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

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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

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PICTURIAL SYNUPSIS 100,000 Cokes sold annually in the Can- teen 7,000 tons of coal annually in the Power House 11,000 haireuts per year in CMA,s Barber Shop l , 1,000,000 cubic feet in the Riding Hall 20,000 volumes in the Culver Memorial Library 400 pounds of potatoes per meal in the Mess Hall 2,800 gallons of ive cream sold annually in the Canteen 350 gallons of milk a day in the Mess Hall 1,100,000 lbs. of hay eaten annually by the horses of the BHT 10,000 phone calls per year over CMA's switchboard 10,000 victrola records sold annually over the Q.M. counter 30,000 letters per week through the Post Ofliee 0 25,000 letters from the Stenographie Department annually 4,400 yards of cloth for uniforms per year in the Tailor Shop