Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

Page 7 text:

SLYWSEIFLQLUJQUCQURS A ht X X . 'X wr' sl! ti W ,tw X JI' ff!! ff I ' LLM ,M , W, Page Five

Page 6 text:

,KW Destination-Future! Briefing Attention, Cadets! Your ofhcers welcome you as new recruits to the Wake- field Rocket Aviation Base, Squadron 51. We wish you success in the testing ordeals ahead before your take-off. The experience from the training missions will establish the foundation for your solo flight. These missions will give you a knowledge of the obstacles you will en- counter on your trip. Your work will be rigorous, but you must be prepared. Your Rocketship, Oracle 51, is scheduled for departure june 7, 1951 - zero hour: 2000? You will he heading for the Planet Future! Good luck! C0-Pilots. PEGGY Sus AND jossvn TECCE Page Four N.a...g,, ,gn

Page 8 text:

V .,,,.,,,V ..-, - 'Wm Skystructors SEPTEMBER 8, 19-l7 'liwo hundred and sixty-Eve future cadets registered at the Wakefield Rocket Aviation Base. Our Commandant, Roland Kinder, welcomed us, and introduced Executive Officer Fulton. who gave us our assignments. At this point we were divided into platoons, ' SEPTEMBER 9, 1047 'lioday we really began our classes in basic background before attempting to study rockets and flying. Majors Gaswell, Height, Cowing, Barry, Dower. Gallop, Broderick, and Fanck, we found were in command of each department. and 'Iactical Ufiicer lleavens was in charge of guidance. We also learned. early in the year, that any commissioned officer could give demerits. Gloria Day and jimmy Galvin got the first ones. OCTOBER 6, 1047 lly this time we had all made the acquaintance ol the top brass: Four-Star General Bair and Lieutenant General Fisher. Of course we knew Executive Sec- retaries Kupiec and Ball, for they issued us a demerit with our new dog tags when we lost ours. NOVEMBER 17, IQ47 Amid icy blasts from the runway, we watched our team fall down fighting in the Gloucester football game. But neither the weather nor the score dampened our feelings, for we knew our eleven displayed the spirit of the Base and had played a brilliant game. DECEMBER l7, l947 .X lost cadet from Greenwood was found and brought to the base by Radar Expert Kenney.. 'lihis morning, our noses discovered that some ot Major Gallop's brain- children were cooking. The base was relieved to find the odor was not from the cafeteria. Nl.-XRCH I6, H948 Several cadets were A.XX'.O.l.. this morning. but it wa:in't their fault. .AX Lynnfield Community jet broke down. ,IUNE -l, 1048 loday, we cadets watched the solos of the graduating students, in anticipa- tion ot our own flights in three years. Report submitted by Navigator Esther llam Page Six