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

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NIR. CHARLES HART Principal of Eastern High School First Lieutenant, Company G. Eastern, 1894-1895

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THE ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL BATTALION ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL By MAJOR ROLAND DANIELS, H. S. C. The Business High School Battalion faced many difliculties. Upon entering our new school we have overcome our most outstanding difH- culty-lack of men. We started the year with a three company battalion and later on added a fourth company. The battalion has always shown a fighting spirit and when men maintain a high morale they are bound to progress. We may not have achieved conspicuous success, but we did our best. That's all any battalion can do. I am sure this Battalion as it becomes a regiment will carry on in the future as it has done in the past. SUMMER TRAINING SCHOOL By HELEN M. WHITE, Chairman Military Committee, Roosevelt High School THE FACULTY Left to Right: Cole. '3l: Kitchener, '3O: Held, '30s Stuart, '3O: Settle, '30-'31 HREE WEEKS at Camp Simms has been for many years the aim of every prospective ofiicer, for the instruction received during that time has been helpful, and the opportunity to become acquainted with cadets from the whole brigade has strengthened the Hesprit de corps that makes the organization what it is. So when plans for the camp had to be aban- doned last summer because of the B. E. F.. it looked as if there would be no special training for any one. But the Lost Battalionf as the Business High School boys were often called, was undaunted. What it has lacked in numbers has always been balanced by the will to do. Why not organize a summer training school? Instructors? Why, former cadet oflicers, of course. Had they not been most loyal, willing to help in many ways Melville W. Stuart, Captain of Company I in 1930, was asked to head and organize a group of instructors. His personality and ability had won the conndence of all who knew him. The boys who looked forward to holding the highest offices had been rookies in his com- pany. Fifty-seven The faculty was chosen. It assumed its duties. and never grew weary in well doing. This is the list. RALPH COLE-Captain Co. E, 1931-instruo tor in M. S. '55 T. C he knows his stuffuj . RUSSELL SETTLE-Second Lieutenant, Co. I. ' 1930-instructor in map problems. CCaptain of winning war game team, l930j . ROBERT P. HILD-First Lieutenant, Co. I, 1930-Q lVlel's lfeutenant - the best ever j . Captain, Co. I, 1931-instructor in platoon leadership. FREDERICK KITCHENER-First Lieutenant, Co. E, 19329-instructor in platoon leadership. C of the breed of Prince Jonathanuj. An enthusiastic group met for several suc- cessive Wednesdays at the old school. But when evacuation was necessary, a back yard not far from the site of the new Roosevelt High School was placed at the disposal of the Summer School, and there, week after week, through- out July, August, and September, the class met. Some never missed a lesson. And how these lessons ranged from war game lectures and talks on the ideals of the corpsf, to squad and platoon drill in the alley, or saber manual on the lawn! An occasional Tech-ite or Central-ite paid a visit, and marveled. Never had such a school been seen before. The neighborhood approved. the drills brought appreciative spectators. The grand finale came in September when the inner circle gathered around the long table to submit to an examination. And then a gen- eral jollification followed, joy in achievement. hope for the future. Who can say how far reaching the influence of that Summer School has been? The cadet enrollment at Roosevelt High is more than two and one-half times that of the number that remained on the roll after graduation in 1932. Oflicers of all grades have had to assume re- sponsibility scarcely dreamed of. And they have done it well.

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THE CADETS-THE OUTSTANDING ACTIVITY FOR BOYS By MR. CHARLES HART Principal, Eastern High School HE CADET ORGANIZATION OVCI 3 lOI1g pe- riod of years has retained its position as the outstanding activity for boys because it has had something definite and worth while to offer for the time and effort required of its members. Otherwise, it would long ago have taken its place among the minor activities of the high schools. Sentiment, of course, is a fac- tor, and the boy's desire to have his school the best in anything it undertakes may have an in- fluence on the cadet enlistment. The modern boy, though, must feel that he is personally benefited by the training, if he is to accept this as his major activi.ty. He realizes, first, that the contacts made as a cadet, are of the best, and that cadet membership in itself gives the boys a certain standing and distinction. He knows that it is one activity approved in its entirety by the teachers, and that the men re- sponsible for the actual training are men of force, personality and character, He knows that there is no other activity in which intelligent effort and attention to duty brings a more ready reward. He is stimulated to give his best, be- cause he knows that promotion is given to those who earn it. He is ambitious to obtain a high office, because he realizes that such office offers the best possible opportunity for the develop- ment of qualities of leadership. He knows, too, that even if his cadet training is to be limited to one or two years, the regular drill in the open air, and the individual and group instruction will be of immeasurable benefit. The indefinable something which, through all of his early school years, made him look forward to cadet mem- bership, has its influence. The fact that his Dad or his uncle or his older brother tells with pride of his cadet days, and shows a faded red ribbon of earlier days, makes him feel that it all must be very much worth while. The greatest advantages, however, are those that he cannot appreciate until his active cadet participation is a thing of the past. He won- ders a little, perhaps, when his Dad says, Why, I had the honor of being a private the year Reichelderfer was Colonel of the Regimentng or, I was a Corporal in Edgar Shilling's winning company : or, What a thrill we had back in 1909 when Jimmy Dulin brought the flag for the first time to Business High School. Then he will follow, with a personal interest, the ac- complishments of those he served with in the Cadet corps, and feel that he has a right to share in their successes. And then, when he returns to visit the school and perhaps see on the wall. his picture as a member of a winning company he feels that of all his school experiences, the one that comes first is connected with his mem- bership in the High School Cadet Corps. He goes back in his mind to his first days as a cadet. He lives over again those early awkward mo- ments when it was difficult to remember which was his right foot and which was his left. He remembers the thrill of his promotion to the front rank, and the thrill that came with his first uniform. He thinks again of his deter- mination to live up to the cadet ideals placed before him, and how he set as his goal a cap- taincy in his senior year. And when it came. what a feeling of responsibility it carried with it! Is it all worth while? Ask any who has carried through for four years, if there is any- thing to compare with the experiences gained in that period of service as a High School Cadet. CoRPoRAL .SAMUEL IQAHANSKY Regimental Staff Fifty-nine CORPORAL EARLE W. NIARTYN Regimenlal Staff