Clarence Heckman Is Honor Man Of Company (1937)

HECKMAN, HECKMANN, BIRELINE, SCHWARTING

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 5/4/2013 at 20:42:08

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Thursday, Apr. 29, 1937, page 1

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Clarence Heckman Is
Honor Man Of Company

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The Officer - in - Charge, U. S.
Navy recruiting station at Des
Moines, reports with great pleas-
ure that Clarence C. Heckman,
whose home is near Exira, has
been selected as the Honor man of
his company by his instructors for
the week ending April 23.

Heckman, was enlisted in the
Navy at the Navy recruiting sta-
tion, in Des Moines on February
15, 1937. Since that time he has
been learning the necessary quali-
fications to fit him for a career as
a man-o-wars man.

At the Naval Training station it
is the custom to select every week
the one man of each company of
one hundred and twenty men
among whom he has shown by his
outstanding ability, his zeal, and
his loyalty, that the is worthy of
this special designation.

Friends of this young man and
of his sister, Mrs. Emma Bire-
line, will be happy to learn that
he is adapting himself so nicely
to the high standards which the
modern Navy has set for it's blue-
jackets and that he has started
on his naval career with such dis-
tinctive promise.

Note: Clarence C. "Babe" Heckman's parents were Johann Christian "Chris" Heckmann, Jr. and Anna Katharina Schwarting.