Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Utah State Magazine Publications 10-1942 The Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 20 No. 1, October 1942 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah State Alumni Quarterly, Vol. 20 No. 1, October 1942" (1942). Utah State Magazine. 90. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/utahstatemagazine/90 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Utah State Magazine by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •I 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.