Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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isn't unusual for a fox terrier with a job like Skippy's. It is this heroic work of Skippy's which keeps the hall free from rats and mice. All this talk about troopers reminds me of something I heard while I was at the stenographic depart- ment. The girls that work here say they don't much care for the flies brought in by the troopers. How about that, boys? While we're on the subject of the stenographic depart- ment, I might just as well tell you what I found out there on my walk around my own backyard. There are four stenographers and one clerical girl. In the office they operate typewriters, ditto machine, ediphones, and mimeo- graph machines. All told, they use about 5,000 staples of paper per week. Everyone knows how hard it is to write letters. Well, these girls write thousands of letters a year. The only trouble is that they don,t get any answers for all their work. The stenographers are allowed to play records while at work, but as usual there is a catch. The records have to be ediphone records which instructors have dic- tated and want copied. After the typist has finished copy- ing the dictation, it goes on the ditto machine, and out comes the required number of copies. This department seems to be the place to pick up just about all the knowl- edge one wants in any subject since all kinds of sheets for all kinds of topics go through the hands of the stenog- raphers. These girls say they like the instructors, and it seems that certain instructors like them, since they present the girls with boxes of candy. Here they even print books, for instance, Colonel Shanks' math texts and Mr. Goode's masterwork First Aid to Writers, which is so familiar to every First Classman. I am of the opinion, however, that a good collection of ideas for short stories and themes would be a much greater help. As a Hnal parting shot on this department I might add that the girls say they would like to know more cadets. I was walking past the laundry the other day and thought I would stop in just to see what actually went on there. I found out all right. There are four large washing machines, six roll Hat ironers, eleven pressers, a finishing iron and table, one puff ironer CI was told that thing was a puff ironer, but if anyone can tell me in simple words just exactly what a puff ironer is, I should always be gratefulj, sock forms Chere is something else I can't understand. When my socks come back, they don't have any form at allj. Dry room tumbler for turkish towels QHeh! That's clever. Let me say that again. Dry room tumbler for u:-ff' .. turkish towelsj and extractors to give the right amount of water after clothing has been washed. Wray back when. the laundry of our mythological city really used to be the laundry of a small city. Before 1931 all laundry from the academy used to go to Maiben's Laundry in Logansport. which used to give the academy five-day service on all washing. Now under our present private laundry the cadets get two-day service, and the academy departments get all laundry back within one day. I don't wonder my towels come back clean even after I have mopped the floor with them. All clothing that goes to the laundry gets three soapings and eleven rinses. What amazed me most about this section of the complete Culver was how the laundry could keep the thirty odd pieces sent each week by every cadet straight and get the right laundry back to the right cadet. After the clothes have been marked, sorted as to color and material, washed, and dried. they are sorted out into smaller piles which are again sorted for each cadet and placed in a box provided for him. Before being sent out to the barracks the laundry in the boxes is again checked. Besides handling the laundry of members of the corps this establishment must take all the washing of various parts of the school such as the mess hall, infirmary, and the Inn. It seems that at Culver haircuts are as necessary as clean laundry, so we have in our city a barber shop com- pletely equipped except for a striped barber pole. Here our two barbers average forty to fifty haircuts a day, which isn't bad for any small city barber. However, Slim gives about only three or four massages a week, and approximately the same number of shampoos. Slim tells me there have been only 165 thousand haircuts since he has been here. Is that all? The first barber shop was in the room between the Second Class club room and Main Bar- rack. Then about 1920f22 a second barber shop was in- stalled up in the gym especially for thc plebes. Those were evidently the days when one didn't have to wait for hours to get a haircut just to please the supply sergeant. Then both shops were moved to the present location, which accounts for the four chairs. Our town has its library, too-probably the most beau- tiful building on the campus. Therc's one room in Culver where people always speak in hushed voices, and thatis the quiet, grey room at the head of the stairs in the Memorial Building. It's a good room, one appropriate to its purpose, that makes you feel at once, in some intangible way, the dignity and decency of those whose pictures line the walls. 4,41-f fi. ,a-f'

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,-, -E vile Thirty-four members of the AEF, seven members of the Navy, four Marines, fourteen Airmen, and three members of other Allied services died overseas in the Great War. Shortly after that war was over, members of the Culver family erected this building as a memorial to them and their ideals. The architects, I'm told, considered the place and nature of the Culver Legion's services as well as the nature of the building, when they drew up their designs. The main front of the building, with its great round towers on either side of the entry, is copied from an old English Castle, Sir Roger Fienes', called Hurst-lylonceau. The staircase is a replica of one in the Castello del Conti Guidi -Italian, no doubt. The small meeting room on the land- ing is Belgian in origin. The two rooms on the Hrst floor are English Gothic, I see by the book, and the north room, where there used to be record-concerts and Vespers, is the most comfortable and restful place on the campus to relax and read. I liked Vespers there a little better than in the new Art building, but I guess there are those who disagree with me. Every man to his taste. I can easily believe there are 20,000 volumes in the reference room and stacks, and that Major Bennett adds 300 a year to that number. There are several collections here, and from time to time we see some of the more interesting or unusual ones on display in the cases. It was a good place to study, when your room got too small, and your textbook didn't seem to tell you half of what you needed to know for a test. And the Chapter Room in the basement was a good place to relax, and smoke, and play bridge. When I first began to think of coming here, thc family had a lot of correspondence with Colonel Henderson: and when wc came for a visit, he was the man who really sold me on the school. His odice is a busy placeg I found that X 'A,,'- they do twenty-fiye different Jobs from routine torre spondence to testing to alumni contacts There are twelve people, all told, who work here. X0 wonder they need all those secretaries yyheney er any one starts a king about Culyer, this ofiice is the one that supplies him with the information he yy ants. It wlll ey en send a representative around to answer questions giy e facts, and show moy ies of the school in action. Last year alone, 40 000 people saw the movie of the Winter and Summer Schools mainly alumni and their friends: but any interested party got a showing Captain Day buff handles the publicity Remember those pictures in the hometown papers? To judge by ht enormous files of clippings Culy er is really NEW? Across the hall from his office is the business department where the bookkeeping of a million-dollar-a-year orgamza tion is done. You settled your accounts with Hr. Wil liamsg and the man who took care of service requests was Tone Shaw, assistant purchasing agent and basketball man extraordinary. His name is listed in Indiana's Basketball Roll of Fame. than which there is no whlcher Hr Heyyes the auditor was a man we ney er saw but I have it on the very best authority that his financial ability and knowledge are tops And so it yyent I ney er appreciated the place until too late, but there are a lot of things I ll alway s remember that can t be expressed in inches, pounds, kilowatts, or gallons little things like the athletic smell around the lockers or that whiff of purple ink from my freshly dittoed finals, the one-two-three-four of men marching out of the Mess Hall or the liomesicky sound of taps on a winter night or the cigarettes twinkling from the I'irst Class Carden .... Yes, sir, it s a grand school. when alls said and done, a grand school .... I, for one, will be more than a little sorry to leave. JJ, Q-4' ' if