New York Military Academy - Shrapnel Yearbook (Cornwall on Hudson, NY)

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PW iii' ,lk , ze K-'L Edward James Gage, '18 John D. Gage, '16 Frank A. Gale, '02 Edwin C. Gere, '09 Herbert J. Gerst, '07 Easton R. Gibson, '92 George H. Gies, '13 Edgar Allen Gilbert, '17 Charles Vance Goddard, '16 Wayne Sanger Green, '18 James P. Haberson, '90 John H. Halfpenny, '15 John Mitchell Handy, '01 Ralph O. Hansen, '08 Glenn R. Hardy, '06 William D. Harrigan, '05 Walter J. Harris, '12 Norman F. Hartfield, '17 Arthur R. Hasler, '16 Frank B. Heath, '09 Edwin H. Heminway, '08 Alexander D. Henderson, '15 Franklin R. Henry, '18 Pedro A. Hernandez, '10 Seth Gerson Hess, '11 Seymour I. Hess, '09 Morgan J. Hickey, '06 Sherman K. Hill, '04 Franklin H. Hinkley, '15 Jacques S. Hirsch, '10 Simon V. Hirschman, '14 George Hodson, '16 Joseph K. Honigman, '09 George C. Horning, '15 Jack B. Horsheimer, '10 Reginald D. Hudler, '15 John A. Hull, '91 James Inglis, '18 William R. Jackson, '17 Gustav L. Jaeger, '13 Brooke L. Jarrett, '14 Bruce Johnson, '15 Ellis Lloyd Jones, '13 Theodore Clapp Jones, '04 Rolland F. Judd, '15 Thomas W. Kearns, '11 Alexander Kehaya, '18 John A. Kemp, '17 Dana VW Kilburn, '90 F. Carlton Kingsland, '15 Percy H. Kittle, '13 Francis L. Lafon, '10 Schuyler V. Larkin, '18 William A. Lawrence, '16 Douglas M. L. Leslie, '12 John Langdon Leslie, '09 Henry Grant Leonard, '02 Melvin A. Levy, '08 Franklyn T. Lord, '16 R. H. Loughborough, '14 Edward Brockway Lowry, '08 Herman A. Luther, '14 Robert Henry Lyman, '19 Charles S. McAllister, '03 Donald C. McClure, '08 Robert B. McClure, '15 Lawrence C. McCulla, '16 Lester E. McGrath, '18 Harry D. McKeige, '09 Claude S. Magill, '15 Lloyd Burns Magruder, '98 Joseph H. Main, '11 Edwin Clarke Maling, '14 Norval Mason Marr, '17 George F. Marshall, '19 Horace F. Martin, '17 Elijah B. Martindale, '91 Charles H. Mason, '00 Edwin B. Massie, '15 Mortimer Mayer, '19 Paul G. Mehlin, Jr., '13 Winston Menzies, '93 JOHN F. MERRILL, '09 Adolfo V. Midence, '13 Lloyd D. Miller, '17 Allison C. Mills, '13 Rafael J. Miranda, '15 Clark H. Mitchell, '15 Eliot W. Mitchell, '13 Elbert F. Morley, '09 William G. Muldoon, '02 John E. Murphy, '16 C. W. H. Needham, '90 John H. Newlin, '13 John E. Nicholson, '18 Edward H. Nicoll, '10 Curtis Albert Noble, '11 Thomas W. Norton, '98 Charles W. Noyes, '17 Edward A. Nusbaum, '18 Johnson Orrick, '03 Eugene F. Pannaci, '07 William M. Pareis, '18 Russell J. Park, '15 Pedro Juan Parra, '93 Malcolm F. Partridge, '14 Howard Patrick, '15 Benjamin XV. Payne, '91 Charles Elliott Peck, '00 Edward L. Pelham, '16 J. Farist Penfield, '12 Raymond F. Percival, '10 Stephen W. Perry, '91 Thomas Phillips, '13 Paul H. Pilgrim, '01 Rene W. Pinto, '14 B. Winthrop Pizzini, '16 HOWARD M. POLAND, '04 John Voorhees Poland, '04 Ravmond S. Pollister, '08 William S. Pontin, '13 HAROLD R. POUCH, '12 Charles S. Pountney, '16 Brvan B. Powell, '15 Willis M. Powell, '09 Milton E. Powelson, '20 Edwin H. Quigley, '09 Hubert C. Ramsey, '12 Francis Resta, '17 Frank J. Reynolds, '08 Winfield D. Rheutan, '96 EDWARD B. RHODES, '07 William K. Rhodes, '18 R. P. Rifenbcrick, Jr., '90 Gerald S. Rinehart, '07 Malcolm H. Rinehart, '08 Standish W. Robinson, '11 William C. Robinson, '16 Russell A. Rogers, '14 George H. Roos, '15 Elihu H. Ropes, '93 Knibloe P. Royce, '11 Robert D. Russell, '92 G. Merton Rust, '16 Horace H. Ruyl, '17 George G. Schieffelin, '01 Louis S. Schoen, '00 Anton H. Schroeder, '93 Charles G. Seeber, '15 Herbert Seeber, '15 Robert Sewell, '90 James W. Sharp, Jr., '10 Howard A. Shedd, '16 Outram W. Sherman, '10 Newton C. Sholes, '07 Edwin Luther Sibert, '14 Harold W'ard Sibert, '10 Martin D. Sibert, '15 William Olin Sibert, '10 Mark Sibley, '17 Ralph H. Small, '06 Chester M. Smith, '21 George G. Smith, '12 HOMER R. SMITH, l4 Wendell T. Smith, '15 Clark Meek Snyder, '17 Richard R. Spring, '16 Alexander Standish, '17 Russell U,Stansfield, '08 Charles C. Statler, '13 Burrowes G. Stevens, '15 Carlos J. Stolbrand, '00 Bertel W. Straight, '13 Roy F. Straight, '14 Andrew Streck, '18 William A. Sturgis, '16 Maurice A. Sturm, '96 William G. Taylor, '06 Herbert G. Terry, '14 George K. Thatcher, '16 Lawrence Copley Thaw, '16 Robert E. Thayer, '05 Wm. J. Timberman, Jr., '10 Robert E. Townes, '14 Orval P. Townshend, '90 Harry F. Travis, '11 Sanford M. Treat, '15 Howard H. Van Etten, '16 Charles W. Van Scoyoc, '17 George D. Wahl, '13 H. Leslie Walker, '07 L. Roberts Walton, '99 Edgar A. Walz, '04 George J. Ward, '17 Harry L. Warren, '01 Henry L. Washington, '05 William F. Waugh, '07 Ernest H. Welker, '15 Edward B. Wells, '04 Ernest F. West, '93 Raymond W. Wheeler, '99 John S. Williams, '14 Thomas W. Williamson, '03 Lester D. Wise, '97 Nelson W. Wood, Jr., '97 Samuel S. Woodbury, '04 John G. Workizer, '91 Frederick Wright, '09 Lawrence M. York, '15 Franz Joseph Zapf, '10 UNITED STATES NAVY Harold R. Brookman, '15 Raymond A. Childs, '17 William Davis, '04 G. M. De Reamer, '91 Kirkwood H. Donovin, '03 Bernard V. Eekhout, '10 Wilbur G. Fengar, '08 Louis J. Goldman, '08 Carlos Hevia, '16 Carleton P. Hoagland, '04 James B. Kilpatrick, '10 Frederick K. Lord, '97 La Rue McCarty, '13 John L. McGuinness, '05 Archibald D. McKeige, '09 Alfred P. Moran, Jr., '14 Jesse B. Perlman, '08 Howard Elliott Randall, '16 Thomas J. Sinclair, '17 Frederick W. Sittenham, '09 Edmond R. Smith, '18 MARINE Charles L. Anderson, Jr., '18 Wallace A. Bell, '14 Oakley K. Brown, '15 DONALD B. Cowuzs, '15 Robert R. Driggs, '09 Grant B. Eustis, '16 Carlton A. Fisher, '15 Louis M. Gulick, '98 Charles J. Hardy, Jr., '13 Carl R. Hecker, '18 Francis O. Hough, '20 NATIONA George W. Bassford, '97 Henry H. Bassford, '97 Arthur S. Berry, '09 James W. Beveridge, '97 Harold F. Blanchard, '06 Maynard M. Braun, '15 Charles J. Brooks, '00 Roy C. Brown, '15 CORPS William H. Kemp, Jr., '07 Raymond J. Kirwan, '10 Lamar Lyle, '12 John Leo Murphy, '15 Andrew G. Quay, Jr., '17 Charles F. Rand, '18 CALDWELL C. ROBINSON, '16 Charles C. Simmons, '17 Earl D. Smith, '18 Paul Wellington, '17 Charles W. Yerkes, '18 L GUARD Frank E. Clarke, '96 Amos Willard Crooks, '07 Lee Parsons Davis, '00 Seth Bradford Dewey, '99 William H. Dewey, '00 Walter T. Gallagher, '06 Page Twenty-mne

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UNITED STATES ARMY K 'T trust Of the Academy's war record General Davis wrote The New York Military Academy, through its alumni, has rendered the country and the national government during the great war a splendid service, which a thou- sand times justifies the basic ideas on which the school was founded. When the war burst upon us, and found our army and navy without any reserve officer organiza- tion, the graduates of the school were scattered over the whole world, were unknown to the War Department, and most of them were without military training be- yond what they received here, yet at the First call to arms practically every man in the alumni was eager to drop all the duties and responsibilities of civil life at any cost to his own career or fortune, and to give the country the service for which he had been trained. When these men appeared at the various training centers it was promptly demonstrated that they pos- sessed certain qualities which can only be secured from a long service under strict discipline, and which form a most important qualification for an officer. While they were rusty in technique of military drill and the art of war, nevertheless they were soldiers by instinct and training, and so were equipped to give a special and most valuable service in the work of training the im- mense mass of raw material out of which an army was to be created. In the search for material out of which to organize the advanced detachment of the army which was des- perately needed in France, and which was sent there before it was ready for work, a large number of these men were picked at once for the so-called Regular Army. The school was therefore largely represented in those divisions of our army which were first thrown into action in France, and which soon constituted what might be called the veterans of the army. N.Y.M.A. men were scattered thickly through the First, Second and 26th Divisions, and saw the hardest fighting of the war. Some were killed: some were permanently maimed: and many were wounded in the desperate fighting at Chateau Thierry and the campaign which immediately followed that crucial struggle. In every battle in which these splendid divisions took part our boys were found fight- ing, organizing and directing in a way which should make us all intensely proud of them. Many of our best men were found so efficient that they were held in this country as instructors in the various branches of the service. The representation of the school in the Navy was naturally smaller than in the Army, but it was an hon- orable one, and some of the N.Y.M.A. men in that service were headed for high careers when the Armistice brought a sudden end to their successful progress. A fine group of graduates entered the Marine Corps, and promptly found themselves at home in the magnificent discipline and organization of that famous corps .... If a man was not in the service it was because the service would not take him, either because he was physically disqualified or because the peculiar and particular serv- ice which he was giving in civil life was considered by the Government to be of greater value than any service which he could give as a soldier .... Something over 500 of the N.Y.M.A. men were actu- ally in uniform and giving service during this war. Some classes were commissioned to a man. The great majority of the men were naturally commissioned as junior ofiicers on account of their youthfulness and lack of recent experience, but our list shows that the school fumished the army one brigadier-general, eight colonels, five lieutenant-colonels, twelve majors, fifty captains, and a swarm of first and second lieutenants. Twenty-six men from the faculty entered the service, including one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel, four majors, and many junior officers. Perley R. Hamilton, '16, was the first N.Y.M.A. gradu- ate to lose his life in the World War. Hamilton was driv- ing an ambulance on the French front on july 24, 1917, when he was killed by an exploding shell. The French Government awarded him the Croix de Guerre for his heroic service. Twelve other of the Academy contingent marched away behind Hamilton, never to see those hills around Cornwall again! QA special page in this book is dedicated to the GOLD STAR BoYs. j Here follows a record of N.Y.M.A. men in the World War according to the branch of the Service to which they belonged: Edward A. Acker, '07 George B. Aigeltinger, '13 Joseph Clark Allen, '13 Walter B. Allen, '15 Elijah S. Alvord, jr., '18 Hoxie Anderson, '16 Myron M. Andrews, '11 Manuel R. Arteaga, '17 Charles M. Atkins, III, '14 Clarence K. Atkinson, '03 Edward C. Ballou, '09 Arthur Field Barnes, '07 David A. Barry, jr., '13 Melchor Batista, '09 Lindsey D. Beach, '01 Prescott Beach, '17 Joseph H. Beer, '09 Alfred N. Bell, '15 Frederick G. Bell, '16 Frank L. Benscoter, '13 Robert E. Bernhard, '14 DARWIN F. BERRY, '18 Orville P. Berry, '15 Otto L. Beuttler, '13 Edgar W. Bieber, '14 Leonard Biel, '10 William L. Bird, '10 John W. Blackford, '10 Wilfred K. Blake, '17 John J. Boniface, '95 joel Frazier Bonnie, '00 Walter J. Bortz, '08 Rudolph L. Bosselmann, '11 G. Whitney Bowen, '14 Albert M. Bowles, '10 Henry M. Bowman, '02 Le Roy Bowman, '17 Talmadge H. Brereton, '96 john B. Bristol, '06 Harold R. Brouwer, '04 Lee Roy Brown, '01 Olin D. Brown, '16 Thomas E. Buckman, '08 Walter Raymond Burke, '14 James Burton, '13 Thomas Merrill Byrth, '14 Cornelius Cable, '98 julio A. Cadenas, '10 Alexander H. Campbell, '07 jay H. Campbell, '11 Edward Carpenter, '91 john Channing, '05 George Shepard Clarke, '09 Bertram T. J. Clayton, '13 Charles Sherman Cline, '12 Frank M. Collingwood, '11 Francis Barnard Collis, '17 Roscoe S. Conkling, '03 ALBERT HANSFORD COWART, '13 Samuel G. Creden, '90 Thomas Victor Cremin, '15 Edward F. Dalton, '07 Schuyler N. Dalton, '08 THEODORE DAUGHERTY, '19 john Lamont Davidson, '16 Leon Davidson, '12 Lamont Davis, '16 Henry A. C. de Rubio, '94 Stanley H. Dempsey, '16 Walter J. Dennis, '15 Alan P. Dexter, '08 Nelson Dingley, III, '10 Frederick G. Dodge, '12 Ira J. Dodge, '02 Edward H. Dougan, '14 William O. Dunlap, '13 William Holman Dwyer, '14 John MCN. Ealy, '04 Charles L. Eberle, '17 j. Van Rensselaer Eckerson, '92 Sanford B. Edwards, '17 Gregory H. Eickhoff, '05 William L. Elliot, '17 Frederick J. Esteves, '15 Clarence A. Eustaphieve, '96 Edwin M. Eustis, '10 William D. Faulkner, '12 Harry W. Fawcett, '12 Harry J. Feinberg, '17 Kendall Fellowes, '97 William H. Fellowes, '10 Herman C. Fickersen, '09 joshua M. Fiero, jr., '05 Robert N. Fiske, '11 Eugene N. Fitzgerald, '13 JOHN FLENNIKEN, '04 joseph XV. Flenniken, '06 WlI.l,ARD HI. FREEMAN, '14 Leigh H. French, '11 Marion O. French, '04 William C. Fryling, '15 Percy Whiting Fuller, '97 john Harvey Fye, '13 Page Twenty-eight '

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Alexander Gillespie, '11 julian Ball Haswell, '00 Morton Eugene Hecht, '05 Edward L. Horton, '12 Robert R. Howard, '95 Silas Kantrowitz, '10 Gilbert F. Lewy, '07 James Lee Loomis, '97 Elmo P. Montross, '17 Arthur S. Moore, '97 Eliot D. Moore, '00 Edwin R. Palmer, '00 George E. Patterson, '07 Christopher Peterson, '00 John P. Phelps, '95 Arnold C. Pouch, '10 Howard D. Rockafellow, '99 john B. Rose, '93 Philip H. Salmon, '17 Louis Scherp, '10 Hugh S. Stange, '12 Joseph F. Taylor, '90 NAVAL RESERVE Francis C. Crowell, '15 Harry H. Dale, jr., '17 Seymour Glantz, '09 Paul J. Guidone, '10 James E. Mann, '18 Byron Weston, '16 William A. White, '16 Lawrence H. Wolff, '09 NAVAL MILITIA Elwyn Leslie, '06 E. E. Rockhold, '91 Alvarez D. Rose, '16 U. S. AMBULANCE SERVICE Chester I. Christie, '06 Douglass j. Clarke, '14 PERLEY R. HAMILTON, '17 Mark Robert Miles, '09 George M. Porges, '14 George S. Shultz, '15 Austin T. Tubbs, '09 Those who served in other branches: M. J. Daly, '13 Frank W. deGanahl, '10 Frank Farnham, '17 Leland L. Goodrich, '13 Paul Davis Greely, '16 The following members alumni, were in the service: Harry M. Blank Hubert W. Butts William T. Cochran George R. Dempsey Harry R. Dougherty William B. Ennis William T. Galvin Roy E. Habermann William H. Haigh Willis H. Hale Robert L. Knowles, '15 George H. LeFevre, '17 John E. Northway, '18 Sidney Stuart, '99 Ralph C. Turner, '01 of the faculty, excepting Frank M. Ham Paul J. Hermann Victor B. Hornney Clarence Ketcham William A. Kurtz Harry M. Scarborough Hermann R. Schoeler Frank D. Walker Orlo C. Whitaker Ira Williams William B. Wilson At the Academy, while the world was torn apart, the accomplishments of two cadets stood out. Charles L. An- derson, jr., '18, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, became the first boy in the history of the school to win the award of Dis- tinguished Cadet. The gold star on the collar of the Dis- tinguished Cadet means that he has maintained an average of ninety-five per cent in conduct, eighty-five per cent in scholastic work, and ninety per cent in military science. In addition, he must have won his letter in some form of athletics. The other youngster to gain the spotlight was Earnesto Betancourt, '20, who won the Clemens Medal for fencing by defeating three Columbia University swordsmen in the finals after having fainted from exhaustion following the preliminary bouts earlier in the day. More than half of the faculty was in service at home or abroad when the Academy re-opened in September, 1918, and the name of Homer Russell Smith, '14, had been added to the list of N.Y.M.A. alumni killed in action. Pressed for materials of all sorts, the Government had called in all equipment issued to the military schools and the work in this department at Cornwall was consequently curtailed to a large extent. As if skies were not already sufliciently gray, the influ- enza epidemic made its appearance with its frightful toll of suffering and loss of life. It was small wonder that news of the Armistice in November sent the entire world into a delirium of happiness. The flu epidemic undoubtedly deprived N.Y.M.A. of its greatest football record, since it necessitated the can- cellation of four games on the 1918 schedule. The cadets won all live of the games which were played, scored 339 points to 7 for their opponents, and defeated Irving School 135-0, a scoring record which has never been equalled. On March 16, 1919, word was received that the govern- ment had established the battalion as a unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps and during that summer thirty-five N.Y.M.A. cadets, still inspired by the recently concluded war, attended the course at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. This was the largest group in the camp from any single military school. A world still happily dazed by the miracle of peace after the horror of the World War felt that universal security had been realized at last when the League of Nations was organized and President Wilson received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in that direction. On the threshold of the third decade of the twentieth century, New York Military Academy continued to develop young men dedi- cated to peace but ready for war if it should ever come again. Conclusion of the school year 1921-22 at N.Y.M.A. saw the end of one, and the beginning of another cycle in the history of the Academy. After nearly thirty years in the service of the school, Colonel Jones resigned as superin- tendent. He was succeeded by Milton F. Davis, whose ap- pointment as a Brigadier General was announced at al- most the same time. General Davis had come to Cornwall in june, 1909, as commandant and professor of military science and had been a member of the faculty ever since, except for the period of this country's engagement in the World War. During that time he was attached to the Air Service, first as chief of training and later as chief of staff. Page Thirty