Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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Paxton High School Reflector 29 CAPTAIN HOWARD BUSHNELL, '03, ON THE TUSCAN I A—CABLEGRAM FROM SCOTLAND THAT HE WAS SAFE, RECEIVED TWO DAYS AFTER THE VESSEL WAS TORPEDOED BY GERMAN SUBMARINE. Howard Bushnell, who has the honor of heading the soldier list of P. M. S graduates in the time order of the classes, has now the peculiar distinc- tion of being the first to experience the shock and the horror of an attack I» on of those cruel, death dealing vipers of the sea—the German submarine. Fo. two days after the sinking of the Tuscania. having reason to believe Howard was one of the more than two thousand American soldiers and offi- cers aboard the ill-fated ship, it was feared that he might be numbered among those that were lost. Great, therefore, was the relief when word was received in Paxton that his wife at Clinton, 111., had received a cablegram an- nouncing that he had been landed safe somewhere in Scotland. Above pictures received too late to be properly placed with “write-ups.

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28 Paxton High School Reflector HOWARD OSCAR WYLIE, '16. Died December 2, 1917. Howard Wylie's death resulted from an injury received in a football game at Loda, 111., on Thanksgiving Day. No young man ever connected with the Paxton High School as a student was more admired by teachers and students than Howard. His studious nabits, his loyalty to teachers, his open-hearted, generous-minded manner and spirit won the respect, the esteem, and the love of all. His remarkable leadership and skill in the athletic interests of the school alone would have won for him great popularity, but it was his true nobilitj of mind and heart that most endeared him to teachers and schoolmates. None knew him but to love him Nor named him but to praise.”

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30 Paxton High School Reflector Near a Half Hundred Other P. H. S. Students, Some of Whom Graduated Elsewhere ; Some of W horn Entered the Service Directly from the Class Room ; and Some of Whom for Other Reasons Did Not Graduate. Lieutenant Harold Anderson. Harold Anderson, after completing the major part of his high school course of study, entered Alton Military Academy in the fall of 1915, where lie completed the combined military and academic course in 1917. The open- ing of the first Reserve Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan in May, 191,, very naturally attracted his interest and attention. His application was accepted, and he immediately entered upon the strenuous training there At the close of the camp he was rewarded with a commission as Second Lieutenant and was assigned to the 13th Recruit Co.. lClst Depot Brigade, at Camp Grant. 111., where he now is. Like the rest of the boys, he is looking fo: ward to the time when the routine of cantonment study, drill and training sha.l give way to more active participation in the armed struggle to protect ana defend the institutions and principles of government and of humanity to which we adhere.