Glen Burnie High School - Gophers Yearbook (Glen Burnie, MD)

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Many of us have watched you grow to manhood and have enjoyed with you your happiness and triumphs. We have breathlessly fol- lowed your daring exploits. We have thrilled with pleasure and pride at your achievements. We have prayed earnestly for your safe re- turn and that of your buddies. You are the symbol of all our boys who are fighting and winning this greatest of wars. To you— CAPTAIN LEONARD T. SCHROEDER, JR. The class of 1945 respectfully and joyously dedicates this yearbook. 4 Che ——— — — — awOWK—— oer CEITITTIIIITI I e Captain Schroeder was born on July 16, 1918, in Baltimore, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard T. Schroeder, Sr. The family moved to Linthicum in the early twenties. He entered Linthic um Grammar School and completed the eighth grade in 1933. He remained at Linthi- cum for the first year of high school and entered at Glen Burnie in the fall of 1934. His first year here, he made the Varsity Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball teams. He won nine Varsity letters in these three sports, the three years he was a student here. ‘‘Mac’’ holds the A. A. Co. record for the soccer-kick-for-distance won at the Annual Field Meet in 1936. He captained the State Championship Soccer Team in 1937 when Glen Burnie defeated Cambridge High, 3 to O. “Mac” scored all the points. Graduated from Glen Burnie Hig h School in 1937, he entered the University of Mary- land in September of that year. ‘‘Mac’’ played soccer three years at Maryland and in 1941 was selected as center-forward on the All-American Soccer Team. “’Mac’’ graduated from U. of M. in June, 1941, and was immediately commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army and ordered to active duty at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was assigned to Co. F, 2nd Bn., 8th Inf., this regiment being one of the oldest regiments in the army, dates back to the French and Italian War. Following war maneuvers in Louisiana, “Mac” was transferred to Camp Gordon, Georgia, and was soon sent to the Infantry School at Fort Benning to study the Rifle and Heavy Weapons Course. After finishing this, ‘’Mac’’ re- turned to the 4th Division and was given command of the Company that he commanded on D-Day. ‘’Mac’’ was promoted to First Lieutenant in May, 1942, and the following December was promoted to Captain. Going overseas in 1944 as part of the 4th Division, he landed at Liverpool, England. Here followed a period of intensive training in preparation for the great assault on “’Fortress Europe.” The big day finally came. They left England on June 5 and went straight for the coast of France. The attack was made on the beach on the Cherbourg Peninsula—D-Day— H-Hour at 6:30 A.M. and ‘‘Mac’’ was the first Allied soldier to hit the French coast in this great invasion. ‘’Mac’’ was wounded during the course of the battle that took place on the beach and the strongly fortified positions between the beach and his company’s objectives. But he commanded the company until the objectives was captured. He was taken to the aid - station back on the beach, and then was evacuated to a hospital in England. ‘“Mac’’ was operated on several times and returned to the states due to the nature of his wounds. When leaving England, he crossed the ocean a second time on the hospital ship ‘’U. S. S. Dogwood.” He landed at Charlestown, S. C., September, 1945, and stayed a few days in Stack General Hospital. Later ‘’Mac’’ was discharged from the hospital and ordered to Army Rest Center, Army Redistribution Station, Miami Beach, Florida. From there the War Department ordered him to Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he just returned and has been assigned as training instructor at Camp Gordon, Georgia, from which he originally started. On December 10, 1941, ‘’Mac’’ married the former Margaret Nicholson, like her husband an alumnus of Glen Burnie High School. They now have a son, Leonard T. Schroeder II1, born on December 12, 1942. Captain Schroeder is the holder of the Silver Star; Purple Heart; Combat Infantry Badge; Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon; European Theater of Operation ribbon with a battle star; and Presidential Citation to a Distinguished Unit.

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CHARLES W. WHAYLAND Vice-Principal Year Book Sponsor