Education: Parade Rest

Retirement of the week: Colonel Frank Kelso Hyatt, 67, third president of the Pennsylvania Military College—the school his grandfather and his father ran before him. A rugged, grey-haired man who once, as a captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard Cavalry, set something of a record by riding 17 horses, Cossack-style, Hyatt has seen his campus grow from 150 to 600 cadets, has watched over every student from reveille to taps. Last week, as he stepped down, the PMC corps staged a full dress parade in his honor. "I thought to myself," said Colonel Hyatt, "this is the last time."

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