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MAJOR JAMES JOSEPH ORR ANDERSON, USMCR, arrived in Hanover on July is to relieve Major John Howland, USMCR, as Officer in Charge of the Marine Corps Detachment of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit. Major Howland earlier received orders to report to the Navy Yard in New York but remained here when his first replacement, Captain Robert L. Raclin '40, USMC, was transferred from Dartmouth to Yale.

Major Anderson has come to Hanover from Princeton, where he has been Officer in Charge of the V-12 Marines. A veteran of Iceland and the South Pacific, he served as Island Commander of Savaii in the British Samoa Group, was military observer in Ellice Island, served on the staffs of General Price and General Watson in the Pacific, and was Regimental Adjutant of the 22nd Marines. He was invalided home from the South Pacific because of filariasis.

Major Anderson is a graduate of Ohio State University and was working toward his Master's degree at Northwestern at the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps.