T^.ji*Cui^~- ALUMNI ALUMNI EDITION EDITION Vol. 20 Staunton Military Academy, Kables, Virginia, Friday, February 26, 1937 No. 9 South Atlantic Prep A GROUP FROM THE GRADUATING CLASS OF S. M. A. IN 1896 Colonel Middour Attends Parents Day Is Set Boxing Tournament To Educational Conference For Monday After Be Held March 5 and 6 Colonel Emory J. Middour, Super- Easter, March 29 intendent, is attending the twelfth annual conference of the Secondary 38 Entries Have Already Been Education Board held at the Commo- Parade, Reception, Dinner, Received; Others are dore Hotel, New York City, today Dance are Scheduled Expected and tomorrow. This conference from for Occasion year to year solicits the interest and The annual South Atlantic Prepar- representation of the better known Monday, March 29, has been set as atory School Boxing Tournament will Eastern preparatory schools. In the the date of "Parents' Day" at Staun- be held at the Staunton Military- conference for this week the subjects ton for this year. In his general let- Academy on March 5th and 6th. The of the Secondary School program, its ter to parents, printed in another col- bouts will begin on Friday evening at administration, its religious educa- umn of this paper, the Superintend- 7:30, at which time the preliminaries tion and its general management, in- ent issues an invitation to all parente will be held. The semi-finals will he cluding both the senior and junior of cadets in the corps to spend Easter held Saturday afternoon beginning at schools, will be made subjects of with their sons and remain over for 2:30, and the finals will begin at study. There will also be a discus- Parents' Day on the following Mon- eight o'clock Saturday night. sion of the part that music, work in day. Of nine tournaments held, S.M.A.'s the shop and studio, should take in All parents are invited to dine with team has emerged victorious in eight, The above photograph was taken on board a ship in New York harbor over the secondary school program. The the corps on the 2 9 th, and to attend losing only once the invitation tour- forty years ago, when a group of Texas boys were embarking for home just final session of the conference will be the formal dance to be held in the ney held at the University of Virginia after graduating from Staunton Military Academy. From left to right, to the devoted to a study of the future evening. Other events scheduled for in 1930 to the Augusta Military best of our information, they are: Robert Hewlett, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; trends of examination procedure. the day are a dress parade by the Academy. The Staunton team wae N. W. Townsend, deceased, Texas; A. N. Howard, M. D., Houston, Tex.; L. M. This discussion will be directed by cadet corps, and a reception by the runner-up in this, the only tourney in Lidstone, deceased, Texas; Tucker Royall, Dallas, Tex. Mr. John M. Stalnecker, research of- faculty for the parente in the school which they have been defeated. ficer of the College Entrance Exam- library. Immediately following the weigh- ination Board. This conference gives As was explained last fall in the ing-in on the gymnasium floor of Real Old Timers Of Forty Years Ago Tell Staunton an opportunity to compare first announcement of Parents' Day Memorial Hall by the referee-in-chief, its program with the program now for this year, the date was changed the contestants will be served steak Something Of Staunton In The Nineties being followed and advocated by the from Thanksgiving to Easter time, dinners in the S. M. A. messhall, and best Eastern preparatory schools. because it seems better to break the all coaches will meet with officials of Member of Faculty of '96 Who Men representing St. George School, long term from Christmas until June the Tournament for the drawings, Members of the Class of 1896 Now Prominent Citizens Is An Alumnus of '93, the Hill School, Phillips Exeter, Deer- by this function than to have it dur- which will be supervised by an im- field Academy, the Taft School, Avon ing the short fall term. Also since partial official, Mr. O. L. Denton. of Texas Writes Memoirs Old Farms School, Yale University, Easter marks about the middle of The eight winning boxers in the Princeton University, William Penn the spring session, and it is custo- The above photograph of a group At the request of The Kablegram, finals will receive gold medals, and Charter School, the Kent School, St. mary to give the corps a holiday Mr. James F. Minor, S. M. A. 1893, the eight runners-up will receive sil- of Staunton cadets of the class of Paul's, and many other leading East- on the Monday following Easter, this who also was an instructor at the ver medals. The winning team will 1896, was sent to The Kablegram ern preparatory schools will partici- date seems all the more appropriate by Mr. James F. Minor, of the class Academy in 189 6, sent us his recol- be awarded a gold cup, appropriately pate in this conference and share for this occasion. lections of the school at the time he engraved and stamped with the of- of 1893. At the time the photograph with one another their experience was associated with it. As is stated in ficial Tournament die, and the run- was made Mr. Minor was an in- and success in deciding what is best the adjoining column, Mr. Minor sent James Cochrun Is Cited ner-up team will receive a similar structor at S. M. A. A letter from and wisest in the field of secondary us the photograph of the group of silver cup. The coach and manager him is printed in an adjoining col- education. By Gen. John J. Pershing graduates above. Mr. Minor lives in of the winning team will receive gold umn. The photograph is the prop- o erty of Mr. Robert Hewlett, S. M. A. Charlottesville, Va., where he is the James Cochrun, S. M. A. 1933, medals, and likewise the coach and General Letter to Parents manager of the runner-up team will 1896, and was made in New York proprietor of a general insurance who is a senior at Ohio Wesleyan receive silver medals. Points toward Harbor in June, 189 6, on board a business. His letter follows: From the Superintendent University, Delaware, Ohio, was dec- "I enclose a kodak picture taken the team championship will be Mallory Line boat which plied be- crated last week by General John J. back in 1896 of five S. M. A. boys Dear Friends: awarded as follows: 5 points to the tween New York and Galveston, Pershing for "Excellent military shortly after their graduation. I re- Since this issue of The Kablegram winner in class; 3 points to the run- Texas. The cadets were a group of bearing and aptitude." He received Texas boys who were about to return ceived it from Mr. Robert Hewlett, goes to all parents of the present this award at Washington, D. C, Feb- ner-up. Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. I was cadet corps, please permit this gen- As yet, there are but thirty-eight home for the summer vacation. ruary 18, and was congratulated by teaching at S. M. A. that year, and eral letter. The past two months definite entries to the tournament. Letters were sent to each "boy" in President Roosevelt. this was part of the graduating class. have been difficult and trying both However, many of the schools invited the photograph, and also to Mr. Last July, Cochrun attended the "When I taught at S. M. A. for for the cadets and all of us in the to enter have not yet entered their Minor. Replies have been received military encampment at Fort Ben- the session of 1895-6 I was a youth organization of the school. As you applications, all of which must be in from Messrs. Howard, Royall, and jamin Harrison with 2,000 others of nineteen years. There were only know, three out of every four days Minor. from Ohio, West Virginia, and Indi- before Tuesday, March 2. Those seventeen boarding pupils on the hill. since Christmas were cloudy, rainy schools which have already signified Messrs. Townsend and Lidstone ana, known to the War Department Old Captain Kable, "Kid" Kable (the days. This weather did not help the as the Fifth Corps Area. He was se- their intention of entering the bouts are dead, according to information late Capt. W. H. Kable), A. A. Hooff, spirit of the boys who had had a very are as follows: Augusta Military (full received by The Kablegram. Mr. lected as the most outstanding mem- and myself, were the faculty. We happy and free Christmas vacation ber of this group. team); Staunton Military Academy Hewlett lives in Cold Spring Harbor, and then on their return found that had a football team, though, with Recently the war department (full team); Hargrave Military Acad- New York. Excerpts from the letters they were again back in the regular some boys from town playing on it, sent Cochrun a notice which declared emy (full team); Miller School (five from Dr. Howard and Mr. Royall are routine of school work for a period including Col. Harry N. Cootes, him the most outstanding member of men); Charlotte Hall School (four printed below. U. S. A., Horace Peck, William of five months. We make our year the Fifth Corps Area for the year men); Randolph-Macon Academy "A.