Western Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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★ THE R E C ALL, 19 3 4 ★ Some Senior Statistics of 1934 BASIS OF CHIEF NAME FAME OCCUPATION LIKES ACTS AMBITION Abrams Nose Fencing Swimmer Tough Doc Banks Talks fast Study “Dodo Nervous Napoleon Bennett Pest Pestering Pestering Pesty Pest Bergesch Dramatics Memory Book Society Stagey 400 Blives Track Bragging Blives Terrible 9 ft. 3 in. Boyer Bird Farmer Batting it Crazy Post Grad. Brichler Hitler Artillery Schenberg Friday Planting Burrows 100% Swimming Banks ? Reduce Cohen Elmer Hdqs. Dtc ' h. Senior Lit. Quiet Floormat Draper Airplanes Airplanes Drafts Fragile Aviator Ewing Duck Lovin ' Furlough Ducky M. D. Harding Griping Primping Blondie Childish Frankie Jones Springfield Bugles Paullin Lazy Springfield Kennedy Maxine Sitting Don Cherubic P. G. Course Kevil Judge Existing Mint Julep Critical Colonel Knapp Shrapnel Shrapnel Hostesses Romantic Liberal Arts Marriott Water Swimming Girls Fishy Marriage Miller, J. Oh, Girls!! Football Kelly Tough Graduate Muller Drawing German Wimpy Foolish Pencils North Lower Alton Girls Football In Love College Oros Horn Band Music O. K. Senior Lit. Paullin Himself Singing Jones Collegiate Law Pope Neck Senior Lit. Rosemary Innocent Annapolis Rothstein Venus Holdup Man Hammocks Maxwell St. Form Fit Rulkoetter Twitch Talk Bobby Naive Medals Ruttenberg Dese, Does Pest Drums Funny Illinois Sackett Length Papers Betty K. O. Shrink Schenberg Fruit Eating Brichler Silly “Sell de Goods Shields Ankles Jazz Them Big League Knapp Smith Hair Wasting Time Betty Slow ? Springett Chin Pitching Baseball Small Time Bookkeeping Thogerson S. America Spanish Jungles Childish Engineer Walker Voice Singing Edith Peoria Coffins Winkelmeyer Sewer Swimming Maxine Absent To be Wintermann Corporal Walking Bob ? Girls Young Chop Suey Tennis Everybody O. K. West Page Seventeen

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★ THE RECALL. 1934 ★ — CHESTER EVERETT WAL KER, JR. entered Western in 1930. In his first year, he started off in athletics by becoming a member of the C Foot- ball Team. In the second year, he played on the B Football Team and ' Prep ' ' during his last two years. Chester also played B Basketball in 1931 and became a member of the Swimming Team in 1932. In 1933 he became a member of the Track Squad. In the military department, Chester was made a Corporal in 1933 and received the rank of Sergeant in 1934. He consistently made the Upper Ten in the second semester of his Senior year. He was an outstanding member of the Glee Club for four consecutive years, and made the Senior Quartette. Chester participated in the Senior play. RICHARD E. WINTERMANN having entered as a Freshman in 1930, has been a member of the Class of ' 34 for four years In his first year, he joined the Gun and Pistol Clubs, and was very active in dramatics. His Sophomore year was similar to his Freshman year. In his Junior year, he became a member of the Junior Swimming Team and the Shrapnel Staff. During his Senior year, Dick has become a Corporal in Company C , gained a place on this Company ' s bowling team, and made the Senior Dance Committee. He is a member of the f AU. CECIL MING YOUNG It is all the way from Honolulu, Hawaii, that Cecil hails. He came to the academy at the beginning of the 1932-33 school year and has remained in the States ever since. In 1933, Cecil was made a Private First Class. For his excellent military work at both the R. O. T. C. camp and the academy, Young has received three promotions this year. First he was made a Sergeant, then he was advanced to Color Sergeant, and finally First Sergeant. He earned a place on the Upper Ten in 1933 and played Prep ' ' Tennis. This year, he played Prep Basketball and Prep Tennis again. Young was elected captain of the Tennis Team in 1934. Page Sixteen

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★ THE RECALL. 1934 ★ Kadet Kalendar Weekly Bulletin September 18th: Fifty-filth year opened. Seniors returned ready to run the school. Col. Jackson welcomes increase in enrollment. Mrs. Jackson entertains Seniors. Bob Vonachen celebrates with appendix operation. Football squad starts training. Hooray for the new year! October Sth: Cadets enjoy all-day boat trip on the beautiful Mississippi. Walker and Callahan disclose talent as dancers. Bob Knapp ' s selection as editor of Shrapnel insures success. First football scrim- mage with Shurtleff shows strength and weaknesses. October 12th: The Frazer-James dancing girls entertain cadets. Who wants to be a Zulu? Western repre- sented at Veiled Prophet s Ball and the American Legion Convention. The first football game with St Louis U. Hi was a tough one to lose in the last minute. B and C football under way. October 19th: Dramatic Club presents two plays with seniors in star roles. Western Scouts organized with Capt. Droste as Scoutmaster C. B. C. gives us a bad defeat in football, but B and C teams take it out on Country Day October 26th: Public Speaking. The bugle band parades in Edwardsville Amelia Earhart tells cadets how she flew the Atlantic. The Varsity defeats Burroughs, 28 to 0, with B and C teams also bringing home the bacon. A 100 per cent football week, all at the expense of John Burroughs. November 2nd: More Public Speaking. The Gymkana on Hallowe en was a big success with everybody scrambling for prizes. Shrapnel states first dance was hug success. They may have meant huge — but hug will do Football team ties McBride. Best game of the season. Tommy Barrett wins tennis championship B team takes Prin, and C team draws tie with same school. The Hobby Club aoing strong with Bennett nominated as chief hobby horse November 16th: Missed a Shrapnel because of furlough. And what a furlough! Oh. Boy! Can you imagine a bunch of hard-boiled cadets enjoying a fairy opera? We did just the same. It was Hansel and Gretel. Cadet band makes first appearance. Varsity football takes Codasco, 14 to 0. B takes the championship, but Bob Costello breaks his wrist. This is the first of a series of breaks for Bob who now rivals Vonachen for hard luck championship. The lighting C team draws a tie in football with J. B Charlie Black, head coach of Nebraska, joins coaching staff at Western. A prince of a fellow and a fine coach The King ' s English by Juniors was a great show. . . . Woody Rest as a hot mamma , Tommy Barrett as a king, and Harry Schenberg as kawa-kooko — and was he cookoo? November 23rd: A group of seniors attend dance at Lindenwood. The more serious-minded go to the Sym- phony Concert in St. Louis, but the real lightweights get their biggest kick out of the Girls ' Bugle Corps from Troy. Imagine twenty-five Helens and all from Troy. Believe it or not. Charlie blew the bell off his bugle when the leader said, That ' s fine, big boy. The football team takes championship in A B. C. League by beating Principia. Hooray for Championship No. 1! B trims Codasco 13 to 6, while the fighting C ' s get another scoreless tie. November 30th: Another Public Speaking program. Western purchases a new bus. It is a twenty-pas- senger Ford, dedicated to the service of the cadets — and will we use it! Shrapnel editors enroll in national honorary fraternity. George Henderson and Murray North make All-Star selection because of great work during season. B football team hasn ' t lost a game for two years. If the C team bulldogs can t win, they won t let the other fellow do it either. Thanksgiving was a great day, although we had to bow to Alton for the third straight defeat. The dance was great and we tried to forget our sorrows. December 7th: Permanent Shrapnel Staff announced. A brief visit from Capt. Moore who is in charge of a CCC camp. The hobby club is busy and the bowling team is organized. What a banquet on Thanksgiving! Everything a fellow likes and plenty of it. Now is the season for indoor sports Charlie Smith of Illinois U. is in charge of wrestling. December 14th: Merry Christmas! Almost time to start home for the holidays. B Company wins the swimming championship. Music department gives interesting program. The rifle team drops its first and only match. More St. Louis Symphony for the highbrows. The Christmas program was great Santa Claus gave many humorous presents. Basketball prospects look good. Swimming team headed for a championship, with B and C basketballers coming strong January 11th: School opened the 3rd with good increase after holidays. All cadets take part in national testing program. Ellis and Jenkins win drill medals. The school bus is going great. We like our new lights in the mess hall. The swimming team defeats Y M H. A. January 18th: The band program made a hit. We enjoyed the African explorer ' s tales. The hobby club is divided One section studying weapons, another airplanes The new bus takes cadets to St. Louis for ice skating Results of Kansas Tests announced, with old standbys in the lead. New cadets winning first place are Rush and Tick for Freshmen, and Latham, J. for Sophomores. The best that new cadets could do in upper classes was a triple tie by Schippers in Physics, The basketball team beat Burroughs. Swimming team overwhelms Roosevelt. B steps out and beats both C. B. C. and Burroughs in the same week. January 25th: The highbrows again attend the Symphony, but seniors compete by seeing Walter Hampden in Richelieu ' . Dramatic club entertains. Varsity basketball drops two to C. B C and Principia Swimming team triples the score on Prin and breaks several records. Wrestling is a new sport in which we lost our first match. We keep right on losing them, but wait ' till another year. C team dropped a game to Prin. February 1st: End of the semester. Final exams — and what a headache! Are we seniors or aren ' t we? Walter Pyre shows us what a salon singer is (not a saloon singer). The mid-winter dance was great More cadets enrolled for second semester. Rifle team wins its match with Hadley. When I say wrestling — you know the result. The Varsity drops two more — one to St. Louis U. Hi and one to Page Eighteen