The University of Texas
at Arlington

Rex H. Latham

Rex H. Latham was a distinguished military graduate from Arlington State College in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in history. Commissioned into the Regular Army, he served as an airborne infantry officer from 1965-69 with tours in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and Thailand. Among his military awards were the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Combat Infantryman's Badge and parachutist badge.

After earning a master's degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971, he joined the Central Intelligence Agency. During a 27-year career, he worked on many of the key intelligence issues of the period. His achievements in a series of increasingly responsible field and headquarters assignments resulted in his promotion into the senior ranks of the CIA. Retired from the CIA, he is now an onsite program manager for Electronic Data Systems Corporation in the Washington, D.C. area. In 2000, he was recognized as a UTA Distinguished Alumnus and inducted into the Hall of Honor in 2002.

He and his wife Ellen have two adult children, one of whom is UTA graduate.

Miki Ludwig

Mr. Mikio (Miki) Ludwig of Copperas Cove, Texas is a 1981 Distinguished Military Graduate of the UTA Army ROTC program. Miki began his unusual military career by enlisting into the Navy from Dallas in December 1969. He served as a naval communicator in various shore and afloat assignments for over nine years. Miki had received offers to attend the Naval Academy, then the University of Texas, Austin, but he elected to pursue his own undergraduate studies using the GI bill. He left active duty in 1979 to complete his undergraduate studies at UTA. During his monthly visits to the UTA Veteran's office, Miki was "recruited" by the PMS LTC Raymond Andre to consider joining the ROTC program. Miki and his wife Diana were both working to support their young family with two children. After making a commitment to Diana that he would finish up a twenty-year career, Miki signed up as an MS III student. Being an older, Navy veteran, Miki had to work hard to learn about the "Green Machine". Although he enjoyed spending time with the Insurgent Team and preparing for his transition into the career of an Army officer, Miki decided going "Chair-borne" was healthier than going Airborne. Miki's desire to assess into the Army Signal Corps was granted and he was commissioned in June 1981. He served in various Signal assignments at Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Naples, Italy; Lexington, KY; Ft Gordon, GA, and concluded his sixteen years in the Army at the Test and Experimentation Command (TEXCOM), at Ft Hood, TX. Miki earned his Masters degree in Education from Boston University in 1989. Miki proudly served with distinction for twenty-five years jointly between the Navy and Army.

Upon retiring in April 1997, Miki worked as a government support contractor to TEXCOM, followed by an Army civil service job also in TEXCOM. In March 1999, Miki accepted a job at Headquarters, III Corps, Ft Hood, as a Force Modernization Analyst. He continues to serve the Army as a civilian contractor in G3, III Corps, coordinating the fielding and training on various state-of-the-art, tactical digital communications systems for the 4th Infantry Division (the Army's First Digitized Division), 1st Cavalry Division (Second Digitized Division) and III Corps units at Ft Hood. Miki is the CCAC chapter Secretary and Secretary of the Phantom Corps chapter of the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association. He is also a life-member of the UTA Alumni Association, Army Signal Corps Regimental Association, and The Retired Officers Association. Miki and Diana have two grown children Kale and Mirynda, who live in Copperas Cove and Austin, respectively. Miki looks forward to many more years of active support to the CCAC and UTA.

Wayne E. Glenn

Wayne Glenn graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1941 with a degree in petroleum engineering. That same year he married Barbara Gamble, another OU graduate. He went to work for Conaco in 1940 as an oil field roustabout in Texas, and later held key engineering and production assignments. He was promoted to general manager in 1958 and became a vice president three years later. Mr. Glenn moved to Canada and then New York. In 1966, he became a member of the board of directors and in 1968 moved to Houston as head of North American petroleum operations for Conaco. He was named president of the newly created Western Hemisphere Petroleum Division the following year, and became vice chairman of the Worldwide Petroleum Exploration, Production and Minerals Activity of Conaco in 1975. He was named chairman of the board of Continental Carbon Company and of Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company.

Among industry organizations, Mr. Glenn has been particularly active in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and is currently its president. His recent honors include the Society of Petroleum Engineers 1972 DeGolyer Medal for distinguished service and other equally distinguished awards.

Mr. Glenn's civic activities reflect his wide range of interests. He is a member of the national board of advisors of the Council for Financial Aid to Education, a director of the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, a member of the Council of Overseers for Jamestown College, and vice chairman of the advisory committee and member of the endowment awards committee for the International Oil and Gas Educational Center, Southwestern Legal Foundation.

Mr. Glenn is also a member of the board and executive committee for Junior Achievement of Houston; he is on the board of the Texas Research League, the U.S. chamber of Commerce and the Houston Chamber of Commerce; and he is a board member of the Houston Symphony Society. Among many, many other honors and services, Mr. Glenn is a 32nd degree Mason and member of the shrine, and last but not least, father of three children, Ellen Gail, Carvel Wayne, and Lawrence Edward.

Wayne Glenn remembers his service to Texas and the nation during World War II when he was just out of college. He served as a company commander, training troops for active service in Patroon, Texas. He distinguished himself and his unit and earned the "best company" award for the Texas-Oklahoma region. He served under Colonel Dayton, who was the commander of the NTAC Corps of Cadets. As a petroleum Engineer, he was assigned to the CIA and went to work protecting the security of the Dow Magnesium plant on the Texas coast. The plant was producing bombs for the war, and German submarines were successfully landing and sabotaging the production. Mr. Glenn posed as an employee, dipping hot metal to produce the first stages of the bombs and working to review and streamline the production process, all the while securing the process from outside attack. Successful in his war assignment, Mr. Glenn decided to return to Conaco once the war was over.

Ray Andrae

LTC (R) Raymond R. Andrae joined the U.S. Army in 1955 and served in both the United States and Europe in various positions. He rose to rank of Staff Sergeant, was in the U.S. Army Europe Honor Guard, and was selected as Soldier of the Year of the 806th Engineer Battalion. In 1962 he was appointed Warrant Officer, and was the youngest Adjutant General Corps Warrant Officer appointed at that time.

In 1964 he received a direct commission and served as Second Lieutenant in the Adjutant General Corps. After serving in Europe and Viet Nam, he earned a B.A. degree in Business Administration, and a MS in Counseling and Guidance from Troy State University. In 1976 he was assigned to the Military Science Department at UTA as Assistant Professor of MS.

Under his leadership, the first female Commander of the Corps was appointed and the first female commissioned from the Maverick Battalion. He served as advisor to the Sam Houston Rifles drill team, which won the championship in 1978. He established the Military Science Hall of Honor. Upon promotion to LTC, he served as Professor of Military Science and managed the department from 1979 until he retired in 1981. During his last year, the Military Science Department was recognized as one of the outstanding programs in the state.

Upon his retirement he was appointed an Honorary Cadet Colonel in the Corps of Cadets.
In a long military career, LTC Andrae received the Legion of Merit, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, Good Conduct Medal, and the Expert Infantryman's Badge. He was honored as Honorary Distinguished Alumni of UTA in 1993. Since his retirement, he remains active in professional and charitable groups. Married for 42 years to his wife, Pat, Ray Andrae has 2 children and 3 grandchildren, and resides in Grapevine, TX.

Lloyd Clark

Preparation for his 37-year service in the Army of the United States began for Lloyd Clark as an ROTC cadet at North Texas Agricultural College, where he served as commander of the corps in the summer of 1942. As an enlisted man, Clark edited the Camp Hood News (TX), in 1944, and upon completion of Officer's Candidate School in 1945 was assigned as the public relations officer at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Ten of his years as a reservist were spent on active duty. Although he never served overseas, he had extensive experience in combat training - from participating with the U.S. Coast Guard conducting riverboat landings on the Mississippi River to directing operations of a simulated Vietnamese Village at Fort Gordon, Ga., where he served as an instructor at the Civil Affairs School, 1967-69. He was promoted to colonel in 1976 while heading the U.S. Army Reserve School at Fort Huachuca, AZ. He retired from military service in 1979 as director of the National Defense University's course in Phoenix in 1979. Clark was inducted into UTA's Military Hall of Honor in 1998.

Clark's Journalistic career began also at NTAC, where he edited The Shorthorn, 1941-42. During World War II and until 1948 he edited and published Express, a periodical that chronicled NTAC's ex-students' activities. (The UTA Libraries' Special Collections Division has a complete file of the publication that was a forerunner of the present alumni Association's magazine.) After World War II, Clark became a reporter for the Dallas Morning News while completing studies for a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree at Southern Methodist University. Clark received a Masters in Public Administration from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1972 and proceeded to serve in governmental regional offices in Flagstaff and Bisbee, AZ. He concluded his public service work as a program administrator for the Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix, in 1983. He was a reporter and editor for the Phoenix Gazette, an afternoon daily, for 16 1/2 years and continues to write a weekly column for the Daily News-Sun of Sun City, AZ.

Since then, he has taught Elderhostel and college courses on Arizona and military history, and currently lectures, writes, and conducts tours. He founded the Council on Abandoned Military Posts in 1966. CAMP, now known as the Council on America's Military Past, is a non-profit corporation with some 1,000 members. A former member of the board of the Arizona Historical Society, Clark has been that organization's delegate to the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historical Names for nine years.

In 1993, the Lloyd Clark Journalism Scholarship was established at UTA by some of his NTAC classmates, led by Fred Freeman of Dallas, his college roommate. Under Auspices of the UTA Alumni Association, the endowed fund makes monetary grants annually to an outstanding student.

Lloyd Clark and his wife, Jean - a native of Prescott, AZ, reside in Surprise, AZ. They have a son and two daughters and eight grandchildren.

Charles McDowell

LTC McDowell began his military career as an ROTC cadet at John Tarleton Agricultural College in 1939. He attended the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas from 1941-1943. He graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. After graduation he attended Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the U. S. Army. After commissioning, LTC McDowell was assigned to teach the ASTP Course at Fort Benning. He then attended the Basic Airborne Course, also at Fort Benning, and after completion was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and the 11th airborne Division. He additionally served with the 97th Infantry Division in Europe. His early assignments included various command positions from Platoon Leader to Battalion Commander. During later assignments LTC McDowell was a Professor, Tokyo Army College; 1946-1948 and was Commandant and Director; 1947-1948. From 1947-1949 he was Information and Education Officer for the Eight U. S. Army and later the 82nd Airborne Division. From 1955-1958 he was a Professor of Russian language, history, economics, geography, and political science in a classified joint military/civilian intelligence agency and Chief of the research division, 1956-1958. In 1959 LTC McDowell was an Instructor for the Command and General Staff College in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Hawaii.

In addition to the Armor Officer Advanced Course at Fort Knox, KY, LTC McDowell has attended the Defense Language Institute, the Foreign Area Specialist Program, and the Defense Intelligence Course. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and of a two year Soviet-East Europe Advanced Foreign Area Studies Program at the doctoral level. LTC McDowell received an MA Degree from Columbia University in 1953 and in 1956 a PHD from Texas A&M.

LTC McDowell came to Arlington State College now (UTA) as a Major in 1959 and was Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. He was promoted to LTC and from 1960 to 1964 served as PMS&T. While at Arlington State College, LTC McDowell was sponsor of the Pistol Team, Rifle Team, the Sam Houston Rifles(drill Team), and the Cadet's Officers' Club. After Leaving Arlington State College he served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff prior to his retirement in 1965. During his assignment he was Intelligence Officer of the Airborne Command Post. LTC McDowell was a Master Parachutist and has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge. His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the American Defense Service, American Campaign, European Campaign, and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medals, the WWII Victory, Army of Occupation Medals, the Korean Service, and the United Nations Medals. LTC McDowell has served as a Diplomatic Courier and USSR Specialist, as well as a Foreign Service Officer for the State Department in the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Additionally he was Senior Area Administrator for the Job Corps which entailed supervision of all centers in the United States between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains.

Dr. McDowell returned to Arlington State College as an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages in 1966. He became an Associate Professor at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 1969 and Professor in 1978. In 1970 Dr. McDowell became the Director of the Soviet and East European Center (now post Soviet and East European Studies Center) at UTA, and from 1988 to 1991 served as Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics. Dr. McDowell also served as Assistant to the President (1966-67) and Dean of Student Life (1967-1968) while at UTA. Dr. McDowell has served on numerous committees as well as the Faculty Council and Faculty Senate. He sponsored a number of student activities including Alpha Phi Omega ( national "service" society), Alpha Chi (national scholastic society), The Soviet and East European Club, and the Student Congress. Dr. McDowell was selected as a member of Outstanding Educators in America in 1972 and was UTA Outstanding Teacher for 1973-1974. He has been elected four times as the individual UTA candidate for the Piper Award which recognizes the 10 outstanding professors in the state and was listed in the Directory of American Scholars in 1978.

During the past 25 years, Dr. McDowell has made numerous weekly platforms, TV, radio or service club appearances concerning the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, and subjects related primarily to Eastern Europe. Dr. McDowell is an author and co-author of many articles, documents, and books, including classified government documents concerning the Soviet Union. He is author of numerous book reviews published by the Dallas Morning News and has been editor of many classified documents. As Director of the Center for Post Soviet and East European Studies, Dr. McDowell has served as either chief translator or as editor on projects conducting non-classified technical, industrial, and scientific translation both from English to Russian and from Russian to English.

Dr. McDowell is a member of many professional organizations and is active in the community affairs, such as the Kiwanis Club and church work. He was president of the Arlington Good Times Corps from 1977 to 1981. Dr. McDowell has over 60 years of service to the Boy Scouts of America and was the first Eagle Scout in San Saba, TX. He has served as Course Director for several International Woodland Badges and has received the Silver Beaver Award for "Distinguished Service to Boyhood". Dr. McDowell was married for 20 years to Mary Frances McDowell. He is the father of two children, and has two grandchildren.