United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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2W e4xaA,t i e it o m I riUCyeCMirtii, k MtHeiniL Kin- mi I F«;Bm,Gpl : ..j«l P. yiiWi ' ' ■ ' j.rente, Ih !■ ' ■ ■ . Col. H«i y ' ' ■:wi(lP.W ' ' Te.iching us lirstwh-.it words to use and how to spell and decline them, to parse, compare, and conjugate them, the patient instructors of plebe English proceeded next to teach us to read what we and others had written, and to produce creative writing of our own. Included in the first year ' s course were a smattering of literature, a bit of military correspondence, enough of letter writing, and considerable public speaking. Two of our biggest Left to Right— Maj. H. M. Daniels, Lt. Col. T. S. Slnkler, Jr., Col. Clay- ton E. Wheat, Professor; Maj. H. A. Hughes, Lt. Col. E. B. Fifipatrick, Lt. Col. A. M. Willing. accomplishments plebe year were the term paper and the ten-minute talk .... From our plebe speech it was but a short jump — though it spanned a year — to the fifteen and thirty min- ute lessoas we presented as First Class Military histruc- tors. Explanation and demonstration of the explana- tion, demonstration, and application phases of lesson planning were accompanied by application in the talks we gave of the principles, plans, and aids we had learned to use. We were being taught to teach .... Unity, Coherence, Emphasis. 1st Row— Left to Right: Major W. E. Mather, Lt. Col. R. G. Finkenaur, Lt. Col. D. R. Dance, Col. Clayton E. Wheat, Professor, Capt. F. E. Behm, Jr., Lt. Col. W. H. Corbett • 2nd Row— Left to Right: Lt. Col. J. R. Stauffer, Capt. P. J. Amen, Maj. R. C. Barrow, Lt. Col. E. H. Pfeiffer.

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4 -fi Too hard for some, difficult for man -, and easy for a few, plebe Math— important in itself— laid the ground- work for a variety of technical subjects to follow. As we hived, spec ' d, stumbled, and blundered through algebra, solid, trig and analytics— through Cardan ' s cubic— through planes, spheres, prisms and frustums— through celestial navigation— through conic sections and hyperbolic para- boloids—and, as yearlings, through derivatives and inte- grals longer than the line of grey— we little realized the direct application it would have in upper class courses and, quite possibly, in post-Graduation careers . Math. 1st Row— Capt. Richard P. Yeilding, Lt. Col. Vivian S. Lawrence, Jr., Lt. Col. Robert A. Sharrer, Col. Harris Jones, Professor; Lt. Col. Henry A. Robinson, Maj. Edward P. Coleman, Maj. Robert C. Yates • 2nd Row— Capt. Peter J. Kiernan, Capt. Kenneth G. Fuller, Mai. Raymond I. Schnitlke, Capt. Albert B.Farnell, Capt. William Bobaike, Capt. Alan G. Rorick • 3rd Row— Capt. Donald E. Kibbey, Capt. Emmett A. Hazlewood, Capt. Benham M. inscrsoll, Capt. Harris T. Guard .

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IP M« 30 Assembly is. Laundry onna stoops! Bv now well involved in and acclimated to academ- ics and up to our hauled-in necks in work, we found awaiting us the many soirees incident to cadet admin- istration and coincident with fourth class cadet free time. We dragged everything but femmes: mail, laun- dry, poopsheets, dry cleaning, and packages. If there was a message to he carried, a trunk room to be