\. THE P.M. C. NEWS Vol. VII JANUARY, 1935 No.2 HYATT FOUNDATION LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR A BIGGER P.M.C. The Hyatt Foundation has now be­ come an accomplished fact as recently announced by the Associated Press and other important news agencies throughout the United states. The announcement which was pub­ lished widely in Philadelphia, New York and other cities, follows: Pennsylvania Military College for 114 years a privately owned institu­ tion of learning, has been transferred to public ownership, according to an announcement made today by John G. Pew, president of the Sun Ship­ building and Dry Dock Company and a member of the newly created Hyatt Foundation. Mr. Pew, stated that the College has been purchased from the Hyatt family, which has owned it for three-quarters of a century, and that it is to be operated as a purely non-profit institution in the future by the Foundation, which will act as the holding and operating body for the trustees. In transferring the College to pub­ Some stalwarts who will help carry P. M. C.'s 1935 grid burdens. Left to right­ lic ownership, Mr. Pew said that, the Cy Sobeck, end; Mal Stevens, fullback; Dick O'Malley, guard, Frank Malinski, Cap­ Hyatt family, of which Colonel Frank tain and halfback; Andy Lacek, center; Andy Elko, halfback. ...-... K. Hyatt, President of the College, is a member, have made a generous BRIGHT OUTLOOK P. M. C. CAVALRY THRILLS contribution to establish the Hyatt FOR 1935 FOOTBALL 20,000 AT SHORE GRID GAME Foundation. The reason for the --- change, he said, is to assure the per­ Coach Judd Timm's undefeated By Eugene R. Knoblauch, Class of 1931 petuation of the College beyond the P . M. C. football team which has In the Chester Times of Nov. 12 lives of present members of the Hyatt just closed its season, expects to go family, and to give it an opportunity marching on through the 1935 grid Martial brilliance, social glitter and to enhance its work through the crea­ season toward an even more en­ an array of dashing horsemanship tion of endowment funds. viable record. were features which accompanied In connection with the transfer of Timm is compiling a schedule the Pennsylvania Military College ownership, Mr. Pew announced that which promises to be much more gridders to their Armistice game at a financial campaign will be under­ pretentious and difficult than the Atlantic City on Saturday night, No­ taken at once for the development listings of the brilliant season just vember 10, with 20,000 spectators look­ of the College, the first step of which closed. ing on. calls for the raising of $150,000. An In place of Rutgers UniverSity, To see the great auditorium filled appeal will be made to the alumni which has been dropped from the well beyond its seating capacity and and friends of the College for the schedule, the Chester cadets on Oc­ to view one of the football classics support of the institution. tober 19 will clash with New York of this section was thrill enough for Mr. Pew's statement follows: University. Another newcomer to the several thousand Chester people "On behalf of the newly created the schedule is Ursinus College which who held seats in the Atlantic City Hyatt Foundation, I wish to announce gained national fame in the football auditorium, however, to witness the that Pennsylvania Military College world last season by its victory over display by the P. M. C. cavalry was has been transferred, by purchase University of Pennsylvania. The more than novel. cadets will play Ursinus at P. M. C. Scoring an even greater hit than and gift, from the Hyatt family, who on Thanksgiving Day. in their past visits to Atlantic City, have developed it successfully for The Timm warriors will open their the prodigies of Lieutenant Ted Com­ eighty-one years, to the public. season September 27 with a night fort, raised applause which equaled Colonel Hyatt, President of the Col­ game with Bucknell University at any accorded to the football players. lege, and other heirs of the late Gen­ Le\\isburg, Pa., and their next clash Each year has witnessed more dar­ eral Charles E. Hyatt, who is turn will be with the West Chester State ing feats performed by these mounted was the successor to Colonel Theo­ Teachers, October 12, at Chester. cadets of the local college and the dore Hyatt, the original member of The cadets will meet Lebanon Valley show on Saturday night was superb. the family who purchased the school College November 2, and University Headed by Cadet Lieutenant Bill in 1835, have generously given to the of Delaware in a night battle in Con­ Pickering, eighteen riders in smart public a large part of their holdings vention Hall, Atlantic City, Novem­ cavalry dress uniforms appeared on in the institution. ber 9. P. M. C. will engage Univer­ the tanbark at the half time period "The Hyatt family have never taken sity of Susquehanna November 16. of the game, mounted on a collection any profits from the College but Coach Timm confidently predicts of the finest horses ever ridden by the have turned any surplus beyond their that P . M. C.'s 1935 varsity eleven squad. living back to improve the equip­ will be stronger and more seasoned These eighteen mounted cadets ..-: ment of the institution and to main­ than the quite remarkable 1934 out­ went through a series of the most tain an able faculty. Three genera­ fit. He will lose only three varsity intricate mounted drill formatiOns tions of the family have developed the players by graduation-Red Pollock, without a single slip. They worked College to its present important place a triple threat giant, who won the out figures and letters at canter, trot among the educational institutions reputation of being one of the best and gallop and then went to more (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) difficult things. (Continued on page 3) HYATT FOUNDATION LAUNCHES Inot surprise me to see many im­ CAMPAIGN FOR A BIGGER P.M.C. portant college teams abolish the THE P. M. C. NEWS scrimmage and establish the dummy (Continued from page 1) drill. This paper Is published monthly durIng of the country, and It is their feeling the College year In the Interest or students, "A vivid example of P. M. C.'s high alumni and patrons or the Pennsylvania that its future will be better served morale and comeback quali ty was MIlitary College, Chester, Pennsylvania. by its being placed on a par with shown in the final game with Leb­ the non-proprietary, endowed col­ anon Valley College when a P. M. C. INSPECTION leges and universities of the coun­ pass was Intercepted, and the visitors try." scored a touchdown on a sensational Colonel Harry N. Cootes, Third The members of the n ew foundatlon hundred yard dash over the field. Corps Area, R. O. T. C., headquarters, are Bishop F rancis M. Taitt, John G. That touchdown shattered P. M. C.'s Baltimore, Md., Friday, Nov. 16 gave Pew, Edwin A. Howell, Colonel Frank distinguished unscored on record, and the college battalion its annual fall K. Hyatt, C. Edwin Webb, and for a couple of minutes the Chester R. O. T. C. inspection. Thomas F. Martin. cadets were so stunned by the dis­ In the morning Colonel Cootes lis­ Pennsylvania Military College is the aster that the visiting backs plowed tened in on a class dealing with tl'le second oldest military college in the through them almost at will, and automatic rifle, and in the afternoon country and Is one of but four such another touchdown for Lebanon Val­ in a wooded area near the college colleges in the United States which ley seemed an immediate possibility campus viewed tactical exercises are modelled after West Point. It as the ball was now on P. M. C.'s which were participated in by the was established by John Bullock In twenty-yard line. Captain Pollock entire cadet corps. These exercises 1821 as a school for boys In Wilming­ saw th at his outfit was headed for included outpost work, and other ton. It has been in Chester since possible defeat, and he called time phases of modern warfare. At a rigid 1866, thirteen years after its pur­ out, assembled his men in a hudd:e governmental inspection last Spring chase by Theodore Hyatt. and bathed them in his fighting P. M. C. was given a rating of "Ex­ spirit. That lit.tle chat on a muddy cellent" which Is the highest marking BRIGHT OUTLOOK field put high morale back into the within the province of the War De­ FOR 1935 FOOTBALL cadets, and in the next play Lock­ partment. wood intercepted Feeser's pass, and ------- (Continued from page 1) that started a systematiC march to­ EDWARD G. BAYES college backs in the country; Jim ward Lebanon's goal line. The Weaver, right end, and Herb Arney, cadets had the ball on the visitors' News has been received of the death rIght guard. 12-yard line when the game was recently in Canandaigua, New York, The coach will replace Pollock called. of Edward Graham Haynes, 72, a with Andy Elko, a product of Larks­ "I think that I can say without former student. He was president of ville high school who joined the undue boasting that P. M. C the the Ontario (N. Y.) Trust Company cadet squad in September. Elko, ac­ past season had th e most perfect de­ at th e time of his death and widely cording to Timm, gives promise of fense team in th e country.