The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 158
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Anyone who can supply information to Dr. Bolek should also
send a copy to the Association to supplement its place name file.
Colonel William Presley Dingle died at his home in Mission,
Texas, on March 2, 1945. He was born in Huntsville, Arkansas,
April 18, 1884, and was reared at Cisco and Scranton, Texas.
He received his medical training at Fort Worth Medical College
and Illinois Medical College and practiced for ten years before
going into the Army Medical Corps in World War I. While in
the Army, he did graduate work at the Army Medical School,
Washington, D. C., and at Harvard University.
Dingle's first station after the war was at Fort Riley, Kansas,
and his later army service included tours of duty in Alaska,
Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and Boston. He was stationed
at Fort Brown, Texas, 1940-41 and trained medical units for
overseas duty at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and Camp Callan,
California. He was forced to retire in 1943 because of ill health.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, the
American Board of Otolaryngology, and the Texas State His-
torical Association.
Colonel Dingle was married to Miss Gertrude Friend in 1910.
She and their daughter, Mrs. F. S. Bacon, Jr., of North Wilming-
ton, Massachusetts, survive him. Interment was at Fort Sam
Houston National Cemetery on March 6, 1945.
Baylor University has issued a pamphlet Proceedings of an
Inter-American Conference held at Baylor April 14-15, 1944.
Mrs. Clay McClellan was chairman of the committee on Latin-
American affairs and had general charge of the conference.
Carlos Eduardo Castaileda, H. T. Manuel, Anna Powell, Pablo
Max Ynsfrans, W. J. Hammond, and others appeared on the
program. The pamphlet makes an excellent record of Latin-
American historical interests and enterprises in Texas.
A highly interesting and informative communication has been
received from Louise M. Whitham, sponsor of the Tulsa His-
torical Society of Central High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ap-
parently Mrs. Whitham is the sponsor of "No. 1 Chapter of the
Junior Historians of Oklahoma," although her organization, of158
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