Roosevelt High School - Rough Rider Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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LIEUTENANT COLONEL WALLACE M. CRAIGIE. U. S. A., Retired Professor of Military Science and Tactics

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THE PLACE OF THE CADET IN THE STUDENT BODY By Dr. Sfephen E. Kramer First Assistant Superintendent of Schools HROUGH long and honorable tradition the cadet organization has made for itself an outstanding place in the life of the school. A claim that all of the worthy and deserving students are to be found in the cadet organization would not be true for there are many able and admira- ble students who for some reason have not been able to join the cadets. I do feel, however, that association with the cadet organization has been found to develop qualities of true manhood and fine sense of responsibility. When boys are sought for service requiring reliability, judgment and a devotion to the task assigned, the school officer has learned by experience that the cadet group will furnish such boys. The cadet organization is the one great student organization which is open to every boy. In this organization every boy has a definite place in which he may function with satisfaction to himself and the organization. No matter what his rank or individual gifts may be, the organization asks only of him that he do his best. Good fellowship exists and friendship based upon a co-opera- tive effort to attain a common ideal is developed. Worthy school day memories are here developed which are equaled in no other school relation. The boy who is not able to avail himself of an opportunity to join in this activity loses mu.ch in his school life. Thirteen

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DISCIPLINE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CADET CORPS By Lieulenanl Colonel Wallace M. Craigie, U. S. Army, Reiirecl Professor of Military Science and Tactics NE of the outstanding and first noticeable features of the Washington High School Cadet Corps is the splendid discipline maintained. This is made possible because of the fine traditions and high ideals of the Corps through a period of over half a century of organization and also through the individual efforts of those cadets who know by tradition and by personal experience the benefits derived by membership in the Corps: these factors and because the Cadet Corps is so closely linked with the student life and activities have built up the organization from two companies to twenty-nine which now make up a Cadet Brigade of five regiments each With its own regimental band. Those who have seen this splendid body of students trained in discipline. leadership and respect for and loyalty to the principles of citizenship are gen- erous with praise. Those of us who are privileged to have personal contact with and supervision over this body of fine young men find it a real inspira- tion! FIRST BATTALION, EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL Fifteen