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

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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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PROPEF-Weir o if E It is the instinct of every living creature of Go-d t-o fight for survival. To survive against the elements and wild life, the caveman clothed himself with animal slcins and armed himself with stones and became the first warrior. When he acquired a mate, a family, a cave for shelter, his fight became greater. With the intelligence of man he improved his weap-ons and metho-ds of defense for the protection of his loved ones and his h-ome. Two thousand years before Christ to the present day his education has continued . . . from a few sto-nes, to the atom bomb . . . from the Spartan boy's training to the training of the ROTC cadet . . . and when necessity demands that he use this knowledge, he bec-omes a warrior. Volumes have been written of the wars of man,and these wars have produced many brave men whose quotations have been the inspiration for the theme of this. our I958 Warrio-r.

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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.