Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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BOYS OF OUR CLASS WHO WERE IN THE SERVICE DORLAND BENNETT Borland Bennett was a member of our Junior Class till April 17, 1918, when he joined the navy at the Great Lakes Training Station. He did patrol duty on board the U. S. S. Essex and the U. S. S. Wisconsin off the Atlantic coast. FRED THURMAN Fred Thurman has been in France over a year with the Motor Truck Corps. He is now a mem- ber of the Military Police Corps stationed at Orleans, where Joan of Arc encountered the English. LESTER BUNDY Lester Bundy enlisted in the first Army Training Corps in May, 1918, and served 3 months in the United States. He was overseas with the French Artillery for 6 months and at one time was slightly gassed. JOHN STODDARD John Stoddard joined the old Co. L. on April 29, 1915 and serv- ed with them till February 22, 1917, when he enlisted in Tank Service at Camp Meade, Mary- land. He saw active service on the Hindenburg Line, at Bussigny and Banancourt. Fifteen

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BOYS OF OUR CLASS WHO WERE IN THE SERVICE. LIEUT. HAROLD CARD Lieut. Harold Card was award- ed his commission in the Artillery last October at Fort Sheridan. His duties were instructing in gas and bayonet practice at Camp Grant. CAROL AYLESWORTH Carol Aylesworth is now with the Marines at Quantico, Virginia. He went into service last Septem- ber and received his first train- ing at Paris Island. FLOYD CRAIG Floyd Craig entered service April 16, 1917. He received his shipping orders during the spring of 1918, in that time made four trips to France on the U. S. S. Henderson, as a second class elec- trician. He is now stationed at the Naval Reserve Training Station at Pelham Bay, New York. RAYMOND THATCHER Raymond Thatcher was a repre- sentative from our class who en- listed with the Marines on May 8, 1918. At one time, while he was in a hospital recovering from the effects of an illness caused by drinking poisoned water from a shell hole, he was reported killed. Fon rteen

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EARLE THEMANSON IN MEMORIAM Earle Themanson was born on the 14th day of Febru- ary, 1899, in Aurora, Illinois. He entered the Aurora schools at the age of six and continued there until the fourth grade, when he moved with his parents to Valpar- aiso. In 1914 he entered the V. H. S. and elected the Latin course. On the 24th of June, although but seven- teen, he left for the Mexican Border with Co. L. L T pon his return from service he again became a student of the V. H. S. until the World War fired his patriotic spirit, and he departed from this city in September, 1917, to join the Regular Army. While in service at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, he was taken ill, and was given an honorable discharge. Soon after his return home all hopes of his regaining his health were given up, and on the 18th of November he passed away. He was buried from the Lutheran Church with military honors on November 20, 1918. Sixteen