Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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ROTC 1 jk m 1 y . , iN -1 -■ WW- --4 it ; Row 1 : Mrs. Bernice Denison, M Sgt. John Sullivan, SFC John Baker, Lt. Col. Comet Gibson, M Sgt. Clarence Hodden, Mrs. Sue Re.x, Mr. Arthur Krueger. Row 2: Capt. Donald Carson, Major E. L. Chipley, SFC Robert Smith, Capt. Eugene Bierer, M Sgt. James Duncanson, Major Robert Crowe, M Sgt. Robert Young, Capt. L. O. Coggin, M Sgt. Kenneth McClure. We At Comissioning exercises at the end of the first semester the following men made the grade : Row 1 : Robert Chant, David Petersen, Robert Van Overloop, Joe f an A ' pss. Row 2: Donn Kithey. John Cristy, Gary Hogarth, Allen Fritchie, David McQuaig.

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At the final review The Reserve Officers ' Training Corps is a means of procuring future Army Officers, for the Regular Army and the Army Reserve. In turn, the pro- gram offers an opportunity to prepare for service v ' ith the Armed Forces. The ROTC Unit has continued to expand, and was the largest Quartermaster unit in the United States this year. Lt. Colonel Comet Gibson as- sumed the duty as Professor of Military Science and Tactics in July of 1953, replacing Lt. Colonel Emil Mosheim who is attending the Command and General Staff College. This year will include the first graduates who have completed their four years of ROTC study at Western, since the program was initiated in the Fall of 1950. An outstanding accomplishment of Western ' s ROTC Unit is that they have won the rifle marks- manship award for three consecutive years at the Fort Lee, Virginia, Summer Camp. prepared ounselvesi for the i a §; of man. The honorary Cadet Colonel, Miss Barbara Mensing and her court: Carol States, Janean McEiving, Jackie And- rus, and Jackie Slaughter, were elected by the Cadet Corps and were an- nounced at the Military Ball on April 10. 27