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

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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.

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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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Computerization Adds Math Depth Ed Schroeder trims one of his completed plates while instruct¬ or Walter O. Gollnick grades as¬ signments. Mechanical drawing, a one-semester half-credit course, gave stude nts a new perspective on spacial relationships and a taste of engineering. Calculus instructor Myron E. Benner and one of his AP stu¬ dents pursue an integration problem. The seventh period cal¬ culus class, culmination of three years of accelerated math courses, worked through differ¬ ential and integral calculus and analytical geometry toward the May advanced placement exam¬ ination. The students also sought a firm background for engineer¬ ing, physics and college math courses. Accuracy and speed were essential to National Math Con test students. Bob Larsen, working under the critical eye of John Reitman, found the March 12 test worth the prep¬ aration provided through old tests by department chair¬ man Ray C. Jurgensen. The nation wide test was just one of many hurdles students overcame to graduate with mathematics honors.