Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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22 Paxton High School Reflector officially discovered in time to cheat some particular Kaiser Sub. of its in- tended prey.. He is now a member of the 8th U. S. Marines, 106th Company at Gal- « veston. David Danielson, ’13. David Danielson enlisted on the 3rd of December, 1917, for service in the Quartermasters’ Department and a few days later was ordered to Jef- ferson Barracks, St. Louis. Here lie was immediately assigned to clerical duty in relation to grocery supplies for the hospital. TWO BROTHERS Leonard Aspergren Bernard Aspergren Bernard Aspergren, '13. Bernard Aspergren enlisted at Rock Island in the Ordnance Depart-

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Paxton High School Reflector 21 asP of 18 years. He therefore graduated at West Point when he had just turned 21. Lieut. Eugene Frederick, ’13. Eugene Frederick sought and gained admission to the first Reserve Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan in May, 1917. In response to a call for volunteers for service in the Regular Army, before the close of the train- ing camp, Mr. Frederick enlisted; and. as a result of his excellent record thus far at Fort Sheridan, he was given the commission of Second Lieutenant some time before the other commissions were awarded to the men who were in training for the Reserve Officers’ Corps. At the close of the Fort Sheridan Training camp, he was assigned to the Cist Infantry of the Regular Army, then stationed at Gettysburg, Pa., but now at Charlotte. North Carolina. Reports from him indicate that he likes arrnv life, and that like the great majority of the other soldier boys from P. H. S.. he is somewhat impatiently waiting for the hour to come when he may help to strike the staggering blow that shall spell the doom of Kaiserdom. After Mr. Frederick graduated from the Paxton High School and until his enlistment in the Reserve Officers’ Corps, he was a student in the I ni er ity of Illinois. He received his degree in June, 191 , at the age of 21 years. Mack Wylie, '13. After graduating from the Paxton High School in 1913, Mack Wylie en- tered DePauw University at Greencastle. Ind., where he pursued a classical course of study for three years in preparation for a course in Law which he had chosen as his life profession. In the fall of 1916. he entered the Law School of Northwestern University at Evanston. As with unnumbered thousands of other young Americans of ability, scholarship, and professional or business opportunity and ambition, the call, To Arms! ’ in the Nation.-, hour of need, for a time at least, supplanted his professional ambition and at- tainment. The Marine Corps appealed to his newly formed ambition for service, and lie strenuously sought admission to an Officers’ Reserve Camp for Marines. Failing in this, he courageously resolved to begin at the bottom by existing as a private. This he did early in July. 1917. He was soon sent to Paris Island ofT the coast of South Carolina where he remained in training about three months. He was then sent to Ouanto. Va.. and later to Philadel- phia. where with his shipmate comrades he was hurried on board a transport, headed as they thought for “somewhere” on the coast of France. Much to their disgust, we are told, they were landed at Galveston. Texas, about the first of December. Disappointing as this may have been to these heroic Marines, and however unsatisfactory a landing place Galveston may be, we arc sure that it is to be preferred to a landing at the bottom of the sea—the possibility or probability of which at that particular time may have been

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Paxton High School Reflector 23 ment early In December and was assigned to duty as a bookkeeper Decern ber 2Cth in the Rock Island Arsenal. Word to his family Feb. 1st. 1918, in- dicated that he was to be immediately transferred to some other place, but that he was uninformed as to its location. Sergeant Randall Bear, '13. Randall Bear, of Ludlow, enlisted at Chicago, in the Quartermasters Department in December. 1917. He was assigned for training to Camp John- son. Florida. From there he was very soon transferred to ('amp Hill, New Port News. Va. He was made a sergeant soon after his enlistment. Randall entered De Pauw University in September after graduating from P. H. S. He later transferred his credits to the U. of I., where he continued his college woik until the time of his enlistment. We are informed that he has now completed the requirements for graduation, and will be regularly graduated from the University next June without being required to be present. Corporal Claude E. Stine, ’13. Claude Stine entered the National Army, September 4. 1917, being one of the seven from Ford county to volunteer to report at Fort Dodge, Des Moines. Iowa, as the first contingent from the quota provided in the draft for tuis county. The brief preliminary or advance training thus obtained re- sulted in his being made a corporal before the arrival, a few weeks later, of the major number that were ordered to report for training in September. Some weeks before the holidays, he was given a short leave of absence which he utilized in visiting relatives and his many friends in Paxton. He came over to the school house on military training day. and upon invitation of Mr. Thacher took charge of the drill and maneuvers that were in progress. The «kill with which he directed the work and the military pep he put into it’ most favorably impressed the high school students with the efficiency of his training, and his ability as an officer. Arthur Currie, ’13. Arthur Currie, who lives near Roberts, was one of the first to be called by ,he selective draft. He is now in training at Camp Pike. Little Rock. Ar- kansas. Arthur attended the University of Illinois a number of years since graduating from P. H. S.. and of course, military drill was not entirely new to him. Indirect reports from him indicate that he likes the life of a soldier in training very well indeed. A certain percentage of the soldiers stationed at Little Rock were recently called to France, and he expects to go in re- sponse to the next call, which is daily looked for. CLASS OF 1914. In the class of 1914 there were ten boys. Of these, four are numbered among the million and more young men of America who are wearing th