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

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7 Cu UQl ri CU 8Ql The growth of an institution means among other things its expansion. To those who are part of that growth, such expansion is rather a question of internal changes, slowly and carefully planned for, to the casual onlooker, the increase in physical plant is the outward evidence of inner growth. WTC at Culver are apt to take our present-day equipment more or less for grantedg most of it was here when we came, and, without giving the matter much thought, we assumed that things were always pretty much the way they are now. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Two years ago the new Art building was dedicated-only one of a long series of additions to the Culver facilities. And a few years before that the group of service buildings were completed. If you bother to look in the lounge of the Ad- ministration Building, you will see a model of the grounds as they are now, and as they will be in years to come. llluch is planned for, and the plans are there for all to see: new classroom buildings, new stables, a new track, and so on. At this particular moment in the worldts history, few of us stop to realize that the men who direct the school must bear in mind not only ,f . I 5 i , f , 1 7' 4 7 .y ld 1 -X if The First Building. rom ,QB cgourwfafion fo fine predenf g t22l

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- 7 i i ffl ' Fifty-six years ago, a retired St. Louis manufacturer and philanthropist returned to Lake Maxinkuckee bc- cause of his ill health. It had always been his desire to build a beautiful home along the lake and there spend the remainder of his life. That man was Henry Harrison Culver ,... But he was not content to remain idle. It had been Mr. Culverss lifetime hobby to establish a school, and two years after his arrival at the lake his Below-We see some of the first corps of cadets, l894, forty odd in all. ill Ill Us 4' ui Hi fr :sl ur en in flee Wa hobby began to take definite shape. The buildings al- ready on the grounds were the first buildings of the school, and the initial enrollment was twenty-five boys under Dr. J. H. McKenzie as superintendent. The frame barrack burned completely in 1895, and several months later the cornerstone of Blain Barrack was laid. In September, 1896, the Missouri Military Academy burned, and Mrs. Culver struck upon the idea that the two schools merge, so Blr. Culver sent Colonel Alexander Fleet, the superintendent of Missouri this telegram: Vein, vidi, vici. The Academy is at your disposal. Wlhen will your party start? Answer quick. H. H. Culverf, And thus Culver's corps grew over night from thirty boys to one hundred and twenty, with Colonel Fleet the new superintendent. By 1897, the mounts of Troop A of Cleveland, the Inaugural Escort for President lNIcKinley, had been purchased by the Academy to broaden the field of mili-