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Friends        and        military
laintances  paint  a   descriptive
picture of Lt. Col. William B. Nolde
a humane   and   compassionate
dedicated to his work and
„jcetned  with   the   fate   of  the
rjetnamese people, Nolde was killed
1963 centennial parade reviewing
committee and was a parade marshal! once with the VFW," he continued.
Mey is now assistant service
officer for the VFW of District 11.
"I liked Bill real well personally,
I feel I've lost a good friend and
companion," he added. "I'm sure the
Saturday 11 hours before the cease-    VFW will want to do' something in
fire in Vietnam
CM LIFE talked to several of
Nolde's military companions Monday
in a series of exclusive interviews.
Walter Mey, Mt, Pleasant past
jbmmander of the local Borley-
jfannei VFW Post 3033, commented,
"What I remember of Bill was, of
course, through the ROTC, Bill and
torn Brogan were both captains at.
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educatioc.M^ T signed both of them up as
Fe PrevM-J«iets.
"I knew Bill as one of the finest
ien you could meet. He was on the
his honor, but we'll wait for the
family's approval on that first."
Sgt. Maj. William Golden, now
at St. John's Military School in
Delafield, Wise, knew Nolde from
the four-year period they were
stationed here together at CMU,
I think he was an extremely fine
young officer; he was well-liked, a
conscientious, person who attempted
to develop young college student*
not only in their roles as cadets, but
as people. He was well-liked and I
was quite shocked when I heard the
news that he was dead," Golden said.
"Of all the people I've known,
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throughout my many years in the
military, he was surely above
average'. He was better than your
typical quasi-professional type of
troop," Golden added.
Another service friend is
Michael Chirio* a former member of
the ROTC staff at CMU who is now a
professor of military .science at
Eastern Michigan University. Chirio
knew Nolde for four and a half years.
LT. COL. WILLIAM B, NOLDE
"I recall Bill as a wonderful
person," Chirio said. "He is a loss to
the army and the nation as a whole.
Bill was a human person and I will
miss him in the years ahead."
Mrs. Chirio added that their
family had been well acquainted with
the Nolde's. Their children are the
same ages, and attended school
together.
"Joyce {Mrs. Nolde) and Isat it
out together when our husbands
were overseas on ROTC duty. Bill
came back from Italy the same time
Mike (Chirio) got? back from his
second tour in Vietnam. All I can say
is it's sad, it's really sad. Of course,
niy husband and I plan to attend the
funeral,"
Lt* Col. Thomas W. Brogan, now
at Athe   University   of   Texas   at
-'Arlington,    is    also    a    Nolde
acquaintance. His family and Nolde's
are still close.
"I think Bill Nolde was a great
soldier, certainly we enjoyed many
- good times' together. He meant a
great deal to me," Brogan remarked.
"It was a shock when we were
called."
• VBill was an artillery man. He
had an outstanding promotion record
and. was way ahead of his contemporaries, . he was just a great
' person," Brogan concluded.
Yet. another friend is Col.
Clifford Kirkwood, Deputy Chief of
Staff of Operations, Command and
Control, at the Pentagon. Kirk-
wood's family knew Nolde's family
for'five years when they both lived
on Douglas Street in Mt, Pleasant.
"He was a fine officer, it really is
a.shame; he was a very good teacher.
•' He taught juniors while I was there,
and,I know Bill was on the list for
promotion to full colonel. He
received the second Oak Leaf
Cluster to the Bronze Star a few
years back too," Kirkwood told LIFE
from Washington,
Mrs. Kirkwood added that she
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relationship" and they plan to attenjjj
the funeral. She said both families
had been stationed in Leavenworth*
Ka. at the same time in 1966 and
1967.
From there the Nolde's went to
Virginia's Fort Monroe. Then Nolde
was sent to Italy. When he came
back before going to Vietnam last
summer, he and his wife had dinner
at the Kirkwood's along with Col.
George McClure.
McClure also knew Nolde from
ROTC duty at CMU. He is now at
Fort Sill in Oklahoma. •
"Bill  was  an   outstanding   individual, he believed in what he was;
doing," McCLure noted.••
' Conscientious, sincere, well*'
liked, dedicated, friendly, com*'
passionate and humane, these are all
words that have been used to
describe William Nolde. He had!
many friends who will miss him.
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Dunigan refuses to resign
over impending marriage
LIFE phot* by Sac Guiatta
CITY COMMISSIONER Carol Schere discussed problems concerning members of the University community in an informal
session Tuesday morning in the Student Goverment offices.
By Brian Hlavaty
LIFE Managing Editor
Father Roger Dunigan, co-
pastor at St. Mary's Catholic Church
on campus said Monday night he will
not resign from the parish because of
his impending marriage even though
ordered to by his Bishop.
Dunigan was told last week by
Bishop Francis Reh, head of the
Saginaw diocese of which St. Mary's
is a part, to submit hia resignation
because of hi« pliniwa majFiage this
•   summer..
Dunigan will marry Nancy
Cover, a 1972 December graduate of
- Central.'
Dunigan addressed his remarks
51   to a packed St, Mary's Chapel that
r?   had come to hear him talk about his
marriage.
' In a letter addressed to Reh,
Dunigan said he would not render his
resignation because of "undue
pressure" and inadequate time to
prepare a defense of his actions.
He said he was "asked to make a
'Dad did what
he thought was right'
decision Jong in advance of any
action." Reh wanted Dunigan's
resignation  by   midnight   Monday.
The Bishop's office in Saginaw
said Tuesday that Reh was not
available for comment. When
contacted by CM LIFE on Tuesday,
Dunigan said he had not yet heard
from the Bishop but expected to
sometime this week.
Despite protests from attending
persons,   Dusugaii   announced. Mb
womrtm mmmm wtimtM'
duties at St. Mary's if the Bishop
does suspend him.       , ,'       ..
"It isn't fair to the parish to
place this kind of burden on it," he
said.adding he would stay as long as
he didn't "jeopardize the community." Dunigan has been a pastor
at St. Mary's since 1967.
"If the Bishop suspends me and
I preach then he would suspend the
other priests at St. Mary's and move
them," he told the crowd. "We must
respect the rights of everyone."
His fight was' not just a question
of marriage "but a question of institutions," said Dunigan, adding
that some church rule's were
"outmoded and outdated" and
changes always have come about
because people question.
ifi He said his celibacy is not just ■
the issue but should generate other
questions such as the role of
authority between the small church
to the large church, the role of the
ministry and whether priests should
be paid.
Dunigan's stay at St. Mary's has
been an active one. Since 1967 when
he arrived at St. Mary's, he has
introduced folk masses, initiated
draft counseling and helped organize
the Campus Pastor's Association, of
whicK he. Js 'present.
,r^pjf w flisr B«nh|fr!i mm
about was the Bishop's refusal to
meet with the Parish Council and*
discuss the suspension. Dunigan
read a letter from John W. Petras,
Parish Council president, that was
sent to the Bishop on Monday.
, In it, Petras told the Bishop he
had "created a grave scandal within
the diocese and the larger church by
absolutely refusing to meet with the
members of a parish whose spiritual
lives are to be influenced by your
actions."
Petras told CM LIFE Tuesday
that the Parish Council, made of
approximately 25 interested
parishioners, felt "lOOper cent that a
priest getting married was his own
business."    . t
"The Bishop feels the Church is
a corporation with set laws, break
those laws and you are fired," said,
Dunigan to the audience, adding lie,
had different approaches to what the.
church is.     .    - '   ,.
Throughout the discussion
Dunigan stressed that while he and
the Bishop disagreed on many,
issues, the Bishop was "an honest,
sincere person" and was a; "good
Bishop."
A    meeting   is    planned Jo*
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Thursda^^
Mary's to discuss the further oul
come Qf the issue.
FR. ROGER DUNIGAN
By CM LIFE and the
Associated Press
"He was a strong believer in
Mping the people of Vietnam. He
just didn't think there was anything
llse to do but to go over there and
f.elp them."
Joseph J. Nolde, 50, was
[peaking of fajs brother, Lt. Col.
™«m B. Nolde, 43, the last
Merican to die in the Vietnam War
Iwore the cease-fire went into ef-
w,
i; ,'"A lot of people argued with
|«3,"  Nolde   said,   "but   he   was*
|edicated to his job."
"I'm not really bitter about what
j»Ppened," Joseph, said, "but it
T«ns kind of awful that he came (so
f0^ to living through it all."      -
"AU Work ia Peace"
Nolde's widow, Joyce, 42, said in
press conference in Onaway
Nday, the career soldier,"was
p.e»nt to be the one so his message
<jtild be,told. That is that all men,
Rould work together-in, peace."
j: 'Bill had compassion for the
fl«tn»mese and- wanted them to
pe pe»Ce, get the land back and
gf the land again," Sfr*v Nolde
Monday!,
[^ The couple's eldest son* Blau\
fead a statement saying," "he.
^Med, -himself to the cause of
*e &r all mankind ... hia Jiwt
P *ould have been that all
P^w of the world would work to •
P» this peace in Vietnam a lasting
one; that all men and nations woukT.
try a little harder to understand one
another. . . Dad did what he thought
was right. He tried to make things
better for other people."
In Menominee, a sister, Theresa
Olsen,- reported that Nolde said
"even if he died over there, he'd feel
it's still worth while, if they won the
peace and I guess that's different
from winning the war."
A career man
"He was a career man," said Ted
Cook, an associate chemistry
.professor at CMU, who "
corresponded with Nolde. "Some
people have a tendency to think of
that as a Prussian, like the kids think
of the police as pigs. But he enjoyed
working with the people', he was
compassionate."
Dan Rose, retired CMU athletic
director, was also, a good friend of
Nolde's.    ' :
"Frank De'mski and I were just
.talking about Bill Friday," Rose said.
"We played pinochle together..
Inevitably I would win, and Frank
and I agreed that as soon as Bill got
home, we would play some pinochle."
,   Church, country, family
Rose described  Nolde  as  an
honest and sincere man who was
proud of his church, country and
family.
Nolde had been #l*t«d for a
transfer to the Nation*! War CoUege
ia Wafthingtma, D.C. He had been *h<
,the Army tor 22 ?•*«». traveled
around the world and feeeffl stationed
in Korea, Germany aad Iuly b«fwe
going to Vietnam for the third time
last summer.
His family moved to the Mt.
Pleasant area three years ago from
Virginia after he had been in the
CMU ROTC program four yearsi
.His son, Blaire, said his father's
life, "revolved around three principles—God, country and family, in
that-order. Each in turn would take
care of the other. By putting God
first he never did injustice to the
others."
"BUI had what most people don't
— he knew where he was going. He
was helping people," Mrs. Nolde
said..
"We'll do as Bill always told us
to do — take each day as it comes
and do the beat you can," she said.
A-Senate approves
evaluation procedure
'  . By Bruce Lesnick ,
LIFE Staff Writer
After more than two months of
debate and a multitude of am-
mendments, Academic Senate
approved a document which sets
procedures for evaluation of
departments and department
chairmen at Monday's meeting.
Review procedures require each
department to periodically appraise
its   operations, functions, personnel
'Last death'
receives  complete
coverage
In the wake pf Saturday's cease
fire agreement and the naming of the
last official death of the Vietnam
conflict, a number of news agencies,
newspapers, radio' and television
stations sent newsmen to Mt.
Pleasant Sunday and Monday,
Coming here for stories and
seeking new angles on Lt. Col.
William B. Nolde, the last official
American fatality before the
Vietnam ceasefire, were more than &
dozen news gathering enterprises.
Among those covering the story
personally were, the Los Angeles
Times, Chicago Tribune, CBS News,
Detroit Free Press, WXYZ-TV
(channel 7) in Detroit, the
Associated Press (AP), WJRT-TV
(channel 12) in*Flint and WNEM-TV
(channel 5) in Saginaw.
Those that called and talked to
the friends and family of Nolde
include NBC News', ABC News, The
NewYork Times, WWJ-TV (channel
4), WJBK-TV (channel 2) in Detroit,
and leadership. The document states
that the review normally be conducted every five years.
The review of each department
, will be carried out by a committee of
at least five persons, not necessarily
members of that department. They
will be selected by secret balloting of
that department's faculty members.
The function of each committee will
be to describe and evaluate
department policies and recommend
corrections and improvements.
Review    of    a    department
'chairman    may    be    called    for
whenever   a   majority   of   faculty
members of a department  desire
"' one. "The document clearly gives a
department- the opportunity to
review its chairman  whenever  it
likes," said Caiman Levich, professor
-of  physics  and   chairman-elect  of
Academic. Senate.
Purpose of reviewing the
department chairman is cited in the
document to ''determine the * effectiveness of the chairman, to make
suggestions for improvement in the
chairman's performance, and to
decide by secret ballot whether to
recommend an extension of the
chairman's , term of office, or - his
termination." *
The new procedures will take
effect at the start of the 1973-74
academic year.
In other Senate action, <a
statement expressing grief ovt>r the
death, of Lt. Col, William B. Nold^,
the last official American fatality, in
Vietnam and former CMU assistant
professor, of military science,
unanimously      approved.
The next A-Senate meeting is
scheduled for Monday, Feb.* 12 at
3:10 p.m. in Pearce 138. '        '
j Senator shot
Sen. John Stennis, Chairman;6f
the Senate Armed Services Committee, was in serious condition this
morning after being shot-during'a
robbery in his Washington D.C.
home last night.
Stennis, 71, was listed in very
serious condition and was in surgery
in nearby Walter Reed Hospital at,
midnight last night with gunshot
wounds in the stomach and leg.- ''
The Mississippi senator Was
'shot at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday during**
robbery in his home. Police say the
robbers escaped "with Stennufs
watch and an undertermined amount
of cash. '  .-   '   'if
No suspects had been apprehended as of midnight Tuesday.
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