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

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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

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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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L f DECORATING BARRACKS FOR MAJOR FOOTBALL GAME-1917 Fire once again threatened to take a costly toll of the school in 1924. The blaze in the cavalry stables was dis- covered quickly, however, and members of the troop braved the flames to rescue every one of the horses quar- tered in the long building. Work on new and more modern stables was begun at once. This was a fine year in most departments of N.Y.M.A. athletics. The football team, captained by Charles Beck- with, '24, won six out of seven games and scored 196 points to 25 for its opponents. Basketball had been returned to the status of a varsity sport some time previously and the 1925-24 team ran up a total of 556 points fan average of 40 per gamej, losing only to the undefeated Navy Plebes. The fencing team, undefeated through the season, num- bered West Point varsity among its victims. It was the Navy Plebes who upset the N.Y.M.A. bas- ketball squad again the following year. Trailing by fifteen points at the end of the first half, the Plebes staged a sen- sational rally to win by two points and hand the quintet of Captain Jimmy Baldwin, '25, its only defeat during the regular season. Both the fencing and track teams were undefeated, however, the former for the second successive season. The swordsmen won eight dual meets against stiff opposition and Raymond Sieminsky, '26, Luis Fuertes, '25, and Francis Dohs, '25, placed 1-2-3 in the national interscholastic fenc- ing championship. In recognition of this sensational show- ing, team members were given major letters for the first time in the history of the sport at Cornwall. The track team was captained by the brilliant Freddie Robbins, '25, who set his mates a fine example by making three new individual records and assisting in establishing a fourth. Robbins ran 100 yards in 9.9 seconds, put the shot 44 feet, ZVZ inches, and pole vaulted to a new high of 10 feet, 9 inches. He also ran on the mile relay team which set a mark of 3 minutes 41.3 seconds. The team was coached by Edmund M. Wisner, professor of languages, who developed many fine athletes at the Academy. Two new organizations made their appearance during the 1924-25 term. They were the Glee Club and Sword and Plume, a dramatic group. The Glee Club was coached by Frank Mead, '91, a resident of Cornwall who had al- ways kept up his interest in the school. The club's first session was featured by a concert for wounded war vet- erans at the Chelsea Hospital. Although dramatics held a high place among scholastic activities from 1894 to 1921, there was a lapse of three years in this branch following the death of Superintendent Page Thirty-one