Jasper Jottings —————————————- The achievement journal of my fellow alums

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/neighbors/
2008/07/03/ddn070308hzsandra.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52

During his 84 years, Dale Neibert of Centerville has seen buildings come down and buildings go up.

As a soldier in the U.S. Army 100th Artillery Division in Europe during World War II, Neibert saw his share of combat and destruction of buildings and as a civil engineer employed by General Motors for 31 years he engineered and built factories around the globe.

“I built all of the Delco Products plants in Kettering, except for the original plant on Forrer and Woodman,” said Neibert, who grew up the son of a sharecropper in Shelby County, Ind. “I loved the work at GM. I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning.”

In 1941, Neibert graduated from Waldron High School. He spent the summer working on the family farm, before studying chemistry on scholarship at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind.

In 1943, Neibert enlisted in the U.S. Army, but was drafted into the Army Air Corps before the paperwork was completed.

After completing basic training in Alabama, where the heat approached 100 degrees, Neibert was accepted into the Army Specialty Training Program and sent to the University of Alabama for two months of training to become a combat engineering officer.

He then went on to Manhattan College in New York City, where he began studying basic engineering.

After six months at Manhattan College, the ASTP was canceled and Neibert was sent by ship dodging U-boats and a major hurricane, to join the 100th Infantry mortar section in France.

“We spent 183 days in combat without relief,” said Neibert, who earned a Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, helped capture Biche Fortress on the Maginot Line, and fought at Heilbronnon on the Neckar River and in Operation Northwind during the Battle of the Bulge, where he received a Purple Heart.

“That’s a long time to go without a shower.”

Following his training as a combat engineer, Neibert decided to enter civil engineering at Purdue University when he returned home in December 1945.

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The day after graduating from college as an engineer in 1949, Neibert married Lorene. He then used the fourth year of his GI Bill to complete an MBA at the University of Indiana.

He moved to Dayton and then Kettering, where he lived for 50 years, after accepting a position with the GM Delco Products Division.

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[JR: Note the MC connection. He didn't finish with us, but maybe MC fanned his inner fire.]

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/03122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/peacenik_thugs_101611.htm

PEACENIK THUGS

ANTI-WAR VANDALS BURN ON by Michelle Malkin

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* Jan. 31, 2005: Recruiters in Manhattan reported that a door to their office had been beaten in. Anarchist symbols were scrawled in red paint on the building.

On the same day, New York police collared a young Manhattan College junior and charged him with throwing a burning rag into an Army recruiting station and ruining the door locks with super glue.

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Incorrectly attributing a reported “manhattan college” student to the “Manhattan College”!

[JR: Anyone know someone at the NY Post? Argh!]

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From:     jasperfjohn68
Subject:     Attention Ms. Malkin: There is a difference between a “manhattan college student” and a “Manhattan College student”
Date:     July 5, 2008 7:28:24 AM EDT
To:     letters@nypost.com

Ms. Michelle Malkin
c/o letters @ nypost dot com

Dear Ms. Malkin:

There is a difference between a “manhattan college student” and a “Manhattan College student”. Whoever prepared the timeline used in your article either leapt to a conclusion, copied it wrong,  or just blundered. I have read this story many times in my hobby of news collection focused on and about my fellow Jaspers. Most sources use lower case m and lower case c!

Your article does everyone connected with the “Manhattan College” a disservice. As a historical New York institution, you have accused it of harboring an anti-military zealot. Considering that it hosts Columbia University students in its ROTC detachment, because ROTC is not welcome at Columbia, strikes me as an especially heinous act of journalistic malpractice. Manhattan College has many distinguished graduates who would be happy to explain the distinction to you. Some are even in the military; active in the current fight. Shame to put down their alma mater by bad fact checking.

I understand that it’s hard to keep all the “manhattan colleges” distinct. I have a little web page to help.

http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/Manhattan_College_ology.htm

Perhaps, at least, the NY Post web site could correct the error in the story. And, it would be nice if you gave a little school a proper retraction and the apology it deserves.

Thanks for your prompt attention in this matter,
F. John Reinke
Manhattan College Alumni - Class of 1968

P.S.: The 6k alums that I reach on a weekly basis have been informed. You may get a few more notes. Some of the old alums are a little more forceful and not such good spellers. But there heart is in the right place back on campus that they are passionate about. Maybe you could get an interview with Rudy and HE could explain the difference.

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