Mount Carmel High School - El Conquistador Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Sergeant Lawrence Sullivan

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DEDICATION September 9, 1944 will be the tenth birthday of Mount Carmel High School. During the ten years of her existence she has seen many pupils and teachers within her walls. Many of these today are in the service of our country. To the memory of one of these teachers Mount Carmel dedi- cates this sixth volume of El Conquistador. SERGEANT LAWRENCE SULLIVAN spent the first five years of Carmel's history as head coach of football, basketball, baseball and track. He also served as instructor of the physical education classes. His help and never-failing loyalty proved of inestimable value, coming, as it did, at the time of greatest trial to a growing high school. Even before the entrance of the United States into the war Larry felt the need of serving. His career in the Army Air Corps was a brilliant one and he became the maintenance man and rear gunner on a flying fortress. After many months of training in this country, the bomber and crew were sent to England. Twenty- two missions were successfully performed by them in the Euro- pean area, but on the next and final assignment the plane was shot down over Germany. Relatives were notified that Larry had died for his country. That SERGEANT LAWRENCE SULLIVAN applied himself to the various duties of military life may be verified from the many promotions and from the decorations he received. He was given the Air Medal, Citation of Honor from General Arnold, and the Purple Heart. It seems most fitting therefore that Mount Carmel dedicate E1 Conquistador of 1944 to the memory of SERGEANT LAWRENCE SULLIVAN. In some far land across the sea he died, One who was loved by all our growing boys, In them were all his happiness and pride, To serve them was the measure of his joys. On fields of sport he rallied Carmel's men, For all those battles dear to youthful hearts! He trained them for a day beyond his ken, When Duty would assign to them their parts. Amid the clouds in battles fierce and grim, He too played his, and played it welll The Purple Heart reveals the cost to him, Of nights aflame with raging shot and shell. His memory filled with dreams of long ago, He fell, as a Crusader, face to foe.

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