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

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- - ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ATE IN THE FALL of 1902 four young men, gradu- ates of the New York Military Academy-Cord A. Meyer, '98g L. Roberts Walton, '99, William Lloyd Brooks, '99, and Charles Brooks, '00-met for dinner at the former Army and Navy Club on West Forty-third Street in New York. The object of the get-together was to discuss an idea of L. Roberts Walton's that N.Y.M.A. should have an Alumni Association. They lingered over each course as the talk carried them back to memorable times when they had shared the same rooms, the same enthusiasms, the same hopes, in their old school. At the conclusion of dinner they left the past for the present and future. Action replaced nostalgia, plans re- placed reminiscences, and when, hours later, they departed for their respective homes, a new organization had been born-the New York Military Academy Alumni Associa- tion. All those present at the original dinner and meeting Presentation of Honorary Diploma and Citation by Colo- nel Pattillo to Theodore P. Harding, '23, new President of the Alumni Association. were in favor of such an Association, and organization proceeded accordingly. Officers were discussed and elected. Cord A. Meyer became the first President, a post he held through 1907, Lloyd Brooks, Vice-President, and L. Rob- erts Walton, Secretary-Treasurer. Charles Brooks was the membership, Academy officials greeted the news with delight and gave complete cooperation to the end that every alumnus of the school might be advised of the formation of the Association and invited to join. Notices were mailed soon thereafter, and a good portion of the members of the thir- teen graduation classes to that date signified their desire to become members. By-laws were drawn up and approved within a short time. The most important single provision was that of life membership in the Association upon the payment of a flat fee of twenty dollars. The fortunes of the Association ebbed and flowed through the next decade. The disastrous fire of 1910 at New York Military Academy awakened alumni interest and many graduates assisted in a variety of ways in the re-establishment of the Academy along its present mod- ern lines. In the twenty-fifth anniversary year, 1914, the Associa- tion planned and carried through elaborate observances of the occasion. The annual alumni dinner was held April 14 at Murray's Restaurant in New York and several hundred old boys attended. For the Commencement week-end in june, a special train was jammed to the vestibules with alumni and their families, and the entire Grand View Hotel in Cornwall was reserved for the group. War years brought a temporary suspension of the ac- tivities of the Association, but not among its individual members. More than 500 graduates or former students of N.Y.M.A. were enrolled in various branches of the service, and thirteen of them gave their lives for their country. After the war was over the Association members re- turned to their normal pursuits and each year from 1919 to 1931 the organization grew in strength, drawing the members of the regiment together for the annual banquet and the less formal, but no less enjoyable, yearly beef- steak. Commencement annually saw a host of the old guard returning to their haunts in Cornwall for an all too brief visit. In 1928, the Alumni Association presented portraits of Colonel Jones and General Davis to the Academy, in appre- ciation of the services they had rendered to N.Y.M.A. The school year 1932-33 marked a yet greater expansion of the activities of the alumni group. President Sanford Page Sixty-six