Boise High School - Courier Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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A Officers EVERY MORNING for the past year, commissioned officers have met in the R.O.T.C. office to discuss plans. These officers were the top of the staff, the leaders of the Boise High corps. On Octolcer 6, each commissioned officer was presented with his commission and a saber at an assembly for R. O.T. C. members. Colonel Harris, who is now stationed in Nevada, inducted the officers. A new tradition for Boise High School was started on April S, when the commissioned officers held a banquet and dance at the Corral, Boise Iunior College Student Union building. Only com- missioned officers were admitted to this banquet. Bill Hays, lieutenant-colonel, Lorraine lohnson, honorary lieutenant-colonel, and Iohn Sherman, major, were the chairmen. 'vs-.., The Color Guard Sponsors Johnson, Stone, Kaiser, Burns, Field Major William Hale and Sergeant Frank Cha FRANK CHURCH. SALLY STONE .... BERT OTTO .,.... Comm issioned Officers of Boise High Scl'1.oo1's R.O.T.C. BILL HAYS ........... ......... L ieutenant'CoIonel IOHN SHERMAN ...... ...................... M ajor LORRAINE IOI-INSON ..... Lieutenant4Colonel Sponsor DICK CLARK .,.........,....,... . .Captain-Adjutant SAM DUNFORD ...,....,. Captain, Plans and Training COMPANY C COMPANY Toivi SPOFFORD. ,. ,, if EUGENE REUSSER .,,...,,..,..... BOB THOMETZ. . . B COMPANY DIXON CAINE ....,............. BERTHA KAISER ... ...,,... . . . . EUGENE SMITH .... .... BILL WOODS ......,.... . . CLIFFORD WHEELOCK ,.... ..., HAL REYNOLDS ......,,. ..... ...........Captain . .Captain Sponsor . . .First Lieutenant . . .First Lieutenant Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant .........Captain . .Captain Sponsor , . .First Lieutenant First Lieutenant 4. Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant BILL DAVIS ......,.. ,..........., BARBARA BURNS ..., BOB BARBOUR. .. LARRY LANDoN ..... . Q , DON McCARTER ....... ...... . . IACK GEPFORD .........,.... .... D COMPANY CARL BURKE .................... PHYLLIS FIELD .... HUGH CHALFANT.'.'.l.'. f Q . ' NoRMAN SCHOONOVER. L . . GUY TERWILLEGER .... . , . IOHN CUMMANS, .........Captain . .Captain Sponsor . .First Lieutenant . .First Lieutenant Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant ..,......Captain . . . .Major Sponsor . .First Lieutenant . .First Lieutenant . Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant

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pezalzhy fQzffe5 UWB, the members of Pershing Rifles, in order to encourage, preserve, and develop the highest ideals of the military profession, to promote American citizenship, to create a closer and more efficient relation, and to provide appropriate recognition of a high degree of military ability among the cadets of the several Reserve Officers' Training Corps units of the government of our organiza- tion do hereby establish this constitution. Every year sixty cadets at Boise l-ligh School repeat this oath in a private formal initiation into the Pershing Rifles, junior unit of the senior organization at Moscow. lt is the only unit of its kind in the United States. The Pershing Rifles is an honorary organization, composed of cadets chosen because of their 'N-.,, if ft ,W f W f f Pershing Rifles Stand at Attention Inset: Captain lohn Sherman and Sponsor Phyllis Field grades and outstanding military performance. Officers of the board were lohn Sherman, captain' Bob Barbour, first lieutenantg Tom Spofford, first lieutenant, and Prank Church, second lieutenant The officers select the remaining men for the two platoons. r Although the Pershing Rifles is an honorary unit, they have taken an active part in school activities. On November 28, they sponsored the annual Pershing Rifles formal dance. lohn Sherman, major and Phyllis Field, honorary major, were co-chairmen for the affair. I Cn May 7, the Pershing Rifles took part in Governors Day and went through the manual of arms. A medal was presented this semester by the sixth regimental headquarters at Moscow, Idaho. The winner was chosen by Major William A. l-lale, Sergeant Frank Chase, and lohn Sherman, major, as the best drill cadet in Company l-A 6, Phyllis Field was sponsor of the Pershing Rifles. 22

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12.01 . NSW, in this first year of a new World War, more than ever before is the importance of military training for high school boys being realized. As a Whole nation turned its eyes from the pleasures of a World at peace to the serious problems of a world at war, fresh emphasis was placed on the high school l2.Q.T.C. unit. Approximately three hundred boys were enlisted in Boise l-ligh's R.O.T.C., all of whom signed up for the course voluntarily, like any other subject, instead of being forced into military training as part of their schooling, as is the system of the aggressor nations. Even so, the R.Q.T.C. of Boise and other American schools have shown far greater accomplishments and progress under the t'American Way than could ever be hoped for under system of a military dictatorship. COMPANY COMPANY lncluded in the course, taught at Boise High School, is an extensive study of military science and tactics, first aid, and, of course, the old familiar game of drilling and marching. At the outbreak of the war, when Boise held practice black-outs, the R.Q.T.C. cadets did their part by acting as guards and messengers at public buildings. Advising and directing the activities of the battalion was Major William A. Hale, Who came to Boise from the University of Idaho to replace Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Doddridge, when he was transferred to Montgomery Field, Alabama. Under both Major Hale and Lieutenant-Colonel Dodd- 24