Willis Farnham:
CLASS OF 1940
College High SchoolClass of 1940
Whitewater, WI
Willowbrook High SchoolClass of 1978
Villa park, IL
La Salle-Peru Township High School Class of 1961
La salle, IL
Pearl City High SchoolClass of 1951
Pearl city, IL
Whitewater State Teacher's CollegeClass of 1948
Whitewater, WI
Willis's Story
I enlisted for WWII and was called to active duty in the middle of my junior yr at the University of WI-Whitewater. Was sent to basic training in Mami Beach, FL, then to Army Air Force engineering and operations school in Greeley, CO. Then went through artic survival training in the Rockey Mountains near Denver, CO. From there I was assigned to the Army Air Force Alaskan Division Air Transport Command headquartered in Edmundon, Alberta, Canada. The assignment was ferrying tactical aircraft to the Russians to fight the Germans.
After service, I finished college and taught and coached at Pearl City HS, in Pearl City, IL from '4...Expand for more
8 to '51. From there I went to LaSalle, IL to teach and coach at LaSalle-Peru HS and LPO Jr. College. from '51 to '61. Then transfered to Willowbrook HS in Villa Park, IL from '61 to '80 as a counselor. Retired from education in '80 and joined the Bristol Renaissance Faire near Kenosha, WI as a artisan merchant with an English brass rubbing center where I lectured on the history of the monumental brasses of the middle ages and Renaissance period. In '88 I went into Faire management in charge of the marketplace until 2002, when I finally retired. I now live in Hanover Park, IL where I try to grow some vegitables in the summer.
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