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

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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

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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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Felix Greene (center), the year’s first American Demo¬ cratic Heritage speaker, Far East expert and author of “Awakening China” and “A Curtain of Ignorance,” spoke on America’s collision course with Red China through the Viet Nam crisis. Later, Alex Haley spoke on “What The Negro Must Do for Himself.” Mr. Haley is known for his award-winning “Autobiography of Malcolm X,” his newly- written “Before this Anger,” and Playboy interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King, George Lincoln Rockwell and Sammy Davis, Jr. Dr. Phillip Crane, after an introduction by Lewis K. Moore, followed in February with his talk on the “Blessings of Liberty.” He has written “Democrats Dilem¬ ma” and “The Lessons of History, and was research di¬ rector for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. The March speaker was Dr. Andrew Gyorgy, an Hungar¬ ian, who spoke on ideological diversity in Eastern Europe. The American Challenge in the Contemporary World (AC- CW) was developed for fourth classmen in 1967 from the American Democratic Heritage lecture series. Lewis K. Moore, level chairman for the course since it was estab¬ lished, designed a program which divides the ideological forces influencing world history into Democracy, Totali¬ tarianism and the third world, sometimes called Authori¬ tarianism. 27