United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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FIRST CLASSMEN Bell, W. L. Hammond, T. W. Bryan, T. L. Vander Heide Sutherland. G. R. Browne, R. J. Bush Adcock Minniece Guyer Brewster Ranck Hunter, C. N, Fadness Pierce Hammond, |. W. Acklen Bork Cooper, A. B. Moseley, E. L. Parks, H. C. Rasmussen Robey Smith, R.V.M Wiegand £ COMPANY a IT was a cold day. In fact, it was a terrifically cold day, one of those particular kind of icy blasts that only West Point and the Arctic know how to blast. Out in the area, sections shivered as they formed to march to class; the O. C. had deserted his poop-deck for warmer and better places; the O. D. and O. G. ' s beat each other in a vain effort to keep from freezing; doors and windows of barracks were closed tightly. Then something happened. No one knows just who discovered it, but someone looked over at the 5th, 6th and 7th divs and perceived every window wide open! There was a mighty yell of amazement. The contrast to all other windows of South Barracks almost blinded the eyes to behold. What manner of esquimaux, what sort of frigid fiends were these.- Well, we point rather proudly to that incident, even though we never dared confess it was by order. It typifies the E Company ' s proud claim that we are neither runt nor flanker, and we alone could sur- vive so real a test. Runts would have evaporated on t ' le spot, flankers would still be immobile because of it . . . but not E Company. We point to our stamina and superior qualities with an attitude of actual conde- scension toward all others. We view runt-flanker quarrels with disdain, for we are above them (and below them, respectively!). The keynote here is enthusiasm, and effortless and pleasant existence. Yet there is accomplishment. We still have our star men, and goodly share of engineers; we still manage to get second or third best company in the competitive drills; we still have our representatives on Corps squads, and on the first teams of those squads; we have our high-ranking makes ; and we still help bear the other activities like the Pointer, Howitzer and 100th Night Show. Wc of the Class of 29 who are leaving say. Vale, and good luck! Some day we shall come back, and when we do we want to find E Company just as we know it tod.iy.

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I f f ' ■ i- d FIRST CLASSMEN Sands Peake Strauss Miller. F. Jones, C. R. McCartney Smothers Bowyer Thompson, P. W. Kraft Napier Calidonna Brooke, J. F. Bennett Steinbeck Easley Blue Horner Hayes, H. G. Francis McCulia McKeefe Sadler Seward J COMPANY m LJ Wi; who have followed the F Company guidon these four years are reluctant to apply any arbitrary yard-stick to our Company. Not that our Company would not stand with the best in that matter of letters awarded, cups won and all the other traditional standards-of- measure. To mention a typical accomplishment, F Company has never finished worse than fifth in a competitive drill, and in the past two years has finished second twice. Still, it is something more than cups and material honors which endears to lis the halls of the thirteenth and fourteenth divisions. The friendships contribute, for the men of ' F Company have always been as tried and as true as you will find. Memories of jolly times . . . of times not so jolly . . . of good tactical officers . . . the satisfaction of a four-year task well done. Such is the heritage we take from our Company. Duty, always . . . Honor, ever . . . Country, unswervingly . . . and a long Corps for the guidon of Company ' F. '