Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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IUIIIOI2 SCIIOOI IACUIIY We are pleased to announce the junior School fac- ulty for the ensuing year. From the principal through- out the entire group, they are high minded, enthusiastic persons of strong personality. We wish that you might know them personally and individually, for you would feel very safe in entrusting your boy to them. It is more important to have strong teachers in an elementary school than in high school, for here is where the foundation is laid for all future education. As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined, is a sound educational maxim. The early stages of the educational process are the most vital and far reaching in im- portance. Small boys idealize their teachers if they are of suf- ficiently strong individuality to grip the boys' admira- tion. Practically all of our junior Staff are men of athletic type, outstanding athletes, in fact, in their col- lege life. The red-blooded boy loves to associate, to play with men of this stamp. But athletic ability was, of course, a secondary motive in their choice, character and ability to teach were the primary considerations. You may entrust your son to these men with full faith and confidence in their honesty, earnestness, and devo- tion to their task. MAJOR J. S. COVERDALE Principal Junior School Ariihmeiic t CAPTAIN A. R. ROCHELLE CAPTAIN PAUL REDDICK CAPTAIN LINDSEY DONNELL Geography and Coach Science and Coach ENQIISII cAP1AlN ERNES1 srocK1oN MRS. w. L. HARRIS MISS GLENN CARTER Hisvory Primary Readme

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J U N IVHE Junior School is in effect as separate and dis- tinct from the Senior School as though it had no con- nection whatever. It is at a considerable distance from the upper school and its setting is one of incomparable beauty. It is surrounded by a broad, blue grass covered campus which is dotted with original forest trees, includ- ing oak and hickory, of great size and beauty. The administration building of the Junior School is the former Mitchell Mansion, built of Sewanee sand- stone at a cost of over Sl00,000. The interior of this building is in keeping with its exterior. It is doubtful that any school building in the country exceeds this in elegance of appointment. In addition to this building there is a newly-built study hall and barracks, accom- modating fifty cadets. The third building of the group is Coverdale Hall, which is the academic building. The capacity of the Junior School is one hundred I O R C A D E T R E P O R T S H I S P R E S E N C E T O O F F I C E R I N C PI A R G E cadets. The work given begins with the third grade and extends through the eighth. Such has been the acclaim with which the Junior School has been received that there has not been a vacancy in the school since its inception. It has always enjoyed a capacity enroll- ment. Junior School patrons have been pleased with the care and supervision which their boys have received as well as the homelike atmosphere which surrounds them. Three house mothers and a trained nurse minister con- stantly to the needs of the Junior School boys, in addi- tion to the faculty in residence which numbers seven. Classes are very small and each boy's progress is closely watched and provided for. The Castle Heights junior Academy is one of the few distinctive schools for little boys and is outstanding in this field. l961

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DAILY IZOUTINE lpLENTY of sleep, a reasonable amount of school work, long periods of play in the open air, regular exer- cise, and good food-these are the fundamentals on which a daily routine for the young boy should be planned. Parents will agree that they have not been neglected after a careful study of the following daily schedule of life in the Castle 6:45--First call 7:00-Breakfast 7:30-Preparation for in- spection 8:00-Chapel program 8:30-Academic classes 12:15-Lunch 1:00-Academic classes 2:30-Drill 3 :go-Athletics Heights Junior School. 4:45--Afternoon school lspecial help and pri- vate tutoringl 6:oo-Dinner 7:00-Supervised study halls Chonor roll boys per- mitted to study in roomsj 8:30-Free 9:00-Tattoo 9:15-Taps 1995 hours sleepj Military Training. It is the aim underlying the military training we give boys in the Junior School to train them in prompt obedience to orders, attention to E981 details of physical appearance, neatness, manly bearing and upright carriage. It is not the aim of our military training to malce soldiers out of the young boys en- trusted to our care nor to develop a fighting spirit in them. We teach them to obey that they may be fit to command, and no boy is too young to realize that he cannot control others until he learns to control himself. We devote one-half hour, five times a week, to mil- itary training. Discipline. Discipline is gentle but firm and is con- structive in its application to the boy. It is administered by men who are conscientious and sympathetic and who are determined to hold the good will and friendship of the boy and feel that to hold the boy's belief in their fairness is of more importance than the punishment administered. It is our firm belief that if we keep our boys busy and happy in their associations with us we shall have little or no disciplinary difiiculty.