SILVER TAPS CEREMONY HOMECOMING 2015
1840: Corps formation, Hagerman. MG G, Color Guard, Horse and
handler in N. Sally Port.
Candle holders in place on 2nd stoop, HQ/Echo. One cadet on third
stoop with special candle.
3 buglers in place.
1900: RC calls Corps to ATTENTION AND PRESENT ARMS. MG
G, Color Guard, Horse and handler begin walk from north-to-south.
Center walk cleared as when Corps forms for parade.
Narrator reads the following paragraph as element departs N Sally
Port:
The practice of leading a caparisoned horse is
reserved for extraordinary individuals. The Cap Horse
is led by the Cap Walker, and boots of the deceased are
placed in the stirrups backwards. The backwards boots
are intended to symbolize the rider looking back
towards the living one last time before riding into the
beyond.
Wait until element stops just north of Main Sally Port and RC
commands “ORDER ARMS”.
START BAGPIPES
Since Homecoming 2014, the NMMI Alumni Relations
Office has received notification that the following Alumni
are deceased.
COL Edward N. Eckert, USA (Ret) Honorary Life Member
CHP Vernon Edmondson, USAF (Ret) Honorary Life Member
Andras J. Marton
James Henry MacMillan 1931 HS
William Finley Stamm 1932 HS
Arthur William Jackson 1933 JC
Thomas Tarbell Rutter 1933 JC
Oliver W. Bivins 1935 HS
Glenn N. Evans 1935 HS
Kenneth Emanuel Braselton 1936 JC
Frank E. Russell 1936 JC
William Franklin Alexander 1937 JC
T. Bruce Benton 1937 HS
Charles G. Mayes 1937 HS
James B. O'Brien, Jr. 1937 HS
Homer S. Sanders, Jr. 1937 JC
David S. Gay, Jr. 1938 JC
Harvey B. Gerlach 1938 HS
Max McWhirter 1938 HS
Wallace E. Brunson 1939 JC
Charles B. Christie, Jr. 1939 JC
Linton H. Estes, Jr. 1939 JC
Robert W. Moffat 1939 JC
George Frederick Brannon, Jr. 1940 HS
John L. Paxton 1940 HS
Oran Gilbert Wilson, Jr. 1940 HS
Harold Omar Ebeling 1941 JC
John M. Favour 1941 JC
Donald J. Grantham 1941 JC
Charles H. Heath 1941 HS
Charles Austin Lakin 1941 JC
James R. Patton, Jr. 1941 JC
LeGrande Joseph Woods, III 1941 JC
Robert LaVerne Adams 1942 JC
Col Eugene Alexander Lohman, Jr., USAF (Ret) 1942 JC
Eugene Harrison Lovering 1942 JC
John Delbert Ruggles 1942 HS
Floyd R. Henderson, Jr. 1943 HS
Wayne Randolph Hyllegard 1943 JC
James Pingree Johns 1943 JC
Robert M. Minton, Jr. 1943 JC
Thomas Lloyd Pearson 1943 JC
MSgt Robert Henry Rogers, USMC (Ret) 1943 HS
James Edward Russell 1943 JC
John F. Shoemaker 1943 JC
John LeRoy Talbott 1943 JC
William S. Boggess 1944 HS
George H. Champ 1944 JC
Gordon D. Clark 1944 JC
Forest Levan Kelly 1944 JC
Robert Joseph Leonard 1944 JC
Robert Allan Stacy, Jr. 1944 JC
Joseph Goree Wren 1944 JC
John Lavere Yarbrough 1944 JC
Allen B. Dawson, Jr. 1945 HS
Herbert Joel Levin 1945 HS
Kit C. Love, Jr. 1945 HS
COL David O. Paxton, USA (Ret) 1945 HS
Charles Thomas Warren 1945 HS
Embry W. Williams, Jr. 1945 HS
Fred E. Angle 1946 JC
William P. Arden 1946 JC
Jack S. Burden 1975 JC
Melvin Pat Gleaves 1946 JC
Charles H. Johns, Jr. 1946 HS
G. Dorsey Bonnell 1947 HS
Thomas Almeron Bryant 1947 JC
Roy V. Bynum, Jr. 1947 HS
William S. Martin 1947 HS
Thomas G. Paulson, II 1947 HS
Leonard Rauch 1947 JC
Richard William Turner, Jr. 1947 JC
Judge William E. Burby, Jr. 1948 HS
Randolph D. Clark 1948 JC
John O. Hardin, Jr. 1948 HS
Ned W. Jenkins, Jr. 1948 HS
John Greenwood Jones 1948 HS
Arthur M. Marra 1948 JC
William D. Wainwright, III 1948 JC
Buron Keith Watson 1948 HS
Dale C. Cheesman, Jr. 1949 JC
John E. Farley 1949 JC
John R. Greenstreet 1949 JC
John L. May 1949 JC
Daniel G. Robert 1949 HS
Thomas L. Williams 1949 HS
William Casados 1950 JC
J. Thomas Driskill 1950 HS
Floyd S. Elliott 1950 HS
LTC Arne B. Erickson, USA (Ret) 1950 JC
B. Holland Griffin 1950 JC
James F. Parker, Jr. 1950 JC
Dr. De Forrest Smouse 1950 JC
Louis William Stayart, Jr. 1950 JC
John P. Wolff, Jr. 1950 HS
R. Clyde Edmonds 1951 SC
Dr. Robert L. Bartheld 1952 JC
Larry A. Drummond 1952 SC
Jerrold E. Fisher 1952 SC
Jerry L. Hooper 1952 JC
John C. Satterfield, Jr. 1952 HS
Bobby H. Whitaker 1952 HS
Richard Louis Barnett 1953 JC
Robert G. Holland 1953 HS
Sidney A. Parnell 1953 JC
Richard Curtis Poe 1953 HS
John O. Slaton 1953 JC
Lewis E. Tillman 1953 SC
Allen W. Jue 1954 HS
Robert S. Baker 1955 HS
Harold D. Blackwood 1955 HS
Felix B. Bulls 1955 JC
Charles H. Davis, Jr. 1955 HS
Jack L. Dean 1955 SC
Skillman C. Hunter 1955 HS
John F. Lane 1955 HS
Edward E. Patterson 1955 HS
Richard D. Staley 1955 SC
Ronald L. Vernon 1955 JC
George P. Orr 1956 JC
George R. Shilling, III 1956 HS
Kenneth M. Wright 1956 JC
James E. Harper 1957 HS
Cloid H. Smith 1957 JC
Leonard W. Burford 1958 HS
Dewey F. Knight 1958 HS
Carl Phillip Barnes 1959 HS
L. David Clark 1959 HS
LTC Philip B. Turner, USA (Ret) 1959 JC
Ralph R. Wilson 1959 HS
Frederic P. Wolff 1959 JC
Robert H. Ripley 1960 JC
Lowell C. Hatcher 1961 HS
Jack S. Kitchen, Jr. 1961 HS
Edward Payson Ripley, IV 1961 HS
Samuel E. Cohn 1962 JC
John F. Howden 1962 JC
Clyde Moore, Jr. 1962 HS
Dr. James W. Mundy 1962 HS
Roger Sherman, II 1962 JC
Barry E. Stone 1962 HS
James E. Appleby, Jr. 1963 HS
CAPT Joseph W. Felty, USN (Ret) 1963 JC
Mike E. Fox 1963 HS
Michael L. Hoff 1963 JC
Bruce P. Bunje 1964 JC
Dr. Stephen Francis Edwards 1964 JC
Raymond A. Hoy 1965 HS
CPT Ronald J. Johnson, NMMI 1965 HS
James W. Love 1965 JC
Patrick E. Napier 1965 JC
Douglas T. Nelson, Jr. 1965 JC
Kenneth M. Powell 1965 HS
Michael O. Riley 1965 HS
Dr. Dennis K. Ruff, Ph.D. 1965 HS
William R. Fugitt 1966 JC
Benjamin F. Smith, CPA 1966 JC
Dr. Guy S. Brown 1967 HS
Allen J. Lusk 1967 JC
Terry N. Turner 1967 JC
Richard C. Collins 1968 JC
Gene R. Gann 1968 JC
George L. Miller 1968 HS
David E. Parke 1968 JC
Craig E. Phillips 1968 JC
MacDonald Mason Pollak 1968 JC
Billy B. Roark 1968 JC
Richard D. Weston 1968 HS
Forrest B. Case 1969 JC
James C. Powell, III 1969 HS
William H. Schwettmann, III 1970 JC
Richard R. Vick 1970 JC
Harvey D. Packard 1971 JC
Thomas Craig Shapard 1972 JC
Lansing G. Brisbin, III 1973 JC
Kenneth D. Spykes, Jr. 1973 JC
Scott H. Brady 1974 JC
William H. Hendrix, Jr. 1974 HS
Keith L. Schrimsher 1974 HS
Owen D. Webster 1974 HS
Richard H. Bowles 1975 HS
James L. Dawson 1977 JC
Donald Perry Khoury 1977 JC
Robin P. Quintis 1977 JC
George E. Wilson 1977 HS
Keith A. Hedgespeth 1978 JC
LTC Jeffrey D. Olds, USAR (Ret) 1978 JC
Yuji Wilson 1978 JC
Charles A. Caufield 1979 JC
William D. Purifoy 1979 JC
Timothy L. Winkler 1980 HS
LTC Iris K. Richardson, NEARNG (Ret) 1981 JC
Stanley H. Cook 1983 JC
Efrain N. Vidal-Plaza, Jr. 1983 JC
Hugh I. Akutagawa 1984 JC
John A. Dawes 1984 JC
Bruce A. Bither 1985 JC
Charles K. Lasley 1985 JC
Andrew C. Bullock 1987 HS
Robert A. Pake 1988 JC
Juan A. Castelo 1990 HS
Elton L. Atcitty 1991 HS
Erik V. Lambourn 1992 HS
Donald J. Milton 1993 JC
Scott A. Strodtman 1994 JC
Robert J. Campos 1995 JC
Michael A. Tyson 1996 HS
MAJ Christopher John Franco, USA 1999 JC
Christopher Shawn De Los Santos 2000 JC
Jose Roberto Heguertty Gutierrez 2002 HS
Robert Ernst Gustilo 2009 JC
(Stop Bagpipe Recording)
(Pause for 20 seconds)
If you will please look directly over the Sally Port as we light
the last candle. This special candle will burn until taps at
2200 as a symbol of support for our alumni serving in
harm’s way around the world.
1) At the end of the script “FOREVER YOUNG” will be read and the Corps of Cadets
will go to PRESENT ARMS.
2) The first Note of Silver Taps will begin to play.
3) The Corps of Cadets will hold their hand salute until the completion of Silver Taps.
4) The Corps of Cadets will go to ORDER ARMS after the last note of Silver Taps is
Played.
(Pause for 10 seconds)
During the playing of taps the following protocol is
appropriate, for all retired military and active military to
execute the hand salute, all others stand erect and men
should remove their hats.
(Cadets to begin extinguishing candles with the first note of
Taps)
A quote from the 1933 Bronco about a cadet, George O.
Speer 1933 JC, who was killed in a Polo Game is
appropriate at this ceremony.
BUT IF THEY ARE GONE FROM OUR RANKS,
WE KEEP THEM ON OUR ROSTER,
AS VALUES ONCE INTIMATELY KNOWN
AND AVAILABLE IN OUR RECOLLECTIONS
AND IN OUR HEARTS. THEY WILL REMAIN
FOREVER YOUNG. (“ PRESENT ARMS”, TAPS begins…)
(TAPS ends, last candle holder extinguishes last candle, RC Commands
ORDER ARMS. MG G, Color Guard, Horse and handler pass through
Main Sally Port into Bronco Plaza without any commands.
Narrator reads:
This concludes our ceremony honoring our fallen comrades.
RC Commands releases the Corps.