Vol. I—No. 16
U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Saturday, January 9, 1943
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Personnel Changes
Made in Academic,
Athletic, Military Units
With the advent of the new year,
a survey of the commissioned personnel
of the station finds many new hands on
deck, many old hands no longer aboard
but transferred to other duty, and
various changes and interchanges in
and among the academic, military, and
athletic departments.
In the academic department, new ad
ditions are Lieut, (jg) John D. Mc
Connell from the Georgia Pre-Flight
School and Lieut, (jg) Dan Voorhees
who recently completed indoctrination
at Quonset Point. Both are teaching
ENS and Aerology along with Ensign
Richard Cassiano who has moved over
from military interchanging duties
with Ensign Richard Zimmerman.
Lieut. Robert S. Watts has become
head of the course in ENS taking the
place of Lieut. Norman Loader, while
Lieut, (jg) Andrew Marckwald tnkes
over in charge of cadet flight jackets.
Lieut. Richard King, under temporary
orders, is now engaged studying at De
troit, Washington and Pfensacola the
use of special devices in aviation train
ing. Lieut. Wilmot DeBell still remains
on temporary duty stationed at the
aviation training division of the Bureau
of Aeronautics assisting in the prepa
ration of a Navy physics textbook.
Changes in the athletic department
are numerous with one new instructor
added and vacant billets opened by
outgoing transfer of officers filled by
departmental swapping. Lieut. Charles
D. Werner of Penn State, a graduate
of the last V-5 class, joins the track
department as a new instructor, while
other moves place Ensign John Barr
and Lieut, (jg) A.C. Ransom in bas
ketball, Ensiign W. J. Hartwell and
Lieut, (jg) T.W. O'Connor in hand-to-
hand combat, Lieut, (jg) N. J. Pierce
and Ensign J. Donato in football. En
sign P. K. Johnson in gym tumbling,
Ensign F. J. O’Hora in mass exer
cise, Ensign H. S. Harrison in Soccer,
Robert Meyer in the intramural spoits
program, and Lieut, (jg) A. Sabo as
construction officer.
Latest additions to the military de
partment as new platoon officers in
clude Ensigns James Cusick, Robert
Titchenal, Luther Richards, Edwin
Megin, Richard Zimmerman, Robert
Freeman, C. J. Anderson, Richard
Pondorf; and Lieuts. (jg) C. E. Mur
phy, John Hassett, P. W. Appleton, W.
L. Surrick, Harry Hedgepath, Hai’old
Carney, Donald Reese, A. K. Kaval-
check,. Percy Hooser, and John Devins.
WAVE Information Available
In Public Relations Office
First WAVE to visit this station
was Ensign Mary Frances Ivey,
W-V(S), USNR, who with Navy
Nurse Mary Gresko, came here from
the Raleigh Officer Procurement Office
Thursday afternoon for a dental ap
pointment.
Ensign Ivey has been enlisting
WAVES from North Carolina, and
left information forms in the Public
Relations Office here for those women
who are interested in either the V-9
or V-10 classes. The V-10 applies to
those with a minimum of two years
of high school or business school edu
cation, ages 20 through 35, and the
V-3 applies to those between ages of
20 and 49 who have a college degree,
or two years of college plus excep
tional business experience.
Four Officers Become Lieut. Commanders
SMILES AND CONGRATULATIONS are the order of the day as Comdr. John P. Graff, commanding officer of
the station, officially delivers papers from Washington promoting Lieuts. James P. Raugh, Lloyd R. Sauer,
Howard L. Hamilton, and John F. Gilday to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Recipients of the good news this past Thursday, the newly ranked officers will continue with their present
duties at the Pre-Flight School, Lieut. Comdr. Raugh, as executive officer, Lieut. Comdr. Sauer, as regimental
commander, Lieut. Comdr. Hamilton, as head of the academic department, and Lieut. Comdr. Gilday as head of
nomv;neIatui‘e ttnd recv^gnitiori. ■
The picture above, taken in the Captain’s office, presents from left to right, Comdr. Graff, and Lieut. Comdrs.
Raugh, Sauer, Hamilton and Gilday.
Lieut. Norman Loader, recently detached and now head of the academic department at the new Del Monte
Pre-Flight School in California, was also advanced to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Wrestling, Music
Headline First
Smoker of New Year
Headlined by wrestling matches,
singing, dancing, and piano solos, the
first smoker of the new year was held
at Memorial Hall last Wednesday.
Led by Lieut. Roland Logan, acting
as master of ceremonies, the program
featured the harmonies of ex-big league
ball players, Lieut, (jg) Buddy Has
sett and Lieut, (jg) Pete Appleton,
plus the not so musical antics of the
grunt and groan boys in three squad
ron competition matches.
Opening the athletic end of the en
tertainment, Cadet Nick Ozog of the
Mariners wrested a decision from
Cadet John L. McShane of the Buc
caneers in the 135-pound class. In the
middleweight (155-pound division)
Cadet W. H. Staton of the Helldivers
bested Cadet Henry C. Raynor of the
Catalina squad, while the finale found
Cadet Jack Landsburg victor in a close
dogfight with Cadet D. J. McKeeby, a
Mariner.
Following numbers featured Cadet
Ozark, rendering harmonica melodies;
Cadet T. B. Howell with imitations;
Cadet Clemmens making with the feet
on hardwood floor; selections by the
Pre-Flight orchestra with Cadet James
R. Ean vocalizing, and piano solos by
Cadet R. J. Miele.
Cadet Dance Cancelled
The cadet dance for January, which
was to have been held tonight, has been
cancelled for lack of necessary facili
ties, Lieut. Frank L. Gillespie, assist
ant welfare and recreation officer,
announced this week. The University
of North Carolina basketball team is
playing Wake Forest College tonight
in Woollen Gymnasium where the
dances are held.
Veteran of First
World War Applauds
Navy’s Air Program
Take it from a fighting pilot of the
last World War—the Navy’s avia
tion training program is the most com
plete and best system in the world for
turning out first class, versatile air
fighters.
Here to visit the Pre-Flight School
during the past week, Major G.A.W.
Alexander, who during World War I
was a member of Spad 38 of tb.e Third
French Flying Corps, expressed warm
enthusiam for what he saw.
“This is the most marvelous train
ing plan in the woi'ld,” he said. “In
the last war pilots were given very
brief instruction, often took to the air
before they were adequately prepared,
and as a result many paid with their
lives because they were not able to
respond quickly and effectively to new
situations and emergencies. After
looking over the program here, I can
see where the future crop of Navy pi
lots will be ready for anything that may
arise no matter how unpredictable.”
Major Alexander saw his first ac
tion under fire when he went overseas
in 1916 to drive an ambulance in the
French Army. Late that year he
transferred to the French Air Service
being attached to the Third French
Army under abstract order for the
duration.
He was wounded twice in flight, and
engaged in air fights over the Marne,
Chauteau-Thierry, and Champagne.
Returning to the United States in
1919, he entered the United States
Army Reserve, but was placed on the
permanent disability list because of
injuries received in battle.
Major Alexander holds decorations
from both the French and U. S. gov
ernments, including the Distinguished
Local Theater to Observe
United Nations Week
United Nations Week will be ob
served from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 at the
Carolina theater, E. C. Smith, man
ager, announced yesterday.
The purpose is to raise money for
all of America’s Allies, Mr. Smith
stated, and coeds from the University
will pass through the audience at each
of the shows to collect donations.
At the Pick theater a special Cop
per Day movie is scheduled for next
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. The
picture is Mug Town, starring the
Dead End Kids, and admission will be
copper. Mr. Smith urged all officers
at the station to remind their children
of the show, and ask them to find as
much copper as they possibly can.
All copper that is collected will be
sold and the money turned over to one
of the various ally war reliefs.
New Instructor Course Begins
Another indoctrination course for
new V-5 instructors began at the Pre-
Flight School last Thursday. Similar
coui’ses were conducted here last Sep
tember and last December to instruct
new naval officers in naval customs and
traditions, the elements of military
drill, and to work them into top phy
sical condition for their jobs ahead.
Service Cross, the Croix de Guere
with palm, and Order of the Purple
Heart. He is a past officer in the Nat
ional organization of the American Le
gion, and past department commander
from Florida.
While at Chapel Hill, Major Alexan
der visited with Cadet Jerry Anderson,
12th Battalion member from Winlock,
Wash., who was a hospital corpsman
at the U. S. Navy Hospital in Phila
delphia when the former was receiv
ing medical attention there last spring.
Occupancy of New
Navy Infirmary
To Begin Shortly
By Ben F. Fricks, Y3c
Patients will begin moving into the
new $192,000 Navy infirmary soon
after Jan. 15, it was disclosed this
week by Comdr. Dean H. Vance, senior
medical officer of this station.
“Equipment is being put in now as
rapidly as possible, and all patients
should be moved in by Feb. 1,” Com
mander Vance added.
The infirmary, built of cement and
brick, is of Colonial design, and is
fully reinforced, with a fireproof slate
roof. It is three stories high, and all
floors will be fully equipped with the
latest medical equipment.
Occupancy of this building, which
is located behind the University Medi
cal Building at the corner of Raleigh
and Pittsboro Roads, will represent
the answer to a need that has been
present since this school was first com
missioned seven months ago. Navy
patients have been quartered in the
University Infirmary, and quite often
this building has been crowded with
both students and cadets.
That the Navy is sparing no expense
to make this infirmary as complete as
possible is revealed in the following
facts offered by Comdr, Vance regard
ing the new structure.
liiciudcd in the 'vill be r.
galley, dining room, storeroom, and
accommodations for both white and
colored workers.
Offices for the senior medical officer,
executive medical officer, senior dental
officer, and all staff doctors, an ad
ministrative office and record room, a
room for the medical officer of the
day, and a pharmacy, fully equipped,
next to a large waiting room at the
East Entrance, will be on the first
floor. Also included on this floor will
be an X-ray room, consisting, in part,
of a number of 200 Milampere West-
inghouse X-rays.
The second floor will include five
wards, 11 private rooms, a diet kit
chen, a general utility room, and a
living room.
The surgical department will be on
the third floor, and will include major
and minor operating rooms, completely
equipped. Also on this floor will be
four wards, six private rooms, a diet
kitchen, general utility room, and
Navy Nurses’ quarters. There is a
spacious attic over this floor, and it
will be used for emergencies as needed.
Three stairways will run from the
basement to the top floor throughout
the building, and an elevator will be
in operation also.
It is not known as yet whether or
not any ceremonies will be carried out
when the infirmary is opened, but
rumors are that Tom Lynch, Chief
Pharmacist Mate of this station, de
sires to christen it with a bottle of
champagne, just as if it were a “battle-
wagon” or “tincan.”
Coming Events
Jan. 9—Free movie at Village The
atre, “Hold Back the Dawn” with
Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland.
Feature starts at 1330, 1534, 1930 and
2134.
Jan. 10—Free movie at Village The
atre, “Somewhere I’ll Find You” with
Clark Gable and Lana Turner. Fea
ture starts at 1310 and 1515.
Jan. 30—President’s Birthday Ball
sponsored by the Navy in Woollen
Gymnasium.