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

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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

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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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.g-s.i.:-1g,na.ngf,l-.4 La , ,,,M,,,,,, ' sabbatical leaves and summer vacations in further research either for advanced degrees or for improvements in C.ll'T.A.'s curriculum. But this .sounds too serious. I had always thought thefaculty were either correcting or inspecting or rejecting something or other, but that's where I was wrong. They have interests of their own entirely aside from class room or parade ground. Ask Chesty Graham,-for instance, about those puppets he displayed in the faculty hobby show. See if you can get Captain Payson started on the subject of photography or get him to show you the model railroad train he built. Talk about boats to Lieutenant Hayesg you may get a ride in the eighteen foot mahogany cruiser he built down in the shop with his own hands. Or try Colonel llliller on the same topic, and you may go for a sail in the real square-rigger he helped design for the Naval School. See Uyou can persuade Colonel Mac to let you sit on some of thefurniture he has made in his spare timef' Perhaps you think the pursuit of hobbies is all the fun the faculty ever have. W e don't realize it, but from what I've heard the faculty meetings are some of the best fun of all. Of course, I really wouldnlt know, as what goes on behind those closed doors is a secret I never could jind out: but certainly a hundred men wouldn't talk about us from seven- thirty until midnight very often unless they got some kick out of it. Seriously, though, these men who mince over our records deserve a lot of credit. They are the ones who decide whether or not we have the stuff to stay here or whether we have the swf to go to college. Many of us will have their decisions to thank for the course of our future careers. Wfelktheyfinally put some chevrons on my sleeve and squeezed me through that narrow Iron Cate, but it took them a long time to do it! But it's time nowfor me to introduce these people to you as individuals -not just llflajor X and Captain Y but as the intelligent, friendly men with whom we have been matching our brain and brawn at Culver. Be- fore I present them as individuals, however, I salute thefaculty as a group -a group who, with all their dI:wI70T'CHCCS, have thisaone thing in common- that we can trust any or all of them because of their unfailing loyalty, which for some reason is so outstanding here at Culver. Gentlemen, I give you the faculty .... I shall introduce the members of the faculty not by alphabet but by departments-Military, English, Mathematics, Science, History, Languages, and Athletic. In the Military department I shall go through by organizations, and, of course, the A man of Company A is Captain Moore. His foremost desire is to make his company the outstanding organization in school, and every man in his group is with him there. It is he who receives credit for the Motorized Unit of the Infantry, thc pride of the Fathers' Association and one of the things on which Culver bases its reputation. The harder the road, the higher the chin, says Captain Moore. Colonel Kennedy, affectionately known as the Duke, presides over the destinies of all men in Company B. I hear a rumor Cun- founded of coursel that long ago he reported our present Com- mandant-then Cadet C. F. McKinney-for an untidy wardrobe. The Duke knows the book of regulations so well backward and for- ward that he stepped into a cadetls room one day after noticing an improperly filled orderly card and said tersely, This is a violation of paragraph HOB. I guess that's an example of what he means by his advice to us: Take nobody's word for itg investigatef' Kemp Moore, Indiana University, A.B. Captain in the Infantry Reserve, Tactical officer of Company A, English Instructor. William Raper Kennedy, Vincennes University, Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry Reserve, Tactical officer of Company B. 22