Major Andrew L. Pendleton Jr., U.S.A., is in town. Just a few years ago he was a modest, unassuming young fellow about town and everybody called him “Andy.” He went off to Annapolis and came home a lieutenant and no one thought much of that. He swapped the navy for the army and got a captaincy in the army. And nobody thought much of that.
Then hell broke loose in Europe and in due course we got into it. “Andy” Pendleton was one of the first overseas. Next thing any one knew he was a Lieutenant Colonel. About the time things began to warm up sure enough he was promoted to the rank of Major. He might have kept right on going up if he and the likes of him hadn’t put the Kaiser’s crowd out of the running so early.
To-day Major Pendleton is Commander of the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta, Ga. A handsome little booklet recently gotten out by the students of the R.O.T.C at Georgia Tech. is dedicated “To Major A.L. Pendleton Jr., Camp Commander, who by his energy and forethought has made our camp life enjoyable; and who, by his firmness, fairness and deep interest in the welfare of R.O.T.C. students, has won the love and respect of every man in camp.”
That’s what they think of him down in Georgia, to which sentiments everybody who knows “Andy” is unequivocally subscribed.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Aug. 25, 1922
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