Burt Community School - Bears / Roundup Yearbook (Burt, IA)

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Annual Stall STANDING: Hasse. Dittmer. Baars, Mitchell. Holding, Rents, Riebhoff, Miller. SEATED: Fairbanks, McMullen, Rasmussen, Rash. Editor.................. Assistant Editor........... Business Manager........... Assistant Business Manager. Production Manager......... Feature Editor. ........... Activities Editor. .... . . . Sports Editor. . . ;....... Art Editor................. Photographer............... Photographer............... Sponsor. .................. . . . .Jerry McMullen . . Carol Rasmussen .... Betty Mitchell .....Warren Rentz .......Lynda Rash .......John Hasse Barbara Fairbanks . . . Donald Riebhoff . .Barbara Dittmer . . . . .Bruce Holding ......David Miller .......Erna Baars The twelve bright-eyed species of the human race you see pictured above are the people who are responsible for this yearbook. Every other yearbook takes a lot of hard work and time. But we got all our fun out of making this one by settling right down and doing a considerable amount of horsing a- round, fooling away the time and finally getting around to putting out the 1954 Round-Up. All the events and incidents that are mentioned in this book are actual cases; only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the pictures in this book were taken with the aid of cameras. The rest of the pages aren’t quite as silly as this one, so you might as well waste your time on them. Stop Quit reading this useless page and go on to the next one You won’t gain a thing by reading the next six words. (Oh, Well I knew you would). 4

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After the fifth MIG. Captain Harold E. Fischer In his boyhood, Harold, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fischer of Swea City, Iowa, played hard at many things like any normal boy. While imitating one of his idols, Tarzan of the Apes”, he fell from a tree and thus earned the nickname, “Tarz”, which has clung to him. Still pursuing his aerial interests he built many model airplanes which he vainly attempted to fly from his father’s windmill. So it was since early childhood, that “Tarz cherished the dream of some day becoming an accomplished aviator. His childhood soon slipped away and he is remembered as a student in Burt High School who played the trumpet in the school band and was on the baseball and basketball teams. He always had a friendly, cheerful, and encouraging word for everyone. Harold was a student with high ideals and principles who did not hesitate to stand for what he thought was right. He was industrious, courteous and very considerate of other's. From the reports of some of his “Buddies” in the services these qualities remained with him, and he was loved because of them. He enlisted in the Naval Air Force during World War II immediately after graduating from high school in 1943. He served as a Sergeant in R. O. T. C. at Iowa State College at Ames, and when he enlisted in the services during the Korean War early in 1950, he was given the rank of Lieutenant. Upon graduating from Williams Air Field in Arizona, he was sent to Los Vegas, Nevada, where he received gunnery training before being sent to Korea on March 11, 1951, where he was attached to the 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing. Although missions are usually flown in groups of one hundred, Harold managed to “squeeze” in an extra five in his first group, flown in the F-80, which is used mostly for strafing and escorting. At the completion of three months of official work in Tokyo, Japan, his request for more missions was granted and he returned to Korea to fly the F-86 in a total one hundred and seventy missions. It was when he was on his one hundred seventieth mission, April 7, 1953, that he was shot down and all who knew and loved him were saddened to hear he was taken captive by the Reds. It was in the F-86 that Harold made such a remarkable record, his total score being twelve enemy planes demolished and three partially disabled. This is an average of one downed plane for every five and one half missions. Harold’s plane was the fastest model then in use, and his own was “souped up” to still more speed. For his outstanding service Harold received many decorations, among which were the Distinguished Flying Cross, The Air Medal, The Silver Star, and four Oakleaf Clusters. 3

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SUPERINTENDENT W. B. OFFICER B. A. Simpson College M. S. Drake University Graduate Work Iowa State College and University of Iowa. Education in itself is neither good nor bad. It depends upon how you use it. 5