University of Wisconsin Eau Claire - Periscope Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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Eou Claire State Teachers College has contributed this year its share in the furtherance of the national defense program. Several young men, students of the college, and one member of the faculty, all of whom are pictured on this page, left in October with the Wisconsin Notional Guard for Camp Beauregard, La., to train. lieutenant Colonel George L. Simpson, pictured at the left, is now at Camp Beauregard where he has charge of the camp educational program and is an officer in the intelligence branch of the army. All but one of the former students pictured below are members of Co. B., 128th Infantry, 32nd Division. One is in the Air Corps. In the front row, left to right are Robert Kolstad, George Olseth, Roger Knobel, Gene Johnson, Homer Cooke, and John Carpenter; in the back row. Barton Hewitt, who is in the Air Corps, Robert Nogle, lieutenant Colonel George I. Simpson, John Chartier, and Juneau Johnson. % Poge Ten

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H. A. SCHOFIELD, Ph. B. Retiring President President Schofield retired January 1, 1941 as head of the Eou Claire State Teachers College after almost twenty-five years of service. He established the school in 1916, and was its president continuously until his retirement. From on enrollment of less than two hundred and a faculty composed of twenty-two members, the college has grown until now there are forty-six members of the faculty and more than seven hundred students. During his incumbency, the school has become a college, offering degree courses, and has been admitted to membership in the National Teachers College Association. Graduates of its degree courses are admitted to the graduate schools of the leading colleges. The Periscope regretfully records President Schofield's termination of his educational work, ond wishes him many years of health and happiness. Page Nine

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Pictured of the right ore four non-commissioned officers of Company B, 128th Infantry, Wisconsin Notional Guard, who were formerly students of Eau Claire State Teachers College. Left to right are First Sergeant Robert Kolstad, Corporal John Carpenter, Corporal John Chortier, ond Corporal Homer Cooke, who are members of Company B, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division. Carpenter was editor of the Spectator last year, and the others were also outstanding students. All ore now at Camp Livingston, La. Shown in the picture below are the speakers and members of Eau Claire units of the Wisconsin National Guard at the farewell banquet held before the National Guard left for Camp Beauregard. Included among the speakers are, left to right in the foreground, William Smeed, President of the Eau Claire Junior Chamber of Commerce; Lieutenant Clayton Wold, of the Eau Claire Police Department; Lieutenant Colonel John D. Alexander, 126fh Field Artillery; Captain Wallace Crocker, Eau Claire,- and Lieutenant Colonel Rex Hovey, Eau Claire. Poge Eleven