Bulletin: Hardin-Simmons University, Ex-Student Edition, April 1943 Page: 2
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Keeping Up With The Exes
Ensign Gawain Bonner, '42, was recently
a visitor on the campus. He was en route
from Naval Officer Training School at
Northwestern University, to his assignment
in San Diego, California.
W. V. "Buck" Wheeler, '31, formerly in
the Colorado City High School. has been
graduated from the Army Air Corps statis-
tical school and has been commissioned se-
cond lieutenant. We do not know where he
was assigned.
Corp. Taft Holloway, '42, is now stationed
at the Army Air Base, Fort McIntosh, at
Laredo, Texas, as a chaplain's assistant.
Pfc. Leon O. Barnes, '41, is in the Army
Air Corps. His address is 409 Tech. School
Sqdn., Bks. 211, Amarillo Army Air Field,
Amarillo, Texas.
Another H-SU grad who is in the army
is Luke Grace, '41, he is in the headquar-
ters technical school. His address is Head-
quarters Tech. School, A. A. F. T. T. C.,
Amarillo Air Field, Amarillo, Texas. Luke
is married and has a young daughter of
only a few months
Frances Riden, '42 formerly of Loraine,
who is Mrs. N. I. Reiter, Jr., is living at
2714 2nd Blvd., Detroit, Michigan. Iris Ri-
den, '41, has a civil service job in Fort
Worth, Teras.
Allouez Blackburn, '42, is head of the
social science department in Hawley, Texas.
Her home address is 142 Grand Ave.,, Abi-
lene, Texas.
A December 30 issue of the Boston Daily
Globe carried a 4-column story about Long
John Treadway, '41, teaching a Boston
columnist the art of judo. Long John is
really going places in the art of judo. At
the present time he is teaching this art
of "intelligent killing" to members of the
U. S. Navy. Long John was married last
November to a New York girl. Our infor-
mant says the she is both beautiful and
charming to all of Treadway's Texas friends
who have met her. After leaving H-SU,
Long John played some football with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, and sold bonds on Wall
Street.
MARRIED: Lady Jane Anderson, '42, and
Lt. Johnny Franklin, of Laredo. The cere-
mony was performed in Laredo on Friday,
February 19.
Warren King, Dub Johnson, Pluto
Hughes. Dub Jackson, Coy Sims and Merle
Hutto, who left the campus a few weeks
past, are with the U. S. Air Corps at Shep-
pard Field. Texas.
A recent notice is to the effect that
Chaplain T. J. DuBose, '39, is in the Army
Air Corps. His address is the Suwanee Ho-
tel, St. Petersburg, Fla.Ensign Robert W. Thompson, '42, visited
the campus recently on leave. He has just
completed 4 months special training aboardm -
the Prairie State, and at Columbia Univer-
sity, New York City. His present assign-
ment is to Ohio State University, Colum-
bus, Ohio.
MARRIED: Juanita Fielder, '43, of Abi-
lene, and Lester Morton, '41, of Hamlin.
The wedding took place at 9 o'clock on the
morning of March 14 in the First Baptist
Church of Abilene. Lester has been in the
army air corps reserve for several months
and was inducted into active service on
March 20.
Mrs. Robert Renton and son, Robert Ty-
ler, of London, England, are living in Abi-
lene for the duration in the home of Dr. and
Mrs. W. R. Snow. Mrs. Renton is the for-
mer Daisy Mae Cagle, '37. She spoke in
chapel recently and held the student body
spell-bound with an eye-witness account of
several air raids which were made by the
Nazis.
Frank Kimbrough, '26, former H-SU
coach, and current coach at Baylor Univer-
sity, has reported to the Naval Pre-Flight
School at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Four
members of the Kimbrough family are now
in the service.
Knox K. "Hossfly" Kelly, '31, legendary
member of The Cowboy Band, was a visitor
on the campus recently. He was enroute
from a radio technician's school to an elec-
trical school at Purdue University.
MARRIED: LaVania Gregg, '32, and Lt.
Charles Corley. '30, both of Abilene. The
couple is living in Washington, D. C., where
Charles was sent for further training in the
Air Corps transportation command.
B. H. Pettitt, '39, has been re-elected
superintendent of Avoca Public schools for
a 2-year term: Pettitt is a splendid fellow
and has proved himself a very efficient
school administrator.
MARRIED: Ada Lovelle Smith, '42, of
Quanah, and Wayne Preston, of Austin.
The couple was married in the First Baptist
Church at Quannah. They are living in Aus-
tin at the present time.
Thanks to Mrs. Gob Fitzgerald, of Stam-
ford for Jimmy Neely's address: Lt. Jim
Neely, Hq. Staging Areas, Charleston Port
of Embarkation, Charlesotn, S. Car.
J. William Arnett, '38, is now a chaplain
in the Army and is stationed at Camp Chaf-
fee, Arkansas. Chaplain Arnett, Bill, as his
friends know him, resigned the pastprate
at Smith Chapel in the Big Spring Associa-
tion last August and reported for duty to
the Chaplain School at Harvard University,
September 2. Following graduation from the
school, he was transferred to Camp Chaffee
where he was assigned to duty with the
men of the 14th Armored Division Trains.Mrs. Arnett, '38, and the girls are living
near Midland, Texas, where she is the prin-
cipal of one of the rural schools.Fred H. Miller, '42, has recently been re-
elected for a two year term as superinten-
dent of Lueders Public Schools. Miller is
capable, young, energetic and is doing a
fine piece of work at Lueders.
We have heard indirectly that the Bob
Kings, '38, are parents of another boy. We
shall confirm or deny this in the next issue
fo the Bulletin. Bob has so many friends,
however, that we felt that they would like
to know.
A postal card from Pvt. Blanton McCord,
'32. tells us that he is in the Hawaiian Is-
lands on duty. He says that although most
of his group is from Illinoi and California,
a great number of them have heard about
H-SU. He asks that we send him magazines,
etc., for his reading room, but such articles
have been returned from ports of debarka-
tion recently and we are in a quandary as
to what to do about getting the Bulletin
and other items over-seas. McCord's address
is Co. A, 515 Sig., A. W. Regt., A P 0 958,
care Postmaster, San Francisco.
Oran M Richardson, '40, formerly con-
nected with a west coast air craft corpora-
tion, is being sent to a pre-flight school. He
has been classified as a pilot after reporting
for duty on January 30 at Fort McArthur
California. "We fellows in the service really
like to get news from H-SU and news of the
whereabouts of our buddies in the service,"
Oran writes. His last address was NAAC
(AAFCC), Sqd. F-2, Nashville, Tenn.
In addition' to sending her ex-student
dues, Mrs. Vertna Beaty Lewis, '28, states
that she enjoys reading the Bulletin and
keeping up with the ex-students. "More
power to you," she writes.
Mrs. Lola McKee Campbell, '42, has writ-
ten her appreciation for the Bulletin and
states that she certainly wants to keep up
with her old gang. She is living at the pre-
sent time at 1130 W. Colorado Ave., Colo-
rado Springs, Colorado.
Pfc. Edwin G. Phy, '38, and wife, the
former Mary Elizabeth Brown, '38, are liv-
ing in San Angelo, Texas, at Apt. 20 D,
Rio Vista.
Helen Dodson, '41, is working in Wash-
ington for Congressman Mahon '24. Helen's
address is 2410 20th Street, N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C.
Milton Bessire, '39, lives at 1171 N. Madi-
son Street, Dallas, Texas.
Gerald E. Williams, '32, is in New York
City to attend a training school for pro-
fessional Boy Scout leaders. About April 20,
he is to report to Austin, Texas, as field
executive of the capitol area council there.
Mrs. Williams, Margaret Karleen Low, '33,
and their daughter. Jinx, will remain inSweetwater until Gerald is established in
Austin.
Lt. M. B. "Little Mac" McClure, '33,
writes from Fort McClellan, Alabama, to
tell us that he misses Hardin-Simmons, and
would like to hear from any of the old
gang. "Give everyone my regards and let-
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