Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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S.E5aEEEE,EPEEEEEEETHE1945ROUNDUP Z-7m Une cm fm Dear Father in Heaven, I kneel tonight To say a prayer sincere. For one whose duty has called him far From home and all held dear. He's very young, he's never been So far away before. So I ask you now. with all my heart, To kindly watch that shore On which he fights his lonely fight, On which he does his part. He may not think to ask you, God, He may not dare to ask That you would share his lonely watch: That you would bless his task. But this I do because I know That e'en that,sparrow's tall Is seen by you, whose loving care Watches over all. His letters say forgive mistakes And this I pray you'll do. He didn't mean to make them, Lord. His way of life was new. When he was called at just eighteen He hadn't found the way. But I am sure, within his heart. His course was set and true. So Father, watch this lad tonight. Oh Father. watch them all! Our only hope is in our faith That if they hear Death's call You'll take them home and keep them safe As we would like to do: For well we know within thy care You hold boys good and true. -Mary Higgins Page Nine

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THE 1945 ROUNDUP E Fi E Fi F Q M famine Boys ............. .................. 1 ,310 Girls ................. ....... 6 8 Gold Stars ........ 52 Teachers ................ 16 iff WWW M Same Iris C. Anderson Melvin I. Bowen Arden Cole Don B. Emanuel Vern F. Horty A Rosalind Lerferdink Warren W. Nixon Merl V. Ploghoft Robert W. Bagley Mary Breese Glenn A. Cole I. Edwin Gray Howard A. Iohnson Betty Melson Harold Peterson Harold S. Williams

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THE1945ROUNDUPEESSQEEEEEEEEQEE Our greatest defense in the future will be in keeping the memory of those whose lives were sacrificed on the altar ot justice: for it we remember that they endured the greatest sufiering that man can know, to keep freedom alive for us at home, then we cannot falter in making our world a place worthy of the great price they paid to preserve it. -Ward Crowley BERT ANDERSON, '38 Entered service February, l941. Killed at Corpus Christi, January 12, 1942. ROBERT BAIR, '32 Navy pilot, killed in plane crash at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, July 18, 1943. LAWRENCE BALDRIDGE, '39 Entered Army Air Corps 1941. Killed November 24, 1944, over Austria. TOM BARKLEY, '43 Entered service in 1943. Killed in spring of 1944. MARSHALL BARLOW, '40 Killed in June, 1943, in South Carolina. ROBERT BENZ, '38 Entered Army Air Corps. Killed over Germany, November 4, 1944. NORMAN BISHOP Entered Army in November, 1943. Killed February 11, 1945, in Manila. KENDRICK BLAKE, '42 Killed May 30, 1944, in a plane crash in Abilene, Texas. CHESTER BRIGHT, '42 Killed in action over Germany, September 27, 1944. ARTHUR BRODY, '41 Entered Army Air Corps in February, 1943. Killed over England June 25, 1943. CHARLES BRYANT, JR., '32 Entered Army Air Corps January 20, 1940. Killed near Panama April 13, 1942. ZEDI-'ORD BURRIS, '32 Entered Marine Corps in August, 1937. Killed September 9, 1944, on Guam. GUY CLUBB, '34 Second Lieutenant in Army. Killed near Arizio on January 26, 1943. DONALD CRANE, '43 Enlisted in Marine Corps September, 1943. Killed in South Pacific, 1944. GAYLORD CROWELL, '37 Killed in Africa in August, 1943. Page Ten EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, '39 Entered Marine Corps 1942. Killed November 15, 1944. MAX DAILEY, '39 Killed August 1, 1943, in a raid on Ru- manian oil wells. JACK DALBY, '36 Killed in summer of 1944 at La Junta, Colo. IOHN ERBACHER, '36 Reported dead in battle over Corregidor, June 4, 1944. MARK DE BORD, '38 Ship sunk in Java Sea on February 28, 1942 freported missingl. BILL FARWELL, '39 Entered Army Air Corps, 1940. Killed October, 1943, at Jamaica. ROBERT D. FOWLER, '29 Entered Army February 10, 1941. Killed May 17, 1944, in Italy. CHARLES GLASS, '33 Killed in China. TOM GREENAWALT, '42 Killed at Tarawa. WARREN I-IANDLEY, '42 Entered service in March, 1943. Killed over Germany, May 24, 1943. VOLNEY HARVEY, '39 Killed January, 1945. RICHARD HOFFMAN, '39 Entered service September, 1942. Killed in New Caledonia, March, 1944. 101-IN HOOKER, '39 Entered National Guard February 10, 1941. Killed in New Caledonia, March, 1944. ROBERT K. JOHANN, '38 Entered service, July, 1942. Killed November 2, 1944, in Germany. DAVE LAMBERT, '43 Entered Navy January, 1943. Killed in South Pacific, July 15, 1944. AUSTIN LETTOW, '42 Killed on Lexington, May 8, 1943.