tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post3156148501025566168..comments2024-02-23T18:13:50.944-08:00Comments on Linton Hall Military School alumni memories: Being an Officer at Linton Hall Military SchoolLinton Hall Cadethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-67726992777664763092013-03-26T16:49:42.533-07:002013-03-26T16:49:42.533-07:00I totaly agree,Ed was the first very first person ...I totaly agree,Ed was the first very first person I met when I walked in the door at Linton Hall in September 1969.He was my Company Commander "C Company" that school year 1969-1970. I also went to Camp Linton the summer of 1970 and he was counselor there. He treated me like a brother.I probably would not of made it through my first year at Linton Hall with out him, as he encouraged me a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-61485143609559407272011-08-18T13:13:14.793-07:002011-08-18T13:13:14.793-07:00Thanks, Lost Childhood/Court Martial for your post...Thanks, Lost Childhood/Court Martial for your posts. You always bring back memories and provoke much thought about the Linton hall experience. As far as James ... however difficult it may have been to get expelled, I'm confident that as an adult he saw LHMS for what it really was and realized that to be expelled from such a place was no dishonor to him.Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-6922481833885075232011-08-15T15:15:18.422-07:002011-08-15T15:15:18.422-07:00A FINAL THOUGHT ON JAMES *****
James was exp...A FINAL THOUGHT ON JAMES *****<br /><br /> James was expelled from the school, because of the recommendation of the Court Martial board. He never did anything big, for if he did there would not have been a Court Martial, he would just have been expelled.<br /><br /> So the Court Martial was used as a way for those in charge to wash their hands of him and to be done with an going problem.<br /><br /> I don't remember exactly what he did to get Court Martialed but it was not something to be expelled from school for. I remember sitting there in that semi-circle discussing recommending that he be expelled. I could not believe we were going to do that. That was the way we were steered, so that was how the vote came out.<br /><br /> Yes, I talked to James many times over the next three days. At the time I did not think it was a big deal but you were right, if caught that would have been it for me. James was in my Company and I thought of him as one of mine.<br /><br /> Not many would vote against the wishes of the Commandant, especially when he had total control of you and your position.<br /><br /> I was the one who had to stay with James when he packed up his things, to make sure he didn't "steal" anything. LHMS had finally won, they broke James, he was almost in tears when I walked him out to the waiting cab, we shook hands, I wished him well and he was gone.<br /><br /> His father was a Col. in the Army, so I am sure when he got to Germany, things did not go well. No one from school even had the courtesy to take him to the airport to see that he got off ok.<br /><br /> Would love to hear that the aftermath of all this was no big deal, that his life moved on and all worked out well. Would love to hear that getting kicked out of LHMS was the best thing that ever happened to him.<br /><br />By Lost Childhood/Court MartialAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-85438266039438696982011-08-14T09:17:13.406-07:002011-08-14T09:17:13.406-07:00WEEKEND MEMORIES
Before we could go home eve...WEEKEND MEMORIES<br /><br /> Before we could go home every other weekend, we had "Visiting Sundays." Your parents could come and take you off campus for several hours. We even had "Visiting Sunday Pants. Dark blue with a gold stripe. I remember hanging out by the canteen so I could watch the cars coming down the avenue from Linton Hall road, looking for my parents car. If your parents did not come it was a very, very long days.<br /><br /> Weekends were the only days that we really had any free time. If it rained it was a "zoo" we, 250 of us, would all be in the gym. Basketballs would be flying, it was hot, people chasing each around.... I used to hang out with kids who had portable record players and we would listen to the same 45's over and over again.<br /><br /> If the weather was good we were released on the playground but no sports equipment was provided. If you wanted to play basketball you had to provide your own ball. Then there was intramural football with Bill's "suicide equipment". If you were cool you wore "Chucks", Converse All Star tennis shoes. We used to tie the strings together and throw them over our shoulder. Seemed like there was always a pair hanging from the telephone wires on the playground.<br /><br /> During the Winter, it would get very cold but we were on the playground, no matter how cold it got.<br /><br /> Sunday meals were different. For breakfast we got two glazed donuts and Frosted Flakes. This was the only day we got Frosted Flakes. To this day Frosted Flakes are still a special treat for me.<br /> The big treat was dinner, we all waited all day for dinner. We actually got a piece of fresh meat. We had chicken, instant mashed potatoes, green beans, a piece of cake and a bottle of Coke. It was like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter all wrapped up into one. Best meal of the week by far.<br /><br /> Sunday's we were allowed, if you had one, to get your radio out of the "radio locker". Just about every Sunday morning everyone would listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40. <br /> This was also the only time during the week that you could listen to the news and find out what was going on in the real world.<br /><br /> Remember guitar mass in the gym.<br /><br /> If you were unlucky enough to get demerits during the week, the weekend was your time to work them off. One hour for each demerit. You either stood at attention, facing a wall, until you worked off your demerits or sometimes you marched them off. Either way you lost the only free time you had for the week.<br /><br /> Just for the record, "Forget You" was used at LHMS back in the 60's, long before it got into the Ceelo Green song.........<br /><br />By Lost Childhood/Court MartialAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-77622569737410953272011-08-08T15:45:46.637-07:002011-08-08T15:45:46.637-07:00Antonio, if you get on Facebook and look for "...Antonio, if you get on Facebook and look for "Linton Hall Cadet" I can help you find other alumni.Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-19150913766799970442011-08-08T11:12:44.819-07:002011-08-08T11:12:44.819-07:00Hey everyone, this is LH Cadet. I do prefer that ...Hey everyone, this is LH Cadet. I do prefer that people not use names since it's a public forum, however it gets a bit confusing with different people posting, so could you add a nickname at the end of your post so we know WHICH anonymous poster you are? Makes it easier for me to reply, too.<br /><br />To the officer who visited James and talked to him, you took a huge risk of getting bumped by doing so. I think only those of us who were there could appreciate how easily you could have been bumped if caught, so I admire you very much. It was very difficult to reconcile following your conscience with being an officer.<br /><br />I should also note just how irresponsible it was to keep someone locked up in the basement. I remember that the building had fire hoses and fire extinguishers. I'm pretty sure there were no fire sprinklers, and smoke alarms didn't even exist back then. Had there been a fire, would anyone had remembered him in time? Nor would anyone have heard him in case of another type of emergency.<br /><br />About Ed ... you're probably talking about an alumnus of LHMS who would have just graduated from high school in the mid seventies. He would certainly remember what LHMS was like for him, and my hats off to him for being an upstanding person.Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-37066982027488444882011-08-07T06:58:35.261-07:002011-08-07T06:58:35.261-07:00In the mid seventy's there was a guy named
Ed ...In the mid seventy's there was a guy named<br />Ed Schroeder that worked at LHMS. He was the<br />basketball coach, PE teacher and watched the play ground.<br /><br />Ed make the place bearable. If you had a problem you could always go to him and tell him your problems and he would always listen. He was good guy. He was the only positive thing to come out of my experience at Linton Hall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-51649287340777494272011-08-04T07:35:08.788-07:002011-08-04T07:35:08.788-07:00When you went through the double doors from the cl...When you went through the double doors from the classrooms, you could make a left turn, go down the stairs and you could go outside. If you continued going down the stairs there was a metal cage, which was the Military Supply room. There was also a bathroom, if you continued past the Military Supply room.<br /><br />He was kept there for about three days, during the school day. At night he slept in the back of the dorm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-71857432577246097702011-07-28T07:43:10.746-07:002011-07-28T07:43:10.746-07:00Anonymous, it was great to hear from you again!
...Anonymous, it was great to hear from you again! <br /><br />That was an excellent description of what really went on at court martials. The Commandant had a huge influence on the verdict. I will admit that there were times that he suggested that we go lightly on the accused because of mitigating circumstances, and he suggested what he thought was the best decision, but our decisions were by no means independent. <br /><br />Not sure how we could have been expected to think for ourselves, since there were rules for everything and we either followed the rules or enforced the rules, there wasn't really much opportunity to learn to exercise our own judgement.<br /><br />And I remember James. One time when I didn't get to go home on the weekend I hung out with him. Discipline was looser on weekends anyway, but we did fun things like racing each other from one end of the hallway to the other (Commandant's office to classroom wing, right past Mary David's office.) Also for some reason the library and the double doors to the classroom wing happened to be unlocked, and we went into the library and looked at some books. Perfectly normal behavior outside of LH, but we would have been punished if we had gotten caught.<br /><br />Where exactly did they put him in the basement before they expelled him? I remember that there was some storage under the Commandant's office, near that smelly bathroom. I also remember the rifle rang under the classroom wing.Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-11775116543784315062011-07-26T11:04:43.751-07:002011-07-26T11:04:43.751-07:00Thanks Anonymous, for this and the "Lost Chil...Thanks Anonymous, for this and the "Lost Childhood" posts.<br /><br />I removed his last name from your post to protect his privacy, but I remember James.<br /><br />There were quite a few officers who got bumped but still had to do their job. <br /><br />I'm on Facebook too, look for "Linton Hall Cadet."Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-79099948377612199072011-07-26T10:50:22.488-07:002011-07-26T10:50:22.488-07:00(The post below was submitted by "Anonymous. ...(The post below was submitted by "Anonymous. I have deleted the last name of the person he talks about, to protect his privacy. -- LH Cadet)<br /><br />Thanks again for your posts, very accurate, very insightful. The hardest part of being an officer (Company Commander C Company) for me was, when we had Court Marshall's. 8th graders decided if someone got "bumped", lost their rank or punishment up to and including getting kicked out of the school. I had an 8th grader in my company who had been an officer but got bumped. He was a pain but not a bad kid, just a bad attitude but then again he was an 8th grade private. He did something stupid and was Court Marshaled, I was on that board, the board recommended that he be expelled from the school. I did not vote but felt a lot of pressure to conform to the findings of the group. In a nut shell that's what LHMS was all about, peer pressure to conform, fight it and they would do everything they could to break you down, if they could not break you down, they would get rid of you. After the Court Marshall there was a problem, the kids parents were stationed in Germany so it took several days to make arrangements to send him home. For those two or three days we was locked in the basement in the "Cage" where the Military Supply room was. At formation we were told he had been "black balled" which meant no one was allowed to talk to him, if caught you could expect the same punishment. I went down and talked to him several times a day for those two or three days. Honestly, having an unmotivated, private, 8th grader in your company was a pain, they just didn't care and I had three or four of them. I felt bad for him, I could not imagine what would have happened to me if I had been in his shoes. I hope things turned out well for him. I know no one is using names here but just for the record his name was James *****. Just for the record the Court Marshall board of officers was used by the faculty and staff to do things that they wanted done but would not have to take responsibility for. Before we voted, the Commandant would always talk to us and make it very clear what he thought the out come should be. So I guess they would pick up the phone, call the parents and say that the Court Marshall recommended, what ever. Unbelievable............ FYI, at the end of the school year I did something stupid and was Court Marshaled. My "strap" and bars were taken away until after the Court Marshall, this was after Military Day, so may be a week or two left in the school year.... I was found not guilty....... I hope what was done to James ***** did not impact his life in a negative way, he was just a kid who was judged by kids, who followed the cues of adults. The adults, the Commandant and Sr. Mary David, got what they wanted. To those who went to LHMS, I think the test question as to if it was a positive place to grow up; would you send your kids there???????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-43892362628108044422011-07-22T19:53:09.145-07:002011-07-22T19:53:09.145-07:00FYI, Last post by the same poster who wrote
"...FYI, Last post by the same poster who wrote<br />"Lost Childhood"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com