Com. Bullis Leaves

COMMANDING OFFICER OF V-12 UNIT GIVEN NEW DUTIES IN WASHINGTON

G' OMDR. WILLIAM F. BULLIS, USNR, Commanding Officer of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit from its beginning in July, was detached from the Unit on September 14 and was called to Washington to assume new duties with the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Command of the Dartmouth Unit, largest V-12 school in the country, was turned over to Major John Howland, USMCR, officer in charge of the Marine Corps detachment, whom Navy headquarters named Commanding Officer pending the appointment of a new Unit leader. The duties of Officer in Charge of the Marine detachment were in turn assumed by Marine Gunner John Crecion, assistant to Major Howland.

Commander Bullis remained in Hanover to receive the Inspection Board of four Navy officers which visited Dartmouth from First Naval District headquarters on September 16, and then reported to Admiral Jacobs, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel in Washington.

Commander Bullis served in Washington earlier in his present tour of duty, being with the shipbuilding division of the Bureau of Ships for the first year and a half after being commissioned in the Naval Reserve in 1940. From Washington he went to Notre Dame as executive officer of the Naval ROTC, and next became -executive officer of the school for WAVE officers at Smith College, which he left to come to Dartmouth.

Major Howland has been with the Dartmouth V-i 2 Unit from the start, reporting here alter four and a half months of active duty on Guadalcanal. He graduated from Harvard in 1932; later studied at Oxford, Harvard Law School, and Columbia; and was a New York lawyer before beginning his present tour of duty in 1940.