text: A soldier salutes Colonel Bernard Lentz (center right), Fort Slocum’s commanding officer, 1945. The occasion is a graduation exercise for the honor battalion of the Second Service Command’s Rehabilitation Center, which operated at Fort Slocum from late 1944 until mid-1946. The civilian to the left of Col. Lentz is Stanley Church, New Rochelle’s mayor. Capt. Eunity Frances Elderdice stands to Col. Lentz’s right.