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

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Clubs, AP Courses Continue Language Tradition Students discuss the phil¬ osophy of Blaise Pascal in the French 4 honors class, taught by Gordon R. Uytte- brouck. The course focused almost entirely on French literature and poetry. In the spring, the French 3 and French 4 honors sec¬ tions traveled to South Bend to see a French pro¬ duction of Samuel Bechet’s play “Waiting for Godot.” Friday mornings during study and help, Latin honors candidates Ron Huggins, Bill Reader, Charlie McNagny and Roger Ferry met with Cmdr. John F. Roos to study the Greek la nguage. A mastery of the Greek fundamentals, the completion of an outside project and a good showing on the College Boards were prerequisites for gradmtion with honors. The modem language lab gave students practical experience in listening to and speaking foreign languages. The Language Department increased its facilities during the year by acquiring new machinery and additional tapes. Next year the department is planning to incorporate a section of the library as a tape bank. 28

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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

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Bob Larsen, German Club president, goes over the agenda for one of the club’s Sat¬ urday meetings. Under the supervision of Milton F. Hughes, the club visited the German Christmas Show at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Dr. Armando F. Perez, a Cuban refugee who joined the Culver faculty five years ago, conducts one of two Spanish honors courses offered at the Academy. The honors program required a high level of individual study from the students and gave them an opportunity to try for ad¬ vanced placement in college Spanish. Guided by Dr. Russell Blair and presi¬ dent J. C. Kline, the Russian Club met weekly for breakfast in the private din¬ ing room to supplement classroom meet¬ ings. The breakfasts gave students an op¬ portunity to put their knowledge of the language to a practical use.