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••**• 1 ns »l.»>i -. « - PASSING OF A LANDMARK -••*•*« Muikiaan State Galteae, EAST LANSING . JANUARY, * • John Asa Davis, 1940 John A. Davis, a second lieutenant with a chemical warfare unit, was killed on December 15, 1944, in the bombing * 7<4e4e Men Qcuie All * of a Japanese prisoner-of-war transport on which he was being transferred from the Philippines to Japan. Entering from Detroit, Lt. Davis was graduated in ap plied science on June 10, 1940. He is Edgar August Poleski, 1945 infantry and holder of the Purple Heart survived by his parents and a brother, medal and a Presidential citation, was Edgar A. Poleski, an aviation cadet James D. Davis, w'43. killed September 9, 1944, on a Japanese in the Army Air Forces, was killed Octo prison ship. Lt. Miller entered from ber 23, 1942, at an army air base near Royal Oak, Michigan, and was enrolled Thomas F. Wilson, 1942 Fresno, California. Cadet Poleski entered in physical education during 1938-40. from Grosse He, Michigan, and was en Thomas F. Wihon, a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy, was killed in action rolled in liberal arts part of the winter Wo rren E. Davenport, 1946 in the Pacific area on January 1, 1945. term of 1942. Warren E. Davenport, a staff sergeant Entering from Traverse City, Michigan, Harvey P. Harrington, 1938 in the Army Air Forces, was killed in Lt. Wilson was enrolled in hotel adminis tration during 1938-40. Harvey P. Harrington, a second lieu action in Italy on October 11, 1944. En tenant in the Army Air Forces, was tering from Grand Rapids, Michigan, killed in action in the European area on Sgt. Davenport was enrolled in business Nick Andrew Sigan Jr., 1942 July 27, 1943. Entering from East Jor administration the fall and winter terms Nick A. Sigan, a first lieutenant in dan, Lt. Harrington was graduated in of 1942-43. the Marine Air Corps, was killed in forestry on June 13, 1938. He is survived action in the Philippines on January 20, by his parents and a sister, Elizabeth Jack Braymer Fields, 1940 1945. Lt. Sigan entered from Gladstone, Harrington Venier, '39. Jack B. Fields, a captain in the Army Michigan, and was enrolled in engineer Air Forces, was killed in action in France ing during 1938-41. Clarence B. Donahue, 1942 on November 13, 1944. Capt. Fields was Clarence B. Donahue, a lieutenant enrolled in applied science during 1936- William T. Butters Jr., 1942 junior grade in the Navy Air Corps, was 37, entering from Hillsdale, Michigan. William T. Butter Jr., a second lieu killed in action in the Atlantic area on tenant in the Army Air Forces and August 6, 1943. Lt. Donahue entered William T. Rafferty, 1941 holder of the Air Medal, was killed in from Auburn, New York, and was en William T. Rafferty, a first lieutenant action over Germany on January 23, rolled in engineering during 1938-40. in the Army and holder of the Silver 1945. Entering from East Lansing, Lt. Charles D. Hill, 1939 Star medal and cluster, was killed in Butters was enrolled in applied science action in Germany on November 26, 1944. during 1938-39. He is survived by his Charles D. Hill, a first lieutenant in Lt. Rafferty was enrolled as a sophomore wife, the former Leone A. Schavey, '39, the Army Air Forces, was killed in action in forestry during 1938-39, entering from his son, and his parents. over Germany on December 23, 1943. Fremont, Ohio. He is survived by his Entering from East Lansing, Lt. Hill parents and a brother, Robert R., '41. Frank Walter Bovee, 1935 was enrolled in agriculture during 1935- 39. He is survived by his wife, the Frank W. Bovee, a captain in the George Cecil Labre, 1941 former Marilyn Reeder, w'40, his father, Army, died February 18, 1945, while a Leon J. Hill, w'13, his mother, and a George C. Labre, a first lieutenant in prisoner of the Japanese government. brother, Capt. Hudson C. Hill, w'39. the Army, was killed in action in Ger Entering from Lansing, Capt. Bovee was many on November 30, 1944. Lt. Labre graduated in engineering on June 10, Henry Walter Lotoszinski, 1945 was graduated in police administration 1935. He is survived by his wife and Henry W. Lotoszinski, a second lieu on August 29, 1941. His home was in two brothers. tenant in the Army Air Forces, and Escanaba, Michigan. (Continued on Page 19) holder of the Air Medal, was killed in action on a mission over Germany on February 20, 1944. Lt. Lotoszinski was MicUtifOtt State Galieae enrolled in business administration in 1941-42, entering from Lansing. Arthur W. Gardner, 1925 RECORD Founded January 14, 1896 Arthur W. Gardner, a major in the Published Quarterly by the M.S.C. Department Army, was killed in action in France on of Public Relations for State's 22,000 Alumni June 14, 1944. Major Gardner entered R. W. WILD EDITOR from lnkster, Michigan, and was gradu ated in applied science on June 22, 1925. ALUMNI NEWS He is survived by his wife, the former Glen O. Stewart Alumni Relations Director Winifred Landon, '26, and a son and a Gladys M. Franks Alumni Recorder daughter, his father, and a brother, Charles G. Gardner, '23. Entered as Second Class Matter at East Lansing Harold Ernest Miller, 1942 Volume 51 January, 1946 Number 1 Harold E. Miller, a first lieutenant in 2 .... THE RECORD *7S Vet&iani Qet ^ofL PoMvUty at At. S. G. More than two thousand men and women, all veterans of World War II, are enrolled at Michigan State College for the winter quarter. They come from country, village, town, and city, and most of them are residents of Michigan. They represent all branches of the serv ice and many of them have fought in foreign lands. They are young, incred ibly young to have spent two years, three years, on battlefronts around the world. Approximately 30 per cent of the veterans attending Michigan State are married, and most of them have their families with them. They live modestly, very modestly, on the $90 a month they receive from the government under the so-called G.I. Bill of Rights (single men are allowed $65 a month). The govern ment also provides tuition and school supplies up to $500. All available facilities are being con verted into living quarters and adminis tration offices to handle as efficiently as possible the matriculation of World War II veterans. In doing everything possible for the convenience of returning veterans, Demonstration Hall has been converted into headquarters for servicemen. The Office of Veterans' Affairs has been moved into the building, and a central ized office for handling enrollment, coun President John A. Hannah talks over a problem with two veterans enrolled seling and testing, and accounting will at M.S.C.. Nicholas Picciuto and Milton Haitema. be maintained there. John Pingel, assistant football coach, every worthy cause. Never in all my the State Police Headquarters on South and Charles N. McCarty, assistant pro years on City Council have they failed Harrison road, and it is hoped they will fessor of chemistry, both of whom are to respond. It is my belief that here is be assembled and ready for occupancy by World War II veterans, have been made as worthy a cause as any for which we the opening of the spring term. An assistants to Mr. King in the Office of have made an appeal. I cannot help but additional fifty Quonset huts may be pur Veterans' Affairs. feel that the people of East Lansing chased later for the use of veterans. With the opening of the winter term, will come forward at this time with Permanent housing for veterans and women students who had been living in offers to help our returning veterans." their families will be provided by the Abbot Hall, men's dormitory, during the While permanent quarters are being college as soon as possible. Work has war when the male enrollment was de arranged for, the Jenison fieldhouse- begun on a 106-apartment building at pleted, were asked to double up with gymnasium is being used temporarily to South Harrison Road and Shaw Lane. girls living in Mary Mayo, Campbell, house incoming veterans. Double-deck In the meantime, 400 trailers, brought to Mason, and Williams dormitories. This beds have been installed in the gym the campus from Benton Harbor, Adrian, move provides space for 650 veterans in nasium to provide living quarters for Jackson, and Pontiac, are being set up Abbot Hall. veterans. The third and fourth floors of on a 30-acre tract on the west side of An intensive campaign for additional the Union Memorial Building also have South Harrison Road at Kalamazoo rooms for war veterans returning to the been converted to veteran use. With the Street. College officials expected 200 of campus was launched in December by discontinuation of the Army Specialized them to be ready for occupancy by Janu the college in cooperation with the Wom Training Reserve Program at Michigan ary 1, but shortage of materials for en's Society of Peoples Church. A sys State on January 26, rooms for 250 addi service houses at the camp delayed the tematic canvass was made of East Lan tional veterans were made available in work. Fifty veterans and their families sing homes in search of rooms for 600 Wells Halls, which had been used by occupy trailers in Lansing. ex-servicemen. Ministers of Lansing and Army trainees. While trailer life admittedly is not as East Lansing appealed to their congrega At its meeting on December 20, the desirable as it might be, the young tions to help in the emergency by renting State Board of Agriculture, governing couples get all the living they can out spare rooms on a one-month to six-month body of the college, approved the acqui of their new homes.