Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approximately 100 were present at the R. O. T. C. farewell dinner last night given in honor of two departing officers of that unit, Majors Robert Charles Frederic Goetz and Edwin Pearson Parker. In the after-dinner program, P. S. Sprague '24, captain of the University polo team, presented Major Goetz with a solid silver cigarette case, while Thaddeus Adamowski, representing the unit, presented Major Parker with an automatic service revolver appropriately engraved...
...Major Parker came here in 1920 and it is largely due to his efforts that the number of students enrolled has increased from year to year. For three years he has taught the elementary course in Military Science--three years in which those who have studied under him have learned to appreciate highly his spirit of personal interest and sympathy...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, 150 students and guests of the University's unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps will attend a dinner in honor of Majors Robert Charles Frederick Goetz and Edwin Pearson Parker, who have been large3ly responsible for reviving and organizing the present University unit of the R. O. T. C. The two officers were recently notified by the War Department that they will be detailed elsewhere this summer, in accordance with the custom of the department to shift military officers to different stations every three or four...
Major Goetz arrived at the University in the of 1919 to organize the unit and was later appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Scarcely six months after the organization of the unit, in the fall of 1919, came Maor Parker, at present assistant professor in Military Science and Tactics. Major Goetz graduated from West Point in 1909 and has been connected with the army ever since; Major Parker entered the army in 1911, coming from civilian life...
...took courses in the department; today this number has become 300. The R. O. T. C. unit has made possible a polo team for the University and has organized pistol-shooting as an undergraduate sport. These various achievements were all accomplished under the direction of Majors, Goets and Parker...