Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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9'l'i'9l' to t are-nl's B ogs ng it Y V - . A .hi ii' OUR BOY is an undeveloped man. There is in him the germ of every trait that has marked l any man in all ages. Most of these will never develop but any of them may, and some of them will 5 and the development of those that are desirable and eflicient, and the suppression or correction of those that are not, con- stitute his education. If this process is undertaken at the proper time, is wisely planned and COLONEL T. A- JOHNSTON thoroughly executed, your boy will be- come an admirable, useful, and success- ful man. If it is neglected, or if mistakes are made and wrong steps taken, the chances are that failure, sorrow and even disgrace will result. Superintendent All this belongs to the profession of the educator. He knows that the character of the individual is the sum total of the habits, aptitudes, knowledge, ambitions and ideals he has acquiredg that all these are taken on under the age of twenty 5 that they are the result of practice and repetition g that the process ceases when growth stopsg that it is as necessary for useless and harmful tendencies to be discovered and stopped as for useful ones to be cultivated. It follows, therefore, that you will need the assistance of the educational expert in order to make the right kind of man out of your boy. You employ a physician to look after his health, pay him any fee he asks and implicity follow his advice. Since the boy's manhood is more valuable than his health, and the laws that underlie character building are more intricate and obscure than those of the physical nature, you should see to it that his education is entrusted only to trained and competent hands. Kemper Military School offers itself for this service. It gives boys who have reached or passed the age of twelve and the sixth grade of the public schools the education and training necessary to complete their preparation for college, uni- versity or business lifeg and at the same time applies the expert methods, developed by long and successful experience, to character building and the formation of the page six

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'f-11. --- -- -.- .-? ..- AA. I , Y-0-. -Af----A----Artl.-.W-V. - -YA .. , .' L ' ' r - ' .. f V - A ' 1 7 T C F- F I C ' 1 I I :alfff1f'f..Ql .,.---4' Ig I -5, I I I i I ' I I i- ... -Ann I...3T,. TM- . ui.. -A., ,- A, -st-vi Y Y -- A -, .- For the Year 1915-1916 With length of service at Kemper SUPERINTENDENT COLONEL T. A. JOHNSTON, A. M. Cforty-seven yearsj . . C University of Missouril Laiin and Greek PRINCIPAL MAJOR A. M. HITCH, A. B., B. S. Qseventeen yearsj . . C University of Missourib English , COMMANDANT MAJOR W. S. MACAARON, LL. B. Cfive yearsj .,... . CWestern Reserve Universityj Hisiory ARMY DETAIL MAJOR W. J. FITZMAURICE, Cone yearj . . . Clst Lieut. 23rd Infantry, U.S. A.j CWest Pointb Mililary Science and Tactics, Mafhemalics SURGEON CAPTAIN R. L. EVANS, M. D. Ceighteen yearsb . . . C Missouri Medical Collegej CAPTAIN G. T. IRVINE, A. B. Csixteen yearsb .... ,... C Kenyon Collegeb Matheirnaiics and Science QUARTERMASTI-:R CAPTAIN H. C. JOHNSTON, Ctwelve yearsb .......,. QWestern Reserve Universityq AD JUTANT CAPTAIN A. B. BATES Cten yearsb ......... CGraduate Simpson Business College? Commercial Branches CAPTAIN G. T. BOYCE, PH. B. Cten yearsb ........ fNorthWest Missouri Collegej Manual Training and Drawing CAPTAIN A. D. BURNHAM, A. B. Cthree yearsj .... CSyracuse University and Harvardb English and Drarnaiics CAPTAIN JONATHAN DICKINSON, A. B., A. M. fone yearn ...... C Haverford Collegeib English, Latin and Public Speaking LIEUTENANT R. B. PHILLIPS, PH. B. fsix yearsj . . CGraduate Sternloerg Scliool of Music. Student for one year at the Conservatoire F emina-Musica, Paris? Piano and Voice LIEUTENANT CECIL COCKERILL, A. B., A. M. Qfive yearsb . . CA. B., Valparaiso Universityg A. M., Wisconsin University? German, French and Spanish LIEUTENANT W. C. DUNCKEL, B. S. Cone yearj ....... QUniversity of Missourib Aihletics and Grammar School LIEUTENANT E. S. LISTON, A. B. Cone yearj ....... . QBaker Universityj Mathematics and Athleiics LIEUTENANT J. C. ELLIFF, A. B., B. S. Lone yeari ....... QUniVersity of Missouril History and Aihlefics LIEUTENANT KING STACY Cone yearj ..... CGraduate Warren Military Band School! Wind and Stringed Instrumenis, Band Miss LOUISE WALZ qeighteen yearsj .,........ ...,......... Dancing MISS LUCY LEIGH BROWN Cone yearb ...... . CKansas City Conservatoryj Violin MR. J. G. KAHL Csix yearsj . . . . .... . . . Steward page fue

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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