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

Page 17 text:

DOW THRO CH THE YEAR ulver has changed a great deal since its small beginning. The grounds have grown from a mere forty acres of swampland to a beautiful campus of more than thirteen hundred acres. The corps of that y umbered K . forty-five boys, drawn almost entirely from the middle my The present corps of six hundred fifty is drawn from thirty-eig District iiikg of Columbia, Canada, the Union of South Af f -+I 0 awaii, the 4 West Indies, and five Latin American natio 1. f O The original fa lty of seven has gro 'lf o : it 1 My-ffi' eighty-five. , 4 .KO I The original ten urses have bee a ,, riculum of fifty- four subjects. e establishm .I 2, vel0Pment of three arms of ser- vice-cavalry, fantry, an ry 'K If brought military distinction. By 1905, Cu er became 1 0 Sch l, a rank not since relinquished. In the esta is i en C. training in 1920, Culver was one of I . the few sc -.Ly -.,-V ed H4 courses of instruction. Sports activities A . 1 Q U n u have become varie and intense with the organization of sixteen 0 2 varsity ng, s. ever, the aims of the institution have remained constant-that of preparing cadets for the responsibility of a democratic citizenship. -Fancy dress ball held on Washington's birthday, 19093 center left-Members of artiller I 3.6 inch field iece during drill, 19003 right-Biology class of same period: lower left-Cui: first organized fiiotball team, 1895. ll, ll

Page 19 text:

TUWARD A GREATER CULVER A notable day in the annals of Culver's history occurred on .lune 7, 1932, the occasion of the thirty-eighth commencement, when the heirs of Henry Harrison Culver announced their plans for the transfer of the .lf 5 ix Academy from private ownership to The ',:1 WSE EV: ti :Q oundation, Qlffll Rav U, uh X thereby assuring the continuation a - ther if f e founders' . . v Y f A 'V aspirations. 7 ?.7 7 ' ' Mr. Culver's enthusia I wflf- U ,-1 'lice , Academy one of the f ' N ' great secondary sc 'I :M e a- :g ed by his family and nl. f I, f upon his death, ' r s i 6r , f 18962iis so joined hands to carry on .fx X' ' , . his undertak . K 5, ' s.. ' --' ,, , Bertram B. ulver, wh 'th his brother, E. R. Culver, had provided the zealous le ership in cagfi JL - the school, stated, on the occasion ' N -W5 ' of Covenan l Efilxilliffeh' ' e 'Q he Academy has not been devoid of K VNV , ' serious pro ms and vic. V , but there has always been provided the energy and e means to' meet them promptly and successfully, Culver has made steady progress each year since its founding. If the record of the past can be used as a criterion, the future hopefully points to an even GREATER CULVER. :le development of the past, the trends of the present, and the indications of the future, give omise of a greater Culver. l A ll