NEWS of the Boys in the Service.
Dr. Rodney R. Gleysteen is now Lieut. Commander Gleysteen, having recently received his second promotion. A cable to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Gleysteen of Alton, telling of his promotion was confirmed by a letter received this week. Lt. Commander Gleysteen is with the Navy Medical Corps in the Southwest Pacific, possibly New Zealand, after serving some months at a field hospital in the combat zone.
Source: The LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, August 10, 1943