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VOLUME ONE

DR. R. T. TUMBLESTON NAMED PRESIDENT AT ALUMNI DINNER

Dr. Robert T. Tumbleston, D.D., of the Class of 1907, was elected president of the Alumni Association, at the annual dinner and business meeting in the Alumni Lodge on the campus, May 31st, 1945.

Pastor of the Lower Dublin Baptist hurch at Bustleton, Pa., which recently

celebrated its 257th anniversary, 01'. Tumbleston has served as secretary of the Alumni. He will be succeeded in that capacity by Major William R. "Bill" Tumbleston, of the Class of 1937, who was wounded on Iwo Jima and recently returned to the States after hospitaliza· tion in the Marianas.

Other officers elected were: First Vice­president, George A. Lyons, Class of '21; Second Vice-pt'esident, Leon A. Campu­zano, '21; Third Vice-president, Allion F. Amodio, '14. The Board of Managers whose term expires in 1946, includes: George F. Bauer, Jr. , '28; Russell H. Lutz, 1920; F. Gordon Shaw, '30, and Sherwy n L. Davis, '26. The Managers until 1947 are: Arthur Y. Schilling, '20; Samuel J. Allen, '26; Charles D. Hurp­mer, '27, and Ralph J. Atti, Jr., J anuary.

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Paul J oulwan Has Been Liberated

PFC Paul J. Joulwan, son of Mr. ancl Mrs. Sol J oulwan of 313 N. Second street, Pottsville, has been liberated from a German pdson camp and returned to military control, according to word re­ceived by his parents.

Paul was 15 months in prison, having been captured with the infantry on the Anzio beach. He fil'St escaped from the Nazis and met up with another former PMC athlete, Sgt. John L. "Jack" Fan­court, while hiding in the underground at Rome, prior to the fall of the Italian city.

An all around star at Pottsville Cath­olic High, J oulwan s howed a great deal of promise in PMC athletics. He left college in April 1943 for service and was sent overseas in August of the same yeal·.

Lt. Col. McCaffery Honors A tribute to the memory of Lt. Col.

Hugh McCaffel'y, former PMC athlete who was killed in an Army Air crash in Decembet· 1941, was paid in St. Mi­chael's Cemetery, Chester, on Memorial Day afternoon. The affair was sponsored by the Veterans' Council of Chester.

A Cadet guard from PMC attended the ceremony and fired a volley over the

olonel's grave.

JUNE, 19-15

Major Thomas E. Leet, '13, on the inactive list of the Army Air Corp after three years of service, whose nam e has been presented to a com­mittee of the Board of Trustees by

01. Frank K. Hyatt with a recom­mendation to be assistant Co mmand­ant. Major Leet for merly was aid e to General Cha rles E . Hyatt and later adjutant to the General and to

01. Hyatt.

Carl Bauer In Big Fight at Okinawa

One of the pI'ominent officers with the famous Statue of Liberty (77th) Division that was so pl'ominent in the victorious Battle fOI' Okinawa was Capt. Charles W. "Carl" Bauet·, of the Class of 1933. In a lette,' to Colonel Hyatt, "Cad" praised the PMC News, a copy of which was sent to him by his bl·othel·.

It is regrettable that some of us have made t he suprem e sacrifice," he said, "but it was not in vain I am sure. I've been over here fOI' some time now and have been through Guam, Leyte, Ker­ama, Retlo, I e Shima and now Okinawa. The going is tough as these Japs really fight to the last man.

"I've collected two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Stal' and I hope that's the end of the PUI'ple Hearts as it is rather pai nful, to say the least, acquiring them.

" It has been unfortunate for me that I have not met any of the boys from PMC. I ce,·tainly would like to meet up with the old gang and have a good ses­s ion talking ovel' old t imes. I would like to be remembered to all myoid classmates."

NUMBER FIVE

BILL CALLAHAN AND GEORGE WILKENS ON NEW CASUALTY LIST

The PMC Honor Roll was increased with the addition of several names since the last issue, including graduates: Lt. William F. Callahan, Jl·., Lt. George Wilkens and Lt. William J. Wolfgram and ex-Cadets, Pfc. William T. Gardner a nd John Bassetti .

Lt. "Bill" Callahan was a formel' PM polo captain from Boston, Mass. One of the best liked Cadets of his day, Bill graduated in May, 1943, and just recently had been granted a regular Army com­mission.

The popular young officer, who met his death in the final days of the European campaign, had been transferred from a port battalion outfit to Infantry. He attended battle training school in Italy before being sent into combat.

Lt. George Wilkens was a husky grid and baseball athlete at PMC. He had

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PRESIDENT CLEARS WAY FOR RETURN OF VETS TO COLLEGE

One of the most important notices in the history of the college went out in the mails from the office of the President on June 15. It will be t'eceived by the fami­lies of app roximately 400 Cadets, who either were in the •. war diploma" class of May, 1943, or wel'e called up ft'om ERC. It is in the form of a personal letter from Colonel Frank K. Hyatt, paVIng the way for the return of these war veterans to school.

Praising the exceptionally capable faculty now serving the college, Colonel Hyatt points out that every effort will be made to encourage the boys to com­plete their education so that they will b better fitted to entel' professional work, busine~ s or industry.

Recognition of the expel'ience and traini ng will be given the veterans, while they will be excused from wearing uni­forms or taking military training, unless they are anxious to complete ROTC train­ing. The vets will be housed in separate barracks and will be permitted week-end and evening freedom, depending upon the condition of their school wOl·k.

An allowance of a $200 reduction has been authodzed, while the government's GI Bill of Rights, Public Law 16, is an added help to the prospective students.

Lesnow Due Home aptain Solomone Lesnow, '37, who

was taken prisoner on December 17, 1944, and released on April 18 from Stalag IV B, will be home about Jul y 4, accord­ing to word received by his sister, Miss Irene Lesnow of New York.

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THE PMC NEWS Publish ed by the College for its Alumni ,

students, patrons and friends.

Editor : William J . Burk.

FIFTH ISSUE This is the fifth issue of the

revived PMC News. It will be pub­lished on an average of once every six weeks. The restoration of the paper was made by Colonel Frank K. Hyatt as a fraternal link be­tween Alumni , school and home; bringing into the light the many remarkable achievements being ac­complished by Pl\IC men and the College and Pl·ep School during the greatest crisis in our country's history.

Clyde Medal Won By Cadet Schram

The co mpetition for the William G. Clyde Medal featured tne Commence­ment Day field exel'ci se3 this mon_h, with Cadet Bill Schram of Fort Vovmgton, NY, winning in t his test of all around horsemanship.

Abe Mendenhall was awarded second place; Joe Reese, third, and Arty t'arsel ls, fourth. Other contestants were: Charles Young, Tom Warden, Charles Tall ey, Bob Lees, John Hoyle, Ken Munyan, Chuck, Leidy, Herb Orlowitz, Al De Leo, Jack McKinney and John Ace.

adet Fred F ortugno, J ersey City, col­lege sophomore, won the jumping class in the horse show. Charles Talley, Preps, was second; Sol Chusid, college fresh­man, third, and Mendenhall, fourth.

Sixteen participated in the pole bend­ing race, with Cadet Fortugno again gaining top honors, followed by Menden­hall, Leidy and Lees, of the Preps. The musical chair ride found Cadet Schram scoring fo r the second time with De Leo, second. Cadet Leidy won the potato race on horseback, with Munyan, second.

Another feature of the day was a morning baseball game in which the Prep School bested the College, 6 to 5. The lineup for the winners: Rankin, ss.; White­man, 3b.; Tercha, 2b.; Forest, lb.; Thai, c.; Balleza , cf.; Israel, If .; Leo, ri.; Stolis, p.; subs: Landon, Airfield, E. Rodriguez. The College: Parkhurst, 2b.; Becker, 3b.; Endres, ss.; Sonnenberg, c.; Rodriguez, rf.; Francis, d.; Merino, p. and lb.; Featherman, If.; Kippelman, p. and lb.

Martin at Sea J. Paul Martin, F l l c, former Battalion

Captain, has been assigned to the de­stroyer tender, USS Altair, as an elec­trician striker. He has heard from his classmates Don Price and Bruce Terri­berry, who were with him in service school at Great Lakes. Bruce was with Paul in Electrician School, while Don was in Signalman School. Don McKay, anothel· classmate, finished quartermas­ter School there, and was sent out to the Maritime School after special work. He was in "boot" with Paul.

P. M. NEWS

BILL WOLFGRAM DIED A HERO IN APRIL SIEGE OF MADUA DI RADIANO

2nd Lt. William J. "Bill" Wolfgram, graduate of the wal: class of May 1943, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Wolf­gram of Milwaukee, Wis ., was killed in action in I taly on April 16.

The 22-year-old graduate of North­western Military and Naval Academy, Lake Geneva, Wis., ca me to PMC f rom Harvard, and graduated from our coll ege with the highest academic honors m school. Since going overseas in J anuary, 1944, Bill has been awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge and Bronze Slar, and was recommended for a Presidential Citat ion and battl efi eld promotion.

Bill 's chaplain wrote to hi s parents saying that he had been killed instantly while directing his pla toon in an assault on enemy position . He quoted hi s cap­tain as saying: "Lt. Wolfgram was the type of an officer we all want at our side in a tough spot. He will be long remem­bered by officers and men of his company as a truly good officer and a fin e young man."

In a lettc r fro m Lt. Col. Robert ~. Works, who commanded the 31·d Battal­ion, it said: '·1 assum ed command in February, but during that time I learned to know and trust your boy as one of my fi nest platoon leader s. He di splayed the courage and leader ship which gained for him the love and confidence of his men and officers. It was on April 16, l' ight aftel· noon, that his platoon r e­sumed the attack to s iege Madua di Radiano, five miles north of Vergato, Italy, where he was killed. In years to

Del Carroll Pays Visit to Berlin

First Lt. Delmer W. Carroll, one of the greatest polo players in PMC his­tory , is one of the few American soldiers to have reached Berlin. Del was a mem­ber of the mechanized cavalry group that did the da ngerous a dvance scouting dm·­ing the German campaign.

In a letter to Col. Marion O. Frenc h, Del says :

"The job of a platoon leader is rough. but it is the best job in the Army. I have mostly all boys my age and younger and plenty bold, and that is what it takes. We have been with the Ninth Army attached to the Thirteenth Corps since we landed. We did all types of work . At first, we had a Doughboy mis­sion on the Ruhr River, then a screening mission and a reconnaisance mission to the Rhine and a repeat in the Rhine-to­Elbe Dash. So you see my training at PMC came in very handy many times."

"I have been one of the more fortunate few that reached Berlin. I was across the Elbe and met the Russians and was particularly interes ted in their horse cavalry. In fact, that is a\1 I sawall the way to Berlin. It is a rough organ­ization and most of the horses came a\1 the way from Stalingrad and were sti\1 in pl·etty fin e shape. It made me very happy to hear from you and also news from PMC. I am very glad it is a\1 over, but I would not trade my many and varied experiences for anything . There were times when I thought I'd never see home again, but with my good luck and a good outfit, things turned out fine."

come I shall always be proud t hat Bill consider ed me as a friend and that I was privileged to serve as hi s battalion commander."

Col. David M. F owler, commanding offi cer of the 87th Infantry, wrote : "The 10th Mtn. Div. and es pecially the 87th Mtn . Inf . is very proud of Lt. Wolfgram. I want you to know and chel;sh the knowledge that your son was an out­standing officer, devoted to his men and loved by them. On the day he died, h was leading his men heroicall y and skill ­fully against a fa natically defended po­s ition, which was successfull y captured. Hi s death has been a real loss.

"Lt. Wolfgram joined the regiment the same day I did and I watched him close­ly. I regret, more than I can ever ex­press, the loss of a fin e young man like him. We pray to Almighty God that the cause for which he died and for which he fought so gallantly will surely succeed and that never again will hom es be torn apart by war."

Bill Wolfgram had intended returning to PMC for his degree after the war. He was very popular at the college and Col. Hyatt expressed the thought that his mother had fo und the words to best describe him in a letter she wrote the college President, saying: "Bill was al­ways so sure of himself and confident, that it is beyond all comprehension that he can be gone. His pride in the 10th Mtn. Division was so keen that in every letter he told of the wonderful things they had don e. No one ever wore a US uniform more proudly than Bill."

Lt. Parry Corrects Buna-Aqua Reference

Lt. Ed Parry, Jr., s hipped back to the States after an attack of "jungle r ot" and malal·ia, w ri tes to the "News" from The Enid Army Flying School, in Enid, Okla., where he is an instructor in the Pa l·achute School and a teacher of the basic course in the Communications' School.

once:·ning the article t hat appeared in the last copy of the News, in which we s poke of Ed's visit to the school and hi s experiences, he wished to clear up a discrepancy in the account of his para­trooping and the exploits of the 503d Paratroopers, which are headed by an­other PMC soldier, Lt. Col. Wi\1ard Britten.

"Six weeks after we arrived in AU 3tralia the regiment move to Oro Bay, near Buna and Aqua . in preparation for our assault on Ho\1andia. Buna and Aqua had been cleaned up by the Aus­tralians and the 32d Division at least a year before, so we only had to figh t the mosquitoes there. Also we were flown in on Ho\1andia, a few weeks after it had been taken and although we did some patro\1ing the J aps were not too active there."

Lieutenant Parry also reports that Colonel Britten may be coming home soon as he was recently hospitalized with a bad cold and stomach trouble. He wasn't wounded on Leyte, but had a rifle shot out of his hands.

Trainee Praises P. M. C. Teachings

Col. Marion O. French, PMC Military Officer, continues to receive very fin e let­ters from trainees who have benefitted so well from their stay at the college. A typical one follows : Dear Colonel Ft'ench:

It has been only a short while si nce I left PMC as a trainee, but already I real­ize the advantage I derived from my training there. 1 have been at Camp Wheeler fo]' six weeks and am starting on my seventh week of training. I origi­nally was in a heavy weapons battalion, but have just recently been transfel'l'ed with the battalion to a rifle battalion; due to the war's present need.

I am attending non-commissioned of­ficer school, and am awaiting a Review Board's decision on my application for O.C.S. I am sure that these advantages I am enjoying are a direct I'esult of m~ previous trai ning. I qualified as sharp­shooter with the M-l rifle. I think it's the world's best. I also fired expert with the carbine, and fired the a nti-tank g renade, rocket launcher ("Bazooka") and frag­mentation grenade.

I'm certain that our weapons are su­perior in all ways. Our physical condi­tion ing is excellent, and everyone is greatly benefiting by it. Our longest hike was 16 miles so far, and it was considered very easy by a ll. We start machine gun, mortal' and Browning automatic rifle this week. Our squads are fairly large so we have to break them down. The officers and cadre, here, are excellen t, and many are returned veterans. They give us many useful points on combat caution.

We receive the usual orientation films and lectures and also many hours on map read ing, compass use, and other things such as mine fie lds, bobby traps, and ail' defense. Of course, the most interesting part of trai ning is practical work. It's no easy job to disarm a mine field at night. I thought you would be interested to know that some of the former trainees are he],e and doing fine. Among which are Putt, Witt, Kinsel, Kieffer, Mowrey and others. Other trainees are at Fort Blanding, Florida; Fort McClellan, Ala­bama, and Fort Robinson, Arkansas.

Please extend my si ncerest regards to olonel Hyatt, Captain J ohnson, Lieuten­

ant Kotsch, and t he Cadre. Hoping that you are enjoying the best of health, I'll close with a hope for a quick and final victory.

Sincerely, PVT. JOSEPH KLIGMAN, 13197084, Co. C, 14th Bn.,

Camp Wheeler, Georgia.

PMC Helps Arbuckle Lt. William I. Arbuckle II of Erie is

now serving as liaison officer with V Corps Headquarters stationed in Czecho­slovakia . In a letter to Dr. J oseph Me­connahey, professor of English, Lt. Ar­buckle says: The other officers of the staff are from West Point, VMI, VPI and Texas A&M, so I think the only reason I was chosen is because PMC is on my record.

P. M. C. NEW S

t). fl. <te. J}onor l\oU Major General Benjamin S. Berry,

USMC, 1902. Lt. Col. Clarence E. Myers, USA, 1909. Lt. Col. Hugh F. McCa ff ery, USAAC,

1924. Lt. Col. Jose ph P. McCaffery, USMC,

1927. Lt. Col. John H. Faust, USA, 1934 . Lt. Col. Herbert Arn ey, USMC, 1935. Major Ri chard J . O'Ma lley, USA, 1938.

aptain Willia m H. Derr, USA, 1938. apt. Frank S pang, USMAC, 1939.

Lt. S. E llsworth Duff, USAAC, 1939. Lt. James Gerald Lynch, USAAC,

1940. Lt. Charl es H. Terry, Jr. , USA, 1941. Cal>t. Thomas R. O'Malley, USA , 194 1. Lt. Daniel A. London, USAAC, 1941. Cal>t. Russell A. Freas, Jr., USA, 1941. Ca pt. John Charles Williams Ill, US

1941. Lt. Benjamin R. I{imlau , USAA~.

1942. Lt. Rober t Currier , USA, 1942. Lt. Frank H. McCracken, USMC, 1943. Pvt. Roscoe Gray, USA , 1943. Lt. George Wilkens, USA, 1943. Lt. William F. Callahan, Jr. , USA,

1943. Lt. William J. Wolfg ram, USA, 194 :1. EX-CA DETS Lt. Walter Cza rne:ki , USA. William A. Cortwrig ht, USA . Pvt. Jam es L. Flood, USA. William R. Maddock, Jr. Mil ton R. Matteson, Jr. Sgt. Mars ha ll V. Moss, USA. Capt. Jack Shoyer, USA. Pfc. William T. Gardner, USA. CI>1. Samuel H. Rosenbaum, USA . John Bassetti , USA. GRADUATES REPORTED DEAD Mr. Gordon Bettles. Civilian E ngineer,

1910. Mr. Peter E . Buc\, II, Civilian E ngi-

neer, 1910. Mr. Harry J ennings, 1890. Jose ph A. Minturn, Esq ., 1880. Mr. Walter A. S mi t h, 1884. M r. Scott A. White, 1882. Mr. Edward Lupton, Jr., 1922.

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married Miss Estelle Harrington, of Kingston, P a., just two weeks before he sailed for Europe last September.

George had been in the thick of the fighting with the Field Artillery from the time he first entered the E.T.O. However, it was a land mine neal' Aachen, Germany, t hat brought about his death on March 15, when he stepped on the fatal trap.

Lieutenant Wilkens was a close friend of First Lt. Frank Perkins, a Para­trooper, who is now in Essen, Germany. F rank, a Chestel' boy, who played three sports at PMC, arrived in France shor t ly after George's death.

Pfc. Gardner, whose mother, Mrs. L. O. Gardner, lives in Los Angeles, Calif., was \<:iIled in Germany on March 13. The only news of his death received by his mother was the awarding of the Purple Heart by the Secretary of War.

Lt. Col. Finn Gains Bronze Star Medal

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Lt. Col. J ohn W. Finn, 1931 graduate, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for "meritorious achievement in connec­tion with military opE:l'ations from Au­gust 25, 1944, to May 8, 1945, in France." '1 he award was made to Finn by General Jacob L. Devers, 6th A rm y Group Com­mander.

01. Finn came to PMC f rom Boonton, NJ, and was teachin g in his home town high school prior to the war. He added an Ed. Masters degree from Rutgers U. to his BS in 1940. He began active duty in April, 1941, and has been overseas since Jul y, 1942, serving in England, Scotland, North Africa, Italy, Corsica France a nd Germany.

He is the husband of Mrs. Gay C. Finn of Elizabeth, NJ, and a son of Ml'. and Mrs. Walter L. Finn of Boonton.

The citation r('ceived by Col. Finn with the Bronze Star award read in part:

"Colonel Finn, an executive officer and assi stant Headquarters commandan t, was highly instrumental in the organizat ion of Special Troops, 6th Army Group. He was a lso responsible that Headquarters 6th Army Group moved to various loca­tions with rapidity and speed despite the lack of personnel and motor transporta­tion during the early existence of the headquarters.

"Colonel Finn also made surveys for the headquarters location and established s ui ta!J!e command post sites . During the absen~e of the Headquarters Command­ant, he r emained in charge of Special Troops and acted as Headquarters Com­mandant at the main headquarters and, dUl'ing a ll these occasions, carried on his duties with the highest degree of efficiency.

"He has also been responsible for su­pervision of the officers' and enlis ted men 's messes, and the high standard of excellence in t hese messes is primarily a direct result of his un tiring efforts in working for their improvement."

Admiral Kauffman Has New Command

Vice-Admiral James Lawrence Kauff­man ex-05 Commander of the Philip­pine Sea Frontier si nce October, 1944, penned a letter of thanks to Col. Frank Ie Hyatt for the story in the first i3sue of the PMC News concerning his winning of the Navy Cross and Legion of Merit.

Of his many PMC fr iends, Admiral Ka uffman told the Colonel that he had only seen Gerald T. Hanley, a classmate fro m Rhod e Island, in recent years, meeting him at Newport quite often dur­ing his stay there.

"At this moment I have a very inter­esting job," the Admiral said, "where things are going at a very rapid rate and I might add, very successfully. This is a tough wa r in this part of the world, but we are on our way and not letting big or little things stop us."

The Admiral left PMC in June, 1904, to enter the Naval Academy as a mid­s hipman. He has seen fore ign service in Iceland, England, P acific Ocean areas. New Guinea and the Philippines. He has numerous campaign and service ribbons in addition to his Navy Cross and Legion of Merit. He has also received the Sec­retary of Navy Commendation.

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General Kilbourne Praises Lt. Klein

One of the -finest tributes paid to a PMC man came to First Lt. Arthur G. Klein from Major Gene"al C. E . Kil­bourne, U. S. Army, retired, who is superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.

General Kilbourne wrote as one "old soldier" to another. He said: "I have recently heard from Col. Marion O. French. When he was visiting VMI I co mmented to him on the fact that whereas we old timers looked upon our­selves as veterans some of the young ­sters of this war had seen more fi ghting than we had in all our campaigns. He then told me of your exploit in capturing about 900 Germans with a couple of tanks and about a dozen soldier·s.

"I am writing to compliment you on t his exploit. I t seems that the Germans had been feeble minded enough to take shelter in a bomb plant and it was natural they prefen'ed to surrender than have you open fire. This in no way detracts fro m the fact that you and your men were going to attack anyway ­knowing n.othing of the emban'assing position of your enemy.

"This goes to prove once more to me a fact I have noted throughout my life; lucky breaks come to those who deserve them."

Such a compliment f"om General Kil­bourne is no light touch. He won the Medal of Honor at Manila in 1898. He was Provost Mars hall in the China Re­lief Expedition and 200,000 Chinese in Peking signed a petition urging that Lieutenant -Kilbourne be aIJowed to re­main to protect them. In the fi" s t World War he won the DSC and DSM in France. H e also figured in t he Philippine Insurrection.

Lj~utenant Klein, twice wounded, is now at the Replacement Center, Fort George Meade, Md.

Sgt. Groome Discharged S / Sgt. Daingel'field M. Groome, ex-

adet from Clover Hill Farm near Media, has been di scharged from the Arm y with 106 points to his credit. He enlis ted in the Army four years ago when he was 20, and during the past year had been stationed in Ital y with t he 321st Bomb Group of the 12th Air Force.

He was turret gunner on a B-25 Mitch­elI, christened "The Duchess of Scran­ton," and had 70 bombing missions to his credit. He was returned to this country last October and assigned to the Don Ce-Sar Convalescent Hospital, St. Peter s­burg, Fla., as a public rela tion specialist. He wears the Air Medal with four clus­ters, and holds a Presiden t ial Unit cita ­tion.

Wants More Editions 1st Lt. Charles T. Weiland is now

stationed at the 116th AAA Operations in Seattle, Wash., and has written a letter of congratulations to Col. Hyatt about the PMC News. "My only regret," he said, "is that there haven't been more editions."

Lt. Weiland spoke of meeting Major y Sobeck at the Edgewood Arsenal

during his s tudies there in Chemical Warfare.

P. 1\1. C. NE W S

CAPTAIN FARRELL ENJOYS REST AFTER TWO YEARS IN NAZI PRISON

aptain Wilfred F. Farrell of the class of 1939 fini shed a long furlough at the home of hi s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wai­ter J . Farrell of 2815 Monroe street, Wilmington, Del. His pel'iod of re~ t was well earned however as the Captain had served two year s as a prisoner of the Nazis.

"Casey" Fanell , as he was known in his prep and college days at PMC, re­ports to the reass ignment camp in Ashe­ville, N. C., the day this issue comes out, June 15. He had been liberated in Poland by t he Russians in January and had finally been returned to the States on April 13, 1945.

Al t hough the Polish nation has been hard hit by the wars, Captain Farrell and the other American prisoner s feel very kindly towards the Polish people. "They treated us wonderfull y," Fa lTell said, "and had it not been for their kind­ness after we were liberated, man y of t he American boys might have fared badly before rejoining the American troops."

Capta in FarreII was captured by the Afrikan Korps under General "Desert Fox" Rommel in the Ousseltia Va ll ey near Tunisia . He was first taken to Tunis and then fl own to Italy in a JU-52. Af~er two weeks in a Naples camp, Casey was shipped to Rotenburg, a Brit­ish prison camp in Austria. After three months there, he was shipped to Oflag 64, a prison for American offi cers in Poland.

In that same camp Farrell met Lt. Sid ThaI, former PMC Prep athlete, who was also taken in Africa, and Captain Solomon Lesnow, '37, who was captured in the 106th Divis ion's action in Aachen.

The Wilmington basketball star's de­scrip t ion of prison life was not too bad. "We fared so-so until the last few

Lt. Fulmer Writes To Colonel French

01. Marion O. French received a nice letter from Lt. Elmer E. Fulmer , who has been more than 19 months in the Pacific fighting area with the 860th Engineers, Aviation Battalion.

"Have been in the Philippines since November and on this particular island s ince December. All other engineer out­fits have left, so that leaves us with plenty of work," he writes. "Now that the war in Europe is over they want these strips that we built to remain in operation. Right now the B-24's are operating from th em against the China coast and all points north. We are alI hoping to move to the China coast or the mainland of Japan .

"Am receiving the PM C News regular­ly, and just r ead the April issue from cover to cover and have enjoyed all the articl es .... This is the first time since coming overseas that we've had a realIy good camp area. Concrete fl oor in the mess hall, running water to each mess halI , floors in the tents, too.

Marine Transfer Ridley M. Enslow, Jr., USMC, after

s pending several months at Camp Pen­delton, Cal., is now at Camp Lejeune. He enters the V -12 program at Colgate Uni­versity on July 1.

months," Casey said, "and then the food got to be a problem. We weren't sub­jected to any ill treatment. I lost about 15 pounds, but so me of the fellows lost as much as 45 or 50."

The officers were able to follow the progress of th e war quite weII through the German radio. "They were pretty accurate," he sa id, "although we had to make our own interpretations. They neyer retreated. It was alwa ys 'strategic withdrawals ' with the Nazis."

Farrell went into the Army right after his g raduation in '39. Under the Tomlin­son Act, reserve officers were allowed one year of active duty. Casey was sent to Plattsburg, NY, where he was attached to the 26th Infantry Regiment, a veteran outfit that had been first formed in that town.

The 26th was sent to join the famous First Division, a WO"ld War I division which was reassembling at Ft. Devon, Mass. From Devon the 26th went to Ft. Benning, Ga ., fo r a year, and then went on the famo us Louis iana and Carolina maneuvers . After that the First Divis ion moved to New River , N. C., to practice secret landing operations with the First Marine Di vis ion.

The secret preparations finally paid off wh en the First moved into action at Oran, North Africa. "We had a furious tussle with the French for three days there," Captain Farrell said.

After the conquest of Oran, the Amer­icans took out after the Desert Fox. The tall Wilmingtonian had only been in the desert war a month when the Amer­icans were cut off near Tunisia and many of them-including Casey-were taken.

It was a long war for' the famou s First Divis ion, but it was a longer one for Captain Farrell , sweating it out in Oflar! 64 .

George Bassetti A venges Brother

PFC George F. Bassetti, former Cadet of the Class of F eb. 1943, writes feel­ingly of the loss of hi s brother John, an ex-Cadet recently added to the PM Honor Roll, in a sincere and loyal letter to Col. Hyatt. It read: Dear Col. Hyatt:

My mother forwarded the PMC News in her last lette l·. I can't remember when I ha ve read a more interesting paper. I now have addresses of the Cadet'> men­tioned in the March issue and wiIl write to them.

I was so tTy to hear of the mishaps of former PMC Cadets. I lost my brother John last December. I have done my part in making up for his death.

Our outfit helped to clean up the Ruhr Valley and sprearheaded a drive with the 3rd Army across the Danube.

Congratulations, Col. Hyatt, in your work with the AST program.

I have maintained contact with Lt . Jack Barton for the past year and a half. He is now a first lieutenant and has been awarded the Bronze Medal for heroic duty with the Fourth Armored Division in their fight against the Ger­mans. He has been wounded twice and was s till going strong.

George F . Bassetti, Former Cadet No. 94.

EIGHT RECEIVE PREP DIPLOMAS IN 125th YEAR

Eight Cadets wel'e graduated at the 125th anniversal'y of the founding of the PMC Prep School. The commencement literary exercise were held in the audi­torium of Old Main . on Friday, May 25, with Dr. D. Montfort Melchoir, Girard College educator, making the main ad­dress.

Col. Frank K. Hyatt, president and Commandant, presented diplomas to J ohn Henry Ace, Lima, Pa.; Enrique Rodriquez Font, San TUl'ce, Puerto Rico; John Charles Austin Hopewell, Ventnor City, N. J.; Thomas Moorehead White­mand, 2d, Latrobe, Pa.; Harry Lionel Lentchner, Mt. Lebanon, Pa.; Arthur Murray Weitzner. New Rochelle, N. J., and Manuel Lopez Diaz, San Turce, Puerto Rico.

Head master Clal'ence R. Moll pre­sented a number of prize awards. Cadet Charles Francis Leidy, a member of the Junior Class . received the President's Medal, presented annually by Colonel Hyatt, to the cadet who best exhibits in his bearing, habits and general conduct, the qualities of the true soldier.

Cadet Hopewell , president of the grad­uating class, received the American His­tOI'y prize, presented in memory of James A. Dunlap, of Philadelphia; and George C. Hetzel prize to the member of the First class having the highest average during the school year.

Arthur E. Parsells , Jr., won the Frank G. Sweney prize for the second class merit; John Howard Witherow, Jr .. won the George W. Seagra ves Scholarship Cup for third class merit. Other prize winners were: Cadet Ace, winner of the English prize, an awal'd made by Briga­dier General Charles E. Hyatt, who was president and commandant of the Prep School from 1887 to 1930; and William Francis Schram, who won the Willi a m G. Clyde medal for the cavalryman who exhibited the best all around horseman­ship.

The invocation for the exercises was made by Dr. Levi P . Wyman of the PMC faculty. The benediction was pronounced by Rev Stanley V. Wilcox, of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

College Rated High By Army Observes

The Pennsylvania Milita ry College re­ceived the highest possible rating from the re::ent inspection of the school by Col. William G. Hilliard, Jr., and Lt. Col. Joseph H. Rossea u, Jr., of the Third Service Command.

The inspecting officers were received by Col. Frank K. Hyatt, president and Commandant, and Col. Marion O. French, professor of Military Science and Tac­tics.

The report was very complimentary to "one of the most distinguished mili­tary colleges in America ," a nd was uni­formly "excellent" in general rating, class room, formation, courtesy, con­duct, attitude and efficiency.

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Col. Frank K. Hyatt, President and Commandant of the Pennsylvania Military College and Preparatory School, presents a diploma to Cadet John C. A . . Hopewell. President of the graduating Prep School class, as Headmaster Clarence R. Moll looks on.

LT. ROBERTS, FORMER ADJUTANT, IS BACK WITH TROOPS, BOOSTS NEWS

Lt. J esse W. Roberts, Jr., former Col­lege Adjutant, returll ed with hi s Tank Destroyer battalion shortly before the War's end in Germany, after a long hos­pitalization following hi s being wounded in action early this year. While at a Reinforcement Depot he met a fello\\'­alumnus, Lt. William Biggart, and in an interesting letter to his former Pres ident and Commandant, Col. Frank K. Hyatt, tells of that meeting. Deal' Col. Hyatt:

Just a few lines to inform you tha t I read your very thoughtful letter. At the time of writing I am once again in A-I condition. Al so received two copies of th e PMC News and they brought back many pleasant memories.

While at the hospital I met a very charming young lady who turned out to be the wife of Captain AI Ryan. She brought me up to date on the where­abouts of several ex-PMC men in Eng­land and France. I hope to meet some of th em soon.

Upon arriving at the reinforcement Depot after being discha rged from the hospital I met another PMC lad. My attention was drawn to him by his deco­rations. His name is Lt. William Biggart, class of 1943. We are in the same group so will make this a joint letter. We have been discussing PMC to great lengths the past few nights. We have both agreed that our training at PMC had benefitted us considerably in our military careers.

Biggart and Vonny (Major Stanton S.

von Grabill) are in the same division and see quite a bit of each other. I under­stand from various SO UI'ces that Vonny's Rest Center is one of the best in ETO.

We both have high hopes of returning to our units in the very near future.

We are happy to heal' that you and the school are s till doing a good job of train­ing men to help bring the war to a fast close. With the paper that you send out to us and the infol'mation that we pick up from the fellows our morale is boost­ed very high. You don't know how much it means to us to know that you folks are sti ll thinking of us even though we have been away from PMC several years.

Some of the fellows that we have met up with are: Lt. Harry Abrams, Captain AI Hernig, and von Grabill. Major Ray Nesto is in Paris, along with several others.

Please give our regards to Mrs. Hyatt and the staff. Hope this finds you all enjoying good health .

Lt. Jesse Roberts and Lt. Bill Biggart.

Arronson Honored Myron B. Arronson, Class of 1940, has

been awarded the Bronze Star for the battle of Germany and was recently pro­moted to the rank of Captain. He has been prominent in the work of the Eighth Air Force. His wife, Mrs. Fran­ces Arronson of Atlantic City, NJ, ex­pressed the hope that Myron would be home soon on furlough.

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ASTRP Inspection; New Unit Due July 5

One of the most important inspections of the year is taking place at the college as this issue of the NEWS goes to press. It is the general inspection of the ASTRP unit by Colonel Stuart McCleod, of the Army Service Forces Headquar­ters Training Division, Washington, DC; and Col. Richard W. Cooksey, Hdq. 3rd Service Command School Division.

Col. Frank K. Hyatt, as President and ommandant of the college, is the official

host. Captain John B. Johnson of the Military Staff is Acting Commandant of the 3331 SCU, AST, in the absence of

01. Marion O. Franch, who is currently at the Ft. Benning, Ga., Infantry School, for the period June 5 to 28.

Several of the ASTRP unit leave PMC on June 30, while a new unit of 200 to 225 trainees report on July 5. Mean­while 55 members of ~he Cadet Corps have returned to college, June 11, to take the summer course under the accelerated war-time program.

PMC Men in ArmedForces NEW OR CHANGED ADDRESSES OF PMC GRADUATES AND EX-CADETS 1st Lt. M. B . Arronson- 0-388580. 653rd Bomb.

Sq . (L) . 25th Bomb. Gp. (Ren ), APO 634. c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

Sgt. Jules A. Arronson- 1318642, Base Weather Station. APO 789 , c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

CH (Capt.) James F. Cowee-0269370, Hq. & Base Ser. Sq., 559th Air S e r vice Group , APO 14454. c/ o PM, San Francisco, Calif.

1st Lt. Charles T . Weiland- 166th AAA , Ope ra­tions Det., Seattle , Was h .

Pfc. George F . Bassetti- 13095760. Co. A, 67 Armored Inf. Bn., APO 263 c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

Lt. H. O. Thomas-USMCR, Third Servo & Sup. Bn .. SS, FMF. Pacific FPO, San Francisco. Call!.

1st Lt. Robert P . Mowry-Hq. 23rd Fighter Group , APO 430, c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

William G . We issgerbe r- 33952872, B-4 , ARTC , Ft . Knox , K entucky.

1st Lt. Sam H. Murphy- 0521710. 244th Port Co .. APO 70. c/ o PM. San Francisco, Calif.

prc. Fletc her Williams, Jr.-13095830, Co. C , 65th Armored Inf. Btn., c/ o PM, NYC, NY, APO 444 .

Flight Officer Harold Mahler-438 Troop Car­rier Command, 87 Sqdn ., APO 133, c/ o PM, NYC. NY.

Capt. James Mclntyre-737 Tank Battalion, APO 436, c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

Lt. Francis A. Bader~446946. Air Depot, APO 953. c/ o PM, San Francisco, Call! .

Reed R. DeRoue n , Capt.- AC, 0412991 , Detach­ment of Patients, 4176. APO 131 , c/ o PM, NYC. NY.

Vice Admiral J . L. Kauffman- USN . Command­er Philippine Sea Frontier, FPO , San I"ran­slcso, Call!.

Lt. Wilbur F . Price-O-1328636, Co. I , 10th Inf . R egt., APO 5, c/ o PM, NYC. NY .

Lt. USNR Robert B. McCurdy-BI AMO, 211 East North Water St., Chicago, III .

2nd Lt. Richard L. Henry- 02088435, Brooks Field, San Antonio. T exas.

Sgt. Carl I . Unger- 13095710, Co. B , 318th Inf ., APO 80, c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

2nd Lt. Henry M. Evans. Jr.~1997071 , APO 11622, c/ o PM, San Francisco, Calif .

Lt. Jack R. Bartow~521703. Hq.. 514 Qm . Group, APO 403, c/ o PM. NYC. NY.

Lt. G. R . McElrath~556960 , 317th Inf ., APO 80, c/ o PM, NYC. NY.

1st Lt. Daniel A. Alampi~946950, 67th Chem­Ical S G Co., APO 331, c/ o PM, San Fran­cisco, Call!.

Lt. Robert Botwinik~556963. 1st Bn . Hq., 370th Inf., APO 92 , c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

S 2/ c Harold J. Stinson-c/ o USNTHS. San Diego, Calif.

Pfc. Alfonso Salvatore Marano- 13185174, Co. D. 157th Inf., APO 45, c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

Lt. Col. P . C. Metzger- USMC, 2nd Bn., 3d Ma­rines, 3d Marine Dlv ., c/ o FPO, San Fran­cisco, Call! .

Cpl. Maurice D. Fogel- 33233883, Squad. I. 64th AAFB Unit, Andrews Field , Washington 20 , DC.

Capt. Frederick Judson Zimmerman~326608 . Hq. & Hq. Co., 23d Replacement Depot , APO 244 , c/ o San Francisco, Cail!.

Pvt. James H . Dlffenderfer- 33783437, Co. B , 325th Glider Inf., APO 469. c/ o PM . NYC, NY.

P. M. C. NEW S

LARRY MILLER FINDS BASKETBALL COURT BUILT AT BURMA AIRBASE

Lt. Larry Miller, outstanding athlete and Battalion Commander at PMC of the Class of Feb. 1943, writes from Burma late in May, having been in the thick of the retaking of that valuable country from the Japs.

"Over here on the end of the line I haven't been lucky enough to run into any of myoid pals," Larry writes . "I do, however, correspond with several­Sam Murphy, Frank P erkins, Walt Wood (whom I haven't heard from in some­time) and George Wilkins, before I re­ceived the sad news that he was killed in action. Losing friends is tough, Bill, as you know.

" Wh en I first landed overseas ( India, Dec. 1943) , s ports were definitely out. We ended up building those B-29 field s until October. In the beginning there was too much work to consider any atl-t ­lelic exerci se and when we did get some time off the heat was too bad.

"In November and December I was in Assam, being on DS from my outfit. I met Bill Schmidt (ex-Cadet and team­mate of LaITY's) in that area. He had been playing on a basketball team and doing very well .

" In January I moved to Burma and joined my outfit. To my surprise they

Captain Cottee Wins Bronze Star

aptain William L. "Bill" Cottee, for­mer English teacher at the coll ege, has been awarded the Bronze Star for hi s work in the European Theater. He is now Instructor-Trainer and Education of­ficer at Headquarters of the Ninth Ail' Division.

The citation that accompanied the awarding of the Bronze Star was as fol­lows:

To Captain Cottee fOI' meritorious service in direct support of military op­erations from August 10, 1943, to April 25, 1945. As target officer in the A-2 Section of the Ninth Bombardment Divi­s ion, Captain Cottee demonstrated out­standing ability for setting up missions and plans for targets assigned to this division. By his meticulous attention to detail and carefu l coordination of hi s through knowledge of information of enemy installations, Capta in Cottee was able to furnish combat personnel with invaluable information for tactical oper­ations. Through hi s determination and earnest des ire to assist in rendering an attack as effective a s possible, Captain

ottee made an im portant contribution to the destroying of the enemy. T / S Robert L. Cleland-13184791. Co. A, 656th

Engr . Topo. Bn . (Army ), APO 887, c/ o PM , NYC, NY.

T / S Wm. N. Fenimore, Jr .-3849 Qm. Truck Co .. 478 Qm. Bat. Mobile. APO 218. c/ o PM, NYC. NY.

S/ Sgt. R . R . Esbjornson- 13095716, Co. L , 390th In!., APO 98 , c/ o PM. San Francisco. Calif.

Lt. J ay F . Gros~-1331500. 75th Casual Bn ., APO 244. c/ o PM, NYC, NY.

Capt. Thomas F . White, Jr.~401066. 2695 TS Reg .. APO 464. c/ o PM, NYC, NY .

Robert J . Lange, HA l / e-Co. A. 2nd Med. Batt. 2nd Marine Di vIsion, FPO San FrancisCO, Call!.

pre. Richard A. Weil-545078, USMCR, Marine Transport Squadron 152, c/ o FPO. San Fran­cisco , Calif.

Lt. William L. Arbuckle II-V Corps H eadquar­ters. APO 305, New York City.

Col. Seymour A. Potter- 0-269373 , Hq. Comm. Zone, Engr. SectIon. APO 887 , c/ o PM, NYC. NY.

had constructed a super outdoor nigh t basketball court. I had just arrived that afternoon after a pretty tough trip over the Ledo Road. Bu t seeing the court and the game about to begin, I just had to play. Another officer, just arrived from West Point, also played. We won that night and continued to throughout the season, ending up by winning the cham­pionship of APO 218, los ing two games out of 22, each by one point in overtime.

"I didn't get to play in all the games. After the first ten I received a new job and had to move down front. I did man­age to get back for two more, including the championship game, which we won by 20 points . It was great to get back into basketball again. It al so helped to reduce the old mid-section, and I'm g lad Sam Murphy or Moose Ril ey don't hear me say that because they used to kid me about being fat .

"I'm leading a pretty soft life at pres­ent. Up until three weeks ago I was with the Chinese in their drive through BUl111a. Had some interesting and excit­ing experiences. But now that this action is over it is back to the old routine of building airfields and sweating out rota­tion."

Jack Potter Made Colonel In Paris

01. Frank K. Hyatt received a letter from Seymour A. "Jack" Potter of th e Class of 1930, in which it was revealed that he is now a full Colonel in the Engi­neering Section of the Headquarter

ommand Zone in Paris. The letter was sent on June 6 and arrived at PMC on the 14th, the day before the NEWS went to press.

The letter read: My deal' Colonel Hyatt, Have just received a copy of the PMC

News. It's been a long time since one came my way, mail delivery here being what it is. This was passed to me by Ray Nesto (Maj. Ray Nesto ).

It seemed good to read of the school again. Many of the names were unfa­miliar to me after three years away from the States, but here and there one struck a very fami liar chord.

There are several of us here in Paris now. Jimmie Schaubel (he's just gotten hi s Lt. Colonelcy), Al Ryan (received hi s majority a few days ago), Ray Nesto of course, and Jack Nicktlls, who is now with SHAEF. We manage a "get-to­gether" now and then, mostly spontane­ous, with no pre-arrangement, but lots of good times just the same. A good half of the conversation, I'm afraid, starts out with "Remember when--."

All in all, I think you can well be proud of the men PMC has put into the war. From what I've seen, and from the letters that come my way, they've done a good job. It's gratifying to you, I'm sure, to realize it-and while I'm glad the General was spared the experience of another war, I know that he'd be proud too of what his boys have done.

My best regards to you and Mrs. Hyatt. I hope, some day soon, to deliver them in person.

Sincerely, Jack Potter.

P. M. NEWS

NOTES ABOUT PMC BOYS FROM POINTS ALL OVER THE WORLD

Captain "Casey" Farrell, tall Wilmington athlete, profited by hi s college friend­ship with Sammy Murphy, now a 1st lieutenant with the At'my in the Pacific. Casey, like Murph, whent through Prep School as well as college, and although he was ahead of Murphy, the two were good pals. In his first outing at Delaware Park, racetrack near his home, Casey came across a horse trained by Earle Sande. "Earle is Murphy's uncl e," the veteran officer who had been two years in a Nazi prison said, "so I'll have to bet him." To make a very good story out of this, the horse won. Sande, in addition to being Murphy's uncle, was one of the greatest jockeys in the world.

Lt. Gerry McElrath, who pitched on Bob McNamara's baseball tea m, heard about th e PMC News in a pecu lia r way. On his "oyage across the ocean, Gerry met Jim Hastings and Mortimer Lahm , both lieutenants in the Infa nt ry. They related a ll the news a bout boys Gerry wanted to hear from. "My goodness," he said, "how did you fe llows learn so mu ch." "From t he PMC News," was the retort. In a letter to Col. F rench, Gerry said that he had been promoted to company commander. 1st Lt. John E. Holliday of the May '43 war class is with the 85th Division, and

recently wrote that he hoped to meet up with S / Sgt. Bill Post with the 85th, which had been in the Italian Alps with the 85th .... Vincent Ruggiero has been upped to a PFC with the 25th Division, that had campaigned in Northern Luzon .... Captain Wayne Shipe, married to Sally Stewart, stopped in at the college during his 30-day furlough. The former Cadet musician also paid a visit to his Reading home.

Pvt. Joseph Kligman, who graduated from ASTRP with the December contingent, became the first of that group to be recommended for OCS. He is at Camp Wheeler, Ga .... Lt. Len Klein, released from the Nazi prison, is expected home soon. The former Cadet courtman spent most of hi s overseas duty in a Stalag, being captured in his first action ... . Drexel Hill's William C. Whitman stopped over to see Col. French en route for overseas with the Army of Occupation. He was tumed down for OCS because of his eyes.

1st Lt. Harry Hubbell writes to Col. Hyatt of the many interesting places he has seen in shattered Europe. Right now the kilts, left-hand drives, etc., had him bothered in Glasgow, Scotland, but he was soon leaving for London and Paris .... Carl F. Unger, May '43 war grad from Buffalo, has been promoted to a sergeant's rank with the 318th Infantry in Germany .... Lt. Wilbur F. Price of Allentown has been with the 10th Infantry Regiment in Germany since February.

Lt. Frank Perkins reports from Essen, Germany, that the American troops are putting a big time sports program into action. The former three-letter star at PM is the playing manager on his Company C team in the 507th Paratroop Division. The C Company won its opening game.

WALT WOOD COMMANDS BINGEN NEAR RHINE; HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN ACTION

1st Lt. Walter J . Wood, veteran of the Seventh Army campaigns, is the re­cipient of a Purple Heart from wounds in battle, of which he neglected to tell hi s father, Ralph F. Wood, until long after the hurts had healed.

The former Cadet basketball star of the war-time class of May, 1943, com­manded a platoon of the Anti-Tank group, but is now in~talled as a town commander (or mayor) of Bingen, Ger­many, a town situated about 17 miles from Mainz, on the left bank of the Rhine and opposite Rudesheim.

It was on the site of the ancient town of Bingen that a battle took place in 70 AD, in which the Romans infl icted a defeat to the Gauls. History has tumed its spotlight on the town down through the years. In 1281 it came under the rule of the see of Mainz and during the Thirty Yeat·s War it was taken and re­taken. In 1689 it was bumed to the ground by the French. From 1797 to 1814, it belonged to France and after 1815 it was incorporated with the repub­lic of Hesse.

It's a far different life he's living now than his previous European experiences have brought him. Housed in a "beauti­ful, spacious home" provided for h im by t he burgomeister, it's rather hard to re­member that just last Christmas Eve he and his men made their beds in snow-

fill ed trenches after their "holiday fare" of a few boiled potatoes they foraged out of a cellar of a captured German village.

It's hard also to remember that that same night, a company of Nazi soldiers, dressed in white capes, tried to move in for a bayonet kill, only to have the same fate dea lt to them. That's how Wood and his men eamed the name, "The Bloody Axe GJ's."

Thi s is not the first German town of which Lieut. Wood has been the com­mander. Odernberg was another one. It was there that the 24-year-old Chester boy met a lovely Russian girl who in­spired him with thoughts which must have been similar to Harry Hopkins, who said from Russia : "American women are pretty, but Russian women are really beautifuL"

At Bingen, Lt. Wood has been show­ered with gifts from the Germans. He wrote his father, "I to ld my interpreter that I wasn't interested in German girls so he brought me a puppy-a thorough­bred police dog."

A German tailor has made h im a pair of riding breeches and another village resident presented him with a horse. A professor of languages, he said, is trying to teach h im German.

In telling about the gesture which the Bingen residents have made, he added: "I'm not being fooled."

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LT. COL. SCHAU BEL IS CHIEF OF VISITORS BUREAU IN PARIS

The popular Jimmy Scbaubel, former Cadet athlete, polo and baseball coach, college adjutant and assistant officer in Military Tactics, has been promoted in double fashion at the Military Headquar­ters Command Post in Paris, France.

Jimmy is now Lt. Col. Carl A. Schaubel and he is also the new Chief of Visitor's Bureau. He has been attached to that office for nearly two years before being made the head.

In a letter to his wife, who resides in Upper Darby, Colonel Schaubel said that he had been more busy since hostilities ended than ever before and t hat all Con­gressional Committees, Delegates to and from various countries, and military of­ficers retuming to the States, cleat· through his office.

Col. Schaubel had met Col. Charles Morrison, who had been a captain under Col. Carlton Coulter on the PMC Mili­tary Staff some years ago. He was on his way to St. Louis. Since receiving this news, Mrs. Schaubel has had a call fro m Col. Morri son, now in St. Louis, who said that he made it from Paris to home in four days' flying .

The beauty of Col. Schaubel's job is that he gets to meet quite a few PMC men. He has been very happy to get copies of the News and has passed them along to PMC men who had not seen them as yet.

DR. R. T. TUMBLESTON NAMED PRESIDENT

Continued from P age 1 '45. President Emeritus is John W. Loveland, '87 (deceased).

Col. Frank K. Hyatt, president and commandant of the college, discussed affairs of the college and other mutual interests, and announced that Major Thomas E. Leet, '17, was returning to duty at the college as Assi;; tant Com­mandant. Major Leet, who served for tht'ee years in the current wat· before being placed on inactive status last De­cember, was one of a number of service men present at the Alumni gathering.

In addition to Major Leet and Major Tumbelston, Capt. Wilfred F. "Casey" Farrell, who had been two years a Nazi prisoner; Capt. William H. Butts, wounded in Italy; Lt. J. B. Leslie, Jr., '43, also a liberated prisoner from a Nazi prison camp, and Capt. George Kotsch, '42, adjustant to Colonel French, were present.

Othet· members of the Alumni on hand were: Edward A. Howell , '90; Charles H. Salmon, '93; Col. Clarence T. Starr, '99; Edgar L. Best, '03; Colonel Hyatt, '06; President Dr. Tumbelston; Richard Madely, Jr., '12; Amodio; J. A. G. Camp­bell, '20; Schilling; Lyons ; Nathan S. Trump, '21; John H. Claus, '21; Campu­(lano; George S. Jefferson , '22; George R. Swain, Jr., '25; Allen; Davis; George F. Bauer, Jr., '28; John R. Hanna, '30, retiring president; and Arthur J . Ryan,

Coach Simon F. "Si" Pauxtis also at­tended the dinner and meeting.

One of the most touching moments of the reunion was the tribute paid to the members of the Alumni who have already "paid the last full measure of devotion to t heir country."

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Cadet graduates of the Prep School groUI> around the cannon in front of Old Mai n, prior to the Co mm encement Day exercises. From left to right, they are: Henry L. Lentchner, John C. A. Hopwell, John H. Ace, Manuel LOllez Diaz, Enriqu e Rodriquez, Arthur M. Weitzner , Thomas M. Whiteman and Thomas S. LaGanza.

Captain Elko Meets Lockwood On Palau

Capt. Andrew S. "Andy" Elko, rugged athlete of that formidable class of 1938, whose membet·s have had spectacular careers in this World War II , writes from the Palau Islands. "It is too hat. here for baseball," Andy says, "but we manage to play softball. Thi s sport of ball will never leave us. I don't know what we'd do without this recreation."

Much to Andy's surprise he met u~ with a n old PMC teammate. Lt. Wilmer F . "Wally" Lockwood, '37, who played on a Marine softbal l team against An­dy's Army array. "We had a short chat," Captain Elko reports," and I hope to get down to see him when I have a chance."

Sid Thai Returns Second Lt. Sidney Thai, a member of

the undefeated PMC Prep football team of 1937, returned to this country on a 60-day leave after being liberated, in January, from a Nazi prison camp. His brothed, Marvin, Navy radioman and gunnel', aboard a seaplane tender for scouters and dive bombers in the Solo­mons area, recently received a medical discharge and came east from California to meet Sid at their Philadelphia home. Marvin also played on that crack Prep School team.

Captured with the Infantry in North Africa. Young Thai lost 45 pounds in his long siege in a Nazi Stalag, but has apparently regained most of his lost poundage.

George Whitenack Awarded Air Medal

Major George M. Whitenack. III. has been awarded an Air Medal for comple­tion of 150 hours of operational flight in transpor t aircraft over the dangerous and difficult India -China air routes . The period of service covel'ed October 5, 1944, to January 6, 1945.

The PMC graduate from Doylestown, Pa .• received his honors through Brig. Gen. William H. Tunnel', who told of the difficulties attached to negotiating the air trail over the Hump, fam ed route through the towering peaks of the Hima­laya Mountains, recognized by airmen as the world's toughest.

The feats of Major Whitenack and othet· pilots made it possible for the Allied Forces in China to receive the much-needed supplies.