New Mexico Military Institute - Bronco Yearbook (Roswell, NM)

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patrick, U. S. N., Whose younger brother is still a cadet, Captain C. J. Kronauer, Air Corps, former Cadet Colonel. While some of these men were signing the Register in Head- quarters, others like Lieutenant John C. QRedj Morgan were achieving fame in battle. Lieutenant lVIorgan of the Class of '34 was presented with the Congressional lVIedal of Honor by General Ira C. Eaker in England, his citation: For miraculous and heroic performance in an American heavy bomber attack on Hannover in July, l943. German prisoners of war appeared for work in the Institute stables in the fall, neither exciting nor demanding attention for their physical energies, but reminding all of us that there are Institute Exes in both German and Jap prison camps who may not fare so well. lVIiraculously, this year, Colonel Sam Agee, West Pointer and Institute graduate, reappeared in America, after escaping the Nazis -just how, he is unwilling to say. fPage 151

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fPage 141 garct Nelson, lVIrs. lVlyra Kelly, instructors in English. College instructors found themselves with full high school schedules, and one of the instructors who most loves to teach found himself annexed by Nlajor ErWin's complex Headquarters organization. In this War year, visitors of rank Were frequent on the campus: lVIajor General Terry Allen, commander of the famous First Infan- try Division in its heroic days in Africa and in Sicily, even spoke to the boys of his foreign service While his fifteen-year-old son, Terry, Jr., listened modestly from the audience. The host of visitors, many of them alumni, is innumerable: among them: Lt.-Col. Dave Ackerman, former assistant to the Commandant, now in the chemi- cal warfare service, Lt.-Col. E. L. Lusk, Jr., son of Colonel Lusk of the High School Department, lVIajor F. lVIacKie, Post Engi- neer of the Alamogordo Air Field, Captain Joseph Scannell, former Institute tennis star, now of the Air Corps, Lt. H. B. McKay, for- mer swimming champion, Air Corps, Lieutenant R. D. Kirk-

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fPage 161 Varsity football bowed to the inevitable, and retired, leaving the Colts the big team of the year. On the whole, inter-collegiate competition dropped away considerably, and intramurals took their place as a cadet interest: intramurals, that is, plus the obstacle course, the new bayonet course, greater intensity at drill, an over- night bivouac, drill with the regulation Springfields instead of the wooden guns used during the early shortage of small arms. Cadets also grew used to the sight of the Garand, the Carbine, and the 37 mm. antitank gun in actuality, and no longer had to make an academic study of them from the R. G. T. C. manual. The drills, the use of weapons, the experience of leading and being directed, all turned eventually to the annual Corps Area Inspection and G. I. For the Corps Area inspection, Colonel B. H. Coiner, former P. of Nl. S. 81 T. appeared, just prior to the annual Government Inspection, and then there was G. I. itself, with its classic routine