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

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STRIPES . . . CHEVRONS. . .STRIPES . . .AND MCRE stripes, chevrons, honor bars. They played an important part in your life at school. Perhaps the most unique set of stripes was--no stripes at all. Can you remember when you were a plebe? You know, closing windows, making calls, shining shoes, brushing coats, double- timing up steps, filling glasses, turning square corners,addressing hundreds of Misters . Then, power! That one stripe entitled you to put your arms on the table at mess, a respected Sir from the plebes, a shot at those coveted chevrons, and an elevated feel- ing of importance. Giving up your desserts at D.R.C. was part of the job of mail orderly. VVith the addition of another stripe you became all elbows at mess, 1 enjoyed cream on your cereal, spent more time demanding respect, were initiated into the clubroom, bridge corner, and smoking ring .... But the white stripe meant the most of all. At long last you had reached the zenith on the campus. And perhaps along with that distinction you had become an olhcer, so that your stripes were complete. You gained privileges galore-the First Class gar- den, books, clubroom, and that one privilege which you are wearing on your finger now-your First Class ring ..., If you were one of the brain boys or a slayer you had those wonderful Full Firsts . . . Of course you can not forget having to sit down and hurriedly dash off those last few First Class pictures for Joe, Bill, and John. Then that long-awaited day arrived, and the Iron Gate be- came a reality-then memory, for some one-hundred seventy of us. 26

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THE CANTEEN was the place for those between-meal and between-class snacks . . . bowling . . . poo 25

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The most packages went to plebes . . . a trip to Rex . . . old men on lookout for food . . . no food