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Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

USMA at West Point

We have changed the wording of our Alma Mater to reflect the fact that our Women Graduates have also given their lives serving this Nation.

----- Class of 2012 Motto ------

- "For More Than Ourselves" -Thank you Class of 2012 - for the Honor of Marching with you The Class of 62 - Can Do

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

The Cadets of West Point

They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

Washington's Letter recommending the establishment of the Academy and the History of West Point

The Oaths We Take

West Point's Medal of Honor Recipients

Jefferson Hall - the Academy's new Library.

Douglas MacArthur

Vinegar Joe Stilwell cleaning his Thompson -The Walkout -Burma 1942

George Patton

The Monuments of West Point

Kosciuszko Monument - Guarding the Hudson ensuring there is no passage of British Man of War

Forts of the Hudson

So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, Oh!

Academic Excellence

---- Colonel Thayer

West Point

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Superintendant was not Happy Black '57

Home of the Dean

Quarters 104

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

United States Military Academy Band

Cadet Barracks

Rugby Complex

Great Chain

Plain looking toward Washington Hall

Battle Monument

Washington Hall with Cadet Chapel on rocks above.

Hudson River

Captured Trophies

Battle Monument

West Point Cemetery

Plain

Cost to this Nation of Differing Views

Trophy Point -- Our Flag

Corps of Cadets Formed in Companies early 1960s

Sending the Army Team off to Beat Navy

Army Mule

Color Guard

Band Box Review Early 1950's in Central Area

Battalion Mass Early 50's

Flirtation Walk

Arvin Gym

Duty Honor Country

Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Academic Excellence

--They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

Colonel Thayer

West Point mid 60's

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

United States Military Academy Band

Barracks

Rugby Complex

Great Chain

Plain looking toward Washington Hall

Battle Monument

Washington Hall with Cadet Chapel on rocks above.

Hudson River

Captured Trophies

Battle Monument

West Point Cemetery

Plain

Cost to this Nation of Differing Views

Trophy Point -- Our Flag

Corps of Cadets Formed in Companies early 1960s

Sending the Army Team off to Beat Navy

Army Mule

Color Guard

Band Box Review Early 1950's in Central Area

Battalion Mass Early 50's

Flirtation Walk

Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Academic Excellence

They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

Colonel Thayer

West Point mid 60's

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

United States Military Academy Band

Barracks

Rugby Complex

Great Chain

Plain looking toward Washington Hall

Battle Monument

Washington Hall with Cadet Chapel on rocks above.

Hudson River

Captured Trophies

Battle Monument

West Point Cemetery

Plain

- Cost to this Nation of Differing Views

Trophy Point -- Our Flag

Corps of Cadets Formed in Companies early 1960s

Sending the Army Team off to Beat Navy

- Army Mule

Color Guard

Band Box Review Early 1950's in Central Area

Battalion Mass Early 50's

Flirtation Walk

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Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

We have changed the wording of our Alma Mater to reflect the fact that our Women Graduates have also given their lives serving this Nation.

----- Class of 2012 Motto ----- "For More Than Ourselves" Thank you Class of 2012 for the Honor of Marching with you The Class of 62

---------- Class of 2008 --------- ----- Class Crest & Motto ----- "No Mission Too Great"

---- Their Commencement ---- "Here am I; Send me."

Thank you Class of 2008 and Please Thank the Men & Women --- the Soldiers you will lead --- The Class of 62.

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Jefferson Hall - the Academy's new Library.

Academic Excellence

--They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

---- Colonel Thayer

West Point mid 60's

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

United States Military Academy Band

Barracks

Rugby Complex

Great Chain

Plain looking toward Washington Hall

Battle Monument

Washington Hall with Cadet Chapel on rocks above.

Hudson River

Captured Trophies

Battle Monument

West Point Cemetery

Plain

- Cost to this Nation of Differing Views

Trophy Point -- Our Flag

Corps of Cadets Formed in Companies early 1960s

Sending the Army Team off to Beat Navy

- Army Mule

Color Guard

Band Box Review Early 1950's in Central Area

Battalion Mass Early 50's

Flirtation Walk

Arvin Gym

Duty Honor Country

Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Academic Excellence

--They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

---- Colonel Thayer

West Point mid 60's

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

United States Military Academy Band

Barracks

Rugby Complex

Great Chain

Plain looking toward Washington Hall

Battle Monument

Washington Hall with Cadet Chapel on rocks above.

Hudson River

Captured Trophies

Battle Monument

West Point Cemetery

Plain

- Cost to this Nation of Differing Views

Trophy Point -- Our Flag

Corps of Cadets Formed in Companies early 1960s

Sending the Army Team off to Beat Navy

- Army Mule

Color Guard

Band Box Review Early 1950's in Central Area

Battalion Mass Early 50's

Flirtation Walk

Cadet will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, or Tolerate Those Who Do

Motto -- Duty Honor Country

Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Academic Excellence

--They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game. They were the Team that Gave The Most

---- Colonel Thayer

West Point mid 60's

Trophy Point

L'Ecole Polytechnique Monument, or The French Monument by Cadets

Superintendent's Quarters viewed from Thayer Road

Cadet Chapel

Michie Stadium

Arvin Gym

Kimsey Athletic Center

Holleder Center

Washington Monument

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The '54 Crest

General MacArthur stated it would take

"at least 10 years"

to return Army Football to Respectability

28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all -

an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."

General George Patton

"The Army moves as a team, eats as a team, and fights as a team."

The '55 Crest

They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game.

They were the Team that Gave The Most

Don Holleder Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

Vann and Holleder

9 Army A's

The '56 Crest

The '57 Crest

Can Do

Gen Van Fleet addressing the Corps prior to the Navy Game

Constructed under supervision of Jay Gould "54 and the Ord Dept from a German Rocket Gun captured at Kasserine Pass. First used in the Duke Game.

COL "Red" Reeder granted the Cheerleaders Corps Squad status to obtain financial support for their spirit-inducing initiatives.

Bob Mischak - - It should be pointed out that Bob was an All American selection, but is not recognized by the Academy as such because of the organization which selected him.

Ubel scores 3 Times against Navy - Vann's facking results in Peter getting tackled - #10 on the ground behind Ubel

Vann to Sisson
Army's B Squad
Vann to Mischak.
Uebel Intercepts
Cody to Don Holleder

Lasley
Frank Hicks
Burd
Bill Purdue
Cody
Meador Mgr
Ron Melnick

Ralph Chesnauskas
Pat Uebel
Tommy Bell
Sisson headed for another score
Peter Vann stuffs the ball in Jerry's gut
Leroy Lunn & Jerry Lodge
Uebel after taking the handoff from Hagan

Attaya - Army's Fullback
Sisson - one of 3 Great Ends
Bob Mischak
Ralph Chesnauskas

Bob Farris
Vann moving out of the pocket
Peter Vann 10, Billy Chance 38, Herdman 68

Ken Kramer
Joe Lapchick
Kirk Cockrell

Lodge going down tosses to Paul Schweikert for score.

Dick Zeigler
Bob FarrisPlayed the 2d half of the Navy Game blind in one eye.

Pat Uebel
Tommy Bell
Peter Vann
Freddie Attaya
Mike Zeigler
Jerry Lodge wearing #67, playing fullback.
Johnny Wing

Lowell Sisson

Norm Stephen
Jack Krause
Dick Ziegler
Jerry Lodge
Leroy Lunn

Norm Stephen
Jerry Lodge
Corps of Cadets for Navy Game

Can Do

General MacArthur stated it would take
"at least 10 years"
to return Army Football to Respectability

General George Patton
"The Army moves as a team, eats as a team, and fights as a team."

Don Holleder Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First

The '54 Crest

The '55 Crest
28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all -
an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."

They played perhaps Army's Greatest Game.
They were the Team that Gave The Most

The '56 Crest

The '57 Crest

Alma Mater

We have changed our Alma Mater along with several other West Point Songs to reflect the fact that our Women Graduates have also given their lives serving this Nation. It is only right.

We Thank the Class of 1911 for our Alma Mater

The Origin of Alma Mater

Paul Reinecke s Own Story

"Last summer you asked me to write a short account of how 'Alma Mater' was written. Briefly, it was written for a furlough song while I was walking punishment tours on the area during the fall of 1908. In those days it was the custom for Yearlings to congregate at Battle Monument on pleasant spring evenings between supper and call to quarters to bay at the moon and to sing furlough songs written by members of the class.

"The 'musical' output vied with Tin Pan Alley in quantity and perhaps quality - for we used the same words - moon, spoon, days till June - girl, pearl, hearts awhirl' - ad nauseam. But like Mark Twain's Capt'n Stormfield, who was sent to a distant cloud bank in Heaven to do his psalm singing, we furloughmen sang our songs at the far-from-quarters Battle Monument.

"One other momentous musical event in the life of a Yearling class in the early 1900's was during the absence of the First Class on its Coast Artillery Trip, when the duty of putting over the Sunday Night Color Line Concert devolved on the Yearlings. Our class naturally decided to make this a great event, and we practiced long and hard. My stunt was to sing 'Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes', but as luck would have it, I was detailed as Corporal of the Guard that night. However, such duty did not present an insurmountable difficulty to a cadet. So while my relief was off post, I went into camp, got into proper uniform (for the Concert) and did my stuff - as I thought quite creditably. In fact we (that is, 1911) agreed the whole Concert was a great success. But the Officer in Charge (then Lieutenant Guy Kent of the Cavalry) also went to the Concert and overheard a sweet young thing in his party make some remark about Cadet Reinecke, who was singing. Said the 0. C, 'Oh no, Reinecke can't be singing - he is on guard'. But investigation proved that the 0. C. was also correct, theoretically at least, about a member of the guard singing. So I was busted and slugged for 10 tours for deserting the guard - a most heinous military offense, I then learned. And soon began those long Wednesday and Saturday walks without reason, but in this case, not without rhyme.

"While walking, I tried to compose some furlough songs - and soon began to tramp out the cadence of 'Alma Mater', to the tune of 'Treueliebe' - which was an old favorite, and capable of good barber shop harmony for a male quartette. Finally the song was tramped into shape, accepted by the Furlough Song Committee, and printed in our little pamphlet with the 30 or 40 others. The class sang these songs to ourselves during the spring of 1909. But the 'Alma Mater' had its first public appearance at the 1909 Graduation Hop, due to the efforts of the late beloved Kid Everts (leader of the Cadet Glee Club at that time), and the never-late, but equally well liked Johnnie Lee, both of 1909, and who both sang in the double quartette that presented it.

"Thereafter the 'Alma Mater' went the way of all furlough songs: forgotten (we didn't even sing it at our own graduation) until some years after 1911 left the Academy, when Mr. Mayer made his excellent arrangement and used the song as a companion piece to the inspiring and matchless musical and poetic masterpiece 'The Corps'.

"The 'Alma Mater' today is in almost the exact shape as it was when composed. Some English expert improved the line 'May it be said well done' from my original Pennsylvania Dutch 'May we hear said well done' - I had tried to retain the idea of immortality in the lines, and I thought the words sang better my way. But then I never was an outstanding English scholar, and anyhow, poetic English doesn't seem to run in the male side of our family.

"I confess, of course, I'm proud of the fact that the song has lived 30 years, and that there is still something left at the Academy of the class of 1911, even if we didn't rate very high in the estimation of the Tactical Department of that time - for a number of reasons. "I secretly admit that a perhaps - unmilitary - emotionalism creeps up and down my spine when I hear the Choir and the Cadet Body sing that stirring 'The Corps' and my old 'Alma Mater', Although I know no cadet could publicly confess such a feeling, the lives of its graduates, living and dead, prove to me that the spirit of those two songs is the real sentiment of The Corps."

Text amendments of JUN 2008)

Hail, Alma Mater, dear!

To us be ever near.

Help us thy motto bear

thru' all the years.

Let Duty be well performed,

Honor be e'er untarn'd,

Country be ever armed,

West Point, by thee!

Guide us, thine own, aright, Teach us by day, by night,

To keep thine honor bright,

For thee to fight.

When we depart from thee,

Serving on Land or sea,

May we still loyal be,

West Point to thee!

And when our work is done,

Our course on earth is run,

May it be said, Well done, Be thou at peace.

E'er may that line of gray Increase from day to day;

Live, serve, and die, we pray,

West Point, for thee!

The Corps
Herbert Shipman (Text amendments of JUN 2008)

The Corps! The Corps! The Corps!
The Corps! Bareheaded salute it, with eyes up thanking our God
That we of the Corps are treading where they of the Corps have trod.
They are here in ghostly assemblage, the ranks of the Corps long dead.
And our hearts are standing attention, while we wait for their passing tread.

The Corps of today, we salute you, the Corps of an earlier day.
We follow close order behind you where you have pointed the way.
The long gray line of us stretches through the years of a cent'ry told.
And the last one feels to the marrow the grip of your far-off hold.

Grip hands with us now tho' we see not.
Grip hands with us strengthen our hearts. As the long line stiffens and straightens with the thrill that your presence imparts.
Grip hands, tho' it be from the shadows while we swear as you did of yore,
Or living or dying to honor The Corps! and the Corps! and the Corps!