Western Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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period, much longer than the others; starting at 7:45, an hour and a half was devoted to studying, with a five-minute rest period at the half-way mark. Taps went at 9:45, so as to assure each cadet plenty of sleep for the next day ' s work. Many outside speakers, outstanding in various fields of education, gave their viewpoints on im- portant issues of the day to the cadet corps. Colonel Jackson and Major Persing were untiring in their efforts to bring before the cadets the best type of education possible. It has been a successful school year. The entire faculty deserves a great deal of credit for having been so patient with us, and we, the graduating class, thank them for the equipment with which they have sent us into life. Keep your fingers crossed — Captain Buck dishes out {he grades. Woosley engages the attention of everyone with a very interesting senior speech. Study Hall — Major Henderson ' s in charge. No fooling.

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gave us an opportunity to get in shape for the next semester. At the beginning of the second semester, a great deal of reorganization had to be done, and Captain Nachtmann and Lieutenant Fossieck took over the task of teaching U. S. History. A course in Latin American History was started. With the world situation as it is, America has had and will have many relations with South and Central Amer- ica. There is no man more competent to give us information about this section of the world than Captain Williams. He might almost be considered a native, since he was born there and has spent a great deal of time there and in Mexico. Western was proud to be one of the very few high schools in the nation that presents a course in Latin American History. This year, as last year and the year before, the seniors and juniors had an extra burden to carry. They were required to make twelve- and seven- minute speeches respectively in front of the entire cadet corps. This sort of public speaking is excel- lent training, for it builds up self-confidence. The speeches were given during our assembly periods, after lunch. Sometimes, before Major Persing in- troduced the cadet speakers, there was a short period of singing. A dub for boys who made perfect grades in one home-grade period was begun several years Captain Williams ' s new Latin American History course furthers the Good Neighbor policy. Malting history live — Dr. Beard lectures on the Reconstruction Period. ago. Perfect grades meant an average of 4.00, so the organization was named the Club 400 . Membership in the club has been the objective of many boys this year. Each cadet, no matter whether he got 4.00 or not, had a batting average that he had to maintain in order to study in his room at night instead of in the study hall. On the basis of tests and achievements, Major Persing assigned these averages after the first two weeks of school and then again at the beginning of the second semester. Early to bed, early to rise, mokes a man healthy, wealthy and wise! That was the way things were worked around Western, especially after the be- ginning of the second semester, when the schedule reverted to the seven-period day. We were up by 6:10 A.M. and by 8:00 we were ready to start a new day of school. There were four forty-minute periods ending at 10:55, after which the time was devoted to military until that welcome mess call at 12:05. School was taken up again at 1:15 P.M., after a twenty-minute assembly formation, and there were three more classes until 3:30. Usually each cadet had three study periods during the day in which to prepare his next day ' s assignments. From 3:30 to 5:30 everyone had a period of relaxation from academics excepting those poor, benighted members of the detention squad who were making up for lost time. At night there was another study — 20 —

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ACADEMIC HONORS Semester I, 1940-1941 Barker . . Crouch . . Gonterman Gordon, E. WINNERS OF A GRADE DIPLOMAS (An Average for 2 Years of 3.00 or Better) Albert Amxter Gary Gonterman Gordon Griffith Hamilton, F. Hamilton, J. Henderson Jackson, W. Miller Paddor Pardee Rivera Saner Vogler von Hoffmann Woosley Highest Honors ELIGIBLE FOR CLUB 400 4.00 Hill 4.00 Kummer . . . 4.00 Miller, R. . 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 High Honors Frudden 3.80 Staples 3.80 Anixter 3.75 Byan 3.75 Gary 3.75 Pardee , 3.75 Rawls 3-75 Rivera 3.75 Sherman 3.75 Vogler 3.75 Warner 3.60 Bergman 3.50 Brown, N 3.50 Fleischman 3.50 Griffith 3.50 Hamilton, F 3.50 Harrison, B 3.50 Heiser 3.50 Jackson, W 3.50 Marks, J 3.50 Paddor 3.50 Porter 3.50 Raith 3.50 Saner 3.50 Webb 3.50 Withers 3.50 Woosley 3.50 Zimmer 3.50 Honors Atkins 3.25 Block, T 3.25 Endsley 3.25 Hamilton, J 3.25 Hutchison, A 3.25 Hutchison, R 3.25 Jackson, T 3.25 Knapp 3.25 Regan 3.25 Zahn 3.25 Ainlay 3.00 Albert 3.00 Barta 3.00 Block, W 3.00 Borntraeger 3.00 Cohen 3.00 Copeland . ' 3.00 Gaddis 3.00 Gordon, B 3.00 Henderson 3.00 Hunter 3.00 Monaghan 3.00 Multin 3.00 Pearo 3.00 Quilligan 3.00 Russo 3.00 Turner 3.00 von Hoffmann 3.00 Whitmer 3.00 — 22 —