Leavenworth High School honors military grads

On Wednesday, February 21st at 7:00 p.m. in the main gym, the Leavenworth High School Alumni Association hosted its first honored military event. The Association inducted 16 honored military into the Hall of Fame and recognized 25 Distinguished Military Graduates. The association has also produced a book with biographies of the honored military in addition to a chronological history of the JROTC. The high school has produced, in its history, 33 general officers--that have been identified. These high numbers are due to a JROTC Department that is the oldest in the nation and has been outstanding over the years and has inspired many students to seek out military careers. The high school is also the resident high school for the children of military officers at Fort Leavenworth.
In addition to recognition and induction of our honored military, the event included presentations by the JROTC Honor Guard with Weapons and the Honor Guard without Weapons, a brief high-point history of the JROTC and a reading of the names of the KIAs followed by a playing of taps. The Alumni Association has identified 67 KIAs from Leavenworth High School since World War I. Their names were engraved on a plaque that was presented during the ceremony. The plaque was funded by the Class of 1962. A reception and viewing of the Hall of Fame pictures and the KIA Plaque followed the ceremony in the Main Street of the high school.

Military Hall of Fame Honorees
Major General Floyd W. Baker – Army - 1944
Major General Raymond D. Barrett, Jr. – Army - 1968
Brigadier General Charles Henry Barth – Army - 1876
Sergeant Major Joseph W. Brundy, III – Army - 1975
Colonel Kenneth S. Collins – Air Force - 1948
Brigadier General Joseph Alfred Cranston – Army – 1916
Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Foley – Army – 1962
Lieutenant General Elvin R. "Vald" Heiberg, III - Army - 1949
Brigadier General Julius Johnson – Army – 1958
Major General Herman Poggemeyer – Marine – 1937
Major General Robert A. Rosenberg - Air Force - 1953
Major General Jeffrey J. Schloesser – Army – 1972
Brigadier General John Andrew Seitz – Army – 1927
Lieutenant General Richard J. Seitz – Army – 1937

Major General Stephen Silvasy, Jr. - Army - 1959
Colonel Brian Reed Voorhees – Air Force – 1968

Distinguished Military Graduates
Brigadier General Joseph R. Barnes – Army – 1965
First Lieutenant George Clinger Bass – Army – 1965
Admiral Harold A. Donley – Navy – 1946
Brigadier General George R. Harris – Army – 1974
Captain Edward J. Hofstra, Jr. – Navy – 1945
Major General Donald L. Jacka – Army – 1968
Lieutenant Colonel Marilyn Jenkins – Air Force – 1981
Commander Troy A. Johnson – Navy – 1982
Major General Joseph Ernst Kuhn – Army – 1881
Master Sergeant William L. Majors – Army – 1986
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Nichols – Army – 1977
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Nichols – Army – 1980
Major General Stephen Nichols – Army – 1947
Captain Arthur J. O’Keefe – Army – 1912
Captain John L. Prehn, Jr. – Navy – 1942
Colonel Robert A. Prehn – Army – 1946
Colonel Stephen K. Raney – Air Force – 1965
Brigadier General Samuel John Bayard Schindel – Army – 1888
Major General William Thaddeus Sexton – Army – 1918
Brigadier General Clyde J. Tate, II – Army – 1975
Colonel Constantine S. Vakas – Army – 1969
Colonel Thomas Dell Washburn – Army – 1966
Major James Webber – Air Force – 1968
Captain Lawrence W. Weeda, Jr. – Navy – 1966
Major General John Murphy Willems – Army – 1920

KILLED/MISSING In ACTION
1865-2007
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . . that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . . and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from this earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

WORLD WAR I
Ellis Babcock
Joseph Biart
Edward H. Blochberger
Fred Chapman
James C. Daniels
Kenneth Gouck
Gilman Harding - 1910
James S. Medill - 1911
Byron Mehl - 1914
William H. Swan
John J. Wright

WORLD WAR II
John W. Adams III - 1941
Charles Atwell
Howard E. Baldwin -1943
Raymond E. Bibee - 1919
Elmer R. Berg
Charles W. Bristow
Daniel Carnoali
J. David Cleavinger - 1938
John C. Fredrickson - 1937
Frank Evans - 1939
John M. Gorski -
Henry J. Glettig
James L. Grier - 1922
Henry W. Johnson - 1937
Daniel R. Leffel - 1934
Thomas Kent
Norman King
Philip B. Klotz - 1927
Earl Loney - 1936
Eugene B. Lurrey - 1934
James L. McNaughton - 1936
Carl H. Metz - 1935
William H. Moderhak, Jr.
Clarence G. Myrick, Jr. - 1944
Eugene Nirdlinger - 1927
Elmo Patterson - 1937
Herbert Pearson - 1937
John S. Phillips - 1939
Fulton S. Pike - 1931
Charles W. Pitts - 1942
Vincent Politte
Albert M. Roach
Eugene G. Ross - 1943
Joseph Rybinski
Ralph W. Schooley - 1938
Billy B. Sloan - 1940
Clarence Watson
Lucien Watkins - 1927
Wallace M. Williams - 1935
Frederick B. Wulfekuhler

VIETNAM
George C. Bass – 1965
Pete Connor – 1964
Eddie Ray Derritt – 1963
Joe Louis Emery – 1967
Harry Ivan Fuqua – 1965
Wesley Lee Gooch – 1965
Patrick Kendal Harrold – 1962
Gary Lynn Klingler – 1965
Gary Dean Little – 1962
Robert Brewster Lowe – 1959
Raymond Horace Pike, Jr. – Army
Terry Sage – 1959
John Michael Turner – 1965
Dennis Ray Whicker – 1965

Operation Desert Storm
Michael Daniels - 1988

Operation Iraqi Freedom
David Unger – 2003 - Army - Killed on October 17, 2006 age 21 – tour began in December 2005
Leavenworth High School Alumni Association