Hartland Academy - Ripple Yearbook (Hartland, ME)

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1943 Maynard Deering Dean Fenderson, U. S. N. Edwin Mower Lewis Barden, Jr. Donald Lancey, Jr., U. S. N. 1944 Leslie Sherburne John Gee, U. S. N. Earl Cully, U. S. N. 'F All men listed are serving in the Army unless otherwise indicated. I-Iartlardd Academy is proud of its many graduates in the armed forces of our country. We sincerely lhope this record is accurate. If it is not, please notify the Academy office. C. A. A. F., Box 55 Columbus, Miss. 25 March 1944 Editor of the Ripple Hartland Academy Hartland, Maine Dear Editor: In answer to your request, I am glad to outline briefly my present work in the Air Corps since May of 1943g Three days from Hartland via New York, Washington, and Montgomery, Alabama, I ar- rived at the Columbus Army Air Field classi- fied as an instructor in Navigation. Up to that time, my knowledge of planes anld their mo- tion through the air had been confined to one three hour watch on duty as an aircraft spot- ter on top of the Hartland Tannery. You can imagine that I approached this with al- most as much -confidence as I used to have when I faced Mr. Dunn over the ping-pong tafble. But after observing classes in the ground school for a while and spending a couple of months at Rand'olph Field, Texas, I was made an instructor-the Army way. Thus, I am ldoing much the same type of work as in civilian life plus the usual aldmin- istrative military duties that are connected with each of tihe hundreds of airdromes which have grown up from Florida to California. Wlxile actually the objective of the Training Command is to turn inexperienced cadets into experienced, disciplined men, skilled in the art of killing, my particular job is to help pilots keep themselves and their charges alive while attempting to conlduct a plane form one place to another. C. A. A. F. is an advanced twin-engine training post. This is the last trial for pro- spective pilots. A pair of wings and lieuten- nantis bars are awaiting them at the end of eight weeks. The journey through Pre-Hight, Primary, Basic, anid Advance schools is rather rough but the training is excellent and the work is not beyond the average aboy. I would like the pleasure of having a Hart- land Academy boy reach my classes some day. Maynard Moore '39 is on his way and perhaps others will become acquainted with the Mag- nolia State under a summer's sun. For those who reach this stage, transition school lies di- -rectly ahead and a pilot's job' on a B-17 or B-24 is not too difficult to visualize. I expect that each member of the Class of 1944 will have a direct share in the conclusion of this world conflict. My best wishes and hopes are with them. I wish to extend, also, to the faculty and underclassmen of Hart- land Academy congratulations for their ex- cellent work under the most trying of times. Sincerely yours, C. J. Cutts 1st Lt. AIC Sampson, New York March 16, 1944 Dear Classmates, I have just finished four weeks of boot training here at Sampson, New York. One more week and it will be completeld. I will be glad to get back to the good old State of Maine for a few days. The first week at boot camp is the hardest. When you arrive in Sampson you get a very heavy meal, a glass of milk and a sandwich. All the sailors will be shouting and saying, You will be sorry . Most of us are sorry any- way. After you have digested your sandwich, they give you a physical examination, and then you receive your clothes which are thrown at you from all directions. You are taken next to your barracks, which is your home while in boot training. The recruits that have been in camp a week ahead of you, call themselves old salts , and you 'fbarber baits . After your hair is cut, you are called skin heads . Another thing that they kid you about is when you are inoculated against diseases. Wait until you get the square needle or the one with the propeller , they say. A recruit's training is mostly drilling, go- ing to lectures which are like going to mo- vies. This is an idea of what Navy boot train- -I 51 1-

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'I' l lr l -1- HONOR ROLL if 1924 Elmer Ward Newton Smith 1925 Winston Norcross, U. S. N. 1926 Earl Heath Weston Stanhope Norman Huff, U. S. N. 1927 Lloyd Cookson Robert Estes 1928 Howard Gray Gerald Page 1930 George Markham fdischargedj Raymond Thorne Malcolm Carr Hazel Chipman, Army Nurse 1931 Kenneth Carr 1933 Leroy Hatch Leland Inman Roger Baker George Webber Paul Gardner, U. S. N. 1934 Winston Hanson Charles Whitney 1935 Howard Baird Vinson Phillips Alden Steidman Floyd Webber Aubrey Whittemore Erwin VVhittemore fDischargedJ Clyde Gridiith, U. S. M. C. 1936 Lennis Harris Maurice Hatch 1937 Myron Davis Mahlon Merrow Kenneth Wiers Donald Withee Donlin McCormack g-ppiqllnn-HH1 n-..n11nn1wvn1up- ...ning L noN0n BULL .un-.uni -.nil-...H-.gl-.,.1..,.1.,uiln..-,,,.1nn1,.1nn1nn..nn-.n1nn...,ill-.,,1n1,... i,,,,1,,,,1 1 1 E501 1938 Kenneth Baird Russell Dunlap Joseph Ford Arthur Littlefield James Moore 1939 Burton Jones Selden Martin Norman McCormack Maynard Moore Stanley Peterson Julian Wilbur Ernest Staples, U. S. N. 1940 Howard Brown Donald Goodwin Wesley Ham Gareth Hanson Charles, Inman Robert Moore Donald Rice Donald Wyman Gerald Burns, U. S. N. Clifford Merrill, U. S. M. C. 1941 Clylde Cookson, Jr. Edward Hilton Philip Libby Verne McLean Luther Nichols Linwood Perkins Rendell Phinney Bertram Thorne Omar Wheeler Ernest Inman, U. S. M. C. Virginia Millett, Waves 1942 M. Edmund Austin Herbert Baird Theodore Berkmaier Elbert Duncan, Jr. Robert Goforth, Jr. Harold Hughes Sheldon Hutchinson Murray McCormack Robert Steeves Clarence Walker Keith Tapley, Merchant Marines piuuinniu ninninnini l I --+

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ing is like. They feed us very well and have pleasant barracks. Hope to see you all on my leave. Wishing you the best of luck. Your classmate, John Gee, A. S. Camp Mackall, N. C. March 12, 1944 Dear Myrtle, I was very pleased to hear that the Ripple is going to be published again this year. I wish I was going to H. A. again as do lots of other H. A. graduates, who are on many posts all over the world. Many fellows are in the Air Force or the Navy, but here I' am in the Airborne. Airborne is a branch of the Army that isn't very well known. We rilde in Gliders and C-47 transport planes. The training is along the same lines as the Paratroopers. It is a hard, rough life, but it is fun anyway. I have an interesting job as Scout Corporal. Besides leading the Battery, I have a part to play in the surveying. I certainly appreciate the mathematics that I took at H. A. While I have been in the South I have traveled to several cities and towns. The ur- rban communities seem very poor. There isn't a place in this part of the South that could 'begin to compare with New England. On one trip to Charlotte, N. C., I met Max Baer, the ex-champion of boxing. Here in the Army you meet many interesting people from every part of the country. In closing I wish you all success in the com- ing edition of the Ripple . Yours truly, Cpl. Lewis Barden ALUMNI Class of 1914 Ella Seekins Getchell lives in Dexter. Goldie Lander Randell living in East Wil- ton. Class of 1919 Lois Wilkins Worthen lives in Bangor. Iva Huff Ames lives at Skowhegan. Ray Burlock, unknown. Harold Getchell living in Dexter. Class of 1924 Rebecca Pennell Steward lives at Corinna Carlton Deering lives at Hartland. Elmer Ward, Army. Jennie Hubbard, deceased. Joseph McGee, unknown Frank,Wing, deceased. Clyde Brooks, Army. Edwin Waterman lives in Lewiston. Nathalie Lewis Williams lives in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Melvin Waterman lives in Lewiston. Newton Smith, Army. E-dward Brown, deceased. Milton Morrison, unknown. -If 52 Class of 1929 Edna Hatch Nadeau lives in Hartland. Theresa Merrick Mills lives in Hartland. Thelma Ray Brooks lives in Hartland. Charles Estes lives in Palmyra. Editrh, Lewis Stevens lives in Belfast. Marie Turner, unknown. Blaine Webber lives in Massachusetts. Perry Furbushi lives in Hartland. Hilda Furbush Bishop living in St. Albans. Susie Miller Kelley lives in Augusta. Thelma Neal lives in New Hampshire. Class of 1934 K Eileen Baird married and living in Chicago, Illinois. Harriet Baird lives in Augusta. Annie Barnes Hartwell lives in Hartland. Virginia Bell Hoctor teaching in Old Or- chard. Mary Brown employed in Massachussets. Edson Buker lives in Palmyra. Charlotte Currie Stafford lives in Dayton, Ohio. Claulde Fisher is employed at H. C. Baxter Kr Bro. Dorothea Green lives in Guilford. 1-