Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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and Sabre. This is a bright and interesting news sheet, devoted to the life and activities of the Academy. It is prepared entirely by the cadets themselves, under the direction of the English Department. I-IALLowE'EN BARBECUE One hilarious occasion of the school year is the old-fashioned Hallowe'en barbecue given by Colonel Mathis. The enftire Corps of Cadets, with faculty officers, their wives and guests, hike into the woods or mountains, or out along the shores of the rippling Cumber- land, and there enjoy the old time Lucullan delights made famous by a past generation. Y. M. C. A. Nothing contributes more to the upbuilding of right ideals at Castle Heights than the fine Y. M. C. A. organization that has been built up by the cadets themselves under the sympathetic and helpful direction of Captain H. L. Cleveland. Realizing that religious ex- ercises in a boys' school too often become perfunctory and of ques- tionable value, Captain Cleveland has approached this important problem from a new angle, and has developed a highly efficient and useful Y. lVl. C. A. body, under the supervision of a Cadet Cabinet. This organization meets regularly on Sunday evenings, and is, besides, instrumental in bringing a number of helpful speakers to the Academy during the year. SPRING ENCAMPMENT While the Spring Encampment, when the entire school goes under canvas for a week, is not strictly speaking a social feature of cadet life, yet the novelty of the experience, the outdoor life, the sen- try duty under the stars, the swimming and Hshing, and the many other activities of the encampment make it a particularly enjoyable period of the scholastic year. ATHLETICS . For years the athletic teams of Castle Heights have been famous through that part of the country of which the Academy is a centre. Made up of genuinely enrolled students who are imbued by school spirit. the love of the game, and an admiration for clean sport, these organizations have always been able to be counted on to go through every season as sportsmen and gentlemen. - 99

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Win or lose, Castle Heights teams are taught to play the game fairly and squarely. RIFLE TEAM Of all the competitions entered into by the Corps of Cadets none arouses more interest than the various gallery rifle matches that take place almost continuously through the year under the supervision of Major Steel, the Professor of Military Science and Tactics. Having won the Fourth Corps Area competition from twenty- three other contesting institutions, not only winning each of its in- dividual matches, but also piling up the greatest aggregate score. Castle Heights has obtained the first leg on the Area championship cup, and has the distinction of having out-shot every other Junior Unit R. O. T. C. team in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama. Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The personnel of the team is Cadet Welborne fCaptainD, Cadets Donovan, Helms, Pace L., Hamilton F., Hatch, Rominger, Neely. Seagraves D., Hain, Howell L., Meschendorf, Barker E., Cockrill, and Kirtley. Every cadet takes part in the rifie work, and each has full oppor- tunity. to qualify as a member of the Academy first team. A FOOTBALL Football, the sport glorious!-for, certainly, most red-blooded boys feel that way about it. First call for football is always a great day at Castle Heights, when new men and old men alike come streaming down on the big athletic field at the coaches' first announcement. Castle Heights is different from a good many schools in its football work-every man has his chance, and plenty of it. Frequently, as the season pro- gresses, there are six or even seven teams at work, thus affording the coaches the finest opportunity for advancing promising players from one squad to another. Most of the games are played on the home field, but the team goes away on several trips, sometimes as far as Memphis one way or Atlanta the other. One thing is true of Academy football, however, as it is of all the other sports at Castle Heights: a cadet must do passing work in all his classes before he can take any very active part. As every boy will see at once, this requirementkeeps off the teams all except the 101