WILLIAM HAYES Remarks and List of Students Serving in WWII

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY
Series 19: STUDENTS
William Hayes, Student, Farm Manager, Trustee
Remarks and List of Students Serving in WWII

Pine Cone 1944 January, cover. [pine_cone_1944_8-5_001.jpg]

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WILLIAM HAYES 1943 Remarks and List of Students in WWII

WILLIAM HAYES:
Student, September 1934 – May 1938
Farm Manager, 1937 – 1953
Member, PMSS Board of Trustees, 1980s & 1990s

The following remarks by William Hayes were made during the late months of WWII and include the names of two of his brothers. One additional brother, Silven Hayes does not appear on the list as he was still missing and had not been declared deceased when the list was compiled. Also, Bill Blair’s name is missing as is David Martin and Columbus Creech and many others as they had not yet registered or were still enrolled at PMSS.

STUDENTS and STAFF WWII Military Service

Further, there are no women included in the list and there were many from the School who served in the War efforts. Particularly, Stella Taylor, Mable Mullins, also contributed to the War efforts.also later enrollees in the war effort.

TRANSCRIPTION: Remarks

It seems very appropriate at this time to announce the names of our Pine Mountain students who are in our United States armed forces. These boys are helping to protect our Country and its possessions. In nearly every branch of military service, Pine Mountain boys are playing their part in this allied struggle for peace. May we all wish these boys God’s speed in our united effort to win final victory.

May the united spirit of these boys be carried to every front. May the Democracy for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom of religion be protected.

As President Lincoln said in his second Annual Message to Congress in 1862 — “We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of Earth.” But today it is not clear that a peace soundly and intelligently based upon this necessity is as Abraham Lincoln put it, “It is the man and woman of this generation who will nobly save or meanly lose it.”

W.H.

TRANSCRIPTION: Students Who Served in WWII

[Note: The document was typewritten and included handwritten additional names and edits.] The War was not yet over and the list is thus, incomplete. It is compiled on the information available at the time in the Hayes document.

Adams, Otis
Adams, Spencer
Anderson, Denis [sic, Dennis]

Bailey, Elmer
Bailey, Omar
Bailey, Chester
Begley, Chester [handwritten addition]
Blair, Eagar
Blanton, Clyde
Blanton, John
Blanton, Robert
Browning, Wayne [Harry]
Bryant, Claude
Bunch, Herbert

Caudill, Perry
Centers, James [handwritten addition]
Creech, William
Creech, Burton
Creech, Charles
Creech, Henry
Creech, Walter
Collins, Lovell

Fields, Charles
Frost, Harry

Halcomb, Jack
Hall, Jr., Enoch
Hayes, John
Hayes, Paul [handwritten addition]
Henson, Karl
Howard, Noel
Hughes, Charles Timothy
Irick, Herman