Major-Gen. Miles Appoints 15 Quartermaster Officers

First to emanate from the Army Quartermaster training program began at the Business School here a year ago, is men received letters of appointment to officerships, and nine get certificates of course completion yesterday morning from the hand of Major General Sherman Milles, commanding the First Corps Area.

Presentation took place in the large lecture room of the Fogg Museum before Faculty members including Dean Chase and retiring Dean Donham of the Business School, and ranking officials of the First Corps Area and of the Harvard R. O. T. C.

15 Second Lieutenants

Fifteen cadets were commissioned as Second Licutenants in the Quartermaster Reserve: Richard T. Bentley, of Lancaster, Pa.; Robert F. Duttle, of Berkeley, Calif.; James F. Greig, of Aiea, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands; Robert S. Gunderson, of St. Paul, Minn.; Walter R. Gurthie, of Washington, D. C.; Louis Levy, of Halls, Tenn.; Clark E. McDonald, of Memphis, Tenn.; David G. Reed, of Middleboro, Mass.; Lot J. Seacat, of Ramsey, Ind.; Howard E. Sommer, of Chicago, III.; Herbert F. Stewart, of New York City; Harry M. Strong, of North Seattle, Wash.; Earl W. Tyler, Jr., of Richmond, Va.; Robert S. Weil, of Montgomery, Ala.; and Phillip J. Wolf 3d, of East St. Louis, III.

Three cadets were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Army of the United States. They are Walther Barry, of Dorchester, Mass.; Ernest A. Jonkinson, of Sioux City, la.; and Robert W. Ryan, of Brookline, Mass.

Certificates for successful completion of the course were presented to nine cadets. They will receive their reserve commissions after camp training this summer. Receiving certificates were Arnold M. Anderson, of Duluth, Minn.; William A. Ellison, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.; John T. Fey, of Cumberland, Md., Thomas J. Glenn, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Murray Harris, of Patterson, N. J.; Robert Polidor, of Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jack B. Quinn, of Chicago, Ill.; Paul W. Seiler, Jr., of Farmington, Mich.; and Robert M. Wattron, of Berkley, Calif.

Donham, Chase Present

The program was opened with the invocation by Lieut. Col. Walter J. Donahue, Chaplain of the First Corps Area. Short addresses to the graduating cadets were then made by Professor George B. Chase, Dean of the University; Professor Wallace B. Donham, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; Robert H. Hallowell, Chairman of the Visiting Committee on Military and Naval Science and Tactics of the Harvard Board of Overseers; and Col. Francis A. Doniat, Professor of Military Science and Tacties and commanding the Harvard R. O. T. C.

Major Morton Smith, Adjutant of the Harvard R. O. T. C. administered the oath of office to the QM cadets. General Miles then addressed the graduating officers and presented the letters of appointment and the course certificates. Colonel Donahue closed the program with the benediction.