Tracy Voorhees Tracy Stebbins Voorhees ( June 30 , 1890 – September 25 , 1974 ) served as Under Secretary of the United States Army from August 1949 to April 1950 . He held numerous positions within the U . S . Government as a civilian . A practicing attorney , Voorhees , with the Judge Advocate General ' s Department , he served as part of the Surgeon General ' s office in the European and Pacific theatres during World War II . After the War , he served in various positions in the Defense Department . Biography . Tracy Voorhees was born on June 30 , 1890 in New Brunswick , New Jersey ; graduated from Rutgers University with a B . A . degree in 1911 and an M . A . degree in 1914 ; received an LL . B . degree from Columbia Law School in 1915 ; was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1915 , and the New York bar in 1918 . He became a member of the law firm of Satterlee , Canfield and Stone in New York in 1917 . He served as assistant to the Director , Bureau of Imports , War Trade Board in 1918 . He was practicing attorney as a member of the firm of Ewing , Alley and Voorhees from 1919 to 1928 and member of the firm Blake and Voorhees from 1929 to 1942 . He served as president of Long Island College Hospital from 1936 to 1944 . He was a commissioned colonel in the United States Army , posted to the Judge Advocate General ' s Department in 1942 and detailed to the Surgeon General ' s Office as Director of the Legal Division , serving in the Europea n , China - Burma - India , and Pacific Theaters of Operation . He was special assistant to the Secretary of War Robert P . Patterson in 1946 . As a civilian he was special assistant to Secretaries of War Patterson and Kenneth C . Royall , served as the War Department ' s Food Administrator for Occupied Areas , from 1947 – 1948 and served as Assistant Secretary of the Army , from 17 June 1948 to 21 August 1949 . He served as Under Secretary of the Army , from 22 August 1949 to 24 April 1950 . He was vice chairman of the Committee on Present Danger from 1951 to 1953 , Department of Defense Advisor to the U . S . Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with rank of minister and the director for offshore procurement in Europe for the Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1954 . He was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense from 1954 to 1961 , was chairman , President ' s Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief from 1956 1957 and served as the President ' s Personal Representative for Cuban Refugees , from 1960 to 1961 . He was vice chairman of the board of Rutgers University from 1959 to 1965 . He died in Brooklyn , New York . His papers are preserved in Special Collections and University Archives in the Alexander Library of Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick . Honors . Voorhees awards include Army Distinguished Service Medal , the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service , and Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award . In 1974 the Board of Governors of Rutgers University renamed Rutgers ' Neilson Campus in New Brunswick " Voorhees Campus " ( currently " Voorhees Mall " ) after Tracy Voorhees . The Van Voorhees Park in Brooklyn , New York is named in honor of Tracy Voorhees and his family .