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

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...- ACHIEVEMENT ALUMNI AWARD HIS AWARD was established in 1932 by the New York Military Academy Alumni Association and is pre- sented each year to that member of the Graduating Class who has been in attendance for at least three full school years, nominated by his classmates, and finally selected by a board consisting of the President of the Alumni Associa- tion, the Headmaster, and the Commandant of Cadets. The selection must be approved by the Superintendent and by the Board of Governors of the Alumni Association. The winner of the award is chosen for his strength of character, record of broad scholarship, athletic interest and ability, military eliiciency and discipline, and for having done most to increase and maintain the spirit and morale of the Corps during his period at the school. First cadet to have his name inscribed on the large tab- let hanging in the hall of the academic building was Al- bert Hutton, Jr., of Garden City, Long Island. Hutton was also awarded the Laidlaw Athletic Cup, Good Conduct Medal, Neatness and Order Medal, and the C. Wright Gold Medal for Military Proficiency. He was a member of the cadet inter-fraternity and athletic councils, and won letters in football, basketball and lacrosse. He never re- ceived a demerit while at the Academy. Hutton was followed by Donald Stanley Healey of Westneld, Mass., as the recipient of the Achievement Alumni Award in 1933. Healey was active in sports but his chief accomplishments were in other directions. He was a member of the editorial board of The Ramble and had a part in Yea Furlough . Donald Kent Brooks, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., 1954 winner, had a brilliant record at the Academy. He was first captain and battalion commander in his senior year and winner of the Hardy Leadership Medal. He played varsity football and lacrosse, and was a member of the track team. Managing director of Yea Furlough , he also served on the editorial boards of both The Ramble and The Shrapnel. A pair of brothers-john G. Shattuck, jr., and Harold Morgan Shattuck, of Pelham, N. Y.-kept the award in the family during 1935 and 1936. The former was bat- talion commander in his last year,--1935-a Distinguished Cadet, and winner of the Commandant's Saber. He served as managing editor of both The Ramble and The Shrapnel, was a member of the lacrosse, rifle, and fencing teams, and chairman of the inter-fraternity council. H. Morgan Shattuck was president of the student coun- cil and chairman of the inter-fraternity council in 1936. He played on both the football and lacrosse teams and was captain of the latter in his senior year. He was a mem- ber of the cast of Yea Furloughn for four consecutive years. His awards included the Good Conduct Medal, Neatness and Order Medal, and Commandant's Saber. In 1937 the award went to Armand Louis Nazzaro, of Glen Rock, N. President of his class during his last two years at N.Y.M.A., Nazzaro was a Distinguished Cadet and First Captain. His honors included the Junior Scholastic Medal, Biology Medal, Spanish Medal, Neatness and Or- der Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Allie Hutton Cup, Com- mandant's Saber, and Hardy Medal for School Leadership. He was a member of the boards of both The Ramble and The Shrapnel. Paul Hemenway Gale, 1938 winner, was a member of the varsity swimming and tennis teams for four years and captained both teams at various times. He was editor-in- chief of The Ramble and of The Shrapnel. He became a Distinguished Cadet in his senior year and was awarded the Commandant's Saber, as well as the Hardy Leadership and Commercial Medals. The 1939 winner of the Achievement Alumni Award was Charles Govea, whose distinguished record is shown on page 113 of this book. Achievement Award winners of past years are now en- gaged in a variety of pursuits. Brooks is in the real estate business, Gale is sales manager of a recording company in New England, and H. Morgan Shattuck is purchasing agent for the Schralft restaurants. Two are still continuing their studies. Hutton, having been graduated from Brown University, is now studying law at Cornell, Nazzaro is taking an engineering course at Stevens Institute. Page Forty-Iwo

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,fag .. .. - . - 'lllllf - - ... 1 1,- G O L D B O Y S Withif1 these Halls We learned Duty. O READS A LINE on the great plaque which hangs from the balcony in the main hall of the academic build- ing at New York Military Academy-a plaque upon which are draped in reverence the American flag and the colors of the Academy, a plaque which no cadet, alumnus or faculty member can pass without twin feelings of pride and sorrow. Upon it are counted the names of N.Y.M.A. boys who gave up their lives in the World War. There are thirteen names in all, and the listing of their classes covers a period of fifteen years in the life of the Academy. Some of them had left N.Y.M.A. years before the World Warq others made the ultimate sacrifice for their country while still young boys. Perley Raymond Hamilton, for instance, was serving with the American Ambulance Service in France when he should have been preparing to graduate with his class of 1917 at Cornwall. On july 28 of that year a shell struck near where Hamilton was helping to place wounded in his ambulance, and he was instantly killed, first of the N.Y. M.A. boys to fall. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre posthumously. Howard Malcolm Poland and John Flenniken, on the other hand, were classmates back in 1904 and school days were far removed from their minds when the United States entered the war. Both went into the service, and were killed in action in France-Poland as a Hrst lieutenant of the 104th Engineers and Flenniken as a second lieutenant of the 101st Infantry. Other N.Y.M.A. men to die in France were Edward Byron Rhodes, '07, John Franklin Merrill, '09g Harold Rainsford Pouch, '12, Albert Hansford Cowart, '13, Wil- liam James Freeman, '14, Homer Russell Smith, '14, and Caldwell Colt Robinson, '16. Donald Buford Cowles, '15, died in a hospital in England, Darwin Feather Berry, '18, and Theodore Daugherty, '19, succumbed to illness while in the service here. Of all the others who served their country in the World War but were spared to return to their homes General Davis, writing in the 1919 Slarapnel, had this to Say: I have found it impossible to get definite information in regard to some of the graduates, but the data actually collected shows that something over 500 of the N.Y.M.A. men were actually in uniform and giving service during this war. The great majority of the men were naturally com- missioned as junior officers on account of their youthful- ness and lack of recent experience, but our list shows that the school furnished 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. Page Forty-one

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