University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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 bedicatiwi To Lt. George W. Greene: We dedicate the “Leg of the U. S. S. Arkam to you with a respect and an admiration heretofore unknown by any of us. It has been our happy privilege to serve under you and we realize now that your spirit of leadership and interest in the welfare cf the men you command cannot be paralleled. Our only hope is that we will in some way measure up to your expectations and carry on the incomparable qualities of fficership which we have received from you.

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Gun, £ kippe i I t. George W. Greene, our Comman ling Officer, came t: this unit on the 20th of July, 1943. and held the position of Executive Officer under Commander V. S. Thompson. On August II of the same yea his family joined him here. In the laitci part of November. 1943, Lt. C. Brown was made C. O. and shortly after, on April 17. 1944, l.t. Greene was placed in complete charge of this naval unit. Lt. Greene is a native of .Moscow Idaho, lie graduated from the University of Idaho where he obtained his B. S. and M. S. degrees. Later he did advance work at the University of Southern California, and following this he taught and coached in an Idaho High Sell jol. lie later became the Director of Physical d raining at the college from which he had graduated. At one time Lt. Greene attained the position of Dean of Men at the State Normal School of Idaho.