St Rose Academy - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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BEHIND THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN RIVATE Mark R Thompson yawned as the reporters left True he enjoyed the pubhcrty he was gettmg to the pomt of lovlng lt but stnll bemg the current hero of the natxon dld have 1ts dlsadvantages He had not recovered enough to go back xnto actrve servlce so for a tlme l1fe was one bormg vacatlon made up of photographers and mtervxewers He was not unaccustomed to thls A few years ago when he was chosen all American tackle hrs prcture was III ex erv magazme Later he agam made the papers when he became engaged to Lors ames the soc1al1te and agam when the engagement was broken off Now Mark R Thompson was xn the papers once more this tlme for kllllng and capturing a group of enemy soldlers True he had asslstance and when he remembered It he gave some credlt to the men but to the world as a whole and to Mark R Thompson especially Mark R Thompson was the hero He leaned back 1n the chalr at the rest home and thought of hrs early llfe rn the Army Inactlve servlcel Typrng' Of course when the Army reallzed 1tS mxstake of puttmg such a man as he lll such an unlmportant posltlon they removed hrm He wondered who the fool was sw ho was at hrs desk now Prob ably someone who could not meet the physlcal and mental requlrements ofthe Army He reached over and turned on the palr of earphones YVhat a novelty lt would be to hear a dance band agam' Howes er there wasn t any muslc on the two statlons hrs radlo was hmlted to Instead there was some patrxotlc program on the airwaves Wlth angry I'CSlgll21ll0ll Prnate Thompson llstened The mam event on the program was an lntervnew wlth a number of XV A A C s Prlvate Thompson groaned XVomen rn the Army' He hstened only out of CUTIOSIIY Strangely enough the program was comlng from Camp where he had served as a typlst The announcer began And now th1s young woman You are a XV A A C who has been sent here so that the soldlers can go 1nto HCIIVC serv lce aren t you? Yes Mr Cary er YVe YV A -X C s have been asslgned to th1s lob Her XOICC was the type Mark expected to hear It wasn t made for radxo and ll repeated the hnes dutlfully but wlthout CIIIllllS1'lSI11 The xonce ss as fannhar howex er If he Could only place lt' Nou xx here IYPISIS here Many of us have dlfferent jobs but we all know that for every one of us here there IS a man released for combat flghllllq It IS our duty as patr1ot1c Mary Ellen Gardener' I lke a flash the name and face came to hun She seemed the type who would be He hadn t known her well She hxed on one sxde ot tom n he ln ed on the other He moved ln flze Crowd of school she was a nonentrty Her people u Cl e poor and she got to college only through her own P-KKE TWENXTY FINE . . , 1 ! s 1 V , . , . , , ' 1 ' Y .I , , I ' 3 Y V V . , . . . . k . , V V . V , ' V ' ' - V - V r . , . . . . . , . y . A l T at ' , O . . . . A. . . . . , ,, , . V ra V - - - 1, - 7 ' V 7 , . . . .I . . . , . . V , V , 1 . . , . - ' V V 3 N . . . V V V V K - ' ' 1V s 1 l I K I - , . V V V V n - I n 4 I I 1 . V V , 1 . -

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IN SAN FRANCISCOS CHINATOWN HFAVY mist hung low over the city that once had been a silhouette against an lllummated sky The streets were slippery the air damp and the light of the half dimmed street lamps tried to shed its comparatively feeble rays down upon the narrow streets that were very dark even in peace time Com1ng from down an alley was the strange hauntmg music of Chinatown music that IS rendered all the more penetrant when ll is 2 A M It was in this atmosphere that the slow steady steps of a man were heard His face was pale against the black native garb he wore and ll could be seen that he was no longer young As he approached the street lamp his features became more d1st1n guishable The skin of his face was shr1veled his little eyes seemed to have the power of piercing the depths of the soul and his lips were narrow and straight with a grayed mustache and goatee characteristic of the old world Chinese H1s name was Hwang Hwang was a cold shrewd business man but he had a heart full of love and sympathy for his fam1ly For a half century he had l1ved on Pacific Avenue just off Grant However in later years of his life he treated himself to lodgings much n1cer a few blocks farther west on Pacific H15 life was a full one He had worked hard but now he had the reward of his labor He had one son and a daughter His son he favored especially because the youth loved what Hwang as a boy had loved Hwang was very proud of him when he graduated with old man had centered his little world around this boy and lt had been gratify 1ng to him to see the youth absorb the old man s pr1nc1ples and make them his own Hwang had boasted that his son was in China lighting and planning the defeat of the N ipponese and although he was still proud he now felt a keen sense of privation The footsteps that echoed down the alley from where the Chinese music came were aimless They just kept going going with rhythm1 cal sound on the narrow sidewalks Hwang couldn t make himself go home The things which only this afternoon he had fondly touched with the thought of his son s return brought memories flooding upon his brain and these be came odious to him After all what were they without his son to return to them? He didn t want to see the house the rooms the furn1ture each thing brought before him his son He only wanted to walk walk walk He d1dn t care where He had done this now SIDCC nine P M when that fateful message had come Now all he knew was that he xx as tired terribly tired 'll 'lf Sk Il! is It was the hour before dawn and there were few on the streets The enveloping mist had lifted its shroud of depression The melancholy footsteps no longer echoed through the streets of San Francisco s Chinatown Hwang had gone home' JEANNE LOUISE CORKRAN 43 PACE in ENT1 roun I ' ! ! , . , y . . . - . . , D . . 7 7 I 0 , - ! 3 1 1 ' I . Y . ' 5 . ' , , . . , . ' I ! , l . , honors from U. C. and take finish course at University of Peking. Yes, the Y ! Y ' 1 1 ' , 1 D 1 ' ' ! 9 ' , , 1 ' . , , . l . . ., I . - . . , .

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earnings and the small saxmqs of Irer parents She xxas 1 talented art student ind all her time and effort xx ere spent in xxorkrng toxx rrd 1 Goal He Irad dated her a ftxx times in tolleve but only r Itxx times because she xx as too quiet shy and there xxas such a differ ence in then soeral positions Recently he had heard that she had rtlnex ed Irer ambition she xxas xxorkinq for the leading fashion magazine of the country Surely she didn t Cfrxe up that just to be a WV A A C 9 Not after all those years of struggle' IN hat did you do before you lorned the YV A -X C sf I xx as eonnec ted with Style maffazrne Mr Carx er And through patriotism you lorned the Army' There xv rs rn embarrased srlente for a moment before she said, rather un surely xxor d to use for my feelings I guess I xx as ishamed to be earning the amount of money I xx rs xxhen I could have been doing something xxortlr xvlnle I lust tan t explain Mark switched off the radio So Nlary I llen had temporal ily grx en up that xx Inch meant most to Irer to take on the same iob Ire had no use for xx h1Ie Ire became a public hero Guess it s her business, Ire said slrruggrng his shoul ders Somehoxx I feel slightly heehsh To soothe his conscience Private Mark R Thompson took the Mutual Press Medal for Heron Action off Ins urrrforrn and put rt nrto rn envelope rddressecl to 'r certain YN A A C Perhaps slre s almost as responsible for it is I rm And for the first tmre in Ins years Mark R rymond Thompson gaxe sonrtout tlst tredit OAN Ionxsox I3 rf? PAGE NI M EN IX SIX 1 A ' K I ' .I 1 .U 'D mf I ' I I 1 Q 1 ' ' ' , ' ' '1 1 D . u D V I Q n an r l A L n , . . 2 X 1 --I K- ' . ' 11 I .K - I don't know if you would call it patriotism. Patriotism is too noble a I E . I 5 Ll. ti 'I V. 1 I . ' . . ' 1 R 1 I L RL ' ' ' ' . , . .. , . ' 1 xx I Af -K Y A-V s s .sk-s - I ' I v v. v I L -J A I at I,