Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-12
R. kIYON IS NAMED
CADETS COLONEL
Central High Senior Awarded
Certificate at Impressive
Ceremonies.


awarded the certificate of commission
as colonel Of Washington's High School
Cadet Brigade at the annual commits
sion presentation exercises at Central
High School yesterday afternoon. One
hundred and forty other cadets also re-
ceived commissions in the cadet corps.
the list including lieutenant col
onels, II captains, 50 first lieutenants
and 81 second lieutenants.
Those awarded certificates commits
Sioning them lieutenant colonies are
Arthur L. Conn, Central High School;
Max Miller. Eastern High School; Os-
car Guildenhorn and Frederick H. Cut
ting, both of Mckinley High School.
The ceremony proved impressive IN
spite of heavy clouds overhead and
brisk east wind. which made spectators
glad to button their overcoats and add
ed additional. pep to the peppery cadet
District Commissioners Dougherty
and Taliaferro and Stephen E. Kramer,
first assistant superintendent OF schools.
in charge of white high schools and
cadet affairs, witnessed the certificate
presentation ceremony with Army ofil-
GERS at the reviewing stand at the north
side of the field. There also were
number of spectators in the main stand
at the stadium who cheered the cadet
officers as they received their commits
sionS, and later the whole corps as 1t
passed in review, marching around the
stadium several times with Inherent
units, giving a snappy "eyes right" as
they passed the reviewing stand.
SIaden Gives Certificates.
The actual presentation Of certificates
was made by Mai. Gen. Fred W. Sladen.
commanding general Of the Sd Corps
Area, u. S. A., while the whole brigade
| was lined up in formation reaching
from one end Of the field to the other
| and facing north, with the cadet officers
| forming line in front. Gen. Sladen
was assisted by Lieut.: Col. Wallace M.
Craigie, u. s. A., professor Of military
science and tactics In the public schools.
| Other oficers at the reviewing stand,
| including assistants in military science
and tactics, were Col Thomas L. OAR
row, Col. Clarence c.. Deems, Maj.
Alexander w. Mash, Maj. J. q. Dono-
van and others. !. !
Young Lyon, the new cadet colonel,
who has not quite reached his seven
tenth birthday, has won many honors
| in the cadet CORPS, one Of which was
| the distinction of being chosen the
best drilled man In the cadet camp last
| Summer, for which he holds medal.
He also holds medals for having been
selected the best sergeant in Company
D and for other special achievements
| in the corps.
The commissions awarded have been
won both on the records the cadets have
made in the Cadet Corps and their
scholastic achievements.
Other cadets receiving commissions,
from major to second lieutenant, in
elusive, and their schools are as follows:
Commissioned majors-Stanley M.
Segal, Business High School: Paul r.
Wilmer, Frazer r. Hilder, Mason Culver
well, John H. Howard and Fred d.
Vechery, Central High School; Donald
A. Craig and Samuel lola, Eastern High
School; Henry N. Karr and Chaloner
M. Barnes, Mckinley High School;
Charles r. Denny and Paul Marshall,
Western High School.
Captains Commissioned.
Commissioned captain-Millard G..
Bowen. jr., and Melvin G. Payne, BUSH
ness; William r. Wolfrey, Harry Sacks,
Cradle H. Mitchell. Robert A. Little
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OBrien, David l.. Krupsaw, John M.
Belts, Norman S. Pressler, Sam Vert
leb. Sidney s. Zlotnick. Gail G. Geddes,
and Albert ]. Orlosky, Central: Ralph
G. Lloyd, Robert A. Dunnigan, Clarence
A. Rhoden, Marshall Grinder. Fred p.
Fischer, Howard r. Lady, Frank U.
Rodger and John M RieckS, Eastern;
Presley A. Wedding, Philip A. Kralrt-
wurst, Charles e. Everett, George o.
Weber, Edwin B. Cox, Morton N.
Dodge, Roland A. Linger, Herbert j.
Lidoff and Howard M. Biggs. McKin-
ley; George E. Baulsir. Stuart G. Fries,
Richard Fletcher, James L. Pimper,
Louis F., Lucas, Edward W. Snowden,
Franklin A. Thomas, Minor S. jane
son, jr., and Howard T. Bierer, Western.
ton v. Phelps. Melville w. Stewart,
Business; Edward B. Newcomer, Frank
w. Norman, John P. Heubsch, Roger
r. Marquis, Francis Zeiler, Philip Gold
stein, Albert G. Tooms Edgar B. CHS
well, Raphael Sherry, David Sachs,
Charles E. Collier, Harry F. Weber, Da-
vid S. Thomas, Edmund II. Lloyd, Clin-
ton G. Skidmore and John H. Williams,
Central; David r. Middleton, william G.
Neuehahn, George A. Didden, Elmer l..
Hall, John B. May, Lawrence p. Pun
phrey, Anthony A. Cuozzo, William A.
Marley, Paul A. Manganaro and Hub
bard Quantrille, Eastern; Richard w.
Mattoon, Roger Peed, Paul Dunn, Proc
tor L. Dougherty, Warren H. Queen,
Claude E. Cooper, Rudolph Siegrist, VIII
liam w. Walker, D. E. Allen, Albert e.
Harmed, Theodore M. Wilson and Titus
B. Snoddy, Mckinley; Hamilton Wright,
Edward e. Odom, Ernest D. Brigham,
Gerald German, Reginald Rutherford,
it,: Fred L. Downs, Davis Caldwell,
George H. LamSon, Ronald Cheney and
Cornelius De w. Lang, Western. t.
Commissioned second lieutenant
Lyman Kraisel and John B. Layton,
Business; Howard Bixby, John N. Ditz-
Ter, Laurence P. Sherry. Ralph I. VIII
liams, Harry B. Cation, Charles F.
Squire, Roy L. Bodine, Benjamin K.
Schwarz, Carl r. Hellbach and Harry
l.. Moffett, Central; Richard A. Ten
nelly, John w. Nally, Joseph r. Rabbit,
Norman w. Gill and Albert j. Strauss,
Eastern: John r. Dye, Howard F. Lar
combe, Frank Der Yuen, Edward Buck
lin, H. Wildman, Louis B. Ruck, Myer
H. Stoller, e. H. Gibbs and Walter w.
Miller, Mckinley: James L. Humphrey,
Albert G. Love, Frederick p. Pike, Dam
lei Van Voorhis, William H Dix and
Harold Levy, jr., Western.
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