On Thursday, June 2nd, Midshipman Michael Holt Kernodle of Graham graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and was commissioned as Ensign in the U.S. Navy. The class consisted of 260 members. He has been assigned to the U.S.S. Oklahoma of the Atlantic Fleet. Below appears a short biographical sketch which will be of interest to his friends. It is from the 1921 Lucky Bag, the annual f the Regiment of Midshipmen. In the Lucky bag of 1921 appears a picture and a short sketch of each member of the class. Following the picture of Ensign Michael Holt Kernodle the editors of the Lucky Bag have the following to say of him:
“This big Irishman must surely have kissed the Blarney Stone. He is a jolly classmate, a fine friend, always a gentleman. Slow and easy going in speech, but a lion when aroused. Mike is an unassuming chap who doesn’t push himself into limelight as so many of us are prone to do; but like the prompter is content to stay back in the wings, taking things as they come, putting in a word here and there where it is needed.
“As to athletics, his activities in football Plebe year are notable and praiseworthy. He was severely injured, which caused the class of Twenty to lose a good member and the Class of Twenty-one to receive one, also later, in his Second Class year and his First Class year he broke again into limelight by his activities on the class football team.
“Mike is a practical man—studies are of second thought to him, but his averages hardly ever fall below the 3.0 mark. Steady and constant in whatever he undertakes, never despondent, you can always hear him say ‘Can’t make me—come let’s catch.’”
From The Alamance Gleamer, Graham, N.C., Wednesday, June 8, 1921
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