Veterans Day Pass in Review 2015
At a Nov. 11, 2015, Veterans Day Pass in Review, the Texas Military Institute Corps of Cadets honored James S. Calvert ’41.
Mr. Calvert, who earned a Distinguishing Flying Cross and Air Medal with one oak leaf cluster during his World War II service in the Army Air Corps, served as reviewing official, was inducted into the TMI Hall of Fame and placed a wreath on the new TMI Alumni Military Memorial.
Carved on the memorial are the names of all TMI alumni known to have lost their lives during military service. They are:
Irving M. McCracken, class of 1903, Arthur B. McDaniel 1912, Robert Pennell 1932, C. Henry Goulette 1932, Kelts C. Baker Jr. 1935, John Frost 1935, J. Warren Weissheimer 1935, James Edward Bastion 1936, Robert E. Condon 1936, Edward R. Downie, Radcliffe Simpson 1936, Theodore Wuerpel 1936, F. Welborne Dodd 1937, Frederick Rowsey 1937, James L. Rice 1938, William Phillippe 1939, Robert B. Taylor 1939, Albert R. Tillotson Jr. 1939, Charles Armstrong 1940, Russell Carrico 1940, Roland V. Dover II 1940, Robert Murchison 1940, Ben C. Broocks Jr. 1941, Hugh B. Abbey 1942, George W. Gillespie 1942, Albert C. Deutsch Jr. 1942, Henry Sartwelle 1942, C. Edward Smith 1942, William C. Ocker 1943, Glen D. Zimmerman 1946, William P. Stacy 1947, Joseph M. Davis 1953 and Creed A. Sewell 1958.
The story of Horace Clyde Balsley, class of 1910, who died from complications of injuries incurred during World War I, was reported to the school by Weston Cleveland ’15 while researching a history paper as a student at Texas Christian University. Balsley’s name will be added to the memorial.
The reviewing official’s brother, Jonathan Calvert ’49, accompanied him and stopped at the school’s library to sign a copy of his recently published book, “The Urge to Know,” a record of his adventures through the wild places of the globe told through memoir, journals and photographs.
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San Antonio TX 78257
phone (210) 698-7171
fax (210) 698-0715