Brown Military Academy - Warrior Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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HE UM STEH As' I write my comments for the Warrior, l see that Life Magazine is beginning an urgent series on the Crisis in Education. What has focused attention on this long-ignored problem is the success of the Soviet Union in penetrating the new frontier of space. Sputnik has shaken the foundations of the American public school. Sputnik has triggered the most critical battle ever to be fought by free men -the battle of the classroom for the brain power of the future. The Russian school has us on the run. The Ameri- can student-and that includes you--had better get on his' marks: Less leisure, more serious study, fewer frills, more solids: less mediocrity, more excellence: less license, more discipline. This is the hard road if we are going to survive as a free nation. Yesterdays Warrior needs to be remodeled. The pen, the slide rule, the drawing board, the micro- scope and other instruments of scholarship now stand behind the fantastic weapons of the future. The role of the private independent school is strikingly clear: Continue to lead the way and to do it better than ever: insist on the formative disciplines which alone can ensure competency in thinking and doing: chal- lenge our cadets to measure up to higher standards: stress the highest rather than the lowest common denominator so that we shall produce in time a long gray line of uncommon men who will take their places in the ranks' of our indispensable men. ...f- .,, f -V'---1 Louis J. Bitterlin Major. BMA P111 13111 L nr LIJWE11 SIIHUUI. We of the Lower School have had our most suc- cessful and happy year. We salute the graduating class and wish them everything good. lt makes us particularly proud to see one of our own Lower School graduates as the senior cadet officer and battalion commander, a cadet who has been with ghe School for nine years, Cadet Lt. Col. Melvyn tein. Elliot M. Senn Rear Admiral, USN, Ret.

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EXEEUTIVE EUMMITTEE rjonn E Brown br Lt. Colonel Kenneth E. Hathaway, Major James H. Barham, Mr. Jack Cauwels, Major Louis J. Bitterlin, Chaplain Donald Bubna, Rear Adm. Elliott M. Senn. The six department heads ot the academy meet periodically to discuss matters ot sch-ool policy and to plan important functions.

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James H. Major, DIHEIITIJH UF IIMISSIU S The year I957 is a significant date in the Brow Military Academy. lt marks the termination of tl- Academ at the San Diego location where fc forty-eight years this great Honor School has bee Training Youth to Live. , As the l958 graduating class bids farewell l their beloved school, they can look upon the pa with justifiable pride and to the future with hop and courage. U To the cadets who enroll at the Brown Mrllta Academy's new location in Glendora, California. challenge you to rededicate your allegiances to tl' task of developing a new and better Academy. Accept this challenge with the earnest attemr to hold high the traditions of our founder, Dr. Jol' E. Brown, Sr, May his ideals continue to find e pression in the hearts and minds of all loyal cadet Barham BMA EH PLAIN L. Today we live in a world of Sputniks, missiles and hydrogen bombs, but as young warriors facing a battle against the evil principalities and power of this world we have an ancient weapon more potent than all our scientific advancement. St. Paul wrote of it as he concluded his letter to the Ephesiansu Be strong in the Lord, and in the- power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that e gray' be able to stand against the wiles of the evi . For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities', against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spirit- ual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of right- eousness: , And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: ' Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. llfphesians 6:lO-l7l Gentlemen, I challenge you to lay hold of these weapons that eternal peace of mind, body and soul may be accomplished. Chablaln DOH?-llr'l l Rritwna