Orleans High School - Sword Yearbook (Orleans, VT)

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Faculty ROGER BARTON, A. B. University of New Hampshire, 1930. Chemistry, Health, General Science, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Physical Edu- cation NORMA J. BISACCIA, A. B. University of Vermont, 1942. Latin, English, Health, Phys- ical Education PAGE EIGHT

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3n Jfflemoriam It was with pride that two years ago we hung a service flag in our home room window for two of the members of our class—the first class to lose two of its members to the armed forces before grad- uation. With mingled feelings of sadness and pride we took down this service flag with the two blue stars last February, because one of those blue stars had changed to gold. Staff Sergeant Marvin Hilliard, more familiarly known to his classmates as Bucket,” was sworn into the Army of the United States on December 15, 1943. He received his basic training at Camp Blanding, Florida, ca to Fort Meade, Md. In July last year he was shipped to Eu- rope in the 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division of the Third Army, as a private. He was pro- moted to private first class in September, 1 9 4 4. In October he participated in the battle of Metz, France, which was one of the major battles of this war. From private first class, Bucket was home for a short fui Staff Sergeant MARVIN HILLIARD lough, and returned raised to a staff ser- geant sometime be- tween December 15 and January 1. The jump from private to staff sergeant has been left unexplain- ed by either Bucket or the Army, but we can surely conclude this indicated a qual- ity of leadership needed by his outfit. On January 16, 1945, Staff Sergeant Marvin Hilliard gave the supreme sacrifice for his country dur- ing the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. News of his death and the Purple Heart, along with a letter of commendation for bravery from his commanding officer, reached his parents in February. Memorial services were held in his honor on February 25 at the Congregational church in Orleans. We, the class of 1945, will always remember the meritorious conduct of Bucket as a soldier, and as each of us graduate from high school this year, we will strive, with him as our example, to fulfill in the best possible way our part in bringing a lasting peace to the world—the peace for which Marvin Hilliard died. PAGE SEVEN

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WILFRED LESLIE, B. S. RUTH E. HOPKINS, B. S. University of Vermont, 1941. Social Science, English, Civics, Sociology, Music. University of Connecticut, 1930. Agriculture, Manual Arts. PAGE NINE