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

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Editor ...................A.. Assistant Editor.. Assistant Editor.. Business Manager ........ Sports Editor ...,... Secretary .......,.. Treasurer ................ Feature Editor ..... iKnugh 'iKih21 '5v1aff ASSISTANTS Cadet LeRoy E. Pellegrini ......Cadet George F. Drury ......Cadet Robert J. Spruce .......Cadet Jack H. Breskow ...Cadet Stephen E. Ferrin .......Cadet James P. Ward .........Cadet Jack Symmes ........Cadet Bert Schirmann Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Jack Nelson Phil Brand Elwood Jerome Milton Johnson Wallace Minard Don Morgan Stuart Davis Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Cadet Bill King Bob Gallager Fred Beckman Nat Rivkin Jack Arnold Stuart Krohn Donald McMillen Special recognition is due this hard Working staff who conceived the plan for R.M.A.'s first annual and brought it to completion in one month. This staff desires to express its sincere appreciation to Colonel Karl J. Stouffer for his untiring efforts in aiding them in making the annual a successful one. Fifty-n ine

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Class Prophecies 4 4 4 4 4 4 Gathered around the festive board were nineteen of the twenty-two graduates of our class. Those unable to come were: Davis G., who had been injured while exercising Whirlaway CXIHJ g Lewis, who had become a well-known evangelist, was unable to leave his mission for down and outers on South State street in Chicago, and Jack Breskow, who had written that his second-hand furniture store on Maxwell street had burned to the ground and he was unable to get away. Jack Arnold was chosen to call on each of those present for a resume of his life since leaving R.M.A. He began by telling that he had established a home for indigent and run- away boys. Uncle Jack, as he was affectionately known, called on the debonair John Curttright who confessed that he was a professional gigolo and was at the present employed by Mrs. J. P. Morgan II. Mr. Leroy Pellegrini was next called to climb off the telephone directories on which he was sitting to tell of his experiences as American Ambassador to Italy. Donald Morgan, who was now a prominent criminal lawyer informed us that he was now engaged with his own suit against the City of Chicago for damages resulting from the city building the sidewalks too close to his knees. The next to take the floor was Jack Teagarden's protegee, Jack Symmes. He attributed his success to the position he held in Chicago at a home for the deaf and dumb teaching the slip horn. His interna- tionally famous band of over half a hundred Chicagoans was on hand to play after-dinner music. The walls of the spacious dining room in which we were dining were decorated with specimens mounted in a unique and original manner which were pointed to with pride by Taxidermist Minard when he addressed the group. The choicest of these specimens was a rare albino Mole , which Minard had captured during his latest expedition in his backyard. Dr. P. P. Myhand was next presented to the group as the greatest living exponent of surrealism. His most recent and most famous painting entitled, Telephone Poles Don't Talk or . . . Whaahl had just been pre- sented at the famous Parson's Parisian Museum. Mr. Parsons, the great art connoiseur, had taken up this work as a hobby after being permanently disabled by a blow of a ping-pong paddle at Paduka Preparatory Poly- technic on the Potomac in Potawatame, Pennsylvania. At this point, I found it necessary to excuse myself from our class reunion, and after making plans to hold a similar meeting in five years, I boarded my rocket ship for a return trip to New York, where I was scheduled to attend a directors' meeting of my newest enterprise, the Drury Safety Pin Company. Fifty-eight

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