Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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-,1..--.--..-a-- ,.,, ,,-. ....,-,. ,.f, 1 HISTCDRY 08' fhe sCHooL HE SCHOOL completed in May its seventy-second year of continuous opera- tion in the city of Boonville, and its seventy-first on its present site. Its opening day was Monday, June 3, 1844. Its founder was Professor Frederick T. Kemper, of Virginia, who continued in active control until his death in March, 1881. The present Superintendent became a teacher in the School in 1868 and Superintendent in 1881. It is far the oldest boys' academy in Missouri, and the only unendowed school of any considerable age in the State that has achieved success, and enjoyed the steady confidence and patronage of the public. Location Boonville is a city of 5,000 inhabitants and occupies a commanding position on the hills of the Missouri River. It is one of the oldest interior towns of Missouri, dating back almost to the time of the memorable pioneer for whom it was named. It is near the center of the State, and is easily accessible from the north, east and south by the M. K. Sz T. Railway, and from the east and west by the river route of the Missouri Pacific. The city is wealthy, has refined and homogeneous society, and is well supplied with churches and schools. The streets and lawns are well shaded, and the homes are beautiful and substantial. The town is wide-awake and progressive, having gas and electric lights, a modern and complete sewerage system, elegant public buildings, paved streets and excellent city Waterworks. Equipment The School grounds comprise thirty acres of rolling land, well set in trees and grass. They contain a good clear lake of two acres, well stocked with fish, and furnishing excellent skating in winter and swimming in summer, one of the best fields in the State for football and baseball and recently further enlarged and improved, a target-range for all distances up to 500 yards, with best modern equipment, tennis courts, parade-grounds, a quarter-mile track, etc. The buildings have been erected with a special view to their use, and are commodious and well adapted to the needs of students. They are heated by steam and lighted by electricity from the school power-house, which is a separate building. A part of the Main Building is occupied by the Superintendent and his family as a residence, the rest contains on the first floor a beautiful, well furnished and commodious mess hall, offices of the Superintendent and the Quartermaster, recitation rooms, and a large, well lighted study hall capable of seating 150 cadets, and on the second and third floors cadet and faculty quarters. The cadet quarters are of even size and are furnished with a radiator, wardrobe, toilet conveniences, two single beds, table, chairs, and mirror. A faculty ofiicer lives on each hall. Each floor is provided with first-class toilet and bath rooms, supplied with hot page eight

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habits and aptitudes of the efficient man, especially striving to create an environ- ment that develops the best in the boy and suppresses what is wrong or harmful. Kemper is no educational experiment, as is indicated by the facts detailed elsewhere showing its history of over seventy years of continuous operation in one locality, under only two heads. The School has grown to its present status through its own merit, without the aid of churches, boards, or benefactors. It has a wide patronage, a large faculty of college trained men of experience and approved character, sufficient to insure small classes and thorough supervision of work and deportment. It is considered by the University of Missouri as one of its best preparatory schools. Its graduates are admitted without examination to all colleges and universities in the United States that admit on certificate. Kemper is rated by the U. S. War Department as an Honor School, the highest rating given, and an army officer is detailed to the School as professor of military science and tactics. The School possesses superior facilities for looking after the health and physical development of its pupils. A sound body is necessary for successful training and scholarship. These facts should serve to assure prospective patrons that their boys will have the benefit of methods and influences that have stood the test of time and won the approbation of a long succession of previous patrons. Military school methods are not designed to make soldiers nor to reform bad boys. Our experience is that boys who have had military training are less rather than more apt to be caught by the glamor of military life. The bad and vicious, if admitted by any possibility, are dismissed as soon as discovered 3 in fact the cadet honor system and our strict discipline make quick work of a bad or unruly boy. The military training is used as a formative process, which attends better than any other method to all the details of habit and personality and insures adequate and proper development of every power, instead of leaving much of the process to chance with resultant failure and damage. The material equipment of the School is excellent and complete 5 its patronage is from the best families of the Middle Westg the charges are moderate for the advantages offered. Full particulars are given in the following pages. You are invited to visit the School and learn its merits at first hand. It is hoped that you will become interested and entrust your boy to us. Very respectfully, ' :I , 4 I Z Superintendent. page seven

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and cold water and meeting every sanitary requirement. ln the basement are the laundry and tailoring departments, shooting gallery, photographer's dark room, etc. To provide for the increasing numbers, it was found necessary a few years ago to provide additional accommodations. To meet this need a commodious three-story building known as A Barracks was erected. Here is found ample room for the chemical and physical laboratories, the well equipped manual training department, several oflices and recitation rooms, and a large, well furnished and attractive library. The second and third fioors are devoted to cadet and faculty quarters, with an arrangement very similar to that of the Main Building. The Gymnasium contains a drill hall, armory, and bowling alleys 5 on the main floor, a gymnasium with a floor space of 3,600 square feet, a stage for theatricals, lectures, etc., a gallery, and dressing rooms. The building fully meets the require- ments of the miltary and athletic departments, enabling them to carry on their work regardless of weather conditions. Additional buildings include an armory C erected this yearj, a model dairy barn, garage, etc. -..gl W -Q -.AL1..x.'....' 1- SVRVEYJVKADE -BY ' ff KEMP1-:iz-cADB1's - fo ' Accv12A1'.r: 'DRAXVING or'scHoo1.GRovNDs ' 1 '--- ij QIDNH-..,x Q 'SKU l' 1r7f'X.X Q , SI ge? i77l,!jj Six. . Q, F .J X- D S QS Q Pegs Q CJ Q I , K J Q X, ID QI Q ll F B N-X. U6 0 Q1 Q i T U To Q S B 'XXXIXAXL -N. a Qggiggilff N U 44, ,.1. ...-'11 f-,: '--L ff., 'l-T l'Ei2l'P ' Quarter rw: om mf and zza ya smfqnrawqy ,nfiilir '.f'f,1f I--11. Y .nv-E1--3: vm4.o,f..fre.-.- .--is .faf.mf,.i.-.1,'..J.v mums.: :1.:.11:1TT2:2 'sv4v,1-W3 U ,f'f!'T.i'Q5.f75 45' 'I -if'- ' :- 1 ---------- - XQNR Q Anfyfff- '. 5 5 g 'sa . . V - X 1 I X 3 1 : If 0 Qs 5 T 9 Q to lo - i ' O ' 0, I . Q I I o , I 0 0 Q 0 9 0 I 5 9 0 o 9 fl III IIC field d q new dull ground f o ff, 9 5 ,X J f I- 'pr' X! 141' L..l 8 Ld ff o: .- - fy ,f' 0 i' ff I X! U' f ,f KEMPER MILITARY SCHOOL . Q f f .f A 'A' Barracks 6 Prfm:palsl?esldencc . Q T f. If 2. 'B1Barraclf.s 7 Fowtrl1au.1e - . X' J 'C Barracks 8 Post Enchanqc 'K l X - 'I Gymnasru 3 Tzrqct Butt M ,, - I l 5 Concr t Cowl I0 Farad: Ground 0. I 0 I lTCrndcrD wsnndfhfhsll Spring Camp ,.,,,, 0 . GED: IZ Drums Courts wyryzrf l'- 0 .I . Ifmlfencc li BdScbl1IlD1am0nJ N 2 mwy CadCfS p pn ' s sm f V- Il C3 lj DMS l K I ll . I , 0 Q o ., l I B 0 0 0 , Q I I page nine