Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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I The Military Comes to Loyola For the first time, a unit of the ROTC was established at Evergreen T he 1952 Fall term brought a new invasion of Ever- green. The campus lawns and athletic field took on the appearance of a military encampment as Loyola’s new ROTC unit was established. Freshmen and Sopho- more students alone comprise its membership. These officer candidates wear the traditional khaki with their college and unit emblems. The entire unit is com- manded by Lt. Colonel Ralph E. Vandervort, assisted by Major Woodrow W. Jordon, Master Sergeants Wil- liam L. Adlon, Edwin G. Furnee, Albert A. Geckle and Leo E. Kuneman. The program comprises military drills, rifle handling and instruction and classes in military sciences. ■I

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IP to make a good story — and good stories are an im- portant commodity in college life. Affectation is something the American college man — the Loyola man — does not understand. He is straight- forward himself in his dealings with his friends and expects the same in return — and usually gets it. One universal trait of students is their constant declarations of how little they study. These loud alle- gations must be taken with a grain of salt. One eager young scholar justified his apparent lack of academic verve by insisting: “It’s not how much we learn but how well.” This, he claimed, was an adaptation of a motto from the shield of a Bosnian National. What of the world situation into which the Loyola graduate is to be summarily projected? The average student has had time to develop a philosophic attitude toward the most volcanic events. Realizing his four years of sanctuary are at an end, he is heard from time to time yowling good-naturedly, self-mockingly with his friends: “Give my regards to Pusan Remem- ber me to Oujongbu. Tell all the gang at Changjin Reservoir That I’ll soon be there too.” And all the “THE SPRING, THE SUMMER, THE CHILDING AUTUMN . . . “Now melt with ivoe that winter should cut off our springtime.” ANGRY WINTER, CHANGE THEIR WONTED LIVERIES ’ “Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo birds do sing.” time he’s voicing the apparent carefree-ness that makes youth fly planes and drive tanks and win wars, not because they don ' t know any better, but because they believe in something. At any rate, most of them have a healthy attitude toward things academic. Rumor had one student enter- ing the bookstore and ordering a complete set of Mark Twain in the handi-six pac. Other evidences of erudi- tion are easily found. The graduate of 19.53 is concerned, as is everyone else, with finding security in the world when there doesn’t seem to be enough to go around. He doesn’t talk about it, but the happiness of marriage is never far from his mind and stolid declarations of “It can’t happen to me” fade one by one into the nether regions. The married man’s college degree is testimony to the lengths to which he is willing to go for his family. As the sun sinks slowly behind Alonso’s, The Stu- dent looks once more about the campus and mildly dis- believes that the study, the laughter, the activity of four years is finally, summarily at an end.

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Administrative duties were done by Col. Vandervort and aides LT. COL. RALPH E. VAiNDEKVOKT, below left, heads the Evergreen ROTC unit. Major Woodrow Jordon, below right, instructs a elass in map reading. Above, Master Sergeant Leo E. Kiineman discusses a problem with stenographer Mary Elllen Cholewczynski. Lower picture shows, left. Master Sergeant William L. Adlon, and Master Sergeant Albert A. Geekle. A drum and bugle corps has been organized under the direction of Mr. Felice lula, musical instructor at the college. This band expects to play at all military functions and at the Greyhounds’ home basketball games. On January 7, Brigadier General Leslie D. Garter, Ghief of Staff of the 2nd Army Gorps, made an on-the- spot inspection of the college’s ROTC unit in drill maneuvers. General Carter was impressed with the job done by Colonel Vandervort and his aides. The following week the unit’s rifle squad participated in record firing matches for the William Randolph Hearst Trophy in National ROTC rifle competition. The squad made an excellent showing. A company of Pershing Rifles, a National Honorary Society, also has been organized. Two members of the corps, John Doetzer and Joseph DeSantis, appeared with Colonel Vandervort on the television program T.V. Campus over WBAL-TV on January 11. An elaborate military ball was held in early spring. At this strictly formal affair, to which all students were invited, the corps members wore dress uniforms.