University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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S s Drew 41 Captain Pitts ' 40 Lieutenant Jackson ' 34 I wish I could tell about it clearly, but it was just noise and confusion from all sides. The Navy has already made it clear how important that scrap was. We claimed a Japanese battleship. Some- where between twenty thousand and forty thousand Japanese troops were drowned when their transports were hit and went down under our guns. The Jap fleet scattered and disappeared in the night. In telhng about the sinking of the Ensign Chilson ' 36 Northampton, Fanning said, It ' s a funny thing about torpedoes at night. You can see the wake from the phos- phorescent effect, but you can ' t see it soon enough to dodge usually. I was lucky . . . the torpedo hit was uncomfortably close. If it had been closer I would have gone up in the air, and I wouldn ' t be here today. Fire broke out immediately, .we tried to control it, but couldn ' t . . . this time there were no more shots in our direction ... I believe it was because all the Jap crafts had been sunk. The Marines said afterwards that no landing was made, and the Navy reported that we got two large destroyers or cruisers, four other destroyers, two trans- ports, and a supply ship. Although an impressive portion of the Alumni are actively engaged in duty with the Armed Forces, others are rendering valuable service in civilian occupations — many in fields directly allied to the war effort; in the agricultural industries, es- pecially in the production of food; in medicine, dentistry, nursing and in other fields connected with public health; in sciences such as chemistry, physics, en- gineering, and bacteriology. [15

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Wildner and Mnie. Chiang AUiAfini Fighting this war is the chief occupation of Massachusetts State College Alumni. So reports Alumni Secretary Emery. The roster of Alumni in Uncle Sam ' s uniform now lists the names of more than eight hundred men and women — in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, WAACS, WAVES, Army and Navy Nurses Corps, and Merchant Marine; and of this num- ber seventy-five percent are commis- sioned officers. They are currently dis- persed all over the United States, on the seven seas, in Alaska and in Puerto Rico, in Iceland and the islands of the South Pacific, in North Africa and in India. Six Alumni already have been deco- rated for gallantry in action. Lieutenant Carl Wildner ' 38 has received the Dis- tinguished Service Cross for his part in General Doolittle ' s expedition over Tokio, and has also received the Chinese Flying Cloud Medal from Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Lieutenant Warren Bryant ' 39 has been awarded the Silver Star by Gen- eral MacArthur. Lieutenant George Spel- man ' 39 has received the Air Force medal for gallantry, an Oak leaf cluster, a further award, and has been commended by King George VI of England for his work as one of the crew of a flying fortress. Lieutenant Walter Miles ' 41 was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by General Doolittle. Lieutenant Lawrence Schenck ' 34, after having been wounded during the North African cam- paign, has received the Silver Star for gallantry. Corporal Wilbur Tirrell ' 35 has been awarded the Silver Star for ac- tion in the Southwest Pacific. Lieutenant Francis T. Fanning ' 39, U.S.N.R., an officer assigned to the heavy cruiser Northampton, is already a veteran of seven major engagements in the Pacific. After his ship, the Northamp- ton, was sunk. Fanning was given leave to return on furlough to his home in Mil- ton. While at home he was interviewed by a reporter from the Boston Traveler. We were with other ships off Guadal- canal, Fanning said. It was mid- November. We knew the Japs would come down from the north and make a try at landing more men and supplies in their attempts to hold Guadalcanal positions. Pitch dark, not a light showing any- where. And then the shooting started. Ensign Arslanian ' 42 14

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Dr. Bullis, Dr. Bradley. Dr. McKe , Prof. Archibald Bullies. Dr. MiUer BiCf MXi, i Officers: President Leon A. Bradley, Vice- President Malcolm A. McKenzie, Trea- surer John G. Archibald, Secretary Ken- neth L. Bullis. Members: George W. Alderman, Charles P. Alexander, Allen E. Andersen, John G. Archibald, John S. Bailey, Hugh P. Baker, Emmett Bennett, Herbert F. Bergman, John H. Blair, Arthur I. Bourne, Oran C. Boyd, Leon A. Bradley, K. L. Bullis, William G. Colby, Sara M. Coolidge, G. C. Crampton, Carl J. De- Boer, William L. Doran, Walter S. Eisen- menger, William B. Esselen, Jr., Carl R. Fellers, Richard W. Fessenden, William H. Fitzpatrick, James A. Foord, Ralph L. France, Henry J. Franklin, Monroe E. Freeman, Arthur P. French, James E. Fuller, Constantine J. Gilgut, Clarence E. Gordon, Francis P. Griffiths, Emil F. Guba, Christian L Gunness, Marie S. Gutowska, John Francis Hanson, Frank A. Hays, Julia O. Holmes, Linus H. Jones, Clifford V. Kightlinger, Arthur Levine, Walter A. Maclinn, Clinton Viles Mac- Coy, George A. Marston, John E. W. McConnell, Malcolm A. McKenzie, Ore- ana A. Merriam, Walter M. Miller, Wil- liam S. Mueller, Carl Olson, Jr., Vincent A. Osmun, Raymond T. Parkhurst, Ernest M. Parrott, Charles A. Peters, John Joseph Powers, Wallace F. Powers, Arnold D. Rhodes, J. Harry Rich, Walter S. Ritchie, William H. Ross, Paul Serex, Frank R. Shaw, Jacob K. Shaw, Dale H. Sieling, Fred J. Sievers, Marion E. Smith, Lawrence Southwick, Thomas Sproston, Jr., Harvey D. Sweetman, Frank G. Tourga, Jay R. Traver, Reuben E. Trip- pensee, Ralph A. Van Meter, Henry Van Roekel, William G. Vinal, Willett Wan- dell, Warren D. Whitcomb, Harold E. White, Gilbert L. Woodside, Robert E. Young. Officers: President William L. Machmer, Vice-President Charles H. DuBois, Secre- tary-Treasurer G. I. Woodside. Members: A. B. Beaumont, Mrs. Kenneth L. Bullis, G. C. Crampton, Charles N. DuBois, Mrs. William B. Easton, Jr., Mrs. G. E. Erickson, Stowell C. Coding, Vernon P. Helming, Arthur N. Julian, William L. Machmer, A. Anderson Mac- kimmie, Walter M. Miller, Helen S. Mitchell, Frank R. Moore, William H. Ross, Mrs. Frank R. Shaw, Marion Smith, Basil Wood, Gilbert L. Woodside. 16