US Marine Corps Base - Yearbook (Quantico, VA)

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EIIIHIS llltllllllltll AMES Galena! Commanding Reserve Officers' Class Colonel Evans 0, Ames was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April l2, lB95. He graduated from high school in Valleio, California, in I9I3 and later entered Saint Ignatius College in San Francisco as a law student. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps on Feb- ruary 6, I9I7, after successfully passing a competitive entrance examination from civil life. Upon entering the Marine Corps, Colonel Ames attended the Marine Officers' School fBasic Coursel Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, grad- uating on July 3, l9I7. His first assignment to duty was with the Marine Detachment, USS FREDERICK, which was then engaged on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. Promoted to First Lieutenant and Captain while on this assignment, he was detached from the FREDERICK in March, l9l8, and ordered to foreign duty on the island of Guam. Leaving Guam in June, I920, Colonel Ames served at San Diego and Mare Island, California, followed by eighteen months of recruiting duty at Salt Lake City, Utah. In June, l723, he was assigned to the First Brigade of Marines at Port au Prince, Haiti, where he served as Regimental Adiutant of the'Eighth Regiment for two years. In December, l925, Colonel Ames reported for duty at Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, and was Provost Marshal of this Post for six months prior to entering the Company Officers' Course, Marine Corps Schools, in August, I926. Upon graduating from this course, he proceeded on ex- peditionary duty at Shanghai and Tientsin, China, under General Smedley D. Butler. Returning from China early in l928, he was assigned duty as Executive Officer of the Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California. From June, l929, to August, l93I, Colonel Ames commanded the Marine Detach- ment, U. S. S. CALIFORNIA. Returning to Quantico, Virginia, in August, l93l, he was assigned as a student in the Field Officers' Course, Marine Corps Schools, graduating in June, l932. From l932 to l937, he served at Norfolk, Virginia, San Diego, California, and Quantico, Virginia, being promoted to rank of Maior in May, I934. In August, I937, he went to Shanghai, China, a ain. This time on the Staff of the Regimental Commander of the Sixth tjarines during the start of the Chinese-Japanese hostilities in China. During l938 and I939, Colonel Ames was in command of the Marine Barracks, Olongapo and Cavite, Philippine Islands. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in May, l938. Returning to the United States in l939, Colonel Ames was assigned on the Staff of the Marine Corps Schools as Chief of the Logistic Section. Early in l94l, an expanded officer procurement program was undertaken and Colonel Ames was placed in command and organized the present Reserve Officers' Class. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in January, l942. na-or - I

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WILLIAM A. WO RTON Colonel Assislani' Commandanl WILLIAM F. LANTZ Maier Adiulanf-Secrelary Marine Corps Schools l32l

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ir 'A' Slllll JOHN W. BECKETT Colonel Execufive Officer JACK P. JUHAN Lieufenanf Colonel Assislanf Operalions and Training Officer ERNEST W. FRY. JR. Lieufenanf Colonel Adiufanf CARLTON A. FISHER Maior Chief of Ad minisfrafion Secfion ROBERT E. HOGABOOM Lieulenanf Colonel Operafions and Training Officer HUGH H. MATHEWS Capfain Supply and Mess Officer