Enoch Barton Garey

Enoch Barton Garey (August 7, 1883 – September 24, 1957) was a military expert and author of numerous textbooks including The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Federal Training Camps.[1] He was a Maryland native who served as a major in World War I and as superintendent of the Maryland State police.

Last commandant of St. John's College Annapolis in its military phase (see project)

in wikipedia

Young Garey attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (class of 1903),[4] and then West Point Military Academy. In the 1907 Army-Navy football game, E. B. Garey was the Quarterback who lead the team to victory.[5] Assigned Second Lieutenant in 1908, Garey was stationed in Tientsin, China, and in Baguio, Philippines. It was in the later that he met his future wife, Alice Brewer Ross, who was traveling with her father Rear Admiral Albert Ross. Immediately following their marriage in 1915, he was ordered to Galveston, Texas where he served as aide-de-camp for General Frederick Funston in the campaign to capture Pancho Villa. He was Commandant of Cadets at The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina in 1916.[6]

At St. John's College

President of St. John's College
In 1923 Garey became president of his alma mater, St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, narrowing the military scope of the college so students could concentrate on getting a bachelor's degree. He abolished compulsory military training, replacing the cadet corps with a voluntary ROTC.[10] In September 1924 Garey brought the nation's first Naval Reserve program to St. John's as a pilot program to test the scheme for the Navy. (The US Naval Academy in Annapolis would not begin issuing bachelor's degrees until 1933.)[11] Program graduates were appointed as ensigns in the Naval Reserve. This initial program's success was enough to convince the Navy to establish six full-scale NROTC programs at Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and Georgia Institute of Technology in 1926. Thus, the 1924-25 catalog was correct in saying, "This is the only college at which such a unit is maintained. In the future there will be many other colleges having such a course, but St. John's has the honor of being the first." During Garey's presidency the rank of the college rose, as did the enrollment.