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

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Harvey E. Firari and aspiring play¬ wright “Skeeter” Gollnick concentrate on one of many plays analyzed in the drama elective. Students studied and listened to plays ranging from Greek tragedy to the modern theater of the absurd. The ultimate goal of each stu¬ dent was to write a play of his own. Jeff Z arem lectures his classmates on the Age of Chaucer in John M. Hartley’s sur¬ vey course of English literature, one of several elective courses offered by the English department. Projects in the course varied from class talks to lengthy papers on such things as an imaginary account of a day in Shakespeare’s Lon¬ don. Francis W. Lovett instructs an English III composition class. The emphasis was on vocabulary and composition technique. The course, also taught by Thomas E. Walker and Charles E. Bay less, was an elective open to all first and second classmen desiring to improve in composition and sentence structure. 25

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English Electives Build Literary Perspective Eric Olsen, a sophomore in William J. MacQuillan’s Eng¬ lish II Oral Interpretation class, presents a literary speech while Mr. MacQuillan tapes it for the class to ana¬ lyze and correct at a later date. The course, in its sec¬ ond year, teaches a student how to interpret a poem or reading selection to an au¬ dience using only oral and gesticular means. Thomas E. Walker leads a discussion over Homer’s “Odyssey” during an English 3 class. Mr. Walker will be¬ come department chairman and Epp- ley chairholder in English when the present chairman, Arthur G. Hughes, assumes the chairmanship of the newly-created Fine Arts department. Mr. Walker, who initiated a new composition class in 1967, has been a member of the Academy faculty for 13 years. “To buy or not buy; that is the ques¬ tion,” as Rex Becker looks over a book from the English Department bookrack. The miniature bookshop was the outgrowth of an honor sys¬ tem bookrack established several years ago by the English Department for the convenience of students. Coeds volunteered to run the book¬ store between classes.

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New Chairman, Speakers Emphasize Interpretive Aspects of History Alexander D. Nagy, new department chairman and Eppley chairholder in history, reiterates a point in one of his two advanced placement U. S. History classes. Mr. Nagy stress¬ es interpretive rather than “facts and figures” history in this eighty ear-old course. Bob Grimes and other students discuss economy with instructor Carl M. Eckert. Economics, a semester course, has been taught by Mr. Eckert for the past five years. He has found that it attracts potential businessmen and has become a good preparatory course for an economics, business or law major in college. William P. Garrison lectures on the diplomatic history of the U.S. as students scramble to organize their notes. In developing a basis in interpretive history, Mr. Garrison al¬ so covered the political, economic, social and military as¬ pects of America. He spoke to all U.S. History classes in January about myths in the Civil War. 26