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Show South Servicemen By Phyllis Clayton This is the third in a series of articles about the former students of South who are now in the armed forces. Pvt. A. T. Challis, who graduated gradu-ated from South last spring, is now stationed at Buckley Field, Colorado, along with many other of the school's alumni in the service. serv-ice. Tommy has been taking Basic Aviation Cadet Training since the 2- of October. He was transferred from Fort Douglas then, where he was a typist releasing soldiers to work in the mines. Last year, as a third year student, Tommy was a news editor of the Scribe, active in R.O.T.C., and an author in his own right. He was inducted into the army July 22. Another graduate of the class of '43, Jay Brimley, is attending George Williams College at Chicago, Chi-cago, Illinois. He is a member of the Navy V-12 Unit, as an ap- prentice seaman. Jay took a postgraduate post-graduate last year, with a course principally math. An outstanding family, all graduates of South, are the Hailes brothers, Charles, Warick, Curzon, and Don. Charles, the eldest of the four, is a major with the Army Air Corps at Lakeland, Florida. He won his wings at San Antonio, Texas, and has served in Alaska, and in the Asiatic campaign. Chief Petty Officer is the rank of the second brother, Warick, who left South in 1933. He has served in Australia, Wake Island, Hawaii, and in the Battle of Midway. Mid-way. He trained at many Navy bases, including Great Lakes, Chicago, Chi-cago, and San Francisco. Still awaiting his call into the Army Air Corps is Curzon, but he expects to leave the first or second sec-ond week in December. Prior to his enlistment, he attended the University of Utah. At South, a '36 graduate, Curzon participated in athletics, especially football. Youngest of the four, Don, finished fin-ished his high school days in 1942. He is now somewhere in England with the Air Corps. Previous Pre-vious to his overseas duty, Don was stationed in Texas. While at South, he was a member of the ROTC. A graduate of '36, Ensign Gene Petzer of the Navy Air Corps, is stationed at present in Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Florida, in a dive bomber squadron. He expects to finish his training in January and be transferred to Chicago for Carrier Car-rier Training, after which he will be sent overseas for combat duty. |