LIEUT. WELKER TO LEAVE NTS

Lieut. Gilbert F. Welker, USNR, Personnel Officer of NTS (Communications) and a member of the staff at Harvard since the school first opened a year ago, has been detached and will leave for active duty October 4.

Lt. Welker, who has had more than 19 years of service in the Navy and Naval Reserve in both war and peace, first enlisted in 1923 as a radioman and saw continuous duty for six years. He was on submarines operating out of Pearl Harbor and was attached to the Naval Radio Station at Astoria, Oregon.

Returned to Navy, 1940

After entering civilian life, he returned to active duty in December 1940 and was appointed as a staff member of the Naval Training School in Los Angeles. He was at that school until June of last year when he came to Cambridge and assisted this Communications School. His first duty here was as the senior communications instructor and assistant to the head of the Academic Department. In May he was named personnel officer.

Also announced yesterday was the fact that Lt. Robert T. Close, USNR, a member of the NTS teaching staff, has received orders to report for assignment in an advanced base training detachment.