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

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AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE By CAPTAIN ROBERT W BOWEN Company C 6th Regiment Woodrow Wnlson H gh School TlIe hI hllcht of the cadet year 15 the annual company competltlye drIll held at Crdhth btadIum exery sprlno At thIs tIme one company IS judged the best drllled In the c1ty and to 1lS captaln IS presented the Alllson NHIIOI' Medal Long the most coveted of all honors bestowed upon a wnnnn Lapliilll the medal was donated to the Cadet Corps In 1895 by Captaln Alllson NaIlor of the Washxngton Llght Infantry In the hope that lt mlbht stlmulate Greater IIIteIest competltlye spIr1t and excellence In the Corps The wmner wears the medal unt1l hIs raduatlon ancl at that txme returns the Oflglllal and IS presented Wlth a repllca The leplll a of the AlllSOI1 lNaIlor Medal follows the sanIe deslbn as the orlolnal but I somewhat smaller and does IlOt COIlt3lIl the five dlamonds wlth wluch the orlglnal medal 1S studded ThlS repllca IS presented each year to the wlnnlng captam by the Downtown LIONS Club of Washlncton D C Inter Hugh Student Counczl Medal FIRST LIEUTENANT WINNING COMPANY i Eg: E is S Vo' WSW' R Iph Ed W For many years the Llons Club has demonstrated a very lively and practlcal Interest III the Cadet Corps not only by the presentatlon of thIs medal but by the presentatlon of rebulatlon army officer sabers to the Brlgade Commander and to the commandlng officer In each school ln addltlon to the Alllson Nallor Medal the saber of Colonel Wallace M Cral re IS awarded to the wlnnlng school each year Professor of Mllltary Sclence and Tactlcs of the Washlngton hlgh schools for 23 years Col Cralgle left the saber to the cadets upon hlS retIrement In 1944- as an eudence of hlS endurmg Interest ln the Corps The sword bears around Its hllt the gold braIded knot of hlS father Brlg Cen DavId Jonhston Cralnle who fought In the CIVII War and In many Indlan encounters It IS an honor for a WlHIllIlg school to have In 1tS POSSCSSIOH the saber of one whose d6V0ll0Il aIId effort served as such an 1nspIratIon to the Corps The capta1II of eyery company has now a double IIILCII tue to wIII the company competltlve drIll to hlS school he brlngs the honor of possessmb Col Cralble s sword and for hlmself the dlSllIlltl0l l of wearlnn the Alllson lNaIlor Medal Wh1Ch symbollzes the crowmno achlex ement of hIs company s uIIIted efforts III 1944- Ted Stler captam of Company B Eastern HI h School brou ht before the Inembers of the Inter Hlgh School Student Councll the questlon of pIesent1ng ultable awards to the lleutenants of the wlnnlno company After d1SLllSSlOIl the L0l1IlLll voted In favor of the preseIItatIon of medals to these ofhcers whose work IS lartely responslble for succes Ray Edwards first lleutenant of Company B dCSl ned the Inedals whlch haxe been pre ented for the last two years The medal for the First lIeutenaIIt conslsts of a bold bar wlth the ralsed letters Fzrsl Lreutenant Wmnzng Company From thls bar suspended on a scarlet rIbboII IS a star of whlte enamel bordered wIth old In the center of thls tar IQ the IHQI Ina of the H1 h qchool Cadet Corp The second l1euteIIant recelx es a snnllar one but of Ilwer These medals haxe been presented fOl the last two sears and wIll he presented abam In 1946 82 I g cr - A K f . , Y . s . . . . . . . . , O.. , . f , I . I . . g 7 . , I n . -04 . U . . K . . 7 . . I D . c , , . V 4 ' . . U ' . . c U , ' 2 ' ' ' , 'cr 'fr' ' 9 Q K I . . . . . . . 0' , . . 7 U . . X , c , efie 'EET T ' , 'U' ' ' ' gl- f--A U K, find N ... , . ' gif- L - - - -1 'I-225' ... ' t Li elif' l ,' ' ' ' ' ' si - 3:52 - , 'i E . . 1' , 'uw c me-ww. . ' Y 7 . , ' , s M' N, ,-' . . . . . . ff:-4 1 1 . y Q Q ,L . . . . , ' L, 5 0- n od 9 J . . . 7 . Y . Ir . Y . v 1-ax . . . . . , W V Y C, . Y . I u wards . ' - ' 'cr - cy 1 9 D D , ' -. ' ' 5 ' '. c ' 0' ' ' Vs . . - . ' ' I 5 Y ' . . ' 'U C' 5- 9 ts ' ' , s ' I . . I U W k, T , ', I W . ' ' . . .U . .U ' g , - s c - D . ' D c , S. ' W N - 7 S Y ' 1 - - Y -' 5 rr ' ' .

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