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Show VNIVERSITY OF VTAH note: above is the happy bunch of buddies who are assigned to the university from the regular army to do the "dirty work." in the unit A FAMOUS SOLDIER By Private J. Blaine Selleck, D.E.M.L. PROBABLY the most interesting character in the Enlisted Detachment at the University is Master Sergeant Newton C. Fenner, F.A., Retired. He has served Uncle Sam more than twenty-one years and is one of eight or ten master sergeants in the U.S. Army. He is a Scotchman and is proud of his long moustache-it takes a master sergeant to grow one like it, he says He relates some of the interesting tales of his unusual career: "The only time I can speak extemporaneously and get it over is immediately after having smashed a ringer; then I can orate, preach, lecture, pray, elocutionize, all in the same breath." "I was once in charge of a detail of mounted guards protecting a party, the head of which was President Theodore Roosevelt. Upon bidding me good-bye, he said, 'Sergeant Fenner, the only small thing about a United States Army Cavalryman is-his pay.' I agreed." "In 1905 I went to the Philippines. At that time the country was wholly uncivilized, and I saw many strange sights. Today they have become Americanized, however, and are civilized." I 'V- * - * ' AH I. * ¦¦^ a ___3 J ^^^ | f f 1 jjf i1** ¦ MASTER SGT. N. C. FENNER U. S. A. RETIRED Page 106 |
