TRANSIT FORMER STUDENTS IN ARMED FORCES WEBER College, like other American colleges and universities, has contributed many of its former students to the armed forces of our country. Today they are found in all parts of the world, from Australia to the British Isles, from Alaska to the Egyptian desert. It is possible to present only a few pictures of these boys in each issue, but through them we should like to pay tribute to all former students of the college, anywhere, who are serving our country in any capacity. Letters received from the boys away from home are filled with a mixture of humor and seriousness. They write of bicycle collisions in England, where the British ride on the "wrong" side of the road. In the same letter is related the details of a friend killed in action. Chance meetings between old friends illustrate the thrill of seeing old faces in new places, particularly when our soldier is a little homesick and lonely. A lightness expressed in most letters from the boys does not hide the fact that they realize the seriousness of their present job. They are really anxious for only one thing: to get it over with as quickly as possible and to return home. Arsace Wiese was at Weber in 1940-41, but took to the skies with the air force last December. He is now stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama. Walter Woolsey was a classmate of Cadet Wiese in '40-'41, and he remembers the good times he has as a member of the basketball squad at Weber. "Tell them to save a basketball for me when I get back," he writes. Kent Payne was in school only until the attack on Pearl Harbor less than one quarter. He left then to study radio at the Marine base on Treasure Island. He is now in active service. JACK LARSEN NORMAN CARLSON NIEL MOSS FRED SCHOFIELD J. C. WHITELY AUTUMN, 1942 The Jeep sitters are all Ogden boys. Jack Larsen was student body president from the opening of the school year, 1941-42, and he served until his regiment was ordered overseas shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is now stationed in, or near, Australia. Norman Carlson and Niel Moss both attended Weber, but Fred Schofield did not. Fred was killed in an airplane crash soon after this picture was taken. J. C. Whitely (Clair as he was known to classmates), is now a lieutenant in the air corps, an instructor stationed at Roswell, New Mexico. He took his preliminary training at Stockton Field, California. Bill Collins is on active duty with the navy and speaks of gas drills, scrubbing floors, and pressing his own clothes in typical sailor fashion. Arthur R. Manning has his mail addressed to the U.S.S. Clark, care of Postmaster, San Francisco. In each letter Lieutenant Clark states that he is enjoying it all, and never fails to end with this prediction: "My guess is that the war will end in '46." Dean Clayton is going to "try and get used to the lazy tropics and learn how to let life glide by." This, he says, is the custom where he is stationed in Hilo, Hawaii. Sergeant Ray C. Kieger, when last heard from, was stationed in India. He is a member of a fighter squadron in the U. S. Air Corps. "Boy," he writes, "what I wouldn't give for a hot dog and a glass of milk!" I. N. Wiese is a Lieutenant in the Marine Corp, stationed on an island in the Pacific. He was a Weber student in 1938-39, a member of Frenisti and Orion, also editor of the Signpost. Tom Champneys is in Australia. For details, see letter reproduced below. Warren D. Shepherd is stationed with the navy at Pensacola, Florida. Lt. Leo Yates, a graduate of 1940, is now somewhere in England. His chief objection is to the British cattle, which, he says, "don't have steaks on them." After spending ten months in Alaska, Ray Pierson was transferred to officers' training school in Virginia. He became a second lieutenant in August of this year and is now somewhere in the Hawaiian Islands. BILL COLLINS ARTHUR R. MANNING RAY C. KIEGER DEAN CLAYTON 41