DEAR FELLOW-MEMBER OF ] SOUTHERN~METHODIST- UNIVERSITY, Pr
"HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 20" Dallas, 5, Texas, 2 July, 1943 “*-

On July 18, 1943 it will be-twenty-five years since we came together 48 the 20th
Company of the 1918 S.A.T.C, Camp at Fort Sheridan, The printed-Roster of the Come
pany [published that summer by Emmett Long, now of Follansbee, W.Va.J lists 204 men
—~--nearly all of them being professors or-administrative officers of colleges and
universities of the Middle West and South, The 1918 Roster gave highest degrees and a:
academic affiliations of the members of the Company, and that information does not
necd to be repeated hero,

In many ways the Company had a distinguished porsonneot; Thirty-two members of the
Company were listed with Doctor's degrees [Ph.D., M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., and S.J.D.1,
end fifty-five others had Master's degrees, In the twenty-five years that have
elapsed; there has been a great increase in the numbers of mombers who imve Doctor's
degrees. The number of mon listed in "Who's ‘ho in Amorica"* has greatly increased,
also,"as would be expected, I understand thet Dungay, Srell, Scutar, and perhaps
Place, have gotten the M.D, degree since our Fort Sheridan days.

- Among the men of the Company whose careers I have followed, the following might be
especially mentioned: W, S. Alison, president of Statson University since 1934;

R. VW. Crum, director of the highway rescarch board, Netional Research Ccuneil, sinco
1928; R, C, Flickinger, head=-professor of Lstin and Greek at the University of Iowa
Since 1925; F., J. Kolly, chief of the division of colleges and professional schools
of the U, S, Office of Education since 1931; T. J. Msok, professor of uriental lane
guages at the University of Toronto sinco 1923; Alfred Owre, who died in 1935; as
Gean of the school of dentyvistry at Columbia University; H, D. Prillips, P. E,
Bishop of Southwestern Virginia since 1938; B, EB, Setsaitt, professor of modern his=
tory at the University of Chicago since 1925; Jwun Sundwall, professor of hygiene
ana public health at tho University of Michigan since 1921; and of courso Knut Rocke
ne, whose tragic death in 1931 was a nation-wide concern, I have information of the
deaths of the following men of our C.mpany: dates, as far as I know them, are give
en in the list of presont-addrosses of the living mombors of the Company. Tuose
deceased members"are: A, T. Adams, R, B. Allen, H, H.-Bass, E. C, Buss, R. EB. Car
ter,"J. 0. Davis, H.-W. Duin, Logan Esarey, H, Dz Funk, H, S. Gentry, S. I. Lang=
maid, W.-E, Loekhart,-J. H, Loomis, R, B, MeGheo, J, W. Moss, Isaiah L. Miller, G. Be
Mortimer, Alfred Owre, C. E, Pike, K, K, Reckne, L. C. Slcosman, and Keith K, Smith,

Ovcr the years, the memories of our short and hoctic experience at Fort Shoridan
have been a gooc deal of satisfaction to mo-—=principally because of the men who
were members of the Company. I assume that many of you feel the same wey. Many men
you may care to-renew acquaintance with by correspondence, even after the lapse of
all those years. While you may not recall sone of the men, you may remerber a great
nany, With pleasure, I fcolt a distinet sense of loss at the d.aths of R. B. Allen,
Carter, Funk, Langmaid, and Miller; and a great deal of pleasure to see how many of
the Company heave done and accomplished good things.
I have tried to secure as fully as possible present acdrossos, but-sore of then,
(furnished by collego alumni offices) may be incorrect or-outcated, Otier involun=
tery errors may have crept in, and those I greatly regret. "NR" aftor a name indi=
cates that ropeated and diversified inquirias gave no results. Ia those cases whore
& bicgraphy is available, the source is indicated in brackets: "WW" (Who's Who in
4cerica); "AMS" (Aserican Moen of Science); "DAS" (Birectory of Aierican Scholars);
"WEngr" (hots Who in Engineering); "LE" (Leacers-in Eiucation); "Tal (Texian
Whots \fno).” I nave not included degrees and titles; as this is not intended to be
& Directory, but merely a list of presont addressos. . se I shall be glad to receive
corrections anc emendations, so far as you ean give thom ~-
Cordially and sincerely yours,

S. W. GEISER