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Show I ilir Force R. 0. T. C. Cadet Officers Chosen After Period of Testing j The Corps of Cadets officers for the next four months were announced an-nounced Monday by Major Ralph Kelley, associate professor of air 'science at Co,!lege of Southern Utah. Appointed commander of the group and a cadet lieutenant lieuten-ant colonel was David Kerry of Provo. The group staff is composed com-posed of Ray Stephenson as executive officer and a cadet major, ma-jor, Byron Rasmussen, Provo group operations officer, cadet major, and group adjutant Steve Lunt of Cedar City, a cadet captain. cap-tain. Completing the group staff are Cadet Master Sergeant Dewey Olds of Beryl as sergeant major, and Cadet Technical Sergeant Clark Staheli, Hurricane, the operations op-erations sergeant. This years corps of cadets is made up of three squadrons. The ; Squadron A commander Is Cadet Major Donald Haycock of Paro-wan. Paro-wan. His executive officer is Cadet Ca-det Captain Jess Marshall of Fillmore. Fill-more. The Squadron A adjutant is Cadet First Lieutenant Lee Carpenter of Cedar City. First sergeant of the squadron is Cadet Ca-det Master Sergeant Norman Nielson of Leamington. Each squadron is made up of two tlights. Flight commanders for Squadron A are Cadet Captain Clark Ronnow of Cedar City and Cadet Captain William Slack of Toquerville. Their assistants are Cadet First Lieutenant Delyle Bennett, Hinckley, and Cadet First Lieutenant Ted Chldester of Panguitch. Squadron B's formation is the same as Squadron A with Cadet Major Kenneth Benson, Cedar City, commanding. Cadet Captain Gerald Robinson, Ccnterfie.ld, is the executive officer and Cadet First Lieutenant Thomas Dobrus-ky, Dobrus-ky, Parowan is the adjutant. First Sergeant Leo Prestwich, Del-ta, Del-ta, serves the squadron. Flight commanders are Cadet Captains Ronald Hansen of Richfield, and Dick Lyman of Esca.'.ante. Their assistant flight commanders are Cadet First Lieutenant Jerold Bishop, Delta, and George Forak-is, Forak-is, Lapoint, Utah. Cadet Major Donald Floyd of Delta commands Squadron C, and his executive officer is Cadet Captain John Chappell of Lyman, Cadet First Lieutenant Fred Howes', Marysvale, acts as the squadron adjutant and the first sergeant is Cadet Master Sergent Roland Palmer of Cedar City. Squadron S's flight commanders' are Cadet Captains Donald Rasmussen, Ras-mussen, Fillmore, and Kent Brown of Cedar City. Assistant flight commanders are Cadet First Lieutenant John Bohman, Monroe, and Wiljiam Iverson, Fillmore. Advisor to the corps of spon-l sors at C S U is Cadet Captain Lane Ronnow of Cedar City. His assistants will be named from eligible freshmen at the beginning begin-ning of winter quarter. j The AF ROTC band commander command-er is Cadet Captain Silas Top-ham, Top-ham, Parowan. His assistant will also be named later in the year. All officer positions in the corps were selected after close observation of the leadership. lab- oratory for a period of four weeks. Selections were approved by Di-j rector Braithwaite and nominated nomin-ated by the department of air sci- j ence staff of the college com- posed of Major Ralph Kelley, as- j sociate professor of air science, a native of California; Captain Ralph Holmer, assistant professor profes-sor of air science, of Seattle, Wash.; Chief Warrant Officer Raymond A. Stevens, assistant professor of air science, from Slayton, Minn.; Master Sergeant j Thomas J. Ilruska, San Bernardino, Bernardi-no, Calif; Technical Sergeant Paul Potratz from Nebraska, and Staff Sergeant Charles Kemppal-nen Kemppal-nen from Marysvale, Ca.!if. Leadership positions will be rotated in February, 1050, to provide pro-vide the opportunity for more cadets ca-dets to take a turn at leading , the corps J The College of Southern Utah is unique in its status of having jan AF ROTC detachment on the campus and providing two years of training utilizing only fresli-men fresli-men and sophomores. The advanced ad-vanced cadets move on to other state colleges and universities leaving the opportunity for lower division students to take their places and step Into leadership positions much earlier than they would at the larger schools. This arrangement has resulted in CSU's cadets being appointed to high positions in the corps of other schools where they go to complete their college training. |