Burney High School - Rehtnap Yearbook (Burney, IN)

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GRAD ATING CLASS Left to Right Lotus H Elliott, Earl Green, Edward B Baugh, Alvin E Alverson, George Chambers, Alan Lee Allen, George Reasoner, Jr , Morgan L Miers, Major General Daniel B Strickler, W A Williams, Rev Irvin T King, Eugene W Elliott, Dale B Elliott, Russell Wayne Myers, John Elie Parker, Rolland R Kirby, Jr , Le Roy Bokelman Major General Daniel B Strickler delivered the principal address to the Veterans' Class who were graduated on January SO, 1951 at Burney Public School W A Williams, Associate State Supervisor of Agricultural Education,a graduate of New Point High School and Purdue University, presented the diplomas General Strickler, Commander of 28th Infantry Division, enlisted as a pri and World War II In 1947 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania Following his graduation from Cornell University in 1922, he pursued the legal profession in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and has been admitted to the bar by five courts, including the United States Supreme Court Agriculture training was instituted in Clay Township on January 1, 1947, when the Veterans' Vocational Agricultural Class started with twenty five World War II veterans This Federal Government Adult Educational Program has trained more than fifty men who are employed full time on the farm in the fundamentals of Animal Husbandry, Agronomy, Farm Management, Veterinary Science and Agricultural Engineering An Advisory Board was selected by the County Superintendent of schools to guide and supervise the activities of the school The Board consisted of Luther Hitchell, Jackson Twp Chairman, Louis Ewing, Clay Twp Vice Chairman, Russell Harwood, Clay Twp , and Lloyd Bailey, Adams Twp When the St Paul and Jackson started Mr Bailey and Mr Hitchell re signed Perry Elliott, Clay Twp , was appointed to a three man board for Clay Twp , Mr Ewing was appointed Chairman and Mr Harwood, Vice Chairman From the beginning of the school Morgan L Miers has been the instructor He graduated from Purdue University in 1941 and served in the U S Army as a captain in the Field Artillery with the 28th Division and served four years overseas 40 vate in the Army in 1916 and has served in the Mexican Border War, World War I:

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Front Row Earl Green, Edward B Baugh Alvin E Alverson, George Chambers, Roy Quiggins, Ted McGuire, Alan Lee Allen, Charles Blair, George Reasoner, Jr , Robert E McKay, Morgan L Miers, Harry M Ashley, Dale B Elliott Kenneth Maddux, Forrest Grimes, Wilbur Tressler, Harold Blauvelt, Jack Bokelman, John E Parker Top Row Lotus H Elliott, Goffrey Richardson, Russell W Myers, Eugene W Elliott Luscill Sparks, Harry R Wasson, Rolland R Kirby, Raymond Deweese Left to Right: Russell W. Myers, Alvin E. Alverson, Roy Quiggins, Goffrey Richardson, Charles E. Blair, Robert E. McKay, Barry Ashley, lorgan L. Miers, Luscill Sparks, Harry R. Wasson, Kenneth L. Maddux, Wilbur Tressler, Forrest Grimes, Raymond Deweese, Ted McGuire. 41