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June, 1917

General response to the call to arms has been made by the members of the various departmental staffs of the Morning Oregonian, Portland. In all more than 75 men have enlisted in one or another branch of the service and the editorial department especially has been depleted. Eleven reporters and copy readers have been taken. At the Reserve Officers' Training Camp are C. Jerrold Owen, Edgar E. Piper and James Cellars, of the local reportorial staff, and Captain Austin B. Richeson and George Pritchard of the news room copy desk. Frank Barton and Willard Shaver, the former an alumnus of Willamette and the latter of Oregon, have enlisted in the Reserve Engineer Corps and expect to be at American Lake early in July or before. Frank Hochfeld, former office boy and copy messenger, and for the last three years librarian, has enlisted in the coast artillery and expects to be called into service July 25. Earl R. Goodwin, former assistant sporting editor, who has recently been advanced to the local staff, has joined the American Field Ambulance Corps and expects to get into active training this summer. Charles P. Ford, who because of his apparent ability at the start became a copy reader three months after going to work as an office boy several years ago, has been a member of Battery A, Field Artillery, for about a year and served on the Mexican border. Harry Grayson, assistant sporting editor, has joined the U. S. Marines and is now at Mare Island.

Fred Taylor, copy reader and formerly a member of the Texas National Guard, has been offered a commission in the Texas National Guard, but he is awaiting his chances with the training camp, for which he has applied.

Harry Frye, copy reader, who because of a slight physical ailment was ineligible for the service, is arranging to undergo a minor operation, after which he expects to qualify.

War activities have exacted a large quota of students in the school of journalism of the University. Some of the strongest students have associated themselves with various branches of the government service. Joe L. Skelton, of Klamath Falls, and Neil Morfitt, of Malheur, enlisted in the aviation corps in April, Frederick Kingsbury, of Eugene, en listed in the navy ten days after war was declared, and George Colton, of Portland, at about the same time went into the naval reserve and is now stationed at Bremerton. The Second Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Oregon National Guard, which will be mustered into the federal service in July, numbers among its members six of the most prominent students in the school of journalism—John DeWitt Gilbert, of Astoria, 7