St Josephs College and Military Academy - On Parade Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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aaa .js-Anfon? As we leave St. Joseph's, our profes- sors and our friends, let us go back through our own history and revive a few memories of the days gone by: proof that high school was not so bad after all. FRESHMAN YEAR The calendar tells us that it was Sep- tember 4, 1945, when we, the greenest of the -green the future '49ers, first entered St. oseplifs. There we were, sitting around the East entrance with the ol timers surrounding us. At first we were afraid to talk but soon the ice was broken and everyone tried to talk at once. On that day we met many who later became our close friends, not only for the duration of the school term, but, we believe, for 1 e. Remember when we were issued our uniforms?-oh,, those beautiful, well-fit- ting O. D. uniforms! All of them had to be form-fitting, that isg Kaur form had to fit the uniform. It was t en we learned that the Army has two sizes, Large and Larg- er. Sgt. Adams just said: 'Who cares about a few sizes one way or another? Later on we found out that someone did care: the first officer you met..After a few weeks our uniforms were tailored to fit and we did look pretty sharp at that! Ah, yes, then came the trouble of finding the classrooms. Of course they had numbers on them, but they had them distributed over four floorsg in this wing and that, left and right-well we finally found them, after getting such directions as: Up two floors, down four classrooms, turn right at the left win ,fo left at the third door from the second rinking foun- tain, and it isthe second door riight across the hall. No wonder we all ma e straight A's lfor Absent, that isl the first week. The poor professors fGod bless themll did not say much to us at first, but judging from the wrinkles which developed on their brows they must have been wonder- ing how they ever got such a collection of numb-skulls together in one lplace. Occasionally we had a xttle trouble with the bull rings not much, just a mat- ter of a few hundred hours. We were really such angels! Remember when some- one gave you the first one of your career? x kv 9 an ' . l f ' M 4.4 JA Of course, you objected, but objections have a way of being over-ruled, ou would saly: No, Father, it couldn't ol? been me w o threw that paper wad during Histo Classy absolutely not! - - - You marcheldl Just now a familiar word pops up: 0. D. Whenever that word was yelled, ev- ery action ceased, everythin fell into place. ltnreally seems funny: wghatever we were doing at the time was definitely wrong, no matter what it was, the O. D. woul come along at the critical moment, and . . . well, you know the rest. Life can be so cruel. This was the year we had the good football team, a team which went on the next year to even greater heights. We won all our games that ear except the one with Hays Hi I our old, jinxl. lt was a hard one to. lose but we made up for it in the following Mears. When ay rolled around we felt pret- tg well at home, in fact we knew we had t e whole thing licked. All we wanted was the next year and a chance to show them! SOPHOMORE YEAR Well, we came back a year older and I mu. V -n vw . me - - , Q .11 W1 1,15 A ' ', 'iff ,ai f f ' , X e , ' -5-,,.,':f,'. 5-rgg 'iqif 3. L 'Q' , 'si x -K 1- ,sl . ,, L., i, ,W-LY' - ,N . A. -.- - - . 1 ' fQ'Q:iGsF1'd'f4gf V is rl ., 4 l.l,2sg,. ,QQ ,Q 1 .4 , . - - 1 - li ififilfi' 5 iff-'f lf1'i P - .L f, la iw., Lf KX -Q if 1 . - ..A 0-I Y , 1 . - ,.,. , , - . g I 1 Q 4 , . .V 1.3 . 5,1 , . pq. e, . I Q A . ,a , ' . Inspection at the annual bivouac.

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,vii we ,Y dd in if A fl' no fs ia Q11 of ll- is W l. Y L 14. l 3, L . 1 l ,I i e fl' st. Ax .x iilirlllllg RilI6Y'MBBiifi9of 1 fi The.foui' mon SEQ Joseph Acad- emy rifle renmocouoiind hy'T7-Sgt. Randall Vaughn returned to Hays today.wit.h the trophy for winning the grand 'clmmpionshlp ofthe annual Midwest Indoor' Comp Perry rifle meet .at Kemper'.,Mili- 'tau-yacadcmy, Booneville, Mo., a trophy' for winning' the high .school boys Loam match, ,eigt 'silver medals and three bronze medals, , ' - Eachltoam membor was award- ed o silver medalin the two team events and three of the .team members placed in 'individual ,events in winning- the 1-1 medals. 'The firing ' Egan Thursday Max-ch 3, with a prnctice l'Llll. Match firing- began, Friday morn- ing and lasted tl1rougih'Satu1-day. Teams from the Universities of -Tennessee, ' Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma! AJEM. pai-gicipatecl as well as high school and military' school teams from 12 states. Individual scores for the St. Joseplfs team in the Gi-and Cham- pionship nxawh were Clarence Wittzuan. 1949 Daniel Pfeifer, 1869 Clem Fay, 1825 and George McCourt, 177. Firing was done from four -positionnrprone, sitting, kneeling-. and standing, ond the total possible was 800 points. The St. Joseph total was 730. St. Joseph ranked higher in the 'G1'I1lld Championship match then-any of tho colleges. high schools, and military schools en- tered. ' 'The University of Illinois scored 1729 points to top 'tho collegiate -entries. - Fay also placed sixth in the in- dividual pi-one championship mulch bohind five university entrants. ' In the Grand Aggregate high school championship match, St. Joseph placed two entries in the first five. Wittman scored 278 of 1300 possible for second place, one point behind first place win- ner Louis Welle, William Chris- man high school, Independence, Mo., and Fay scored 274 points R! e Below: The Booneville Champions: St d':TlSt.V h C h Drlgfggr, Capgain, aulga3:,C. man. Kneeling: G. McCourt, D. Moeder. 1 'yi Below: The Hearst Trophy Teams. A Front Row, First Team: D. Moeder, G. McCourt, D. Pfelfer, C. Fay, I C. Wittman, absentl. Second Row: Second Team: R. Horinek, J. Co enhaver, M. Hiebel, L. Gabel, I R. Schoendaller, absent? Th'clR Th'dT :N.G'bl,R.Kl ,l. . sclglk, Rvaoetgrw. Timing. le er aus Gott Fo thR :Tl5t.V h C I1-F thT :G. F Lfavonfelcgr, Wflflgrxflf, q'1Vi'fid0rb'l'f's. Schzzeder, a sen . for fifth place.

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erha s a year wiser. Perhaps it did not ?how,pbut we thought so, anyhow. This time we knew our way aroun and knew most of the boys, too. In our own estima- tion we were in for a blg time-we were going to show them what could be ac- com lished with so much talent around. Sid friends were found again, endless bull sessions soon brought out all the thin s we had done during the summer, in short, the year started with a bang. This time we knew our wag' around the supzply room, and when the eargent tried to oist any old uniform that came to hand on us, we et out a big enouilh squawk to be heard and have our wls es fulfilled. Our choice, what choice there was, was l t ui ke d b tter. a o q c r an e First among the events of the year was the arrival of Lt. Col. Elmer L. Knight U. S. A., as head of the military staff and P. M. S. 8: T. His arrival pn November 11, 1946 marked the beginning of many im- provements in the ml itary conduct of the school. lt was under his fine direction that Ygllginally made Honor School Rating in Sgt. Frank Richardson, U. S. A., also arrived that fall. He took over the ob of lst. Sgt. on the staff and later took clharge of the Crack Platoon, building up this out- fit into an outstanding organization. Remember when we came back from Christmas vacation and were geeted by that huge mass of canine fur, uke7 Hls full name was Yankee Duke, and he car- ried a pedigree that went back at least to the Mayflower. Duke was a great favorite of the Cadets but his unbreakable habit of wandering off to town for days at a time proved to be his undoing. Duke was AWO so .often that the Rev. President felt thatnhls bad example might have an adverse influence on the boys, so he was sold up the. river: to Catherine that is, where he still remains. So if you're riding through the hills of Catherine some day and meet a.St. Bernard along the way, you'll know lt's Duke. lt was during this year that the Me- morial Gateway was begun in memory of the Alumni and Cadets who took part in World War ll. This was also the first year we used the new tennis courts and skating rink. Some of the students, under direction of the Faculty, had begun to work on leveling of the space for the tennis courts during the late Spring. During the Sum- Father Terence and Duke. mer, the Faculty undertook the ,iob of lay- ing the cement for the courts. The area ll 110 by 114 feet, all in concrete, which contains space for two tennis courts. A six-inch high curbing was built around the court to allow the courts to be flooded m the winter, providing an excellent.skat- ing rink, better than a quarter acre m ex- tent. lf you think back hard enough ypu will remember what trouble we had with the bull -ring. A few' of us even surpassed last ear's records in hours on that lovedy march. They sag. that opportunity raps but once but in t ll case, lt kept on knocking. On the brighter side o the fence we can remember that at last we got a little authority, yes, genuine author- ity. Some of us were Corporals and Ser- eants, - why even a few became Staff Sergeants before the end of the year. This was one of our outstanding years in athletics. The football team was scored upon only once, by Ellis, and that by a fluke. And it was a year to remember for we beat Ha s Hi 28-O! The track team did even better. Spark- ed by Captain John Carlnody, we took the Class A State Championship for the 5 , 1 ia L- wf- i I 5.33.-gangs., '- -'r5',g,v.g:j, -A L Volley ball on the new tennis courts. 63