The Navy's V-12 Unit

Spike with Carl Mau (on left). Carl was a Willamette roommate, who became the Secretary General of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland. As Carrie writes: "After a season of football at the College of Puget Sound, Spike had to join a military group to stay in school. His dad had been in the Navy, and the V-12 program included pre-medicine and dentistry, so he joined. The CPV V-12 Unit prepared to move its second accelerated year to Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. At 20 years old, Spike was now wearing an apprentice seaman's uniform and had cut the 'curlydab' of hair for the necessary crew cut. His mom gasped when she first saw him in the uniform of his father. Spike finished his Willamette tour, and as an Officer Training Cadet, entered University of Maryland Dental School in Baltimore, MD at John Hopkins temporarily.