Word: haaren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staff Sergeant Chester Davis, class of '35, was sitting in some embarrassment on the platform at Manhattan's Haaren High School in the vicinity of the "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood. It was Haaren's 45th commencement. Sergeant Davis, flying gunner who was wounded in action, got up shyly, began to speak...
...good time to apologize to all my teachers for not studying harder. . . . In the Air Corps you have to study. . . . The other Haaren graduates will tell you they'd rather be bombardiers or pilots. . . . A gunner has the satisfaction of taking a crack at someone he doesn't like...
...Haaren's seniors listened raptly. Eleven of them, already Air Corps cadets, will be called to active service soon...
...pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly...