Wyomissing Area High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wyomissing, PA)

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acuhg in eruice Ar fW by Pfc. Ester Nagle zfc Petty Officer I. I. Shelley Next to leave the faculty was Pfc. Esther Nagle, who resigned from the commer- cial department to join the WACS. For primary training she reported to Des Moines, Iowa. Her present address is Hobbes Air Field, New Mexico, which is in one of the more desolate parts of our country. Because this post is stationed in the middle of the desert, she was unable to have a formal photo taken. Successor to Colonel Shirk in the manual arts department, Petty Oflicer zfc I. Irvin Shelley left for duty in the Navy last September. After receiving boot training at Sampson, New York, he was assigned to the training of potential naval officers at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. The most traveled of the faculty is Corporal Robert York who left his post as band instructor last Iuly. He was trained for the risky job of mine sapper at Camp Ed- wards, Massachusetts, and transferred to the Air-borne Engineers. He could not pos- sibly be further from home than at present for his address is now somewhere in India. His presence in this remote area prevented us from receiving a photo of any sort of him. Twenty-seven

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if-1 H- A Q l -ai, .Q , , ,-f L.- 1- ' 'Q 'A' ,gy is ,f jg V-Wy! XNQQ UCUTCHHHI COIODE1 D. C- Shirk Second Lieutenant Hamilton Crowell ' VVe consider it a privilege to dedicate these pages to those former members of the Wyomissing High School faculty who are now serving in the United States Armed Forces. We shall try to present here al brief chronicle of their numerous and varied experiences. Lieutenant Colonel D. C. Shirk, now stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, was the former manual arts teacher. His army training started while still in college, when he enlisted in the Reserve Ollicers Training Corps. Continuing his military studies he worked himself into the position of Captain, which rank he held when called to active duty at the outbreak of the war. At present he is attached to the unique infantry training school at Fort Benning, which is attended by men of all ranks from private to general. The former French teacher, now Lieutenant Hamilton Crowell, was inducted in the summer of 1942. Shortly after receiving his basic training he left for oliicers candidate school at Fort Iackson, New York, where he was commissioned. Tours of duty at Fort Levenworth, Missouri, and Washington, D. C., followed. His last letter told of his emotions as he saw the shores of some unknown parts of the European theater of war. Twenty-six acukg in eruzce

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