I was a Staff Sgt and my serial number was RA 12246876.

I have a photo album of my time there with pictures of the facilities and the students, etc. If there is some museum like spot for items like this, please let me know as I would donate the album there. Thanks.

George M. Kotuby:
"This is our first assignment in January 1947, and someone took this of me."

"This one is of me with the standard GI issue 4 X 5 Speed Graphic.
Taken 1947."

Each Darkroom Technician's Class would pose for a "Class Picture" as they approached the end of their training. This is Class D-53; photo taken in late 1947. Note that this is the first class with WACS - at least while I was there. (I had a few more after we moved the school to Ft Monmouth.)

The photos above and below are views of the entire compliment of SCPC Standing and awaiting for the annual AG inspection. The company was supposed to line up in front of the barracks thus being in the sunlight and easier to photograph. However, it was so hot in this August of 1948 that they were placed in the shade. In front of the formation is Lt. Thomas and First Sergeant Percy Ricks.

"This is class D-49, my first as an instructor," wrote Kotuby. "I started it with Mike Chopko, my instructor, who left after a couple of weeks to start another class and then prepare for discharge. We had a cariticurist in the class, Dick West, who did the 'funnies' for the group."

"This is of Terry Beam who was the school clerk. He apparently mentioned to Lt Buck that he was going to take some snaps to send home. Lt. Buck asked me to take them for him with this result."

"This is a shot of my very good friend, T-4 Thomas M J Condie, taking a break after finishing a tough class. Tom was also sent to Ansco about a year after I went and, together, we formalized the School Lesson Plans. Tom went on to be a very successful commercial photographer (he did Harley Davidson ads for years {until they got really big time} as well as Westinghouse Refrigerators, Lillian Vernon catalogs and many others). Sadly, Tom died two years ago."

This is Al Flynn.

"This is of Private Paul Heiderman, cadre (motor pool, I think). He just got off KP and sat on the foot locker I was using for some portraits. 1948."

Technical Sergeant Walter Klink was an instructor in the Darkroom Technician's School, circa 1946-1948.  This photo was supplied by fellow instructor George M. Kotuby, who wrote, "This is of fellow instructor and friend, Walter Klink of Pennsylvania. Last contact - he was studying journalism at Columbia,  1948."

"This photo is of G. Royce McGowan. He was one of my students in Class D-60. He was pulled in the last couple of weeks to become an Assistant Director on the big sound stage on a film they were making. 'Taken' in 1947."

"This is of Al Werner, a classmate of mine, taken in 1947 near the Tri-Borough Bridge. Our instructor, Mike Chopko wouldn't allow us to use exposure meters. We were to calculate the exposure based on our lessons."

"This photo is of T-4 Cecil Riley, an instructor in the Still Picture School. He was very good; was even denied an apprenticeship with a top notch photographer because he had more knowledge than the photog. Picture taken in 1947."

"This photo is of Pvt Lowell Storms, first one of my students and later an assistant. Taken in 1947."

Barracks interior, 1947.

"Because it was the Army, we had to have a Guard Shack and pull guard duty. As you can see from this, it was very informal. Pvt Roy Haefner was on Guard Duty so I brought my radio out and kept him company."

George supplied these three photos: "I believe they all are from 1947. The top shot is of the main building; the middle one shows the orderly room and barracks T-3; the bottom is of barracks T-4 & T-5. Four squads of up to 12 in each barracks together with special cadre rooms. Seldom had 48 in any of the barracks. They were heated with little pot-bellied stoves."

George also supplied this holiday greeting card, circa 1947.