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

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I 94-7942 .. tary training at Culver. The Government, too, recog- nized Culver as a military school by detailing Captain John Quincy Adams to the Academy as P.M.S. 81 T. 1Vhen 1900 arrived, one of the biggest events in Culver's history occurred- The Big Fire. The Acad- emy had dismissed two popular football players, and half the corps f105 cadetsj, to show disapproval of the Academy,s action, went off limits to see the two cadets off at the town. The entire group was promptly dis- missed and Culver,s reputation was Hmadef' To Culver was awarded in 1905 the distinction of c4Honor Schoolv by the 1Var Department for the first time. Since then she has never failed to receive this award. In 1909 Colonel Fleet retired as superintendent of Culver, and the Academy bestowed on him the title of Superintendent Emeritus. Major Gignilliat became the new superintendent. The entire corps went to Xvashington, DC., in 1913 where the Black Horse Troop acted as a personal escort to Vice President Marshall-the iirst time in history that a vice president had been accorded an escort. In the same year, over 80 cadets rescued 1100 persons in the Logansport Flood, and in 19144 the City of Logans- port erected and dedicated the Logansport Gate in recognition of this service. The year 1915 saw the wooden stables and mounts of Below-The Culver faculty in 1896, the year that Colonel Fleet took over as Superintendent. The Hrst faculty, 1894, consisted of three instructors

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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-

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ana! Sfepa The Black Horse Troop escorting Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall at his inauguration, 1913. Dinner and celebration of the onening of the new Mess Hall. i 1 Cadets rescuing citizens of Logansport in the Hood of 1913.