OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF THE MILITARY WORK AT DARTMOUTH

It will be of interest to the alumni to know something of the officers in whose hands the Government has placed the task of instructing the enlisted men in the Students' Army Training Corps at Dartmouth. The following brief account of them is therefore given.

The Commanding Officer is Captain Max Patterson, a graduate of the first series of training camps in 1917. Captain Patterson was first assigned to duty at Wentworth institute in Boston, where he organized the vocational section of men in training there. He was transferred to New Hampshire State College to organize a similar section, and after accomplishing this work was sent on June 10 of this year to Dartmouth. Here he organized the Training Detachment, the work of which began on June 15. When the S. A. T. C. was started, he was appointed Commanding Officer, and took over the work on October 1, the day of the induction of the students into the corps.

Captain Patrick F. Gleason, who served as brigade adjutant during the Si. A. T. C. at Plattsburg Barracks this summer, has been detailed as acting battalion commander of the first battalion.

Second Lieutenant Chauncy C. Batchelor has been detailed as acting battalion commander of the second battalion. Lt. Batchelor is a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1901, and has been an instructor in English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for several years.

Second Lieutenant John S. Pickett, who was here last year as instructor in military science in the College, in joint charge with Captain Louis Keene, has been detailed here again, after further training this summer at Plattsburg, as personnel adjutant and adjutant.

First Lieutenant John P. Hall, Medical Corps, U. S. A., has had the assistance during the recent epidemic of two contract surgeons, Doctors Howard N. Kingsford and John W. Bowler.

First Lieutenant Arthur L. Carrigan, Dental Corps, U. S. A., serves as dental officer.

Second Lieutenant Thomas W. Johnston, Q. M. C., U. S. A., is quartermaster. Lt. Johnston, who received his commission at Plattsburg this summer, lias been two years at Washington and Lee University.

Second Lieutenant Albert S. Baker, who was commissioned at Camp Perry, Ohio, has been detalled here as small arms firing instructor. Lt. Baker has been a student for one year at New Hampshire State College.

The following nine officers all received their commissions as second lieutenants in the Infantry of the United States Army at Plattsburg on September 16, and were ordered to report at once at Dartmouth:

Second Lieutenant George N. Ewing, of Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, a candidate for entrance to Lehigh University.

Second Lieutenant Landon R. Funston; two years in the University of Virginia.

Second Lieutenant Donald L. Brown; one year in New York University.

Second Lieutenant William H. Y. Knighton; one year in St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.

Second Lieutenant Michael J. Garvey; one and a half years in the College of the City of New York.

Second Lieutenant Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel; four years in Maryland State College.

Second Lieutenant Donald J. Luty; one year in the University of Pittsburgh.

Second Lieutenant Carl Merritt Campbell; one year in Pennsylvania State College.

Second Lieutenant Henry Beverly Hart; one year in the University of Virginia and one year in the University of Tennessee.

Two officers who were detailed here during the summer have recently been transferred. First Lieutenant William L. Barry has gone to take charge of the S. A. T. C. at Arkansas University, and Second Lieutenant James S. Armstrong has gone to take charge similarly of the S. A. T. C. at Colby College.

Officers' headquarters were established in the Alumni Gymnasium, but on October 26 were removed to Bartlett Hall.