Camden Military Academy - Excalibur Yearbook (Camden, SC)

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Above) Pep Band relaxes awaiting the halftime at the Bethune football game at Green, Band Director; Mike Stone). (Below) Staff. MSgt Nick Lopez, Capt home. (Back: David Doerr, Alex Kiker, JD Anderson, Mike Harris, Emory Cliff Carter, 2d Lt Ray Hudson (in back), lSgt Emory Johnson, Major David Johnson, Jonathan Morningstar. Foreground: Michael McCoy; Major David Green (Adv) 2d Lt Tom Stallings. Band Company The Musicmakers The boys in the band .. mind the music and the step.. .” and, in a great many instances,“... with the girls are handy.” Band Company provides melody and, of course, the beat for drill and for parades. Located across from the guard room, Band is only a step away for the bugler to sound reveille early in the morning and to continue calls through taps, late in the evening. Sound, as a matter of fact, keynotes the organization. At the start of studyhall each evening, musicians practice with their instru- ments for the first half hour, a near deafening cacophony. But individuals combine their creative efforts on parade and re- view days to provide military marching music which keeps the whole battalion in step and marching sharp. Company Commander Captain Cliff Carter says, “A com- pany is a unit of people who are working hard to accomplish something important to themselves.” Individually and as a group, band members do work hard and, whether playing on campus, during parades in neighboring communities, or in concert, they look sharp and provide mellow military music. What they achieve is not only personally rewarding but also a real contribution to the entire corps. 23

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(Above) 1st Platoon. Front: MSgt Stacey Batten, Holder, Mercer, MR Harris, 2d Lt Tom Stallings, Drew, Lunsford, JD Anderson. 2d Row: Stout, Morningstar, Oakes, Lea, Kelly, Manley. Back: Barr, Holland, JJ Allen, WH Rogers, Harper. (Below) 2d Platoon. Front: SFC Mike Myers, Whitaker, Guthrie, MSgt Nick Lopez, Dula, DR Martin, McKenzie. 2d Row: Kiker, Lucas, Skinner, Covington, Wells. Back: Cooler, Crump, TA Stephens, McCoy, Edmondson, 2d Lt Ray Hudson (Exec Off). 22

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GASTRONOMIC ACHIEVEMENT Mrs. Davis feeds the whole family. Greenwich Mean Time is the base for standard time in most countries and the Atomic Clock in Boulder is the authority on chronometry, but Mrs. Bessie Davis’ kitchen clock establishes CMA time. Her mess hall is CMA’s hub, and for seventeen years, she has served three meals per day, on time, to more than two hundred cadets, a seven day a week process, late August to mid-May, with breaks only at Christmas and for spring vaca- tion. In all those years, Mrs. Davis missed actually serving meals only twice, once to attend a wedding, once a funeral. An army marches on its stomach and Mrs. Davis knows CMA cadets stay in step by partaking of her culinary products. This Camden native rises at four each morning and departs the mess hall after seven in the evening, “My job’s tough,” she says, “but I couldn’t make three meals a day possible without my staff and KP’s.” They’re obviously dedicated to her and, as she is, to feeding the hungry corps, Mrs. Davis is a mother of six and a grandmother fifteen times. “I like boys,” she says. Cadets know it. A myriad of tasks awaits Luther Thompson daily. 24 Mrs. Bessie Davis, Dietician, readies for the hungry hordes of cadets. Cadets Howard Rue