Balboa High School - Galleon Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ED BURNS ' Ed Burns, Army, has been in England and Alaska for 26 months . . . Paul Alex- ander has served three years in the Army. . . . Philip Alexander, who was in Mari- time Service for over a year and has be- come an engineer, was recently wounded. . . . Forrest Ackerman, Army sergeant, stationed at Fort MacArthur, has been in the service for three years. Is editor of the post newspaper. His brother Alden, whose picture does not appear in the Gal- leon, was killed in the invasion of Bel- gium in january a few days before his twenty-lirst birthday. Alden, a member of the tank corps, was buried in France. He was decorated posthumously for his bravery under life . . . Richard Fraher, junior engineer in the Maritime Service since May '42, most of which time has been spent in the South Pacific. Paul Alexander Philip Alexander Ackerman Fraher LEXICON PRESS PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS We extend our sincere congrat- ulations to the graduates of the Balboa Class of Spring '45 s xx 1 .,,, f J if I , Est, gal' H351 - ,SAS M-.,f - ' i.Lii2f3i t'M' S 500 SANSOME STREET TELEPHONE GARFIELD 6859 PAGE ONE HUNDRED SEVEN

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DRYER, V GARRIITY KEYS INCORPORATED Paper Rulers ' Boolcbinders Manufacturers 45?- 33- i' 1- -:Q - . 'T' r I, ni... 5 4 J' I I ' , V ' fd . P .X 246 First Street ' San Francisco Phone Exbroolc 2871 Hill Jackson Crowe Figueroa ' Monte Hill, who joined the Navy in july '44 and now with the amphibious unit, is somewhere in the South Pacific. . . . Robert jackson, Army . . . Fred Crowe, Fall '34, joined the Coast Guard right after Pearl Harbor and has seen ZW years action overseas. His new assign- ment is signalmrm, second class, -aboard rr craft patrolling the west coast . . . julio Figueroa, Army, went to England after a year's training in the states. From England he was sent to France, Belgium, and Germany with artillery unit of the First Army where he was injured. . . . William O'Hare joined the Sea Bees in August '45. After training at Williams- burg, ,Va,, and Providence, R.I., he saw action at Pearl Harbor, and more recently on Tinian Island in the South Pacihc. XVILLIAM O 'HARE PAGE ONE HUNDRED SIX

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e t Wzsbes, wz ducztes be as happy and prosperous as those w1th1n Holloway Meat! arket O A 0 ay your years out of Balboa 1 5 0 H 0 L L 0 WA Y PAGE ONE HUNDRED EIGHT ' , Seyranian Cummins Romanello Van Iderstme ' Bob Seyranian, Balboa's popular S.A. president of Fall '43, after his naval pre- Hight training at Washburn College, Kansas, passed the examinations for NROTC, and will soon head for Rice College, Houston, Texas, to complete oflicers' training course . . . Bill Com- mins, Marine, was in on the invasion of Iwo Jima, and survived safely . . . Louis Romanello, Army, has seen 23 months' overseas duty, most of which has been with headquarters Company in the South Pacific . . . Ben Van Iderstine, Corporal of the Marine Fighting Squadron, has eight months service in the South Pacific to his credit, and 25 months altogether with the Marine Air Corps . . . Carl Hanson, Army, sergeant, who joined Un- cle Sam's ranks in 1942, can now boast of 28 months duty and the Purple Heart. CARL HANSON