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

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Among the celebrities I mentioned is our Summa Cum Laude from Harvard. In his one year of teaching he has proved more theo- rems than exist. Mr. Syer was also successful as a company rifle coach, and as a fencing instructor. Photography is his hobby, and he always modestly replies when asked whether he knows anything about cameras, A little, why? He's even written a book on how to use movies in Math., starring Hedy, I sincerely hope. To us he says, Always take the shortest cutf,-wish I could have applied that to his assignments, but it's too late now. The varsity wrestling coach poses for a close-up. Mr. Coulding has been teaching Math and coaching Company B in football and base- ball now for five years. He has married since coming here. See what Culver gets for you? He is the master of any slide rule and has proved this by organizing the Engineers' Club. Think of that! Doing Math problems in your spare time. Mr. Strait is evidently one of Mr. Goulding's rivals with the slide rule. If I could figure out that square root, Knudsen wouldn't be in Washington-and neither would I. Physics is his business, and when he gets sick of it, all he has to do is revert to photography and the Photography Club, of which he is head. Did they do this one, I wonder? No! Donit be silly! Of course Mr. Baker isn't working in the stenographic department! He's just relaying a message on that com- plex radio set of his. When he can be torn from this pastime, he teaches physics and chemistry. We may remember his advice to the post chemists or alchemists Cmore of a likeness to Culver studentsj: Once in a while a fly comes to every Helder, but he gets only one chance to catch it. Did you know that the Culver radio station is on the Armyls network of amateurs working for Defense? Doc', ,Iohnson is up to his favorite sport of filling reagent bottles again. His friend must be a Chemistry-test-dopcr-outer . . . wrong again, it's Mr. Kernohan. Ten faithful years are behind Dr. Johnson. He has a technique all his own of handling the reagent bottles. I don't think he's ever dropped one! . . . Mr. Kernohan for three years has been a favorite of the physics phlunkersf' The advices of these two men respectively are, There will be competition in college too. tDr. Johnsonj, and Get plenty of work and play-both of them hard CMr. Kernohanj. Henry Wh Syer, Harvard, B.S.., Ed.M., Assistant Instructor in Mathematics De- partment, Assistant in Fencing, and Instructor in Company Rifle. Charles VV. Goulding, Brown University, B.S., Columbia, Associate In- structor in the Mathematics Department, Coach of Varsity W restling, B Com- pany Football and Baseball. U W. Wi. Strait, Albion College, A.B., University of Michigan, M.S., Associate Instructor in the Science Department, Sponsor of Photography Club. Harold M. Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B., Harvard Grad- uate School of Education, Ed.M., Associate Instructor in the Science Depart- ment. George O. Johnson, Milton College, A.B., University of Vffisconsin, Ph.D., Chair- man of the Science Department. Robert H. Kernohan, Oberlin College, A.B., Columbia University, M.A., As- sistant Instructor in the Science Department, Company A Football, Basketball, and Baseball. 29

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9' The two men of mathematics shown on the left are Colonel Shanks and Major Obenauf. The Colonel is the head of the department and has written his own book for advanced mathematics. In athletics he is known for his ability on the tennis and squash courts. Major Obenauf is the founder of the Culver skeet club and heads the varsity rifle and skeet teams which turn in such astonishingly good scores against all kinds of opposition. Colonel Shanks says, People will think of Culver in terms of what you do. Mr. Kiernan looks happier than the marginal time student. Maybe he's just glad Wally's back so he won't have so much responsibility on his hands with the swimming team. I don't see why he should beg he certainly did a swell job. This is Mr. Kiernan's third year in the Math Department, and the third year that he's been regarded by all of us as a most courteous and kindly gentleman. Iill be darned! Major Stinchcomb is astounded to hear one of his well-trained students make an odious error. He is a rule-pounder, and well I know it. I remember him especially because his rules never failed for me. Heis been doing a swell job pinch-hitting for Colonel Walmer as tactical officer of D company since the Colonel was called to active duty. Ceramics is his hobby, at which he works every after- noon in the new Music and Art Building. i'Work hard at one thing is his good word to us. He's been doing so for twenty-one years, he should know. Here he is, the wit of the faculty! He is looked up to as the Addison and Steele CBOTID of today. His advice to us was Beware of a questionnaire! When he stops putting something over on somebody in his class, he coaches D Company in basketball and football. I Flunkumi' Donnelly has one thing over every instructor at the Academy. Some of them can be very funny at times and studious at other times, but hc can be side-splittingly funny and at the same time teach Math. Did you ever have to work one of his special Christmas problems? You thought you'd never get home. Mr. Bentz drew this diagram just for the photographer, but the photographer couldn't figure out the answerg can you? He was a whiz at getting a blackboard covered with figures. His advice was Take time out to relax. Yet, he doesn't follow his own rule, for he coaches B Company's basketball team and is the assistant coach of the varsity tennis team. Opera takes him to Chicago occasionally, and Math takes him to the Math Building all the time. Robert Herbert Shanks, Wfake Forest College, A.B., Columbia University A.M., Cambridge QEng.D, Colonel C.M.A., Chairman Mathematics Department. H. A. Obenauf, Wittenburg College, A.B., University of Pennsylvania A.M., Captain Ordnance Reserve, Major C.M.A. Senior Instructor in Mathematics Department. Director of BiHe Marksmanship. Peter John Kiernan, Columbia University, A.B., A.M., Assistant Instructor in Mathematics and Swimming Coach. Judd Thomas Slinchcomb, Ohio University, BS., Ohio State University, M.A., Major Infantry Reserve. Instructor Department of Mathematics, Tactical Officer Company D. Alfred John Donnelly, Harvard, S.B., Ed.M., Associate Instructor of Mathe- matics, Com any Football, Basketball, and Assistant Coach Varsity Baseball. Ralph Porter Bentz, IVest Chester State Teachers College, B.S., Penn. State College, Ed.M., Assistant Instructor of Algebra and Geometry. Company Basketball Coach and Assistant Tennis Coach. 28

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011, your left you see Bugs', Benson of the science department so named because of his interest in his ant and bee communities. He must be pointing to the lungs of Oscar Cthat is the only part I know besides the headj. P.S.: Mr. Benson is the one in the dark suit. Seriously, he's the man who wrote the course in Social Biology that proved so very interesting to all of us. The first class is taking up a collection for a fireman,s pole for Lieutenant Jordan. He must report each morning first to the science office on the fourth floor of Main, then to his first Hoor lab'7 in biology, up to the fourth floor for chemistry, down to the first, up to the fourth, and then down again to lunch and Artillery drill. Happy landing, Lieutenant Jordan and by the way, do you still talk about Purdue's squash players? Mr. Sexton is CulVer's new Director of Religious Activities. He has organized vesper services and has directed the Culver Y.M.C.A. ln fact, he's made a grand job of getting to know all there is to know about the place. In the athletic Held, where he excelled at col- lege, Mr. Sexton coached the Battery football team and the C Com- pany basketball team. He is particularly interested in reducing his golf score from seven strokes per hole. Captain Bishop has been twenty years at the Academy and is the chairman of the Social Science Department. He teaches courses in history. Pm not quite sure why the Captain has the puzzled look on his face, perhaps it has something to do with the U.S.L.T.A., of which he is an official and referee at the national tournaments held annually at Culver. On the other hand he may be thinking up new plays for the football team the is one of the line coachesb, or he may even be work- ing out a brain twister for my next history quiz. Captain Bates is also of the Social Science Department and is seen here surrounded by objects of current interest. The Captain's classes are always filled, the explanation being at least in part, the fact that his room is furnished with modernistic furniture-quite comfortable. He wishes to remind the first class: Your future depends on you. Around the corps, he was usually spoken of as the man who really knew his history cold. Hot or cold, he surely knew his facts. Ernest B. Benson, Boston University, A.B., A.M., Harvard University, Ed.M., Associate Instructor in Biology. Robert Edward Jordan, Michigan State, Purdue, B.S., Ist Lt. Field Artillery Beservtaand Assistant Instructor in Chemistry, Biology and Field Artillery, R.O.T. . Hardigg Sexton, Miami University, A.B., Princeton University, M.A., Princeton Theological Seminary, B.Th., Ist Lt. Chaplains' Corps, Instructor in World History and the Bible, also Director of Religious Activities. Company Football and Basketball Coach. James Howard Bishop, Oxford, England, B.A., lVI.A., Hendrix College, A.B., Captain C.M.A., Chairman of Social Science Department, Franklin Westinghouse Bates, Wfilliams, A.B., Columbia Teachers College A.M., Captain C.M.A., Instructor in History, and Company Football. 7 30