22-SEP-1941 Enrolled Basic Course Field Artillery, Senior Division, Reserve Officer’s Training Corps. [3429]
30-JUN-1942 Registered for the draft. [7398]
19-NOV-1942 Enlisted in US Army Reserve Corps., serial # 11,092,152. [3427]
30-JAN-1943 Completion of training program. [3429]
12-JUN-1943 Recalled to active duty. [3430]
24-JAN-1944 Non-commissioned officer, Corporal. [3430]
07-FEB-1944 Entered officer candidate training.
02-JUN-1944 Honorably discharged as Corporal, to accept appointment as 2nd Lt., Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [3430]
03-JUN-1944 Field Artillery Officer Candidate School Class 110, appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [3426], [3431]
19-FEB-1945 Sent to Asiatic-Pacific Theater (Hawaii), arrived there 25-FEB-1945. [3433]
607th Coast Artillery Battery. [3433]
Schofield Barracks from about Apr. 1945 to Jul. 1946.
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193-9).
Motor Transport Officer (0600-9).
Reconnaissance and Survey Officer (1183-9). [3207]
24-MAR-1945 Certified from Central Pacific Base Command Motor School (6-day course)
17-SEP-1945 Temporary promotion to 1st Lt. [3435]
14-JUN-1946 Return from service outside continental USA (Hawaii). [3433]
Total time overseas: 1 year, 3 months, 26 days.
20-JUN-1946 Appointed 1st Lt. Field Artillery. [3432]
22-JUN-1946 Terminal Leave through 02-AUG-1946.
02-AUG-1946 Separation at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Demobilization. [3207], [3433]
01-APR-1953 Honorable Discharge as First Lieutenant. [3418]
Awards/Decorations: Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon, 11-Aug-1945; American Theater ribbon; World War II Victory ribbon. [3207], [3433]

Summary from Separation Qualification Record:
“RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEY OFFICERS 1183-9
Coordinated a survey team for the purpose of plotting targets, observation posts, gun positions and reference points. Supervised about 30 enlisted men. Supervised communications by wire, radio and signal flags. Operated survey Instruments, such as aiming clrcle and transit. Used and constructed all types of maps. Established and maintained observation posts. Dlrected fire from observation posts. Recorded and disseminated data gained from observation. Made reconnaissance of forward areas for possible gun positions, command posts, motor parks and communication areas. Observed and directed fire from a Cub-type Liaison plane. Established battery Fire Direction Centers and massed battalion Fires therefrom.” [3207]

• Minneapolis Aquatennial Association. [7554]
• U.S. Foreign Service, Department of State.
19-SEP-1945 Foreign Service Officer examination.
3 concurrent titles:
Foreign Service Officer Class 6,
Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the United States,
Vice Consul of the United States of America.
Initial Appointment, 17-JUL-1947, effective 28-JUL-1947. [3428]
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Nov. 1947 - Apr. 1949
Rio de Janiero, Apr. 1949 - May, 1950, Executive Assistant (“3rd Secretary”) to the American Ambassador to Brazil.
Madras [Chennai], India (Jul. 1950 - May 1952), “Economic Officer” reporting for the US Departments of Commerce and Agriculture.
Resigned, Feb. 1953.
• Foreign Travel Counselor, Minnesota State Automobile Association (“AAA”), 1953-1956.
• Product news publicist for 3M Corporation, 1957-1960.
• Advertising/Public Relations Executive (Vice President), Gould, Brown and Bickett, Inc., 1960-1963.
• Advertising Account Executive, John Lamb Co., 1963-1970.
• President and owner of Business Advertising Associates, 1970-1987.
• Sold business to Harvest Consulting, Inc., 1987.

Foreign language training: 3 years Portuguese, 1 year Spanish, 2 years French. [3207]

Favorites: [3503]
• favorite authors: Robert Benchly, Max Schuleman
• favorite movie: “Ninotchka”
• favorite radio personalities: Bob Hope, Jack Benny
• favorite humorist: Virgil Partch
• favorite magazine (for the cartoons): New Yorker


Member of “Jockey Club Brasileiro”, 1950. [3508]

Robert was a founding member of “Rebuild Resources, Inc.” (a non-profit corporation) and served as an officer and director. (source: Rebuild Resources newsletter dated 10-OCT-1988, written/edited by Fred Myers).