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

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ONE WESTERN CADET By DR. ELMER S. NEWTON Principal, Western High School HEN an institution reaches the honorable age of fifty years, it has earned the un- questioned right to celebrate-to hold its golden jubilee. The Washington High School Cadet Corps can look back with pride to its half century record of achievement. Thousands of men in civic life as well as other thousands in military service have, through the instruction in this Corps, learned the value of discipline, or- ganization, and loyalty. The aspiration to hold a commission has stimulated many a boy to renewed endeavor in scholarship. It is not surprising, therefore, that we find in the informal Halls of Fame in every Wash- ington High School the names of m-en prominent in every business and profession. At Western we like to think of the career of William J. Bland, winning captain in 1906, as a model for every cadet to emulate. From the time he enlisted in the Corps in September, 1903, until he was killed in action in France, Septem- ber, 12, 1918, his record is one of distinction. From Western he went to Kenyon College, Ohio, where he not only was graduated with honor but also won the Rhodes scholarship to Ox- ford. During his residence at this English uni- versity he Was accorded the unique honor of being the only one, not an Englishman, to be president of the Oxford Union, an honorary organization. When the World War made its call upon the young men of the country, it found Bland mar- ried and practicing law in Kansas City. He at once responded to the Nation's call and organ- ized a company of college and young business men for the Camp Funston oflicers' training school. Among the first to be sent to France, he was on the firing line several months before his death. To have accomplished all that he did in the short span of thirty-one years must mean that in addition to an inheritanc-e of sterling ability, he early acquired habits of diligence, self discip- line, concentration, and methodical action. These, We believe, were learned and practiced du.ring the most critical character forming period +high school days, and in no branch of his preparatory Work in so direct a manner as in the Military Training Course. Western High School Saber Club Sixty-Hue

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