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

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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

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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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SENIOR COMS NON-COMS - M M i - T W W ■4«5 jl ■■■1 -Wall, ' ■ ' ' ' stooB ' l-» ' Bisb»P ' J Andrew. J- „ Lalibe d. Erikson, Sullivan, McDonald Carter, Avery, Bennett honorably in the First Corps Area matches, and in the Hearst Trophy Matches in which rifle teams throughout the United States compete. Spring reviews and horsemanship shows came early in accordance with the rest of the college ' s accelerated program. Nevertheless, M. S. C. s military majors continued to ujjhold their excellence in riding and jumping and in commanding underclassmen in formation marching. The War Department issued the state- ment that Massachusetts State College ' s cavalry unit will maintain its present status, but that modern equipment, in- cluding some for mechanized training, will probably be sent here. But still Lochinvars ride out of the West (of Massachusetts). n