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First, they stated that a letter received June 2 was the first indication since March that their performance in the program was "in any way unsatisfactory." The students also objected to the fact that they had no opportunity to appear before Colonel Robert H. Pell, Professor of Military Science, or before the board which made the decision against them (the board consisted of three of Pell's subordinate officers...
...letter to Ford claimed that both Pell and Major John P. Hess, the unit adjutant and the associate professor of Military Science, were asked specifically if there was any higher Army authority to whom they could appeal the decision. Pell and Hess answered that there existed no avenue of appeal through the Army command structure, the letter states, even though a military lawyer at Fort Devens later informed them otherwise...
...Pell did, in fact, forward the students' records and letters of appeal to the ROTC headquarters at the Pentagon, but he still maintains that the students have no right of appeal except through the head of Army ROTC...
...month for a weekend of reunion and reminiscence-and celebration of a kind of education that is vanishing from the American scene. Lucy Blachly (now Mrs. Ernest F. Smith of Chico, Calif.) and the school's first teacher, Norine McDonell, 82 (now Mrs. Roman Zeller of nearby Kalis-pell), recalled how farmers petitioned the county to open the school in 1904 for the valley's 26 children, including year-old baby Alma McClarty and Henry Dietrich, 19. They even built a barn for Adla Oldenburg's spotted riding horse, since she was too "delicate" a girl...
...Rushing pell-mell onto the court to congratulate his players, Ecuador's non-playing Team Captain Danilo Carrera tried to hurdle the net, tripped, fell and gloriously snapped an ankle. The victory was so unexpected that Ecuadorian tennis officials had no funds set aside to send Olvera and Guzman to next month's interzone semifinals in Europe. They immediately began taking up a collection-and U.S. Captain George MacCall contributed $50. For the losers, there was one final humiliation. From London came word that for the first time in memory no American player would be seeded...