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ALUMNI
1925
Captain Harrison T. Nicholas
is a member of the mobile lab- oratory staff in the Normandy area.
1926
First Lieutenant Lee Hall
Beasely, attached to a military police unit, in formed his father that he is recovering in England from wounds received in France. 1927
Major Reverdy E. Winfree re- cently returned to this country after serving overseas for more than two years in the Mediter- ranean area.
1929
Major Ashby Patteson is with the U. S. Army Air Force in De- catur, Alabama.
1930
Private James T. Jarrett was killed while serving overseas. He was with the U. S. Engineer Corps.
1935
Robert Baskervi ll was home
on leave the last of June. He has crossed the Atlantic twenty-two times in the convoy service. He was in the first landing at Oran, Africa.
William E. Gilliam, Jr., who is stationed in the Pacific Area has lately been promoted to the rank of captain.
1938
Lieutenant Thomas B. \"lin- borne of the U. S. Army Air Force has been interned in Swit- zerland. It is supposed that the bomber on which he served as hombardier, was forced down in Swiss territory.
1939
Lieutenant Lovit Hines La- Roque, U. S. Army Signal Corps, was recently wedded to Miss Carolyn Virginia Minnick of Lynchburg.
1940
Lieutenant Kenneth Brooks, who returned from the European theater a short time ago, is the veteran of twenty-nine missions over Europe. He was the navi- gator of a Marauder and wears the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.
1941
Frederick William Schoew, Jr.,
of Virginia Beach, has been pro- moted to the rank o'f major.
1942
John Hinsdale Joslin 1s now with the 1Iarines.
1943
Gordon Poindexter is with the
~Iarines at Pearl Harbor. Faculty
Lieutenant Colonel Houston C. Joyner was recently awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious serv- ice in combat with a chemical warfare unit. He is with the 85th Infantry Division on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
BOY SCOUTS
Troop 7 Reorganizes
Last month the V. E. S. troop took in sufficient new members to make it one of the largest ex- tra curricular organizations in the school.
For the first time there is a nearIy complete organization with l\l r. Follett continuing as scoutmaster; Charlie Weaver. assistant scoutmaster; VanNop- per, senior patrol leader; With- ers, scribe; Barge, quartermas- ter; and three patrols led by Seneff, Sublett, and Harris. S.
Men of Rank
The troop roster includes two Eagle Scouts (Vanl\'oppen and Harris), one Life Scout (Barge),
and two Star Scouts (Field and \V ayland ). By a curious coinci- dence there are no First Class Scouts registered, the rest of the troop being divided between Sec- ond Class and Tenderfoot Scouts.
New Quarter&
In order to provide sleeping quarters for negro employees of t he school, the troop was asked to give up its cabin and take up quarters in the single-room build- ing directly behind the infirmary. In acknowledgment of this good turn, the school suppl ied paint for the new headquarters. Under the direction of Asst. S. ~I. \Vea- ver the boys have been hard at work decorating.
Ac..tivitiea
As THE ?llETEOR goes to press plans are under way for the troop to act as ushers at the V. M. I.-Virginia football game and to take an afternoon and evening hike on Sunday.
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