Scrapbook, 1953-1958

File — Volume: 3925.002, Volume: 3925.B

Identifier: 3925.B

University of Alabama Army ROTC Scrapbook, 1953-1958

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Scope and Contents

The 1953-1958 scrapbook contains approximately 458 photographs with 326 of those having captions either identifying the person(s) or the event. There are also 249 newspaper clippings. Events and headlines included in this scrapbook are visits from GEN H. W. Johnson, GEN Garvin, MG T. C. Rogers; Pershing Rifles in parade; various parades on the Quad; Military Ball (1953-58); President’s Day; Crimson White clipping from 1958 describes “successful Military Ball and great Glenn Miller Orchestra”; Governor’s Day; photos of cadets with initials and last names (1955-57); brief profiles of sponsors from the Birmingham News and The Crimson White; newspaper coverage of Rifle Team, some AF ROTC; clipping of Margaret Inez Bishop, nursing student and first Army nurse from Alabama accepted in Women’s Army Corps, Army Nurse Corps; clippings from the Capstone Cadet (1955); 11 Nov 1954 Veterans Day Parade; Bama Festival (1954-55), includes images of vintage Army communications equipment and display of ROTC recruitment posters; Rifle Team (1954-55), including images of weapons used at firing range; full newspaper page coverage of 1955 Governor’s Day (1954-55); Governor’s Day where Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Pelham J. Merrill (alumnus, Alabama Hall of Fame inductee) served as Governor Gordon Persons’s representative; and a program from the 1957 Military Ball featuring Tony Pastor.

Cadre: COL Paul J. Mitchell (1956-58), COL Kelly B. Lemmon Jr. (1953-56), and COL William R. Blakely (1951-53).

Significant persons: Harry D. Bonham, University of Alabama dean of administration; University of Alabama President Frank Anthony Rose, Professor Wade Coleman, Alabama Governor James E. Folsom (also in clippings), University of Alabama President James H. Newman, and Pelham J. Merrill (also in clippings).

Sponsors: Virginia Thomas (1957-1958), Jane Crump, Kay Bounds, Sue Bowden, Kay Roif, Joanna Sharp, Patience Stevens; Jackie Wells (1956-57), Trudy Miller, Jean Quimby, Joanna Sharp, Suzie Bowden, Patty Clayton, Jane Foster (1955-56), Alice Kern, Nedaye Gray, Charlotte Brown, Rosemary Heinz; Alice Kern (1954-55), Jean Jolly, Connie Schmid, Suanne Reid, and Diane Lord.