Volume* VI Number 10
6 March 1^61
Franklin W. CARTER, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class, stationed atthe Communicat
ions Station has been announced the winner of $100 and a Medal Award in the
Freedom Foundation Contest based on the theme "Voting — Freedom's Privilege".
He submitted two entries and has not been informed which won the award. One
was built around his own carefree boyhood in the Missouri Ozarks, a way of life
he took for granted until travel in other nations demonstrated that growing up
in the United States is a wonderful and unique blessing dependent in consider
able measure on the democratic system which counts on each citizen to vote.
In the other entry, a citizen soliloquizes, "Voting's a great thing. Only
way to run a big country like this, but my vote won't makear breattiie election".
He is visited by military men of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, World Wars I
and II, and with their cries of "We fought for Freedom — and for you" ringing
in his ears, decides that his vote is important after all.
Frank was born in Caulfield, Missouri and attended nearby Bakersfield High
School where he was class president for four years, a letterman in basketball,
baseball and tract and a member of various clubs including the debating team and
F.F.A. He joined the Navy in 1951 and received recruit training at San Diego.
From there he attended Hospital Corps School at Bainbridge, Maryland and spent
a tour of duty at Bainbridge U. S. Naval Hospital. He was then transferred to
the FMF Pac and served at various stations in the Far East including Osaka Army
General Hospital, Osaka, Japan, where the Army gave him a letter of commendation
for outstanding work in the orthopedic department.
From 1955 to 1959, he was stationed inthe Navy Recruiting Officesof St# Iouis
Missouri which game him sufficeint time to attend Washington, University, make
Television appearances for the Navy and acquire a wife. Mrs.# Carter, the former
Jane OfHara, was graduated from Webster College, Webster Groves, Missouri and
attended Washington University in St# Louis#
In August, 1959, Frank Carter reported to the Communications Station, Adak
for duty and was joined by Mrs. Carter in January I960, She was employed as a
buyer at the Navy Exchange Retail Store until her retirement to await the recent
arrival of their first child, Christopher, born February 6#
Frank is now awaiting orders and hopes to attend Medical Administration school
at San Diego or Portsmouth, Virginia
(EDITORS NOTE; Having given up on hearing from the contest, Frank threw awgr
the copies of his entries# We will try to obtain a copy of the winning
entry from the Freedom Foundation and print it in a later edition of the
Adak Sun. )
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