Containers:

Box 826a, Sleeve 105480.06

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2006.029--NEG

Dates:

1942-01-06

Creators:

Doherty, Charley (Charles)

Scope and content:

Includes Stuart Cox, Stan Cox and Lieutenant Commander Maurice N. Aroff at the Federal Office Building. Note enclosed: California's identical football twins chose identical careers yesterday - in the service of Uncle Sam. Guard Stu Cox and tackle Stan Cox, both of whom did right well for "Stub" Allison's football team, enlisted in the US Naval Reserve as apprentice seamen. Neither, however, will see active service in the very near future, they being considered officer material and having enlisted under the new V.7 classification which is designed to turn out a flock of ensigns in a short time. Stu and Stan have graduated from California in December at the conclusion of agricultural courses. Both wished to be farmers but they chimed in and told enlisting officer Lieutenant Maurice N. Aroff that "we have a different job to do now and, when it is done, it will be time enough to return to farming. In the meantime, both will be returned to the University of California as Naval enlisted men under pay until May when it is planned that they shall have completed a course in mathematics which will permit them to go on and study at one of several Navy schools in Annapolis. They will then be graduated with the rank of ensign if they meet all requirements. Naval medicine men were astonished at the physical similarity of the two boys yesterday. Reports were that they differed in but one respect: Stu weighed 201 pounds and his brother but 200. The boys attended high school at Patterson High School, were at Modesto Junior College for two years and at the University of California [UC Berkeley] for two more.

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