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

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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

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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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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: QSeated from left to rightl: Mr. William A. Brooks, C.M.A. '00g Mr. Edwin C. McDonald, C.M.A. 'l5g Mr. L. J. Brady, C.M.A. 709, Mr. Robert S. Bradshaw, Vice-President, Mr. Bertram B. Culver, Chairman of the Boardg Mr. Edwin R. Culver, Jr. C.M.A. '15, Vice-Presidentg Mr. Bertram B. Culver, Jr., C.M.A. '28, Treasurer, Brigadier General L. R. Gignilliat, President of the Board, Superintendent 1910-19393 Colonel C. C. Chambers, C.M.A. '08, Secretary of the Board. Absent members are Mr. Vllilliam E. Levis, C.M.A. '08g and Mr. Henry Harrison Culver, C.M.A. '35. Admiral Hugh Rodman Cdeceasedj THE H0 G IDE C. . . THE CUL VER EDUCATIONAL F0 UNDA TION, through its close interest in academy ajairs, is largely responsible for making Culver the soundly organized institu- tion that it is today. The directors leave their businesses to convene at Culver several times each yearfor the sake of plan- ning the Academy's growth and development along lines offer- ward looking educational policy and national usefulness. THE FACULTY of Culver is notablefor two things, size and variety. As to size, we have close to a hundred, and, as to variety, it certainly takes all kinds to run this school. Some of our present colonels can remember cadet days under other present colonels. Some havejustjoined the stag in the last six months. These people who live here have the hottest ternpers in the world and the kindest hearts. They can maintain the strictest discipline and crack the funniest jokes. They can pile on the work until we think it will kill us and then turn around and help us out. In fact, it's amazing to think how much of the town of Culver has been devoting itsehf to me for the past-few years. They've spent most of their waking hours in sticking me, grading my themes, taxiing my dates around, sitting up late over my comments, grading my exams, and waltzing my chaperones around-not to mention taking me on trips to Chicago, coaching me in athletics, helping me with my hobbies, taking away my radio in C.Q.'s, and calling on me in the infirmary when I had the German measles. We have twelve colonels on the stab , nine majors, thirteen captains, and ten lieutenants-nothing to pick afight with, what? But the military organization is by no means the end of it. Pray you, consider the academic ojice-ah, that aca- demic fjfice-how it had me worried all the way from plebe entrance exams right through the Iron Cate. It's one ofthe most complete organizations of its kind in the country. Does C.lVI.A. quit with a dean -no, sir. She goes right on with an admissions omce, academic and disciplinary committee, department of guidance and measurement, and half a dozen grades of instructors from master', all the way down to assistant I won't go into the details ryf all the academic and military honors represented in the faculty. If you want to be impressed, just come to a Cum Laude .service when the caps and gowns and Phi Beta Kappa keys and military decorations go parading on to the platform. These people on thefaculty are by no means all local lights. They conze from twenty-one di Uerent states and represent over hfty-hve different colleges. illany have travelled widely and have worked in othernhelds and other places before taking up teaching at Culver. Two-thirds are married and live around the campus or in the village of Culver. rllany have put their sons through the Academy-not to mention the others who have decorated the campus with their daughters. Twenty of our present staff served in the last u'ar. zchile six have already been called into active servicefor this one. .llost of them spend their