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Show Brigadier General Gardner In 'Who's Who In America' By MABEL J All VIS . Because he still claims Pine Valley as his home, relatives of Brigadier General Grandison Gardner were incidentally permitted to learn that this former home-town boy is now to be featured in "Who's Who In America". This information informa-tion was received on a postcard directed to General Gardner, asking ask-ing him regarding the proofing of his biographical sketch. Pine Valley residents are justifiably justifi-ably proud of this native son and what he has done and is still doing. do-ing. It seems entirely excusable that they are a trifle boastful of being one of the smaller towns of Washington county, but from their community comes the highest high-est commissioned officer at present pres-ent from the county. Bom In Pine Valley Born in Pine Valley, Grandison Gardner was a son of John A. and Celestia Snow Gardner, his parents being one of the sextette of Snow-Gardner marriages. This boy was aged 17 when the family moved to Logan, where he graduated grad-uated from the Utah Agricultural college of that place. Later he attended at-tended the University of California at Berkeley, and from there he enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute In-stitute of Technology. He lacked just a little of completing com-pleting h i s Ph. D. at Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Tech, when World War I grabbed him off for the air corps. And when the war was over, he was among those retained in military mili-tary service. Since his training was that of a physicist he has continued in the mechanical division divis-ion of the air corps, where he has gradually climbed from one promotion pro-motion to another until he finally became Brigadier General. Stationed now at Elgin. Fla., where he is in charge of that training field of the Army air corps, he is always delighted to meet up with boys from Utah, and from Washington county, though this is not frequent. It was he who issued the official information last winter regarding the "Buzz" (Continued on page eight) Brig. Gen. Gardner (Continued from first page) Wagner death. He has flown a plane over Pine Valley several' times since he was in this service and always circles as low as is safe over this little mountain-enclosed village of his birth, until, as one relative comments,' com-ments,' "until we natives know who it is saying "hello" when a plane nearly hits the church roof". While he was station at March Field, three years ago, he came twice' to Pine Valley on vacation, once at deer season. When the officers at Santa Clara questioned his right to a Utah license, he said, "surely a man has the right to call some place home. I have moved all over the U. S., but the longest time I ever spent in one place was in Pine Valley, and it is still home to me". Thus he gives Pine Valley as his address and says when he retires he is coming o that place to make his home. He has several inventions in the field to his credit, but since he works for Uncle Sam, whatever he does automatically becomes government property, thus he gets none of the official credit. He had been sent to Europe on official business in 1940 and was there during the episode of Dunkirk. Dun-kirk. He said what he saw there would have shamed the -worst of the barbarians. Some day when he returns, he will be able to tell his home-town folks of many first-hand experiences, experi-ences, which are at present among the untellables. And his people are looking forward to the time when he can come back and' be one of them. ' |