High School Cadet Corps - Adjutant Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE BRIGADE STAFF, H. S. C., 1932-33 By COLONEL MARSHALL C. GUTHRIE, JR., H. S. C. O the Brigade Staff is charged the duties of the administration of the Vifashington High School Cadet Corps, under the supervision of the Professor of Military Science and Tactics. This year's Brigade Staff, with its Headquar- ters at Western High School, consists of four commissioned and five non-commissioned offi- cers. The ofiicers appointed were Majors Sin- sheimer, Habicht and Kittelle, Adjutant, Person- nel Adjutant and Quartermaster, respectively. The non-commissioned staff is composed of Ser- geants Pfahler, Axford, Jones, Gile and Le Comte. The Brigade Staff, different from preceding staffs, has remained intact throughout the Cadet year. No changes, promotions, or demotions of any kind have been necessary, thus proving that a high standard of efficiency has been main- tained. ln this respect, I feel that the Staff should be congratulated. The Brigade Drum Major, a Technical mem- ber of the Brigade Staff, Sergeant Swick, has also proved his abilities by his capable direction of the Band. The Staff has worked hard and earnestly to uphold the standards and traditions of the Cadet Corps. It has performed many duties of various types to the best of its ability. It has been be- side me in times of stress and has advised and assisted me in my duties. Every man deserves to be commended for his meritorious work and I desire to express my thanks and appreciation to the entire staff for its valuable assistance dur- ing this year, a hard one for the Cadet Corps. Finally, I wish to thank Colonel Craigie and his assistants for their aid in corrections and suggestions, and every member of the Cadet Brigade for his cooperation. E And as the work of the Brigade Staff draws to a finish, we hope that we have not only maintained the standards and traditions of the Cadet Corps, but have raised them to a new high level so that those who follow in our steps may better continue the work. ARMISTICE DAY H9325 By MAJOR GEORGE W. HABICHT, H. S. C. IPTEEN years after the signing of the Ar- mistice, on that never-to-be-forgotten day of November ll, 1917, America forgot the depression, politics, and the many other serious problems then confronting its people and united in paying simple homage to that im- mortal American, The Unknown Soldier, and all of his brothers in arms, who like him. gave the last full measure of devotion for their be- loved country. Among the irst to pay tribute to him who sleeps forever in his place of honour at the Arlington National Cemetery, high above the placid Potomac and overlooking Beautiful Wash- ington, was a group of cadet ofHcers of the Washington High School Cadet Corps. This group of cadet officers was not merely represent- ing the Cadet Corps, not just the students of the Washington High Schools, but instead. they were representing the youth of America, the citi- zens of tomorrow. Promptly at 9:15, the cadet olhcers marched before the Tomb and stood at Present Saber while Colonel Marshall C. Guthrie, Jr., Brigade Commander, carrying the wreath contributed by the students of the Washington High Schools and Major George William Habicht, Brigade Personnel Adjutant, carrying a wreath from the Jamaica Plains High School of Boston, Massa- chusetts, stepped forward, saluted, and placed Thirty-seven them at the base of the tomb, saluted again and retu.rned to their places in the line of cadet officers. The wreath from the pupils of Jamaica Plains High School was -the eleventh annual tribute to the Unnown Soldier from the pupils of that school, the first wreath being placed upon the tomb on Armistice day, 1922, after Mr. Mau- rice J. Lacey, Headmaster of the Jamaica Plains High School, then known as the West Roxbury High. had conceived of the idea when Visiting the tomb the summer before. The School Oflicials present at the ceremony were: Dr, Frank W. Ballou, Superintendent of Schools for the District of Columbia: Dr. Ste- phen E. Kramer, First Assistant Superintendent of Schools: Colonel Wallace M. Craigie, U. S. A., in charge of cadets. and Miss White, chair- man of the Roosevelt High School Military Committee. The cadet Officers who participated in the rites were Colonel Marshall Guthrie, Major George Habicht and Major John Kittelle, all of the Brigade StaH': Lieutenant-Colonel William Gochenour of the First Regimentg Lieutenant- Colonel James Edmunds of the Second Reg- iment, Lieutenant-Colonel Morris Krucolf of the Third Regiment, Major Harold Boesch, Fourth Regiment, and Captain Alvin Ehrlich, Roose- velt Battalion.

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