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By BETTY EU SIEGMAN
With only two more weeks of
school before final exams, serv
ice men on leave, who are Oregon
alumni, will have only a short
time to view the University as
they once knew it—wartime con
ditions force its change in sev
eral more different ways.
Among those visiting on the
campus recently are three Phi
^elta Thetas—“Doc" Hayes,
i^ave Holmes, and Jack Six—all
ex-’42, who are leaving today.
Hayes, who is a second lieu
tenant in the army, received his
training at Fort Benning, Geor
gia in the infantry. Today he is
leaving for his new station at
Camp Walters, Texas.
Flying Cadets Holmes and Six,
who have been with the ferry
command, will go to Idaho for
further training.
Lt. Brian W. Flavelle, ’39, was
the leader of one of three recent
surprise attacks which proved
victorious against the enemy in
the north African theater of war.
Lt. Flavelle led the attack against
Messina, which resulted in ter
rific damage to the terminal
buildings of that city, all three
attacks being aimed at the ferry
terminals through which supplies
i(^re funneled to Tunisia.
"We plowed right through
ground machine-gunfire. Scared?
We didn’t have time to find out,"
he said, as quoted from a clipping
in the Newark (N.J.) Evening
News.
Suicide
Flavelle and his volunteer
crew were told that the attempt
would be a suicide attack. News
of his exploit was the first word
received at the Flavelle home
since he left the country early in
the year.
Louis S. Torgeson, '42, has
been promoted to first lieutenant
in the infantry after being trans
ferred from Camp Roberts, Cal.,
to Fort Benning, Ga., six weeks
ago.
Torgeson was last year’s
ASUO president, a member of
Beta Theta Pi, and an honor stu
dent in ROTC.
Prexy, Too
Captain Noel S. Benson, ’38,
was among seven. Pacific north
west airmen included among men
of the U. S. army air forces in
the Hawaiaan department who
received awards for meritorious
achievement while participating
in aerial fights.
Captain Benson, while at Ore
gon, was president of his junior
class and was vice-president of
the student body during his sen
ior year.
Ensign
Win Kelker, ex-’42, is now a
chief petty officer in the navy
stationed in San Diego. Robert
Bruce Peterson, ex-'42, recently
won his navy wings and was com
missioned an ensign in the naval
reserve following completion of
the training course at the naval
air center in Pensacola, Florida.
Ensign Peterson will go on ac
tive duty at one of the navy’s air
operational training centers be
fore being assigned to a combat
zone.
Wings
The following six Oregon al
umni have won their aviators’
wings in the U.S. marine corps
air arm and are now’ flying sec
ond lieutenants on duty with ma
rine aircraft squadrons at a na
val air station: Second Lieuten
ants William N. White, Roy Page
Jr., William R, Hopper, Kenneth
C. Bergstrom, Jackson T. Chris
tensen, and Elvert S. Wilson.
The new flight officers all en
listed as aviation cadets last Au
gust.
Harold R. Hartzell Jr., ex-UO
student, was commissioned a sec
ond lieutenant in the marine
corps reserve and was graduated
from the U. S. naval air training
center April 7 at Corpus Christi,
Texas.
Hartzell, who was a member
Have It Around
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that you lose friends is the way
it draws you to your brother col
umnist. There's no doubt at all
in my mind that it was the gos
sip column and all its kickbacks
that brought Fred (I Cover the
Campus) Beckwith and Peg (Ran
dom Harvest! Heitschmidt to
gether.
(Note to editor. Dear Jack:
Please try and get Virginia How
ard to write a column for you.
Here's hoping. Bert).
We'll end on an appropriate
note of confusion. The confusion
was in the Tri-Delt house Moth
er’s day, when Lorraine Long re
ceived all kinds of flowers. The
explanation ? Ex-Fiji Stan Par
rish had sent them to her for
Easter, but a florist’s mistake
had delayed the delivery. We won
der what she thought when she
opened them. . . .
Have it around.
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the saxophone, nor dc> they keep
mooses or trained elephants
which might prove a nuisance to
a well-ordered army post. I must
admit, however, that two men
habitually use corn-plasters."
• He goes on to tell about an ac
quaintance of his whom he calls
"Prune-juice” Pollins.
“ ‘Prune-juice’ (named after
the juice of the prune) Pollins
tells me that during the depres
sion his uncle "Sniffer” Pollins
had 40,000 head of cattle (bodies,
too) and he couldn’t sell them, so
he dug a great big hole in the
ground and killed them all and
buried them. And now, he and
his brother own the world’s larg
est operating corn-beef mine.”
of Sigma Alpha Epsilon while at
Oregon, volunteered for flight
training in February, 1942, and
received preliminary flight in
struction at the Oakland, Cali
fornia naval air station. From
there he went to Corpus Christi
where he received specialized in
struction in the navy's torpedo
planes.
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Jacc took at the University of
Oregon, to indicate her future
destiny. With her interests close
to that of her sorority, Delta
Delta Delta, she engaged in the
typical coed activities of the day.
It was in the early 20's, soon
after her marriage to DeWitt
Wallace, that they became mu
tually inspired to publish a mag
azine—with a little different
twist. The first few issues were
almost 100 per cent Wallace—
with subscription soliciting, copy
editing and like duties being per
formed by the two editors. .And
the idea caught on—people liked
the magazine.
Settling Down
Mrs. Wallace, who for many
years held a post of active duty
on the pocket-size magazine, ::s
taking it a little bit easier now.
Outside duties and responsibili
ties have long been bargaining'
for attention.
But still, when an excellent . r
ticlc comes to her attention, or a
new cover inspiration , . . or just
an idea, there is apt to be a little
memo pass around the editorial
office with the initials of In1 a
Bell Acheson Wallace on it.
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