Washington High School Cadets - Adjutant Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The Cadets By Colonel Jack C. H. Stearns HE CADET CORPS has long fulfilled and still does fulfill valuable functions in the lives and educations of our thousands of students. The high standards set in the Cadet Corps which tend to develop along the best lines are the latent possibilities in the fine type of boy usually found in our cadet organizations. Scholarship is a primary consideration for all to become out- standing in cadet work since the cadet ratings are founded on a 60-40 basis. Sixty per cent of the rating is scholastic: forty per cent is for military drill. Every boy who joins the corps has hopes of becoming an officer, and bends most of his efforts toward school success with that object in view. This hope of becoming of some importance in the cadet organization is often a strong ho'd that teachers and family have over the boy even though such a condition is far from ideal. ls it not much better for a student to work for some objective without himself and more than his own sense of satis- faction rather than to accomplish little or noth- ing in school for a lack of any incentive at all? Experience shows that this may be the alterna- tive. Trustworthiness is one point upon which each cadet receives a rating. a rating that is very carefully scanned by those who award places of honor in the various units. And trust- worthiness, although one of the fundamental considerations in the good life, is only one of the many points of character that are con- sidered in making for success in the Cadet Corps. To attain real leadership, one must be endowed with perseverance, loyalty, self-control, seif-re- spect, ability to work with others, ability to assume responsibility, and a resourcefulness which is capable of meeting every emergency which may arise. The boy in the ranks attains the same ob- jectives as well as develops along the same lines, although the distance that he goes depends up- on his relative ability and his will to succeed. His development differs in quantity rather than quality, Someone has suggested that the Corps offers no opportunity to those who have originality. But is this true? The war-games and the com- mand of any unit offer as much opportunity for clear, original, even brilliant thinking. as any complicated chess problem could possib'y offer. There are no rules in Infantry Drill Regulations for the complicated situations that arise in the course of many cadet activities, The human relationships are too complex to fit into any fore-ordered plan: even living successfully year in and year out with comrades in a cadet unit requires a tact. a resourcefu'ness, a com- prehension difficult to find elsewhere in high school life.

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STEPHEN KRAMER Assistant Superintendent of Schools In Charge of Cadets LT. COL. WALLACE M. CRAIGIE, U. S. A. Professor of Military Science MISS REBECCA E. SHANLEY Teacher of English ' 'T In Charge of The Adjutant J - MISS GERTRUDE E. WALTER Teacher of English ' N .-' ,: '.3f- . Y ff E TRI -is .-:IM I -' 'ily T 1 ' I IIIIIHA i - ,amp 1 , Assistant and Tactics Washington High School Cadet Corps Magazine General Oflice: Central High School Washington, D, C. C a d e t S t a f f Editor-in-Chief COLONEL JACK C. H. STEARNS Associate Editors LIEUT. COL. JOHN P. WILEY CCentra1J LIEUT. COL. LEWIS MAGRUDER QEasternj LIEUT, COL. ENLOW CARTER CMcKinleyJ LIEUT. COL. JOSEPH KEATING CWesternj MAJOR PHILIP TARR CBusinessJ Contributing Editors CAPTAIN HARRY WATSON fCentra15 CAPTAIN GEORGE CAWTHORNE CMcKin1eyJ CAPTAIN ARTHUR TUFTS fCentra1D CAPTAIN EILBRIDGE CHURCH QWesrern5 CAPTAIN GEORGE BOGIKES QCentra1J CAPTAIN CHARLES HART fEasternj LIEUT. MAURICE TSCHANTRE CMcKinleyD Humor Editor Business Manager CAPTAIN WILLIAM RICHARDS QMcKin1ey5 MAJOR AARON GOLDMAN CCentra1j Photographic Editor Art Editor MAJOR ARTHUR L. CONN CCentra15 CAPTAIN ARCHIE B. KENNEDY QCentra15 Assistant Art Editor CAPTAIN HOWARD TURNER fCenrralj 62

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