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REUNION Ens. Fletcher Spigner, '37A, '40L, recently commissioned an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve, is now addressed at the U. S. Naval Con struction Center, Supply Depart mtent, Camp Lce Stevenson, Quoddy Village, Maine. Pvt. John Sadler, '43J, is ad dressed at Co. U, 232nd Un., I. R. T.. C., Camp U landing, Fla. Sgt. Paul Johnson, '41A, is now stationed at Buckley Field, Colo. Sergeant Johnson is addressed at 765 T. S. S., Bks. 421, Buckley Field, Colo. A/S John W. Williams, '43A, is studying redicine at Vanderbilt Sniversity, Nashville. Tenn., tinder the Naval Training Program. Tie is addressed at 2115 H ighland Ave., Nashville, t, Tenn. .\mong other Carolina alumni in the same pro gram arc Roy Cecil Campbell, '43A, and Leland Brannon, '43A. Lt. Thomas Perrin Kennedy, '40 A, is addressed at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. Lieuten ant Kennedy, one of the survivors of a baby top carrier. tire Liscomle Bay, visited the alunmi otlice last week. Lt. Holmes Conrad Dreher, '42A, is addressed at 11rt. and 11hg. Sq., Boca Raton Field, Fla. Among those receiving the de gree of doctor of medicine at the South Carolina Medical School in December, 194.; were several Caro lina alumni. These men are Thom as Marion Davis, 40A; William Henry McCaw, '40A; Martha Outz Dukes, '42A; Oscar LaBorde, '40A; Edgar Hinnant Myers, '40A, and Waitus O'Neill Tanner, '40A. Doc tors Davis, LaBorde, ant Tanner will interne at the Columbia lios pital, Columbia. Doctor )ukes will serve at the Baptist Hospital. Win ston-Salem, N. C. Capt. Robert A. Burgess, Jr., '42 L, of Sumter was graduated recent ly from the officer advanced course at the Itfantry School, Fort Ben ning, Ga. Lt. James Benjamin (Ben Joe) Williams, '39C, of Charleston and former football coach at Orange burg high school. is now a marine corps fighter pilot in the South Pacific. His younger brother, Cpl. Harry S. Williams, '43A, is with a Marine raider division in that same area. Arthur E. Shaw, Jr., '36A, has been promoted to the rank of cap tain at Camp Shelby,Ais., where he is dentist for a M1 I'. Battalion. Captain Shaw attended an armty medical school at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Edward Sinton Cardwell, '29E, '31A, has been promroted to tire rank of major at l'ort Jack-on. where hre is chief of the loratory ser vice at the Fort Jacksont Station hrospital. Staff Sgt. Harold Knute Delk, 44J, iz air enrgineer andI top trrrret gnunnecr on a Fly ing lFearc'e based in Englanrd. Sergearnt IXik is orig inally fronm Chlarlestern. . Herbert W. Hennig, '20L, has bteen cho-ent by thie Darintgtonr K waniis clubi as w irnner of the citizern ship awvard for t171t;. Thle a ward is tiade anura lly toj the citizen cont tributinig publiic service5 cf tire hrighest mrerit arid greatest valure t the commrurne Ens. Bratton Davis, '38A. '40L, trnow rr bit:,' with the teet rrr tire I'acitie. lis b roUthI. Li. John Thorne Davis, '42A r' eent\ cr1n stationed at a'myrna .\rur- .\ir field, NaryrnIa, Tenn. Pvt. Riley Augustus Bradham, Jr., '46A, of Sniter h ow w~ ith~ a tield artillery unit in I taly. lIeI is addcressed thrrouigh tire peostmarster ini New York. I'rivate lhradiham wvas indutied inr the arrmy in .\;arch. 19i:, andr' received his bic trarinrinrg at Campr~ \\oiter., TeCxa,,- aird Camrp Shienanrgo. I 'a. Mrs. Harry Emil Jones (Milwee Goldschmidt) '44A, ik now, adidressed1 at 2319' whtaronda.le 1)ri;e, Nash Lt. Crawford Clarkson, Jr., U. S. N. R., '41C, hras recenitly ibeen pro mroted to thre rank of execurtit.e of licer of hris decstroyer, arid is on sluty in thre l'acilic. 1 ,iettnant Clarksonr has been in tire service almost three years. A/C Henry A. Lovett, '45C, is nrow located at tire Naval Air Sta Cpl. Wesley W. Morgan, '42A, is attached to ain infantry battalion at Camp Roberts, Calif. Pvt. George Doukas, '43C, is ad dressed at Co. A, 224Ith Un., Car Blandinrg, Fla. )orothy Derrick, '43A, Alumni Recorder Mailed by the Alumni Association Of 'ice to members of the Association and to ion-member alumni in the Armed Forces hose addresses are on file in the Alumni )ffice. IN PRINT Lt. Clark Lewis Reed, '37EE, re cently commissioned in the Marine Corps, is with-an infantry battalion at Camp Lejenne, New River, N. C. A/C Thomas A. Rich, '43A, is ad dressed at ltry. 42, Co. K, Plat. 2, U. S. Naval 1're-Flight School, Iowa City, Iowa. Pvt. John Lawrence Reynolds, '45C, is with the finance department at JefTerson Barracks. Mo. Mrs. William Ray Hedden (Hel en Cantey), '43J, formerly of Wal halla, is now mraking her home at 714 l'ickens street, Colnnbia. Mrs. lIIedden is an instrutctor in the Eng lish departinent at USC. A/C Clarence O. Little, '44E, is taking aviation traini'ng at the Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla. Cpl. Harold H. Hentz, '27Ed., is with a field artillery detachment sonic where overseas. Ens. Hasell Thomas LaBorde, '42A, of 3018 Monroe street. Co lumbia, is on duty with the fleet in the Pacitie. Lt. William R. Smithey. '45A, re cently cormnuissioned a pilot in thle Air Corps, is addressed at ltks. ::7. Room 206, Green Cove Springs, Fla. Sgt. Cosmo S Rose, '44C, is with an infantry battalion somewhere overseas. Mrs. William Melton Halsey (Corrie McCallum), '36A, i, ad lressed at 1t21 West :;th street, Savannah. Ga. Sgt. Norman H. Rucks, '44A, is with an armored command division at Fort Knox, Ky. Sergeant Rucks is an expert rifleman, and has been awarded the Good Conduct medal. Ens. Charles E. McCrorey, '39A, is now stationed at a Public Works Office, addressed through the post master in San Francisco. Calif. Lt. Walter Smith Rowe, '33C is addressed at 2529 Glen Crest Road, Fort Worth, Texas. Rosalyn C. Snipes, '44A, i. doing clerical work at the Florence Army Air Field. Florence. Lt. (jg) J. H. (Harry) Spann, Jr., '37Ed., '41G, has rccently fin ished the Navigation school at 1ihl.ywood. Fla. Lieutena1:nt Spa:n is no' attached to one of the squad rons of the Narv Air TFrailport as a navigator. Lt. David A. Cohen, Jr., '42S, i with an infantry unit overseas. Lieutenant Cohen is aidrete,l through the postmaster in New York City. Staff Sgt. Thomas Hemphill Smith, '44J, of Abbevihie. is withi a miumiin h)ombalrdmlent group in the North Airican theatre. Staff Sgt. William J. McGarity, Jr., '41A, i. attached to the, po.st heat qarters, Campi Cooike. Calif. Capt. Hyman David Lipsitz, '34A, of the Arnmy Air Corps. i wohii a tigh-ter group~ onrocas. Cap-i; taini I .ipsitz is addressed through:l Calii. Doris Issoline Walters. '43Ed., is dloing steniographie wor for ihe I'aciute Mill-, Columibia,. SpI. Henry Hennig Cohen, '41A, of I )arlitito, is attachedl to the is ih Replacement \\'ing, .\rmyn A ir lise, 1'.earns, Utah. A/C William C. Richardson, '43A, of thle A\rmy .\ir Corps. is~ now s,tidying aviation at Ilnde. Tfexas. Ca~det Richiards,on is 'h'lrveied at \riny A\ir Field.I llood 'Ie. Ens. George Leroy Williams, Jr., '43E, o)r l ine I lago'>! te:me . C tie Navy in the l'ati Pvt. John William Schofield, '42A. iimir .s tat ii ed ;, S e p r Cainyi Silert, .\ttaha. .\l; Mrs. Isabel Watkins Walker, '23G, i- perlo nnel t ethmnian in erlibi \iar .\-.ir-i. \\, &r cii Rev. Muller R. Wingard, -19G, ia iniister at G,re'nu' nd. R(e. Srendl Wiinga rd i- add'Irew edat-n Thomas Y ancey Williams, '86L, of h.,ancas'terI a si(e-presidenit of the Springs C'ott> \ii ll. and the hlan,k of Lancaster. Isabel Alston Wills, 'tBSp., o,f 1fl02 Htill street, Colnbiai, is s,ee retary io a South Carolina >tate Scenat e Commiiit tee at the stateu Ca pi to!. Mrs. Samuel J. Singletary, Jr. (Mary Elizabeth Strong), '405, is teachiint at Lake City. \I rs. Single. iary is addressed at 20 \\'et Main I treet, ILk C'ty .on fit Issued by the Ui RALPH Five Fightin Maj. Murray G. Fant Pvt. Robert G. Fant ix mnembecrs of the F-ant famtily of Lckhri n enot oniv" alummi of the _university, blut are now active membel,rs of the Alumn,- Association . TIhe tiVceuyunger F:ants, sons of John Roy Fant, Sr., '06A, and .\Irs. at1t. are non ser\ mg mn thle armyv, the air corps, and the mnarines, in this coulntry and ab,road. They are Maj. Murray G. Fant, '40A; Pvt. John R. (Jack) Fant, '40A; Cpl. James W. (Jimmie) Fant, '42A ; Pvt. Robert G. (Bob) Fant, '43A; and A/C Alex S. Fant, '45E. Maj. William A. Rawl, '40A, is attached to- the headqunarters of the Sotheltrn lDefense Commnanid, Fort Sam1 Ilou t"ln. Tecxa.. David Lindway Stronach, '35E, is an engineer n\ ith thle J.Law-Knox Vtp: ny, l'l'twilx, I'. \Ir. stro.nach is inldres.ced at : Second street, .\ pn a I 'itt.iburg, I.5, Pa. BruteC obertny, C Fhnta Ms til lis it .niry at :MtiDe ine Ijtreet. Con nh ]ita I'. Lt. Ro Jae nox Ew,0a, Jr.,d'44C, t.me ai<hlp., n Te ais. itnn thiarotltis ad<id atad ie Cote ae. MrAy. Fri, DallA Pvta. aEnss (iMmire Fayr, '43C,Pv Roerton(ob Sumant,'43C; Fatn A/Col, '43A Fant, HarldJerey Ma. William A.n Rich4adsn Nth'itlt heut leie ttis i tee Davi inday S.tLowrac, '36A, '38G,i tIi, ar~ ch an in the l ~Army n th thlL Ilicitix ar 'a. I.ltena St.i wrance i aII l 'riheI ateian meoin tc,.\pxMain S. Wt~itherst.pon Mildre Stu\-s, '34h.. b'- he in-r muxxttdr t ottexn at tre llte ant.l Ihl i <tac metuIan e Efthe.\ndiary Wlliams *4ectis a ii-te.u an, .ierean \ itihelso 'imedr ad unny eaturead t I,al Vernuonnmal -t. '4im; Fraon didAte. o o i n i ;pil hit .. N ie i Cp. WiameKin. RChadson 44 39,Vftl .\f inturn it no in Itoiiol Cor Northl Caid.ler,wh is inlthe Arm. En. Willimas oRssel, Perri '3C, is, addret e atl ltillarii it Group t 10 A. T. I t,ri xitti ree. Ca. MJerry MS Wuhespoon '38A,'L, of th l ariCris it w Il ati oned a t t .\ Iain t . O. Qi tt aine I Corp Air,iti Stattn,l Cherr CI'.iSa,uel C. C anlgers r4 ;irte ha beno dty in the Sotit Capt. erry Miles hug, s, J e Aum1 viversity of South Carolina Al LEWIS, '29, Executive Secretary and Alumi ; Gamecocks of the Pvt. John R. Fant A recent letter from Jimmie, who recently arrived in England, stated that he and Jack, who has been overseas for someni months, had met for the first time in a year at an American Red Cross Club in Bug land, and the two are hoping for other chances to get together to talk over news from home. Jimimie's letter also stated that he had visited Stratford-on-Avon, and had attended the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Jack wrote that after his arrival in England, he received a letter which had been following him a round for over a year from Ralph Lewis. alumni secretary. Both said they had received and enjoyed copies of The Gamecock since ar riving in England. Bob, the only 'Marine in the fain ily, has recently been sent to Camp reme, New RivC, N. C., after completing hie bout training at Parris Island. "Murray, who is now a major in the Army Air Corps, is -tationed at Selnan Field, Moonroe, l,a. Ile and his wife are making their home in AnI iiroe. Another member of the Fant clan will soon he wearing silver wings. Alex. the youngest of the boys in the service, is now receiving flight training at Gunter Field. 'lontgom cry. Ala. Lieutenant White .44~'- C /s as ,: mm aI ebro h ca~4 dreah n atCamp Croft, aanbury.. r.ner '44A,is stuyge unrk th3ed bi Ma rine Corps Reserve program at umni Association i Editor Fant Family ii....X Cpl. James W. Fant A C Alex. S. Fant Father J. Roy Fant, who was usiess manager of the Garnet and Mack during his student days at arolina, has never ceased to con ribute hi, services to the Univer ;i -. iHe has served as president of he Ahinni Association, and is now tlumni vice-president from the ieventh Judicial Circuit. Mr. Fant s associated with Monarch Mills as ;ecretary and assistant treasurer, md is vice-president and secretary f the Lockhart Power Company. I .ieut. W. 11. Crawford White, late alumnus, who died in action in China Dec. :0, 191:t, has kept in close touch with Carolina. In the first letter lie wrote to the Alumni office after arriving overseas, lie said: "I ant dying for news of my classmates and all Carolina fo.lk in general . . Many were the :tood days I had there (at Caro lina) (and many were the Sfrienids I made. I want to keep in touch with all that's going Son. I Ic was aun active minbiter of the A h ini Association. L ieutenant Wite's last coim munnica~tion to his Alumni office, a V-maiul letter dlatedl Nov. 21, 1943, is reprodluced below. ($to0 y in Columni SiX) --m e a. mipmn. d ........... A a-W,,lrl me r, M /p /4.-erP4~ .ad 4C - 6m. '.a .* ..' Staff Sgt. Lucius *Henry Size. more, '41C, is attached to the hiead quarters of a qhuartermnaster sectiol overseas. Sergeant Sizemnore is ad. dIressedl through the postmaster i New York City. Motte Junius Yarbrough, '25L, i Annie Lee Young, 25A, 38G, Asst. medit Men and women of Carolin, graduate and non-graduates are requested to sen olumni news and their changing oddresse to the Alumni Office, University Campu; Columbia, South Carolina Future Alumni A so:f, William Parham Simpson, born December 30 to Lt. William C. Simpson, '38A, and Mrs. Simpson tElizabeth Parham), '41A, at Ama rillo, Texas. Lieutenant Simpson is stationed at Amarillo Army Air field as instructor in the air corps. They make their home at 902 Louisiana street, Amarillo, Texas. A son, Robert Alford Burgess, 111, born December 24 to Capt. Robert Alford Burgess and Mrs. Burgess (Allene Cudd), '40A, in Co lumbia. Captain Burgess is now stationed at Camp Pickett, Va. Crawford White Dies in China First Lt. W. H. Crawford White, '37A, bombardier- navigator with Gen. Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force in the China theatre of operations, was killed in action Dec, 30, according to a message from the War Department received here recently. Lieutenant White, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Davis White, '05A, of No. 1 University Campus and the late William Cozby White, was bor1 in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20, 1915, mov ing to Columbia in 1919. Hie was descended from a long line of Caro lina alumni and alumnae. An outstanding golfer, Lieuten ant White won the Forest Lakt Country Club (Columbia) goll championship at the age of 13, and later was a member and captain of the University golf team. While a student at Carolina he was assis tant managing editor of The Game cock, and a member of the Ger man Club, the Euphradian Liter ary Society, the Inter-fraternity Council. the Garnet and Black staff and Sigma Nu fraternity. H. tt tended Clemson College for a shorl time before entering the University many Clemson men were his friends le was with Seibels, Bruce and Company in Columbia before volun teering for the air corps, in whicl he enlisted Jan. 7. 1942. After en tering the service Lieutenant Whit< received training at Maxwell Field Ala.: Ocala, Fla.; Santa Ana, Calif. and Williams Field, Chandler, Ariz. where he received his wings as second lieutenant and bombardie Sept. 26, 1942. lie was then stationed at the Co lumnbia Army Air base for four an< a half months before going over seas. While stationed in Columbia he paid his last visit to the Alumn office (Nov. 14. 1942) and talked c the wvar, the University and the fu ture of the Alumni Association. lHe left the Columbia Air bas, in Feb. 1943, and soon joined Gen eral Chennault's Fourteenth Ai Force. First stationed in India, ani recently in China, he huad seen mnucl action in which he had dlistin Beieshs mother, hie is survive by a sister, Mrs. John W. R. Pop (Sarah LeConte White), '34Ed., c Claxton, Ga.; three aunts, Mrs Samuel Kirby of Columbia; Mrs Henry F. Anderson (Isabel Davis) '03Sp., Cleveland Heights. Ohic andl Mrs. R. L. Moore of H-ickor' NM. C.; and three tuncles, Prof. Harr Campbell Davis, '98A, '07G, of thi University E n g I i s hi depart ment James Spratt White, '99A, of Roe lill and George D. White of Char lotte, N. C. Pvt. Don W a lla ce McBrid '45Ed., is addressed at Platt. 601 10th Recruit 1Un., Parris Island. Sarah Marjory Ward, '45A,< :1:16 5. Chturch street, Rocky Mon N. C., is a student nurse wvith th U. S. Cadet Nurses Corps. Mis Ward is sttudying at the Rock Mountain S an ita r iu mn, Rockt Mount, N .C. Robert S. McCants, Jr., 44A, addreCssed at Tfarnuiae Division, Ba racks 8:1, U. S. Naval Air Bas Memphis, 15, Tenna. Mrs. Sam W e ngr ow (Sa: Wolff), '28A, is addressed at Alle: dale Capt. Eugene Norman Shapir< '37A, is with the 58th Fight< Group, Grenier Field, N. HI. Paul Felton Williams, '28A,< W\ood land dIrive, H artsville, chief inspector and salesman ft the Sono..o Products Compan: IHartsville. Mrs. Ellison Capers Powers (Lo tie Virginia Muller), '30Ed., of Si Kilbourne roadl, Columbia, is teaci ing the seventh grade at Olymp High School, Columbia. Lt. Claude N. Sapp, '43L, is c duty13 withm the~ fleet in tihe Pacilie. Josephine Wilson, '42G, is teaci ing att the F,dmnunds Hligh Schc They Promised Betty Bryan, '47A, of Pinewood and Robert S. Walters of Pinewood and Wilmifgton, N. C., December 22 at Sumter. They will make their home at Wilmington, N. C., where Mr. Waters is connected with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Marie DuPre Montague, '42A, of Sumter and Capt. George Nelson Kurzenberger of Painesville. Ohio and Shaw Field, January 8, at Sum ter. Sara Jeannette Hite, '45C, of Whitmire and Lt. \Valter Mlalcolm Bell, Jr., of Hartsville, December 21 in Nashville, Tenn. They will live at Murfreesboro, Tenn., for the present. Eva Gwathmey Hampton, '43A, of Columbia and Capt. Harold Buckley Willis, Jr., of Bcston, Mass., January 8 in Columbia. They are making their home at :t:37 South Woodrow street, Columbia. Sara Wilds Gillespie of Florence and John William Neeley, III, '45A, of Columbia, D&cenb-r 11 at Flor ence. ir. Neeley is hospital ap prentice, first class, United States navy, now stationed at Great Lakes, Ill. i Virginia Alice Cannon of Colum bia and Pvt. Enoch Christopher Al len, Jr., '44C, of Conway, December 28 at the post chapel at Mawell Field, Ala. They are making their home at 308 Sayre street, Mont gomery, Ala., while Private Allen is stationed at Maxwell Field. Carolyn Bell Morningstar of Ehrhardt and John Wilton Smith, '43A, of Olar, December 29 at Ehrhardt. They will !ivc at Ehr hardt. Mr. Smith is employed at the Navy Yard, Charleston. Tech. Sgt. Leo J. Krotoszynski, A '41C, writes that he recently mettj Capt. Olin K. McD)onald, '4IA, aad 9. that he hopes to visit Pvt. Stanley Joseph (Stan) Stasica, '44C, soon. Sergeant Kroto is stationed at a sub depot overseas. He is addressed through the postmaster in New York City. Lt. Perrin C. Byars, Jr., '42C, writes that he spent New Year's Day with Ens. A. R. Inabinet, '43C. Lieutenant Byars is with the First Marines overseas. ie is ad dressed through the postmaster in San Francisco, Calif. Pfc. James E. Leppard, Jr., '43A, is now studying under the Army I Specialized Training Program at - the Atlanta-Southern Dental Col lege, Atlanta, Ga. SSi/c John McGown, '43A, is in f the Amphibian Forces of the U. S. -Naval Amphibian Training Base, Solomans Brsanchs, WVashington, D. e C ~ Lt. Goodwyn M. Hane, '42E, of r3303 Duncan street, Columbia, is attached to ans engineering battalion somewherc o v e r s e a s. Lieutenant 1liane is addressed through the post master in New York City. e A/S Wayne Carter Brady, '43A, is studying at thec South Carolina Medical College. Seaman Brady is addressed a 0 rodset,Co lonial Apts, Charlestocn. Pfc. Clarke Wardlaw McCants, '42A, is now with the 20th Ferry y ing Command, Nashville, Tenn. e Lt. William B. Farmer, '41E, for n; erly stationed at WVaco Army Air k Field, Waco, Texas, has been) -transferred to Symra Army Air Field, Smyra, Te'nn. Sgt. Maj. C. Aubrey Gasque, '45C, writes, in a letter dated Deceumer 29a, 1943, that the V-mail announce mnent of the 1943 football victory over Clemson has reached him "af ter following mec around for sev seral thousand miles." Sergeant Ma jor Gasque is now in Persia. y' Tech. William B. Fogle, '31A, of Camseron, Capt. David W. Robin is ,son, '210, '21L, of Cohimbhia,; and ;Sgt. James Clinkscales (Jimmie) e, Hill, '44C, of D)arlinsgtoni, each has sent a copy of the Decembler 13, a 1913. issue of Thie Stars and Stripes* 1(daily newspaper of the U. S. A rmsed Forces ins the Europeatn the o ater of op)erations), which carries :r a story' under a banner line on the sp)orts page about Pvt. Stanley if Joseph (Stan) Stauica, '44C, of is Rockford, Ill. Stasica, fortner star >r half back at Carolina whlo had Ihis y, college career initerrupted by hijt/~ call to the colors, is now snaking ' t. football history with the Scream 4. ing Eagles, a service teamt in Eng. . land. a Swift C. Black, M.D., '39P, has completed hsis initernshtip at the *n Jackson Mesmotial I lospital, Miami, 4 [Ila., atnd is, at his home in Spring -. field for thec present. Doctor Black 1, expects to joinit the Army its a few