University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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M ELETEAN 0 Members of the Faculty Who Have Seen Service Miss Helen Schlagcr was the first member of our Faculty to leave for overseas service. She reached the London office of the Y. M. C. A. early last September. Immediately, she was assigned to canteen work in Liverpool, where her ability soon placed her in charge of a dozen girls in one of the best huts— The Knotty Ash.” After four months service in Liverpool, she was called to the “Y” headquarters in Paris, and has since been assigned to work somewhere in Germany with the Army of Occupation. Mr. H. IS. Hayward enlisted May 16. at Camp Dodge in the Officers' Training School. He was transferred June 29 to the Artillery Training School at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, where he remained until he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant F. A., U. S. A. He was then placed in a Field Artillery Replacement Depot at Camp Taylor until December 8, when .he was discharged. Mr. C. Ci. Stratton enlisted his services as a cartographer with the American Peace Commission at Paris, December, 1918. He has worked with that Commission since that Mr. W. H. Hunt was the last member of our Faculty to take up overseas work. He has enlisted for a period of one year to organize educational work in the American Army overseas. Mr. W. H. Eller is a member of the Base Hospital Band at Camp Grant. He enlisted in May, 1918, and as our publication goes to press, we find Mr. Eller looking forward to the time when he will be with us again. Mr. R. A. Kargcs was sent as Faculty representative of River Falls Normal to the S. A. T. C. Mr. R. S. Erlandson enlisted at Camp Custer. Michigan, April 1, 1918. He was attached to the Psychological Examining Board Medical Corps. Later he was transferred to Field Artillery Central Officers’ Training School at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. Here he was commissioned Second Lieutenant F. A., U. S. A. He was Instructor at F. A. C. O. T. S., and later attached to School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, lie received his discharge December 17, 1918. Mr. A. N. Johnson, Second Lieutenant F. A.. U. S. A., entered the service in November, 1917. Ho was admitted to the third Officers’ Training Camp, Camp Grant. Illinois, January 7. 1918. where he was graduated April 7, 1918. He was commissioned June 1, and entered the School of Fire, Field Artillery, at Fort Sill. July 12. He was graduated from Fort Sill. October 4. and was then assigned to Seventieth Field Artillery. West Point, Kentucky. Ho received his discharge February 4, 1919. the Military Training Course at Fort Sheridan, in preparation for the organization of Page Twcui. 'y-iniitf

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