MAJ. HEERMANCE COMMANDANT

Major Radcliffe Heermance, U. S. A., has assumed command of the Harvard S. A. T. C. unit relieving Colonel Williams, who at his own request has been transferred to more active service. Major Heermance was graduated from Williams College in 1904, and received the degree there in 1906, and later at Harvard in 1908, and Princeton in 1909. For the past ten years he has been a member of the faculty at the latter University, instructing in English and in Military Science and Tactics. After the establishment of the R. O. T. C. at Princeton he was an instructor in that organization, and was also adjutant of the New Jersey summer camp.

In the autumn of 1917 Major Heermance entered the second Officers' Training Camp at Fort Myer, Virginia, from which he was commissioned captain of infantry in November. His first assignment was as instructor at the third Officers' Training Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia. At the close of this camp in May, 1918, he was transferred to the training detachment at the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, Georgia, as commanding officer of that unit. In October, when the S. A. T. C. was established there, he was made commandant of that organization in addition to other duties, and held that position until his recent transfer to Harvard. He received his promotion to the rank of major last August.

Major Heermance was born in Rhinebeck, New York, in 1882.