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f A r1 C REUNION Capt. Frank C. Owens, '18A, Co luimbia physician, has been promoted to the rank of major in the Army Air Corps medical division. Major Owens, having entered the army in September 1942, is now stationed at the station hospital, Robbins Field, Macon, Ga. Cecil Webb Thomas, '33C, of Marion, is maintenance foreman for the S. C. State Highway Dept. Cpl. Daniel L. Gibbes, Jr., '42A, in the army infantry, is addressed through A. P. 0. 418. Camp Mc Cain, Miss. Lt. James Robert Dickie (Dick) Anderson, '43Ec., is at the Post quartermaster, Fort Devens, Mass. Mrs. Anderson (Mary Crow), '42A, is addressed at t+o Sumter St., Co lumbia. Among the cadets reporting to the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School at Maxwell Field, Ala., re cently were seven Carolina alumni. These men are: Aviation Cadet Harry H. Abernathy, Jr., '46A! Wil liam E. Caughman, Jr., '44C; Charles J. Gibson, '4.Z; Duncan S. MacRae, Jr., '38C; Joseph R. Mc Faddin, '44C; Robert L. O'Harra, '45A; and Sam O. Russell, Jr., '43C. W/O Benjamin C. Welch, '40C, of Columbia has been promoted from junior warrant officer to chief warrant officer at Bainbridge ((Ga.) Army Air Base. Officer Welch, who enlisted in the Army Air Forces in September 19140, is post communications officer at Bain bridge Army Air Base. A/C Grover G. McLaurin. '43P, of Dillon is now stationed at Green wood Army Air Field, Greenwood, Miss. Lt. William Roselvin Smithey, '45A, recently was graduated from the Naval Air Training Center. Corpus Christi, Texas and has been commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. Beatrice Lucille Toal, '31A, is en gaged in clerienl work with the Se lective Service Board in Columbia. miss Toal is addressed at 2909 Blos som street, Columbia. Lt. Goodwyn Rhett Taylor, '38CE, is in the Na al Air Corps ind is addressed through the post toaster in San Francisco, Calii. SK3/c Arthur R. R.dgeway, Jr., '43A. having enlisted in Oct. 194:, has recently been promoted to his present rank of storekeeper, third class. IHe is now stationed at Bks. O722, Naval Receiving Barracks. Shoemaker, Calif. Mrs. Ridgeway (Jeanne Holman) '44C. is imakinig her home at 62-> N. W\ilson street, Rock Hill. Cpl. Robert Saverance Reese, '45C. has recently been promioted to his present rank. Corporal Reese is attached to the 20th Trainiiing Group, Jetierson Barracks, .. Mrs. George Ansel Nelson (Ealine Teskey), '39A, i- doinjg clerical w ork wvithi the W\ar lI)e partmnent at Ni oneks Corner. .\ rs. Nelson is addere'sced at 71:. \\. Evans st reet, Florenec. Pvt. Sam Rogol, '38L, is ad dressed at Btry. A., I;th lun.. 4tth Plat., Fort Eustis, \'a. Lt. (jg) John D. Ray, 32EE, is attached to the I th ~sper Bit. A-. Camp 1Peary, Vas. Capt. Charles Allen Vassey, '41A, is with the 22nd Marines overseas Mrs. Vassey (Julia Pegram), '41A, is making her home at 164* Saluda street, Chester. Sgt. Winburn Lawton Mikell. *3A is attached to ain ordnanct maintenance company overseas Sergeant Mikell is addresses through the postmaster in New York, N. Y. Mary Sybil Melton, '42Ed.. is do ing secretarial work at the Colun bia Army Air Base, Columbia. A/C Curtis L. Smart, '45J, is ad dressed at Class 44-C, Arimy Ai, Field, Bainbridge, Ga. Earle Clifton Truett, '31G, o Timmionsville is a principal of the Ftlorence County Public Schools. -A/S Robert L. Goldsmith, '46A is addressed at Co. 1584, U.S.N.T.S Great Lakes, Ill. Mrs. John Olin Hiers (Margare All), '35A, of Branchville is teach lng at Smnoaks High Schoo $moaks. Lt. Edwin W. Pike. Jr., '42A, a 1513 College drive, Colutmbia, h'a beenm assigned to a tactical fighte squadron in the Panama ares Lieutenant Pike has completed a intensive transition course at th Sixth Air Force Fighter Commnan 'raining School in the Panam gea. Jn January 1941, Lieutenani MIk. entered the Army Air Corpi lorothy Derrick, '43A, Alumni Recorder Mailed by the Alumni Association Of ice to members of the Association and to on-member alumni in the Armed Forces ,hose addresses are on file in the Alumni ffice. IN PRINT A/C Charles B. Roman, '46A, is at the U. S. Naval Pre-Flight School, Athens, Ga. Lt. (jg) Robert Carl Griffith, Jr., '41A, of Gaffney is addressed through the postmaster in San Francisco, Calif. Pvt. Paul S. Mims, '45E, is now studying at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. Lt. William White Neely, '37A, of the Air Corps, having recently returned from duty in the Pacific area, is now addressed at Elec trotnics U'nit, Eglin Field, Fla. Myra A. Williams, '2SG, is ad dre,sed at the Medical College Sta tion. Richmond, 19, Va. Pvt. James Cantelou Royster, '45A. is addressed at Co. A, 63rd rn., 13th Regt., Camp Fannin, 1cxaZ. A/C Boardman Getsinger, Jr., '43J, is taking aviation training at Americus, Ga. Hogan L. Yancey, 'Ols, of 217 Vest Short street, Lexington, Ky., is chief enforcement attorney for O.P.A., Lexington, Kentucky dis trict. Pvt. Frank Graydon, '44C, is ad dressed at Co. A, 1st Plat., 107 Navy Walk, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sara Nancy Seigler, '33A, is teaching at the Graham High School, Graham, N. C. Emily Anne Easterling, '46Ed., is doing clerical work for the Rich land County Health Department, Columbia. Cpl. Wilmont M. Truluck, '42E, is attached to the :;32nd Fighter Sqd., Orange Co. Airdrome, Santa Ana, Calif. Pvt. Leon Couch Wright, '39A, is stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, \id. Mary Elizabeth Cox, '46C, is bookkeeper for the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Greenville. Pvt. James Walter Robertson, Jr., '43A, of the Coast Artillery is attached to the Message Center, Fort Banks, 52, Mass. Lt. John Rainsford, '41A, is sta tioned at the Army Air Forces Pilot School, Snyra, Tenn. Lieu tenant Rainsford is addressed at St. Tr. Det. 43-4-j, A.A.'I.P.S. (Spec. Eig.), Box 137, Smnyra, Tenn. The Rev. William J. Jones, '34G, i: now connected with the Amer ican Sunday School L~nion, 181t Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Penn. Reverend Jones is addressed at 105 Nor h Easton road, Glenside, Penn. Lt. Francis Collins Riley. '3lEd, of the .\l arine Corps is stationed at the M\arine Base, Cherry Point, N. C. Mattie Mae Pierson, '31G, ih teaching in the GatTncy city sli chl'.. NI iss Pierson is addressei at 2 l8 Race -treet. ( zaffney. S.C.3/c Melvin W. Perry, '45C of the Co ast Guard, is now sta tned at Fort \ l-cnry, Baltimore .\d. Lt. Henry Lide Reaves, 'ISA, o the Armiuy Chaplain Corps, is niow ad(dressed1 at the Station H ospital Camp \\'olters, Texa5. Arthur Monroe Taylor, '36G, i; supleintendenit of the \\hitnme: Pic' 11 Schooh.. \\'hitney. Lt. Stephen Graydon Rivers, '40s of the Quartermuaster Corps. is ad dressed at Nit. (:roghian. Vincent Inabinet Smith, '340 '35P, is a pharmacist at Sprmingnield Mary B. VanLandinghami, '41s, o teaching at Schneider G rammna Sebool, in Columubia. Pvt. Samuel Lionel Boylstor '44A, is overseas wvith a headquar ters squadron of the Army' Ai Forces. Private Boylston is ad driessedl through the postmiasteri ISan Francisco, Calif. Lt. Samuel Boykin, '40A, an Mrs. Boykin (Paulette West), '41, are adldressed in care of HIomse: Lancaster Pike, Hlockessin. Dela. . Lt. Emmett C. Smith, '37A, is ai tached to a field artillery battalio somewhierc overseas. L,ieutenar Smith is addressed in care of th postmaster in New York, N. Y. Maude Elizabeth West, '32Ed., HTartsville is doing secretarial wor at the Army Air Base, Kearn Utah. Pvt. John R. Mew, '46Ed.,< t Pritchardville, is addressed at Clat - 09, 610th Trng. Gp., Keesler Fiel, ,. Miss. Y2/c Lee Clayton Austin, '42A, faddressed at the commumication o s lice, N.S.N. adlvanced b)ase depo r Port Hlueneme, Calif. .Julian Alexander Reynolgs, '40j ni oi 828 East Anderson street. S; e vannah, Ga., is fireman for the Sea d board railway. a Pfc. Felton B. Scarborough, '432 t is stationedl at the Lincoln Air Bas .Lincoln, Nebraska. On27h Issued by the U LALP Future Alumni A son, Herbert Rosefield, Jr born December 5 to Mr. Herber Rosefield, '31A, and .Mrs. Rosefiel of 225 N. Washington Street, Sum ter. A daughter, born. to James Wes ley Hunt, '30C, and Mrs. Hunt (Ma rie Edwards), '29A, December 1: in 'Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt who now have five Future Alumni live at 2301 Devine St., Columbia. A son, Walter Rubin, born De ceniber 15 to Samuel Rubin, '36A and Mrs. Rubin in Columbia. Mr and Mrs. Rubin make their horn at 2528 1Icyward St., Columbia. A son, Charles Cochran Fish burne, III, born December 20 t< Chaplain Charles Cochran Fish burne, Jr., '25A, '26G, and Mrs Fishburnc (Eirene Mayers), '28A in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Fishburne is living in Roanoke while Chaplait Fishburne is stationed at Norfolk Va. Chaplain Fishburne is ad dressed at Amphibious Force, Ad ministrative Command Detachment N.O.B., Norfolk. A daughter, Marjorie Elizabetl Welch, born September 8 to W/C Benjamin C. Welch, '40A, and Mrs Welch (Marjorie Elizabeth Cook) '41C. Officer and Mrs. Welch mak4 their home at 1132 Hall street Bainbridge, Ga. A son, Richard Allen Roper, bori June 25 to W/O Richard A. Roper '41C, andl Mrs. Roper of Fountail Inn. Officer Roper is now stationec in England. A son, Arthur Mayer Gellman born December 8 to Lt. Jack Gell man and Mrs. Gellman (Elizabet Bloom), '38Sp., in Columbia. Mrs Gellman is making her home in Co lumbia while Lieutenant Gellman i: stationed in Southern Italy. A daughter, Ethel Ellison Tohias born December 29 to S1/c Ashle, C. (Pat) Tobias, III, '38A, an Mrs. Tobia$ (Neoma Newsome) '39Ed., at Orangeburg. Seamat first class Tobias is now statione, at the Charleston navy yard. W/O Richard A. Roper, '41C, o the Army Air Corps is attached ti a service squadron in l.ngland. Of ficer Roper is addressed througl the postmaster in New York, N. V Louise Whetstone, '35s, is prin cipal of the Aiken Day Schoo Aiken. Elizabeth Henry, '45A. is ad dressed at Monroe Terrace .\pts Richmond, 20, Va. Lt. Courtenay Carson, '39A, is i Africa with the Army Air Force: lieutenant Carson joined the Ai Forces in October 1942, and wa commissioned as a pilot in Jul 1943. UJ.e was stationed at D)alhai Army Air Base, Texas. before b< ing sent on foreign duty. Lt. W. J. Applegate, Jr., '42C, with the .\rmy Service Force Seventh Service Conunand, Can Crowder. Mo. Lieutenant Appi< gate is the post athletic officer Camp Crowder. Lt. (jg) Robert Wauchope, '31, is on duty with the Navy Depar ment in WVashington. 1Lieutenal WVauchope is addressed at Apt.4 1465 Columbia road, N.W., WVas ington, D. C. Lt. John C. (Johnny) Campbe '40J, is now stationed in A frica. A/S T. J. Inabinet, '43A, is -tending S. C. Medical School Charleston. lHe is addressed at Gadsden street, Charleston. rEns. Samuel H. Zimmerman, J1 '38E, formerly stationedl at Can ,Peary, Va., is now located att - U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensaco r Fla. -Lt. James W. (Bill) Davis, '41 1is now stationed in England. Lt. Edison Rouse, '39A, wril I that he and Lt. A. C. Lyles, '40 ,are stationed at Cecil Field, Jac ,sonville, FIa. Capt. Marion H. Smoak, '41 -having returned from duty in t ri Southwest Pacific last February. tnow instructing at the U. S. M e tary Academy, West Point, N. Y Lt. Arthur W. Sabo, '41P, I f recently beeni promoted to the ra k of first lieutenant. HIe is now s ', tioned at the 117th General HI pital, Camp Lee. Va. f A/C Burt Mitchell Orr, '44E, s adhdressed at Flight Brigade t2 I, Naval Air Training Center, Pen cola, Fla. s Rnd. J. D. (Jack) Fuller, '4: -and Lt. (jg) Wilbur Zeigler, '2I t, '29G, recently located in the No Africani area, are now in Engla L. Capt. Dan W. MilIsaps, Jr., '44 L- is attached to the headquarters L- the 96th Division, .Camp Wh Oregon. E, A/C Robert L. Heriot, Jr., '4 e, is now taking aviation training Seymour Johnson Field, N. C. e ..Atum niversity of South Carolina Al I LEWIS, '29, Executive Secretary and Alum Flying Gamecock Plays Vital Part t LIEUT. ROBERT K. HARTLEY, '45C, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean C. Hartley, Sr., of 369 E. Hampton street, Darlington, is playing a part in defense of vital Panama I Canal installations, recently described by a notionally known radio commentator as "the best defended spot in the world." Lieutenant Hartley, a pilot in the Ameri can Air Force, entered the University in 1941, but left in April, 1942, to join the AAF. He plans to return to Carolina after the war. Capt. William R. Geddings, '33J, , of Columbia is now with the Army , Air Transport Command in Cin I cinnati. Ohio. Albert Escott, 'OOA. has been i elected president of the Charlotte 11 N' .1 1st!ate boar;d. ! i. Isc4 'ii. secre tarv and sales manager of the \lar-lh Realty coipany. Charlotte, has been active on the hoard for the past several 3ears. lie has served a, % tee-president, secretary, treas urer and director. Ens. Van Earl Fillingim. Jr., 43C, is now stationed at Ohio State Lniversity, Columbus. Ohio. Lt. (jg) F. F. (Dinky) Williams, '38J, is located at the U.. S. Naval Air Station. Alatmteda. Calif. Mrs. Williams (Margaret Rollins) '39, u and their small son are with lieu r Capt. R. E. (Bob) White. '22A, s s addressed at :i2nd lbi. and Air y Base Sqd., Detachment F., Tlrng. -t iSqd. No. 1. Djavis- Nlonthan Field, -Tucson. Arizona. ILt. J. Frank Macauley, '41E, is is now located at the 1I(erbert Smtart Air H~ase. M1acon. Ga. Sgt. RQbert H. Swindler, '45C, has been trans ferred from Salt tI.ake City, I'tahi to Sioux City Ilowa. le is addressed at 581s1 ,Bomb; Sqd., A\rmy Air Blase, Siou., tCity, Iowa. Sergeant Swtindler i: nt a gunner on a Flying Fortress. ., Lt. Charles H. Gerald, Jr., '41A b tisowX adldressed at 22nd Airway: Comunication S(ud., I .aG(uardia II, Field. N. Y. Lieutenant Gerald was gradutatedI fronm Ot'ficers Candidate at- School (Air Corps) in August 194: iand has beeni based at Chanut< '6 f'ield. Ill., and .Langley Field, Va. Isince that titme. r., Mid. Charles W. Knowlton, Jr. ap '43A, is addressed at U.S.N.R he AMid'nt. School, 10I8 Abbott I lall la, -130 E. 11iuroin street, Chicago, Ill. Lt. L. D. Leppard, 23Sp., of th A, Ary halatin Corps, is now adi dIres-ed at the U. S. Naval I lospita C, IS. W. Gable, '250, of Columbilia k-.- as een appoinited by Gov. Olin IJ Johnston, '23G, '24L, as a mtembe L, of the board of directors of the Stat lhe lIbrary association. AI r. Gable suc is ceds Capt. John A. May, '34L, c Ii- Aiken who resigned. Senior Associate Justice D. Got tas don Baker, '05L, of the State Si: nk premne Court has appointed Clinto t a- T. Graydon, '10A, '130, of Columbi s- to serve as special judge and pr< side over the Court of General Sea is sion.s for Spartanburg County. -C, Eugene Leroy Horger, '38s,< sa- Columbia, recently received the d< gree of doctor of medicine fromin th IC, med(ical school, Duke Universit: IA, D)octor I lorger will serve an interi rth ship at the Dunke hospital. iIe hn nd. beeni commissioned a lieutenat BA, (jg) in the United States Naval R< of serve. ite, Ens. James Harvey DuBose, '484 has recently beent commiiissione.da IE, ensign in the Unted States Nay at Reserve. Ensign DuBlose is no stationedi at Newport. R. I. d 27ront lumni Association ni Editor They Promised Louise Fletcher of Kershaw and Sgt. Robert E. Leaphart, '42A, of Lexington December 9 at Eau Claire. Sergeant Leaph'art is a radio operator-gunner in the Army Air Forces, and at present is sta tioned at Salt Lake City, Utah. He is addressed at Classif. Rowt. Sec. D, Bks. 20-16, Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah. Margaret Franes Watts, '43C, of Columbia and Lt. Donald Hugh Collins of Columbia and New River, N. C. November 27 in Charleston. Mrs. Collins is making her home at 2225 Park street, Columbia, while Lieutenant Collins is stationed at New River. Mrs. Betty Boineau Wheeler, '43A, of Camden and John Warren Roland of Pittsburg, Pa., December 19 at Camden. They will be at home at Miami Beach, Fla. Virginia Marie Simcox, '38A, of Columbia and Sgt. Villiai E. Hol land of Atmore, Ala. December 10 in Columbia. For the present Mrs. Holland is making her home with her parents at 1125 Edgefield street, Columbia. Milwee Marguerite Goldschmidt, '44A, of Lookout Mountain, Tenn. and Harry Emil Jones of Chatta nooga, Tenn. December is at Lookout Mountain, Tenn. They will make their home in Nashville, Tenn. Shirlev Ann Mo-r. of Atlanta and Greensboro, Ga. an'd Staff Sgt. John Allen Bloodworth, '41A, of Columbia and Atlanta, Ga. Decem ber 4 in Greensboro, Ga. Sergeant and Mrs. IBloodworth are making their hontk- at 26 South Prado street, N.., Atlanta. Ga. Cornelia Anne Heath, '42Ed., of Columbia and Capt. Clyde Benja min Dobson of Greer I)ecentber 21 in Columbia. 'l'hev will make their home at 906 W. Bay street, lain'c ville, Fla. for the present. Margaret Jones Yeadon. '43Ed., of Sumter and i.t. Douglas Oneal Me Keown of Sumter December 19 at Sumter. They will be at home at Gatesville, Texas, where L.ieutenant McKeowt is now stationed. Clara Anne Miller, '44A, of Ben nettsville and Cpl. Walter Boyd Brown, '44A, of Winnsboro Decem ber 22 at Bennettsville. They will make their home in Columbia, where Corporal Brown is stationed. Blanche Price of Gilbert and George Leland McManus, '28Ed., of Kershaw December 21 at Cayce. Frances Edith Sheridan, '44A, of Columbia and Ens. William Roy Cook, '42A, of Columbia December 19t in Columbia. Josephine Brice Brown, '43A, of ICotumb,ia and Pvt. Charles Warren Irvin of Columbia D)ecember 23 in Columbia. They will be at home at 906 Sixth street, D)urhami, N. C. Tommie Mae D)avis of Crgen. wood and Joseph Theodore Wing. ard, '43P, of Lexington atnd Green wood December I 1 at G;reenw~ood. They will be at home at 500 Jent nings avenue. Greenwood. Frances Sams Childs, '43A, of Columbia and Lt. William Frantcie Smith, Jr., of B3altimore, Md. De cenmber 31 in Columbia. Leone Dexter Strickland, '43A, o1 C.olumbia and Charles Guy Castles Jr., USNR, '43A, of Colutmbia De. cemtber 30 int Columbia. 'rThey wit be at home at 86 Antson street Chtarleston. Ida Doris Johnson, '38A, of Al lendale antd Lt. Donald Frank Bal tuts of Atuburndale, WVis. D)ecemtbe 19 int the post chapel at Cami 11i0(1. L ieutenant Baltuts is nov serving int the hteadqutarter's comt patny of t 603rd tattk destroye battalion, Camp Hood(, Texas. Saraht Anderson Zitmmterman o Spartantbttrg and Lt. Charles Henr: ', Zimmerman, '43C, of St. Matthew rJanuary I in Spartantbutrg. The; wialtlbe at home in San Antonic e ,, exas. Lieutenant Zimtmermani now stationedl at Hondo, Texas. Carol Claxton Humbert, '45A, C Sutmter and Fleetwood Dougha Davant December 27 at Sutmter. Mary McMaster Boulware, '46A n of Wintnsboro attd En.. John Albet a Martin, '43A, of Cotumbia an Jacksonville, Fta., December 28i Winnsboro. Dorothty IIamilton of Rock i and Lt. Joe Alexander Camp, '431 of Rock illt and Chterry Poin e N. C. December 26 at Rock ii - Thtey will live at Morehteadl Cit: -' N. C. t John M. Pratt, M.13., '34A, .Hickory Grove, has recently bec promoted from first lieutenant ,captaint. Captaint Pratt is nowv ser' n ing with a station htospitat in Ital: a! Cpl. Reginald 0. (Tad) Kno: w '44A, Is now serving witht tIhe arm in Enand. Annie Lee Young, 25A, 38G, Asst. Editor Men and woien of Carolina, graduates and non-graduates are requested to send alumni news and their changing oddresses to the Alumni Office, University Campus. Columbia, South Carolina ALUMNI 01 WOODWARD, '38L Maj. Jaccb Henry Woodward, '38L, former Columbia attorney and member of the House of Represen tatives from Richland County, and son of Alumni Secretary J. I. Woodward of Clemson College, was killed November 15 in an Army jeep-automobile accident in Penn sylvania. Major Woodward was sta tioned at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa. Major W oo d w a r d, born at Orangeburg October 16. 1913, at tended Columbia High School, ic ceived his bachelor of science de gree from Clemson in 1935, and completed his law degree at the University in 1938. ie won sports honors at both Columbia High School and Clemson College, and was halfback on the all-state foot ball team. le was active as a foot ball and basketball official until he entered the service. -le was presi dent of the South Carolina Foot ball Officials' Association, president of the South Carolina Citizens' Li brary Association, a director of the Columbia Town Theater, secretary of the South Carolina Junior Chan ber of Commerce, and a member of the South Carolina and American Bar associations. IHis wife, Mrs. Susan IHeyward Gibbes Woodward and their 10 month-old (lauglhter, Susan I ley ward, who lived w ith him at Indian town Gap, survi\e. Lt. Ben A. Matthews, USNR, '42A, was recently promoued from lientenant junior grade to lieutenant. lie is now execurti%e officer of a de stroyer escort. I.icutenant M .atthcws received his midshipmain's training ot the 17. S. S. 'rairie State in New York City. After being coin missioned ensign, lie went to Mas sachusetts In-titute of Technology and Cornell University for further training. Lieutenant Mlatthews saw service on a I'T boat for more than a year, and was promoted to lieu tenant junior grade. lie has been on duty in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Caribbean, P'acific and other theatres of naval operations. Beecher Morton, V-12, of l.reat Falls has completed his training at the pre-midshipman school at Nor folk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, V.a Midshipman Morton is now wait ing to be assigned to a midshipman school. Lt. T. Perrin Kennedy, '40A, of Columbia and 1.~nion was one of the survivors of the b'attle of 'the Gilbiert I slands. L ieutenanit Ken ne-dy was on the Carrier Liscoine [Hay, which was lost in action. lIe is now in the States. Lt. Col. Marcus B. Boulware, '14A, interned in a P hilippine MIil itary camp, wsrites that lhe is ini ex cellent health. Major Henry D. Coffee, '38A, of the Army- ordnance department, is attached to the headquarters of a service group oiverseas. Major Coi fee is an electrical engineer. Capt. Patrick Henry Nelson, '30A, of the Marines is nowv on overseas duty-. Havin cont)pletedl a teii-mionthu engineering course for the Curtis WVrighat Airplane coinpainy, three. Carolina ahumnae are ready to take over men's job)s in one of the com pany's plants. T1hese three aluminae are: Lillian Rhame; '43A, Adelyr Lipscomb, '41Ed., and Josephine r Johnson, '42A. MI iss Rhate wsill be working in Caldgell, N. J., and~ Misses Lipscomb and( Johnson will b)e in L ouisville, Ky. Senator R. M. Jefferies, '10A, oi Colleton has been elected general manager for the South Carolini Public Serv-ice (Santee Cooper) Au thbority-. Senator JefTeries succeed: Robert M. Cooper, '09A, '10G, o W'\isaucky. Capt. Courtland M. Rizer, '32C is adldressedi at Headquarters 224t1 bIn., Camp IBlanding, Fia. Staff Sgt. Homer Livingtor Roof, '40Ed., of the Marine Corp tis stationied at Santa Blarbara. Calif Lt. Frank B. Brown, Jr., '39A,i doing research in mieteorology' a New York 1'niversity-, N. Y. SJames Trapler McInvaill, '46E,i Staking an instructor's course in avia tion at Owens Field, Columb,ia. I. Cpl. Thomas J. Royster, Jr., '42A is addressed at 375th Fighter Sqd. Army Air Btase, Richmnondl, Va. Ens. John W. Millson, '43A, is; if pilot in the Navai Air Corps. lie i ni adldressed at Srjd. :m, Flight No. 7 o WVhiting Field, MIelton, Fla. '- Dean Francis W. Bradley, '07A y. '09G, has been elected chairman o s, the board of the Laurel street USC y in Columbia. Dean [Bradley sue BITUARIES SEARSON, '02L Robert Plato Searson, '02L, Al lendale attorney and former state senator, died October 24 of a heart attack. le was born in the portion of Barnwell which is now Allen dale County. Being graduated from " Clemson College in 1902, he came to Carolina for his law training. He served as a mcnber of the House of Representatives from Barnwell County before Allendale County was formed, and was senator from Allendale from 1923 to 1927 and from 1931 to 1938. During his last two terms lie served as poet lau reate of the Senate. lie served a four-year term as state. highway commissioner and was chairman of the memorial committee of the South Carolina lar Association. He had been government appeal agent for selective service, during the first \Vorld 'War and in the present emergency, Allendale County attor ney, and special judge. Surviving are his widow, M rs. Mattic Turner Searson; a son, Lt. Robert Plato Searson, Jr., '29L, who nas in Eng land at the time of his father's death, and two brothers, Louis A. Sear son of Columbia and W. Arnold Searson of Spartanburg, and other relatives. Lt. James Edwin Belser, Jr., '36L, is on overseas duty with the Afa rine Corps. James Dew Rogers, '32A, of 239 Wine street, \iullins, is a tobacco, inspector for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Lt. Woodrow Wilson Dunn, '34A, is in the inspection office at the 1Iuntsville Arsenal, Iluntsville, Ala. Albert Stewart, Jr..'40A, is a med ical student at Washington Univer sity. Mr. Stewart is addressed at 1933 Forest Park boulevard, St. Louis, 8, Mo. Mary Estelle Timberlake, '32A, is librarian at Lander College, Greenwood. James Henry Sullivan, '08A, '09G, Laurens attorney, now a intnber of the S. C. louse of Represen atives, is addressed at 628 South Harper street, Laurens. Margaret Sheppard, '42C, i, pay master at Belk's Department Store, Columbia. Miss Sheppard mnak-'s her hiome at 1214 College street, Columi Dora Ruth Surasky, '28A, 1 (1o ing secretarial work for the htken. County Chapter of the Americant Red Cross. Mliss Surasky Is ad. dressed at 825 Florence street, Mid. James M. Ravenel, '43A, is nowv a senior at the United States N aval academy. Miidshipman Rav enel will graduate in June 1944. Lt. I. D. Elmore, Jr., '41C, of Smter, ;s attached to a \Marine Corps n'nit ill the South I'acitie area, I,.ieuttenantt Elmore enlisted in Au gust 19411, anhd was~ awardIed a see- b 01n( lientena nt's field comitn ssion) in) Novemb~er 1942. 1lIe receivedl his promotion to first lientenant in Alav 1943. Lieutenant Elmore has served in the Guadalcanal area. in the Rus sels, and in New Georgia. J. Kelly Dorman, '31L, of Con.. way has~ b,een ain(Ittedl matster ini equity of 11lorry County. iie sue cee(ds the late C. B. Thomas, '16A, '28L, whlo wvas fatally injured in a hunting accident. E. M. (Zip) Hanna, 42J. formter footb,all coach att O)lympiat high school, has accepted thle posit ion of. dlirector of physical ednteat ion at the Columbia Y\l C.\. AI r. Ilina participated ini fotall a1, b'aseball, track atnd bioxing while att the Uni versity. Col. Edmund P. Gaines, '21A, is nowv commtianiding D al I.\NIabry field Si/c Albert Hammond Hiarling, 44E, formterly stat ionIed at J ack5oni ville and Benjamtin Lee Field, Fla., has been1 transferred to Norfolk, Va. Robert E. Seibels, Jr., '40s, re- / cently received his dlegree of doctor' of muedicine fronm Duke UnIiversity, ,)turham,, N. C. D)octo,r Seibels has ,beeni comlmissionedl ani ensign in the United St ates Naval Rese'rve. He will serve his niine-monith internship at the Duke hospital I,I urha m, N. C. , Lt. James Pagaud Coleman, '36A, execu'tive (Iflicer onh a destroyer, has ,rturned to the States after serv f inig miore than, a y ear antd a half on l oreign, dutly. Ilhe has bee awat~rded the Silver Star for gallatntry and his