Fayetteville High School - La Famac Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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7665522 QSJW, , ,, ff: W I f 's gr aw WTNQ To Mrs. Rachel Whishuiit Ne-wherry, who for tweiiry'-fiuiii' years wus u decided force ih the molding of yimuiig minds ut' this high schoul in the field of iiirxtlieimitics, who shured their success mid failure, their joys amd disuppoiiitments, who respected their et'1'u1't Lis well as their LlCCO1'llD1iSlllHQ1lf, and whose putieiiee. Ll1ldt'I'SIll11fl- ing, and humor have made her mime lured und eherished hy ull those who knew her uhd studied uiider her, we gixitetiilly dedi- cate this page ui' the HHS Iizilfaiiiizuc. 'tlflt' Tirrlzir' 1 1

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X if Aff f nt. sswgfvfmw LIEUTENANT BRUNDY MELVIN First Lieutenant Brundy Melvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Melvin, was one of the twenty-three persons killed in the Crash of a C554 Army transport plane at Goose Bay. Lieutenant Melvin, a graduate ot' Fayetteville High St-hool with the class of 19-li, would have been twenty-four years old in February. He attended Mars Hills College for one year, in 1942. and was a member of the Class of 1945 at North Carolina State College. He attended State College until February, 1943, when he joined the army air forces, Receiving his wings in March, 1944, he served in the China-Burma theater of operations with the Fourteenth Air Force. Shot down behind the Japanese lines in China on his Hftieth mission, Lieutenant Melvin para- Chuted to safety, and walked hack ac-ross the lines in nineteen tlavs, aided luv Chinese guerrillas. More recently he had been stationed at Frohisher l-Rav, lflatiin lslanrl, with the 135th A. A. C. Squadron. , He was the First commander of the Sons of the American Legion in lftltl. and was an Eagle Scout. Lieutenant Melvin was a member of the Halvmount Methodist t'hurt-li, So he my passing My task act-oinplislietl and the long clay done My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing. Let me he gathered to the quiet west The sunclown splenmlirl anal serene, Death, l'f1vfl I-.'ll H fi

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