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

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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

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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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of inspections, questions, practical problems in the field, and classroom barrages of abrupt query. Wfeekly Sally Port competition grew so keen that sometimes the entire walk before E Barracks was filled with the many who were called, as always, only the top few were chosen, with the finalists subject to ear and neck inspection of the most critical sort, and on occasion contestants were asked to show their handkerchiefs, or to turn up their trousers so that the tops of their shoes could be seen-and here was always the tricky Uby the numbersn manual of arms. Socially speaking, it was a good year, although girls were not as plentiful as usual for the dances, and therefore the stag lines were inordinately long-and in the opinion of the daters, in the way. The First Class began losing members early in the year, despite its small size, Sullivan, Bronco editor, saw Uncle Sam's crook't finger mid-way in his first semester, and the tedious job of editing fPage 171