Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Seafed, Left To Right BuTler, Millingfon, Gaylor, Williamson, Sillay, Barlling. Sfanding: JohnsTcn, Zimmerman, Wilkerson, STudsTill, Fowler, Lucas, THE GUIDON CAPTAIN NORMAN DILL Facully Advisor J. D., Parker. A special parT oT any school is The newspaper, The GUIDON, The newspaper oT The Academy, noT only gives news oT The Academy To The Corps oT CadeTs, buT also To parenTs, alumni, and oTher residenTs oT The mounTain, ln iTs currenT issues, prinTed once a monTh, The GUIDON voices The opinion oT The STudenT Body and helps To mold The ideals oT The school. lT gives an up- To-daTe accounT oT The acTiviTies and achievemenTs in all Tields aT Sewanee lvliliTary Academy. This year The GUIDON has sTuck To The same sTyle, TormaT, and layouT ThaT has won excellenT raTings in Two regional high school scholasTic press compeTiTions Tor The pasT Two years. These are The Nashville Banner BeTTer Newspaper conTesT and The Tennessee l-ligh School Press AssociaTion conTesT. This is The Third year ThaT The GUIDON has been a member oT The Quill and Scroll, which is a club made up oT The beTTer high school newspapers oT The world. Each year some oT The ouTsTanding sTaTT members are selecTed Tor Quill and Scroll keys, They are selecTed on Their individual iournalisTic eTTorTs Tor This high scholasTic press honor socieTy. More Than 5,000 copies are mailed across The naTion Tor each issue. As The GUIDON is published by The Corps oT CadeTs aT The Sewanee lvliliTary Academy, The enTire sTudenT body can be crediTed Tor The success OT Th GUIDON. 80

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ABER When we began To work aT The TirsT oT The year we all had one idea in mind, ThaT being To make The l959 SABER The besT annual The Academy has had. We Teel ThaT we have accomplished This goal Through The eTTorTs oT The sTaTT. We would like To Take This opporTuniTy To Thank 6apTain Dill, our TaculTy advisor, Tor The help ThaT he has given us in producing The year book. Mr. Gene Preaus EdiTor-in-Chief l959 SABER Dear Gene, lT has been a pleasure working wiTh you and your sTaTT on The l959 SABER. AlThough we cannoT yeT, aT The Time I am wriling This, siT back, look aT The Tinished producT and give iT a Thorough evaluaTion, l do believe ThaT Two greaT improve- menTs over pasl' annuals have been made. One in The Tield oT phoTographyg The oTher, in layouT and design. We have cori- sciously Tried To obTain a more imaginaTive and a beTTer qualiTy oT phoTography and we have made a much-needed change in TormaT, choosing one which is radically dil'lerenT, new and modern. Thus, precede-nTs are esTablished which TuTure sTaTTs will have To sTrive hard To surpass, buT which, l hope, They will aT leasT mainTain. l can Take liTTle crecliT Tor This rnyselT since you and your sTaTT from The very beginning Took The responsibiliTy oT plane ning The annual, supervising The phoTography, preparing The copy and meeiing The deadlines. You did all OT This in a Left To RighT: McCready, Brumby, Coe, Fowler. Left To Right: Beck, Caplz Dill, Briscoe. SeaTedg Preaus. manner so Thorough and eTlicienT ThaT iT acTually leTT liTTle or no work a all Tor me To- do and This has been one oT The real pleasures oT working wiTh you. l Teel sure ThaT The resulT OT your labors will be some-Thing ThaT you will always be proud of. Sincerely, NORMAN T. DlLl.. JR. FaculTy Advisor Firsf Row, LeTT To Righfz Brown, P. Bufler. Second Row: Soskis Mil lingfon. K 79

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The Sewanee chapler ol lhe Cum Laude sociely was lounded al S.lvl.A. on December l9, l94l. Since lhen many cadels have become lhe proud owners ol lhe small gold cross. Any cadel wearing lhe cross has The salislaclion ol knowing lhal he has lhe highesl academic award capable ol being beslowed by lhe Academy. To be eligible lor membership in lhe Sociely one has lo have an average ol over ninely percenl in his acad- emic subiecls, be in lhe ubper fillh ol his class, and musl possess an excellenl moral characler. The presenl members ol lhe Cum Laude sociely are: Gilberl Varnell, Presideinlq Jerry Loclcell, Vice Presidenlq Don Anderson, Secrelary-Treasurerg Rich- ard lvlccreadyg Gene Preausq Peler l-lilly Alberl Key and George Beniamin. COLONEL R. P. MOORE Faculfy Advisor CUM LAUDE SOCIETY Firsf Row, Leff io Righf: Key, Anderson, Varnell, Lockeil. Second Row' Benlamm, McCready, Hiff, Preeus. 81