University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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PAKT OF THE STUDEXTS ' LIFE included all rm ' nihor.s of the advanced corps. The members, fearing ' that their choice of officers might conflict with the cadet commanders chosen in the spring, did not elect leaders in the customary manner. Instead, they chose George Kimball, James Gilman, Vincent Erikson, Vincent LaFleur, Ralph Hatch, Frederick Burr, Russell McDonald, Roger Mad- docks, and Frederick McLaughlin to make arrangements for meetings. Sabers and Spurs has as its underlying motive the imiting in clo.ser relationship of the Military Department and the corps of cadets ... of promoting military dis- cipline, courtesy, and patriotism ... of giving military majors, as educated men, the chance to take a more active part in the military affairs of the state and nation. . . . A great military advance gained through skillful strategy was the whole- -saie invasion of the uniform-su.sce|)tible feminine hearts at the Military Bali held December twelfth appropriately in Drill Hall. The work of Chairman Winthrop Avery ' s committee gladdened not only the warriors and their wenches, but the civilians and their swinging sweet- hearts. ' Cush ' for Colonel! cried the cadets as they chose Eleanor Cushman Honorary Colonel; and, as saber blades glittered, Eleanor, with Bill Kimball escorting her, marched down the columns of at attention, uniformed Majors to receive from the Colonel her military mantle and regimental pin, insignia of her office as chief reviewer of all Mass. State Cavalry. M. S. C. ' s unit headed the list of nine Arv ' s spring oi M» - Colonel „ Colooe . YouoP

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R. O. T. €. AS A MAJOR With polyandrous Bellona constantly demanding new bridegrooms, the R. O. T. C. has sprung into a sudden and eventful prominence on State campus. Commandant Donald A. Young was promoted first to the position of Lt. Colonel, then to that of Colonel; new member of the khaki department James R. Chambliss was advanced from a captaincy to a majority; and Staff Sergeant Patrick Creary retired from active duty after fourteen years of teaching. The student section of our military department kept hitting the headlines, too. A military society, Sabers and Spurs, modeled on the Scabbard and Blade, national honor fraternity of the R. O. T. C, was formed by junior and senior cavalry majors, and automatically Horsemanship at Horse Show, Gauniond on JuUus officers hA a ,ber-t»-« ' ' ,, ., for Victory Vin and Jack try out a hit of mechanization .18]

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JUXIOR New England colleges in the percentage qualified in rifle marksmanship (91.3% of the seniors) for the 1941 training camp season for the First Corps Area. Since every junior taking advanced military qualified in either of the two upper classes, expert or sharpshooter. good riflemen must be rife on campus. The Rifle Team was reorganized only last year, after five years of inactivity, and has been outstandingly successful in its competition with the rifle teams of such colleges as the University of Con- necticut and M. I. T. It also competed F. McLaughlin, Gizienski. Fiorio. Gorman. Burr, Freeman. Drozdal Tosi, Marsden, Melnick, Atwood, Hatch, Andrew, J. Shepardson, Rochelea iO