Mobile Striking Force at Rest
Fort Devens, Mass. - Dartmouth College may not know it but seven of her recent graduates are guarding the Radcliffe-Wellesley Corridor with the mobile striking force of the 4th Regimental Combat Team, Fort Devens, Mass.
Their weapons are in most cases typewriters but these seven PFC's are true combat clerks, ready to stop pushing words at a moment's notice and grab a rifle.
The density of alumni from "The Big Green" includes one man who was graduated in 1954 and six others who made their way out in 1955. They are: PFC's Richard M. Rogin '54 and L. Hewitt Cook, both from Headquarters and Headquarters Company; R. Thomas Schoonmaker and Milo R. White, both from Company "G". William B. Slater and William Foggle, both from Service Company; and Robert S. Hayes, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion.
These men work as personnel clerks, company. clerks, mail clerks, radio repairmen and as public information specialists.
If Dartmouth has forgotten that Slater was a hurdler on the track team, that Foggle graced the .wave lengths of WDBS, that Rogin delivered the class poem on some forgotten graduation day, perhaps now their posterity will remember them as citizen soldiers who once upon a time gathered seven-strong at a place called Devens, 35 woody, hilly miles west of Boston.
Left to light: Bob Hayes '55, Bill Slater '55, Tom Schoonmaker '55, Dick Rogin '54, Bill Foggle '55, Milo White '55 and Hewitt Cook '55, all PFC's at Fort Devens.
