The Eagle Eye (Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 24, 1945 Page: 8 of 8
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New U£0 Director
Widely Experienced
/•’red (1‘npj linslandrr
War end its effects are no strang-
ers to Fred Ruslander, new director
of tlie Eagle Pass lTSO, who was a
war correspondent during World War
1 ; remained overseas for seven years
af(.<*»• World War 1 representing a
unit of Herbert Hoover’s American
Relief Admini trutimi; has lost ore.1
son who was killed in this w r and
has two other sons now serving in the
Army and Navy, and has been a I’SO
representative in maneuver areas dur-
ing this war.
Mr. Kuslander came to Eagle Pass
from Leesvillo, La., where he was as-
vj tant director of the Leesvillo FSD
(Mob and (ISO Field Director of the
[ i iana Maneuver Area. Prior to
th* t assignment he had been I SO
Field Director in (ieorgia and New
Y: rk State Stations.
A "■aeiduate of the Fniversity of
Pennsylvania, where he received a
degree in Philosophy, Mr. Ru dander
o’ rked as a reporter and editor on
N 'W York City, New England and
middPwostern newsnapers inR'l the
outbreak of World War 1. Wifh tin*
entrance of the Fnited States in that
war he was assigned as a svnd’(,,'t“
w’ir correspondent to the 1(5th Infan-
try Divis'on. 1I(* served as a war
r i rerpondent for 18 months and, with
the coming of peace, remaine! in
Europe to work for seven years in
Poland, East Russia and the Cknin-
es as a representative of the .Joint
Distribution Commission of the .Je-
w:sh Relief Organization, one of the
units <d' Herbert Hoover’s American
Relief Administration.
Staff Sgt. Harold Rmdander, or ft*
of Mr. Ruslander’s three <$ons, a
flight engineer’, was killed last May
when his plane crashed ever I n < 1 i * *.
His other sons are Navy Ch pi dn
Selwyn D. Kuslander, serving as a
Jewish fleet chapPin in the Afri aur
theater, and Lt. Edward R’’slander,
an administrative officer' of the A A F,
who is stationed at (hunt) Will Ro^er g
Okla., after serving •)<> months in
Panama and Peru.
Mr'. Ruslander’s wife, Mrs. Sara
RusL'nder*, who accompanied her hus-
band to Eagle Pass, is a widely known
social worker in the stMte of New
Jersey. She was a volunteer' Rwl
Cross Motor1 Corps captain in Woid 1
War 1.
Local Gls, meeting Mr. R^slander
for the first time, are cmfu irrr h’m
by addres ing him as “Mister,” says
Mr. Ruslander.
“Thousands of CIs kn w me as
‘Pop’,” says Pop Ruslander. “1 don’t
know whom they’re talking to when
they say Mister.”
Mr. Ruslander replaces H. Irwin
Baum as director of the E"gle Pass
I SO Club. Mr. Baum, who served
here for nearly two year's, has been
trans 'erred to the regional off ce of
the National Jewi h Welfare Board,
a constituent member' of CSO, in San
Antonio.
•
CONCERT ....
(('ontinnea' front par/e 1)
transcribed from a record by S’t.
G o w a n s a n d s u n g b y Lt.
Wally Ijams; When Your Lover
has Cone, arranged bv Sgt. Mort'r C.
Curb; Saturday N'ght, arranged by
WO.JC Freder ick N. H 'gedor n; (Ma r
de Lune, transcribed by Mr. Hege-
dorn; Holiday for Strangs, transcrib-
ed by Sgt. Cowans; Honeysuckle Rose,
arranged by Pvt. Frank Greer; After-
noon of a Faun, transcribed by Pvt.
Schuyler Stanriish; Dance Tzigane, a
PIN UP GIRL
OF THE WEEK
(lirls who "Iways {tout
A t ied us Ike the f/oi't
I tut darned if we ent
Dish Ice I)e Haven's pan
violin solo by (’apt. Henry Winter • c-
companied by Sgt. Whitcomb; I’ll See
You Again, Stars in My Eyes an !
Intermezzo, sung by mezzo soprano
Louise Mary Lackland and rranged by
Mr.Hagedorn and a Medley ; f Win0''' 1
Victory, Whiffenpoof Song and Aii•
Corps Song by a glee club c .mouse 1
of 20 Aviation Students of Eagle P
Army Air* Field. MMie medley was
transcribed by Lt. Byrne, Mr. II e --
dorn and Sgt. Corb.
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FROM:
Pg CENT
STAMP
Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex. HERE!
TO ..................
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Shank, Albert. The Eagle Eye (Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 24, 1945, newspaper, February 24, 1945; Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974706/m1/8/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .