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

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GLWIESKGSNGHZK iii l !5Sif.V5 I ' ir' KLDDQ vu.- .Hwy-ai-.-.,.-1-.- - , - .-1-.-af-LFY.. x.,-.-.v-,-.w...-,..-5-:-nsvfe--:sri .-:Eze-7-1--.,,..-...1 YT-. ,f .,... ... L ...gn . ...Y .Wi -. American Car and Foundry Corporation, has as its other members Colonel Frank A. Pattillo, Mr. A. C. Palmer, Colonel H. M. Scarborough, Dr. George R. Dempsey, Lieutenant Kohout, and Lieutenant F. M. Williams. Thus Shattuck and Reynolds joined a group of men who have loyally and energetically supported the administra- tion of the Academy and who have borne the responsibility that such administration entails. Efforts to bring alumni groups together more often were signalized in 1936-37 by golf tournaments at the Pelham Country Club in Westchester and the Lido Coun- try Club on Long Island. john G. Shattuck, '05, played host at the former and Ted Harding, '23, at the latter. The Association also sponsored the football game between N.Y.M.A. and Admiral Farragut Academy at the Polo Grounds in New York, and several groups held dinners and theatre parties at intervals. Continued interest through- out the year drew more than 200 members of the Associa- tion to the campus for that Commencement. Five members of the Association were honored at the 1957 Commencement with diplomas for distinguished ser- vice in business life. These five were John G. Shattuck, '05, B. Winthrop Pizzini, '16, Robert Loughborough, '14, Bradford Manning, '07, and Harry Clark, '05. At the 1938 Commencement, Daniel Wright and Charles Poutney, '17, were awarded honorary diplomas for loyal and efficient service to the Academy. At the 1939 Commencement, honorary diplomas were awarded to the following alumni: Theodore P. Harding, '23, Paul H. Pil- grim, '02, and William D. Harrigan, '05. The Academy also awarded inscribed keys to former presidents of the Alumni Association. The past year, with Brad Manning at the helm of the Association, has been one of ever-increasing activity and interest among the members. Sponsorship of this Golden jubilee Book and elaborate plans for alumni participation in the Fiftieth Anniversary Commencement exercises kept officers and committee members working hard constantly. The Association has been working and is now success- fully bringing alumni records up to date. In addition to the present membership consisting of 750 alumni there are approximately 3,500 graduates and former cadets who are eligible for Association membership. The enthusiasm and co-operation of the individual mem- bers of the Alumni Association have assisted materially in making possible the detailed history which forms a por- tion of this volume, as well as the extremely interesting pictures of bygone days which appear throughout the book. One instance of this co-operation was shown on April 25, when Jack Shattuck invited a large group of old- timers to dinner in order that, from their stories and recol- lections, the history of N.Y.M.A. might take on color and life. The following alumni attended the dinner: joe Taylor, '90, Frank Zittell, '91, Art Simonson and Pat Flaherty, '95, Pa Lord and Hen Bassford, '97, Burns Magruder, '98, Ben Jones, Zack W'alton, and Lloyd Brooks, '99, Mike Aschoff, Buck Dewey, and Eliot Moore, '00, Stuart Reed, '03, john Brewer, '04' w L musing., . . - . ....-.,..-..t-0.-.fee U- - -.--.f :-- .-f. -- Y. .... , -- .-.-,9.f,. . .. ...-...-..- . . 1. ,- ,.,- - , ,-- L ---....--................,..f,..,-. Y-.,..e....,.-. - . . ,. .. 5-. -L-Q.. .... Y..-,Y , 1-:--f:- su.a.uuu,tf- xwua:n.lo:Qamm9n!g1m !l Page Sixty-eight

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A eh' 'Iwi sf n THE ALUMNI PARADE Treat, 'l5, assisted by the executive board, planned and carried out one of the most comprehensive programs in the history of the Association. A New Enrollment Cam- paign was conducted with eminent success. Weekly lunch- eon meetings were held in New York, at which times groups of forty or more members reported on the Cam- paign and formed plans for the future. There were also sessions in Boston, Poughkeepsie and Hartford for alumni living in those areas. One result of this active interest was the largest alumni attendance at Commencement in the history of the Acad- emy. The entire West Barracks was turned over to the graduates, who spent the week-end as guests of the school. lt was in 1932 also that the Association established thc Achievement Alumni Award. This award is presented each year to that member of the Graduating Class . . . nominated by his classmates and selected by . . . the Presi- dent of the Alumni Association, the Headmaster and the Commandant of Cadets . . . for his strength of character. record of broad scholarship, athletic interest and ability, military efficiency and discipline, and for having done most to increase and maintain the spirit and morale of the Corps . . . The award was won in its inaugural year by Albert llutton, jr., '32, and in succeeding years by Donald Stan- ley llealey, '33, Donald Kent Brooks, '34, john Garrett Shattuck, jr., '35g Harold Morgan Shattuck, '36, Armand Louis Nazzaro, '37, Paul Hemenway Gale, '38g and Charles Govea, '39. On june 9, 1934, the Association presented a massive silver tray to General and Mrs. Davis in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of their connection with AT 1939 COMMENCEMENT the Academy. The tray was inscribed as being a mark of their fthe Alumni'sj esteem and an appreciation of the high ideals of service to which you have dedicated your every act during twenty-five years of loyal association with our beloved Academy. The tray bore the facsimile signa- tures of one representative of each of the forty-six alumni classes. And it was in 1934 that two alumni, john G. Shattuck, '05, and Frank Reynolds, '08, were elected members of the Board of Trustees of New York Military Academy. The only previous alumni member of this board was Lee Parsons Davis, '00, eminent jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. In announcing the elec- tion of Messrs. Shattuck and Reynolds, General Davis said they will be one more connecting link between the Acad- emy and her graduates. The Board of Trustees, headed by its president, Mr. C. Hardy, outstanding lawyer and president of the JOHN G. SHATTUCK, '05 FRANK REYNOLDS, '08 Alumni members of the Academy Board of Trustees. Page Sixty-seven

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