Show I Meet the New ROTC Instructor j Really Gets Around BY BETH KEELE In the past two years Major Ernest A. new instructor of military science and tactics has been In the past two years he has seen plenty of army camps from New York to the Pacific and he has been at the university since al- MAJOR ERNEST A. most long enough to call Utah Major was a commissioned officer in the National Guard and the army reserves foe 14 so when he was inducted in he was promoted to And that's when his travels Since then he has been at Fort Pine N. A. P. Hill Military N. Fort N. and he was transferred from Fort to The popular conception of what an officer should be is more than lived up to in Major he is a he is well over six feet he has wavy he is he was very generous in handing orchids to the is really an outstanding group of students taking ROTC training at this he adding believe they'll be an asset to the army as commissioned He was in charge of evacuating all Japanese from Oregon and while there he what he considers one of the most beautiful spots in the United the Hood River are some spots in the south that are more barren than the salt but that Hood Riv- er valley was more peaceful and fertile looking than any place I've he A native of N. he was graduated from the Pratt university in Brooklyn where he was active in baseball and He was a professional basketball player before he entered the regular He has written several articles on tactics and his most recent effort was on tank destroyer He described his writings as busman's holiday a round of golf once in a is his idea of a wonderful pastime but on the most of the time has left him time to play start in again after the he |