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Many people have asked about the whereabouts of persons mentioned in the book, so I shall bring some things up-to-date - as briefly as possible.
Van served in England in World War II in the Air Force and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. He flew sixty-nine missions in a B26 Martin Marauder. He and his wife, Mary, live in Florida, have three married children with a number of grandchildren.
Jack has retired after years of service with IBM Co. He is married but has no children. He was in the Air Force also. Red was an instructor in airplane mechanics at Amarillo, Texas.
George moved from Mountainair to Socorro in 1938 where he was in partnership with Scotty in the Socorro Hardware Co. In 1956 he sold out and returned to college for a degree in psychology. Both his boys, Arles and Jimmie, graduated from high school in Socorro, and Arles received his bachelor’s degree at Texas School of Mines in El Paso (now UTEP) in the same graduating class with his father. George went on to get his master’s degree and became a counselor with the Texas State Rehabilitation in Lubbock, Texas. He retired in 1974 and moved to Mountainair, New Mexico. He and Sally now live in Blair, Oklahoma.
In the summer of 1942, I was spending my vacation with the Tigners when a group came up from San Antonio, Texas, recruiting
workers for the Deming Army Air Field. There was no separate Air Force at that time. A cadre of civilian workers was organized and we were all taken to San Antonio for a six-week training session for the new Bombardier School in Deming.
In the Sub Depot Headquarters I was Test Administrator for all civilian applicants, and Job Analyst. Later I moved to the Post Headquarters where I served as Training Director.
Mamie Moore, who was married at that time, was working at the Deming field.
As the post was being closed down, I moved to El Paso where I taught at Bowie High School for two years, and just couldn’t wait to get back to New Mexico. I taught in the Gadsden Schools for five years. Imogene (High Pockets) had completed her degree in library science at USC and was high school librarian in Las Cruces. We made two trips to Mexico, one by train and one in my second-hand car.
Next I moved to Socorro where I taught fifth grade for four years - in the old high school building facing on Fischer Avenue which has since been torn down. After Socorro I taught a year in Honduras at the American School, while there we went through two revolutions - with bullet holes in our blackboards.
I then went to Grants where I worked as homebound teacher, classroom teacher and counselor until I retired in 1970.
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