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THE CADUCEUS.
WILL IMPROVE DRIVE LIEUT.-COLONEL NOW FIFTY NATURALIZED
BASE HOSPITAL MAKES BEST
SHOWING FOR CAMP.
FAST
The improving of the drive-way
through the base hospital grounds is
one of the first numbers on the pro
gressive program of, Colonel L. M.
Kennon, the new commander of Camp
Greene. Requisition for an appropria
tion for bettering the road around the
hospital wards has already been for
warded by Colonel Kennon.
The base hospital has made the Im
pression of being the best appearing
section of Camp Greene, to the new
commanding officer, who took charge
of the camp last week. There will be
a reconstruction schedule lor Camp
Greene under the new camp head but
due to the shifting state of the de
partments now represented here a def
inite program has not as yet been
worked out.
PROMOTIONS HAVE COME
TO HOSPITAL HEAD.
It is Major George Renn no longer
for another promotion has come to the
commanding officer of the base hospi
tal and he is now Lieutenant Colonel
Renn.
OUGHT TO SMILE.
Colonel Kennon, whose picture ap
pears on the front cover .of The Cadu-
ceus, has been in military service for
forty-three years. He is every inch a
soldier and has no thought of retire
ment during the present war.
The colonel, who was ranked as a
brigadier-general in the national army
while stationed at Camp Grant, Rock
ford, III., and who was given the rank
of colonel in the regular army when
ordered to take charge of Camp
Greene, is a West Point graduate. His
home is in Providence, R. I. He was
first schooled in the military academy
at Providence and has literally given
his life to the military service of the
United States.
Colonel Kennon, who wears a ser
vice bar of mafiy hues, has seen ser
vice in Europe, South America,
Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines and
other places.
Fifty men from the enlisted person
nel of the base hospital were among
the five hundred soldiers to be natu
ralized before Judge H. P. Long, at the
Camp Greene headquarters on Friday
morning. The assembly of several
hundred aliens took the solemn oath
to defend the institutions of the United
States and to cast'off all allegiance to
their former countries. Judge Long de
livered a brief address on the priv
ileges and obligations of being an
American in these trying hours when
the sacred rights of democracy and
freedom are being assailed by an arm
ed foe.
The fifty soldiers from the base hos
pital detachment represented the na
tionalities of Italian, Polish, Austrian,
Irish, Scotch, French, Greek and Rus
sian. The Italians had the largest
representation.
Three nonlcommibsioned officers
were in the party to be naturalized:
Sergeant First Class Cosgrove, Irish;
Sergeant Balmain, Scotch, and Cor
poral Prank, h'rench.
The medical supply men are de
veloping a keen interest in quoits. A
tournament would be in order.
LIEUT-COLONEL RENN.
It has hurried the cataloguers to
keep up with the strides of Lieut
enant Colonel Renn’s advancement in
rank. Just about the time that the of
fice force becomes accustomed to writ
ing his title properly there is a mes
sage from Washington stating that the
prefix is out of date.
Lieutenant Colonel Renn has been
advanced twice since his work at the
Camp Greene base hospital started.
He was a captain when he took up
his duties here last fall. About Feb
ruary fifteenth he was notified of his
commission as a major. At the end of
last week just after The Caduceus had
gone to press, a telegram from Wash
ington stated that a new commission,
that of Lieutenant Colonel, awaiting
the hospital commander.
Thfi attitude of Lieutenant Colon
el Renn has never changed towards
those about him through all the stages
of his advancement. He always has
the same kindly, fair, yet firm bear
ings to others of the hospital force.
Such has been his mien throu.gh all his
professional and military carear and it
is such a bearing that wins the glad-
acclaim of hearty approval when hon
ors come to men like Lieutenant-Col
onel Renn.
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