'#|ar m *•% gyr-'i i N*: ~P* Fntflre Navigators. • • • * • •- • - -• • •j" -" from 1904 to 1907, and later returned to serve from 1910 to 1913. Mr. Wright has a daughter, Mary E., now a fresh man in the home economics division at M.S.C, and has a son, J. Richard, who is a petroleum geologist with the Stand ard Oil company of Ohio. Wright has re tired and is living at Stockbridge, Mich igan. Newswoman Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, sister of former Governor "Pat" Van Wagoner, W a s h i n g- ton newswom an, writes per sonalities in the news but is one herself. Back in her college days, the American Mag azine selected her as one of its "Interesting People the A m e r i c an Scene." She had spent some time at Michigan State and was completing her journalism degree at Wisconsin as a cub reporter because at that time M.S.C. offered no course in journalism. Esther Tufty, w'19 in Since Index. She has then, she has been managing editor of a daily newspaper, the Evan- ston News covered in 14 countries. foreign assignments Eight years ago she went to the Na- ticn^.1 capital as the Washington corre spondent for a number of Michigan newspapers. leadership Esther Tufty is the girl at the Presi dent's press conferences who looks like the President himself. Covering her blonde hair with a Roosevelt wig, she impersonates him at the famous press stunt parties in Washington. As recognition of her in the press circles, she was elected to the coveted position of president of the Woman's National Press Club. The Pon- tiac. Mich: 'an-born the reporter gets news, for she's as friendly with the taxicab drivers (whom she describes as her favorite source for news) as she is with presidents and would-be). She can talk as well as write and is in great demand for (past, present, lectures. in Several months ago she was the fea the Union ballroom tured speaker when the Michigan Press Association held its annual meeting on the campus. Commenting to President Hannah that evening she said: "I was happy when my brother told me that there is now a department of journalism at Michigan State. Had there been one back in the days when I was a student here, I would in be a graduate of Michigan State stead of Wisconsin. Michigan State is to Page 13) my first-love". (Turn this column The Record pays to State's gallant heroes who the In tribute sacrificed well-being of their fellowmen". lives "to promote their Robert H. Thomas, a student at M.S.C. in the fall of 1939, was killed in action in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, while serving as a private in the army. Lt. Ralph E. Bennett, a 1940 grad uate of the Business Administration course, died May 8, 1942, while a Jap anese prisoner in the Philippines. Ac cording to a Japanese government no tification relayed through interna tional Red Cross, Lt. Bennett died of wounds suffered in action March 27. the Word has been received of the death at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, on October 23, 1942, of John D. Reid, who entered M.S.C. with the Applied Science Division. the class of 1931 in service William L. Sockman, a 1942 graduate of the Applied Science division, died at Camp Barkeley, Texas, on February 3, 1943. He entered in August, 1942 and was assigned to Camp Grant, Illinois. In December he was transferred to Officers Candidate school at Camp Barkeley and was slated to receive his commission as a second lieutenant on February 24. Capt. Franz J. Hartnacke, a Police Administration graduate of 1939, died in an army hospital on February 18, 1943, of injuries received in army ma neuvers at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Lt. Ralph H. Sullivan, a 1938 grad uate from the Applied Science division, was killed March 27, 1943, in an airplane crash near Tonopah, Nevada. Lt. Sul livan received his M. D. from the Uni versity of Michigan in 1940, and was an interne in St. Lawrence hospital in Lansing before enlisting in the medical detachment of the army. Lt. Comdr. Alvin E. Downer, a 1919 graduate from the Engineering division, died April 1, 1943, in the hospital at the Grosse He Naval Air base where he was stationed. Commander Downer was to Page 13) (Turn ON THE JOB Professor Emeritus W. J. Wright, '04 When W. J. Wright, '04, retired last year as 4-H State Club leader for New York his friends the him gave title of "profes sor emeritus" and adviser on broad 4-H Club policies. In the Nation al 4-H Club News f or F e b r u a r y, 1943, G.L.Noble, managing direc the Na tor of tional Committee on 4 -H w o rk wrote: "For more than 20 years it has been my privilege to be associated with Professor W. J. Wright. I have attended conferences with him, talked across his desk at Ithaca, appeared on 4-H Club agents' programs, and attend ed meetings of State leaders where his voice helped reach decisions. His presence always gave one a feeling of thorough consideration confidence that would be given to proposals and constructive effort would result. "Absolute fairness, sound judgment, the elimination of personalities, and a spirit of good will always pervade any discussion and decision made by Profes sor Wright. Recognized by his associates as a leader of leaders — on other oc casions, and is a genial companion, an entertaining con sense of versationalist with a keen humor, and a friendly counsellor. We regret his decision to give up his duties as director of 4-H club leaders of New York. We will continue to call him 'professor emeritus'." in small groups he that to From 1907 to 1909 he was assistant to President J. L. Snyder, and editor of the M.S.C. Record. He followed B. A. Faunce, who edited the magazine first 2 . T HE RECORD Michigan State College R E C ^J R \j Vol. 48 - No. 3 May 1943 JHu/J. Jf. Qeil, SJito* Qlen Cf. SUUAO>U, AUututi Zdtfo* Founded January 14, 1896 It's the Army's Dining Hall Now the above picture is proof. Other evidence that the army has taken complete possession of Mason-Abbot hall is the sign, And "Restrict ed Military Area," which appears in a half dozen places around the huge living quarters. Armq Holds Spotlight Approximately 2,000 men on the Mich igan State college campus today are in army uniform. The major portion of this group is known as the 310th College Training Detachment of Army Air Crew students under the command of Maj. R. S. Risien, from the Gulf Coast Train ing Center, Randolph Field, Texas. Other army men are part of the Specialized Training Assignment and Reclassification School and the R. 0. T. C. seniors who donned military uniforms about one month ago. The Air Crew students, housed and fed at the Mason-Abbot hall, are receiving 700 hours of academic and military in struction, apart from 10 hours of flight instruction, during their five months on the campus. Michigan State College pro fessors teach the academic subjects and army officers handle the military aspects of their training. Their day begins at 5:15 by reveille and continues until 10 p.m. when taps are sounded. In training to become future navigators, bombardiers, and pilots, the Air Crew students take courses in Eng lish, geography, history, mathematics, The Cover These are Army Air Crew students in Room 206, Horticultural Building. They're attending a class in "Military Hygiene and Sanitation", one of their required courses. These men and hundreds more like them at Michigan State College march in groups of 25 to their respective classes each day. physics, physical education, medical aid, military drill, civil air regulations, plus a number of other required and elective courses. The Army's Specialized Training and Assignment School, involving from one to 500 men, has been set up by the Sixth Service Command as a screening center for the purpose of testing and reclassify ing men who come here from army camps located anywhere in the country. Here two screening boards, composed of army and college faculty personnel, determine the amount and type of training each soldier needs. Some men stay on the campus for one month, others are here for only a few days. Upon completion of the testing and training soldiers are de tailed to other college training centers for instruction at the proper level. Col. Dorsey R. Rodney, commandant of the college R.O.T.C. program, is in charge of the S-T-A-R school. The men live in the college fraternities and are fed in the union. The senior R.O.T.C. students have been wearing army uniforms for the last month. These men, under strict military discipline, are carrying their regular ac ademic studies until graduation on June 12 when they will be detailed to officer candidate schools throughout the country for more active service. They are living in fraternities and fed in the union. Michigan State College anticipates more army units before September 1. Briefly the college expects about 500 army engineers, 350 pre-medical men, 250 veterinary soldiers, and anywhere from 500 to 1,000 basic students who success fully passed the Army V examinations several months ago. Published quarterly October, February, May and July, by Michigan State College, East Lansing. Address all communications concerning the magazine to the Editorial Office, Department of Publications, 10 Agricultural Hall, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. Changes of address should be sent to the office of the Alumni Recorder, Union Building, Campus. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, East Lansing, Michigan. Member of the American Alumni Council M A Y, 1 9 43 . .. 3 2,102 in Service Two thousand one hundred and two Michigan State College alumni are in the armed services, and a large percentage of them are officers. Figures reported by the Alumni Recorder's office show the Army leading in numbers with 1,718 onetime M.S.C. students, including 18 women, and the Navy second, with 329 men and 17 women. Thirty Spartans are in the Ma rine Corps, and eight in the Coast Guard. Gold braid and shoulder-straps among those who once attended M.S.C. include two brigadier-generals, 13 colonels and lieutenant-colonels, one commander 37 and four lieutenant-commanders. Four Marine and 87 Army majors, and 50 (both grades) help naval lieutenants swell the officers' totals. Ensigns and Army lieutenants show the longest lists. There are 836 first and second lieuten ants on the college's honor roll, and 118 ensigns. Every class since 1907 is represented, and one member of the class of 1900 wears a lieutenant-colonel's leaves. The classes of '41 and '42 have the largest numbers in the services; '41 with 310, and '42 with 364. Of the more than 2,000 serving, 27 have died in uniform. The class of 1940 has the grim honor of leading the cas ualty lists, with seven out of its 283 service men definitely listed as "killed in action". Summer Term June 22 in One of the largest summer school en the history of Michigan rollments State is anticipated when the summer quarter begins on June 22, according to Prof. Stanley E. Crowe, director. By surveying the 3,800 civilian stu dents on the campus this spring, Profes sor Crowe discovered that more than half plan to continue their education in the summer quarter which runs for 12 weeks until September 3. This group of 1,900, along with the Army Air Crew students, Army Specialized Training Assignment and Reclassification students, and other anticipated Army units, will boost regis tration to approximately 4,000. At no time in previous years has the enrollment exceeded 2,500. Divisions of study are offering more than 400 courses and placing emphasis upon courses recognized by the govern ment as vital in the war effort to speed the training of men and women needed in the armed forces, industry, and agri culture. Extremely heavy military and indus trial demands for college trained women are expected to keep the summer school enrollment of women at Michigan State equal to or higher than peacetime levels. 4 . .. T HE R E C O RD How to Live Speaking to the Michigan Educational Association at its recent meeting in Lan sing, President Hannah declared: "This is a good time for us to examine the effectiveness of our public school pro gram. We are educating an alarming number of selfish little careerists who blindly believe something about 'how to earn a living,' but make no pretense about knowing 'how to live.' Fundamental objectives of all education should be to teach people 'how to think,' as well as 'how to do'." they know Earlier in the term, President Hannah told a men's convocation: "if, when the waV is over, you will complete as much formal education as possible, not only in the direction of developing skills and techniques that will help you make a liv ing, but in the direction of a reasonable understanding of things which make life worth living, then through the uncertain darkness of war will shine the sun of great promise for useful, happy, productive lives for all of you." those Dean Marie Dye, of the division of home economics, said that the Army was seek ing 1,200 trained dietitians for 1943, and that colleges are already hard-pressed to supply dietitians for civilian and indus trial needs. Other opportunities for college women, according to Dean Dye, are created by the war. A severe teacher shortage is anticipated, and there will be thousands of positions for women in nursing and health work, and in laboratories employ ing trained technicians. A further need will have to be met in new industrial plant cafeterias, which are seriously short of well-trained management per sonnel. that stated Director Crowe along twelve-week summer session the with supplementary six-week would be a program another and teachers for three-week session for the Smith-Hughes teachers. Victory Gardening Millions of tons of freight, nationally, and hundreds of points of canned ra tioned foods, individually, will be re moved from the national food and trans portation problem by the 1943 Victory Gardening, in which thousands of alumni of Michigan State College will be par ticipating. Even if neighbors have been more diligent, it still is timely to do that gar to the stack of dening job, according information that Michigan State College specialists have been making available to amateur and even some veteran gar deners. Safe planting dates in northern states such as Michigan indicate the end of May is a safe time to plant early and late cabbage, to set out tomatoes, to plant early green snap beans and late beans, to put out chard seed for a crop of mid summer greens or for canning. Incidentally, gardening is more than a spring planting venture. As late as July 1, some crops are timely. At that time a few more late cabbage plants should be set out for fall and winter storage. Car rots and beets can be planted July 1 for fall and winter storage. Some snap beans can be started for a late fall canning crop. And if you really keep that garden plot producing, where early crops have already delivered to the table or appear in rows of canned produce the area they occupied can be planted August 1 to late leaf lettuce, radishes and spinach. In the News Heavier teaching loads and the general wartime speedup haven't curtailed fac ulty activity at Michigan State. In fact, the academic aspects of the war effort have increased the tempo of scholarly production. Recently in the news have been: Professor Bernard R. Proulx, head of the department of hotel administration, who was appointed the American Hotel association's committee on interna tional relations. to Stanley E. Howell, instructor in Span ish, who was named vice president of the southern Michigan chapter of the Amer ican Association of Teachers of Spanish. Professor T. H. Osgood, head of the department of physics, who was ap pointed associate editor of the "Journal of Applied Physics" for the year 1943. Dr. Osgood is also serving a three-year term as associate editor of the "Amer ican Journal of Physics." Professors C. E. Millar, head of the department of soils science, and L. M. Turk, associate professor and research associate in the same department, who have recently published a text for gen eral soils science courses, "Fundamentals of Soils Science." E. P. Lawrence, assistant professor of English, and Herbert Weisinger, instruc tor in English, who have published a spe cial text for the use of the Army Air Crew classes. Called "Models in Semi- technical Exposition," the book is de signed to give soldiers practice in reading and writing the type of prose they will meet in military reports and journals. Students Win Awards Two important annual awards were made at the department of agriculture's honors achievement banquet in February. Dean E. L. Anthony presented Milton H. Erdmann, senior from Iron Mountain, with a plaque for outstanding scholastic achievement. Erdmann, whose four-year average was 2.65, was unable to receive the plaque in person, having been called by the air force enlisted reserve corps on February 19. The senior activity plaque went to Allyn F. Van Dyke, of Olivet, for excel lence in extra-curricular affairs and scho lastic average. Van Dyke is a member of the Agricultural Council, Block and judging Bridle, numerous teams, and was chairman of the All-Agricultural Achievement banquet. Canning Factory Problems of extra mouths to feed in a period of wartime food scarcity will be combined with a portion of the Michigan State College research in food production and processing in the operation of a can ning factory on the campus this summer. With the gift of canning factory equip ment from Henry Ford as a start, college officials have devised a plan to build a wartime supply of canned foods for use in college dormitories. From apples to spinach, products will be put into No. 10 size cans which hold nearly a gallon. Although the project requires the use of more than 240 acres of college land, none of the produce will be sold, accord ing to Professor R. E. Marshall, of the to department of horticulture, named head up the project. As much as possible, information will be gathered research throughout the program of production and processing. Field production will be directed by Professor Ralph Hudson, '07, college farm superintendent. Canning equipment is installed in the short course barracks near the power plant. New Appointments The State Board of Agriculture re cently approved the appointment of Wil liam F. Robertson, veteran of seven years of teaching and 15 years of practical food processing experience, as supervisor of the newly-acquired canning plant and re search associate in horticulture. Professor Robertson holds the degrees of B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts State College at Amherst, where he majored in horticultural manufacturing. After receiving the master's degree, he taught at Massachusetts State for seven years, then the field of industrial research. to enter left Also approved was the appointment of Dr. James S. Frame as head of the de partment of mathematics. Dr. Frame holds the degrees of A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and held grad uate fellowships at Gottingen and Zurich. He comes to M.S.C. from Allegheny Col lege, Meadville, Pa., where he was head of the mathematics department. Bar Form Eggs Better quality eggs and omelets may come from the average kitchen when wartime restrictions are eased, if the re search of two Michigan State College men is adopted commercially. They have perfected a process for freezing eggs in a form easily handled in retail distribution and convenient to use in the home. Whites, yolks or whole eggs can be so processed. A preparation of whole eggs, for in stance, would be in a bar form, with seg ments joined thinly so that one or several accurately measured could be broken off and used after 10 minutes of defrosting at room temperature. The unused eggs would be put back in the refrigerator and kept frozen. eggs Eggs are frozen commercially for use by the food industries in bakery goods, candy, noodles, ice cream, mayonnaise and other salad dressings. Frozen eggs are preferred to shell eggs because they are easier to handle, require less storage space and save time by eliminating the task of breaking and separating. Professors P. J. Schaible and C. G. Card of the Michigan State College ex periment station staff collaborated in vi- sioning and perfecting the process. Bulk packages of frozen eggs were found un- suited to household use. It is necessary with the present type of freezing to thaw out the entire content of a package to use any quantity at one time. The whole egg, frozen by the suggested new process, would be approximately a third of an inch in thickness and about 21\> inches square. Degrees by Examination Senior men who lacked less than 20 hours on their degrees, and who faced immediate induction were offered a new examination this year, the Graduate Rec ord test of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning. Covering both general fields of knowl edge and specific interests, the two-day battery of tests was used for the first time at M.S.C. as a basis for awarding degrees. Men who fulfilled the require ments and made satisfactory showings slight were granted diplomas despite shortages in hours. Other students took the examinations, which are accepted by military and naval commands as valuable information on a student's knowledge and capabilities, and by universities granting scholarships and assistantships. They will probably be continued at State, though the awarding of degrees on the basis of Graduate Rec ord results is strictly a wartime measure. Commencement June 12 President John A. Hannah has an nounced the speakers for the senior week commencement activities. They are Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin, for the address at the 85th Annual Commencement exer cises on June 12, and Dr. John L. Seaton, president of Albion College, for the Bac calaureate sermon on Sunday, June 6. Dr. Dykstra, famous educator and ad ministrator, has been president of Wis consin since 1937. Previously he held in public administration various posts and teaching, culminating in a seven-year term as city manager of Cincinnati from 1930 to 1937. His most recent public post was his directorship of the selective serv ice program from its foundation in 1940 until April of 1941. Dr. Seaton, president of Albion Col lege since 1924, was president of the As sociation of American Colleges during 1938-39, and has held numerous high positions in education and church organi zations. Both baccalaureate and com mencement ceremonies will be held in the college auditorium. Registrar R. S. Linton announced that about 926 students will be participating the commencement exercises. That in number includes the men and women who received their degrees at the end of the fall and winter terms. These men and women will not witness alumni class reunions on commencement day as was the case last year. Glen O. Stewart, director of alumni relations, an nounced recently that only members of the Patriarch's club, men and women out of college 50 years or more, would be returning to the campus for alumni day. All other class reunions have been can celled. Restrictions have been caused by rationing of gasoline, tires, and food. Another war casualty of senior week activities is the annual Water Carnival which, for the first time in 21 years, has been cancelled. The senior class play, "Her Husband's Wife", by A. E. Thomas, will be given on Wednesday and Thurs day, June 9 and 10. Other traditional ac tivities include the traditional Swingout on June 2 and the Lantern Night, June 8. M A Y, 1943 . .. 5 carried recently The Schenectady Gazette a story on the family of Russell Warner, patent at torney for the General Electric company in that '36, is a second lieu city. Gertrude E., class of tenant in the Army Nurses corps and is stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Robert A., w'44, recently received his diploma as a navigator at Selman Field, Louisiana, and taking a course in advanced navigation training. Another son, James O., is a naval pilot at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mr. Warner, a veteran of the first world war, has organized Company F of the 2nd Regiment of the New York guard, and as its commanding officer has received high praise from the chief of the National Guard bureau and the commander of the 2nd Regiment. is now 1914 Irving Woodin, general manager of the Califor nia Fruit exchange with head office in Sacra report, which mento, recently made his annual was the best in the 42 years of that organization. The volume of business was nearly ten and three- quarters million dollars. 1915 Harry Richard Stroh. son of Brig. Gen. Don Stroh, was a member of the United States Military academy at West Point, graduating January 19. the 1943 class of Jack Knight, veteran of two and one-half million flying with United Air miles of commercial Lines, is now with the Defense Supplies corpora- lion as a pilot supervisor in South America. 1917 Lou Butler is supervisor of family welfare at the Colorado River War Relocation project at Poston, Arizona. This project deals with relocat ing in useful employment the Japanese families the costal area. moved from Albert E. Cooney and Corrine Lichtenwalter Keydel, w'20, were married January 29 and are making in Grosse Pointe at 770 University. their home Glen O. Stewart, director of alumni relations at the college, and Mrs. Stewart (Fanny Rogers, '18) have moved to East Lansing, where they are living at 541 Oakwood drive. Lowell O. Stewart, head of the civil engineering division at Iowa State college, has been elected in Cardinal Key, men's major to membership honorary society on the Iowa State Campus. 1918 Leonard S. Plee is senior rate investigator for the Federal Power commission and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, at 6518 Western avenue N.W. 1919 Margaret Johnston is director of out-door educa tion at Blossom Hill Training School for Girls at Brecksville. Ohio, and will continue her work as director of Hiram House camp at Chagrin Falls. 1920 Larry Archer is located at the field headquar ters office of the Quartermaster General in Chi cago where he supervises the purchasing of per ishables for the armed forces. Walter Webb is negotiator with the division of lands for the Emergency Rubber project, 315 West 9th street, Los Angeles. 1922 Guy R. Bennett is chief inspector for the U. S. Engineering corps at the Grayling, Michigan, air port. E. R. Lancashire is vice president of the Blythe- Inc.. of Blytheville, to Page 15) ville Canning A r k a n s a s' company, i Turn By QU&yi M. tyla+iJu Patriarchs Mrs. Elizabeth Sessions Shelton, w'72, widow of Edward M. Shelton, "71. died at her home in Seattle, Washington, on March 21. From 1874 to 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Shelton lived in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was professor of agriculture at Kansas Agricultural college. They then went to Queensland. Australia, where Mr. Shelton was a government instructor in agriculture. In 1898 they returned to the States and settled in Seattle. Mr. two Shelton died sons survive. in 1928. Five daughters and Dr. Bion J. Whelan, '77 retired physician, died in Detroit on March 27. Dr. Whelan received his the University of Michigan medical degree from in 1879 and practiced in Hillsdale until his re few years ago. During his active tirement a years in Hillsdale, Dr. Whelan served as alderman and member of the board of education. iris gardens Howard Weed, in '89, from his Beaverton. Oregon, announces an improved twice iris named "Halloween Night". Grow blooming ing 36 inches in height it is classed among the tall bearded varieties and Mr. Weed reports it has had as many as 17 blooms to a stalk with four out at the blooming the same the first of October. season for six weeks after time, extending Daniel W. Bradford, w'90, and Dr. E. B. Brad ford, w'93, have retired and are making their home in St. Petersburg, Florida, the former at 146 21st Avenue N. E.. and the latter at 808 4th Avenue North. 1895 1906 A. Scott Armstrong is located in Quincy. Illinois, as contractor for the Quincy Barge builders. 1907 Wallace Liverance is employed in the publica tions section, service division, of Curtiss-Wright corporation, and lives at 50 Walnut Crescent, Montclair, New Jersey. 1908 Newell J. Hill Detroit Housing commission and at 960 Whitmore road. 1909 is mechanical engineer for the lives in Detroit Maurice Dewey is president of the Dewey Gas Furnace company, manufacturers of industrial heating equipment, in Detroit, where he lives at 15055 Penrod. Helen Hull's publishers have announced her latest book, entitled "A Circle the Water." The new volume, which reviewers judge "a work of continued thought and endeavor", has its be ginning chapters laid in a small college town in the central west. in 1910 Glen P. Burkhart, of Fowlerville, operator of one of central Michigan's oldest coal and elevator firms, died in Ann Arbor on April 7. He is sur vived by his wife and a sister, Lelah Burkhart, '24. of Cleveland. Word has been received of the death of Burt D. Stevens in Chicago, Illinois, on February 4. 1911 1899 Christian M. Krentel, retired real estate dealer and builder, died at his home in East Lansing on February 23. Mr. Krentel from active business in 1930, after aiding in the development of many subdivisions in the Lansing area. He is survived by a son. Robert H., w'37, and two bro '99, of East Lansing, and thers, A. B. Krentel, George Krentel, w'01. of Lansing. retired 1901 W. M. Treadwell has a nursery and landscape business in Great Falls. Montana, where he has lived since 1913. He reports that he has a eon and two grandsons. 1903 H. Ray Kingsley is an engineer for the Lummus company in New York city wrhere he lives at the Hotel Belmont Plaza. Charles Waring, who received his degree from the University of Michigan in 1904, is an engineer for Fairbanks. Morse and company in Beloit, Wisconsin. 6 . . . TH E R E C O RD Harry Lee Baker is assistant director of forests at the Forest Service headquarters in Washington, D. C. He makes his home in Arlington. Virginia, at 4366 N. Pershing. Oliver M. Elliott is associated with the U. S. Engineering department in Detroit where he and Mrs. Elliott (Edith Hartshorn, w'15) live at 19199 Santa Rosa avenue. Huber C. Hilton has been assigned by the Forest Service as assistant director of the Guayule Emergency Rubber project and is located in Los Angeles at 315 W. 9th street. Frank Lossing for Byrne Doors Inc. of Detroit where he lives at 14305 Abington road. is general superintendent C. B. Tubergen writes that he is back in the carlot fruit and vegetable business with the C. H. Robinson street, Milwaukee. company of 223 E. Detroit 1912 Nels Hansen, construction engineer for the fed eral public buildings administration in Washing ton, is located in Bath, Maine, at 1166 Washing ton. Class Reunions Michigan State College has been re quested by the Federal Office of Defense Transportation to cancel class reunions that ordinarily would have been held on Alumni Day, which again this year coin cides with Commencement Day. President J. A. Hannah and Glen O. Stewart, '17, director of alumni relations, announced recently that they felt most M.S.C. alumni are more than willing to do their part in helping the War effort. However, just the cancellation of class reunions is negative aid and the Victory Plan has been substituted. 1. By foregoing the pilgrimage back to the campus this year, Uncle Sam's trans portation facilities may be made avail able for more essential travel needs. 2. With the money spent for transpor lodging, reunionists tation, meals and can buy more war bonds and stamps thus bringing Victory just that much nearer. 3. By sending these war bonds, stamps or cash back to the college for the new "Friends of The Library" fund, it will assure vital post-war facilities for future M.S.C. students—the leaders of tomorrow. library 4. Enjoy your reunion anyhow through the columns of the summer issue of THE RECORD, which will feature reports on alumni in the classes of 1883, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1913, 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933 and 1938. Send your contributions for the Victory Plan to Mr. Stewart before June 12 — Alumni Day, only for the Patriarchs. Guidance Clinic The Second Annual Michigan State College Educational Guidance Clinic will be held on the campus Saturday, June 19, in the music auditorium, Professor Paul Dressel, director of the clinic, announced recently. to The clinic test high is designed school seniors in several fields and apti tudes, and furnish them with a profile picture of their knowledge, abilities, and general potentialities as college students and citizens. Students taking the tests will be given examinations to determine their general intelligence, their vocational aptitudes, and their possibilities as college students. the examinations are graded, in After the dividual students will confer with examination committee members, and map out a college program. Should a student not be interested in college, the clinic can help fit him into that branch of industry or business where he is most likely to succeed, Professor Dressel said. High school students interested in the guidance clinic should write to Professor Dressel for detailed information. MAY, 1943 . .. 7 Florence Hall, '09 Site. Jleadi WomenX Jland Alsnif Charged with the direction of a pro gram farm involving 60,000 women workers, Miss Florence Hall, class of 1909, was this month appointed head of the Women's Land Army, descendant of the 'farmerette' organization of the last war, and part of the new "Crop Corps" designed to beat the food short age threat. When the Land Army reach es its full stride, there will be 50,000 seasonal and 10,000 year-round work the men ers enrolled who have the services and war to help replace left farms for industries. Miss Hall has a background that per fectly qualifies her as chieftain of the new farm army. She was born and ed ucated in the Thumb district of Mich igan, and came to Michigan State from Port Austin. After graduating in 1909, Miss Hall did graduate work in nutri tion at Teacher's College of Columbia University, and later went to Pennsyl vania State College as extension spe cialist in home economics. She has served in the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the federal department of agriculture, and since 1928 has been the department's chief of extension serv ice in 12 northeastern states. In recog services, nition of her abilities and M.S.C. awarded Miss Hall the honor ary degree of master of home economics in 1932. In coordinating home demonstration work and supervising such wartime ex tension programs as nutrition, home the food supply, and conservation in home, she has worked with farm organ izations, women's clubs, and consumer groups. Her position has also kept her in close touch with labor activities. Miss Hall taught at the old Lansing Central high school for several years, and has a host of friends around the college. No Letdown in Grades State students term confounded last calamity-howlers who had predicted a wholesale slump in scholastic averages, because of "demoralizing" influences of the war and the draft. Far from dropping seriously, all-col lege averages actually rose slightly in most divisions. During the fall term, 12 per cent of the grades handed out were A's, and six per cent F's. But in winter term the A's rose to 14 per cent, and only four per cent were failures. lead held throughout Twenty-five students, 16 co-eds and 9 men, chalked up straight A records, and the women's the college. Michigan State co-eds had a grade average of 1.52 to the men's 1.41, and seniors achieved the highest class average—1.74. Other classes followed in order, and women held slight leads in all classes. The highest divisional average was made by students in liberal arts, who averaged 1.53, but agricultural majors, with 1.52, and veterinary medicine students, with 1.50, made it a close race. Sports Highlights Where left off the wrestling squad last winter it appears the tennis team has picked up this spring. Early indi cations are that Coach C. D. Ball has developed another strong combination of racquets. Victories by scores of 6-3 over Michigan and Notre Dame in the first two matches on the schedule bore out the pre-season forecast of strength on the courts this year. Wrestling The indoor season was not marked with great team successes, with the exception of Coach Fendley Collins' wrestlers, but there were notable individual triumphs in at least one other field. Coach Collins enjoyed two national A.A.U. champions in Merle (Cut) Jennings and William Maxwell, both seniors, and the boxing team matched this performance with a pair of national title holders in Captain Will Zurakowski, 120 pounds, and Charles Davey, 127 pounds. Davey, a 17-year- old freshman from Detroit, was one of the sensations of the N.C.A.A. champion ship meet at Madison, Wis. Coach Al Kawal's training program brought re sults. For Jennings and Maxwell, the victories were old stories. Merle was a two-time N.C.A.A. champion at 121 pounds, and Bill a year ago won the 136-pound crown. This year Merle moved up two notches to win the 136-pound A.A.U. title while Bill won at 145 pounds. All four boys brought home prized additions for the Jenison gymnasium trophy cases. Maxwell's athletic ability extends to the tennis team where he plays in the first four. He is one of three veterans returning this year. Captain Frank Bee- man and Earl May, the latter from the basketball seasoned squad, are also talent under Coach Ball. Fred Ziemann, a sophomore from Milwaukee, has been playing in the first four. Team balance appears to be State's forte. Baseball the ranks Baseball is well under way with Coach John Kobs searching for pitchers. State won only two of the first the season's opener six games, losing to Michigan by a 7-1 score. Although there was need for better pitching from the start, it developed that lack of hit ting was also responsible for some of the setbacks, against Michigan and Notre Dame, in an 8-0 latter resulting defeat, State got only three hits in each game. An 8-6 victory over Ohio State and a 9-3 triumph over the University of the 8 . . . T HE R E C O RD These men students are champions in wrestling and boxing. They are, left to right, Merle (Cut) Jennings, junior in applied science from Tulsa, Okla., and William Maxwell, junior in liberal arts from Tulsa, Okla. Each won the title of national champion in boxing at the A. A. U. meet in New York. The other two are national title holders in boxing won at the N.C.A.A. meet at Madison, Wis. They are William Zurakowski, junior in agri culture from Richmond, and Charles Davey, freshman in engineering from Detroit. Detroit, the latter seeing the Spartans get 14 hits, helped cheer up Coach Kobs. Colin (Pinky) Getz and Dick Bernitt are the only veteran pitchers available this spring. Al Jones and Joe Skrocki, starting pitchers last year who would normally have returned, are both in the service. Defensively the infield has looked strong with Captain Roy Chlopan lead ing from his second base position. Art Maischoss is on third base, Bob Andreoli at short and Howard Ladue, who played outfield as a sophomore and took a turn at catching as a junior, playing first base. Track The track team has won two dual meets despite the fact that no less than 18 members of the squad, including a number of key men, have responded to the call to arms. Captain Bill Scott is still leading a fairly strong squad. The season opened with an 8-41 victory over Purdue and three weeks later Marquette was subdued, 77-59. Performances, how ever, are generally lower than in other years due to the lack of competition and the unusually cold and wet spring which has hindered the development out-of- doors. Captain Scott is receiving help from Johnny Ligget, 880; Dale Kaulitz, 440; Jerry Page, two-mile; Jim Milne, high jump; Leonard Nabb, javelin; Mel- vin Buschman, hurdles and broadjump. Golf Golf appears destined for a lean year. Coach Ben Van Alstyne reports his team has developed slowly. In an early season triangular meet with Michigan and Notre Dame at Ann Arbor, the Spartans came off with an 8-7 victory over the Irish. Later in a match Notre Dame won, 18 to 3. George Zimmerman, who played No. 5 last year, is the only veteran returning. Football that figure. None of Spring football was quite different this year. Instead of the squad of 50 or more reporting to Coach Charlie Bach- man, less than 30 asked for equipment and the average daily turnout was un der the players reporting is expected to be on the campus next fall when for candidates. Knowing this, Coach Bach- man stressed conditioning work over team play in the practice sessions. Pros pect is there will be a limited number from which to select a team next fall. It is apparent that none of the Army units on the campus will find time for their men to engage in intercollegiate athletic competition. is made the call Medals Awarding of the varsity men on the Athletic Council medal, a spring term feature, has the attention of the campus. Athletic Director Ralph H. Young revealed the names of 59 men who are eligible for this award which an nually goes to the varsity athlete who has, in the opinion of the council, best combined scholarship with athletic ability during his four years in college. Co- Captain Richard Mangrum of the football team is one of the leaders. Dick, a tackle on the football team and Cadet Colonel of the R.O.T.C. unit, has a handsome aver age of 2.48 in his engineering course. team, John A. Liggett, of Edwin Ciolek, of the baseball team, and Robert Craig and August Sunnen, track, are other leading candidates. track the The fieldhouse and gymnasium as well as the athletic fields are busy places these spring days. Members of the Army Air Corps unit stationed on the campus are receiving an intensive course of phys ical conditioning from members of the athletic department. Fifteen members are included in the teaching staff. Coaches Bachman, Van Alstyne, Kobs and Schlademan of the varsity sport teams are carrying a schedule of classes with the future Colin Kellys. Facilities of the huge athletic establishment are entirely adequate for handling the load. Swimming In 12 years of coaching high school and college teams Coach swimming Charles McCaffree of Michigan State College has compiled an enviable record. His teams have won 99 victories against 18 defeats and two ties for a winning percentage of .849. Fifty-five of these victories were compiled at Battle Creek where his teams lost only three meets. His college teams at Iowa State won four Big Six championships and at Michigan State his swimmers have cop ped both Central Collegiate champion ship events. In all, his teams have 18 championships. Baseball, 53-0 It will be a far day that the baseball scoring record at Michigan State College is broken. In digging through age-yel lowed files, Assistant Athletic Director Frimodig, 17, uncovered a score of 53 to 0 made against a team designated only as "Lansing". The game was played in 1886. Earliest record of baseball on the campus is 1877 when W. K. Prudden, the late Lansing industrialist, was captain of the team. The schedule that year did not open until August 29 and listed games with Jackson, Charlotte, Hastings, Grand Rapids, Owosso and Flint. Operate Farms Charles W. Bachman has joined Uncle Sam's food producing army. The Spartan gridiron mentor bought a farm within a few miles of the campus two years ago and plans to operate it personally this summer. He is not the only agriculturist on the Spartan athletic staff. Coach Ben F. Van Alstyne, of the basketball team, operates a farm state largely by correspondence. He has a prized registered dairy herd of which he is justly proud. in New York Sports Alumni Ensign Jacob Speelman, Jr., a former freshman football player at Michigan State College, believes his athletic train ing here will stand him in good stead in the new assignment he has received from Uncle Sam. He is in training to com mand one of the Navy's famous PT boats. Riding one of these fast attack ships demands as much physical effort as play ing a hard game of football, he reports. Lieut, (j.g.) Steve Glaza, who played baseball here in 1936, and later success fully coached at Millington, is headed for duty as officer of a gun crew on a mer chant ship. Glaza, who entered the Navy as a non-commissioned officer, has been transferred from training branch. the physical Captain Helge Pearson, a former foot ball player, has recently concluded a tour of duty at the army's staff command school at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and is headed for active service in the ar mored forces. He is from Norway, Mich. Fencing Coach Charles Schmitter of the Mich igan State College fencing team recently gave his athletes their usual fencing les son. He took on the entire team, one at a time, and came off victorious in 21 of the 27 bouts. He lost only four. Two ended in a tie. The contest lasted for more than two hours, but Schmitter fin ished strong. He is an instructor in the physical fitness program for men. Sports History Professor L. L. Frimodig, '17, assistant director of athletics at Michigan State College and the official keeper of records, has spent all his spare time in recent months filling in gaps in Spartan sports history. When is completed to have an unbroken Frimodig hopes record. the work letters seeking He has searched through old copies of college publications, newspaper files and written many informa tion. Earle E. Hotchin, class of 1912, who for years has made a hobby of collecting odd and interesting bits of information about athletes at the college, has collabo rated in the work. Psi Upsilon Michigan State's last local fraternity disappeared from the campus on April 17 when the Hesperian society became the 28th chapter of Psi Upsilon, 133-year-old national. The Hesperian house was the first local to be accepted by the national fraternity in the past 20 years. Twenty-two active and 11 alumni mem bers were installed in the simple wartime ceremonies, which included a luncheon at tended by President John A. Hannah and Dr. F. T. Mitchell, dean of men, and an installation banquet at the Hotel Olds. What 9l %ema&iac4f? "We are not given to historical distor tions as are the Nazis. We do not deny that a state built upon a non-democratic basis can exist and may even produce much that is good. But we hold firm to the belief that in America, democratic society, properly run and administered, the greatest individual will allow an opportunity for the expression of his talents." The author of that statement is Lt. (j.g.) Milton Muelder, now in the U. S. navy. Previous to his leaving the depart ment of history and political science at Michigan State College, he wrote "Hu man Material for Democracy", the second in a series of wartime bulletins on "Preserving Democracy". The first bulletin on "What is Democ racy" was written by Dr. Marshall M. Knappen, also on leave from the campus as head of the history and political sci ence department, to serve in the U. S. army air corps as captain. Both publica tions are being used extensively by schools, libraries, clubs, and other educa tional groups in Michigan. "Democracies may have gone to sleep and neglected military preparedness from time to time . . ." wrote Captain Knap pen, "but there is nothing in the idea of democracy which prevents democracies from being efficient military powers." Captain Knappen believes that colonial militia was as much a part of primitive American democracy as the New England town meeting, and our modern Army and Navy are as constitutionally correct un der our democratic system as Congress itself. "The Armed forces," declared the Captain, "remain subject to congressional and presidential control right through the war. By voting at election time all citizens may have a voice in their man agement." Both Captain Knappen and Lieutenant Muelder emphasized the great need for men of intelligence, imagination and vi sion in a democratic government. Wrote Muelder: "We need selfless men of spirit ual quality who will lose themselves in the ideals of the government we are now fighting to preserve." These bulletins, profusely Another bulletin on democracy just off the press was written by Professor Harry H. Kimber, associate professor of history. illustrated, are published by the M.S.C. Extension Service anyone to answer questions is Democracy?" might have on "What Copies may be had by writing to the Bulletin Office the Department of Publications, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan. in M A Y, 1 9 43 . .. 9 0. £. Robey, 13, Retires Professor 0. E. Robey, internationally known for developing the porous hose and high pressure irrigation techniques, recently completed 29 years of service in the agricultural engineering department at M.S.C. He retired April 1 to devote his energies to the Robey Manufacturing Company which he started in 1936 and which is now developing special equip ment for preventing the warping of tank armor plate in the process of heat treat ing. One of the first men in the country to study the problems of farm engineering, the veteran educator designed the drain age systems for such famous airports as Selfridge Field, Wayne County airport, Willow Run Bomber Plant airport, and the Chicago municipal airport. In addi tion, he designed the Huron Mountain Club sewage disposal system in the upper peninsula, planned drainage systems for numerous state institutions and designed the Michigan septic tank now used in about 10,000 Michigan rural homes. Professor Robey is also a consultant on irrigation problems in many foreign countries. Through correspondence from China, India, Spain, Mexico and England, he designs drainage programs for certain areas in these countries from his home in East Lansing. Several years ago he trav eled extensively in Europe in search of improved methods on agricultural engi neering. It was while traveling in Eu rope he studied the high pressure system of irrigation, now used in several Mich igan counties. Professor Robey, who graduated from Michigan State College in 1913, has three sons who attended M.S.C. Harvey D., '35, vice president and treasurer of the Robey Manufacturing Company; Irwyn O., '36, corporal in the army at Aberdeen, Mary land, and Gerald W., w'38, corporal in the army at New Orleans. In peacetime the Robey Manufacturing company produces farm equipment. Degree Awarded Posthumously Michigan State's first posthumous de gree of doctor of veterinary medicine was awarded on March 11 to Romke Steensma, class of '41, who left the campus in Feb ruary of 1941 for his home in The Hague, and entered the Dutch service. He was killed in Java in January, 1942, serving the Netherlands East Indies air with forces. President Hannah presented the degree to his wife, who lives in Metamora with their year-old son. Fifty-two seniors completed the work 10 . . . T HE R E C O RD for the veterinary division degrees on March 15. Dr. Ward Giltner, dean of veterinary medicine, announced the prizes graduating seniors received. The Steen sma cash award, created by the class of '41, went to Ervin Blume, Fort Wayne, Ind., who excelled in scholarship, per sonality, and service. The high schol arship cash prize, given by the Michigan State Veterinary Medical association, went to Fred Holtz, Rochester. The veterinary faculty cash award to the first-year student excelling in schol arship was given to Harold Bryan, Per- kasie, Pa., brother of Dr. C. S. Bryan, associate professor of bacteriology and nationally known research specialist. The Sayre cash prize in bacteriology was awarded to Dorothy Hitchcock, sen ior medical biology student from Lansing. The prize goes each year to the under the highest graduate scholastic record in bacteriology. student having Student Appointments Women took over most of the big jobs in college publications this term, and publications board members foresaw the heaviest feminine bias in M.S.C.'s publi cations history. Two top spots on the daily State News were filled by men when Leonard Barnes, Jr., a liberal arts senior from Cadillac, and Ellis Brandt, liberal arts senior from Wayne, became managing editor and editorial director, respectively. Other staff appointments were predominantly co-ed. Joy Randall, Lansing junior in liberal arts, was appointed editor of next year's Wolverine, and the business manager will be Kathryn Claire Sprague, liberal arts junior from Indianapolis. Miss Randall is the first co-ed Wolverine editor in 12 years. Both women have had three years experience on the annual's staff. Named to the four assistant editor ships of the News were Neva Ackerman, junior in liberal arts from Unionville, and formerly women's editor; Barbara Haf- ford, sophomore from Glen Rock, New Jersey; Barbara Dennison, sophomore in applied science from East Lansing; and Dorothy Potts, sophomore in liberal arts from Ann Arbor. Jean Whiting, home economics senior from Standish, remains as business manager of the daily, and Jane Millar, junior in liberal arts, will assist her. Jerald terHorst, sophomore from Marne, was appointed assistant editor, and Arthur Underwood, Birmingham sen ior, took over the post of advertising manager. John Marrs is the new sports editor, assisted by Pat McCarthy. Mc Carthy is a freshman from East Lansing, Marrs a junior from Okemah, Okla. In Brazil Frederick H. Vogel, M.S., '39, member of the forestry department and specialist in forest wood products and markets, recently accepted a government commis sion to survey potential rubber produc tion in Brazil. Aside from hunting for the rubber, Vogel's job, along with others, is to survey the best possible routes to get it out of the jungle. NEW BOARD When January 1, 1944, rolls around the State Board of Agriculture, governing body of Michigan State College, will have two new faces. They are Sarah Van- Hoosen Jones and Winfred G. Arm strong. They will take the places of Mrs. Lavina Masselink, of Big Rapids, and James J. Jakway, w'86, of Benton Har bor, whose terms expire December 31, 1943. The new board members are practical farmers in Michigan. Miss Jones has successfully managed the 400-acre Van- Hoosen farm near Rochester, Michigan, for the past 20 years. Specializing in dairy cattle, she is recognized as a lead ing purebred Holstein-Friesian breeder in the state. Miss Jones holds a Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of Chicago, is the second woman in Michigan to be named a "Master Farmer", and is the past president of the Michigan Holstein- Friesian Association. MEMBERS Mr. Armstrong, of the class of 1902, lives in Niles but directs operation of the family farm in Berrien county where he spent his boyhood days. A leader in farm organizations, Mr. Armstrong has been a member of the Grange for 45 years. Three years ago he was elected state Master of the Grange, after having held other offices in the organization during the past 18 years. Other members on the State Board are Forest H. Akers, w'09, vice president of Dodge Bros., Detroit, in charge of sales promotion; Melville B. McPherson, farm er, Lowell, Michigan; William H. Berkey, editor and publisher, Vigilant, Cassopolis, Michigan; Clark L. Brody, '04, general manager and secretary-treasurer of the Farm Bureau, Lansing, Michigan. Non voting members include President John A. Hannah, '23, Dr. Eugene B. Elliott, '24, in state superintendent of public struction; Karl H. McDonel, '16, secre tary, State Board of Agriculture, and Charles 0. Wilkins, college treasurer. Amowf the, Jl&M&ied Jlenael Prisoner First Lt. Howard M. Dunham, '40, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer M. Dunham, 1315 Hillcrest avenue, K a l a m a z o o, Michigan, was reported a pris oner of war in G e r m a ny on February 4. That was the day of the big raid on Wi 1 h e 1 m shaven a nd B r e m en when a number of planes were shot down and others forced to First Lt. Dunham land. Previous to these raids Dunham was decorated in England with the Air Medal for Exceptionally Meritorious Service, and an Associated Press dispatch dated January 26, 1943, listed him as having received the Gold Oak Leaf Cluster for Exceptionally Meritorious Service. On one trip in a fortress his rear gunner was wounded and the plane returned with 100 holes. Howard sent a letter to his parents be fore his capture, and the following para graph reflects his spirit: "I am getting decidedly sick of the whole thing, but the job has to be done, so we do it; close calls and all." in part: "Howard On April 27, a letter from Howard's It father arrived at the alumni office. said is interned at Oflag XXI B, Germany, after his flying fortress was shot down February 4. Easter Sunday we had a letter from him. He was not wounded or hurt, although two of his men were killed and some in jured." Copt. Roger Keast, '34 Mrs. Ruth Saier Keast, w'35, Dimon- dale, Michigan, widow of Capt. Roger Keast, '34, former football and track star, killed last December 1, in action in the the South Pacific area, received from War Department April 11, the Purple Heart which had been awarded to her husband. When called in April, 1941, Captain Keast was coach of high school athletics at Marquette Mich igan. into service Lt. Blesch Malmstone, w'41 First Lt. Blesch Malmstone, w'41, Way- the land, Michigan, has been awarded Distinguished Flying Cross, according to an Associated Press dispatch from gen eral headquarters of the Southwest Pa cific area. The citation said that between October 14, 1942, and last January, Lieu tenant Malmstone "participated as a pilot in 50 operational flight missions during which hostile contact was probable and expected. involved "The missions flying over mountainous terrain at low altitude, un der adverse weather conditions in an un armed transport plane which was con stantly in danger of enemy interception. He assisted in dropping supplies to ad vanced positions and evacuating wounded personnel." Lt. Harvevy M. See ley, '40 On February 24, 1943, the War Depart that Lt. Harvey M. ment announced Seeley, '40, Mason, Michigan, was one of 11 Michigan officers of the middle east bomber command who have been awarded the Air Medal at ceremonies at Cairo, Egypt. Seeley left for actual training in February, 1941, and since then has seen much of in America was at Langley Field. He is a navigator in the air force, and before go the ing overseas for a Atlantic in a bomber. the world. His time patrolled training Maj. Carl Siglin, '38 in Mrs. Virginia Van Atter Siglin, '37, widow of Maj. Carl Siglin, '38, remem bered as "the bravest soldier the American Army," received notice on April 11, that the posthumous award of the Silver Star had been made to her hus band. Just two weeks earlier she was notified that Carl had received the Order of Purple Heart. At her parent's home at 17370 Wildemere, Detroit, Mrs. Siglin is making two complete scrap books which she is saving for her sons, Carl, two years old, and David, seven months. Capt. Robert Barnum, w'41 On January 6, 1943, Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, Commander of the U.S.A.F. in the Middle East, conferred upon Capt. Robert Barnum, w'41, of Lake City, Michigan, the Distinguished Flying Cross for continuous operational flights over the enemy. Writing to his father, H. L. Barnum, '15, at Lake City, "Bob" merely men tioned the honor was conferred upon him and three other brother Black Scorpions —the name of a Fighter Squadron in the U. S. Army Air Force. Second Lt Burrows For his conduct in the Milne Bay, New Guinea, operations, as commander of an anti-aircraft platoon, Second Lt. Frank V. Burrows, '40, has been commended by Col. J. B. Fraser, commander of the coast artillery unit in which Lieutenant Bur rows is serving. The written commendation cites the ex-Spartan for "professional knowledge, excellent character, and splendid person ality," and mentions "the superior man ner" in which Lieutenant Burrows led his platoon, "especially during the Milne Bay operation." Burrows, whose home is in Muskegon, was a major in the applied science divi sion. He entered the army in March, 1941, attended the coast artillery school at Fort Monroe, Va., and received his commission last Christmas. His wife, Mrs. Jean Leffel Burrows, is a junior in liberal arts at Michigan State College. (Turn to Page 17) Stebbins Writes From Haiti Five-for-a-cent bananas and two-bit chickens don't replace good Michigan ap ples, according to letters from Professor T. C. Stebbins, of the horticultural de partment, who is on leave in the interior of Haiti, working on the development of new rubber projects. Stebbins and his wife have sent a series of interesting letters to Prof, and Mrs. H. D. Hootman, also of the horticul tural faculty. With experience gained in western prairie shelterbelt plantings, Stebbins is working with others in clear ing land, developing nursery stock, and planting young trees. Oratorical Honors Four M.S.C. undergraduates carried off prizes in a twelve-school oratorical convocation at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, early last month. Nancy Grayson, Detroit junior, won her second major forensic prize in two years when she was awarded first honors in the annual Pi Kappa Delta oratorical contest. Last year Miss Grayson placed first in the state oratorical meet at Holland. Other M.S.C. winners were Irene Wade, Muskegon junior, first in the women's extemporaneous speaking contest; James Shanks, Lansing senior, third in the ora terHorst, torical contest; and the sophomore from Marne, men's extemporaneous match. Jerald third in Markham, '30, in N. Africa Dr. Floyd S. Markham, B.S. '30, re cently resigned from his position at Ohio State University to head the Rockefeller foundation's typhus research laboratories in North Africa. Markham, who did graduate work at Chicago and Ohio State after leaving M.S.C, has been a member of the university's bacteriological staff since 1935. Typhus is nothing new to him, since he once contracted the disease in the course of laboratory experiments. M A Y, 1 9 43 . .. 11 Following Alumni Clubs Lenawee County The Michigan State College alumni club of Lenawee county was fortunate in having two speakers from the College at its annual meeting on April 15, when the evening dinner meeting was held at the Methodist Church parlors in Adrian. Lucia Morgan Nesom, formerly of Louisiana State University and this year the new director of the M.S.C. Speech Clinic, explained the various fields of in the speech department and activity then closed her talk with several ex cellent readings. Glen 0. Stewart, di rector of alumni relations, discussed the college in the war and the many changes being made in all departments. He also the campus showed colored movies of fitness with emphasis on the physical program. President Charles Butler, '17, of Tecumseh, served as chairman of the meeting and called on various officers of the club for reports. About 10 high school students were among the 65 peo ple present. The guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Halladay, of Clinton. Mr. Halladay, former secretary of the college, spoke briefly of his 13 years on the campus, and later in the evening he and Mis. Halladay were voted honorary Robert Burhans, 38 in promoted from major to Robert D. Burhans, '38, has been lieutenant colonel the special services department of the Intelligence Division, Wash ington, D. C. Lt. Col. B u r h a ns has been in the special services department for about a year, f o l l o w i ng a from transfer the general in telligence branch. He was recently mar ried to Miss Janet Nunnally, of Alex andria, Va., where the couple are now living at 207 Prince street. They were married on Saturday, March 19. Lt. Col. Burhans 12 T HE R E C O RD membership alumni club. in the Lenawee County Officers named for the following year were: president, Mrs. B. F. Beach, (Lor- '14) of Adrian; first vice ena Fuller, president, George Parson, '31, Tecumseh; second vice president, Mrs. F. E. Morse, (Paulina Raven, '05,) of Jasper; secre tary-treasurer, Mrs. W. Morden Smith, (Letha Bates, '32), Adrian. Mrs. Dean Gordon, retiring secretary. Detroit President Charles Burn, '12, principal of Northwestern High School, met with members of his scholarship committee at the Detroit Leland Hotel on Wednes day evening, April 21. Assisting him '21, Wellington were Harris Hemans, Ward, '11, Alex Mc Vittie, '11, Ray Covey, '15 and Walt Ewald, '24. '24, Thomas Whyte, to write Twenty-one outstanding high school applicants were selected the comprehensive scholarship examination early in May, after which Professor L. C. Plant, and the faculty committee on scholarships will select 12 award win ners. They will receive full tuition for three the scholarship re newed if the student maintains a high scholastic average. terms, with Social affairs of the Detroit club have been discontinued for the duration, as more than half of the board of directors are now in service. —Walt Ewald, '24, Secretary. Buffalo, New York Paying tribute to the years of work done by scores of loyal Western New in the new student pro York alumni gram, Glen O. Stewart complimented Buffalo area students at the annual din ner meeting, held at Tuyn's restaurant in Buffalo, March 16. Honored guests at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Ed win Webber, parents of Linda Webber, now serving as president of the junior '88, and Dr. class. Dr. Lyster Dewey, Wesley Backus, the senior alumni members seated at the speakers' table with the local officers. '98, were Mr. Stewart gave a detailed report on numerous outstanding students men tioning, especially, Linda Webber, Jim- mie Bibbins, Donnette Glaeser, Clifford Kirkland Jean Barnum, Margie White, Eugene "Bucky" Walsh, William Scott, Joseph Nelson, and Colin Getz. The college and its war-time program Jr., were also discussed by the speaker who closed the meeting with a showing of colored movies of fitness program at State and the MSC-Notre Dame basketball game played in Jeni- son field-house. the physical Officers re-elected another year were: president, Larry D. Kurtz, '20, vice president, A. J. Hawkins, '31; treasurer, '21, and secretary, Thomas J. Arrigo, Richard D. Frey, '40. —"Dick" Frey, Secretary. Seattle, Washington to all parts of "Our Seattle M.S.C. Association has not been very active for some time but the reason is simple. Our members have scattered the country and only a half dozen are left. Last week we lost a grand member of our group, Mrs. Elizabeth Sessions Shelton, of the class of 1872. Mr. Sheldon, who died several years ago, graduated in 1871." —Emma Barrett Underhill, president. Women Receive Engineer Scholarships Twenty women are receiving training at M.S.C. in designing, drafting, and en gineering layout work for the building of aircraft and aircraft engines. The stu dents are the recipients of fellowships awarded by the Pratt-Whitney Aircraft corporation for the training of women engineers at Michigan State. Value of the awards, which include tui tion, books, board, room, laundry, and $25 a month incidental money, is about $1,200 each. The courses, in three 16- week periods, cover mathetmatics, en gineering drawing, physics, mechanical laboratories, chemistry and metallurgy. At the end of the training period, the company will retain a one-month's option on their services, and will hire selected women at $182 a month, on a 48-hour a week basis. Department Heads on Leave Professor Harald S. Patton, head of the department of economics, is on leave for the duration. Commissioned major in the fiscal division of the War Depart ment, Professor Patton in liaison work between the War and State departments. He is stationed in Wash ington. During his absence Professor H. J. Wyngarden is acting head. is engaged Another department head on leave from the department of agricultural en gineering is Professor Eugene G. Mc- Kibben. He is assisting the War Produc tion Board in Washington in solving farm machinery distribution problems. Profes sor D. E. Winant is in charge of the de partment during his stay in Washington. Folks From Everywhere (Continued from Page 2) Dietitian a of Betty Faist, Behind that gold bar on the shoulder '40, is about a year's experience with the army on a civil s e r v i ce s t a t u s. S he spent this time as student d i e t i t i an at Montefiore Hos pital, New York City, under Miss Cooper, Lena former super vising dietitian, U.S. Army, and few months a on the staff of Columbia Medical Cen ter Hospitals. Acquiring membership in the American Dietetics Association, which is required, she joined the steadily growing group of dietitians working for the army. Betty E. Faist, '40 Miss Faist's assignment was Station Hospital, Fort George G. Meade, Mary land, a typical army hospital. This sta tion covers 43 acres of one-story frame buildings where the army cares for 1500 patients. Here her duties consist of supervision of surgical wards and of teaching ficers' therapeutic diets, and she is one of three dietitians supervising patients' mess, and advising army cooks. trays, writing and On March 16, 1943, she received her commission as a 2d Lieutenant, Dieti tians' Corps, Army of the United States. Now she is in uniform for the duration, learning to drill and salute and still keep the boys fed properly. Coming to M.S.C. from Saginaw, Betty made an excellent record in the division of home economics and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu, the Home Ec Club, and the Lutheran Club. Honored Charles E. Ferris, '90, dean-emeritus of engineering at the University of Ten nessee, Knoxville, completed 50 years of service in June, 1942. The University of Tennessee has recognized his services by naming the latest College of Engineering build ing, "Ferris Hall". there and was retired After receiving his B.S. degree in 1890, Dean Ferris pursued engineering in Michigan and Kentucky. Later he joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee as instructor in mechanical drawing, and became professor of me chanical engineering in 1900. Ten years later he was appointed the first dean of engineering. Both his students and those associated with him as teachers testify to the fulfilment of his ambi tion to become a "great teacher". Among his writings are a textbook on "Ele ments of Descriptive Geometry" and a text on for Engineers". A "Manual "Thermo-dynamics" in manuscript form. is On December 2, 1942, Dean Ferris was in the accorded honorary membership American Society of Mechanical Engi neers at the annual dinner in the Hotel Astor, in New York City. The citation contained in the banquet program read: "For his contributions to college ad ministration, his stature as a builder of men, his service to state and nation, and further, as a tribute to his personal grace and charm, learned attainments, becoming modesty, and simplicity of character — the true attributes of a great teacher and citizen of the nation". Big Sisters Appointed recently to two of the most important co-ed positions on the campus junior in were Rae Annette Loeffler, They G a ve All (Continued from Page 2) a former mathematics teacher at Cass Technical High school in Detroit and author of a number of books on aviation. Herbert Earl Chapman, 1941 Capt. Herbert E. Chapman, an Ap plied Science graduate of 1941, died April 11, 1943, in a Lynchburg, Virginia, hospital of injuries received in an air plane crash near Lowesburg, a short distance from Camp Pickett where Capt. Chapman was stationed with the field artillery. physical education from Detroit, and Patricia Fisher, home economics sopho more from Evanston, 111. The two women were named by the Associated Women Students to direct next year's "big sister" program for freshman women. Under their guidance, a freshman counselor will be selected for each new woman student to instruct and advise her on campus traditions, activities, life, and studies. social tyood Ptoc&UUtf Pioneer Victory gardens and points for food are uppermost in the minds of all cit izens today, but canning, packing, and shipping of food was started in 1877 by John C. Morgan, '78, at Lakeside, in Berrien county. Still active at 88 he is today one of the oldest living canners, both in years and point of service. In recognition of his pioneering in the canning and apple industry he was elected an Honorary Life Member of the re International Apple Association cently. Mr. Morgan, in giving a sketch of his life, says: "I was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, February 13, 1856, and am very much a New England Yankee. I am a direct descendent of Miles Mor gan, who was one of 16 men under Colonel Pynchon who marched in 1630 through the woods from Boston and set tled in Springfield, Massachusetts. My mother died at my birth, and I was raised by aunts and uncles, stern, puri tanical New Englanders. My father had moved to Michigan, so I ran away from New England and came west to settle in Michigan. I completed what educa tion I had at Michigan Agricultural Col lege (now Michigan State College) in 1874 and 1875, and I am with several exceptions, the oldest alumnus. "My present business was established at Lakeside in 1877, but owing to a suc in Berrien cession of crop failures county, I moved to Traverse City in 1891 and in 1895 my entire operations were established there. "In 1877 I was married to Arvilla Gibson at Lakeside, and after 66 years she still speaks to me. Seriously, how ever, she has been a tower of strength to me during some of the difficult times. Five children have been born to us, our oldest boy died in early childhood, my youngest two years ago, the others are still associated with me in business un der the name of John C. Morgan com pany. We have five grandchildren, two of them now in service. They are Gary S. Morgan, (M.S.C, '35) an Ensign in the Navy, and John C. Morgan II, serv ing in the Army Air Corps. In addition, we have two greatgrandchildren to carry on. "In our business experience we have two outstanding achievements. One is the development of the drying of apple pomace making possible the present pectin industry; the other, the develop ment of apple juice, canning and ship ping it to 45 states and several possess ions. I feel that one of the proudest achievements of my life, regardless of the ups and downs, I have never found it necessary to send an employe away from the plant on payday without his check." John C. Morgan still carries on. He is a regular attendant at the Patriarchs' luncheon at the college on Alumni Day. M A Y, 1 9 43 . .. 13 Days of Yore May 1918—as in May 1943—found Michigan State College in the midst of war activities. At the moved-ahead commencement, held May 23, fewer than 100 of the 143 graduating seniors were present to hear the address, "What Is a Democracy", by Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, '82, and to re ceive their diplomas. By that time, 955 in alumni and service, and 295 of them were in France. By November, more than 1,400 M.S.C. men had donned uniforms, more than 40 had given their lives, and Harold Fur long, w'18, had been awarded the Con gressional Medal of Honor. students were former In October, 1918, the college opened under the Student Army Training Corps plan. Just a week before school began, carpenters had finished eight barracks and two mess halls, north and east of the site of the present horticultural build ing. These buildings accommodated 1,400 men of the S.A.T.C, class B, who were sent to the college for a two months' course in auto mechanics and truck driv ing. Men in the S.A.T.C, class A, who were sworn in on October 1 as joint members of the college and the U. S. Army, sub ject to military discipline, were accom modated in the regular men's dormitories and in rooms on the top floors of the agricultural and engineering halls. A small unit of Navy trainees was included with the army men. Along with the other arrivals came deadly influenza. Within a month's time, first beginning October 10 when the case was reported, large numbers of the men were taken ill and 18 died. The S.A.T.C. ceased to exist at term, 1918. After the end of the fall the signing of the Armistice, the organiza tion's initials were said to mean: "Stick Around 'til Christmas". Gun-toting Co-eds in issue of the February the "gun-toting co-eds" Considerable mail has been received by the Alumni Office regarding the identity of (the 1922 Co-ed Rifle Team) whose pictures ap the peared Record. At least eight alumni submitted identifications or told us where to find material regarding the picture. Those persons are Maj. Lamar M. Wood, '25; '23; M. H. Adelaide Longyear Kinney, Collinson, '25; Gordon Goodney, w'24; T. C. Willoughby, w'22; Margaret Keller Robinson, '23; Elna Larkin McBryde, '24, and Frances Holden Perrine, '24. By referring to your February Record the women pictured are (left to right) Leah Friedman, w'25; Faye Foster, '23 Martha Steward, '23; Eileen Seble, 22 Isabel Taylor, '23; Imogene Carlisle, '26 Myrtle Lewton, '25; Ruth Lowell, w'25 Frieda Gilmore, '25, and Edith Walton, w'24. A letter, also, has been received from C. B. Waldron, '87, professor of forestry, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, which mentioned some members of the class of 1887 who are pictured in the group of students carrying agricul tural tools. the files of the alumni office, Pictures on this page, taken from of army life on the campus in 1917-18. and perhaps you may recognize yourself or friends among "the actors". corner of the page is shown his pass of admittance the page is that of Lt. Col. Harold Furlong, w' 18. illustrate various phases Most of them are self-explanatory as to activity, left the late Prof. Frank A. Spragg, noted plant breeder, presenting inset portrait at the bottom of to the campus, to the sentry. the upper The At NEWS / &W lluzbe AUm*U (Continued from Page 6) 1923 Robert Gerdel is located at Muskingum Climatic Research Center in New Philadelphia, Ohio, as research physicist for the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. Russell Knight for Ramblin Acres creamery at Plymouth, Michigan. for Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company, with headquar ters in Atlanta, Georgia, where he and Mrs. Wat son road N.W. is southeastern manager live at 1860 Anjaco (Dorothy Stuart) John S. Watson superintendent is plant 1924 Edward H. Laird, landscape architect of Wilcox and Laird, has been elected to membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects. The firm has offices in the Penobscot building in De troit and in the Wabeek building in Birmingham, and industrial sites, war housing, military air bases, canton ments, and reconnaissance work. in the development of is engaged 1925 Charles Armstrong the U. S. Employment service York, with offices at 42 North Pearl street. is associate statistician for in Albany, New Carl Boehringer has been assigned to the Am erican Embassy at Chungking, China, where he will be stationed as assistant commercial attache of the State Department, a position he held at the Embassy the war. in Tokyo before the outbreak of George DeLisle is chief metallurgist the in Detroit, and for Kelsey-Hayes Wheel corporation lives at 5487 Alden drive, Pontiac. 1926 Duane Barrett is assistant director of the de partment of child accounting the Fordson for Board of Education. He lives in Dearborn at 131 Kingsbury. Frank H. Clark, who received his M. S. with the class, is research chemist and botanist for the Ford Motor company, and in Dearborn at 22227 Nona avenue. lives Daniel vanNoppen for the C. H. Dutton company of Kalamazoo, where he lives at 136 S. Prairie avenue. is production engineer 1927 Olga Bird Nickle (Mrs. C. H.), of 427 Grove, East Lansing, has been loaned by the college to head the nutrition section of the Michigan Coun cil of Defense. Frederick Fehlberg and Donald Schaal are em ployed on the Guayule Emergency Rubber project of the U. S. Forest Service. Mr. Fehlberg is lo cated in Salinas, California, as seedhouse man ager ; and Mr. Schaal is in Bakersfield as asso ciate forester and negotiator. Sherman Vaughan is cost auditor for the U. S. Navy on the mobile staff in Detroit and Michigan territory. He lives in Detroit at 3490 Lincoln. 1929 Gladys Clemens is engaged in radio engineering the U. S. Army Signal corps, 3101 wor kwith W. Grand boulevard, Detroit. Donald Croope, superintendent of styrene finish ing plant of the Dow Chemical company, lives at 5233 Verdun avenue, Los Angeles. H. W. Dove is also employed by the Dow Chem ical company, as foundry superintendent of their Bay City, Michigan, plant. Louise Drake and Edward Oehler were married February 27 and are making their home in Chicago at 826 S. Wolcott avenue. Edwin Gruettner is general manager of the Forest Home cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John Hawkins is located in Hudson, Michigan, where he is co-owner with his father of a saw mill and farm. 1930 Louis Hermel has been transferred by the U. S. Forest service to Porterville, California, where he and Mrs. Hermel (Thelma Cole, *31) live at 1040 E. Putnam. , Ruth Preston is physical therapist for the Na Infantile Paralysis with tional Foundation headquarters in Washington, D. C, where she lives at 1733 20th street N.W. for 1931 John Etchells is located at North Carolina State college in Raleigh as associate bacteriologist for the United States Department of Agriculture. John Korney and Margaret Ruggles (Central State Teachers college) were married February their home at 1410 Webb 20 and are making avenue, Detroit, where Mr. Korney is connected with the legal department of the Bankers Trust company. Jacey Leach the Up john company in Kalamazoo where he lives at 711 Locust. is assistant manager of George Robinson has offices in Albany, New York, as acting head of the bureau of planning of the state division of commerce. Mrs. Martha Grantham and Mrs. Day, formerly of the F. N. Arbaugh company, have announced the opening of their new Turkish Baths, physical therapy and reducing, at 19-21 Michigan Theatre building in Lansing. 1932 Dr. Fleming and Marian (Patch, w'35) Barbour are living in Flint, Michigan, where he has offices at 1439 Union Industrial building. Mr. and Mrs. William (Kathleen Grosvenor) of 111 N. Irving street, Greenville, Michigan, announce the birth of Nancy Louise on February 23. J. Briggs Louis Herrmann, senior business analyst in the lives at 877 N. Office of Price Administration, Abingdon street, Arlington, Virginia. John Jennings is purchasing agent the Dudley Paper company and he and Mrs. Jennings (Alice Ulrich, live in East Lansing at 545 Division. '33) for Lennart Wiren is a psychiatrist with offices at 960 Fisher building, Detroit. John and Emma (Hansen, '34) Young, of 2640 the birth of a Schaeffer. Saginaw, announce daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on February 9. A son, William Roger, was born February 18, to Alan and Virginia (Pierson, '37 i Kirk, of Fair- grove, Michigan. 1933 Charles G. Grey is located in Ames, Iowa, as Industry veterinarian for of the United States Department of Agriculture. the Bureau of Animal Alfred Hartwig is assistant purchasing agent for the Midland Steel Products company of De troit where he and Mrs. Hartwig (Helen Buchanan, w'35) live at 15403 Linnhurst avenue. is located electro-thermal engineer of Mines. in Norris, Tennessee, as the U. S. Bureau Earl Huff for Ethel Lyon gives her address as 697 Chenango street, Binghamton, New York, where is working for Agfa Ansco on production research in the film base casting department. she John Martin is electrical engineer for the Dodge- Chicago division of Chrysler corporation, and he Ensign Cortwright, '40 After wandering into the Board of Trade build ing in Chicago, August 22, 1942, Alice Cortright, '40 , of L a n si n g, emerged a member of the armed forces and was one of the t h r ee g i r ls f i r st from Mich- chosen i g an f or WAVES. She t he received her i n d o c t r i n a t i on at S m i th C o l l e g e, a nd Northampton, w as 50 t he chosen group of original 900 Communications students to be given of f r om o ne a s p e c i al c o u r se Alice Cortwright, '40 in She was commis general administrative work. sioned December 16, 1942, and sent immediately to her present duty at the Eastern Sea Frontier Headquarters at 90 Church street, New York City. Ensign Cortright says: "Since we were the first WAVES at ESF, we are considered 'old-timers' in relation to the girls that are coming in each month. So far we have released many men for sea duty and others who are sent to sub-chaser It certainly has been interesting to be in schools. on the ground floor of this work and watch it grow!" and Mrs. Martin (Dorcas Fuller, '36) live in Chi cago at 2939% W. 87th street. Herbert Thamer the Pitometer company of 29th and Cambria street, Philadelphia. is hydraulic engineer for Howard R. Harvey field director of the military and naval welfare service of the American Red Cross, and is located at Traux Army Air field in Madison, Wisconsin. is assistant 1934 John McColIough is located at 178 Old Colony- avenue, Kenmore, New York, as construction sup erintendent Inc.. of Detroit. for Darin and Armstrong, Margaret Mast Newman is home economist for Central Soya company in Decatur, Indiana. (Mrs. R. T.) Newton Rosenberg is designer and resident en the Francis Engineering company of lives at 2548 N. gineer for Saginaw, Michigan, where he Oakley street. (Schulz, James and Dorothy '33) Scales are living in Richmond, Virginia, where he is associ ate veterinarian for the Virginia Department of Agriculture with offices at 1102 State Office building. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Schell and twin daughters. Susan Lee and Sally Joanne, live at 47 Revere road, Morristown, New Jersey, where he is an engineer for the Bell Research labora tories. their Kenneth Wood is resident surgeon at Herman Kiefer hospital in Detroit. 1935 Frances Anne Brown is patent research chemist for the Hercules Powder company in Wilmington, Delaware, where she lives at 816 West street. Harold Hamilton is engineer for the Standard Vacuum Oil company in Bombay, India. William Kleinhans and Vivian Kokx were mar ried September 21 and are making their home in Petersburg, Virginia, while Lt. Kleinhans is on duty at Camp Lee. M A Y, 1943 . .. 15 Few citations Captain Yeiter, '40 in action caused for gallantry more comment than the one given Sammy Yeiter, '40, of Lowell, Mich- i g a n, w ho w as awarded Star on April 12. the Silver The announcement by the War Depart ment stated: "Cap tain Gerald S. Yei ter, of Lowell, Mich igan, was cited for gallantry in action and is hereby award ed the Silver Star. hand Always danger] wherever was he greatest, served as a source of inspiration which stirred his men on to even greater efforts. This to his mission beyond call of duty devotion the the materially Ousseltia valley." contributed " S a m m y' success on in to Wilford Nos is office manager of the depart ment of public relations for General Motors cor poration in Detroit where he lives at 17655 Man- derson road. Avery and Evelyn (Pickett, '36) Paxson, of 2720 W.. Freeland road, Saginaw, announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Sarah, on January 9. 1936 Virgene Allen Moore, her daughter Margaret Lou, and her year-old son, James G. Jr., are making their home at 921 Paseo Palmera, West Palm Beach, Florida, while Lieut. Col. Moore is serving with the army overseas. Dean Brown gives his new address as 2153 Mars avenue, Lakewood, Ohio, while he is employed at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. John W. Delbridge is executive assistant man ager of the Carter Hotel in Cleveland. Edwin Johnson is instructor in bacteriology at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. Bernadine Kraus is family health advisor at Syracuse Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, and lives in Syracuse at 767 Irving avenue. George Peters is sales manager for the Aurora Metal company of Aurora, Illinois. Daniel Reck manages the Bell Telephone com pany in Kalamazoo where he lives at 2333 Waite avenue. 1937 Rex and Anne (Byers, w'39) Burgdorfer, of 411 Ethel S.E., Grand Rapids, announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Anne, on March 12. Josephine Carrow, assistant in military and naval welfare service for the Am erican Red Cross, is located at the Station hos pital at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. field director David Christian is labor economist for the War in Cleveland, Ohio, where Manpower commission he lives at the Hotel Belmont. A daughter, Dorothy Louise, was born December '38) Clark, of (Foltz, 23, to Howard and Elva R. 4, Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Ture Johnson announce the birth of a son. Curt Lee, on December 9. The Johnsons are is living draftsman and Light company. in Negaunee, Michigan, where he for the Cliffs Power Marguerite Klem and Shepard A. Hildebrand (Ohio State) were married on February 20. While Mr. Hildebrand is serving with the Coast Guard she may be reached at Box 63, North End Station, Detroit. 16 . . . T HE R E C O RD Borghild Strom teaches home economics at Pat- tengill Junior high school in Lansing where she lives at 515 W. Shiawassee. Robert Tumy is turbine specialist for General Electric in Lynn, Massachusetts, and lives at 129 Tedesco street, Marblehead. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett McCarthy (Alice East wood), of 701 Monroe street, Traverse City, Mich igan, announce the birth of a son, Michael John, on December 30. 1938 Samuel Aldrich received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in March, 1942 and was appointed instruc in the Ohio tor Agricultural Experiment station. He resigned this the university and assistant in Gets Air Medal ing the in one of For "meritorious achievement while participat longest massed, unescorted, non-stop troop-car rier flight ever suc- c e s s f u l ly p e r formed," Second Lt. Raymond A. Run '41, of Muske zel, b e en g o n, h as the Air awarded Medal North Africa. in flight was The made the night of November 7-8, dur important ing the invasion that of date, and was car ried out in "an un Second Lt. Runzel, '41 armed aircraft, un der adverse flying conditions of weather and communications, and in the face ol enemy fighter activity." position on September 1 to become assistant pro fessor in agronomy extenison at Cornell univer sity. He and Mrs. Aldrich are making their home in Ithaca on Triphammer road. Anna Katharina Villner, daughter of P. V. and Marta Dalen Villner, of Stockholm. Sweden, cele brated her first birthday on February 15. Donald Donaldson is instructor at the Rossford Spare Parts Clerks school in Toledo, Ohio. Valerie Friedman Gill university and Mountain street. is a medical student at Mc- in Montreal at 1489 lives John Limbach is assistant forest products tech nologist at in Madison. Wisconsin, where he lives at 306 Larkin road. the Forest Products laboratory Martha Marshall is advertising manager for the in St. Johns, Clinton County Republican-News Michigan. A son. Michael Terry, was born January 13 to Major Tom and Helene Spatta Matlack of Fort Clark. Texas. Karl G. Merrill, who received his M.A. with the class, is dean of commerce at Ferris Institute. Big Rapids, Michigan. Wilda Morgan and Fritz Southworth were mar ried December 19. and are living at 113 W. Kil- born, Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Burwell C. Palm, of 1641 Selby avenue. West Los Angeles, announce the birth of a son, Steven Banker, on December 29. Mr. Palm is production supervisor with the U. S. Air corps at Santa Monica. ( Conklin, Anthony and Joyce '391 Rapes an nounce the birth of a son, Larry Anthony, on January 6. They are living in Okemos where Mr. Rapes in Okemos the agriculture and Haslett high schools. instructor is Jane Anderson and Robert L. Refior were mar ried on January 30 and are making their home at 980 Henrietta street, Birmingham. Lt. Refior is stationed in Detroit with the tank automotive cen ter of the army ordnance division. Robert Sherman gives his new address as 306 S. Grand street, Lewistown, Pennsylvania. He is employed as an engineer at the Standard Steel Works division of the Baldwin Locomotive works at Burnham. Frank and Doris (McMehen, '39) Snedecor have moved to their new home at 9030 Croydon avenue, Los Angeles, where he is engineer at Airesearch Manufacturing company. Their daughter Sandra Lee celebrated her first birthday on March 6. Harold and Rose (Jones, sopolis, Michigan, announce Harold on March 17. is a Texaco company and Beacon, New York. Ralph Zerbe '36) Sparks, of Cas- the birth of Lee research chemist the lives at 16 Wilkes street, for Brig. Gen. D. A. Stroh, '15 '14. two years Stroh's Promoted to Brigadier General on July 30, 1942, Donald A. Stroh, two Michigan '15, is one of State men to receive that recognition. The other alumnus is Brig. Gen. Ernest H. Burt, With the exception of life to the army since graduation. has been devoted Born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he entered Michigan State College in 1911 and graduated in horticulture in 1915. After two years in the can ning industry he served as second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, and on July 13, 1917, was commissioned a second lieutenant of cavalry in the regular army. Brigadier General Stroh His service with the cavalry covered three years during which time he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Douglas, Arizona, and an assignment In July, 1920, he transferred Infantry and entered the School of Arms of the Hawaiian Department. at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. to the 35th From 1921 to 1938 Stroh served in numerous the country. In July, 1940, he posts throughout became Intelligence Officer, G-2, of the Fourth Army with headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco, serving also as Aide to Lt. Gen. John L. De Witt, Commanding General of the Fourth Army. In May and June, 1941, he was in London, that England, as Military Observer and during In time he also attended the British Combat to telligence School. In July, 1941, he returned the Fourth Army as Intelligence Officer and in February, 1942, he was assigned to the 85th In its activation. He was as fantry Division upon signed in August, 1942. At present he is on duty to the 9th Infantry Division in Africa. 1939 Barbara Arnold Schroeder (Mrs. W. A.) is doing in psyschiatrie social work at the State hospital Chicago where she lives at 550 Arlington place. Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Pagel (Mary Asman) of 7931 Jeffery avenue, Chicago, announce the birth of a son, Karl Victor, on February 20. Elizabeth Harrington, of 1728 Atkinson avenue, Detroit, is a "riveter at the Willow Run bomber plant, having given up school the duration." teaching for Jack Jones manages the test pilot department for the Curtiss Wright Air corporation in Buffalo. August 22, 1942, was a red letter day for Elwood Main, when he was married to Frances O'Hair and received his M.S. degree from Purdue uni versity where he is now full in the Horticulture department. time instructor Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Sutton (Ruth Maas) of Jean the birth of Dexter, Michigan, announce Louise on December 31. Philip Moore is auditor for the General Electric Silver Star Dramatic heroism of Lt. Richard D. Bush, '41, son of Lt. Col. Frank A. Bush, of Camp Grant, Illinois, Rockford during fierce the fighting in the cen tral Tunisian sector of North Africa has brought to him the Silver Star, accord ing re to word ceived by his father on April 9, 1943. a^Jm. ""^Sr ^Bfc*fc JftjjgL |K i ^ P iH V s , H [ ^ fc WMM 9L S t w P i i Sl ^BL^ ^B H k ^ Bn aHj^NnJNgH.": forward ob- "^ server tanft in battalion," the rita- n'"" seated, "Lieu- tenant Bush remain- the noses ed under of enemy guns with- L t. R. D. B u s h, ' 41 of his own artillery Kasserine pass in order to spot his target." in t he fire during i m p a ct the battle of a r ea Lieutenant Bush graduated as a forestry major and a member of the S.A.E. fraternity. In October, 1942, he was married to Miss Sylvia Jeanne Flick, w'43, of Flint, a member of the Sigma Kappa sor ority. She resides in Flint. company lives at 1169 Oxford place. in Schenectady, New York, where he Lt. and Mrs. William Neil Ryan (Edith Matte- tal, w'41) announce the birth of Linda Neill on January 30. Gertrude Seckinger is dietitian at the Methodist hospital at 1600 W. 6th avenue, Gary, Indiana. (Manley, John and Evelyn '40) Strahan an nounce the birth of twin daughters, Elynn Mary and Sally Ann, on November 15. The Strahans live in Ludington. Michigan, where he is assist ant construction engineer for the Dow Magnesium corporation. John and Margaret Hulse Tanner, of R. 3, Jack son, announce the birth of twin sons, John Clinton and Russell Vaughn, on December 3. Lt. Richard A. Wrigglesworth and Geraldine in Detroit on November 14 their home near Camp Young, the Howe were married and are making California, where he is personnel officer for 378th Engineer Battalion Separate. Lt. Irving R. Wyeth and Barbara Powers, '41, is were married July 23 in Lansing. Lt. Wyeth now serving overseas with the army while Mrs. Wyeth is employed by the Army Signal corps in Detroit. They may be reached through 1801 N. Genesee drive, Lansing. Lt. Rooker, '41 Lt. (j.g.) Daniel J. Rooker, '41, was awarded the Silver Star medal at the destroyer base in San AmostXf the tJlanoted (Continued from Page 11) Diego, April 17, 1943. California, Capt. John G. Hemans, '40 While enroute to Russia, the ship on " D a n n y" w h i ch Rooker served was grounded as it at tempted to avoid a collision with anoth It was er vessel. short abandoned a time later. Unwill ing to have the car go of his ship lost, Lieutenant Rooker organized a party of guardsmen armed sea and merchant men to return to the ship early the next morning. is described followed in part the official citation given Rooker: "Despite the acute shortage of men and the ever- from enemy planes, he assisted present danger his gun crew the booms for unloading cargo and operating winches and engines until the remainder of the crew re turned to tht disabled vessel." —Navy Photo 'Danny" The heroic work which in manning the ship, rigging in Lieutenant Rooker in structor at the destroyer base, San Diego, Cali fornia. is now on duty as an 1940 Isabelle Alfsen Scurry (Mrs. M. M.) is nutri tionist at the School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor where she lives at 1314 S. Forest avenue. Mary Louise Baumann is laboratory technician the Staging Area hospital at Fort Lawton, at Washington. Ted and Michigan, announce Lee, on December 19. Jane Hagen Caldwell, of Midland, the birth of a son, Daniel David Clark and Barbara Fitzgerald were mar ried February 12 and are making their home near Pine Field, Washington, where Captain Clark is stationed. Jeane Davidson is manager and dietitian at the Y.M.C.A. at 1110 Jefferson, Toledo, Ohio. Edna Disher manages the tea room at Herpol- sheimers in Grand Rapids. William G. Erwin, who received his Ph.D. with the class, heads the department of biology at Henderson State Teachers college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Ensign Orville Falk, of the U. S. Coast Guard, and Kathlyn Adamson (Sparrow School of Nurs ing) were married in Lansing on December 27. A son, Alexander Stewart, was born January 12 to Ermald and Efreda Rosemurgy Foltz. Lt. Foltz is serving overseas with the army and Mrs. Foltz is making her home in Bessemer, Michigan. Ronald E. Krauss and Geraldine Pickelmann were married in Saginaw, Michigan, on March 5. Emil Larsen and Gayle Kelly were married De cember 6 and are making their home near Fort is Jackson, South Carolina, where Major Larsen located with reach them through 711 S. 14th Street, Escanaba, Mich igan. the 6th Cavalry. Mail will Lt. Stanley McRae and Muriel Melms were mar ried in Mary Martha chapel in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, on August 6. Herman Marabell is employed in the purchas ing department of Woodall Industries Inc. of De (Betty Du- troit where he and Mrs. Marabell Chaney, w'41) live at 19715 Monica. Thomas Oster is located as assistant engineer for Mines. in Helena, Montana, the U. S. Bureau of to Page 18J (Turn Award of the Silver Star to John G. Hemans, '40, for gallantry in the Solomon Islands was re in vealed by an Associated Press dispatch early March. He joined the air corps in October, 1940, being sent Institute of Technology, where he completed a course in meteor ology and was commissioned a second lieutenant, and assigned to Mitchel Field. Later he was trans ferred to Hawaii where he spent some time as an air corps meterologist. the Massachusetts to According to his parents, Hemans was trans from Hawaii in November, 1942, to the ferred first South West Pacific area and while still a the silver star. The official lieutenant received citation read: "John G. Hemans, First Lieutenant, United States Army Air Corps, for gallantry in action on December 10, 1942, while navigator of a B-17 airplane on a search mission out of Guadal canal. The flight was intercepted by about 20 "zero" fighters. A running fight ensued during five Japanese "zero" fighters were shot which down. The co-pilot was killed and one engine was set on fire. The pilot succeeded in bringing the crippled plane back to the base. Great courage and skill were shown by the entire crew in fight ing against such heavy odds." Lt. Robert R. Finch, w'42 Second Lt. Robert R. Finch, w'42„ of Coral, the Distinguished Flying Michigan, was given Cross, January 15, 1943, for extraordinary achieve ment during aerial flight against the enemy while serving with Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 142 in the Solomon Islands area. Finch was cited mainly for his dare-devil bombing raids on enemy land installations and direct hits on enemy cargoes in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighter opposition. In a letter to his parents at Big Rapids he de scribed a bombing expedition during which a inside his three-inch anti-aircraft shell exploded right wing, throwing the plane into a spin and making the wing almost useless. Guarded by planes of his squadron he flew 180 miles back to camp and succeeded further mishap. landing without in Capt. Merwyn C. Plumley, w'37 Capt. Merwyn C. Plumley, w'37, Nashville, Michigan, has received the Navy Cross for heroism in action with the U. S. Marine Corps against the! Japanese in the South Pacific. fleet, the U. S. Pacific According to Admiral C. W. Nimitz, commander- in-chief of the award followed Plumley's participation with the marine raider expedition against a Japanese-held Makin island last August 18 and 19. The citation showed that Plumley exhibited "exceptional heroism, pro fessional skill and judgment in actual conflict as a commanding officer." Ensign Arne W. Havu, 37 in the Aleutians For heroic action the Navy recently conferred upon Ensign Arne Havu, '37, of R. 5, Pontiac, the Air Medal. Havu came to Michigan State College in the fall of 1933 as a winner of one of the first alumni undergraduate scholarships offered in Oakland county. He played snare drum in the R.O.T.C. band for four years. M A Y, 1943 . .. 17 NEWS A***** it"** AUHUU (Continued from Page 17) Clarence Pinch and Genevieve B. Adams were married September 26 and are making their home near Fort Custer. Michigan, where he is stationed with the 1616th Service Unit. A son, James Michael, was born October 19 to James and Hettie (Hanson, '411 Small. Lt. Small is serving overseas with the army and Mrs. Small is living in Flint at 1107 Beard St. Norman R. Thompson, of the U. S. Naval Re serve, and Irene McCall were married February 2, in Florence, South Carolina. M. Lee Youngs is director of physical and health education at Ohio Northern university at Ada. 1941 G. Raymond Cook, chemist the Trojan Powder company of Sandusky, Ohio, died in that city on February 10. He is survived by his widow, his mother, and two sisters, all of Lansing. for Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lt. William L. Batchelor, of the U. S. Marine Corps, and Carolyn E. Sugg on February 6 in Greenville, North Carolina. Edward Cramton and his wife, former Maxine Roma Stilson, celebrated their first wed ding anniversary on March 8 in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Sgt. Cramton the 9th Weather Base 6tation. is stationed at the Lois Early Arms plant 2608 Byron road. is dietitian at the Irwin Pederson in Grand Rapids where she lives at Mr. and Mrs. Warren F. Fuller (Anita French) of 440 Walnut. Wyandotte, Michigan, announce the birth of a son, Donald Warren, on December 27. George Giddings is a member of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone laboratories in New- York city. Betty Koronski is an instructor at the Arthur Murray studio in the Hotel Statler in Detroit. Claud Ludwig the University of Michigan, and Alpha Kappa Kappa house at 800 Oxford Ann Arbor. is a junior medical student at the road, lives at Lt. Bernard G. Parks and Wilma Knoblauch Thomson were married March 5 in Los Angeles. Ben Stuckey, who received his Ph.D. with the class, covers Texas for the office of Food Distri bution Administration, with headquarters in Dal las, where he and Mrs Stuckey, (Mary Marshall) live at 308 S. Beacon street. Lyle and Thelma Kleinhenn Thorburn announce the birth of Lyle Andrew II on March 4. Lt. (jg) is serving with Thorburn the Navy and Mrs. Thorburn is living at 610 W. Kalamazoo. Kala mazoo, Michigan. Robert and Jeane (Beukema, '38) Visscher, of Holland, Michigan, announce the birth of a Bon, Robert Pauly, on November 17. Harry D. Macy and Lois Bell were married May 5, 1942, at Fort Lewis, Washington. Capt. Macy is serving overseas with the army and Mrs. Macy is living in East Lansing at 517 Evergreen. Roberta Longstreth in the college and lives at 217 Beech is graduate assistant chemistry at street. East Lansing. Dorothea Pierson and Thomas G. Arnold (grad uate student at the college 1940-41) were mar ried on June 26. Lt. Arnold is in the army and they may be reached through 1112 Holland, Sag inaw. James and Elizabeth Ensign Harold A. Ringelberg and Eleanor Sarah Shaw were married October 30, and are living at 2039 Earl street, San Diego, California. '40) Rook an (Wagner, the birth of Jeanne Marie on August industrial corpora live at 1911 Burlin- nounce 18. Mr. Rook hygiene department of tion game. the in the Chrysler in Detroit where they is a chemist 18 . . . T HE R E C O RD Ensign Frank J. Karas and Constance P. Tom- linson, w'44, were married October 28 and are at home at 2039 Earl street, San Diego, Cali fornia, where he is stationed. Lt. Fred Pew and Ruth Mary Watkins. w'43, were married October 3 and are making their home near Camp Carson, Colorado, where he is with the Mountain Training command. Lt. Simon Pilzninski Newman, w'44, were married September 5 and are making Proving Ground, Illinois, where he at the Savanna Ordnance depot. (Pilzner) and Marjorie in Detroit on their home near is on duty Forrest Owen, former newscaster and announcer the college station, has been named pro over duction manager of station WTOL in Toledo. Leon Sirlin and Annette Faingold, '41, were married in Brooklyn. New York on September 19. Mr. Sirlin is in service and they may be reached through 2227 Porter street S.W., Grand Rapids. the Firestone Tire and Rubber company to its plastic research division in Paterson, New Jersey, where his headquarters are at 52 Courtland street. W. H. Willert has been transferred by Lt. William S. Dickey and Margaret Plowright, '40, were married August 15. Lt. Dickey is with the army air forces training detachment in Kan sas City, where they are making their home at 700 West 47th street. 1942 James Cunningham Weldon Downs and are marine service engineers for the Sperry Gyroscope company, 55 Johnson street, Brooklyn, New York. John and Virginia Ray Kline are living at 1970 is the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing S. Layton. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he employed at company. Barbara Grabill and Cpl. Roy W. Ratcliff were married December 22 and are living at 122 Lincoln street. Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Announcement has been made of the mar riage of Patricia E. Nicol and Lt. Thomas N. Greene, of the United States Marine corps, on November 28. Catherine is a student dietitian at Jackson the Michael Reese hospital in Chicago. married Lt. Arthur W. Land and June Esslinger were in Fort Riley, Kansas, on October 10. R. L. Loree is employed by the Dow Magnesium in Port in Marysville lives and corporation Huron at 815 Howard street. 1943 Jerry MacDougall and Edith Rose Tonkonogy, daughter of Michael Tonkonogy, '17, were married on February 23. Mr. MacDougall is an ensign in the Navy and Mrs. MacDougall is serving with the WAVES. OBITUARIES Dr. Royal Fisher, 1895 to teach received his degree A physician who so liked the character of a town he was driving through he decided to move his practice there, died in the community of his choice last August 26. He was Dr. Roy Fisher, of Arcadia. Indiana. After Dr. Fisher from M. S. C, he attended Michigan State Normal college in Ypsilanti, receiving his B.Pd. and a life the certificate leav Ypsilanti college as professor of chemistry, ing in 1903 to attend Hahnemann Medical college in Philadelphia. He received his M.D. from there in 1906 and practiced in Wichita. Kansas, for a number of years. During the war he was com missioned a major. He moved his practice to Columbus. Ohio, and it was on a trip out of that the community of city Arcadia which attracted him so greatly that he decided to make it his home. in 1896. He stayed at that he chanced upon He was commander of the American Legion post here, a member of the Lions club, a Mason, and an ardent basketball enthusiast. He was president of the Pan American Medical Congress in 1937. Mrs. Fisher, a daughter, and two sons survive. Fred T. Williams, 1898 Though he did not live to see its accomplish ment, there is little doubt that the goal for which Fred T. Williams worked so diligently will some day be fully realized. Mr. Williams, city a nd c o u n ty c i v il chairman engineer, t he S e m i n o le of of County Board Instruction, Public resident of and a F l o r i d a, Sanford, the 34 past for years, died in an Orlando hospital on February 26. W h en he ^ •^ ^ B^ **» MA iB JH ^^^^^^^m settled f i r st in Sanford, Mr. Williams became interested in the possibility of a canal connecting the St. Johns and Indian rivers. He made numerous surveys and maps, in tha formation of the and in 1923 participated to upper St. Johns Navigation district, created provide a navigable channel between two rivers to augment boat traffic and provide flood water drainage. Despite two the project, Mr. funds attempts Williams continued work on the idea and lived to see activity on it renewed through the St. Johns River Improvement association. failure of to secure the for the Because of his intimate knowledge of the topog raphy of Seminole county, his advice and guidance was sought in locating a site to be developed as an air base. Following approval of the site, Mr. Williams and his office did the engineering work for the clearing and grading of the lands, and for the runways and surfacing at what the Sanford Naval Air station. is now life, was one of Mr. Williams was a veteran of the Spanish- American war and served with the engineering corps in the World war. He was active in pro fessional circles and civil the founders of the Florida Engineering society, di rected the Seminole County Chamber of Commerce since its formation, was a director of the Water ways and Good Roads commission, a member of the County Defense Council, and for 18 years was chairman of the county Board of Public Instruc tion. William A. Kinnan, 1886 The years following Dr. William Kinnan's retirement from the U. S. Patent office on Novem ber 30, 1933. were spent "living quiet ly at home in Chevy in Florida, Chase, t he m o re d u r i ng severe months of w i n t e r, a nd N ew England in the hot ter months of Hum mer" until his death in Washington on April 1. Mr. Kinnan joined office the Patent in 1892 and staff time in his spare studied at Colum bian university, now George Washington university, and received his M.D. in 1895. He became principal examiner of patents and in 1921 first assistant commissioner, holding this position until his retirement. He and Mrs. Kinnan, who survives him, traveled to the outbreak of two and a half months considerably, and war visiting in the principal countries. in Europe, spent just prior Send 144, fllam&L o^ AUunnl in S&uw&z Thank you for your splendid response to our request for names of alumni in service. Since the October and February issues of The Record, which carried the form appearing below, we have received hundreds of letters giving us per tinent information about M.S.C. men in the armed forces. If you haven't told us about your service address will you please fill out the form below and return it to the college. Miss Gladys Franks Alumni Recorder Michigan State College East Lansing, Michigan Name Class Year (Former students will designate years they would have graduated) Present Service Rank Branch of Service Mrs. Alice W. Coulter and Granddaughter Mrs. Alice Weed Coulter, of Grand Rapids, the oldest, living, woman graduate of Michigan State College, is shown with her granddaughter, Mrs. Marie Coulter Cooke, '44. Mrs. Coulter was grad uated with the class of 1882, only 12 years after women were to Michigan Agri cultural College, now Michigan State College. Her husband, the late J. E. Coulter, was also a grad uate of '82. first admitted Mrs. Cooke was married on December 19, 1942, in the Park Congregational Church, Grand Rapids. Mrs. Cooke is the daughter of Willard M. Coulter, '18, and Mrs. Helen Edmunds Coulter, '19, of Grandville. She is now with her husband at an eastern army camp, but will return to college soon to complete her degree in home economics. In the Service (Continued from Back Cover) 1941 Capt. Jack R. Amon; Lt. Axel Andersen; Lt. Kenneth D. Anderson ; A/C Loren S. Armbruster : Lt. Edwin E. Arnold; Lt. Edwin S. A t k i n s; Lt. Fred H. Backstrom ; Pvt. John B. Bazuin ; Ensign Robert C. Beck; Cpl. Robert H. Boyd; Lt. Addi son L. Brown ; Cpl. LaVern Burrows; Lt. Clyde W. Button ; Ensign Alan D. Chipman ; Lt. R. Wendell Clark ; Lt. Donald Cleveland ; Lt. Fred E. Colwell ; Lt. John E. Curtis; Sgt. Robert H. Devereaux ; Robert L. Dodge ; Lt. Don W. Dudley ; Lt. William Feeney; Ellen E. Finly (WAVES); Lt. Glen L. Garner ; A/C Joseph K. Goundie; Lt. Ruth Grantham (AAF Nurses Corps) ; Lt. James G. Greene; Capt. Wallace E. Grubbs ; Lt. Anson W. Hilborn ; Lt. Alton D. Hoover; Capt. Arthur J. Howland ; Capt. Frederick C. Janz ; A/C Donald R. Johnson (Navy) ; Capt. C. E. Kennedy; Ensign Thomas R. Keift ; Mid. W. D. Knox ; Lt. William F. Koney ; Lt. James Lieffers ; Sgt. Paul Loughlin ; Capt. Charles J. Low ; Capt. Harry D. Macy ; Lt. (jg) Guy F. Main; Lt. Jack Main; Lt. Blesch Malmstone; Lt. Charles W. Myers; Lt. Rhuel G. Myers; Lt. Edward N. Nakfoor; Cpl. Robert O. Olson ; Lt. C. R. Pippenger ; Ensign J. Nelson Potvin ; Cpl. George E. Pour ; Lt. John C. Powers ; Capt. B. F. Riggs; Lt. (jg) Daniel J. Rooker; Lt. Jack E. Roosa ; Cpl. Daniel Rosenbaum; En sign John F. Schaffer; Ensign John P. Sekerka; Lt. James R. Small; Lt. Roger J. Snowden ; Cpl. Douglas Sorrick ; Pvt. Charles A. Stebbins ; Lt. (jg) Lyle James Tagg ; Sgt. William T a i t; Lt. Unit.. Best Mailing Address. Informant Informant's Address A. Thorburn ; Lt. Matthew Tinkham ; Sgt. Ernest F. Tomczak; Ensign R. D. VanDeusen ; Capt. John H. VanHouten ; Lt. Robert M. Williams. 1942 Cpl. Ronald S. Abbey; A/C William Aho; Lt. A. G. A r e n a; A/C Warren R. Barber; Ensign Thomas B. Beard; Ensign John T. Becker; Mid. Michael J. Becker; Ensign Richard L. Beem; Ensign William V. Bergren ; Betty Bowman (Navy) ; Lt. (WAVES) ; A/C Donald Brandow George H. Cage; A/C Harry E. Cameron ; Pvt. Wilber D. Chapel; Ensign John C. Clapper; Lt. (jg) Clinton R. Clark; Lt. Guy R. Clugston; Lt. Charles G. Collins ; Ensign Wyman Davis; Lt. Robert S. Day; Ensign William D. Dexter; En sign John F. Dodds; Lt. John A. Dow; Ensign Norman J. Duncan ; Cpl. Donald Easterday ; Pvt. Marvin Edwards; Sgt. Paul G. Eliason ; Ensign Donald F a r m e r; Lt. Charles T. Foo; Robert E. Forbes (Navy) ; Ensign George Foster; Lt. Don ald H. Freeman; Cpl. Samuel Gabriel; A/C Weston L. Gardner ; Lt. Raymond E. Garvey ; Pvt. Robert C. Gibbs; Beth Hack ( W A V E S ); A/C LeRoy E. Hanson; A/C Robert B. H a r r i s; Lt. Gerald Hath ; Ensign Kenneth Hathaway ; Ensign Floyd W. Hicks ; Lt. Vaughn D. Hildebrandt; George T. Hilliard; T/5 Victor Horvath; Pvt. Alvin Johnson ; Sgt. Maynard B. Johnston; Pvt. William J. Kennedy ; Lt. John S. Kosewicz; Lt. Marvin J. Kraft; Lt. Robert W. LaDu ; Lt. Charles O. LeBaron ; A/C Winston E. Lewis ; Cpl. Robert Lill ; James W. Lilley ; Lt. Alfred Linn ; Lt. Rexford Lippert; Ensign C. Wayne Loree; Lt. Russell F. Lorts ; William H. McGraw ; David McKenna (Navy); Lt. Robert H. McMillen ; Lt. Edward J. McRay ; Pvt. Clarence MacBride; A/C Cairl F. Meier; Ensign Keith W. Miller; Cpl. Walter Montague; Lt. Edward W. Morey ; Lt. Robert W. Page; Lt. Alston Penfold; Ensign Harold Raphael ; Lt. Ned Renick ; Mid. Robert W. Renz ; Edward C. Rhodehamel (Navy) ; Bette Ross (WAVES) ; Mid. William F. Ryan ; Ensign Victor P. Saper ; Pvt. George R. Schieve ; T/5 William A. Schirra ; Millard Schmitt; Ph.M.2/c John A. Sea- lander ; Cpl. Ray E. Shedd; Leon Sirlin ; Jacob James J. Sullivan ; Speelman Ph.M.2/c Clarence M. Taube; Ensign Donald VerWest (Coast Guard) ; A/C Burton J. West- man ; Cpl. William Westrate; A/C Leonard L. White; Ensign George B. Wiersma ; Lt. Ray (Navy) ; Ensign Date Filled Out- Wilde; A/C Richard B. Woodburn ; Pvt. Richard E. Wright; A/C Robert Young; Lt. R. C. Zettel. 1943 Pvt. Douglas E. Berlin ; Cpl. Arlow P. Boyce; Pvt. William A. Dexter; A/C Robert W. Fowler ; Lt. Billy C. Hemming; Lt. Lawrence Lockwood ; Ensign James H. Luther; Ensign Jerry Mac- Dougall; Lt. Robert D. Mackoy ; Ph.M.3/c Irvin H. Reynolds ; Ph.M.3/c David C. Schlott; Lt. (Navy) ; James R. Sloan; William S. Timm Wyladene Wirebaugh (WAAC). 1944 Pvt. Hugo Boettcher ; Ensign David E. Bronson ; Ap. Sea. Mansell M. Corwin; A/C Herbert Ihrig (Navy) ; A/C George E. Kinas; Lt. E. C. Leach ; A/C Etchison Lill ; Pvt. Vance Mclntyre; Pvt. Virgil Meeker; Lt. Carleton Morehouse ; Lt. Her bert Moss; Lt. Charles W. Otto; Cpl. Nicholas Picciuto; A/C Kenneth V. Rusling ( N a v y ); Delmar D. Stevens; A/C Jack B. Tinkham. 1945 A/C Helge Axelsen John (Marines) ; (Navy) ; Pvt. J. Bordeaux ; Pvt. Stuart Bowerman ; Pvt. Mason O. Clark Pvt. Richard W. Clark (Marines) ; Ap. Sea. Robert Darrah j Pvt. Edward Dunham (Marines) ; Ap. Sea. William J. Emery ; Ap. Sea. Philip Forsyth ; H.A.2/C Martin E. Goetz ; Pvt. Jack Kennedy; Pvt. Thomas Kirkconnell; Ap. Sea. Duncan Leitch; Ap. Sea. Charles E. Lokker; S2/c Harry J. McGrath; Cpl. John F. Mauren ; Pvt. Harold May ; A/C William F. Miller (Navy) ; Ap. Sea. Aubert S. Roberts; Reed Shanks (Navy) ; Pvt. Duncan Shivley ; Pvt. Daniel Strong (Marines) ; Ap. Sea. Sherman Tarpening ; Pvt. William Taubeneck; Ap. Sea. Theodore Van- Dorn : Cpl. John A. Wirth ; Pvt. Robert E. Wright (Marines). 1946 Ap. Sea. Ralph E. Arnold ; S2/c George A. Back ; Ap. Sea. Spiro Cappony; Pvt. Arlington Forist; Ap. Sea. Robert B. Gould ; Ap. Sea. Robert Harri son ; Ap. Sea. George Hinz; S2/c Floyd Hoag; Ap. Sea. Doyle Jessen ; Ap. Sea. R. C. J u n e; Ap. Sea. Benjamin Jusiek ; Ap. Sea. George Liljeblad ; Ap. Sea. E. A. Waggener; Ap. Sea. Lavern Wallington ; Ap. Sea. Donald P. Wise. M A Y, 1943 . .. 19 In the Service of U. S. A. Capt. Barnard Pierce; Capt. Philip W. Wilhelm. Lt. Col. John C. Alderdyce. 1915 Lt. Ralph E. Dinan. » A j 7 Lt. Col. Charles H. Donnelly ; Major Ralph 15. Henning. Col. Calvin J. Overmyer ; Lt. Col. Lee H. Tucker. Col. Daniel W. Kent. Lt. Warren E. DeYoung. 192! Major Frank D. Pritchard. Lt. Col. Harry W. Coon ; Lt. Harold Koop- man CNavyi. 923 Helen G. Bradford (WAVES) ; Capt. Walter Cook ; Capt. Arthur J. Davis. 1925 Lt. Col. Donald M. Jacques. :926 Major Robert W. Buzzard; Capt. Carman D. Miller ; Lt. Harold C. Roberts. 1927 Lt. Maynard S. Grunder; Lt. Col. Carl W. Kietzman ; Capt. James D. Salmon (Chaplain). Capt. Arthur T. Bersey; Lt. Col. Stanley W. Luther. Lt. (jgi John H. Anderson; Pfc. Milton Berg; Capt. Max Goodwin : Capt. Alonzo E. Langworthy ; Major Amon H. Laxton ; Lt. Tod J. Leavitt; Ma jor A. R. Pfannenschmidt; Lt. R. C. Timmick I Navy t ; Major George L. Walker. • m Lt. Col. Lee M. Corless : Capt. W. R. Forsythe ; Capt. Moody R. Hopkins; Lt. Comdr. Mariond L. Joslin ; Lt. William Montgomery ; Lt. Col. Clare Passink; Lt. Col. Lawrence Strobel ; Lt. A. J. Tomasek (Marines I : Lt. Frank J. Vrany; Lt. Col. Lewis Workman. 3 Lt. Stuart P. Carr : Major Douglas Carruthers ; Capt. O. F. Edwards ; Capt. Lewis B. Haigh; (Navy) ; Capt. Arthur C.P.O. Robbins Kendall (Navy) ; H. Capt. R. Douglas Sias; Major K. A. VonVoigt- lander. I.oomis: Lt. Frederick E. Ludwig 1932 Lt. (jgl Vernon Armstrong; Capt. Henry L. Cross; Capt. Jacob Fase; Ensign Mariam Hols- apple (Nurse Corps) ; Lt. (jg) Lavern E. Joslin ; Capt. George L. Martin; Lt. Col. Snover H. Sarjeant ; Major Owen H. Taggart; Lt. (jg) Laurence E. West. • j a i Lt. (jgl Gordon R. Blakeslee; Major Charles Bowser; Lt. George N. Brown ; Major John R. Cassleman ; Lt. Joseph M. Day ; Capt. Howard C. Higley ; Lt. (jgl Don A. Jones; Capt. Clarence A. Langer; Sgt. Donald F. Lau ; Lt. George L. Merkel (Navy) ; App. Sea. Robert C. Moore; Capt. Enno Schraft; Lt. Stuart Swanton ; Major Rus sell D. Turrill ; Lt. Jonathan S. Woodman. Capt. Max N. Andrews ; Major Edward Benson ; Capt. Marcus Betwee ; Ensign R. Z. Farkas ; Capt. Mott B. Heath; Major Joseph Hradel ; Capt. Archie McCallum ; Lt. Donald W. Merrill ; Lt. Oliver Ofield ; Capt. George W. Patterson ; Major Marshall H. Pellegrom; Major Jacob P. Scherer; Capt. Stanley Wilber. Editor's note: The following M. S. C. alumni in service are additions and corrections the lists published in the October and February issues and DO NOT represent a complete list of Michigan State alumni in service. If names are missing in the combined columns of these three issues, please use the form on page 19 to bring our records up to date. to Capt. Hugh D. Bruce ; Capt. Marley C. Clark; Capt. Douglass A. Craig; Lt. (jg) Edward E. Ellwood ; Capt. Harold S. Grandy ; Lt. Ernest A. Haskin ; Capt. Donald Hearl ; Capt. Winfield C. Hinman ; Major Edward K. Kemp : Lt. William J. Kleinhans; Lt. Edward L. Larson; Major Harry Lutz ; Major Henry T. Nelson ; Pvt. Rex Norris ; Lt. Richard J. Pliska; Lt. Walter H. Rick (Navy): Major William Rieman ; Capt. Paul S. Robe ; Capt. Arthur K. Rouse; Ensign Thomas C. Struthers ; Capt. Douglas Symes ; Capt. Francis J. Votruba ; Lt. Kenneth L. Warren (Navy). Major Rudolph Barlow ; Capt. John P. Blake : Major Victor Duch; Pvt. Melville J. Hendra; Major William L. Klum ; Ensign Richard W. Leh man ; Lt. Standley J. Leitheiser : Major John H. McMillan (Marines); Cpl. John E. Manning; Major Charles W. May (Marines); Capt. Carl J. Nosal : Major Joseph A. Pelton ; Capt. Donald F. Rundle: Lt. Russell Stadelman ; Lt. Robert W. Warren ; Ensign Frederick K. Ziegel. Richard Bertotti; Capt. John F. Brower ; Ensign John N. Calkins ; Major Gerald Cox; Pvt. Ray mond J. Drozda ; Norman Foster; Major Philip Getzinger; Capt. John R. H a m a n n; Capt. James E. Harryman : Capt. Cecil L. Hunter; Capt. Sam Ketchman ; Capt. Lawrence Larsen; Lt. Robert H. Madison ; Lt. George Maino ; Major Donald C. O'Hara; Capt. Merwyn C. Plumley (Marines) ; Capt. Maurice I. Strait; Major Vincent Vander- burg. Capt. O. A. Alaspa ; Lt. John R. Aldred; Lt. David Anderson; Ensign James M. Ballenger ; Lt. W. W. Barber ; Lt. David M. Barthold ; A/C Robert Bond; Capt. Arthur Brandstatter; Capt. Robert H. Bucknell ; Capt. Garrett Burgess ; Capt. Francis D. Caluory ; Alice Demorest (WAVES) ; Ensign John Erway ; Lt. Donald J. Francisco; Capt. James A. Gibb; Sgt. Joseph Glickstein ; Ap. Sea. George P. Goltz ; Lt. G. R. Grantham ; Lt. (jg) John R. Hallock ; Lt. Donald T. Hartley ; Sgt. Ralph V. Jennings; Lt. Jerome J. Krieger; Lt. Philip F. Krul ; Major Tom E. Matlack ; Lt. Tom L. Mercy ; Ensign Harold J. Milks; Major Charles B. Pear son; Virginia Reynolds (WAAC) ; Lt. Howard C. Sackrider; Lt. Lewis C. Smith ; Capt. Dale Springer ; Lt. Paul J. Steensma ; Ensign Glenn A. Swanson ; Barbara Tranter (WAVES); Lt. Roger Welch. I 939 Sgt. John C. Allen; Lt. Costas Alvanos ; Capt. Joseph L. Amell; Capt. James Amsden ; Lt. Fred Arnold; A/C Robert Bengry; Sgt. James C. Brown ; Sgt. B. J. Bujak; Ensign Jack H. Camer on ; Pvt. Edward J. Campau ; Ensign William R. Clow; Ensign Ronald H. Cooley; Dorothy DaLee (WAVES) ; Capt. Peter DalPonte; Lt. Clyde Deal; Lt. Charles N. Dickey; Major Emil Eschenburg; Capt. D. E. Farkas (Marines) ; Capt. Lee J. Far- rell ; Lt. Wendell Foltz ; Capt. Charles V. Gibbs ; A/C Frank C. Gouldburg; Ensign Willard Gra ham ; Lt. Kenneth E. Greer; Capt. Edward G. Hertel; Lt. Hugh Holloway ; Capt. Andrew John son ; A/C John E. Johnston ; Lt. Robert M. Jones ; Lt. Waldon K. Lewis ; A/C William V. Masterson (Navy) ; Lt. William A. Meier ; Celia I. Merrill (WAAC); A/C Carl Moore; Thomas Nesbitt; Lt. Russell Oien ; Sgt. Jonathan Penfold; Lt. Gilbert Pennock; Lt. William H. Pickett; Capt. John S. Pingel ; Pfc Jack A. Prescott: Pvt. J. Bruce Rowell ; Lt. Edward B. Smith : Lt. Robert D. Spencer; Ensign Henry P. Stevens; Lt. Charles Weinberg ; Sgt. James M. Wicker; Capt. Norman L. Wise; Lt. Walter Woodhouse. 194Q Pvt. Seth M. Anderson ; Lt. Samuel B. Anker; Ensign Robert Basile; Lt. John A. Beale; Capt. Clifford H. Bookey; Cpl. John Boughton ; Lt. Robert L. Bourne; Capt. Elmer G. Boyer; Capt. Albert J. Brey ; Ensign Howard V. B u r r; Lt. Lloyd Champion : Capt. David S. Clark ; Lt. John A. Davis ; Lt. Robert Day ; Lt. Stephen Dubosky ; James W. Durham; Capt. Leonard Eggleton ; Lt. (Army Dietitians Corps) ; Ensign Betty Faist Orville Falk (U.S.C.G.); Lt. Howard J. Fellows; Lt. (jg) Charles C. Fenby; Sgt. Russell F r a n t z; Mid. Boyd F. Gleason ; Lt. Howard G. Hahn ; Lt. Clarence J. Hamilton: Lt. Fred H. Haskin; Capt. Herbert Helbig ; Lt. John G. Hemans ; Capt. Nor man Henderson ; Sl/c Riby Holmes ; Capt. Martin C. H u t t; Lt. Robert M. Johnson; Lt. Leon V. Jones ; Capt. W. James Jones; Capt. Norman T. Kincade; Lt. John L. Krueger; Lt. James A. LaDu ; Major Emil Larsen ; Cpl. Robert Leiphart ; Lt. Russell D. Lynn; Lt. Richard E. McCarty; Capt. Fred F. Niffenegger ; Major Nicholas Novo- sel ; Lt. Chester M. Olson ; Lt. Garth B. Oswald ; Ensign Wilson E. Overton ; Ensign George Owen ; Capt. L. Neil Owen ; Lt. (jg) Harry B. Parks ; Pvt. Clarence Pinch ; Lt. Edgar Priest; Lt. Gordon P. Publow ; Ensign Gordon C. Pulling ; Lt. Gilbert Sherman; Lt. James R. Small; Ensign Raymond K. Smith; Ensign Lloyd Stanley; Marian E. Taylor (WAAC); QM3/c Norman R. Thompson; Ensign Roland E. Tibbetts ; Capt. William S. Waltman ; Major James R. Warner; Cpl. Elmer E. White ; Lt. Charles R. Wilcox ; Ensign Keith E. Wise; Lt. John D. Wright. (Turn to Inside Back Cover)