Kemper Military School - Yearbook (Boonville, MO)

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EQUIPMENT AND LOCATION With the completion of the new fire-proof barracks in September, 1918, at a cost of S150,000, Kemper became one of the best equipped private military schools in America. It has ample accommodation for 450 cadets. There are three large and two small barracks buildings, a gymnasium, a power house, an armory, a hospital and other buildings, such as a dairy barn, a garage, residences, etc. The buildings have been erected with a special view to their use, and are com- modious and well adapted to the needs of the students. The first floor of the bar- racks buildings are used for class rooms and offices, and the upper floors for cadets and teachers. The cadet rooms are of even size, and are furnished with a double- deck bed, table, chairs, wardrobe, toilet conveniences, etc. A faculty officer lives on each hall. Each floor is provided with first class toilets and shower baths. The buildings are heated by steam and lighted by electricity from the school power house, which is a new building, newly equipped and a model of its kind. D Barracks, the new fire proof building, is U-shaped, and measures 130 feet in each direction. It is probably the largest and best arranged barracks building in America. On the second, third and fourth floors it will accommodate over 200 cadets. The space between the wings is one story high, and contains the mess hall, a spacious room without obstruction of columns, with ample seating capacity for 450. An assembly hall, 87 X 38 feet, occupies the first fioor of the west wing. A considerable portion of the basement is turned over to the drawing tables, benches, lathes and forges of the manual training department. A Barracks is a commodious three-story building erected several years ago. The first floor and basement contain most of the class rooms, laboratories, and the library, and the upper floors accommodations for cadets and faculty officers. B and C Barracks form another large U-shaped building with quarters for cadets and teachers on the upper floors, the main floor being used for class rooms, music rooms, the library, the quartermaster's store, the tailor shop, the superinten- dent's oiiice and the school parlors. The superintendent and his family occupy a portion of this building as a residence. The gymnasium furnishes ample space for basket-ball and motion pictures. The school grounds comprise thirty acres of rolling land, well set in trees and grass. They contain a good clear lake of two acres, furnishing excellent skating in winter and swimming in summer, one of the best fields in the State for football and baseball, a target-range for all distances up to 500 yards, with best modern equipment, tennis courts, parade-grounds, a quarter-mile track, etc. page ten

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Kemper Military School offers itself for this service. It gives boys who have reached the high school the education and training necessary to complete their preparation for college, university or business life g and at the same time applies expert methods, developed by long and successful experience, to character building and the formation of the habits and aptitudes of the efficient man, especially striving to create an environment that develops the best in the boy, and supresses what is wrong or harmful. Kemper is no educational experiment, as is indicated by the facts detailed elsewhere showing its history of seventy-five 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. 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 primarily to make soldiers, but the training proves invaluable in meeting an emergency like the recent one. The social environment of the school is good. The cadet honor system and strict discipline quickly eliminate the unsuitable boy. Military training is used as a formative process, which attends better than any other method to all 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, its patronage is from the best families of the Middle West, 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, K7 I ,c-4 I Superintendent. page nine

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Kemper is located in the edge of the city of Boonville, Missouri:fBoonville 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 mod ern and com plete sewer- age system, elegant pub- lic buildings, paved streets and excellent city water- works. l l V 0 1- ., j f 'DXXX I on 'VD --Y, i ri an v X uni no X ru on rm Q5-X 5 1,1 me fm . :' Q ' X ' in .X M-. 5 'Suse as Q Ce REX 11 Q-icq in 1 Q9 ammo cnmrgo 'si 'X x l 'i 1 13 . u on U U X 1 QQ-M' . - 1 5.2: .0 ,--,---1 was 5' ws w -- 'X H. A m I 77 D fe-U M35-u ' 51 1 Q ' R . , o 1 if j Y--,sJ.,f ' 'T UD 'wx .ef K' -'---- ----1 ' CD K' Y ' A 1 V ' i-L3 . in Y, ,m.,1'rr'n-- wiv-A rl. U -f' -3 4'r?:1R5 , Qs!! 1 fn nssr -g ,I 'Z U D '77 RQ rsmwv 1' 9 Q s o W N , X Ev f 0 uw J W L l T . - XXX 5 , 0 gg, Q P fy 5 HELD mmvu fun I 1 UMW, 1 X X fu, Q s 4 0 ' gm ,M l 1 l ' 'E Q, , if i r T 1 1 1 ' 1 wa O ' fs, Y ,X l Q 1 7 , K 0 S QQQ 4. '1 l, X V1 i' , I A XX Q Y -F'-',,gf f E ' X 'i -fe- ff ' i 55'W7 f'5 'S I ini, QVRIFTLRMILE PWM K4 K. -f ' I ,iz ! , I E A 1 5 f K,-I-H12 1 ' x' M , it f i- f ' . bafvfzfeams E an L33 'X XX rf! A ..., , - .5110 . 1 , X, + vu ' ' 4 U, Q.- Q5 MM! 0 xxf XX x 1 f ,-X 'V I -' 0 xxx 0 Q 12,3 Q VV, fr g V. w.-Q X XV. X, LL. X ff W f ff 1: il L L ff 1 W il 111 ff KEMFER NIILITAHY EIEHUUL Q l-if X ll, I1 1 ' u A Q , 3 1. ,. flex 5 1 , EUUNVILLE. Mm E0 fi fx 1, F , U ' sam.: 50:1 M,f1f1n.,w.-1. D1 -. U -, 1 L, Q, ' ' lg egg AQ' X S tnovivzv ly Q 9 f U' ,B NDUSI 'R i A . -. r-J v 1 ' c 0 Q iff., T3 l ' 9 G 2 'EW Cf' STX ' 1,.,,,,,,i TNC-11.01. page eleven