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STAR?2 * * * Tuesday. Jn- 13, 3944Navy VeferauiRD CITATIONSTO 285 STUDENTST BLOOM RITES(Continued front page 1)B«od letter* tad certificates wentedby Director C. Grumb to hij rotter: PhGalt_ _ _ Jip Op-P«lt John Fmnouw, Helen Kuer-Jeen Sedik. Patricia Yates.Joyce MeadVcaralyne Pennin?ten, Betty Sima, Katherine Gavin,Marilyn Goodman, RichardJoan Cramer, Willis Lloyd,Caesar Tieri, Arthur Wasik, Chester Weber._ Edna Kingsley, Gene Noel, Oswald Piunti, Louis RauseLJohn DiMascio, Raymond Mallna,Engelhard t, John MeEldown-egr, Vincent Pacula and Lois Gui-as - mm mOrchestra participants who have dhown two years of faithfulness tograntedorganization were awards by Miss Florence Dangre-director. Twenty names were read, as follows: Joan Engelhard t, Mae Ella Fox, Patricia Me*Mar-Ltughlin, Ray Malina, Roy fc ■hall, Joyce Meade, Phillip ehols, Gene Noel, James Paris, Nona Parker, Glen Pensinger, Vincent Ranieri, Avis Scogin, Marilyn Scogin, Helene Terranova, RobertNedo Uliassi, CarolTeverbaugh,Vanderwalker. Arthur Wasik andEhrood WilleyQuill wadNineteen members of the QuiHand Scroll organization were commended by Miss Betty House forto the Bloomand yearbook. HisHst includedTruman Anderson, Bill Campbell, Roxann Flora, Nick Fulgenri, Dorothy George, MarcellaMargaretJames Kane, Jean Long, Juliette Marcotte, Evelyn Nicolas, Lucille.aincNuttall, Leila Mae Prince,Reitx, Anita Rossell, Josephine Buseo, VerneII Schrohe, Barbara WBkting and Lawton Wilkerson.Mrs. Edna North, sponsordramatics at the local high school,listed those who hsd qualified for affiliation with the National Thespian Dramatic Society: Carlotte, Patricia Harvey, Paul Rietveld, Peter Scheldt, Alice MaeShaw, Arthur Wasik and Lutrelle Wassmann.Students who have given service to the school as movie projector operators for the showing of Instructional pictures in room 317 were given pins for two yean ofwhofaithfulness. Ralph Briggs,took over the projector club whenJames Sears entered the MarineCorps last February, pins to Henry Easterwood, RobertForrest, Frances Kuras and Edward Thu man.Radio SpecialistsTwo radio enthusiasts—PasqualeRendina and Donald Spaulding—were cited for progress in this par-ticular field by Miss Elizabeth Gensiver, sponsor of the radioclub. Pasquale and Don have earned licenses as class A amateur radio operators.Ten boys from the Bloom workshop were paid tributes by their instructor, John Sears, who entered metal products from hisproductsclasses in competition with other schools throughout the state at the Illinois Vocational Associationconvention. Bloom’s exhibit won second place. The boys were: JohnPeter Emole, Kenneth Hellriegel, Kenneth Love, Louis Maurizi, Julius Nienzak, Charles Paulsen, Ernest Seekamp, Joe Vol-tattomi and Bart Zona.Girls’ Athletic association awardsout bv Miss LeilaMOKE THAN TWENTY YEARS of naval service are accounted for in the records of these four brothers, sons of Mr. and Mrs. GroverW. Allen, of Crete.€t.swere handedVeazey, director of the program. Her list included: state emblems Irene Heinz, Eugenia Marek and Pauline Piattoni; state awards — Jean Long and Bernice Umland; local awards — Colleen Austgen, Dorothy Baker, Mardelle Bieshoer, Marilyn Bloom, Helen Bury, Carolyn Peterson, Marge Schimke. Jean Sedik. Grace Voights andRichard R. Allen, C.P.C., U.S.N., (top photo), came up through the ranks to be chief warrant officer.He entered the service August 8, 1934. Since then he has servedat bases and on vessels in many parts of the world. He was at sea on a tanker when the war started.Later he was assigned to a transport operating in the NorthernPacific. At present he is atSedik, Phyllis Wasik.Leadersleaders werea ted by Miss Alice Price, sponsor of this activity. Her lists, however, were read by Coach Elmer R. Nelson prior to making his track and field awards. The quintette of cheer-getters was composed ofGildaAt present ne is at an amphibious training base on the East coast.tpvVI.VFJIJccJriaiGladys Anshutz, Gilda Citrone, Lois Eytcheson, Elaine Rietz and Shirley Stein. Nelson’s track tokens and those given by Coach Cecil M. Sarff to his baseballGrover W. Allen, Jr., motor machinist’s mate first class, enlisted June 13, 1939. After completing his training he was on submarine duty until early this year. For more than a year he was in the thick of the fighting in the Southwest Pacific. Recently he completed two and one-half months with a relief crew at a South Pa-i]lt;champions are recordedsport page of THE STAR.The school’s intramuraltitlists were presented the Board of Education cup by Sarff. Captain Dominic Calacci accepted thefor his team whichcific island prior to assignment to a newly commissioned submarine.George Stew’art Allen, chief storekeeper, has been in the navy since September 4, 1940. As a crew member of the U.S.S. Northampton he w'as in thirteen major battles before that heavy cruiser was sunk on Decembertrophy built fromthis personnelwasCarloPierendozzi, Joe Lucia, Louis Pig-Russell Killion, Marshallnotti,DeFrank, Fred Hesemann, AngeloPancrazio, Joe Zaranti and TonySaiaHOLD RITES TOMORROW1, 1942.while protecting the carrier Hornet. After brief periods on a battleship and a destroyer, he was stationed at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. He is a former employe of THE STAR.ert M. Allen, phot first class, enteredFOR HARRY C. MILLETTFinal rites will be held tomorrow for Harry C. Millett, 3124South ChicagoJackson avenue,Heights, who died Sunday morn ins at St. James hospital. Mr. Milice in August, 1942, exactly eight years after his brother Richard began a naval career. Assigned to the Seabees. he saw combat in theAleutians and wras in the Northern Pacific area for twenty months. He recently returned to Camp Parks, Calif.
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