The book I have is signed Mrs. Joe H. Page. Joe's photo, apologies for the pixelation here, is in the Army's Specialized Training Program. We'll talk more about that program soon, but the ASTP was prompted by General George C. Marshall's recognizing that the U.S. Army had to overcome a shortage of soldiers trained in a variety of professional and technical capacities. Most of the people that went into ASTP were active duty soldiers, and they were enrolling for up to two years of engineering, languages, dentistry and more.

The ASTP section took up 20 pages of this Glom, and there are 800 headshots of the people who made up this special category of the student body. Joe Page was one of those men.

Joe was born in 1924. At least one branch of his family could trace its lineage in Alabama back to territorial days. He died in 1980. His wife, Betty, lived until 2009. I looked in a few of the other books and I don't see evidence that she attended Auburn. Her sister did. We'll meet her soon. But this is Joe, and this was his Glom. He and Betty had four children, all still living in Alabama.

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