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ALUMNI
1930
Second Lieutenant Spotswood
Allen, pilot of a Flying Fortress, is reported to be a prisoner of war in Germany. He has been awarded the air medal.
1935
Eugene Rountree and his wife
visited school recently. T heir ad- dress is 3008 Collier Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina.
1936
First Lieutenant Henry A. Car- rington is now living at 1002 Franklin Road, Tampa 6, Florida.
1937
Gray Carrington visited school
recently, also Paul Edmunds and Andrew Slaze.
Hall Partrick, Ill. is now at Brown University.
Second Lieutenant Clessen H. Tenney, Jr., was killed in an air- plane accident in Birkinhead, England .
Herbert B. Thomson of Forest, Virginia, has been promoted to Private First Class at the head- quarters of a troop carrier wing in the Twelfth Air Force some- wh ere in the Mediterranean area.
1938
Lieutenant WiIIiam Eley, a
pilot, was shot down over Ru- mania. He was later rescued from a prisoner of war camp when the country was liberated.
:\1ott Ramson, a tail gunner in a Flying Fortress, was killed recently.
Robert Strange, who has been working in a shipyard at Wilm- ington, North Carolina, is now in the service.
1939
Preston Bellamy is reported
missing over Saipan. 1940
Robert Calder is now an ensign in the Navy.
Anzio landings. lie received the Purple Heart for wounds re- ceived at Anzio.
1943
Sergeant Walter 0. Gibson died October 8 of wounds re- ceived in combat in France. He was an infantryman with General Patton's Third Army.
Robert Magill recently visited school. He is at the University of Virginia.
Charles Penick is at a pre-mid- shipman's school.
1944
Richard Claytor, Charles Bugg,
Gene Peele, and Kern Armistead visited the school recently.
Alan Magill came back to school last month to show off his brand new \'. P. I. uniform. His father reports that he has been too busy dodging old cadets to have much time for study.
Sons of Alumni
There are five boys at school whose fathe rs attended V. E. S. The father of "Tuck" and \Veb Maddux attended V. E. S. from 1917 to 1924. Both of his sons seem to be filling his shoes in athletics, "Tuck" is the quarterback of the Bishops, and \V eb is a promising
guard of the Baby Bishops.
Frank Smith, III, is the step- son of Dr. Robert Daniel, '31. Frank plays end for the Baby
Bishops.
A lbert Kemper's father was
here from 1916-1918. Albert plays second string tackle for the varsity.
Dale Terry's father was here from 1919-'23. He ran 86 yards on the kick-off for the team that smothered W oodberry 51-7. Big things are expected of Dale, who has to fill the shoes left by his father.
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