La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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-M - -DSP ..... - ELL ESS PE 1 STEPHEN Fiskars RALPH GOODNIAN FRANCIS FLAHERTY ill! Memoriam The three gold stars in L.-P.'s service flag are in commemoration of these three young men who once came to our school as students and left it, sooner or later, to ren- der their lives as the supreme sacrifice on the altars of democracy. CORPORAL STEPHEN P. FERRIS Corporal Stephen P. Ferris, a former famous athlete, and member of the class of 1905 at the LaSalle-Peru Township High School, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps June 13, 1917, at Detroit, Michigan. He entrained a few days later to Paris Island, South Carolina, and was sent to Quantico, Virginia, for his Hnal training on the llfiarine Rifle Range. While there he won medals as a sharpshooter, and as such he was sent to France. He was a member of the Sixth Regiment 80th Company, U. S. lliarines in the Second Division. He was reported killed on October 3, 1918. As far as can be learned, he was fighting in the Argonne Forest. He had been through three of the big battles and was killed on the first day of his fourth Fight by the fragment of an exploded shell. He was buried the next day anad his grave is near the summit of Nlont Blanc between Somme and St. Ettienne, France. RALPH E. GOODMAN Ralph E. Goodman, a well-known alumnus of the Township High School and a member of the class of 1912, entered the military service on lliay 22, 1918. He was sent to Laredo, Texas, and was later transferred to Fort Worth, Texas, where he was stationed two months. On Tuesday, October I, he became ill, and on October 4, his parents received a letter from him saying that he had the influenza, but expected to be out of the hospital in a few days. His condition grew steadily worse and on Sunday, October 13, he passed away. His death came as a great shock to his many friends in the tri-cities. He was buried on VVednesday, October 15, in Oakwood cemetery. FRANCIS FLAHERTY Francis Flaherty, a prominent member of the class of 1915, left for the army on August I, 1918, and was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia. On September 16, he was removed from Camp Wheeler, Georgia, and was sent to Camp Mills. Soon afterward his regiment was sent to France, landing at Brest on October 15. He was reported on the sick book on January 3 and was sent on to the base hospital. After he was given two weeks treatment for ear trouble, the physicians decided that he ought to be sent back to the States for treatment. On January 28 he wrote home saying that he expected to leave on the next transport. While he was waiting, mastoiditis developed and he was operated on, but pneumonia set in, and his death followed on Friday morn- ing, February 14, 1919. He was buried on Saturday afternoon with the honors of an American soldier. Twem,-.Eve -

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L DSP GE. 39. ELL ESS PE 1902 George Neustadt 1905 I i'EStephen Ferris 1906 Leslie Ball J. Burton Confrey Kenneth Fraser VValter N adler 1907 Edmund Burke Ernest Herrcke 1908 Robert Coulter Charles Hanley Liszt Lenzen 1909 William Aplington Otto Castendyck Lloyd Pierson 1910 Gustav Carus Augustine Confrey Doran Lummis Justin lVIcDonald Sam Neely Carl Wacker Fred Zimmermann 1911 Franklin Hazen 1 Joseph McCormack Curt Nadler Louis Ream Gustav Robinson 1912 Har Carlson ' fy lVIcKinley Clark 'Ralph Goodman Vincent Hanley Clinton Hattenhauer Aloysius Lenzen - Kent Lenzen Hubert Rathbun Robert Stegen Alwin Steinmayer Leonard Swanson Frank Wixom 1913 Harold Barber Louis Blachly Edward Clarke Arthur Crosiar Fred Goebel it Deceased. 5. Zllumni in berhize , Albert Goodman William Haremski Albert Hasselman lkiax Hoffman Thomas McCormack Stanley Piszczek King Sargent Vern Slater Carl Streuver Cecil Watts Leroy Zimmermann 1914. Joseph Besal Roy Carney Charles Castendyck Harold Duncan Ralph Herrcke Warren lVIavity Grover Malone George Blow lVIaurice Rosenweig Earl Seaton Grant Timmons 1915 Abraham Bremer Joseph Byrne Clarence Curtis Kenneth Edgerly eFrancis Flaherty VValter Goebel John Oliver Guthrie Gerald Hoar Raymond Hamilton Vernon Ramey Otto Proelss John Siedleski Glenn Sitterly VVilliam Synnott Robert Walker Sydney Watson George Young Harry Zimmermann 1916 Andrew Bard David Jones h John Leahy Francis Wilson 1917 Cecil Crosiar Paul lyludge A Wesley Robinson 1918 Ross Castendyck Alex Finkler Twenty-four S. AQ T. C. 1916 Benjamin Allemann George Bent VValter Chapin James Confrey Glen Herrcke John Huber Arthur Janz Rudolph Joop Donald Lourie Richard lVIangnall llflorris Mudge lVIcKay Stoddard Edward Wagner Robert Welter 1917 Clarence Brink James Clancy Harold Eickhoff August Felton Dariel F itzkee Thomas Gannon Stephen Grzedzieleski Louis Huber Julius Krumeich Ned lVIcCormack William Moeller Elmer Schmidt Curt Schneider VVilliam Smith Linz Vohs Clarence Wagner Lewis Wargin 1918 James Allemann Henry Bent John Coulson ' Walter Eich Eldon Gilman Walter Goodman Barnet Hodes Frank Hoffman Vincent Kogoski Wilbur Locke James lVIaze August Neufeld Carl Neureuther Henry Nissen Russell Rice Lloyd Roseen Harry Sweger

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