Seven Alumni Begin Training For Air Corps
Seven University of Richmond alumni have started training at the Southeast Air Corps Training Center in Montgomery Alabama to become pilots for the U S Army Air Forces. They enter Maxwell Field Alabama then proceed to primary schools in the southeast for flight training under civilian instructors. Ensign James M Holladay Jr 28 a Richmond College graduate has completed seven months of pilot training at the U S Naval Air Station Jacksonville Florida and received his wings.
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University of Richmond
Southeast Air Corps Training Center
Uncle Sam
Southeast Corps
Montgomery
Ala
Frank Britton
Richmond
Frederick Merrill O’connor
William Topham
Roanoke
William Snyder
Staten Island
N. Y
Henry Steiner
Carlson Thomas
Danville
Herbert Willis
Bluefield
Maxwell Field
Alabama
James M. Holladay, Jr
Richmond College
U. S. Naval Air Station
Jacksonville
Florida
Ensign Holladay
James M. Holladay
Gordonsville
Anacostia
D. C
Navy
Pensacola
Corpus Christi
Choir To Present Messiah Excerpts At Vesper Service
The Can non Memorial Chapel vesper Sunday night features choir and solo Christmas carols and hymns with three Slovakian carols. The University choir will perform Sing We All Neel and Hallelujah from Handel’s The Messiah plus other carols. Miss Ann Gwaltney will sing two Messiah solos Come Unto Him and Rejoice Greatly. Scripture will be read from the Bible Christmas story.
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Cannon Memorial Chapel
Heith Harker
Westhampton College
Westminster Choir School
Princeton
N. J
Ann Gwaltney
Serve Here Says Dean Pinchbeck to Richmond College
Dean Pinchbeck urges Richmond College students to focus on studies while awaiting possible government calls to active service. He praises patriotic volunteers but emphasizes finishing the current semester if possible and planning ahead for military induction and eventual return after peace. He offers to discuss plans with any student.
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Richmond College
Japan
University of Richmond
United States of America
United States
Campus Air Defense Posts Remain Open Under Faculty Volunteers
Dean Pinchbeck urges students to serve country by excelling academically while contributing to air raid warning training. The University observation post continues to operate with Mr. Nettles directing shifts from Monday through Saturday, listing volunteers by time blocks and names. He asks for more faculty and student volunteers to join.
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Raymond B. Pinchbeck
United States
Nettles
Carver
Smart
Snellings
Bailey
Cousins
Hackley
MacDonald
Key
Grable
Wray
Fenlon
Wymbs
A. M
Lavendar
Willing
Crouch
Taylor
Phillips
Major
Decker
Mellwaine
Whitten
Batten
Alley
Stone
P.M
Wheeler
Caylor
Peple
Matthews
Maynard
Gaines
Stevenson
Klein
Ball
Henderson
Skinner
Ahrens
Campus recollections tie war era to college life
The narrative recalls wartime campus culture with figures like Malcol m A. Pitt Herman P. Thomas Sherlock Bronson and Pete Dunford among others. It notes social life on campus during mobilization and mentions wartime concerns over officer training availability and college closure possibilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutherland
Boatwright
Malcolm A. Pitt
Herman P. Thomas
Sherlock Bronson
Law School
Promi
Finnegan Family Faces Third War Call
Finnegan tells the Dean his Irish American family has served in the U S Navy in the last two wars. He says it would be wrong to have a third war without the Finnegan in it. Lubman supports joining the Selective Service before being drafted and chooses his branch.
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Finnegan
United States
Lubman
Richmond Alumni In Naval Service and Campus Leadership Named
The text lists several Richmond graduates with notable roles: Phillips served as Glee Club president and Collegian business manager, also active in Philologians and YMCA. Newton earned a 1939 BA and captained rowing, later aboard USS Chester. Walton chaired Student Government and Honor Council, Omega honors. Townsend, a 1938 business administration graduate, belonged to Phi Lambda Theta and Alpha Mu Omicron. all are Richmond natives with campus leadership and fraternal affiliations.
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New York City
Hawaii
Phillips
Glee Club
Collegian
Philologians
YMCA
Board of Publications
Richmond College
The
Philologian Literary Society
Alpha Mu Omicron
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Air Corps
Holladay
Navy Wings
Jacksonville Center
Dean Pinchbeck
Air Defense
McDonel
Rose
Cotten
Warriner
Katz
Milling
Myers
Whaley
Holtzclaw
Williams
Miller
Feinberg
Young Peoples Forum
First Baptist Church
Soponm F. Avams
Pav
Cmann
Chesterfield
Mery
Molig
Gopyright
Licertia Mrens Towacco Co
Pleyel
Heste
Ield
James HH. Barnett
C. Livingston Batten
L. W. Bingham
Pete Dunford
Jake Anderson
P. L. Harrup
Jim Whitfield
Tiny Wicker
Dave B. Satherfield
Congress
London
Morgan L. Combs
Mary Washington College
Noble T. Crossley
Boyd Taliaferro
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