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

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N i The Barn O f' This scene i si shows our barn as H 4 it looks to ' Y Msieao . e , fft the winter gg ary., riders. , Q M -r i a Wifi - , v , , .:.: A -file A ee I Brushing 'em Down In the Old Corral Brown Horse Troop Becomes Rainbow Outfit R. M.A. began this school year with six new mounts imported from Wyoming, plus six left over from last year's brownies. These western mustangs proved so successful that a new stable was built for them and a new member added to the staff in order to care for them. After Mr. Ira Colburn, a veteran rider and trainer, took charge of the corral, six more Wyoming horses supplanted all the held-over mounts except Bubbles, Boots and Bud. So the color scheme changed from brown to red, white, and black. Through March, Mr. Colburn, who owns and trains six trotters at the Aledo Fairgrounds, supervised the horses while Captain Ortmeyer continued as riding instructor. On days of inclement Weather the latter conducted equitation classes based on riding books that had been added to the school library. Cadet NVing received the highest score on a test of 100 items about rules of the road, mounting, posture, aids, gaits, points of a horse, equipment, and biographies of famous horses. On an attendance chart Cadet Wing also had the largest number of rides to his credit. The Rainbow Troopers suffered a blow with the graduation at mid-year of Joe Sebestyen, the cadet who had headed the riding club for four years. Hellberg, however, did an excellent job of taking f the Hungarian centaur's place. In April, Mr. Col- burn took over the riding as well as the stables when Captain Ortmeyer started as acting com- mandant. Mr. Colburn took such excellent care of the horses that two of them, the pinto twins, were sold the day after commencement at a considerable profit for the academy's riding budget. Cadet Hell- berg purchased Bubbles with money that he had earned. These steady improvements in the paddock mean that in the future R. M.A. will have better riding facilities than even those that the cadets en- joyed this year. Mrs. Pembrook rode a horse for about the first time in her life when she helped break in Ebony a few days before school began in the fall. Since then she has become an accomplished equestrienne and attended the long moonlight- less ride that the cadets enjoyed on the last Fri- day of the school year. Cadet Gordon's handling of Spook on commencement morning, however, was the highlight of the academy's riding program for 1942-43.