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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 20, 1957
MIKE SWENSON
LUTHER HOEL
DALE GERBOTH
48 Navy Officers Appointed
Forty-eight midshipman officers have been appointed to lead the KU Navy ROTC unit this year with Wayne Swenson, Topeka senior, as midshipman commander and battalion commander.
Darryl Kobler, Hays senior, was appointed battalion executive officer with a lieutenant commander rank. Three seniors named to staff positions with the rank of lieutenant are George Blackburn, Joplin, Mo., operations officer; Homer Paris, supply officer, and Dale Barnev, Mapeleton, adjutant. Stevenson Schmidt, Salina senior, is battalion chief petty officer.
Company commanders are senior lieutenants Ralph Varnum, Kansas City, Mo., and Norman Burnett, Lawrence.
Other officer appointees:
Officer
**Emmeng—Gary Bean and Edward**
Fuller, Kansas City, Mo.; James
Tierney and Darrrell Steeby, Wichita;
Homer Davis, St. Joseph, Mo.; Keith
Wainwright, Syracuse; Norman Burnett.
Lawrence. All are seniors.
Junior Lieutenant—Warren Gay
Topeka; John Spanbauer, Kansas
City, Mo. Both are seniors.
Chief Petty Officer—Stewart Engel, Edina, Minn.; Melvin Bundy, Auburn. Both are seniors.
Platoon Mustering Petty Officer—George Harp, Joplin, Mo.; James Elliot, Wichita; William Walker, Parsons; Arnold Henderson, Topeka, seniors, and Richard Adam, Emporia; Maynard Morris, Augusta. All are juniors.
Platoon Petty Officer First Class-
Wallace Greenlee, Scott City; Alan
Morris, Caney; Ralph Seger, Topeka;
Robert Johnson, Kansas City, Mo.
Michael Mills, McPherson, seniors,
and Gerald Simmons, Parsons, junior.
ROTC Honor Societies Plan Reorganization
The Pershing Rifles, undergraduate Army ROTC honor society, started KU military society activity with a reorganization meeting Thursday night.
Arnold Air Society, Air Force ROTC honor society for advanced students; Scabbard and Blade, all-service honor society for advanced cadets, and The Hawkwatch Society, Navy honor society, will hold organizational meetings next week.
Platoon Petty Officer Second Class
—Raymond Dean and Jerry Giddens,
Kansas City, Mo; Jav Maxwell,
Sedalia, Mo.; Colin Campbell, Hutchinson;
John Murphy, Mission; Wallace Richardson, Park Ridge, Ill; Karl Higgins, Independence, Mo; Gary Poe, Harlan, Iowa; James Grinter, Lawrence; Robert Davies, Dodge City. All are seniors. Lawrence Kamberg and William Stutzer, Kansas City, Mo; Keith Ellot, Hartford; Mark Saylor, Topeka; Peter Whitenight, Lawrence; John Hedstrom, Kansas City, Kan; Wendell Ridder, Higginsville, Mo. All are juniors.
Pershing Rifle officers elected were Robert Lied, Overland Park junior, company commander, and Allen Smith, Lawrence senior, company executive officer.
Society presidents are, John Hedrick, Ellinwood, Arnold Air Society; George L. Blackburn, Joplin, Mo., Hawkwatch Society, and Chester Boteret, Eureka, Scabbard and Blade, all seniors.
The Pershing Rifle meeting featured reorganization of the company into one platoon of pledges and one platoon of actives.
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45 Named To Staff Of Air Force ROTC
Forty-five cadet officers have been appointed to staff positions in the KU Air Force ROTC unit, Col. McHenry Hamilton, Jr., professor of air science said.
Luther Hoell, Kansas City, Kan. senior, was appointed group commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Raymond Johnson. Kansas City, Kan., senior, is the group executive officer with the rank of major.
Five seniors were named to head the special training school and four squadrons. They will hold the rank of major. They are Walter Strauch, Elmhurst, Ill., named commandant of the special training school; Jack Harrington, Terre Haute, Ind., 1st Squadron commander; Frank Becker, Emporia, 2nd Squadron commander; Donald Moor, Kansas City, Mo., 3rd Squadron commander; John Hedrick, Ellinwood, 4th Squadron commander.
Others named to the staff:
Captains—Jacob Goble, Caney; Glenn Kirk, Minneapolis; Jack Houser and Charles Schroeder, Ellinwood; Larry Davis and George
Hitt, Wellington; Lawrence Ball,
Cunningham; Jerry Jones, Frankfort;
George Meserve, Richard Lee
and Phillip Williams, Mission;
Thomas Rosowicz, Hammond, Ind.;
Louis DaHarb, Parsons; Thomas
Rinehart, Liberal; Bruce Smith
Stocton; Kerin Dryden, Osage City;
Jades Veach, Wichita; James Rodenberg, Halstead; Richard Jobe and
Fred Porta, Topeka and John Swyers, Independence, all seniors
and John Casson, Topeka, and
Charles Whalen, Overland Park,
both juniors.
First Lieutenants—David Smith and Benjamin Grant, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert Brark, Fort Worth, Tex.; Gary Ludwig, Mission; Albert Crane, Topeka; James Grady, Washington, D.C.; Robert Kuller, Emporia; William Wittenberg, Kansas City, Kan., and Ronald Reifel, Overland Park, all seniors and Ronald Johnson, Hickman Mills, Mo., junior.
Second Lieutenants—Richard Haines Topeka; Robert McAmish, Kansas City, Kan.; Fred Williams, Boulder, Colo. and John Risbeck, Kansas City, Mo., all seniors.