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The Pershing Cable (May 1978)
The Pershing Cable (May 1978)
The Pershing Cable (May 1978)
Pershing Cable
56th Field Artillery Brigade
May 1978
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May 1978
Pershing Cable
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,t'Soldiers complete
last HS class
The Schwablsch Gmund Education Center graduated Its last on-duty hl9h school
completion class on Thursday, May "
Twenty graduates received certificates of
completion from Mrs. Nancy Travis, the
class t eac her.
The on-duty high school completion program ended in December, but students al ready participating In the program were
permit led to complete their studies.
Diplomas will be Issued by Big Bend Community College of Moses Lake, Washington,
. "hic h conducted the program through the
l.,,,..'.lucatlon Center . The diplomas will be
presen1ed to the soldiers by thel r respective
battery con,n,anders.
Mr. George Burns, director of the Schwablsch GmOnd Education Center, says that
although on-duty high school completion is
no longer available, soldiers can still work
toward a high school diploma by attending
Secretc1ry Alexender wraps up his visit to Von Steuben by chatting with a group of Pershing missile
crewmen. The Army's number-one Official spent most of his time at the site discussing Army Ille with
individual lower-ranking soldiers. ( Photo by Sgt . Hutton)
courses during their off-duty time.
The soldiers who received certificates
were as follows:
HHB, 56th Bde
SGT Arthur J. Collins, SP4 Jonnie P.
Haro, PFC Irving White
1/41stFA
PFC David Bland ino, SP4 Jose Casanova,
SP4 Howard Chan, PFC Donald L. Delane,
PFC Paul R. Dowie, SP4 John E. Foreman,
PFC Carey A. Lindsay, SP4 Curtis
Lyles
Jr., SP4 Woodrow D . Massa, SP4 Arnaldo
Morales, PFC Jeffrey Muetz, SP4 Frederick B. Palmer, PFC Mark M . Pearce, PFC
V ictor Sanchez, SGT Randy E. White and
PFC Mark w i llianis
o.
Brigadier General, Rebert 8 . Hankins, Commander, 56th Field Artillery Bri gade, presents Charne Battery, Third Platoon, 1st Battalion, 81st Field Artillery, the zero count plaQue, In recogni tion of their zero count. CSP4 Couey)