January-February - Air Defense Artillery

ROTC Medal Winners
Each year the United States Coast Artillery Association
giY~sa medal to the outstanding stude~t in each
Coast Artillery senior ROTC unit. The medal is
awarded by th~ Association on the recommendation of
a board of three members appointed by the P.M.S.&T.
of the institution concerned.
The selection is made on a grading scale of one hundred
points. Grades in academic subjects exclusive of
military subjects carry a 'weight of thirty points; grades
in military subjects, both theoretical and practical, rate
forty points; personal qualifications, including character,
initiative, force, leadership, cooperation, loyalty,
industry, military bearing and neatness, count thirty
points.
The award is made to a student who has completed
his iunior year, and is based on three years of military
and' acade~ic work. - -
Awards for the academic vear 1941-42 \vere made as
follows: /
University of Alabctma: Cadet Second Lieutenant
John W. McConnell, Jr., of Bessemer, Alabama.
University of California: Cadet Sergeant Bernard
Etcheverry, Jr.
University of California at Los Angeles: Cadet Roy
L. Baber, of Brentwood Heights, California.
University of Cincinnati: Cadet Major Robert C.
Geiger.
The Citadel: Cadet H. L. Beckington.
University of Delaware: Cadet Sergeant Clarence S.
Reburn, of Wilmington, Delaware.
Fordham University: Cadet Joseph Vincent Fiore,
Bronx, New York.
Georgia School of Technology: Cadet Major Arthur
Chester Skinner, Jr., of Jacksonville, Florida.
Unil'ersit)' of Illinois: Cadet Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas H. Cloke, Jr., of Park Ridge, Illinois.
University of Kansas: Cadet First Lieutenant George
Lee Johnson, of La\wence, Kansas.
Kansas State College: Cadet Leon D. Findley, of
Kiowa, Kansas.
University of Maine: Cadet Second Lieutenant
Fra~cis Al~on Brown, of Woodland, Maine.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cadet Kenneth
Robert Wadleigh, of Clifton, New Jersey.
Michif!,l1n State College: Cadet Lieutenant Alfred
M. Cordes, of Grand Haven, Michigan.
University of Minnesota: Cadet Master Sergeant
Robert S. Stewart.
Mississippi State Collef!,e: Cadet Colonel James
Woodford Carr, Jr., of Columbus, Mississippi.
University of New Hampshire: Cadet Richard James
Foley, of Manchester, New Hampshire.
University of Pittsburgh: Cadet Colonel George 1.
Illig, Jr., of Crafton, Pennsylvania.
University of San Francisco: Cadet Captain William
T. Wall. of San Francisco, California.
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas: Cadet
First Sergeant Spencer Roe Baen.
Utah State Agricultural College: Cadet Regimental
Sergeant Major Aaron G. Amacher.
Virginia Polytec1zni.cInstitute: Cadet John Randolph
Wilson, of Gate City, Virginia.
Washington Unilrersity: Cadet Sergeant Leland Morris
Wallace.
University of Washington: Cadet Master Sergeant
Donald R. Huey.