Arnold Lester, Brax Batson and John Bricker all instructed in the Advanced Training program at Spence during WW2. Lester and Batson graduated from Advanced Training at "Spence Field" in Class 44-B and were immediately assigned to Instructor Pilot duties at that same location.  Bricker's WW2 class number is unknown at this time.  Later all three were among the first flight instructors hired by Hawthorne School of Aeronautics when Spence was re-opened in 1951.  Lester advanced to the position of Flight Commander, remained with Hawthorne until the base closed, and was responsible for the training of several classes including the first and the last T-37 classes trained at Spence.  Batson advanced to Flight Commander early in the program and to Squadron Commander in 1957, the position he held until leaving the Spence program in July, 1959 to become Director of Training at the new Hawthorne US Army Primary Flight Training Program at Lowe Field, Ft. Rucker, AL.      

Elmer Gordon Paquette, pictured above as an Aviation Cadet, was also a Spence graduate in Class 44-B and was assigned as an Instructor Pilot at Spence after graduation.  Picture contributed by his son, Kap, who was born in the Spence Field Hospital on Christmas day, 1944.