Evening star., 1926-10-03
OFFICERS CHOSEN
At COLLEGE PARK
Lieut.. Col. Leroy W. Sheriff
Heads Cadet List-Ken-
meth Spence Is Major.

LEROY w. Sheriff Of Landover. Md,
has been chosen cadet lieutenant col
onel Of the Reserve officers Training
Corps Unit at the University OF Mary
land. This Is the highest cadet military
Office and one Of the highest stu
dent awards of the university.
Sheriff has gained the limelight for
Maryland before, as he is one OF the
best hurdlers in the South and was
! a member Of the Maryland reiay
| team that was the sensation OF tne
| indoor track season last winter, tne
Old Line quartet beating Yale. Column
bia, Pennsylvania and dartmouth
and others of note.
Kenneth Spence, president Of the
senior class, member of the executive
council and manager Of the foot ball
team, gained the next highest otfice,
that of major and battalion COM
mander.
George Morrison. who Is captain
and adjutant, also is active In other
affairs He was business manager OF
the Reveille, the yearbook, last sea
son; is manager of the track team
for the 1926-7 campaign. and is a
member of the varsity foot ball squad.
Robert B. Luckey, first lieutenant,
Is inspection and training off1cer~ ~and
Paul B. Gunby, with the same rank,
Is intelligence officer.
Captains are:
Wade H. Elgin. jr., Company A;
Norwood A. Eaton. jr., Company B;
William S. Hill, Company G; Edwin
E. Rothgeb, Company D, and William
E. Peverill, commanding the band.
First lieutenants are:
Howard e. Hassler. E. S. Lanier,
Mallery o. Wooster. William G..
Bewley Harry F.. CARRIER. James G.:
Gray, jr; Wilbur NJ. Leaf and Cecil
L. Propst.
Second lieutenants are:
Edward B. Marks Myron B. Ste
vens Roger S. Whiteford, Amos
Beachley and Kenneth Petrie.
These appointments have just been
announced by Maj. r. S. Lytle,
U. S. A.. head Of the department
of military science and tactics.
1t also has been announced that
I Lieut.. Barrows, U. S. A, grad
uate Of West Point in the class
of 1918. will have charge of the fresh
man r. o. T. G. work. Lieut.. Bowes
Maj. Gen. William I4assiter on the
Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission.
His most recent duty was In the Pan
anna Canal Zone.
New Station Aides.
Eight new men have taken up
work at the experiment station to fill
vacancies. They are: G. D. Quaigley
in the poultry department.; j. w. Van
Vliet, animal pathology: r. G. Yoder
and II. B. Farley, horticultural de-
partment; G. V. C. Houghland and
c. A. Jones. soils department; P ".
agricultural and food chemistry.
Miss Helen Barnes has been added
to the university library staff as cata-
loguer and instructor in library
science. She received her B. S. at
Purdue University and after teaching
several years took library work at
the University of Illinois. Last year
she was cataloguer at the Carnegie
Library in Washington. George Fogg
and Paul Huntington. 1926 graduates
who are taking graduate work, and
Harold Thoman, junior, have been
made assistants in the library. Many
new volumes. including books on
European history. medieval literature
and biology. have been added to the
shelves.
A dance was given last night by
Alpha Onicron Pi Sorority in Ritchie
y
DR. Homer c. House, director of the
Glee Club. already is holding tryouts
for the organization, which last year
met with great favor wherever it
sang. Harry Kelchner is president of
the club. Bob Wilson vice president,
and Cecil Propst manager.
Rife Work Continues.
Elizabeth Taylor, president of the
Womans Athletic Association. already
has her organization planning for the
year. A rifle team better than the
one that won the national champion
ship in 1925-26 is promised. There
also will be inter-class basket ball.
and a field hockey team has been pro-
posed.
Practice houseWork will be started
next Wednesday. with Josephine God
bold. Roselle Bishoff, Alberta Orton.
Phyllis Houser and Mary Stewart
York, taking the first course.
Freshman co-eds were formally
greeted in a social given by the cab
met members of the Y. w. c.. A. at the
home of Mrs. H. J. Patterson
recently.
At a meeting Of the students pub
lications officials Thursday evening
33 new candidates reported. 18 for
the Diamondback. the weekly news
paper, and Is for the Reveille, the
yearbook.
Hilda Ensor and Ruth England,
Maryland University graduates. have
returned to the university to be the
first to de research work in the home
economics department.
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