MATTHEW A. HENSON
Co-discoverer of the North Pole
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Results Of Ladd
Preregistration
Disclosed Today
According to Mrs. Elizabeth Mor
row, superintendent of on-base
schools at Ladd Air Force Base,
1.025 students have been registered
for the fall session.
This includes all youngsters en
rolled in kindergarten through
eighth grade, she said. There was
no breakdown available on how
many were registered for each
school.
School will open Sept. 4, but
newly arrived personnel on base
were urged to visit the superinten
dent’s office at Chena school before
this time.
Mrs. Morrow said immediate ar
rangements must be made on bus
transportation, necessitating regis
tration by latecomers as soon as pos
sib'°.
Birch school in the main area will
®ot be completed this fall, Mrs.
Morrow said, but there is a possi
bility it will be finished at the
first of next year.
Thirty-four schoolrooms are avail
able in the three existing structures.
Over three dozen teachers and
staff members will be employed by
the Ladd schools this year F.ighteen
new teachers have been hired, and
all teachers are fully certified un
der the requirements of Alaskan
certification,
John Juahola
Services Held
Wednesday Night
Funeral services for John Juaho
la, 63. were held at the Fairbanks
Memorial chapel last night at 7:30
p.m. under the auspices of the Elks
club. Burial followed in the Elks
plot at Birch Hill cemetery.
Juahola is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Johanna Keskitalo. Aapa Joki.
Karunki L. L. Finland, his only
known living relative.
He was born March 3, 1893 in
^Finland. He died Friday evening on
his job as a head ditch tender at
Dome Creek for the United Spates
Smelting, Refining and Mining
company. He had been employed
by the F. E. company since 1929.
He was a member of the Elks
Club at Culver City, Ore., where
he frequently spent the winter
months.
ELIZABETH SPENCER,
MRS. WILLIAM PORTER
WIN AT BRIDGE MONDAY
Miss Elizabeth Spencer and Mrs.
William Porter placed first Monday
evening at the Ladd Officers' Bridge
club's regular duplicate session.
The two ladies were closely fol
lowed by Les Wilkens and Roy
Tietjen who were second and Capt.
and Mrs. Robert Brooks, who placed
third.
The tournaments are held each
Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the club, an
nounces the director. Mrs. Carroll
Grummish, with the public cor
dially invited to attend. Anyone in
terested may call her at Ladd 22294.
Great Honor
And Privilege,
A long delayed tribute to the co
discoverer of the North Pole.
Matthew (Matt* Henson, late vet
eran colored Arctic explorer and
associate of Admiral Robert E.
Peary, was observed in the Polar
region last week, Monday, August
13.
Herbert M. Frisby, distinguished
journalist, aboard an Air Force
weather reconnaissance flight plane,
Eielson AFB, dropped a bronze
memorial plaque, American and
State of Maryland flags, Henson's
photograDh and other data, contained
in a steel box, over the North Pole.
Henson was born in Maryland
Frisby, commenting on the great
thrill and honor which was his in
carrying out details of the tribute,
said sponsors of the memorial were
Afro-American Newspapers, of the
National Newspaper Publisher's As
sociation, and the State of Mary
land, through cooperation of the
Department of Defense and U.S. *
Air Force.
Admiral Peary's message to Wash
ington, D. C., announcing his dis
covery of the North Pole follows:
‘ Arrived here today, 27 marches
from C. Columbia.
I have with me five men. Matth
ew Henson, colored, Ootah, Eging
wah, Seeglo and Oekeah, Eskimos,
five sledges and 38 dogs.
The expedition under my com
mand has succeeded in reaching the
Pole . . . for the honor and prestige
90 N. Lat.. North Pole
April 6, 1909
MEMORIAL PLAQUE
Dropped over the North Pole last week in
tribute to Matthew A. Henson.
NOTED JOURNALIST
Herbert M. Frisby, former U. S. war correspondent, Alaska.
Dept., who had the honor of dropping a steel box over the
North Pole, containing tributes to Matthew A. Henson.
of the United States of America ”
Robert E Peary U.S.N.
Peary. Robert E THE NORTH
POLE
Fred A. Stokes Co., 1910
Henson received the Congression
al Medal, a medal from the Chica
go Geographical Society, and made
an honorary member of the Ex
plorer’s Club, the only negro ever
admitted to its membership. Thru
the years he was honored by the
highest dignafcaries of the United
States. Henson died March 11. 1955
in New York City at the age of
88. His widow, Lucy, survives.
Frisby has long been a represen
tative of the Afro-American News
paper, Baltimore, Md.. and former
war correspondent in Alaska. He
has been touring the Territory gath
ering information for a series >f
articles on military bases in the
Alaskan Command
The noted journalist arrived in
Anchorage July 20 and since that
time visited major military instal
lations in Alaska; he also visited
Labrador, and Greenland.
After his brief visit in Fairbanks
last week Frisby returned to Anch
orage and his base of operations,
Elmendorf AFB Before returning
to Seattle he hopes to spend some
time on the Pribilof Islands
Frisby and his wife. Annie, re
side in Baltimore where he is head
of the science department of Doug
las Senior High School, one of the
largest secondary schools in the
Baltimore area, in addition to his
newspaper work
His son, H. Russell Frisby. is the
domestic relations analyst for the
court system in Baltimore
While in Fairbanks Frisby took
time out to meet his old friend,
E. F. Jessen, of Jessen's Weekly,
whom he had not seen in 10 years.
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