WESTERN MILITARY ACADEMY, ALTON, IL. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

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Cadets attending the Las Vegas reunion

Donald and Betty Reed '47, Robt. and Deloris Dauber '47, Miles and Alyn Cooperman '47, Richard Nangle '47, Van Black '48, Berry Conner '48 and Diane Foutsch, Joe Dugan '48, John Gaebe '48 and wife, Claude Hazel '48, Jack and Jittra Abraham '49, Jerry and Sarah Bear '49, Roger and Doris Childs '49, Robert Gillmann '49 and Regina Osborne, Harry and Lois Dickinson '49, John and Sharon Herendeen '49, Jay and Judy Heyman '49, Rich and Nona Hunter '49, John Lucas ‘49, Jerry and Emily Mayer '49, Howard and Joni Naft '49, Alvin and Carolyn Samuel '49, Terry and Ruth Shroyer '49, Chuck and Dana Walker '49, Dan and Jean Weiner '49, Bill and Connie Zimmerman '49, William and Kay Baker '50, Marshall Blosser '51, Tom and Janet Holsen '51, Ken Shier '51, George Stewart and guest '51, William Warren '51, Genaro Cueva '52, Marcelo Garza '52, Juan Garza '52, Carl Hulick '52, Larry and Cathy Keller '52, William and Mary Ellyn Stickley '52, Juan Lobeira '53, Conrad Kirby '63

Cadet Captains Dugie Emswiler and Berry Conner, Cadet Major Joe Dugan, Final Lowering of American Flag, Commencement Day 1948

Cadet Captains Emswiler, Conner, Walker, Fuchs, Black T., Cadet Major Joe Dugan, Commencement Week 1948

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Private Childress, report to the Commandant's Office on the double.

Berry Conner '48 gets respite from strenuous Western discipline. Bill Beardslee and Carl Kaltwasser join him.