Word: camps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
Last fortnight Dr. Harold Elmer Anthony, expedition leader and curator of mammals at the American Museum, and a companion were hoisted up the difficult sandstone ledges by five experienced guides. After one night Dr. Anthony's companion came down - alone - to the base camp on the saddle with two "leaf-eared mice" which he had caught in traps. These turned out to be similar to other leaf-eared mice inhabiting the region. Hunters and natives winked and snickered around the campfire, hinted that where scientists could go animals could go. George Borup Andrews, son of famed Explorer Roy Chapman...
Among those who acted as Battery Commander for the student battery during the camp was Joseph H. Nee, '38, whose commanding presence enabled him to discharge his duties in an excellent manner. He proved himself equally adept at kitchen police the following week, for all of the duties at camp are assigned by roster in order to give each student as much first hand knowledge of practical military matters as is possible in the short period of training...
...close of camp the members of the Class of '37 received their commissions an Second Lieutenants, Field Artillery Reserve. These were Philip M. Andress, William P. Bittenbender, John Fox, Keith H. Higgs, Philip A. Lief received a certificate which will entitle him to be commissioned when he reaches his 21st birthday...
...members of the Class of '38 departed from camp with pockets full of "pay and allowances," ready to return to college and assume their duties as cadet officers in the ROTC unit this fall. The class of '38 was represented by John Briggs III, Albert E. Brunelli, John F. Casey, Wallace H. Cox, Edwin C. Davis, Joseph Franklin, John H. Hewitt, John F. P. Hill, Shepard Jerome, Jay W. Kaufmann, Richard G. Labovitz, Francis X. Leary, Lawrence H. Marcus, Joseph F. Nee, William P. O'Connor, Jr., Edward H. Osgood, Jr., Philip N. Stamas, Robert Sullivan, Alfred M. Torrielli