The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 172, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 12, 1945 Page: 8 of 8
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Alumnus Serves on Faculty
Of South Pacific University
“The University of the South Pacific first overseas j
college ever conducted by the United States army has as
we of its 49 volunteer instructors Lieut Col Joseph Hj
Whttsett Durant who received a MA degree in education -
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Whitaett entered the aenrlce In —
September 1940 and wu trana- Dr a I Ortenburger chair-1
feired overseas in June 194&Now of the department of animat
in addition to hit regular duties biology and professor of zoology
he is an Instructor la college al- James 1 Holt
gebra it James D Holt who attend-!
Classes In this unique unlvers-1ed the university "before leaving
ity are held three nights a week for the service has returned to
in the Base Command headquar-' his Burma station after spending
ters buildings falcated on a semi-! a 4 May leave In this country I
tropical French - owned Wand Holt has served In Iran and
! 1000 miles northeast of Australia j Burma building on a supply road
) Students attending in their off i and a railroad into Russia He
hours include soldiers sailors J now is helping to build air bases
marines army and navy nurses! in Burma f
Red Cross girls and New Zealand - V W Johnson Jr
-civilian employees of the army First Lieut V W Johnson jr
The university vfi opened by j class of 1939 recently received
the army to help sofaUeri read the legion of merit and a citation
Just themselves to civilian life They were presented to him by
The school proved" so popular Lieut Gen Lucian- K Truscott
that -more than 1000 applicants jr C 8 Fifth army In Italy
’ for the first semester had to be March 28
rejected because of limited faoili- Johnson' la a member of Beta
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Theta Pi and also holds a life
joAg a Xif till membership in the alumni asso
’ John R Turnbull Nicomaclatton- '
Park has been promoted to the!-1 : “ I "
rank of first lieutenant He pilots t n l
a P-RS in the 37th squadron of j W INI A I J tO AlCCOlXi
'the 14th fighter group T r 1
Al present Turnbull’s group is lllStltlltC jDCCCtlCS
Reading the rest of the fighter 1
groups in the- 15th AAF in the Recordings of the speeches giv-
number of locomotives destroyed en every evening at the Oklaho-
in a series of “strategic strafing” gy institute of International Rela-
attacks 0 jtions will be made by station
Turnbull was graduated from wnad and presented the follow-
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PATTON AT THE HELM-Gen Georgtf ‘S Patton U b 3rd Army Commander pilots launch "fat -'
Atter Sea in Austria' as Col James H Polk watches Group" is faking' water tour to view scenery
Occasion celebrated 99th anniversary of 3rd Cavalry Squadron of which Colonel Polk iacommanderf "
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By a roll-call vote of 223 to 9&
they forced the issue before the
houses The " margin" Indickted
an actual vote on the legMatkm
will be made an order of business
for -Tuesday - " ‘
Student Constitution
Will Be Considered t:-
By Regents Thursday
The new student constitution
adopted this spring by the stu
Poll Tax Foes Scores
New Victory in House
WASHINGTON June 11 — If)
— Poll tax foes scored an Initial
victory Monday in the house by
discharging the rules 'and Judt-
Nicoma Park high school later lng at 2:is p m on the air I approval at the regular board of
attending Monmouth college nL accordlng to John w Dunn act-j "Rents meeting Thursday Kay
and the university - lng director of WNAD ! Cooley corresponding secretary
He received his wings and can- transcriptions of the first rann°unced Monday
mission at Williams field Arfz Bpeecj1 by G W C Ross recog-1 Other business will Include
on March 12 1944 j nixed authority on the far east consideration of proposed plans
VwTiLn !wa" broadca8t at 2:30 P- 171 ' for new dormitories a bond issue
Lt- (Jg) Robert G Ortenburger Monday but all future recordings
who was a member of the first wtn M at 2:i5 p- m
NROTC class to graduate from Jerome Davis export on Russia
the university returned to the will apeaker record-
east coast Thursday after spend-ing to be presented today The
mg a leave at his home here in subject will be "Russia’s Place
dent body will be submitted for ciary committees from Juried ic-
Norman
After his graduation Ortenbur-
Xer entered the subchaser school I
Among the United Nations"
More than 80000 soldiers in
at Miami Fta and then spent! the Mediterranean theater attend
several weeks as an instructor on educational courses gjven by the
a destroyer-escort He is the son Armed Forces Institute1 v
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university chairmanships and di-
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Smith, Mary Evelyn. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 172, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 12, 1945, newspaper, June 12, 1945; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1800578/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.