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Show WuiL'id jV'.2'.iLAIA WJo COL Toepel to Take Command At DPG in Early September . COL Adalbert Edward Toepel, Jr., a 1952 graduate of . the U.S. Military Academy and a veteran Field Artillery officer who also wears the wings of a Master Army Aviator, will assume his new duties as commander of Dugway Proving Ground early in September. He will succeed LTC Andrew . Armstrong, who will resume his former assignment as director of Plans and Studies. LTC Armstrong has been serving as commander since June 28, when he succeeded COL Robert A. Shade. COL SHADE retired at the end of June after 28 years of Army service and two years as DPG commander. He is living in Boise, Idaho, where he has entered private industry. COL Toepel plans to arrive at Dugway in early September from Headquarters of the US Army Materiel Command, Alexandria, Va., where he has been assigned since July 1973, with die Test and Evaluation Division, Directorate for Research, Development and Engineering. The veteran of 26 years of Army service will be accompanied by his wife, the former Mildred M. Foege, and son Steven Edward, who will be a senior in higji school during the coming school year. A daughter. Miss Kathryn Anne Toepel is a graduate student at the University of Oregon. A MASTER AVIATOR with both helicopter and fixed-- wing ratings and instrument flight tickets, COL Toepel was born in Colville, Wash. After graduation from Jenkins High School in Chewelah, Wash., he attended Gonzaga University, Spokane, for one year before his appointment to the Military Academy. He attended the USMA from 1948 to 1952. He attended the artillery and guided missile branch of the Artillery School at Ft. Bliss, Texas in 1952. Subsequent assignments were in Michigan, Korea, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alaska, Vietnam and anti-aircra- gineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1960. He attend the Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas in 1964. COL Toepel was promoted to captain in 1958, to major in 1963, to lieutenant colonel in 1967 and to colonel in 1973. ft IN ADDITION to five service and campaign medals with six battle stars, an Oak Leaf Cluster and a V (for valor) device, he has lieen awarded the Legion of Merit (twice). Distinguished Flying Cross (twice). Soldiers Medal, Washington, DC. Bronze Star Medal (twice). Meritorious Service Medal COL Toepel was a gun battery commander in Korea in (twice), Army Commendation Medal (three times) and the Re1954-55- . He attended the Artillery Officers Advanced Course public of Vietnams Armed Forces Honor Medal, First Class. at Ft Sill, Okla., in 1958., He served at Ft. Richardson and COL Toepel also wears the Vietnamese Cross of gallanFt. Greeley, Alaska, from 1964 to 1967, and in Vietnam with Palm, awarded twice while serving with the 1st try, with the 1st Cavalry Division in 1967-6- 8 and again in 1970-71- . Cavalry Division, and the General Staff Identification Badge, as well as the Master Aviation wings. IN THE Washington area from 1971 until his assignlie is the son of the late A. E. Toepel of Chewelah. ment as commander of DPG, COL Toepel was with the His mother, Mrs. Edith F. Toepel, lives in Chewelah at Office of the Vice Chief of Staff, Army, and then a student 2 at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, before going , Clay Avenue. In his spare time COL Toepel has been a Boy Scout to AMC Headquarters. leader. His hobbies include hunting and other outdoor He received a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in aeronautical en W-90- COL A. E. Toepel, Jr. degree UNIVERSITY OF UTAH "Published in the interest of the personnel of Dugway Proving Groundsms Published by the Transcript-BulletiPublishing Company, Tooele, Utah, a private firm, in no way connected with the Department of the Army. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Army. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army of the products or services advertised. n Ending 30-Ye- ar Friday, August 23, 1974 Dugway, Utah 84022 Dugway Proving Ground Vol. 7 No. 4 Career at Dugway S . Poloskey Schedules Joseph Retirement at End of August A U.S. Army corporal T--5 ings and Grounds Division of from the coal mines of Pen- - Facilities Engineering Division, nsylvania was transferred from Logistics Directorate, Poloskey Camp White, 'Oregon, to a helped build many of the small two- - year- - old desert out- - buildings at Michael Field aiid post, known as Dugway Prov- - in the complex known now as ing Ground, on May 10, 1944. Ditto Technical rea. He has been here ever since. T This was the main post NOW Joseph S. Polos- - til the 1950s. Many of the key of Clover, Utah, who has .buildings, including some of been employed at Dugway bn- - the temporary wooden frame gpr than anyone else, is call-- structures typical of World ing it quits. At the age of 60 War II military construction, he is retiring August 30 af-- are still in use today, ter 32 years and four months of I STILL have the first service, including mer that was issued to me when more than 30 years and three I came here in 1944 and was months at Dugway. assigned to work with the A carpenter with the Build- - contractors as a carpenters hel un-BU- Then CPL ) Joseph S. Poloskey in August 1944, three months after his arrival at Dugway Proving Ground. Picture was taken in front of his quarters at TOD Paik (now Tooele Army Depot). (Photo courtesy J. S. Poloskey) (T-5- Alcohol & Drug Control Officer Assigned Here per, Poloskey says. In those days during World War II, he recalls, the posts personnel included Army and Navy men. Marines, Womens Army Corps members, civilians and contractors. Also, German and Italian prisoners of war were confined at Dugway un- til they were repatriated after the war ended. Pobskey was discharged Jan. 1946, at Fort Douglas. Two weeks later he began work for Post Engineers in the carpen- shop at Dugway. This two week period was his only break ting from Jan. 21, 1946, has been continuous. He remained at Dugway as a caretaker and carpenter when the post was closed for a time between World War II and the Korean Conflict, At first he lived with his wife and family at TOD Park (now Tooele Army Depot) and commuted daily to Dugway. In 1948 I was given one-room living quarters on post, he says. When the post was closed I was abb to get lar-tr- y ger quarters in what is now Area. There were seven Now 7, Joseph S. Pobskey relaxes in his home at Clover, 30 years after his arrival at Dugway Proving Ground, and contemplates his retirement scheduled Aug. 30, 1974. break, he has been with DPGs Except for a Facilities Engineering Division since his arrival at Dugway in May 1944. (Photo courtesy j. S. Pobskey) two-wee- k in service. HIS CIVILIAN service, da- - (Continued on Page Two) i The Human Relations Re- ceived his BA from Southern source Center of DPG has a Colorado State College in 1971 new Alcohol and Drug Control and hi MA from the UniverOfficer. 2LT John K. Gra- sity of Utah in 1973. LT Graham was an enlisted ham began his new duties on for four years. He received 5. man August THE ALCOHOL and Drug his commission in 1973. He has Control Officer (ADCO) is re- been stationed at Fort Arizona, and Fort sponsible for the administraMassachusetts. of alcohol the and drug tion IIIS WIFE, Marlene, is also portion of the Human Relations Resource Center. LT Gra- from Colorado. They and their ham will coordinate all aspects three children reside at 5349-West Knigjit Street, DPG. of the alcohol and drug proHuman Relations ReThe DPG the including gram at source Cotter is located in education- - prevention aspects, Building 5330, Room 2118. evaluating program effectiveAnn Tyler remains the counseness and reporting to the comlor for the Center. Both Mrs. the mand on program. LT Graham is originally Tykr and LT. Graham can be' reached at ext. 3414. from Pueblo, Colorado. He re Recreation Center Plans Method Acting Workshop Hua-chuc- a, Dev-en- s, A training Jtrogram in acting, writing and directing for the stage, television, and motion picture is scheduled to start in September at the DPG Recreation Center. The Dugway Method Acting Workshop, as the program will Ire called, is open to the Dugway community. A THE PROGRAM director is SP5 Ismael Valentin of HI1C. Valentin, recently assigned to Dugway from West Germany, is an internationally known stage, film and television actor, writer, director and producer. He is a former director of the Kaiserslautern Method Acting Workshop in Germany, the Actor Candidate School and the Valentin Dramatic-Vocational School, both in New Jersey. Some of his film productions SP5 VALENTIN IRS Examination SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Persons who are neither CPAs nor accredited attorneys may represent clients before the Internal Revenue Service if they take a Special Enrollment Examination; The ap- propriate application mast Ire submitted by August 31. The examination will Ire given September 23 and 24 in Salt Lake City for Utah LT JOHN K. CRAHAM days Addicts, Civil war. Toare Juanas lluslrand" and Three Letters of the Out-Reachi- The Method Acting Workshop is the only program of its kind in the Armed Forces and it has been highly successful in West Germany and New Jersey for a decade. TRAINING WILL lie conducted two nights a week for Only the first 20 applicants that meet the set requirements will lie accepted. A meeting to introduce the program and close registrations will lie held on Thursday, August 29, 1974, at 7 p.m. at the Recreation Center. For more information call Mrs. O'Dell B. Avingcr, Recreation Center director. six months. This class is just one of many Center plans to introduce, Mrs. Avinger said. SP5 Valentin is assigned for duty as a photographer with the Photo Branch. EDWARD J. SANCHEZ CECIL O. ECKARD JACK W. MILNE Milne, Eckard Sanchez EEO Counselors , Appointments of three new EEO counselors for the Dugway Equal Employment Employment Opportunity Pro- -' gram were announced last week by the EEO Office. THEY ARE Jack W. Milne of Provo, a division chief in Logistics Directorate; Cecil O. Eckard of Salt Lake City, who is with Plans and Studies Directorate, and Edward J. Sanchez of Dugway, employed in Test Operations Directorate. Mibe Is chief of the Electronics Division of LD. befog exposed to EEO programs through government auspices, he became interested in the problems of minority group members and decided to be- - mental Plans Branch of Experimental Systems Division, PS. He enjoys working with people and is anxious for the day when everyone can get along together. He feels that being an EEO counselor offers a challenge and an opportunity to help resolve problems. ECKARD attended the basic EEO counselor course at the Denver Training Regional Center last month. He was impressed by the fact that the government spends approxihis with Provo in lives mately $5,500 for each formal lie wife Delores. They have four complaint that is filed. He children, including three still hopes to be abb to resolve at home and one now marri- most complaints at the local informal level, thus saving the ed. come involved in helping them solve their problems. As an EEO counsebr, Milne wants to find out where there are valid points of inequities and then to try to resolve, those inequities. He wants to make Dugway a good place for everyone to work. lie also wants to help Dugway Proving Ground to be a forerunner in the EEO Program. MILNE HAS attended the basic EEO counselor course presented in Denver. Eckard statistician is a mathematical in the Experi- - (Continued on Page Two) |