Holtville High School - Interpreteur Yearbook (Deatsville, AL)

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9 I MEMBERS OF THE CLASS NOT PICTURED 1 C362 Delora Gray Alice Janies Billy Turner Geneva Waclsworth Martha Vvingard Bill Elmore Edward Strength Harold Farmer Ottis Blankenship George Grass Virgil Hand James Gaddis Holt -of 4.v ' :..-,.. 55 'wr Page Ten Daniel Hopper Robert Houston Ralph Johnson Hardin Letlow William McGlarnery George H. Morgan Lowell Wamick James Wadsworth Lary Hall D. C. Mercer Cleveland Gilliland Rudolph Johnson

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U es lil!! W ff X fnqn X 7. :RH .i x i Q, . .fail 'fl' si Ny f f WUT 6 3 2 if an 1122.2 i' Dear Robert: It has just dawned on me that l am about to graduate and probably will never see many of my classmates again. I imagine we all come to this crossroad in life with mixed feelings, both of regret and of high exaltation. l walked down the halls and memories flooded me. Robert, you left us in such a hurry to ioin the army that l wonder if you didn't miss some of this, You weren't iust the president of our senior class, you were our friend, VVe've missed you, maybe that was because we felt that you were thinking of us. Would you like to know some of the plans your friends are making and what they are doing now? l'll try and tell you. This is our war, and we have all changed our plans to help win it, lust as you did. George Gross ioined the navy about the time you left and received his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. J. C. Henderson chose the navy also and was sent to San Diego, California. Carl Russell left on the eighteenth of April. Bill Elmore and Rudolph Clark think the navy's about the tops and are planning to ioin after they graduate. But, of course, that Air Corps bunch think all others have the wrong idea. Lary Hall is stationed at Gunter Field where he is studying radio. Bryant Bass is at Keesler Field, Mississippi. Lowell Wamick is a cadet now, studying meterology at Vanderbilt University- John Elton Graham, Edward Earl Strength, and Harold Farmer are still studying pre-flight at school, because they plan to ioin the air corps soon, Others who hope to be in the air corps soon are James Gaddis Holt, James Wadsworth, Kenneth Jones. V Many of our bays are still giving the regular army a rousing cheer, and can you blame them? George Howard Morgan is in the quartermaster corps in Atlanta. Daniel Harper, Hardin Letlow, Maurice Richardson, and Herbert Parris are all in the infantry. Daniel was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and Hardin to Camp Carson, Colorado. Herbert and Maurice have just been sent to their reception centers. Carl Rutherford gives his vote for the work he prepared himself for in school by getting in the ordnance corps. Bill McEwen expects to be in the army after he graduates and is studying pre-flight now. Marvin Wilson is now a marine. Ralph Johnson, D. C. Mercer, and Harmon Parker have been deferred to farm. The government offered to train high school seniors for defense work and quite a few of our friends, both boys and girls, took them up, so you see we girls are doing our part too. Pearl McEwen, Bill Elmore, Mary Clark, Carlo McFarland, and Herman Evans are taking the auto mechanics course. Frances Womble, Pat Harris, Jack Kelly, Jessie Rowlen, Marvin Wilson, and Mary Frances Holt chose the machinist's course. Gertrude Gibbons and Bernice Dennis want to help and think they can best serve as nurses. Billy Louise Turner and Cleveland Gilliland think that knowing about food and nutrition is important in war times, and so they are still workina in the lunchroom group.