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

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Spirit. It’s usually lowest in the morning. It touches bottom somewhere between 6:40 and 6:43. During the fall, the Culver Song and a “Big 15” are measures of spirit. What could be more exciting than a football game, especially when it’s a required formation? But, by the end of the first quarter, most of the Corps’ enthusiasm is gone. Most of the Corps is gone, too. Only the Band remains without absentees to make up in quality what is sometimes lacking in quantity. Not all activities lack interest at Culver Military Academy! Every Thursday evening three quarters of the first class unite in front of the television set in Beason, where for one hour Star Trek overrules any other preoccupation. Culver has other big events that evoke spirit throughout the year. Homecoming. Mother’s Day. Haircut Day. Friday. Nothing is achieved without enthusiasm— the way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Reactions to Spirit 15

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To learn group living as a basis for group life—this has been the basic tenet for mankind since organized society began. MICHIGANENSIAN 1957 What could be more barren, more void of excitement than a barrack? To the rhythm of Wolly Bully, Simon • Garfunkel, The S upremes, and eratic radiator pipes, inhabitants discover the advantages of an organized society. Activities converge primarily within the halls, long passageways with appendages for rooms. It is through these halls that people leave for ranks, classes or sports. Into them they sweep dust, throw trash, and walk barefooted to and from the shower. For a majority of the year, barracks are home. 14 Reactions to Barracks

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16 Reactions to Religion Independent religious congregations have been burgeoning this year—mostly cults with a select membership of one. A poll taken at the year ' s outset noted not only a number of agnostics, but the presence of such fractional groups as Existentialists, Epicurians, and several Protestants. Normally lenient towards these sects, the Academy’s religious liberality was protested when a prominent teak Buddha (Clyde) was deposed as a trinket. The Chapel is the center of Culver’s non-sectarian worship during weekly matins and Sunday chapel services. Religion is not as conspicuous the remainder of the week when barracks echo “Oh God!” more often than the sanctuary. While unbowed heads might indicate those who refuse to recognize God at all, others find His omnipotence stretches far enough to provide Cordon trips to Beason Park to escape Saturday Inspections. I will not worship that which ye worship; nor will ye worship that which I worship . . . Ye have your religion, and I have my religion. The Koran