Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-24
Plan MIDkIFF TO
BE COMMANDANT
OF CADET CORPS
Oahu College May Dispense
With Army Officers in Mill
tary Training of Students

| Frank Z. Midkiff, athletic director,
will be the permanent instructor in
| military tactics at Oahu College m
place Of regularly detailed army Of
| ficer if plans now being discussed by
the trustees of the school are adopted.
Midkiff, who recently returned to
Honolulu after a month spent in the
citizens training camp at Monterey,
| Cal, under the direction of the War
Department, says that the opinion
prevails that the military instruction
at Punahou cannot be made the sue
cess expected of it with the constant
changing of instructors detailed from
the army.
With this opinion in view, Midkiff
says that, if the plans work out and
are adopted, lie probably will be
placed in permanent charge of the
military instruction, assisted from
time to time by sergeants from the
regular army
"The sergeants would be called
upon Tor special instruction in target
practise, range and signalling" says
Midkiff. Another would train the
buglers. From time to time a hospit-
al sergeant would teach first,aid,
methods of taxing care of the in
jured and problems relating to the
general health of the cadets. ..~.G
1T is my plan to properly combine
and relate the military training with
athletics so that the cadets would get
work in each Of these branches.
There should be enough athletics to
give each cadet the proper control of
his body, and he should learn enough
about sports, season by season, and
enough of the military work to teach
him proper discipline. respect for or
ders, promptness, precision and ex-
actness. .... ... ...... .......
These are qualities which many
parents in Hawaii understand that
their. sons lack and need. Parents
have asked Panahou to supply that
sort of training. which they are unable
to give in the homes, and Punahou is
going to do it. e.: IL .. ..-.-....
"The hard job will be to make out
a proper schedule of time and distr1b-
ute the work among the boys so that
the military training and the physical
culture may progress successfully,
and SO that the current sports, such as
football, track athletics and baseball,
may be kept up to the usual high Pu'
nahou standaEd" IT,: -. ....s.s...
Midkiff saysshe hopes to have some
assistance 7his work from Godfrey
L.. Bergman, the new head of the
boarding department at Punahou, who
was a classmate of Midkiff at Colgate
university in 1919. ..-.-I.5
He is a fine athlete and mixer
with the boys" says Midkiff, and
should be a Dig help in keeping
things moving fast .~. -.
-Punahou will open. for the fall term
on September, II. and the work of or
ganizing the cadet companies will be-
gin as soon after that date as con.
venient to all concerned. Promotions
will not be made for several weeks, as
there will be considerable drill and
other work before the officers are
finally named. =" -..---... .-.
The new officers will hold their
for the entire school
year. The commissioned officers
win be chosen from the senior class,
sergeants from the junior class and
corporals from the sophomores. All
freshmen boys will be privates.