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Eugene High School Service Flag

The Oregonian, 10 Jan 1918, page 5

A service flag with 80 stars, representing the boys and girls among the students who have answered their country’s call “in the last war for human liberty,” was presented to the Eugene High School today. Boys fromthe school have volunteered in practically every branch of the war forces of the Nation.

Dr. George H. Parkinson, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Eugene, made the presentation address. The school gave a patriotic programme.

The students represented by stars on the flag are as follows:

Artillery

  • Louis Kindt
  • Kenneth Cockerline
  • Clarence Franz
  • Willis Kays
  • Leonard Miles
  • John Quiner
  • Edgar Gurney
  • Joe Kremmel
  • Howard Abbey
  • George Haley
  • Robert Stewart
  • Kenneth Burton
  • Harold Bessonette
  • Paul Foster
  • Hugh McCallum
  • Walter Abbey
  • Bennie Reed
  • Percy Rowe
  • Max Schafer
  • Rodney Smith
  • Karl Kellogg
  • William Jenkins
  • Charles Farmer
  • Leroy Lawrence
  • Thomas Walker
  • Walter H. Cole
  • Dewey Ball
  • Eston Docksteader
  • Robert McMurphey
  • Ralph Waggoner
  • Bart Gray
  • Archie Holeman
  • Isaac Carson
  • Walter Schmeiding
  • Marion Pennington
  • Glenn Terrill
  • Ike Newman

Quartmermaster’s department

  • William E. Milikin
  • Kenneth Kellens (killed in service July 28, 1917).

Naval Reserve

  • Archie McFarland
  • Ruby Baugh
  • Violet Smith Hess
  • Ray Dunn

Cavalry

  • Floyd West

Aviation

  • Guy Koepp
  • William Russell
  • Kenneth Sherman
  • Rufus Dinwiddie
  • Wendell Matlock
  • Ucal Mountjoy
  • William Pearson
  • Lyle Bush
  • Leslie Hall
  • Travis Kompp

Band

  • French Moore

Ambulance

  • Ian Campbell
  • Lester Edblom
  • Herbert Jones
  • Gaylord Peltier
  • John Hughes

Hospital

  • Leslie Schwering

Marines

  • John W. Gibson
  • Norman Byrne
  • Earl Wakefield
  • Walter J. Allan
  • Pearson Conradt

Navy

  • Cogswell Campbell
  • Paul Maxwell
  • Clyde Crosby
  • Walter Davis
  • Arthur Larsen
  • Trevis Kompp

Infantry

  • Lee M. Brown
  • Charles Skene
  • ?ale Clark
  • Earl Baker
  • Carl Fenton

Engineer’s Corps

  • Leland Newport

Signal Corps

  • Frederick Kingsbury