Roosevelt Military Academy - Rough Rider Yearbook (Aledo, IL)

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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 CU Cgmpany C Company was added to the ranks at R.M.A. at the beginning of this current year in order to take care of the large and welcomed increase in our ever-growing body. As the school year of 1941 and 1942 began, football was the main activity to crash the sport light, and as this well-known American game got Linder way, Company C did also, in an effort to establish a fine and superior record, for this, a new com- pany. Out of the eleven starting regulars on this year's Champion gridders, C Company is proud of the fact that six of them came from its ranks. Also during the fall term we found little difficulty in winning the award of Honor Company for the first quarter. As Winter crept in and the activities of the cold months began, again C Com- pany won its laurels by placing three out of the five starters on the basketball team. Our drilling throughout the year was matchlessL It was our drilling that won for us the first quarter of competition and kept us running for the Honor Company banner during each quarter of the school year. Also, we have placed our share of members in the Crack Squad drill team which has won itself much fame during the drill season. Not only have we aimed straight in our ideals and tradition but also we succeeded in aiming well during the current rifle team campaign as five of those targeteers came from among us. Company C4U!T'll1l2lll1iGI'I Drury: Gniilon Be-:'u'or: Moore. First Squad: Cadets Settles, Culttriglit, Bois:-11, Vvright. Hellbcrg, Brethen, Johnson M., Jones, lVlal'f-thall, Phelps. Second Sllllilllf Cadets Bogoff, Beckman, King, Crumrin, Vacuher. Ongley, Dcuni. Barnett, Davin G. L yr . N ox y Tllird Squad? Cadets Schirinann. .Davis S., iJZlNVl'Cl'lLfl2, Adams. Mizlu, McKee. lVlLlI'l'klY, Krohn, Thomas, Morgan. Thirty-one

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Company Commander: Pcllegrinig Guiclon Bearer: Sebestyen. First Squad: Cadets Symmes, Martiny, Rivkin, Tankel, .Hoffmann R., Stone, Nyhart, Clark, Garman. Second Squad: Cadets Hlzwzlty, Hackett.. Scllumann NV., VVl1lte. Church, Brand P., Sadowski, Koupal, Davis L., Jerome. 'lfhinl Squad: Cadets Handel, Knapp, Minard, Anderson, ilfietje, Scruton, Pave, Parsons, Nelson, Breskow. B Cgmpany if ak -nf ir ff f w af if if We are just B Company with a great tradition, proud of our records in the past, and eager to maintain them. Under the able leadership of First Lieut. Pellegrini, Second Lieut. Breskow, Sgt. Major Parsons, and First Sgt. Nelson, strenuous efforts were made to add our bit to the furtherance of that tradition. The future and compar- ative score will alone be the measure of our achievements. Our days on the campus, on the drill field, and in the classroom were days of work and play, days of loyalty and friendship, joys and disappointments. We are not making any claims for exceptional efficiency or unusual brilliance, but our record speaks for itself. We must not forget the days spent on the drill field, ruled by Major Rudolph. There We learned that respect and obedience were, and always will be, the school's first law. B Company was well represented by six lettermen on the football squad which ended up by taking the Midwest Prep Conference trophy. Also, we contributed six men to the rifle team. After starting off the new cadets with strange and inexperienced jobs, We com- menced working for another Honor Company pennant to add to our heavily laden guidon. Truly a valuable heritage has been created in this company, let Carry On be not merely a password, but-thenceforth-an inviolable order. Thirty

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Company Commander: MCAboy. Guidon Bczirerz Johnson D. First Squad: Cadets .Hoffman E., Balzel' pF., Krueger. Howell, Neuhaus, McKean. Dempsey. Second Squad: Cadets Bersln R., Pclno, Wynn, I'1u1ite1', Hutchinson, Kahn, Bonfield, Rosen' baum 'W. Third Squad: Cadets Bcrsin H.. Brodie, Jackson, Leven, Kapson, llalzex' R., Gordon, Shogrcn C 'uompanyf W ff 1+ ff f + This year has been an outstanding success for our smaller boys at R.M.A. They have been running on an increased program of making good future soldiers and citizens. Under the able assistance of Captain Ortmeyer and Lieutenant Raatz, the three ranking cadets, First Sergeant MacAboy, Sergeant Shogren, and Sergeant Johnson, D., have made splendid progress in preparing their small charges to meet any trying condition. In the light of the present condition of the world today, G Company has included a plan to help further the defenses of America. Up-to-date they have bought with the money they have earned by the sale of newspapers, clothes hangers, and other vital materials, a total of 55120.00 in Defense Saving Stamps, and they are planning to save 55150.00 by the end of the year. Besides Academic Work, G Company is participating in the Olym- pics , an athletic program that builds up their small bodies into strong, healthy, young giants. They play football and basketball, and have a splendid track team. They publish their own paper called the Pony Express . Th irty-two