Massanutten Military Academy - Adjutant Yearbook (Woodstock, VA)

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LAWRENCE CLAYTON HOWARD ' 'Larry' ' ARLINGTON, NJ. DARTMOUTH Atten-shun! Get everything in tipftop shape, fellows, for here we have the major-domo of the military department. Larry has spent four years at Massanutten and in that comparatively short time has risen in the ranks from a lowly private to the po- sition of greatest responsibility. Needless to say, he has merited all the confidence so aptly placed in him. He knows his military like Lindbergh his airplanes, Kreisler his music and Einstein his relativity. Larry has been a mainstay of the rifle team, and hasn't done so badly as a musician either, having been a member of both the band and the Glee Club. To our esteemed cadet leader we say- Hail and Farewell! Pk lk Pk SCOTT BLANCHARD, Jr. Scott BROOKLYN, N.Y. BROWN It will be a long time before Massanutten finds a Battalion Adf jutant as likable and as personable as our Captain Scott Blanchard. Scott is always way up that in the scholastic average-all with due practice of a little keen wittedness and concentration. Scott is no esthetic one-sided student-he is a live, good-natured Ameri- , can boy. His activities in school life at Massanutten have been many and varied. He seems to have a finger in every pie everyf time anything at all important happens or is planned. There is a very nice smile which he has that is very beguiling, to say the least. Candor and frank sincerity are the keynotes ofhis character. A fine sense ofhumor has been thrown in for good luck for this All-American recipe Alpha to Omega in fresh American youthfulness is Scott Blanchard-a Massanutten officer and gentleman. 1192 lk THEADJUTANT-.1936 HWY 'W-

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WILLIAM JAY 0'BRIEN Bill WILLIAMSPORT, PA. YALE A congenial smile, a swell personality, a good disposition, and a fighting Irish heart Cno harm, Mother, just jokingj all go tof gether to make up that popular personage, Bill O'Brien. Every' where his travels carry him he makes friends-sex making not the least particle of difference to him, although just between you and me, I think that he does not particularly care too much for male- men Football saw our class president playing a guard position and a good one he was. In swimming, Bill's speciality was the backstroke. Bill was elected captain of the track squad Qcigars?j, and capably took care of the weight events. Bill was once a fine student, but along came Winchester and the depression and-well, Bill is now one of the boys trying to slide off the fence on the safe side. And how! X Pk lk JOHN IRWIN ORR, Jr. Jack MT. LEBANON, PA. DARTMOUTH A big smile, frank eyes and a hearty hello in the friendliest manner-that's lack Orr, Vice-President of the Senior Class of '3-6. If any measure of prophecy about 'lack's future in the world exists in his success at Massanutten, his classmates will one day be proud to say- There goes lack Qrr. l went to school with him. Personality plus and aggressive initiative unite to form ,lack's character into a pleasing and helpful factor of wellfbeing at Massanutten. It might be well to add that jack was captain of the football team, played on the basketball team, was a swell short- stop and home-run hitter, was president of the jefferson Debating Society and still managed to find time to run up to Mount jackson quite often. I'lere's wishing there were more like you! THE ADJUTANT-1936 lk 118,

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JOHN ADAM K lWimpy9, MIDDLETOWN, MD. CATAWBA john hails from Middletown, Maryland, where his father preaches the gospel in one of our own churches, but Wimpy, for by that sobriquet he is known to his fellow-cadets, has no penchant for the pulpit. As a matter of fact, Wimpy firmly believes that one's school work should never interfere with one's pleasure, and we know of no one who could adhere more closely to this bit of philosophy than he does. He played in the R.O.T.C. band and was a nonfcommissioned officer with the rank of sergeant. Though he maintains that he will never cross the threshold of any higher institute of learning, great things may come his way. BEN S. APPLEGATE Dutch' ' PHILADELPHIA, PA. UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY Here is a cadet whose quiet and pleasing personality has won for him many friends among the student-body. His accomplishments center around his ability as a scholar, but his interests are not entirely academic, for he is an athlete of no mean ability. As a member of the football and swimming squads he has shown promise of becoming heard of in these sports at the US. Naval Academy where he intends to join the plebes in September. Ben has qualities which should serve him to good advantage at Annapolis and we wish him every success in his proposed union with the Navy. FRITZ H. BACHARACH ' 'Fritz' ' THE AD PITTSBURGH, PA. DUKE Fritz's ancestry may take him across the Atlantic to the Rhineland, but, be that as it may, he came to us from the 'Smoky City along with the other nu- merous Pitrsburghers. Little is known at present of this lad but we expect the future to be far more revealing. With M.M.A. diploma to back him he expects to crash the gates of Duke University next fall. With his student-like appearance we feel certain that no crashing of gates will have to be done but that they will automatically open up to receive him. Anyway, we're hoping that fame and fortune will come his way and plenty of it! UTANT-1936 lk C201