matter at the post office in Logan, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1897. Notice to Alumni Vol. XX OCTOBER, 1942 No.1 This issue of the Quarterly is being ent to all members of the Alumni Leonard W. McDonald, '39, Managing Editor As ociation. The following three numbers, howeve r, will be sent to OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - 1942-43 only dues-paying alumni. D . A. Skeen, '09 . . . Presid ent The 1942-43 dues are now payable Leonard W . McD onald, '39 Executive Secre tary and you are urged to send in your Executive Committee one dollar fee. It may be sent to D . A . Skeen, '09 Evan B. Murray, '27 Sherman P. Lloyd, '35 Leonard W. McDonald, Executive Thelma Fogelberg, '29 W. W . Christensen, '23 Secretary, USAC Alumni Association L. R. Humpherys, '12 (Ex- Offi cio) at Logan, Utah. Leonard W . M cDonald, ' 39, Executive Secretary You are requested to keep in touch Alumni Council Members with the Alumni Office. Send in news D . A. Skeen, '09 Roy H alverson, '25 John Bankhead, '97 note about yourself and other Ernest R. Lee, '27 H. R. Adams, '09 Sherman P. Ll oyd, '3 5 Aggies. Always notify the office of Dr. George R. Hill, '08 Thelm a Fogelberg, '29 Johanna M oen, ' 20 any change of address. Lucille Owens Petty, '26 L. Burton Redd, '36 Eva n B. Murray, '27 Charles D. Kapple, '17 Glen Worthington, '29 Mary Bennett Smith, '28 L. R. Humpherys, '12 (Ex-Officio ) Asa Bullen, '19 (Ex-Officio)
Charles Clark, former freshman Millard V. Owens, ex-Aggie '41, has Military News-Continued coach at the USAC, has the rank of been promoted to the grade of staff Ray A. Hales has been promoted to ensign in the Naval Reserve. He was sergeant at the West Coast Army Air captain and transferred to Fort Casey, sworn in at Dallas, Texas, on June 12 Forces Training Center, Santa Ana, Washington. and then reported to Annapolis, Mary California. Sgt. Owens enlisted in the Vern Weatherston has been promo land. army at Fort Douglas, July 16, 1941. ted to the rank of captain in the army Lewis Anderson has been commis Rulon H. Sorensen recently was at San Francisco, California. sioned an ensign in the U. S. Naval commissioned a second lieutenant in Reserve and assigned to Bremerton, the engineering corps of the army. 1939 Washington, for a period of training. Grant Nielson has been commis Walter H. Gardner has received the Mrs. Anderson is the former Jean sioned a second lieutenant following promotion to first lieutenant. Spackman, ex-Aggie. training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Bert L. Thomas, stationed with the Robert Simpson Blakeley was com William Fred Banks has been com Quartermaster Corps at Van Nuys, missioned a second lieutenant in the missioned a second lieutenant in the California, has been advanced to first Air Corps reserve at Luke Field, Phoe infantry. Fred enlisted in the army lieutenant. Mrs. Thomas is the former nix, Arizona, on July 26. one year ago at Camp Wolters, Texas, Barbara Palmer, '41. and was later promoted to a corporal. Ralph H. Redford, former Student Lt. Talmadge D. Cooper has been appointed flight commander of a Following this, he was ordered to of Life editor, has been promoted to cap ficers' candidate school at Fort Ben tain. He is stationed at Fort Tyson, squadron at Minter Field basic flying ning. Tennessee, where he was recently school of the west coast air force transferred from Texas. training center, Bakersfield, Califor Quentin H. Fletcher has been com Leon John ·Sorenson has graduated nia. His wife, the former Mary Len missioned a lieutenant in the U. S. from the engineer school at Fort Bel kersdorfer, '40, is at Bakersfield with Naval Reserve and is stationed at voir, Virginia, and has received a com him. Long Island, New York. He enlisted mission of second lieutenant in the 1941 as an ensign in June of 1941. Since army engineer corps. then he has had officers' training at The following Aggie alumni of class the Naval Academy. 1940 '41 have been advanced to the rank of John Welch has been advanced to Ralph M. Johnson, cadet colonel of first lieutenants: Rex Gooch, Fort the rank of first lieutenant. He is sta the College R.O.T.C. unit during 1939- Worden, Washington; Bliss Mehr, San tioned at Fort Stevens, Oregon. 40, has been promoted to a first lieu Francisco; and Joseph Russel Mecham, D'Monte Coombs has been promoted tenant in the Army Air Corps, and is Inglewood, California. to the rank of first lieutenant at Fort stationed at Tucson, Arizona. Judd Z. Harris received a second Worden, Washington. He received fur Edward Thompson Murdock, ex lieutenant commission with the Marine ther appointment as harbor communi Aggie, has been commissioned a sec Reserve Corps following a period of cations defense officer. ond lieutenant in the U. S. Army after officer training at Quantico, Virginia. A. Grant Holman has been promoted graduation from the field artillery Charles F. Brown has been promo to the rank of first lieutenant in the officers' candidate school at Fort Sill, ted to the rank of first lieutenant in coast artillery anti-aircraft division at Oklahoma. the U. S. Army. He is stationed in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harry J. Dayhuff has recently been Los Angeles area. advanced to captain in the Army Air Aviation Cadet William 0. Shaw has Corps. He is stationed at San Diego, William W. Whitesides, former foot been appointed cadet first sergeant of California. ball star at the College, has been ad his company at Thunderbird Air Field, W. P. Nye, of the U. S. Marine vanced to a first lieutenant at Fort Glendale, Arizona. Corps, located at Camp Elliott, San Baker, California. Mrs. Whitesides is Melvin M. Peterson has been com Diego, California, has been promoted the former Beryl Rigby, ex-Aggie '42. missioned a second lieutenant in the to the rank of captain. He is now an Clinton H. Killian, ex-Aggie '41, has U. S. Army Air Corps. officer in the second tank unit. been commissioned a second lieutenant John Wetzler has been commis LeRoy C. Land has received a per in the U. S. Army Air Corps at Luke sioned a first lieutenant in the U. S. manent commission in the regular Field, Arizona, and has been stationed Army. He is stationed at Fort Flagler, army as a second lieutenant. at Fort Douglas, Utah. Washington.
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