New Mexico Military Institute - Bronco Yearbook (Roswell, NM)

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transfers, his cadet leaders were an average of two years younger than usual. That he met the challenge which faced him need hardly be said: with wisdom and patience, with understanding and skill, he directed the Corps toward another outstanding year of military achievement. Colonel VVise came to the Institute from San Antonio, where he had already had experience as P. of NI. S. 81 T. A Virginian, and a graduate of V. NI. I., lClass of 19153, Colonel VVise chose the Army as a career. An lnfantryman until 1940, he transferred then to the Cavalry. ln October, Captain James H. Wlatson joined the military staff, coming from the C. R. T. C. at Fort Riley, Kansas. A gradu- ate of the University of Georgia, class of '39, Captain W'atson grew up in Alabama. His popularity is attested by his appearance in this year's Bronco Hall of Fame. Major Stapp, Major Posz, and Captain Robinson filled the fPage 111

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remainder of the military staff, each one taking on additional burdens imposed by the war. The Commandant's office functioned--shall we say bril- liantly?-under a depleted force, with only two Junior Tacs for the greater part of the year: Lieutenants Cohen and Stanford. A third, Lieutenant Charlie Smith, former colonel of the cadet corps, joined the tactical force in Nlay while awaiting a call to the U. S. Army Air Forces. Perhaps quite a few cadets failed to realize that the lnstitute was one of but four schools allowed to perpetuate its Senior R. O. T. C. training this year: like the snows of yesteryear, the remainder simply vanished. NI have guaranteed your loyalty and your coopera- tion, wrote Colonel Pearson early in the fall, you must not fail them. There has been no failure, for it has been a successful year. The Faculty showed with new faces: Captains Sawyer and Bachenheimer, teachers of Nlathematics and Spanish, Mrs. Mar- fPage 131