Hill Military Academy - Adjutant Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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FRESHMEN CLASS The Freshman class started it's first year of high school with very good intentions which have been carried out during the Whole year. Our class was organized early in the year. The following officers were elected to presideg Clifton Coe, President, Rowland Le Doux, vice president, Fred Biehn, secretary and treasurerg George Nunn, athletic manager, and Fletcher Wood, Sgt.-at-arms. Our class activities have been excellent considering the size of the class. To begin with We have had very high scholastic standings. Next come our athletics. In our first attempt at variety teams we showed up well, Fletcher Wood making his letter at football, Clifton Coe making his at basketball. The freshmen basketball team, al- though they fought hard finished the season at the bottom. We do not feel downhearted in the least, for all preceding freshmen classes have met with the same fate. ' We held our- annual .class dance this year in conjunction with the sophomore class. Although it was the largest class dance ever held it proved to be a success. The hall was decorated with the school colors, in truly professional style and the refreshments were little short of perfect. X Few of us aspired very high in the military department this year but next year we expect to have many corporals in our midst. This year the Senior class offered a medal to the freshman having the highest total score in gallery practice. Harry Stinson, and George Kellar were tied for it. In an additional match to shoot off the tie, Harry Stinson lost. The class is indeed proud of the record these cadets have set. We sincerely hope that following classes will live up to these standards. Although our history so far has been short we feel that in the years that follow we have a history that will make up for the brevity of this one.

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THE H. M. A. UNIFORM 5 V See him on parade or 'at a formal party and the Hill cadet isas trim and neat as a new pin. His uniform it is that attracts your attention, true his upstanding manner of carriage, his military bearing and poise help a little, but it is the uniform that now claims our attention. The Hill Military academy cadet of 1925 wears a gray green whipcord uniform cut along the lines of the regular Army officer. The schoolfs buttons are bright and polished. The school's service stripes and emblems add to the cadet's appearance and if he is a true and loyal cadet he carries himself with dignity. It is the uniform. He is proud and thankful that his parents or guardians have seen fit to send him to a school of such fine standing. Academically, socially and from a point of military training and discipline the cadet need not be ashamed. The school ideals, if he lives up to them, will be a lasting inspiration. It is the uniform. Not merely the material, the buttons and the brand used in the making, but the principles of right, of patrfotism and of loyalty that the uniform typifies. That's what counts. That is why I say it is the uniform. When the Hill Military academy was built on the Marshall street sitetthe uniform followed that of the Bishop Scott academy, its predecessor, and was like that of West Point in color, blue gray, with black braid stripes down the long trousers. The caps had shiny black visors and the cadets of those days made a snappy appearance. Many a boy of Portland's old families was the admired of all ad- mirers in that uniform. But as time went on the pale blue gray was not considered practical and in 1910 a change was made and the school adopted uniforms somewhat like the regular army. Service hats were worn with these and later on the overseas cap was adopted. Wrap leggins were worn for several years but in this last year an entire change was made and the officers wore boots and the entire corps, leather puttees. It was found that the Belgium cap was the most popular with the cadets. Several more improvements were made in the uniform, one of which was the adoption of an officers cap copied after the Pershing cap that was being worn by the army officers, and the officers also started wearing leather puttees. As to decorations they have been very scarce up to the last two years, and in the last two years service stripes were given out to be worn on left sleeve, and different colored stars for the right sleeve. The service stripes are as follows, one brown stripe for every school year spent in the academy while in the primary department, one silver stripe for every school year spent in grammar school department, and one gold stripe for every school year spent in the high school department. The stars are given out for special marks of distinction. For instance if a cadet should lead his class for a given length of time he is given a gold star, and if he is on good conduct for a certain length of time he is given a black star, and four black stars is equivalent to one