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

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LPage 221 be no holidays at all. There were, of course: and they conformed to the dates already announced in the Catalogue, much to everyone's astonishment. Now it is perhaps time to pay tribute to another cadet: Lex Connolly, who joined the Armed Forces in December. Lex was a great polo player and a gifted writer, and it is particularly as the latter that his absence was keenly felt by both The Bronco and The Pup Tent. His never-failing good humor remains with us in memory. The First and Second Class Dance was a harbinger of the year's end. It was moved to the Post Exchange this year, Where under the crystal candalabra, the dancing took on a Latin-American air: zarapes covered the walls of the Lounge, candles in bottles adorned the tables of the PX proper, the costumes were particu- larly attractive, and many of them came direct from Mexico for the occasion.

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Speaking of cadets, there is one to whom The Bronco touches the brim of its cap with a tinge of awe: Cadet Lieutenant Brown, W. P.: because he is a wizard on electrical fixings, the Command- ant's Office has been able to summon a boy to Long Distance with- out wearing the O. D. O. down to the ankles, because of the same skill, the Natatorium was filled with delectable organ music fema- nating from the Auditoriumj during the Final Ball, and because of his photographic skill many of The Bronco's pages are finally filled. As the Commandant remarked, on commencement day, VVe,re going to miss that boy around here. Thanksgiving Day was most enjoyable, although the Corps followed the precedent established last year of not celebrating Homecoming because of the difficulties of transportation and hous- ing exes in large numbers. The span between Thanksgiving and the Christmas Holidays was so brief as to be negligible, but in that interval there were wild rumors afloat, even to talk that there would LPage 211

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This is not a chronological record, so letls go back to January for a moment. There was no snow in January, and although there were cold days and nights, the drill schedule was conducted With- out much fear of Weather's interference. It was in January that information came to the school which sounded like, and was, Insti- tute achievement from afar: of the Class of '43, twenty-three fin- ished their officer's course at Fort Benning, Georgia, together: Alexander, Allmand, Anderson, Barker, Curto, De Nlontrond, Ewing, Gellert, Glasebrook, Hayden, Hinckley, Hindi, Lieurance, Nlenasco, lVIinton, Ramsay, Roderick, Russell, Snowden, Spencer, Terrill, vanFradenburg and W'ard. During the holidays, Chandler and Paul Hinckley left school, preparatory to entering West Point, Sanders, Tom lVIcClure, Tipton, Arnot, and Swanner, Went into the Navy, Sullivan, Eng- land, Boatman, Young, Chancellor, Johnson and Lace entered the Army. Others departed, singly or in pairs, and one began to notice LPage 231