Western Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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THE RECALL, 1934 Kadet Kalendar Codasco. Swimming team takes its fifth straight victory from Soldan. Junior swimmers win from Y. M. H. A. B men lose to Country Day and C also loses. Cadet Captain Nat Ewing makes a speech at Alton Rotary Club February 8th: Now that Nat has shown his stuff, the seniors select him as their president, Rogers Hornsby attends Western parade and invites corps to ball game A Western grad, Louis Von Weise, is presi- dent of the club. These basketball scores are getting embarrassing. We dropped another to McBride. C team is coming up with Charlie Black, and B looks like a championship outfit. The swimmers pull down their sixth victory from Beaumont, and the rifle team also scored a victory. February 15th: Dr Goddard starts a series of lectures at Western. They are much enjoyed. Through kind- ness of Mr. Burst we see tennis champions in exhibition. New sun lamps give Palm Beach tan in February. Basketball losing streak is broken. We lose another to C. B C., but win from Burroughs. Rifle team trims Beaumont. B wins from Burroughs, while swimmers hand nice defeat to St. Louis University ' s Varsity. What a surprise! February 22nd: Group of seniors attend lecture at Monticello. George Henderson selected for All-Star basketball team. Twice honored in both major sports Group of seniors attend dance at Lindenwood. The Public Speaking program is unusually good Our friends from Monticello hold treasure hunt and find their treasures high in trees on Western s campus. Cadets are supposed to keep their minds on their work. The Western basketball team is coming through. They give decisive defeat to St. Louis U. Hi, which is rated as one of the best. Wrestling — you know. Swimming team beats Washington University freshmen. The Captains ' meet in the 220, Jackson had to break the school record by seven seconds to nose out Varney. Rifle team wins another from Cleveland. March 1st: This is Culver Day. Our basketball team left early in the morning for a 350-mile drive. They had a wonderful trip. Culver is a great school and they have the finest lot of cadets you ever met. We lost the game by two baskets. They gave a dinner dance for the cadets. The swimming meet was a thriller. We will admit Culver got bad breaks, but the final score was one point in their favor. A beautiful party was given by Mrs. Olin for both teams. What a day! We lost both matches, but we gave real competition — and look out for next year! Washington ' s Birthday dinner was great. March 8th: More dramatics by the Juniors, with “Rudy Vallee Harding as the perfect lover. Oh, you Lost Elevator! Western ' s swimming team takes its ninth victory from Prin. B basketball drops one to Codasco and another one to Prin. Western ' s rifle team wins the district championship by defeating Webster Groves. March 15th: Capt. Moore ' s return meets hearty welcome from the corps. Western ' s rifle team beats Uni- versity City. Sophomore public speaking is interesting. Bugle band takes trip to St. Louis. Party of cadets visit Stock Yards in new bus. Glee club sings at Stratford Swimming team takes long trip to Kansas City. The trip was a great success. We enjoyed the hotel, the visit at Kemper, and every- thing was fine except that we lost the match. B Company leads in bowling. March 22nd: Squad drill won by the Third Squad of A Company with Corporal Dunn commanding. St. Pat s Dance was big success. More highbrows for the Symphony. Rifle team congratulated and publicly awarded beautiful trophy. Miss Cornell entertains seniors in Barrets of Wimpole Street , Western qualifies several men for A. A. U. swimming finals. April 5th: The spring furlough was enjoyed by all. What a break! We must get better acquainted with Mother and Dad. They seem like nice people, but furloughs are so short, you know. Results of Co-operative tests show Western in the highest brackets. April 12th: Albert M Jackson Memorial Gateway under construction. More dramatics by the sophomores. Alton Boy Scouts hold giant exhibition in Drill Hall. Program of Government inspection is announced. Western beats Soldan in track when George Henderson breaks javelin record by large margin. Rifle team loses its match to Washington U. April 22nd: Cadets visit new Auditorium in St. Louis — the finest in the West. Gateway progressing. Kansas tests show great improvement in academic standing. The freshmen entertain with public speaking program. Track team shows championship caliber by swamping Country Day. The golfers have started. Baseball team beats Country Day 5 to 0. Looks like a championship in both spring sports. May 3rd: Testimonial to Colonel A M. Jackson proves inspiration to corps. May 10th: Commencement schedule is announced. Jimmy Banks is valedictorian and Bob Winkelmeyer is salutatorian Nat Ewing is honor graduate — and everything is grand We feel so good we helped Monticello dance around the May pole. The boat trip was wonderful. Landed for an hour at Jef- ferson Barracks. That boat had everything but a crap game. Good trip to Park ' s Air College. Too bad we couldn ' t fly. George Henderson elected president of junior class. Another trip for the air- minded in which we attend an air circus at Lambert Field. The Grammar School entertains with a pro- gram. The baseball team wins its championship by defeating Codasco. Western s track team over- whelms St. Louis U. Hi with Blives taking enough points to win the meet by himself. Track team also defeats Wood River. The tennis team — like the wrestling team — you know May 17th: Nat Ewing appointed Cadet Major for good work in Government Inspection. Cadet Rulkoetter receives appointment to West Point as official representative of Western. Alton High combined glee clubs entertain cadets. Quill and Scroll hold a reception with many visitors. Special classes are now fully organized. Seats sell as they do in the Stock Exchange If you don ' t believe it, try to get into one of the more popular classes. Western ' s track team wins championship with Cutler and Hender- son making new records and Blives stealing the show with his iron man reputation. The tennis team met Prin You know. But we may surprise you next week. Our baseball team won a hard game from E. St. Louis, score 7 to 6. Poor old Von Hoffmann wanted to catch a ball so badly he tried to do it with his mouth. He is a great ballplayer and a good sport. Too bad for the teeth Recall goes to press. Page Nineteen

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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

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★ THE RECALL. 1934 ★ The Juniors, ’34 Many members of the class of ' 35 have been together in school for the past four years, others have entered more recently. Among the members of the class who have been here four years, are: Arvey, Barrett, Gruner, Henderson, G., Jackson, R., Kundtz, Rest, Rosenblatt, and Snyder. Anixter, Baumgartner, Brown, N., Cutler, Costello, Dunn, Ellis, J., Hartkopf, Fix, Key, Latham, R., McCroskey, Port, Remmers, Von Hoffmann, and Walters have been with the class for the past three years. The remaining members of the class — Barber, Benavides, Brown, W., Brownell, Burst, Clinkscales, Colby, Coombs, Costello, Drell, Ellis,- W., Jenkins, Johnston, McNaughton, Marriott, Padorr, Persons, Schippers, Streeper, Vonachen, Webster, Wheeler, and Woodin entered either this year or last year. The class of ' 35 has established excellent records in academics, military, and athletics. In the academic department, Snyder, Cutler, McCroskey, Anixter, Drell, Schippers, Rosenblatt, and Baumgartner have constantly held places on the Upper Ten. In military work, Snyder, Henderson, Cutler, McCroskey, Baumgartner, Remmers, Armato, Dunn, Kundtz, Von Hoff- mann, Ellis, J., Arvey, and Anixter have done good work. These men have made excellent records in both practical and theoretical work. The outstanding men, militaristically speaking, will more than likely be selected from this group of juniors. The outlook for the class next year in military work is very promising due to the number of men who have had extensive experience. In athletics this year, the junior class has produced quite a number of outstand- ing athletes. Armato, Snyder, Cutler, Barrett, Marriott, Jackson, Johnston, Kundtz, Latham, McCroskey, Port, Rest, Rosenblatt, Snyder, Von Hoffmann, Walters, Schippers, Dunn, Arvey, Brown, and Henderson have each earned a letter in some varsity sport. In the latter part of April the class was organized and officers elected were: Henderson, president; Cutler, vice-president; Armato, treasurer; McCroskey, secretary; Von Hoffmann, sergeant-at-arms; and Arvey, historian. Next year when members of the class of ' 35 become seniors, they hope to be able to carry on as well as the present graduating class has done, and to be able to make a record as remarkable as theirs. Page Twenty