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Show Former Southerners Rate High in Military Services By Phyllis Clayton These are the last of this year's salutes to the men of South high who are in the service of their country. This column will be. continued con-tinued next year, and until then, the sincere blessings of South are extended to them. George H. Van Leewin, Machinist Ma-chinist Mate, first class in the USN. George is stationed in New Guinea after taking his boot training in Farragut, Idaho, and judging from latest reports, is progressing rapidly. He is an alum of 1942. Bill Van Ry is another of the outstanding alums who is in the service of his country. The Merchant M a r-ine r-ine claimed Bill in September, the 26th to he definite. defi-nite. His training place was Cata-lina Cata-lina Island, and from there he was shipped out. He sailed 1 a s t January and has been on the high seas ever since, C$ j m tne oouxn ra-cific. ra-cific. He is ex- BillVanRy pected home by the last of June. Before Bill left South in 1943, he took a very active part in athletics. ath-letics. Football and tennis doubles doub-les were his specialty. All Bill's many friends are anxiously hoping hop-ing he can make it here before graduation so he can visit South. Two outstanding brothers now in the service from South are the Cordery boys, Raymond and Kenneth. Ken-neth. Raymond, a graduate of 1942, is now in the Army Air Corps. He trained at Fresno, California, ' and Shipley Field in Texas. At South he studied for three years, and was especially active in ROTC. Ken graduated from South in June of 1943, and is now a Seaman Sea-man second class in the United States Navy. He specialized with the landing craft unit in San Diego for ten weeks and is now somewhere in the South Pacific. Before graduation, Ken participated partici-pated in athletics, basketball being be-ing his specialty. Another popular graduate of 1943 is Richard E. Jones, Avi tor's Radioman, third class in the Navy Air Corps. He trained at Farragut, Idaho, and was transferred trans-ferred to Memphis, Tennessee to a radio school. Then he took gunnery gun-nery courses at Jacksonville, Florida, Flor-ida, and is stationed now at Hutchinson, Kansas, for the B-24 program. Glenn M. Hammill, a Seaman, second class in the Coast Guard is a Southerner of the 1943 graduating grad-uating class. He visited here during dur-ing the first week in April when he had a two-week leave. Glenn received his basic training on Government Gov-ernment Island and attended Radar Ra-dar school in San Diego. He has been assigned to the USS Mus- ; kogee. He is his ship's motion picture operator. Glenn was active ac-tive in sports, having played on the Fairmont Park baseball team which took the city junior championship cham-pionship last year. |