Dr. and Mrs. Wilson M. Compton Dr. Compton will become President of the State College of Washington January I, 1945.
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GLUWl)tC POWWOlA> R~TURN POSTAG~ GUARA NTE ED PULLMAN, WASH. DeRn Herbert Kimbrough St Rte College of Washington l ullman , Wa shington OctOblZlt, '9i1 REPORT FROM THE CAMPUS
State CDllege Df Washington Pullman, Washington , State October 17, 1944 DEAR COUGAR: /I~'1'~ • Today the campus met its new president at a special convocation. TDday is an epochal day in the 54 year span of W.S.C. history. FDr details see page 3. Vol. XXXIV Numbers 1(, 2 Never ' in recent decades has there been such a perfect fall in the Sepl:ember-Ocl:ober, 1944 Palouse, say the old guard of the campus who should know. Along all the tree-lined, curving streets of College hill, slow-coming frosts 50c. JDe F. Caraher '35 Secretary gently paint the leaves. The campus is at its most colorful. In the L1) Amy LeweUen '17 Acting Secretary late afternDDns a haze, half-smoke, half-heat, softly pillow~ the g CD 5BI w3 Harf.r - Cham~rs'N - Chairman of the Board graphical sweep of the breath-taking hills. Pip MaynlU"d aic~s Editor Up paved campus streets sDldiers still tramp in unison to classes. v.3~ Virginia Hester '46 Assistant Editor They are younger now and' fewer than a year ago when nearly two thDusand Army and Army Air Force men were barracked here. NDW CONTENTS they are Reservists of the Army Specialized Training Program (mostly Report from the Campus ...... 2, ... just crDwding to the age of 18) and the unit Df 250 is quartered in Ferry hall. Lt. CDI. William L . Morrison, Army commandant, has just P!esideIlt Ele~t ...... 3... 4 annDunced that W.S.C. is to. get another such unit after the first Df Campus New~ ::-...... 4 the year running six months into 1945. Professor Frank Candee is the new civilian cODrdinator. So. reveille and retreat still sound acrDSS the Voice of the WSC Alumni ...... 6-14 echoing hills. This year the Armory USO is clDsed, but the smaller Weddings, Engagements ...... _...... 15 grDUp of sDldiers is swept up into. the general stream Df college life Two to Leave ...... 15 Dn thDse rare hours when they are free. All the college dDrms are filled this year. Quite irreverently to old Obituaries ...... 16-18 campus traditiDns, Waller and StimsDn bDth hDld girls fDr the first Cougar Sports Trail ...... _...... 18 time in their previously cDmpletely masculine history. ThDse pervasive Cougar World of Sports ...... 19 co-ed:; this year have Community, Duncan Dunn and McCroskey back frDm the Army and they are still keeping all the halls they ever had INDIVIDUAL ALUMNI PICTURE INDEX befDre. They need them. tDD, fDr the halls are all full, with an all-time John Almen ...... _... 6 Lt. Col. Stanley Nevin ...... 6 record enrDllment here of 1348 civilian girls. T he sororities are all packed, too. A record number of 305 girls came for rush week, but Vincent Hiden ...... 8 Captain Earl Hunt ...... ,., only 189 of them could be tagged as pledges, for that was all the room Pilot Nancy C. Upper ...... 13 Col. Henry Merchant ...... 14 there was in the hDuses. SPECIAL NOTICE . Healthily for the college but surprisingly with the war still on To. rush to you at the earliest possible moment news of the official there are 352 civilian males here-more than a hundred more than a selection of a president elect, publication date of the first fall Powwow year ago. Altogether civilian registration is up 15 %. Pine Manor is was delayed until the present time. This year there will be no purely filled with men ; the first time in two years the masculine 'civvies' have September issue. had a college residence hall. In addition six fraternities are running; two. mDre than the preceding year. Some two score ex-veterans are here studying with government backing. OFFICERS 1944-45 St. Luke's hDspital of Spokane has a group of 43 cadet Army J. Paul Coie '30, Seattle Mary German '34, PDrtland nurses down for special study somewhat like last year's arrangement President F irst Vice President with Deaconess, only with a larger group this year. A second group Art Ganson, '29, Pullman C. L. Hix '09, Pullman from St. Luke's is assured, so. that cadet nurses will be Dn campus Second Vice President Treasurer at least through the 1945 summer session. Capt. Joe Cllraher '35, Seattle Federal and state labDratories here are throbbing to -more research Executive Secretary than ever before in history. Some, like the sprouting new ·light metals (In Army Dn Leave) • research, are turned tDward peacetime prosperity. Most Df the research is still turned toward winning the war. Two new highly secret war DirectDrs-at-Large research projects have just been added, one in September, the other Nels Higgins '25, Pullman Fred Talley '17, Spokane in October. Their stories, are like that of a number of others here fDr security's sake they cannot be written until Tokio fli es the white F red Schroeder '29, Portland Virginia Shaw '23, Pullman flag. Ed Erickson '40, SDuth Tacoma Extension work is likewise booming. KWSC has more male an (In the U . S. Army) nouncers than s'ince '42. Visual teaching is in a real boom. Ag extension Athletic -CDuncil has doubled its number of employees and taken on more than double its norm~l i(!ad, with addition of farm labor recruitment and other Asa V. Clark '16, Pullman Milton Martin '26, Clarkston new jobs. Earl V. Foster '23, Pullman Faculty and staff comings and goings remain in the same high gear that they have been throughDut the war. Early fall saw the Navy Executive Committee claim its hundredth officer from the ranks of the staff alone (exclusive J. Paul Coie, '30, Seattle Eri B. Parker '18, Pullman of all alumni and student contributions). Some two hundred other Amy Lewellen '17, pullman H. M. Chambers .'13, Pullman staff people have been lost to other branches of the armed services John Gillis '44, Washtucna (Continued on Page 5)
The Washington Slate Alumni Powwow, puhllslled monthly except In Jnly and August. Established In 1910, the magazine Is & digest 0/ news deToted to the State College 01 Washington and lis alumnL The magazine Is published by the Alumni AssoclaUon 01 the Stale College 0/ Washington, Pullman, Washington. Subscrlpllon price Is Sl.oO per year. Entered as second class mailer June 19, 1919, at the POsllnlce, Pullman, Washington, 1Inder act 0/ CODgress, March, S, 1819. Page Two. POWWOW, September-OctDber, 1944 •••• •••• Report From The Campu~ •••• •••• (Concluded from Page 2) with saving the cranberry industry in the Northwest. DEAN E. C. 1 to war work in other phases. With nearly every Pullman house JOHNSON got a traveling exhibit of British farming in war for the dId most apartments now full local folks began to talk about the campus Oct. 12-26. LT. COL. WILLIAM L. MORRISON reports 120 critical housing shortage certain to develop here when the hegira back civilian males in ROTC this semester. Believe-it-if-you will, a dean to the hill top gets in full swing. Just about everybody will have to heads the freshman class-he is DEAN GEHRETT of Walla Walla. 'ome back to handle the six ·thousand enrollment optimists expect for GORDON BENDER, Graduate club president, announces the opening e college in post-war years. of the Theta Chi house as a social center for graduates and faculty. : Transportation is a changed art in Pullman, with only a few of the ANITA WAADNE, alumna of '41 was back on the campus in lutocratic C holders still driving to the campus frequently. Deans mix early October with a new mobile unit of the state department of public 'ith starry-eyed frosh co-eds and young.-old soldiers in mobbing the health, helping X-ray every student. TINO COSTA, French painter, \oaning, shimmying College hill bus which now runs every evening has just given the college a bust of Lincoln. Costa's heroic sized \d Sundays and even has a co-ed as one of its relief drivers. A new portrait of Lincoln hangs in the W.S.C. library. HERMAN DEUTSCH dified bus for the local line is on definite order. heads the local committee on arrangements for the organizational n\ Entertainment is on the' whole quite extensive, with a community meeting at W .S.C. Nov. 17-19 of the Northwest Conference of Colleges ~'~ert series and other special evening attractions sweetening as big' and Universities on the Teaching of Arts and Sciences. M. E. ENSMINGER proudly saw attendance tripled this year at . ~ ting of day-time cons as ever. Of course there are those war t\(' . Feeders' day Oct. 6. RAUL VARELA MARTINEZ. B. S. '25, made ~ sed mishaps. Take the case of Tito Guizar and his troupe of 15 his first trip back to his old campus last month. Now he heads the ~ ' xicans who came up from Guadalajara to please three thousand .!~msfolks· and collegians in the men's gym Oct. 9. A nasty American largest experiment station in his native Colombia. He recently named s~road mislaid the Guizar costume trunk somewhere between L. A. a new grapefruit after Vice-President Henry Wallace who visited his station. LEONARD YOUNG tabulates the W.S.C. professorial volun t I Seattle, hence some of the supporting cast never did get on-stage, . ye'e some principals danced in street clothes. tary bond purchases as 12.7% of the entire payroll. MRS. FRANK tw~ SIMONSON, civilian pilot instructress here under the AAF training he ~ ews keeps boiling up much faster than harried writers can handle program, is now in her sixth hospital (Dibble general, Palo Alto, Calif.) is lhe need for a between-classes traffic light or other control ar and is near a complete recovery from terrific injuries incurred when m l~ment was shown Oct. 16 when Anne Hieb, Seattle frosh, was she had to parachute out of a plane here Dec. 27, 1943. b POW~W, September-October, 1944 Page Five \ 1900 1911 Will Duncan, superintendent of The class of 1911 has a Iieuten the O regon-Washington Pythian ant colonel. He is Lt. Col. C. A. Home, Vancouver, writes he W. Dawson, who may be reached would like to see the members of at Army Transfer Service, Build· l'fJiee the class of 1900 get together in . ing 141, Fort Mason, San Fran '45. Will guesses that many elf cisco, California. was transferred later to Los An gel'oI~ of the Chicago real estate the old grads have "hit the long 1912 geles. board. . . Frances Roberts is still trail and the rest have gone into Principal and teacher of the 1921 retirement. . .." upper grades at ~o x Island, Pierce Fighting '21 grad is Colonel R. 1902 county, Washington, is Mrs Har G. Miller, whose overseas addres~ James Beattie Cordiner, seventy, riet Dodge. died in Seattle May 8, after :\ is Headquarters Sixth Air Force, long illness. Mr. Cordiner obtained 1913 A.P.O. 825, c/o Postmaster, New his law degree at Michigan's law E. C. Pape's new address is 1060 Orleans... Dorothy C. Jennings school in 1905. Mrs. Cordiner's First Avenue West, Eugene, Ore can still be found at the Willmore address is 4245 8th Street, N. E ., gon. Apartment H otel, 315 West Third Seattle 5. 1914 Street, Long Beach, California. The Rev. Carl S. Dunn, D. D, Son Bill is a pilot in the Army pastor of the United Presbyterian Air Corps a nd plans to become a Church, Culver City, California, Cougar when the war is oyer . . . recently had conferred upon him Former 4- H club director of the honorary degree of doctor of \Vashington is Henry G. Walker, divinity by Tarkio college, Mis Ag '24, w ho may be reached now souri. Dr. Dunn has one son, two at 24th sub depot, Love Field, son-in-Iaws, and one prospective Dallas, T exas. son-in-law, all who have served 1922 or are now serving in the armed From the Texas dustbowl Cf)mes forces. Mrs. Dunn (Jeannette Wil word that Major E. L. Dunlap i~ son) attended W.S.C. in 1920... stationed at the army air fie!d, We never have any trouble find Dalhart. ing Walter L. Penick. He receives mail at 45 Entrada Court, San 1923 Francisco. Portland, Oregon, is the new Possessor of the Purple Heart home of the E. F. Landerholms, with an Oak Leaf Cluster is Lieu 1915 who formerly lived in Berkeley, tenant Colonel Stanley M. Nevin, An Ag alumnus who has made California. Their street address is Veterinary Corps, United Sta~ many strides forward is H oward 4535 N. E. 35th Place. . . You Army, who was returned to tR'P'l G. Satterthwaite. Howard may be can still find Don Pace at Lyn country in December 1943 after reached at Basic Magnesium I nc .. den, Washington. . . And Mrs. having been injured in the line Las Vegas, Nevada .. R ollie R. C. L. Dunn, (Margaret J. Wise) of duty in the South Pacific Bell, 335 East 3rd South; Salt is at home at 12 South Naches theatre. Lake City, is employed in the Avenue, Yakima. Colonel Nevin was assigned to Recipient of the Manly Mem personnel department of the 1924 duty in Chicago upon his return orial Medal awarded by the So Streator-Smith company. to the States, but recently he was ciety of Automotive Engineers is It's Capt. William Vick Smith 1916 sent west and is now serving as John O. Almen, of Detroit, who now. Bill is stationed with the Jessie L. Rummel. 662 Lexing Chief , Veterinary Branch, Fort is head of Mechanical Department artillery engineers at Fort W or ton Avenue, New York City, is den. He may be reached at 1526 Lewis, Washington. Number 1, General Motors Re an interior der.orator and has her Lawrence Street, Port Townsend, Having been graduated from search Laboratories. Mr. Almen own studio. attended W.S.C. in 1908-09. Wash... You may write to Mrs. Washington State in 1925, where This medal was awarded to Mr. 1917 Vernard B. Hi c key, (Marion he was a member of Alpha Psi, Almen for his work in developing A versatile alumnus who not Blanchard) in care of the Uni veterinary scholastic honorary, methods and data for increasing only has time to teach chemistry versity of California at Davis.. . Colonel Nevin served at many the working strength of metals and physics in . the Buhl High We hear through roundabout posts in' the United States ~f!; and engine parts. It was based School, Buhl, Idaho, but who on sources that Wiiliam A. McGinnis the Philippine Islands in the days specifically upon his technical the side manufactures and markets is now Lt. McGinnis. His address before the war. paper, "Shot Blasting to Increase an ant exterminator is H . L. is A.P.O. 846, Miami, Florida.. . In addition to his regular duties, Fatigue Resistance," presented in Walter. H. L. says his ant exter Leo T. Quirk is in Spokane, where Colonel Nevin likes to participate June of 1943 before the SAE war minator, Kill 'em Quick, has had he is li ving at the Darly Hotel. ..' in polo and boxing. While attend material meeting at Detroit. Mr. an excellent reception during the Philip A. Brown, 1906 North ing Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Almen's paper has been charac two years it has been marketed... Proctor, Tacoma, writes he is now Kansas, he was on many out terized as helpful in developing Marie Weldin, member of the senior engineer in charge of con standing polo teams, several of parts for aircraft and other en faculty of the Highland Park struction of the transmission lines which.. played.. international gines which require maximum High School, Highland Park, Ill at the second Nisqually power matches. strength with minimum weight. inois, receives her mail at 503 project. The Colonel's wife is Mary Since attending W.S.C., Mr. Al Elm Place . .. 1925 Rheinhardt Nevin, class of '24. men has held a number of engi 1920 Carl G. !zett is with the meat She is a Kappa Delta and was neering positions on the Pacific Another grad who has "crossed order administration, department graduated from W.S.C. with high Coast, and has aided in the devel the great divide" is Dr. H. H. of agriculture, at Portland, Ore honors. They have two sons opment of barrel-type engines for Sheeler, who di ed August 20, 1942. gon. Carl lives at 3632 N. E . David, 17, who is a member of the Army Air Corps. He has been Dr. Sheeler was for many years Stanton Street. .. Another alum the United States Naval Reserve affiliated with General Motors Re state meat inspector for the Hunt nus W.S.C. can brag about is Paul and Stanley, who is in Shreve: search Laboratories since 1927. ington Park, California, area. He L. Downie. He is business mana port, Louisiana, with Mrs. Nevin. Page Six POWWOW, September-October, 194t' Still manager of Lincoln Lumber H. MacArthur, at last word, was Company, Lincoln, Washington, is on an aircraft carrier somewhere Lester C. Farrish.... in the Pacific. . . Fowler Bower The Veterans Administration, is farming near Colville.. . Mrs. Fayetteville, Arkansas, is the new Charles B. Milliken calls home post of duty for Harold H . Kis 2127 South Post Street, Spokane. at the teaching game. This year tendent of schools:. . ler... Mrs. Andy H. Gustafson's ... Her husband, Lt. Col. Milli Frances is at Moclips. . . The Chaplain L. J. Mitchell's mili correct address is 1104 B. Street, ken, is overseas. . . Word has Tom Beals are now loyal IIIinois tary address is A.P.O. 957, c/o Ellensburg. . . Superintendent of been received that Frank G. Hin ians. You may write to them at Postmaster, San Francisco. .. . Schools at Overlake is Drayton man is stationed in France... 1304 Courtland Avenue, Park Lawrence's wife, Evetta, and three E. Marsh... Write to him at Capt. J . F. Gates Clarke is with Ridge, Illinois. children can be reached at 4758 Route No. 2, Bellevue, Washing the 3rd Hq. Sp. Troops, Camp ton. 1926 Second Avenue, N. E. Seattle.... Beale, California... Major Henry Among Washington State's most We can always find -James A. 1929 P. Green is 'way down in the distinguished sons is Col. Lacey Roberts at 1205 Alvarado Terrace, James Marshall is in charge of deep south with the 69th infantry V. Murrow, newly appointed. chief "Valla Walla.. . A Washingtonian the Dominion Entomological Lab division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. of the transportation corps' high turned Oklahoman is Myron oratory, Vernon, B. C. . . . First . . . Memphis, Tennessee, is the way division. Col. Murrow is a Huckle. Write to Myron at 1309 Lt. Lincoln H. Wollenberg is sta new station for Lt. James R. veteran pilot who served with the N. Elleson, Oklahoma City. . . tioned at Geiger field. His ad Evans. . . Write to him at 1215 h Air Force in the South Pa Richard Boyd Leary is with dress: 2337 West 3rd Avenue, Magnolia... Mrs. Nathen Milli cIfic. He has been decorated with Colonial Construction Company at Spokane... W.S.C. has an alum ken, the former Margaret Elder, the Legion of Merit and the Air Spokane. .. John W. Smith is na 'way up at Anchorage, Alaska. is living right here in Pullman.. . Medal and wears the Asiatic now Capt. Smith, and his new . . . She is Mrs. E. W Hull, the She may be found at the home Pacific ribbon with two battle temporary address is A-4 Section, former Adelaide K. Link. . . Wil economics building on the W .S.C. stars, the American theatre ribbon, Headquarters 2nd Air Force, son J. Goodrich is cashier at the campus... Mr. and Mrs. Archie and the American defense ribbon. Colorado Springs, Colorado. .. Mrs. Broughton National bank, Day W. Buckley (nee Marry M. Hun Mrs. Margaret Murrow, the James H . Hart (Ethel McKenna) ton, Washington. Wilson married gate) receive mail at box 813, colonel's wife, is with the WACS is living on Route 4, San Jose, in 1934, and now has two sons, Encinetas, California... Mrs. Ben in Italy. ... Ted Morrow's new California. . . Major V. Louis one eight and the other, three... J. Peterson (nee Margaret E . Le address is Route 17, Box 86, Port Bruno's new army address is 180 Lloyd D. Matterson is reported to land) still lives on Route 2, Box land. .. And Mrs. Vernon Gibbs New Montgomery Street, San be living on the star route, Willi- . 120, Tacoma. .. Thomas F . Mc may be reached at 2564 Fern Francisco, Headquarters 4th Air mantic, Connecticut. . . Another Gourin lives at Cathlamet, Wash Street, Oakland, California. . . . Force... Write to Mrs. F. L. New Englander is Mrs. E. L. Rice ington. . . George C. Starlund is Another alum who has chosen Foral (Kathryn P. Wilson) at (Agnes M. Driscoll). Her address: in the army air corps, and his "sunny California" is Austin J. 1614 23rd street, Longview. 652 Prairie Avenue, Providence, wife (Joy Barclay) is living at Rhode Island. 3714 North 30th Street, Tacoma. • lith. His address is 8025 Mc 1928 Ordering manager for the In . . . Serving with the 9th Cadet Groarty Street, Sunland. . . It's From second lieutenant in 1928 ternational company is Bruce B. Regiment, Naval Base, Corpus the United States Navy for Lt. to lieutenant colonel in 1944 is Curtes, 326 West Oakesdale Drive, Christi, Texas, is Thomas R. Matthew Carl Strauss. His over the story of the success of Reu Fort Wayne, Indiana... You will Deering. . . Send mail to Tom at seas address is in care of Fleet ben C. Youngquist. . . '. Col. find Fred F. Kramer at 4{)07 614 Del Mar, Corpus Christi. . P.O., San Francisco. .. Mr. and Youngquist is heading the admin North Kerby, Portland . . . Ches Mrs. H. O. Bohlke have just istration division at the Seattle 1931 ter Swenson's address is 6518 bought a home in the Chevy port of embarkation. He is a J. Capt. Manley J. Wham is a 35th Street, N. E., Seattle... One Chase section of the District of member of Lambda Chi Alpha physician and surgeon serving in of the representatives of the fed Columbia. Their address is 6917 fraternity... An alumna who has Italy. . . Lt. Lydia :M. Kuehler eral pure food and drug agency Western Avenue, N. W ., Wash made Hawaii her home is Mrs. is stationed at De Witt General is Ola Haskell Bain. Ola's home is ington, D. C. . . The temporary J. Dwight Babcock (Mabel Wix Hospital, Auburn, California.. . . 1617 Fremont Avenue, South Pas address for Downing B. Randal son) . . write to her at 122 Bates Word has been received that Edna adena, California. . . Ernest E. is Route No. I, Nashotah, Wis Street, Honolulu, T. H .... Lt. L. Cox is now Capt. Cox of the Cottman still calls 912 West 29th consin. Howard V. Mathany, U.S.N.R., is army. She is stationed in Chicago. Street, Spokane, home. . . Joseph 1927 down at the University of New Is that right, Edna? . .. Super Derigio, B.S. in M. E., is now A. . letter written on Japanese Mexico at Albuquerque working J. intendent of sch.ools at Latah, living at 28 Brinson Street, Lacey s t~tionery captured in Dutch New with' the naval ROTC.. . . County Washington, is E . S. Suenkel. .. Park, Hathoro, Pennsylvania... Guinea has been received from Lt. Nurse at Chelan is Clarice Pitt Lt. Rodney B. Phillippay is some Col. Aaron W. 'Jeff" Beeman... man... Lt. Col. WaIter V. Uhler 1930 where in France, and Mrs. Phil!ip Jeff is now on his third year over is stationed at Camp Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Boll pay (Georgetta Ward) may be seas and has spent some time on Georgia. Mrs. Uhler (Beatrice man (nee Elsie E. Keeler) and reached at 728 Park Drive. 13rem every front in the southwest Pa Dimmick) writes that her home family are prisoners of the J ap erton. .' . . The capitol building, cific . . . Major Milton B. Pulver's base is 1214 Franklin Street, anese somewhere in the Philippine Carson City, Nevada, is the busi overseas address is Headquarters Olympia. . . . Petersburg, Alaska, islands. Mrs. Bollman's father ness address of Dwight F . Dilts. 4th Armored Group, A.P.O. No. is the home of William H . Brown. writes that no word has been re . . . Roosevelt Christensen's ad 957, San Francisco . . Mrs. M. From Washington state to' ceived from them in almost two dress is 4570 Perry Street, Denver, Casady Taylor, nee Aileen Ma Vvashington D. C. is the travel years. .. Richard S. Campbell is Colorado. . . Orville Farrish, 526 guire, and small son are living story of Mrs. Clarence H . Schett United States Civil Service rep Southeast 14th street, Portland, at Nampa, Idaho, while Capt. ler (Vera Thompson). .. Write resentative over at Pasco. .. Clar Oregon, is still "sawing 'lway' Taylor is serving with the army to Vera at 2701 31st Street, S.E., ence W. Docka is now ' Lt. Col. with the Disston Saw Company.. . overseas. . . . Kenneth A. Mc Washington, D. C., . . . Albert Docka.. . He was called to active Lt. Tom C. Mus can be f(Hlnd Kenzie is living at 1030 South J. Rahn is employed by United duty more than three years ago at the Fleet Sound School, Key 9th Avenue, Yakima. Is that right, Air Lines at Portland Columbia and is now overseas. Mrs. Docka "Vest, Florida... Write to Tom, Ken? . . Charles A. Hawley has airport, Portland... . T/ 4 Marvel (Helen Mae Nelson) and seven however, at 205 Montgomery or changed jobs. He is now working G. lIson's military address is APO year old daughter are living at 521 East 1st Street, Cle Elem, in the auditor's office at Ephrata. 758, New York City.. . Home 6010 24th Avenue, N . E., Seattle, Washington.. . A '31 grad serv e was formerly county superin- base is Palouse, Washington.... for the duration. . . Lt. Harold ing with the WACS at Fort Des POWWOW, September-October, 1944 Page Seven Moines, Iowa, is Frances B. Nagle. . Send all mail to Frances at WAC Detachment 1798. . . . Comes word that S/Sgt. Albert UeSewae J. Hansen is assigned to duty with the headquarters eastern security 1933 sides at 967 Sutter street... Mrs district as provost marshal clerk John R Bohannan is an Ensign T. V. Peterson (Bernice F. White) at Fort Douglas, Utah... Ensign with the Seabees somewhere in is living on Route I, Colvilk .. Gladys K. Casteel is stationed at the South Pacific. Letters to John And Mrs. C. J. Geraghty (nee the office of the industrial mana should be addressed to 509 Okan Eleanor W. Bird) should be ad ger, Eighth Naval District, New ogan Avenue, Wenatchee... An dressed c/o Bird, RFD No.7, Orleans, Louisiana. Before join industrious alumna is Mrs. James Spokane. Glaspool. Not only does she find ing the Women's Reserve Gladys 1934 was employed by the War Man~ time to care for her home, but Word has just been received power Commission, Seattle, as ex she finds time to do defense w ork, telling of the death of Harlow ecutive secretary of the state also. . . Write to her at 13553 Parkins in Italy. No information manpower director. Bothell Way, Seattle. . . M rs. J. pertaining to the date of his Howland Skillin, the former E dna 1932 deal h has been received. Harlow Noyes, writes that her husba nd Arthur H. Hanson is Lt. Comdr. had been employed with the Soil is attached to the United States Hanson, USNR, and receives his Conservation Service at Pen_ N a v.a 1 Hospital, Epidemiology mail Navy No. 128, c/o Fleet Post ton, Oregon. . . Mrs. Lawrence Unit, Long Beach, California... Office, San Francisco. An Nelson (May Ibbitson) tells us Elea!lor Peterson is in officer's alumna attending the naval re that she is no longer living in trammg at the Naval R eserve serve midshipman's school at Fairbanks, Alaska, where she was Midshipman's School, Northamp Northampton, Massachusetts is active in the American Associa ton, Massachusetts. . . Marcelle Mary V. Doolittle... Lt. Lyle A. Vincent A. Hiden tion of University Women and the S. Montgomery is doing social Moss of the army medical corps Two graduates of the School Red Cross. Husband, Larry, holds work at the Social Welfare O ffice, is assigned to the 13th medical of Music, who, among many an ensign's commission in the Ellensburg. . . Clara Viola Eden battalion, Camp Carson, Colorado. others, have represented W.S.C. in U.S.N.R., but he is, at present, (Grewell) is living at 1210 East . . . Ensign Fred Gall, former distinguished m us icc i r c I e s employed by the Pan-American Lewis, Pasco. She was a "school athletic director of Vancouver throughout the world are Vincent Airways.. . Address mail to the marm" at Lind Post for eight public schools, is now commander A. Hiden, who took his B.A. de Nelson's at box 243, Hoquiam.... years... of a navy gun crew on a mer gree in 1926 and his M.A. in The last overseas address received chant ship. .. Fred's home base 1942; and Louis G. Wersen, who Temporary address for Major for Major Charles B. Beaulieu is is 116 West 23rd Street, Van received his bachelor's in 1927 and and Mrs. Grant F. Barrett is 3916 APO 565, c/o Postmaster, San couver. . . Cpl. Melvin Lee is Morris Drive, Fort Smith, A rk his master's in 1938. Francisco. His family is livin~'t with the l23rd Cavalry, RC.N. ansas... Another Cougar serving Mr. Hiden recently was named 1176 South Muirfield Road, Los Troop (M), North Fort Lewis... in the navy in the South P acific Western Regional Director of Angeles. . . Another major the Lt. (jg) H . E. Johnson should is Lt. Ralph D . Gunkel. . . Henry ' RCA Victor's educational activi class of '34 can boast of is Major be addressed 425 East 86th Street, Demotts is still in the lumber ties, with headquarters in San Guy P. Miller. His overseas ad Apartment 6F, New York City. .. business at Freewater, Oregon ... Francisco for a seven-state area dress is APO 95, Headquarters Dr. and Mrs. James D. Noland re Paul R Gardiner is Sgt. Gardiner including California, Washington, 95th Infantry Division, New York, ceive their mail at 415 PO Build now. He's assigned to the 247th Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Idaho and N. y" , . ing Seattle... Signal Operations Company, F ort Montana. Carolyn M. Wolters, Ph.M 1/c, Owner of the Richmond High MacArthur, San Pedro, California. This appointment is in line with new address is Waves Barracks, land Feed Store, Edmonds, Wash . . . Betty Shaffer Atkinson re RCA Victor's program of having U. S. Naval Hospital, Memphis, ington, is Walter J. Peterson. . .. ceives mail at 15 Argyle street, specialists in all sections of th" 15, Tennessee. . . Another '34 The permanent address of Mary Andover, Massachusetts....Mrs. country who are qualified to con grad who joined the Waves is Eleanor Farrell is 5038 17th Ave Mervin M. Moore, (Marjorie fer with educators about the lise Meredith Daily, Y 3/c-A-7, U. S. nue, N. E., Seattle. . . Mrs. Dewey Judd), is employed at the Uni of audio-visual aids which a:e Navy Station, Seattle. Meredith Churchill (nee Henrietta C. Ru versity of Washington library... coming into increasingly wider enlisted in the navy in September bin) is living at Poulsbo, Wash Another Seattle resident is Mrs. use as supplements of teaching. '43 . .. Capt. Frank S. Cerney.;s ington. . . Walt Blomgren can Linnie Broderson, the former assig ned to the Pocatello Air still be found at Edwall, Wash In his undergraduate days, Mr. Linnie Curtis. Her address is Base. . . Another Cougar in the ington. . . Hubert P. Donnelly Hiden was director of the coJlege 1452 South East 26th street. . . Pacific theatre is Lt. John F. resides at 730 19th North, Seattle. band, an assistant instructor in Two grads who have become San Bohler, U.S.N.R ... Word has ... W. O . Fraidenberg can be the music department, and prolTl Franciscans are Mrs. Orville De been r eceived telling us that De found at 536 North Baker, Mc inent in glee club activities. He bolt (nee Betty Henley) and Mil wayne Kreger is a member of Minnville, Oregon. . . And Alf was president of Beta Theta Pi dred Sherrod. Betty's address is the staff of the American Em Yesland is living at 1214 East fraternity and a member of Phi 440 Sansome, while Mildred re- bassy, Guatemala City, Lewis Street, Pocatello. . . Over Mu Alpha and Phi Delta Kappa Gu~temala, seas address for Capt. J. W. Hun fraternities. He has done graduate director of music education in the C. A. . . Lt. (jg) Arthur W. Edwa rds receives his mail at gate, Jr., is A.P.O. 716 c/o Post work at Northwestern University, public schools there, to take the master, San Francisco... Christ University of California, and Na position of director of music in U .S.N .R - V. F . (N) 103, c/o ian C. Crossman works for the tional Music Camp, Interlochen, the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Fleet P ost Office, New York. .. . T.V.A. at 507 General Building, Michigan. schools. Mrs. Ralph Papka (Rachel Susan Wilson) is teaching at Vallejo, KnoxviJle. . . Clarence Deal has Since 1926 he has served as Before going to Tacoma. ~J r. California.. Route 1, Box 11, Los Altas, music instructor and supervisor in Wersen taught at Aberdeen. He California, as his address.. . Lat several Pacific Coast schools, in is a past president of the North .. 'Missing' Much Alive est address we have for Donald cluding Kent, Washington, Ren west Division of the Music Edu Major Dick Pease informs the \V. Karshner is 35th Special Bat ton, Washington; Olympia, Wash cators' conference and is now POWWOW that he is not a talion, Company C., Platoon 2, ington and Oakland, California. serving as president of the N a 'missing' Stater but is very much N.C.T.O., Camp Endicott, Davis Mr. Wersen, after a decade at tional Orchestra association. His alive. Dick says the only kicking ville, Rhode Island. Tacoma, has resigned his post as home is in Mount Vernon. he's doing is "directed at . ,. Page Eight POWWOW, September-October, 1944 with the veterinary branch, Camp Cpl. Raymond C. Beauchamp is Van Doren, Mississippi... Mar assigned to the 5th Ferrying tha H. Privas, the former Martha Service Station, Winslow, Arizona. M. Hurgler, is stationed with the . . . We can always find Harvey fNe&~ H. Olsen. He's still living at Airwacs at A91O, 469 Co. 19, 3rd length of this all too sanguinary has heen in the army since a week Reg., Fort Des Moines, Iowa... Route I, Box 228, Pasco. .. Lt. and too prolonged war." His a ~OWWOW, September-October, 1944 Page Seventeen OBITUARIES 1944-45 COURT SKED LOUIS 1. MILLER GENE W. HAIR Friday, Dec. 8. Geiger Field. Here Lt. Louis 1. Miller, '41, of the Lt. (J.G.) Gene VV. Hair, Navy. Saturday, Dec. 9. Gonzaga. Here Army Air Force, was killed in medical officer, was killed in the Tuesday, Dec. 12 Eastern Washington. College of Education. Cheney. action while making a bombil;!?: invasion of France this summer. Monday, Dec. 18 AAF Convalescent hospital of Fort Wright. Spokane.• run on an enemy transport during Gene, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tuesday, Dec. 19 Western Washington College of Education. Belling- the battle of the Bismark Sea ill Charles Hair, Plummer, Idaho, ham. March '43. He was awarded the took his B.S. degree in zoology Wednesday, Dec. 20 Fort Lewis. There. Purple Heart and the Silver Star. in 1932 and followed with a mas Friday and Saturday, Dec. 22 and 23 Astoria, Oregon. Northern Divi the latter posthumously. ter's here in the same field in sion Jamboree-WSC, OSC, Oregon, Washington. His widow, Pfc. Florence E. 1934. In 1937 he took his Ph.D. Wednesday, Jan. 3 AAF Convalescent Hospital of Fort Wright. Here. Miller, Henderson Hall, Company from the University of Buffalo Thursday, Jan. 4 Gonzaga. Spokane. (Tentative) H. Barracks, Arlington, Virginia, and became a doctor of medicine Saturday, Jan. 6 Eastern Washington. Here. received the report in March '43 through that same institution in Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 8 and 9. Oregon. Here. that her husband was "missing in 1941. Since May, 1943 he had been Tuesday and 'Wednesday, Jan. 16 and 17. Oregon State. Corvallis. action." This was later changed on leave from his post of instruc Friday and Saturday, Jan. 19 and 20. Oregon. Eugene. when the War Department re tor of anatomy at Buffalo. He Friday, Jan. 26. Idaho. Moscow. ported that the entire crew had had gon~ through the invasions of Saturday, Jan. 27. Idaho. Here. been killed. From several of North Africa, Sicily, and the Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 30 and 3l. Oregon State. Here. Louis' friends came the following bloody landings of Salerno. Saturday, Feb. 3. Fort Lewis. Here. outline as to what took place: In 1939 he had married Elise Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10. Washington. Here. On the third day of the Battle Copple, Ex-38, who, with her II Friday, Feb. 16. Geiger Field. Spokane. of the Bismark Sea, the ship months old son, whom Lt. Hair Saturday, Feb. 17. Western Washington College of Education. Here. "Double Trouble," of which Louis had never seen, is living with her Friday and Saturday, Feb. 23 and 24. Washington. Seattle. was co-pilot, was making a bomb parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R Cop Friday, March 2. Idaho. Moscow. ing run on an enemy transport ple on Salmon Creek near Okano Saturday, March 3. Idaho. Pullman. when it was badly hit in the radio gan. compartment. The pilot ordered Frank L. Gaylord, ex-journalism FROM MAJOR TO MAJOR the rear of the plane abandoned ROBERT P. BISHOP ~tudent from Spokane, Oct. 3 won Robert S. Neilson, wrestling hoping to save the lives of at Lt. Robert P. Bishop of the his second tennis champIonship at coach, in September left the least half of the crew. Five men Army Air Forces died in a crash Dartmouth university, Hanover, campus to become the 'ninth mem were seen to bail. One man for of a B-24 near Boron, California, New Hampshire, where he is now ber of the men's physical educa got to fasten a strap. When the on July 2. Robert had been com a naval trainee. He collected only tion staff to go into uniform. He chute opened he was jerked out missioned April 1 at Carlsbad, after a protracted three-and-a traded off his title of major in and fell into the waters below. New Mexico, and was just com half hour struggle in his final the state guard for a similar The other four were strafed by pleting his combat training as a match. title in the Army medical corps.;'! Jap Zeros. The four officers fin bombardier when the mishap oc This is the third service star ished the bombing run and then curred. As one of his last acts before in the Neilson family flag, Robert headed the plane out for sea.. They Robert was in his third year of leaving Pullman to become coach Neilson, Jr., now being a first were three hundred feet above a speech course at W.S.C. when at Red Bluff, California, high lieutenant in the South Pacific water in the middle of the convoy in February, 1943, he enlisted in school, after two years of Army theatre while daughter Natalie i ~ when their plane was seen to the Air Force. He is survived by teaching here, Roy Bohler last in the WAVES, stationed in Utah. break in two pieces. his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew August annexed the individual Mrs. Miller writes: "I'm very Bishop of Tensed, Idaho. golfing title of the Pullman golf Major Neilson, after completing proud to be able to tell you that club, downing Paul Buhrmester in an indoctrination course at Wash Louis was awarded the Purp:e his wings in July of 1942. He left the finals. Roy's older brother, ington & Lee university, Lexing Heart and the Silver Star. My for overseas duty in December c)f J. F . (Doc) Bohler, lost the finals ton, Va., Oct. 11 passed through proudest day was the day I went that year. He was first stationed of the first flight to M. E . In Pullman en route to his first as out to Bolling Field Army Air in Australia and then in New gram, course manager. Roy is a signment at Fort Lewis. There Base, Washington, D. C., to re Guinea. famed three-sports man in Cougar he is JOining Major Howard ceive for him the Silver Star." While on the campus of Wash history and in 1917 captained House, who was moved this fall Louis entered the Air Force in ington State intermittently frvDl W .S.C's. first Pacific Coast con from Camp Grant, Illinois, to r~ November of 1941 and received 1937 -41, he was' an honor student. ference basketball team. habilitation work at Fort Lewis. The third Cougar instructor now COUGAR SPORTS TRAIL latter part of the '43 season his The .Cougar campus itself lack at Fort Lewis is Captain William loss was a cruel blow. The WSC Doug Gibb, swimming coach, is ing football is just about ready R Bond of the Army athletic casaba gang was going like a seeking to organize a civilian officially to adopt the Second Air services. cyclone, having won ten straight swimming team here. He already Force Superbombers as their own Lt. Commander Ike Deeter is in conference starts. They faltered has an Army swimming squad team. The Superbombers are charge of boxing at St. Mary's down south with Hunt gone and which in competition by a narrow coached by Cougar 'Red' Reese, Lt. Jack Weiershauser and Lt. wound up in third place. margin lost its first start to a who mentored in peate times at (jg) Andrew Tidrick are both combined Army-Navy team rep Eastern Washington College of with the Navy on combat service res en ting Idaho. O. E. 'Babe' Hollingbery, foot Education. The Colorado Springs in the embattled Pacific. A fourth Cougar instructor in Navy uni ball coach on durational leave, is club is studded with stellar Cougar Owen Hunt, ex-Cougar captain, players. When the Superbombers form is Lt. Arthur Buck Bailey taking some time away from his is returning to the hardwoods to meet Washington at Spokane Nov. who is Navy athletic director at several Yakima business interests play for Truax field, Madison, 18 half the campus will move Whidbey island, Washington. j\ Wisconsin, where he is now these days personally to promote north for the day. fifth is AI Worrell, ex-Army in studying aircraft radio mechanics. the impending appearance of the structor, now completing main When Hunt was called into uni famous Nebraska Boys' Town Miss Beth Taylor left women's land Navy training. Dick Renfro, form on the eve of the crucial eleven when they play Gonzaga physical education to join the another ex-Army instructor, is in Cougar swing into Oregon in the high at Spokane. WACS. training with the Air Forces. Page Eighteen POWWOW, September-October, 1941l' 10 the dark as to which team wins what game so advance in a1t terest won't be hurt in the offi eoee9 'NIodd D/ SfPPtt4 cial conference season. In addition to the 30 games now listed in the schedule, Whit man college is being offered the usual four games, and these will be cut in, if dates can be worked out. The Missionaries will prob ably opcn play. There is a chan<:e that the full card may be brought up to 35 games by the addition of one tilt with McCaw hospital of Walla Walla. All games on the card are definite, except the clash with Gonzaga at Spokane, where there remains some ques tion about the date. A First For Callow A former Washington State College football player, Marine Corporal William P . (Scooter) Callow of Phoenix, Arizona, re cently was decorated with the first Navy and Marine Corps medal ever given at Camp Le jeune, North Carolina. He was cited for "heroism when a large ammunition dump was ig nited at an advanced Naval base This is how the 1944-45 Cougars start to prepare to clean up on the Northern Division in basket in the Solomon Islands area, 011 ball this year. Mentor Jack Friel met his candidates with janitorial equipment at their first workout and September 5, 1943. told them if they wanted to play basketball they'd first have to clean dance wax off the floor. Here are "Callow," the citation adds, .terans of last year's squad in action: (left to right) last year's captain, Mort Joslin, Lewis & Clark high, "volunteered to assist in moving Spokane; Vince Gregg, Lewis & Clark, Spokane; Bobby Rennick, Jefferson High, Portland; Friel; Darroll heavy caliber ammuOitlOn from Waller, Gon: