Flintridge Prep School - Log Yearbook (La Canada Flintridge, CA)

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Robert E. Lissner, '42. Was seaman first class in the Coast Guard. Won four combat stars on Asiatic- Pacific ribbon for Leyte, Guam, Lingayen Gulf and Morotai. Now out of service. Present address: 308 No. Sycamore, Los Angeles 36, Calif. Lewis E. Lyon. Attended Flintridge '37-'41. En- listed in the Army Air Corps in 1942, served with ground crew and was later radio operator in Trinidad. Further record not available. Edward C. Mclver. Attended Flintridge '33-38. Served with the SeaBees in New Guinea and South Pacinc. Now out of service. Present address: 1352 Wentworth Ave., Pasadena 5, Calif. jack McNeil, '37. Is aviation machinist chief. Last address given was CASU, Box 6, FPO, New York. Believed to be still in service, but this information is not recent. Joseph Prosser McLain. Attended Flintridge '39-'43. Enlisted in the Infantry immediately after his eight- eenth birthday. Basic Training at Camp Roberts: now a private first class. While serving with the Army of Occupation in japan, was injured by the accidental discharge of a rifle. At present undergoing treatment to recover use of his right arm. Date of release un- certain. Present address: 865 So. Grand Ave., Pasa- dena 2, Calif. Peter Macgowan, '38. Graduated from Harvard University in 1942, joined Army Air Corps shortly afterwards: was for a time with the Ferry Command. According to latest information is a second lieutenant. . stationed at Fukuoka, japan. Probable date of release some time in 1946. Present address: 10737 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles 24, Calif. A. Thorndike MacKay, '40. Volunteered to American Field Service: served as ambulance driver in Burma and China with British 14th Army, from November, 1943 to September, 1945. He says in his question- naire: Arrived in Burma at the time the British started their drive back from Kohina, Imphal, to Rangoon. I drove a jeep ambulance . . . serving with British, Indian, Gurkha and East African brigades. Won the 1939-1945 Star and the Burma Star, both British decorations. Released September, 1945, is at present in business with Lights, Inc. in Alhambra. Married. Present address: 26 Tunnel Road, Berkeley, Calif. ' Charles H. Markham, '41. Assigned to Army at Camp San Luis Obispo from the Colorado School of Mines. After ASTP at Stanford, went overseas to Europe with an ordnance company, served in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany as electrician inspector and mechanic. Ribbons: European Theatre with three stars, American, German Occupation. Released November, 1945. Has entered Stanford to study medicine. Married. Present address: 1045 E. Mari- posa St., Altadena, Calif. Richard G. Markham, '43. Attended Cal Tech Navy V-12, graduated with commission as ensign Novem- ber, 1945. Date of release, about a year. At last report was located at Treasure Island, San Francisco. Present mailing address: 1045 E. Mariposa St., Altadena, Calif. Harry L. Masser. Attended Flintridge '35-'36, Is a lieutenant junior grade in the Naval Reserve, serving as gunnery officer on USS New Mexico. Received special training at Washington, D. C., Navy Yard. Probable date of discharge, summer 1946. Ribbons: American Theatre, Asiatic-Pacific with three stars for Leyte, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa, Philippine Liberation. Mailing address: 10411 Lindbrook Drive, Los Angeles 24, Calif. Allen Mitchum. Attended Flintridge '41-'42, En- listed in Marine Corps Reserve, was hospitalized with pneumonia and discharged. William G. Moller. Attended Flintridge '39-'41. Entered Army from the Principia, St. Louis, Mo. Further details not available. Fred Moore, '42. Entered Army in October, 1943 under ASTP, trained at Ft. Benning, Ga. When ASTP was abolished, he was placed in the Service Battery of the 580th Field Artillery at Camp Dorn, La.: transferred to Ft. Sill, Okla., and wgent overseas to Le Havre: returned june, 1945. At last report was a sergeant stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan. Hopes to finish college when released. Present address: Han- over, N. Mex. .james E. QTedj Munroe, '40, Enlisted in ROTC at Stanford, was assigned to Army Ordnance and sent overseas about two years ago. Is at present a first lieutenant with the Army of Occupation in Germany. Has made a distinguished record organizing and win- ning in competitive swimming in Europe. Hopes to be released in the summer or fall of 1946. Future plans uncertain. Address: cfo Mrs. Edward Munroe, 2672 No. Porter Ave., Altadena, Calif. A. Spencer Murray, '44, Enlisted in Naval Reserve immediately after graduation. At present attached to naval aviation as aviation ordnanceman third class. No overseas duty as yet but expects to go soon. Re- ceived aircrew wings after thirteen months' service. Will probably remain in service for two years more, afterwards he hopes to complete his education at Stanford. Present address: cfo Mrs. A. S. Murray, 4630 La Canada Blvd., La Canada, Calif.

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Robert D. Murray. Attended Flintridge '42-'43. En- listed in Naval Reserve: boot training at Farragut, Idaho, good scholastic record gave him an opportunity to take radio training at University of Wisconsin. Sent to destroyer service, saw action in the Pacific during 1944-45. Now a seaman second class on the minesweeper USS Dixie: last heard from in Shanghai. Date of release indefinite. Plans to complete educa- tion. Present address: cfo Mrs. Robert Murray, Box 1061, Route G, Sacramento, Calif. Ernest Eden Norris. Attended Flintridge '37-'38. Entered Marine Corps Reserve from Princeton Uni- versity. Commissioned a fighter pilot at Pensacola, Fla., in March, 1942. Further information not avail- able. Last Known address: 2204 Wyoming Ave., Wfashington, D. C. Charles W. Partridge, Jr., '45. Apprentice seaman in Navy V-5 unit at University of Southern California. Present address: 3518 University Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. Dr. John W. Partridge, '38. Graduated in medicine from the University of Chicago in july, 1945 as a Naval reserve. Is at present interning in the Bay District. Present address: cfo Mrs. Jean H. Partridge, 486 So. Hudson Ave., Pasadena 5, Calif. Married, one child. Linus Pauling, Jr., '43. No information available. Gerald H. Peacock. Attended Flintridge '33-'38. Was Air Corps ground crewman with the 749th Bomber Squadron, served in Germany, now released. Married. Detailed information not available. Address: cfo Mrs. Walter F. Peacock, 1105 Armada Drive, Pasa- dena 3, Calif. Richard Neugebauer. Attended '41-'43. Navy boot- camp and Medical Corps School at San Diego: hospi- tai corps training at Santa Margarita Naval Hospital: graduated at National Naval Medical Center, Beth- esda, Md., served as laboratory technician at Long Beach Naval Hospital. Dick was handicapped with a siege of pneumonia which set him back for five months. Is now a pharmacists mate third class medi- cal research assistant at Naval Hospital, Dublin, Ga. Date of release, about December, 1946. Plans to study medicine. Present address: cfo Dr. W. F. Neugebauer, 1115 Woodbury Road, Altadena, Calif. Farrier Penberthy, '39. Enlisted in the Army Air Corps in April, 1942: commissioned a celestial navi- gator in March, 1943. Instructed at San Marcos, Tex.: transferred to Troop Carrier Command and later to Air Transport Command, serving as navigator to South America, Africa, England and the Pacific Islands. Transferred to B-29s in March, 1944, served on Ckiiiiawa. Now released, married, and back at college. Present address: cfo Mrs. Paul Penberthy, 240 Hill Drive, Glendale, Calif. Ralph E. Phillips QRalanj, '43. Enlisted under the Naval Reserve V-12 program from Pomona College. Probably released. Further information not available. julian Pichel. Attended Flintridge '33 and '36. Is studying medicine at Yale under an Army program. Plans post-graduate work in psychiatry. Married. Address: cfo Mrs. Irving Pichel, Box 536, La Can- ada, Calif. Pichel W. Pichel, '37. Is a radio technician second class in the Naval reserve, probable release, May, 1946. Plans graduate study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Married, one daughter. Address: cfo Mrs. Irving Pichel, Box 536, La Canada, Calif. Frank M. Pope, '41. Was a flight-sergeant pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Details of service lack- ing. Now released and attending McGill University. Present address: 52 Finchley Road, Hampstead, Montreal, Quebec. Louis Richards, '38. Naval reserve ensigng served on USS Massachusetts. Details of service not avail- able. Present address: cfo Mrs. Robert Richards, 510 Palmetto Drive, Pasadena 2, Calif. Frederick L. Ridgeway, jr. Attended '40-'42. joined Naval reserve. Details not available. Address: 1215 Chelton Way, South Pasadena, Calif. Alexander Charles Ridland, '37. After graduation from Cal Tech served as Army Air 'Corps instructor at Buckley Field, Denver, and at Dalhart Field, Dal- hart, Tex. Now released. Future plans unknown. Present address: Box 113, Route 1, Pasadena, Calif. William S. Robbins. Attended Flintridge '33-'35 and '39-'4O. Enlisted in Marine Corps Reserve, saw active duty in the South Pacific. Now released: occupation, musician. Present address: 717 Hillcrest Ave., Flint- ridge, Pasadena.. Calif. Peter Schenck, '36. After Army service at March Field, went overseas, was prisoner of war in Germany for fifteen months. Won the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart. Re-enlisted in regular Army, is now a staff sergeant. Present address: cfo Mrs. R. E. Mansfield, 476 El Medio, Pacific Palisades, Calif.