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Show Best Wishes, Luck, Follow Service Alums This is the first of a series of articles dedicated to those former students that are now in the armed forces. God bless them and bring them home soon. . Second Lieutenant Ray J. Blom-quist, Blom-quist, of the class of '38, received his pilot's silver ,win;gs and officer's offi-cer's commission last Oct. 1, at fsjtockton Field, California. The ifaculty remembers remem-bers this son of South as a captain cap-tain in the R. O. T. C. L.t. Blom-quist Blom-quist entered the armed forces Nov 21, 1942, and took his primarv and Lt. Ray J. basic training a Blomquist Santa Maria and Minter Fields in California. Out of his graduating class of 250 cadets, the Lieutenant was choosen as one of the three boys to remain at Stockton Field and be an instructor for two-motored trainers. The twenty-two year old officer was married in 1941 to the former Miss Echo Gudmunsen. The couple make their home in Stockton. Pfc. Louis Owen, '42, is now stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas, where he is doing clerical work for the Tank Destroyers, of the Field Artillery. Pvt. Owen was inducted in March, 1943. While at South he took part in all school activities, including the school play. At Bowie, has had experience w'th the famed "bazooka." Louie says, "The roll call at Bowie reads like a South high roster, there are so many of the school's alumni there." |
