Raclin Marine Head

CAPTAIN ROBERT L. RACLIN '40, USMC, will report to Dartmouth on June 5 to take over the job of Officer in Charge of the Marine Corps detachment of the Navy V-12 Unit, succeeding Major John Howland, USMCR, who has received orders to report to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Captain Raclin, formerly in the brokerage business in Chicago, enlisted in 1941 and served in the South Pacific for eight months as company executive officer until invalided home to the San Diego Naval Hospital. As a Dartmouth undergraduate he won his letter in squash, was on the crew, and was also out for freshman baseball and wrestling. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi.

Major Howland has been in charge of the V-12 Marines at Dartmouth since the Navy college training program opened last July 1. For a three-weeks period between the departure of Commander Bullis and the arrival of Captain Cummings he was Commanding Officer of the entire Unit and during that time installed the Unit regulations which have since been in operation with little change. A New York lawyer before he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve, Major Howland took part in the early South Pacific action and spent four and a half months on Guadalcanal.