Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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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

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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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