Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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1 GRADUATION xxxx Graduation is like getting married, it’s something that happens every year —but not to you. Sometimes it’s called Commencement. And that’s about right, because something has to be started right soon thereafter. Of course with some boys. Commencement is a start off to college, while with others, it’s a start for a job. There are always a few ‘seniors’ without sufficient credits who don’t graduate until later. Naturally Graduation in 1929 does’nt look very different from the rest of the ’20’s to the faculty—and maybe so not to the Alumni either—but it surely looks different to the fellows that are standing up together for the last time. I understand how my uncle felt last year when he was married. Why he acted as if he were the only man who had ever been married. We, too, are going out into new and untried fields and by ways that seem strange. Of course we won't, but sometimes a fellow can’t help feeling mighty young and wondering if when he gets out in the great big world he is going to do as that other little boy and “faw down and go boom.” Then it hits you in the solar plexus, when all of a sudden you realize that the old familiar bunch with whom you have travelled through the last four years of school are about to scatter—and will probably—all of them— never get together again. Then we realize—all of us—that we have been travelling with a pretty fine gang and the way that seemed so rough and rocky at times, was after all a pleasant road. And each of us, with a queer sort of feeling, gets a glimpse of the little boy who was me” (or you) four years ago. And he seems such a queer, ignorant little fellow and kind of wistful and lonesome-looking. Then we realize that old T. M. I. has done a lot of things to and for that little boy and —and—that we, you and I, owe a lot of love and loyalty to the old school. JOHN C. CARRINGTON. X is X

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ERNEST LEI.AND ANDERSON “Chubby” Entered S. A. A. 1923; Graduated T. M. I. 1928; Cadet 2nd Lieutenant Co. B ; Rifle Team 29; Drill Team ’27, 28, 29; Tug-o-War 28; Zeta Sterna ’27, '28; Evening News High Score Rifle Trophy 29; College Preference: Colorado School of Mines. MICHAEL WESTHBIMER ALEXANDER ‘•Alec”, “Mike.” Entered T. M. I. 1928; Cadet Private Co. B ; Zeta Sigma '29; Track ’29; College Preference: I.eland Stanford. IGNACIO GARAY BUSTAMANTE “Busts” Entered S. A. A. 1925; 1st Lieut, and Supply Officer; Football ’28; Tug-o-War ’29; Zeta Sigma '29: Honor Council '27, ’28, ’29; College Preference: Southern California University. JOSEPH HENRY BRASHER “Shorty Entered T. M. I. 1928; Cadet Private Co. B ; Baseball ’29; College Preference: Texas A. M. JOHN CLAIBORNE CARRINGTON Jack Entered S. A. A. 1923; Graduated T. M. I. '28; Valedictorian Class of ’28; Cadet Captain and Intelligence and Publicity Officer; Saber Best T. M. I. Officer R. O. T. C. Field Day '29; Drill Team ’27, '28, ’29; Lieutenant Drill Team ’29; Rifle Team ’29; Zeta Sigma ’23. ’25, 26. 27. 28. ’29: Secretary Zeta Sigma '21. ’28; President Zeta Sigma ’29; Scholarship Medal ’24. ’25. ’27, ’28; Honor Council ’29; Sponsor Committee 29; -Panther Staff '29; Editor ‘ Blue Bonnet ’28, ’29: Commencement Debate ’27; College Preference: Princeton. ALBERT LUIS DUB1N Al” Entered T. M. I. 1928; Private Co. “A ; Drill Team 29: Zeta Sigma ’29; Blue Bonnet Staff ’29; College Preference: Wharton School of Finance. PAUL LEROY DUBLIN ‘‘Irish ’ Entered T. M. I. 1927; Cadet Captain Co. C ; Footfall ’27, ’28; Drill Team ’28, 29; Rifle Team ’28, ’29; Secretary Honor Council 29; Zeta Sigma ’28, ’29; Secretary “T” Club ’29; Baseball ’28, 29; College Preference: West Point. CHARLES WALTER FOSTER, Jr. Charlie Entered T. M. I. 1926; Zeta Sigma ’28. ’29; Drill Team ’28, ’29; College Preference: Texas A. M. X 19 X