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

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rf-.ig K P HERES Major Charles Stuart Young, a Culver veteran of many years in a familiar pose that will be remembered by everyone who fre- quented the Library With a deep interest in books, he was perhaps the most widely read Culver staff member. Anyone searching for an obsolete reference only needed to ask the Major who could drift through stacks of books and come up with it. MRS. ELIZABETH BRYANT and her diligent staff kept track of thousands of books and periodicals, assisted us in many ways and was constantly promoting an interest in reading, She is pictured here with H. C, McCleary. At right is Captain Marshall, THE HISTCRY and Math buildings disgorge students in a typical scene enacted five times every day of the week.

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ll? If F REMEMBER the academic year? - strug- gling with language, rushing to get that theme in on time, and that old familiar question, Have you studied for the test this morning? Somedays we were exultant after doing well on a physics quiz, and often the opposite was true. More important, however, was the faculty - those who led, those who advised, and those who taught. Some were serious, some humorous, and some sarcastic, but they all had one quality in common - the desire to help us, the cadets. The classes were like the teachers in that each had a character of its own, but in all was the spirit of the search for knowledge. REMEMBER the iron grilled gate entrance to the reading room at Memorial Library? 27

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C.Q.'s and C.P.'s RECALL the hours spent studying over our interminable books for those elusive Quality Points. Intangible though they were, they influenced those vitally im- portant reading privileges and Full Firsts. The study struggle took place in our rooms. the classroom. Night Study Hall, and the Memorial Library. During evening C.Q., many would study in the reading room of the Library and upstairs in the English Literature Room we wrote our term papers. Remember full First Class privileges which enabled the lucky few to visit Beason Hall instead of study- ing during C.Q. These men. however, had to study to keep their privileges. Though the year had its triumphs and failures for all of us, the thought of graduation made our work all the more worthwhile. ,tsl MID-SEMESTERS where we poured out tor failed to pour out! the accumulation of eighteen weeks of learning. THE HTOMBSTONEH formation at the beginning of the aca- rooms for the first of a long series of daily recitations and stud demic year. Here we met our instructors and were off to class- assignments which continued through tojune. X i-75 .sg A 4-, , ' i 'bs I 'Elf :tl i., p. Q. .' A. in ,, .voir l -. , , il i fi! 29 l