Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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James Bridges (Pinhead) Hen sn, '39A, left, formerly captain of the football team and All-Southern halfback, and alternate captain of the basketball team, has recently been promoted from first lieutenant to captain in the Army Air Forces. Captain Henson writes from Mor ris Field, N. C., that "it makes me feel good to pick up the paper and see a letter from Captain Ralph Lee Dearth, U.S. Marines in the Pacific. (Alumni office note: "On the Alum ni Front" quoted from a letter from Captain Dearth, '39A, in the Nov. 20 issue.) If you write him give him my regards for a fine job he and thousands of other men of Carolina are doing. God bless them all." Lt. Robert McManus Doster, '40A, '41L, right of Lancaster, won his wings and commission at Spence field, Ga., on November 10. Jack Orri Brown, '40J, promoted to captain in the Army Air Corps on September 25, writes from some where in the war theatre: "It's wonderful to finally reach actual combat after so many months of waiting and preparation. Though there have been times when I never expected to see the good ol' U.S.C. again, my luck is holding up nicely, a0u A 'ni koklials u WaiU Lw lilt y firsi return trip, whenever that may be. Hope the alumni section is being kept in the Gamecock again this ycar, and I'd likc to remain on the mailing list. I'd also like to renew my membership if you'll send me the proper forms." Isaac Jenkins Mikell, M.D., '27A, Columbia eye, ear, nose and throat specialist has received training at the University of N. C., the Medical College of S. C., Roper Hospital (Charleston), Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia), and the Univ. of Pennsylvania Postgraduate school. Lt. Jasper Cox Moore. '39A, was transferred recently from ebring, Fla., to Geiger Fed, We::n HEADQUARTERS - for - CAROLINA STUDENTS Community Cut Rote Drugs FIVE POINTS Aiway S A NC KEN'S *SOLD ATi' MANUFAC-i RICH LAN[C TI John Simonton Douglas, 39A, now with the Richmond County Board of Education, Augusta, Ga., writes that "such things as the Gamecock have done much to make me feel closer to the University xxx. I re great to say that for the past few years except for an occasional foot ball game I have not been in close contact with the University. In co operating in war effort I think an outstanding job is being done, and feel that we alumni have a definite part to play in making the Univer sity's work as effective as possible." George Cullen Battle, Jr., '42A, left, of State Park, N. C., who re cently completed the four-months V-7 course at the New York Mid shipmen's school, was graduated with the largest group of naval re serve officers ever to be sworn in at one time. Lt. George Franklin Roberts, Jr., '39A, right, of Lexington, was at Hickman field at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He fought in the battle of Midway, and ap peared in several scenes in the motion picture, "Battle of Midway." Silas Samuel Seideman, '27L, a star athlete of the twenties, and Mrs. Seideman, (Ethel Ann Mc Lure), '27, reside in Charleston, where Mr. Seideman practices law. Mr. Seideman's office is at 42 Broad St., and his residence telephone number is 8937. Lt. Thomas English McCutchen, Jr., '40A, is now commanding Group XVII at the Army Air Forces Pre flight school (pilot), at the San An tonio (Texas) Aviation Cadet cen ter. The Rev. George Alexander Hudson, '22A, '37G, missionary to China for the Southern Presbyterian church, now held by the Japs in Shanghai, China, writes that his health is good and that he has not missed a day of evangelistic work in the camp, it is reported by Mrs. Hudson. August Kohn, Jr., '20A, of Colum bia, has made another gift to the University. He recently donated three copyrighted pictures of sons of South Carolina who have served as justices of the United States Supreme Court, as follows: John Rutledge, William Johnson, and James Francis Byrnes. Albert IL Love, '24L, 304 Bona Allen Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., is pub lisher of army reviews and histories and various other publications. s Eat ICE CREAM THE CANTEEN URED BY DAIR IES Printing Binding Engraving Lithog raphing me State Co. Printing Dept. PHONE 2-3393 n Jhe ISSUE Hector McKinnon Floyd, '29E, is superintendent of schools at John sonville. Thomas Luther Byrd, M.D., '19A, was graduated fro mthe Medical de partment of the University of Geor gia, Augusta, in 1921, and has prac ticed internal medicine in Atlanta, Ga., -ince 1927. Jacob Vinson Whetsell, 40C, of Bowman, recently promoted to cor poral, is an instructor in the Air Corps Technical school at Keesler Field, Miss. Corporal Whetsell writes: "Have seen several of the fellows (Carolina alumni) since I've been down here, but haven't taught any of them yet. Hope this finds all well on the home front. An trying to do my part here." Eugene Edwin Aycock, '90A, is a merchant at Wedgefield. Mr. Ay cock attended the fiftieth anniver sary of his class in 1940. Hanson Briscoe Black, '34L, re sides now at Warm Springs, Ga., and practices law at Manchester, Ga. William Bernard Caughman, '27A, now a staff sergeant in the Army, is stationed at Fort Jackson. Ensign Carlisle Whiteford Bas kin, '42C, left, of Bishopville, is sta tioned at the Navy yard in Charles ton. He was called on temporary active duty before going to the Naval Supply Corps school, Har vard Graduate School of Biiinese Administration. Ensign Baskin, as signed to the Disbursing Office, writes: "The Navy is fine, my work is interesting, and I think I'm gct ting somewhere". Lt. Woodrow Wilson Dunn, '34A, right, former employee of the Co lumbia post office, was inducted into service at Fort Jackson, April 17, 1942, and was graduated from officers training school, Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and commissioned second lieutenant November 14. Lieutenant Dunn, who was in Co lumbia for a short furlough recent ly, has reported to Huntsville arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Pvt. William H. Dorsey, '43A, is stationed at Fort Logan, Colorado. Robert Hix (Punk) Atkinson, '32L, is personnel manager for S. Slater and Sons, Inc., at Slater, S. C., which employs approximately 1,000 pcrsons in the manufacture of rayon goods. Cpl. Thomas Asbury Hutto, '39A, of Charleston, can l)e reached at 1st Intelligence Plat., Co. C, 4th TUn., Camp Wheeler, Ga. Robert Lumpkin Carter, '38A, formerly of Columbia, is the Trial Judge of the City of Martinsville and Henry County, Virginia. Samuel Rubin, 38A, 1004 Gervais St., Columbia, has been elected p)resident of the Columbia lodge of B'nai B'rith for next year. HIe suc ceeds Coleman Karesh, '23 A, 25L, professor of law at the University. Naval Aviation Cadet Harvey Leo Antonio Blouin, 42C, of Chi cago, Ill., former football and track star, and a member of Omricon Delta Kappa leadership fraternity, has completed his course at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight school Athens, Ga., ranking third among the 100 men graduating in his bat talion, and has been ordered to the Naval Reserve Aviation base at Anacostia, D. C. C E NTRA L DRUG CO. * 5197 - PHONES-5198 1204 Main Street * RECOREC Columbia's Most Compi DIXIE RADI4 U-NO-WE. 1712 Main Street D BY THE ALUMNI ASSOC Jackson Bailey Cobb, '87L, is at the 'U.S. Naval Training Station, Sampson, N. Y. Sigmund Welsh Stoudenmire, '38A, is a certified public accountant practicing in Sumter. Pvt. Edward Mobley Woodward, '43C, of Blackstock, volunteered October 15 and is now with the Army overseas. Lt. (j.g.) Harry Elliott DePass, Jr., '30L, of Spartanburg, will re port to Quonset Point, R. I., this month. Lt. Christopher FitzSimons, III, '40C, '410, who is stationed at Fort Dix, N. J., writes, "Sorry I didn't get to see more of you at the Clem son game. It sure was fun to walk down the street and see those (Clemson) cadets have to salute me." James McBride Dabbs, '16A, formerly head of the Englhsh de partment at Coker college, lives now at Rt. No. 1, Mayesville, where he is farming and writing articles for the magazihes-most often for The Christian Century. Thomas L. Bailey, '17A, is Chief Research Geologist for Shell Oil Company , stationed in Houston, Texas. . Coleman C. Martin, '23A, who was manager of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce for four teen years, has been with the State Industrial Commission since 1935. Pvt. Robert Franklin (Cotton) Lindsay, '38A, of York, who is stationed at Dow field, Bangor, Maine, writed that he is trying to learn a little Spanish, having run into a Mexican boy who taught| Siianish before entering the Army, and who is working with him. Lt. John Benjamin Paysinger, Jr., '42C, left, of Columbia, received his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air corps when lhe graduated at Spence field, Ga. on November 10. Ens. Clarence E. Glover, '41C, right, of Livingston, who was com missioned an ensign in the U.S. Naval reserve in Charleston on Sept. 26, left in October for naval - training school at Harvard Univer sity. Naval Aviation Cadet William Herbert Spivey, '38A, of Columbia, has completed his course at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight school, Ath ens, Ga., and has been ordered to the Naval Reserve Aviation base at Anacostia, ). C., for primary flight training. USC Coeds Chosen For T raining For Engineers' Posts Four University co-eds have been selected by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation for appointment as en gineering cadettes to receive train ing in aeronautical engineering. The co-eds selected are: Barbara Wiedemann, Beaufort; Lillian Rhame, Columbia; Peggy Sandifer, Columbia; and Samantha Cupstid, Swansea. Mary DeMille .McLeod, Curtiss 'Wright representative who inter viewed co-eds at Carolina recently, notified Mrs. Arney R. Childs, dean of women, of the appointment of the four co-eds as engineering cadettes. She praised highly the quality of the young women she in terviewed. Women who accept appointments as engineering cadettes will be sent to one of eight outstanding engi neering universities for an intensive ten-months' training period during which expenses will be paid and $10 per week besides. At the conclusion of this training, they will go to work immediately in the aviation in dustry. ete Record Department 3 COMPANY NO-RADIO Phone 22103-04 IATION Dessie Dean Pitts, '410, who teaches speech and English in John ston High School, writes: "I have known students who went to Caro lina without even enough money to pay entrance fees x x x. The same students not only got the chance to get an education, but they were given the same consideration by faculty and students that the presi dent's son would have received. What more can one ask in the prac tice of democracy?" Warren Douglas Parker, '42C, of Wil.iston, recently enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman, Third Class, and is stationed at the U.S. Navy Recruiting Subsiation (S-M), Coun ty Center, Charleston. Pvt. John Bratton Davis, '38A, '40L, who was inducted in the army recently, has turned up in Co. D, 1st C.W.S. Trg. Bn., Camp Sibert, Ala. Private Davis, who in civilian life was a young Columbia attorney, has been assigned to chemical war fare service. Mae Bridges, '400, resides in Washington, D. C., and works with the F. B. I. Lt. Edwin Peden Gardner, '41A, eft, of Darlington, joined the U.S. Air corps in April, 1941, was gradu ited last December, and has been erving with the American Air orces in the British Isles since UIV. I Albert Mitchael Hill, Jr., '42C, ight, of Darlington, was commis ioned.an ensign in the Navy De ember 2, after completing the V-7 raining course at the New York JSNR Midshipmen's school. En ign Hill, who was captain of the ennis team when he was a' student it the University, has reported for ictive duty with the Navy. Harold Anderson Hutto, '41A, of olumbia, is working with the ;outh Carolina Depnartmetnt -f A,r ulture. John Melvin Gasque, '24C, is upervisor of consumer's accounts vith the South Carolina Electric Ind Gas Co., Columbia. MAnny Of Faculty Now In Services 33 Members In Various Parts Of Amred Forces Thirty-three members of the Uni rersity faculty and administrative ~taff have left the University to en er the armed forces and civilian v.ar work, President 3. Rion Mc Kissick announced recently. Sixteen have entered the Army, rmie the Navy, one the Marine :orps, and one the WAVES, while six are doing civilian war work. ['hose entering the armed forces ire: Army: Dr. George Benet, surgical ::onsultant; E. B. Clippard, instruc tor of English; Dr. Orin F. Crow, :lean of the school of education; Sterling DuPree, athletic coach and physical education instructor; Christopher Fitz Simons, III, in structor of business administration; W. Flinn Gilland, assistant regis trar; A. S. Hodge, instructor of modern languages; Dr. E. H. Law, University physician; Dr. Isadore Schayer, professor of hygiene; A. R. Lewis, adjunct professor of his ory; W. M. McLeod, associate pro fessor of modern languages; J. 0. Overby, instructor of political sci ence; R. M. Stephan, associate pro fessor of modern languages; Hugh S. Stanley, associate professor of mathematics; W. S. Woods, instruc tor of modern languages, and James Walton, steno-clerk. Marine corps: Arthur D. Haw kins, assistant director, University News Service. Navy: Dr. TI. F. Ball, professor of electrical engineering; Dr. R. D. Bass, adjunct professor of English; Lt. Comdr.' Clarence E. Boyd, as sociate professor of naval science and tactics; Capt. R. A. Hall, Naval ROTC commandant; C. C. Harri son, .assistant plant engineer; Charles S. James, extension di vision; W. C. Zeigler, instructor of modern languages; Ted Twomey and Charles Treadaway, athletic coaches. WAVES: Miss Nancy' Pope, in structor of physical educ*tion. ont Major Charles Tucker Smith, '17L, is commanding officer and cadre of the Nashville (Tenn.) Re cruiting Area, U. S. Army. Major Smith, who is stationed practically on the Vanderbilt campus, promises to write the office "about some of the alumni - in this part of the woods." Dr. Gordon Herachal Tucker, '31 A, who has been teaching at the University of Tennessee, has ac cepted a position with the United States government in Washington as assistant oceanographer. E4 Ens. Grover Cleveland Kirby, Jr., '42C, left, of Columbia, who attend ed officers' training school at Noro ton Heights, Conn., is now stationed at the Naval Air station at South Weymouth, Mass., as assistant com munications officer. Lt. John Cleveland Campbell, '40A, right, of Columbia, who wit nessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, returned to the United States to attend officers' candidate school after being sta tioned in Hawaii for 18 months. Lieutenant Campbell was former head cheerleader at Carolina. Lt. Maurice H. (Mike) Clarke, '40A, is stationed at the Marine base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Pvt. Leonard H. Turnbull, '43A, is stationed at the Marine corps ase ai Sai Dieglo, Califunia. -USC Prepared (CONTINUED PROM PAGE 1) The University faculty met in spe cial session yesterday afternoon to consider many changes in the insti tution's program which will be ne cessitated by the establishment of the pre-flight school. President McKissick said that the regular program of the University will be continued "pretty much as usual" although some non-essential courses may be discontinued for the duration. All essential courses will continue to be taught, President McKissick said, and all University students will be able to fulfill requirements for de grees on schedule. The pre-flight cadets will have the use of the University's swimming pool, athletic fields,- gymnasium and field house at times wvhich will not conflict with their use by Carolina studlents. The flight preparatory school itself will be conducted entirely separately from the University, cadets being un dler strict Naval discipline with Naval officers in charge, Doctor McKissick said. All 600 cadets will be high school graduates from this section of the country who have not attended col lege, President McKissick has been informed. CAUGHMAN'S ESSO STATION * , Complete ESSO Service 1001 Sumter Street (Across From War Memorial) * PHONE 7193 Thin COLUMBiA DAI1 Sold at th D RA UG BUSINESS IS ESSENTIAL TO EVERi COLLEGE MEN 1218 SUMTER STREET DAY. NIGHT. AND RAKDroughon's Bu PAKW. LYKES, Pnssgaw MRS D T PAULKENUERI Harry Clemson McInvaill, Jr., '49j, left, of Conway, was commis sioned an ensign last week with the ninth class graduated from the US NR Midshipmen's school in New York City. Ensign Mclnvaill has reported for active duty after a fur lough at Conway. Fred Newell (Plute) Wimberly, '39A, right, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel on Dec. 7. Colonel Wimberly, who now is an instructor at the infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., formerly served as camp commander of the CCC and as member of the Camden high school faculty. He was range officer at Fort Jackson until Dec. 1, 1941, when he was assigned to the staff officers' school at Fort Benning, from which he was gradu ated on March 6. Robert Frank Bowe, '08A, former ly of Bronxville, N. Y., is now at * 540 Reynolds St., Augur,ta, Ga. Tracy Carlisle Johnson, '41A, who graduated Nov. 20 from the Naval Electrical Interior Communication School, Anacostia, Bellevue, D. C., writes, "There are many in the ser vice who will agree with me that such things as alumni news letters and the Gamecock, recalling many pleasant memories and establishing contact between long separated friends, do their full share in main taining morale". ' Marion Owens Boyce, '27CE, Seneca, who was a track star at ' Carolina in the late twenties, is a new member of the Alumni Associ ation. Allen Jones, '07A, is with the Muscogee Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ga. The Rev. Cecil DuBose Brearley, '17A, '23G, Presbyterian minister, Conway, was president of the Y.M. C.A., vice-president of the Euph radian Literary Society, the Uni versity's representative in the State Oratorical contest, a debater and member of fhe social cabinet, when he was a student at Carolina. John Jordon Stinson, '41P, of Woodruff, has recently been pro moted to sergeant and is located at the Greenville Army Air Base, where he is attached to the dispen sary. MRS. SHEALY'S SANDWICH ES * BEST MAID SOLD AT THE CANTEEN "Eat 'Em Up Carolino" ECONOMY DRUG STORE CUT RATE DRUGS SODAS AND LUNCH EONETTE Five Points * Phone 8119 Motorcycle Delivery. k of RIES PRODUCTS e Canteen H ON'S TRAINING YONE, PARTICULARLY AND WOMEN TEL.EPHONE 5951 EPECIA CLASeg siness College* wM. LYCR?A.VJY..AVUes.igogv