Two years of college ROTC, the job of regimental commander at the Ohio Wesleyan Flight Preparatory School and additional military training here fitted Morgan C. Johnson (35-J-1) to assume cadet charge of the regiment last Saturday upon the graduation of Robert W. Sykes (34-H-3).

Cadet Johnson could hardly have missed Naval Aviation. His home is at Grosse Ile (Mich.) and he had numerous hops in Navy planes from the Naval Air Station there. He went to Georgia Tech One year and the University of Michigan One year before coming into the V-5 program, and his major was aeronautical engineering.

The 22-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Johnson, East River Road, Grosse Ile, is a graduate of St. James Prep School in Maryland. He was a member of the varsity soccer, football and tennis teams there.

Johnson will be in charge of the regiment during graduation ceremonies’ Friday, December 24, and the regimental adjutant will be Victor D. Olson. Cadet officers of Lt. (jg) Frank Albert’s 35th Battalion, which will furnish the graduates for the day before Christmas program, are: battalion commander—Anthony M. Sylvester; company commanders—Wendell Bell and Stephen F. Selby; platoon leaders—Herbert C. Phelps, Stephen J. Brashear, William C. Severeng, Ralph W. McCort, John M. Rossetto and Harold W. Pinkston.

Eaglet, USNPS Saint Mary's College California 17Dec1943 pg01

Morgan Claflin Johnson (1923)