Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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GEORGE BAILLO Lake Charles HOMER L. BRINKLEY Lake Charles THEO. F. CANCELOSI Baton Rouge MRS. MARGARET DIXON Prairieville JOHN J. DOLES Plain Dealing C. G. Di GAS Donaldsonville COL. TOM W. DL TTON New Orleans LEWIS GOTTLIEB Baton Rouge THOS. W. LEIGH Monroe JAMES M. MCLEMORE Alexandria M KS. ELLA V. ALDRICH SCHWI.NC Plaquemine J. STEWART SLACK Shreveport JAMES E. SMITHERMAN Shreveport HORACE WILKINSON. JR Port Allen OF SUPERVISORS 1 RGARET DI i ni v. ALDRICH SCHWIM; JOHN J. DOLES J. STEWART SLACK C. J. DfCAS JAMES E. SMITHERMAN TOM W. DUTTON HORACE WILKINSON, JR. THEO F. CANGELOSI JAMES W. McLEMORE

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THE HONORABLE ROBERT F. KENNON BOARD GEORGE BAILLIO LEWIS GOTTLIEB HOMER L. BRINKLEY THOMAS W. LEIGH

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. Lt. Gen. Troy II. Middleton has served Louisiana State University in five different capacities, with time out for military service, since 1930. when he began a six year term as Commandant of Cadets. During the last two years of that duty he was also Dean of Men. Since there he has been Dean of Administration. Acting Vice-President and Comptroller a post he held from 1939 until February 1. 1951, when he became LSD ' s thir- teenth president, and the third general to head the University. General Middleton was born in Georgetown, Miss. October 12, 1889. He began his distinguished career as a private in the Army following his graduation from Mississippi State College in 1909. His first service came in 1912 during the Mexican border campaign in forays against Pancho Villa. During World War I he was the Army ' s youngest full colonel, the permanent rank he retained upon his retirement from the Army in 1936. But he was called back into service in 1942 as commander of the 45th Division, which he led in the invasion of Sicily and Italy during World War II. Later he commanded the Eighth Corps through France. Belgium. Luxembourg and Germany. General George Patton called his decision to hold Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge ' ' a stroke of genius. An able administrator, the General has also taught, in Army institutions and at LSU. Best known of his former pupils is President Dwight D. Eisen- hower, whom he once taught at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas.