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

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ffftcccc S .i I' re- U3 'hs -re he lts it th, n,- -za- ner is ' ch Y CY to te. d he al in re he 01' ot all 444' CCC! 4- .. - . fffffffffffcf ki S the manner in which their training aided not only in their own advancement, ., . . . . . 3 but likewise in that of their country's st.andard. Men of the Culver Legion B 5 were to be found well to the fore on every front, in the position for which Culver 5 5 .had prepared them-that of command. Indeed, Culver has a well incomparable V bf- record in respect to that word ''command''-practically fifty per cent o-f her ' men in the service are commissioned officers. The actual figures Ctaken from '4 , Q the report of the Culver Legion corrected to the first day of Nlay, 19195 are 6. 'even more astonishing. We had then in the Army and Marine Corps, 3 graduates fi: serving as colonels, 4 as lieutenant-colonels, 47 majors, 119 captains, 197 first , f, lieutenants, 215 second lieutcnants, and 146 non-commissioned o-fficers. The Navy ji 1 list, while not so large, shows an equal percentage of commissions. with 1 lieuten- j- j ant-commander, 9 lieutenants, Junior grade, 22 ensigns, and 9-petty officers. , ' There have been enrolled in the great World Wa.r, 1,269 o-ld Culver Men and ' 1 Academy officers, o-f whom 617 held commissions a.nd 155 no-n-commissioned,ofIi- si ces. Thus, of that total there were but 407 privates, only 30 per cent, while the - remaining 70 per' cent held an office of some kind. Does not that speak well ' Q for the invaluable Culver training? A V ' Q The pre-eminent consideration of the Culver Legion has been to bring good Q- i cheer and news to the men who so willingly left everything behind, to- speed -5 i across the seas at a moment 's notice. The Culver Legion has stood by its members Q ,' through their every move, has followed them overseas and back again with letters ' and, what was perhaps even more welcome, the Vedette-bringing them back each day to the old assoc1a.tions and friendships, giving information of other Culver Men in the service, and thus bringing about many happy little reunions in camp and at the front. - The Legion has done its work well-has a.ided nobly in this grea.t conflict- ! and is no-w about to crown it all with the finest school Memorial Hall in the 1 country, a Hall which shall stand for ages as a lasting monument to the prowess and achievements of the Culver Legion in Service-but not as an o-rnament. No, - it expresses too much the spirit of the Legion--service. It will forever perpetuate the memo of the Men of the Le ion who not onl wore the khaki but fou ht . . . Y . 7 g - and bled and even died in it. , J J ' i 1 . . f 1 ia 't 51 ,Q-1. 51 3 , 3 : gh , r - . -- -asain ...1 a91'Yj77f ' 9- ' t 'LH . 'rr ' f 'r lffrri F -Q f i If 't fft f- a bt' 't ir 'lf 2 215' ff , g.xcft Q f ig it if .-ina .1 twill? J it '11 5 Q 'ff: 'ftii ' -1 vt: ' fa.- 01 Wg. mf 'A A., 12-,,'1, f V, A,..,iQisgg.-' 91,41-QM V -ng , A ,Q, ..,.1, f1.gi,f .Y-'i'13T'7-fifilt 94 '- ', e's-lm? f' 1 -'ae . uh lhqitkggzl ,- , nh .,..1f9fm ,, V U--r mf- ff wma -i x nj' .'f Nr't:,1ffTf.':1,... -'iZ'?'.. ,., ,,.,r.ffw,u-ff--1:-ff fQ.,,:A: ,QW ii'f H .,.,, t R ,Q 1' ' E' ,,... -.-. .,.,,- -e'ie4 A 7 Q , 4 ,,.,,-,.,.,,,,.....-.....,.-.......,,,,,,, ,.,, ,.,...5- ---1v- 'ku-3!,,zf,:,'1f'-' ff ,,, 1:1127 , 1 4:Qg'?n,ml'??glH g'-4--+..- ..., i..-..,..-.-..- .,....... -A L Qvlvfvvfgiunllfmsnll 'l ff Wfffzf f F, 1, . 7 ,.1'4itL'f ' I A .-.:-..- L!!- 1 4 ff- 4' -' - .f 4 -A 4- CULVER LEGION BIEJIORIAL FX 2 fi E2 21 fx 'N H-- 9- ---ff - '1l . v-N-------4 -Q----------f-----'f'-: 'X, . TT'Tf7 u2w:fiqtbr'fru:-zitsigfyvf NTT! F-'J LJ E- L., CI IA-L...l... iii? 5- A '.:.i ' .o.....,..,..,....,,,,,...,,.,,,. 15. ,yf-,,,,,,,,YV ,, v,, 4?,,,,.,,,.,YY--,....-.. M., .--.......-s---m --w-- F, 464'

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, ata' ,,,5'sA5K35r.L'2'3fatzb-u m T-Fail' Ji' I ' . C 'A ' Qui'-L v F--.-1------'A A xl Y gum.: Q J 4- ti 4 5 l gl r 4' The Culver Legion Mn. DAVID C. Brunnn - Prcsiclcnt Con. GIGNIILQLTAT V Sugberinzien ent Culver-the school-has for twenty-five yea.rs held .her place. in the fore- 1 ground and can now look back with placid and well satis-fied eyes on her long and glorious record. Culver-the man-however, has wlthm 3 Sh01fJC- 15 1'I1011'UhS left behind such a course of hono-r and achievement that all thought of the mere record of the school is eclipsed, and more and more is forced on the world the rea.lization that an institution .does not grow grea.t through its own merit, Its ' sons alone could have brought the Academy to the topmost. peak .upon which it stands today. A school is made and judged by the man which it sends forth, and so has Culver been made, judged,-and glorified. There is, perhaps, at the present time no school-secondary or college- which can boast of a.n alumni organization such 'as Culver possesses, an organiza- tion aided and abetted by the i Culver Spirit which so indelibly marks her graduates-the spirit which makes them as much a part of Culver as Culver is a part of them. In June, will come the reunion of this great legion, a.t which the spectre battalions of former years will once more fall in on the old company street and live again their cadet days. ' This reunion has been made possible only through the- wonderful efficiency and organization of the Culver Legion, an organization supported by the schoo-l to keep in touch with her graduates, principally through the medium of the Vedette. This was formerly known as the Alumni Association, but when the spirit and poweruwith which Culver Men answered the call of their country was seen, the alumni vot.ed to adopt the na.me of Culver Legion, and to make a.s the primal purposeof the Association the helping and bringing together of Culver Men in the service, a.nd the keeping of a. record of their activities. 1 In pursuance of this purpose, work was soon well under wa.y and ca.rds were ' Q l A mailed to every gra.duate whose address was obta.inable. In connection with the men in the service, there was soon! on file in the Le ion offi R ll f H such as no other school of l'k- Q' dt g - Ce af 0 0 Onor alon the f I ,hu 1 C 1 c size an age can boast-a list. which showed, not 2 0 WHY 111 VS 101 ulver Men responded, but one which showed as well 2 . b A W 20 A A I E I D un : -CID R CI Ll. CA L-L. pp LQQA D 'gum

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, 1 Y ir ,- 51 -K fi? ref' L., 'f .i' 6 ' 1 T CD - 3 1 aa V e- ' H muh re im Q The Spirit of Culver T if all 5 The hope to win, the zeal to dare, I ' S , Contemptfor what is base and ,mean ' F Hof! Pride in achievement that is fair, And high regard for what is clean, iq The strength that is in Brotherhood, The courage that proclaims success, 7 The will to strive for what is good, ' I J' l . if - 1. f And, first and always, lw2lI1l1116SS. - - aj , -s. E. KISER. T he 3 L.: 1-:lf ., .ff '- 5, ,W , , ' Q ff glgfiig We 14 Q lf I3 . r,NiW'sw5Q J r Q12 'Q X W x 4 ,V P, a f ills wh Q KN' Iliff J'usSf f 21117 laik! 2'