Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Peg Forsbcrtj 42 was commissioned an cnsitjn in tlic W.W ' IIS at the same time that Martha Lane Foriines be- came an officer. Peg, who will always be re- membered for her rendition of I ' m Ready. Freddie in the 1940 Hoof and Horn show is applying the Admirai s AiDi 1,1. (aidk ). K. liuw ' ;j3 same enthusiasm u her work uitli ilic War Department in asliintrton. Her former room mate Dot Me(iunley is also a WAVE in Wash- ington. Ensign William . nsbro is a Naval flying officer who left Duke at the end of his soph(jmore year to enter the air corps. Lt. Eeo Roberts has been outside the Conti- nental Eimits of U.S.Ci. for a year a Supi ly, Disbursing, Clommissary and Accounting Ofliet-r of Advance Base activities of the Xa y. When the war is over, Et. Roberts looks forward to returning to Duke Eaw School. Ll. Todd Moore ' 43 went through the inten- sive training course at The West Point of the . ir. Randolph Meld. He is now a [■ irst Eieutenant in the .- rmy .Air C orps. stationed somewhere near Hon- olulu. C apt. Tom Morrow was on an island in the Pacific within spitting distance of the Japs and industriously spending his spare moments tc.uhing his men trigonometry to prepare them for officers training school. Tom says that only soldiers and one lone pine tree populate his island so that e en with rationing he would revel at being back in the .States. Bob Perdue 40, once a great football pla er at Duke is now engaged in athletics with a more serious purpose. He is now in charge of athletic activities at an . ir Base in Hawaii, putting forth a winning team. Lt. Ed. W ilson ' 43 has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and is credited with sinking two Jap destroyers. He was decorated in San Francisco by Rear . dmiral W. K. Har- rall and after a brief isit to the campus this winter was sent again to the Pacific. F.XSION I ' kc roKSlU.RG ' 42 Two Duke ahunni have been decorated for gallantry in action. Major Dan Edwards, class of ' 35, an aide-de-camp to General Eichel- berger, has received three awards. In Dec- ember, 1942, he received the Purple Heart citation as a result of his solicitude for his com- manding general during action in the New Guinea Battle Area. He neglected his own person for the benefit of his superior officer. On December 5, 1942, Major Edwards won the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism near Buna Village. He won the 20

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