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Cadets will celebrate birthday
of retired Reveille IV with party
By Pam Mooman
Reporter
Reveille IV, the registered collie
who was the Texas A&M mascot for
nine years before she was retired in
1984, will have a birthday Sunday.
Company E-2, the Corps of Ca
dets outfit that took care of the col
lie, will have a party for her — com
plete with a cake, said Dr. Lee
Phillips, director of the Office of
Professional Development at A&M
and current owner of Reville IV.
“We wait until Final Review and
jo over to the E-2 dorm,” Phillips
said.
The collie, who will be 14 years
old, was retired in a halftime cere
mony during A&M’s last 1984 regu
lar season football game, which was
against Texas Christian University.
Another registered collie, Reveille
V, now holds the job of A&M mas
cot, but her immediate predecessor
still holds a place in the hearts of
some A&M students.
When Reveille IV was retired on
Dec. 6, 1984, she was placed in the
welcoming arms of Phillips and his
wife, who live in Bryan.
Hans Meinardus, who took care
of Reveille IV when he was a sopho
more in Company E-2, said Reveille
IV was retired for her own sake.
“We noticed that Rev IV was get
ting older,” Meinardus said. “She
had been serving in the Corps for
nine years, which is a long time for
anybody.”
It was time for Reveille IV to be a
dog and not a glorified person, he
said.
Meinardus said the four-member
committee that decided where Re
veille IV would live after retirement
wanted a home for her in the local
community where she would be
cared for.
“The Phillips are a really good
couple,” Meinardus said. “He is a
real gung-ho Ag and a big Rev sup
porter. He was overjoyed to take
her.”
Phillips said he kept up with Com
pany E-2 through the years.
“We had known the mascot cor
porals from the first to the last,”
Phillips said. “We didn’t ask ques
tions; wejust took her.”
Reveille IV has lived with the Phil
lips for three and a half years. Phil
lips said Reveile IV has many posi
tive traits that make her lovable.
“She’s very affectionate,” he said.
“She has patience.”
Phillips said that when he spoke at
the Navasota muster, he took Re
veille IV wih him. Children climbed
all over her, but she is well-man
nered and has never snapped at a
child, he said.
Members of Company E-2 helped
to make the retired mascot comfort
able in her new home. The Phillips
had a porch behind their house, and
members of Company E-2 enclosed
it so Reveille IV could have her own
room, complete with Astroturf for
carpet. Mementos of her days as the
A&M mascot cover the walls of her
room, Meinardus said.
Phillips said one of Reveille IV’s
old coats is among the collection.
Meinardus has fond memories of
Reveille IV and Reveille V. Meinar
dus said he got Reveille V as a puppy
in a shoebox the first time A&M de
feated the University of Texas in
November 1984. But he still had Re
veille IV at the time, he said.
“I actually lived together with
them in my room for three weeks,”
he said.
They got along just fine as long as
Reveille V stayed in her bounds,
Meinardus said.
Both Phillips and Meinardus have
high praise for Reveille IV.
She did a good job of represent
ing A&M, Phillips said.
Meinardus said he was sad to see
Reveille IV retire, but said she de
served some free time.
“We hated to see her go,” he said.
“She was always a lady.”
West Point cadet loses final appeal of dismissal
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A cadet
who claimed his refusal to psychologically haze
freshmen led to his ouster from the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point has lost his final appeal of
the dismissal.
But John Edwards’ case has prompted the
Army to appoint a panel of three high-ranking
officers to review the Fourth Class System, the
method of indoctrinating new cadets that Ed
wards said led to his dismissal.
Edwards, 24, a native of Portland near Corpus
Christi, was a junior cadet at West Point who held
a3.59 grade-point ratio and ranked in the top 5
percent ol his class until he was dismissed Jan. 5.
Ret. Gen. Roscoe Robinson, an outside investi
gator appointed last month to review Edwards’
case, has ruled there is no evidence to justify
overturning the academy’s dismissal, according
to a Pentagon official.
“Gen. Robinson found that while Cadet Ed
wards achieved considerable academic success at
West Point, under the ‘whole-man concept’ he in
other endeavors was a marginal cadet,” states a
letter from William D. Clark, the Army’s princi
pal deputy assistant secretary for manpower and
reserve affairs.
The letter was forwarded to Edwards by U.S.
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mission, who has writ
ten the Army on Edwards’ behalf.
Robinson could not be reached by the Asso
ciated Press for comment Tuesday.
Paige Eversole, an Army spokesman at the
Pentagon, said the deputy chief of staff for per
sonnel on Monday signed the official papers “se
parating Edwards from the academy.” She said
Edwards will be placed on reserve status for the
next two years.
“I guess I should have expected this,” Edwards
told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times Monday.
“I guess I’ll look at attending college some
where in Texas in the fall or spring,” Edwards
said.
Edwards has said he was ousted because of his
refusal to participate in the Fourth Class System’s
indoctrination of freshmen students enforced by
upperclassmen, which he called a “humiliating
and degrading” form of psychological hazing.
Edwards said upperclassmen, for example,
force new cadets to walk at a quick pace around
campus, eat at attention and memorize long lists
of information. If the new cadets slip up, he said,
they are, “yelled at constantly” by upperclass
men.
A final report reviewing the Fourth Class Sys
tem is expected within 30 days.
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