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

Page 19 text:

AT THE Thanksgiving Bali we suspended activities to pay tbtt fthf ff tbllt I h ri ue ooneo e ines oo a eams in Cu ver's istory. varsity. Then there were the all-important weekends when all the working out, run- ning, practicing, sparring, and sweating started to pay off. Companies clashed in the morning in basketball. Boxers put on their show in the afternoon. While the grapplers applied the tricks of their trade, the swimmers in the pool splashed to vic- tory. In the Little Gym the varsity basketball team competed with squads from the basketball-crazy neighboring towns of Indiana and with other worthy midwestern opponents. No, we haven't forgotten that semester tests also took place in the Rec Building. We would just rather not talk about them. Instead we shall reminisce on the infinitely more pleasant dances which we have enjoyed on these hardwood floors. 15

Page 18 text:

X-f A-gi HERE throughout the winter months we worked and played, ANY Friday night of the ear the ym M WE COULD probably linger about the Chapel throughout this whole intro- duction, but we have other places to go. Leaving the center of our spiritual 11 ' il life, we push on to the Rec Building and the Little Gym. Here we passed the best part of each day, recreation period. The thudding of punching bags, the counting as the wrestling squad Went through calisthenics, the whistle on the basket- ball courts, and the shout of Stroke! of the varsity coxswain, all these sounds and calls to action meant that cadets were preparing for contests, either company or I4 -.N 1s-2v'f,3fuf- , .An .

Page 20 text:

INVARIABLY through the persistence of Colonel Payson our discords evolved into pleasant harmonies. DEMOSTHENES, Cicero, Franklin D. Roosevelt also went through these painful initial stages in their oratorical Careers. N CE THROUGH the doors of play, We see before us the halls of learning. A Here are the ivy-covered Walls of the Music and Art Building, where the dance band practiced for hours on end to please us as we whirled our dates across 0 the floor. Here a few classes met, our musicians studied and practiced, and Major Williams guided budding artists, Across the way Colonel Mather and his staff labored with us over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. Facing the English Build- ing stands the structure in which Colonel Shanks and his mathematicians helped us to untangle our confused theorems and equations. A little beyond lies the Q. M. Store. I6