Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1959 Page: 3 of 18
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Friday September 18 1959
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The librarian at Fort Hood's
language training facility is a
lady with a linguistic bend
and with something of a jungle
adventure behind her.
Miss Ray Stillwell once
quasi-resident of Manaos on the
upper Amazon River currently is
processing and cataloguing books
for the U. S. Army Language
Training Facility. She is caring
for 12000 books and newspapers
in 26 languages plus 700 records
1200 tape recordings and a limit
ed stock of films. None are in the
English language.
The library which is used
by linguists of the 319th Mili
tary Intelligence Battalion is
observing its first anniversary
this week. Miss Stillw®ll has
been librarian since its open
ing.
She came here with a knowl
edge of four languages: Portu
gese French Spanish and Ger
man.
She has attended Berkely Col
lege and the University of Cali
fornia and earned a masters de
gree at the School of Library
Services Columbia University.
Much of Miss StiEwell's career
has been with the Army or other
agencies of the U. S. governmnt.
tn recent years she was with the
Army's troop information -and
education program in Japan and
before coming to Fort Hood was
assistant attache in the Ameri
can Embassy in Lisbon Portu
gal as director of library serv
ices.
Most persons using the
American library in Lisbon
w^re native Portugese.' But^
it was in the middle of a
jungle that Miss Stillwell first
needed the Portugese lan
guage.
She joined the Rubber Develop
ment Corporation as a clerical
worker and was assigned to the
Manaos office 1000 miles up the
Amazon in Brazil.
"It was like stepping back a
hundred years or so into an age
and a section of a country where
civilization made only a weak im
pression" she said.
It was an area where prisoners
were allowed to roam the streets
during the day on the theory
NFFE Plans To
Raise Ft. Hood
AreaMembership
Members of the National- Fed
eration of Federal Employes laid
plans for increased membership
in a meeting last Tuesday at the
tort Hood Civilian Personnel Of-
Ffice.
The NFFE Local 925 which in
cludes Federal employes at Fort
Hood Killeen Base and Gray Air
Force Base hopes to increase
membership and activities dur
ing 1960. All federal employes in
the area are being invited to the
group's next meeting Oct. 13 at
7:30 p.m. also in the Fort Hood
Civilian Personnel Office.
Any civilian federal employe is
eligible to join the federation.
Some 30 members of the local
headed by Mr. J. K. Blackwell
president attended Tuesday's
meeting. Two chairmen were ap
pointed Mr. Charles F. Crab-
tree for membership and Miss
Gertrude E. Fox for publicity.
51st Infantrymen'
Observe Unit Day
Men of the 51st Infantry observ
ed its Organizational Day Sept.
12 with company competition ve
hicle rides equipment displays
and open house.
Their celebration included a
farewell tribute to the battalion
commander Lt. Col. John D.
Sharp Jr. who now is assistant
chief of staff Plans and Opera
tions 2d Armored Division.
Colonel Sharp presented a tro
phy known as the "Order of
the Golden Gas Can" to Com
pany A which took top honors in
the company competition.
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DIVISION REBNLISTMENT PLAQUES The 2d Armored Division Reenlistment Plaques were
presented last week to the 50th Infantry and Headquarters and Headquarters Company 2d Arm-
wed Division. The presentation was made by Maj. Gen. Earle G. Wheeler 2d Armored Division
and Fort Hood Commander. From left are Maj. Robert L. Dudley Battalion Commander Head-
quarters 1st Armored Rifle Battalion 50th Infantry Gen. Wheeler Capt. J. R. Lenassi Com
manding Officer Headquarters and Headquarters Company and Capt. Earl M. Richardson 2d
Armored Division and Fort Hood Reenlistment Officer who assisted Gen. Wheeler in making
the presentations.
Librarian Relates Career That
Includes Jungle Adventues
there was no escape from the
jungle.
In an address to the Fort
Hood Officers' Wives Club
Miss Stillwell said "A con
victed murderer could be seen
daily sitting at the Ameri
cano or some other bar. Chain
gangs without chains were
seen meandering up the
cutting the grass growing be
tween the cobblestones. In Be-
lem this work was usually
done by groups of orphans."
Belem at the mouth of the
Amazon was Miss Stillwell's
home for the last year of her stay
in Brazil.
Manaos with is "exotically co
lored stucco houses" she con
sidered picturesque despite the
"inconvenienced the mosquitoes
the flying cockroaches and bats
which flew in and out of the un
screened windows the occasional
lepers in the street the huge
black lizards which ran up and
down the walls of my room at
night and the snakes which slith
ered out of holes in the wall and
darted across my path at unex
pected moments
MISS RAY STILLWELL veteran of six months' jungle life
1000 miles up the Amazon River now is processing and cata
loguing books of 26 languages in Fort Hood's U. S. Army Lan
guage Training Facility.—1"U. S. Army Photo."
Mary Hardin-Baylor
FORT HOOD BRANCH
instructor.
Mathematics
History
(Accredited by the Southern Association
of Colleges)
Fall Semester! 1959-60
Military Registration at Education Center
Bldg. 21221—26 Sep 59
College Registration and first class meetings:
28-29 Sep 59
Classes end: 30 Nov—1 Dec 59
Monday Wednesday 6:00 8:20 p.m.
Education
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While traveling in the jun
gle in jeeps or trucks other
snakes crossed her path
boa constrictors which the
truck drivers would shove off
the road with sticks*
Bathing was a "complicated
ritual."
"Once for four days at a
stretch we had no water what
ever except for the rain water
which we had collected in bar
rels" Miss Stillwell said. "At
these times we had the choice of
taking alcohol baths or going out
to the swimming hole at the
Bosque Club about five miles
outside of town. Since the pool
was contaminated the sewerage
and refuse from a leper colony
emptied into the river and
there was danger of the piranahs
whose sharp teeth could rip hum
an flesh to the bone I preferred
the alcohol baths."
The librarian spent six months
in Manaos before the office there
was consolidated with the one in
Belem bringing her closer to
civilization.
Her home now is Lubbock
Texas.
339 Secondary School Education. Pre
requisite: Ed. Psych. 230 Introduction to Ed. Psych.
History
437 History of Modern Russia. Prere
quisite: Six semester hours of history or consent of
Mathematics
131 College Algebra.
231 Analytic Geometry. Prerequisite:
College Algebra & Plane Trigonometry or suffi
ciently high score on mathematics placement test.
Speech
132 Public Speaking.
Tuesday Thursday 6:00 8:20 p.m.
German
131 Elementary German.
Business
English
237 Personnel Management.
131 Rhetoric and Composition.
231 U. S. History through 1865.
Mathematics
132 Plane Trigonometry. Prerequi
site: College Algebra or Sufficiently high score on
mathematics placement test.
Sociology
233 Introduction to Sociology.
Military registration will be held in Building 212 during
duty hours Monday through Friday 21 25 Sep. Monday
through Thursday evenings 21-24 Sep. from 1800 2000
hours and Saturday morning Sep. 26 from 0730 to 1130
hours.
Courses are open to dependents if room ex
ists in classes after military personnel have regis
tered. All civilians interested should attend the
first class meeting. The tuition rate for civilians is
$30.00 a course.
Cpl Collins
Named SOM
Cpl. Cecil E. Collins Batta
lion Assistant Supply Sergeant of
Service Battery 1st Howitzer Bat
talion 3rd Artillery 2d Armored
Division has been selected the
Division's Artillery Soldier of the
Month for September
Cpl. Collins will now enter the
competition for 2d Armored Di
vision's Top Soldier in Grades
E-4 and below.
THE ARMORED SENTINEt FORT HOOD TEXAS
Three officers of the 2d Armored
Division have been recently pro
moted to first lieutenants.
They are Paul M. Vetterick
platoon leader Company A 2d
Medium Tank Battalion 37th
Armor William G. Scheffer Tank
Section Leader Company C 1st
Medium Tank Battalion 66th
Armor and Donald J. Cissell as
sistant Divisional Medical Supply
Officer and Battalion Supply Of
ficer Headquarters and Head
quarters Detachment 48th Medi
cal Battalion.
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Sharp Now 2 AD
Ass't Staff Chief
Lt. Col. John D. Sharp Jr. this
week departed 51st Infantry as
battalion commander to become
assistant chief of staff Plans and
Operations 2d Armored Division.
Colonel Sharp was 51st* Infantry
commander since last January.
New commander is Maj. Horace
W. McCulloch former battalion
executive officer.
Sgt. Leaves For Germany
Assignment Next Month
M-Sgt. Wallace C. Howe Tank
Platoon Sergeant Company D 2d
Medium Tank Battalion 37th Ar
mor 2d Armored Division will
leave the company next month for
an assignment in Germany.
Sgt. Howe entered the service
in 1941 and served in Europe dur
ing World War II.
He joined Company of the
57th Tank Battalion in 1955 and
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Armored Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1959, newspaper, September 18, 1959; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254601/m1/3/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.