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

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TO WHAT END ? By MR. LAWRENCE G. HOOVER Principal of Central High School URING the past ten years more than twenty thousand Wash- ington high school boeys have participated in cadet activities. At least forty thousand relatives have shared the enterprise with these boys. Counting the cadet organization in each school as constituting 30 per cent of the student population, we find that 67,000 high school youths have given interest and support to the various school units. Not less than 100,000 people, probably twice that number, have witnessed the annual company competitives over these years. And if we wish to continue statistical, we might estimate the money invested, at twenty-five dollars per cadet, as a half million dollars which have gone into the hopes and aspirations, the shared fellowships and pleasurable activities, the unit enterprises and personal ambitions, the successes and disappointments shared and experienced by our boys. D Needless is the question, 'LTO what end?,' The cadet whose growth in manly character and personality qualifies him over the year or two or three of his cadet service, provides the answer to all skeptics. Cadet training and service enrich life, develop personality, and mold character. THE ETA SIGMA GAMMA CADET TROPHY By CAPTAIN ROBERT L. HAYNE, I-I. s. c. TA SIGMA GAMMA, the cadet honor fraternity of Central High School, submitted to the First Regiment in February, 1939, a gold trophy to be presented annually to the best inexperienced private of that Regiment, as a reward for excellence in military science and tactics. The trophy is awarded after a semester-long competition among the inexperienced privates of the regiment. During the cadet year the platoon commanders keep for each experienced cadet in their command a rating sheet, on which the cadetls daily drill is judged according to a point system designated by Eta Sigma Gamma in the rules governing the award. This point system, drawn up by a committee of cadet officers assisted by Captain Paul L. Doerr, former Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Central, is based upon one hundred points for each drill day. These hundred points are distributed among the qualities which the committee felt to be most indicative of an excellent cadet. There are twenty points each given for character, military poise and bearing, and the uniform. The twenty points allotted to the correct wearing of the uniform are distributed into separate divisions, a certain number going for brass, for the cap, for shoes, and the like. Ten points each are given for the execution of the manual of arms, drill performance, attendance and promptness. Since there are separate awards for skill in the execution of the manual, it was thought that the points allotted thereto should not exceed those allotted to other qualities by which it was felt an inexperienced private can well be judged. The selection of the winner is then made by the Officers' Club of the First Regiment, from among the inexperienced privates who are found to rank highest in their respective platoons. The winner's name is engraved on the trophy, which is then presented to him at a school assembly by the president of the fraternity. lt is the belief of Eta Sigma Gamma that a good cadet will become a better one if his earnest efforts are appreciated and recognized by his officers. ln the words of Mr. Lynn Woodworth, Military Instructor at Central, Superior performance merits an award-recognition furnishes an incentive for continued top flight performance. I orfy-th rec

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MR. LAWRENCE C. HOUYICR Principal of Central High School

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