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Colonel Goetz graduated from West Point in 1909. He was made a first lieutenant in 1916 and a captain in May, 1917. Then he received a rapid series of promotions, being commissioned major in June, 1918, lieutenant-colonel in August, and colonel in October, 1918. After his graduation from West Point Colonel Goetz was stationed principally in the west, and from 1912 to 1917 he served in Honolulu and Panama. Since the beginning of the war he has been engaged in military instruction duty, and was last assigned to Camp Jackson, S. C. His home is in Cape Girardeau, Missouri...
...Harvard Christian Association will meet tomorrow morning at the Phillips Brooks House at 9.45 A. M., when Major Henry Hobson, D. S. C., will deliver an address on "Spirituality Among the Troops...
After fourteen months of service which earned for him and his commission, the publicly expressed gratitude of the Italian King and Pope, Major Guy Lowell '92, director of the Department of Military Affairs of the American Red Cross in Italy, is back in Boston. He has been awarded the Medal of Valor, which is the Italian counterpart of the Distinguished Service Cross, and also the Italian Military Cross, a military medal awarded for distinguished work on the Italian front...
With the exception of our military attach, Major Lowell and his commission were the first Americans to be permanently engaged in military work with the Italian Army...
Professor Robert Howard Lord '06, the American Peace Commission's expert on Russia and Poland, was appointed one of the two American members of the commission created by the Peace Conference to visit Poland. He will leave next week to commence his investigations. The other American member is Major-General Francis J. Kernan...