UA ROTC recognizes war veterans
Larry Burge
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: News
"He told us if we wanted to start a business to come to Springdale," she said.
They took her dad's advice. The Carpenters became the owners and operators of Jim's Radio, TV and Communication in Springdale until they retried and moved to Butterfield Trail Village.
As some of the current UA students who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Voranger said the two years he spent at Fort Frances E. Warren between 1945 and 1947, just before WWII ended, as a Pvt. 1st Class in the U.S. Army gave him the chance to earn his four-year degree from Indiana University. "It was the greatest scholarship and changed my life," Vorsanger said.
Dwight Dodson was also drafted at the end of WWII and afterward attended the UA.
"I finished high school in 1946," said Dodson, a long-term Northwest Arkansas anesthesiologists. "I went to boot camp from there, then to electronics technician school in Corpus Christy, Texas, and spent six months there. They moved the school to Memphis. And I finished the school there, but was discharged two weeks after I got through. End of story."
However, the war's end did not curtail Dodson's story. After his discharge, Dodson came to the UA and earned his undergraduate pre-med degree, moved to Little Rock and attended UA Medical School. After completing his residency in anesthesiology at St. Vincent Medical Center in 1959, he moved to set up his Northwest Arkansas practice from which he retired 36 years later in 1995.
There as a guest was Bob Luthi, a Grumman Mohawk pilot during the Vietnam Conflict in 1968. He said the Army Air Corps had at the time 24 of the then highly sophisticated Mohawks in service. He flew at high-altitude and was a relay for information to direct B-52 bombers to their targets.
The military drafted Luthi from Paris, Texas, he said, where he had been a commercial pilot. He said he had learned how to fly from his uncle. And after Vietnam, he worked for nearly 40 years for an Oklahoma oil and gas company. This year he said he and his wife moved to Fayetteville to be around their two children and four grandchildren. To keep himself busy, he works part-time in Fayetteville for Collier Drugs as a delivery driver.
They took her dad's advice. The Carpenters became the owners and operators of Jim's Radio, TV and Communication in Springdale until they retried and moved to Butterfield Trail Village.
As some of the current UA students who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Voranger said the two years he spent at Fort Frances E. Warren between 1945 and 1947, just before WWII ended, as a Pvt. 1st Class in the U.S. Army gave him the chance to earn his four-year degree from Indiana University. "It was the greatest scholarship and changed my life," Vorsanger said.
Dwight Dodson was also drafted at the end of WWII and afterward attended the UA.
"I finished high school in 1946," said Dodson, a long-term Northwest Arkansas anesthesiologists. "I went to boot camp from there, then to electronics technician school in Corpus Christy, Texas, and spent six months there. They moved the school to Memphis. And I finished the school there, but was discharged two weeks after I got through. End of story."
However, the war's end did not curtail Dodson's story. After his discharge, Dodson came to the UA and earned his undergraduate pre-med degree, moved to Little Rock and attended UA Medical School. After completing his residency in anesthesiology at St. Vincent Medical Center in 1959, he moved to set up his Northwest Arkansas practice from which he retired 36 years later in 1995.
There as a guest was Bob Luthi, a Grumman Mohawk pilot during the Vietnam Conflict in 1968. He said the Army Air Corps had at the time 24 of the then highly sophisticated Mohawks in service. He flew at high-altitude and was a relay for information to direct B-52 bombers to their targets.
The military drafted Luthi from Paris, Texas, he said, where he had been a commercial pilot. He said he had learned how to fly from his uncle. And after Vietnam, he worked for nearly 40 years for an Oklahoma oil and gas company. This year he said he and his wife moved to Fayetteville to be around their two children and four grandchildren. To keep himself busy, he works part-time in Fayetteville for Collier Drugs as a delivery driver.
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