Safe travels to BHT cadets performing in London

Four members of the Black Horse Troop will participate in the Lord Mayor of London Show that has taken place uninterrupted since the year 1215. The event is the Saturday before Veterans’ Day every year, in this case at 11 a.m. London time on Nov. 10. Cadets C.B. Scherer, Jon Juricic, Zach Faylor, and Alvaro Prandini-Johnson and Director of Horsemanship Instruction Mark Waller will be leaving at 1:30 p.m. today, Nov. 6, and arriving in London early Wednesday morning, Nov. 7, London time. For more details on the events, please click here and here.

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Support the Culver Academies Christmas Drive

The Culver Academies Christmas Drive seeks to ensure that families with dependents ranging in age from young children to senior citizens within the Culver community will have food, toys and gifts this holiday season.  In the past three years, dozens of families within our community would not have had Christmas or a Christmas meal without our help. Culver Academies and Community Service Council will be working with Marlene Mahler, Culver Union Township Trustee, in organizing this drive. Families from a single, elderly adult to a family with eight children can be adopted. Typically, a budget of $25 per child and $50-$75 for groceries is needed. Groups or individuals interested in adopting a family may do so by simply donating the necessary funds or by purchasing the gifts and food and allowing the Culver Union Township trustees to deliver or in some cases, dropping it off to the family themselves. Anyone interested in adopting a family can contact Marlene Mahler or Julie Cowell for an assignment. Marlene can be reached at home cell (574)952-0345 and Julie at home at 842-8935. Please send donations in the form of checks and supermarket certificates to Kay Mallory in the Head of Schools Office. Checks can be made out to the Culver Union Township Trustee. A large box will be available at the post office for toys and food items, and a box also is available at both the post office and bookstore for monetary contributions. Last year, the Academies’ community raised more than $3,000 in grocery certificates and gave many boxes of clothing, food and toys. Please contact Mr. Giraldi (8332), Mrs. Cowell (842-8935), Ms. Hernandez (8119), Ms. Ryman (8209) or Mrs. Barnes (8246) for more information.

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CGA second rotation leadership slate set

To view the new CGA leadership rotation, please click here.

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Student Life

Network and technology use at Culver Academies are privileges, not rights.  When using Culver technology, all Culver rules and policies apply. These rules and policies include those specified in handbook(s) for students, faculty, staff and associates, and those posted in classrooms, computer labs, dormitories, and barracks. The following activities associated with Culver’s technology are not permitted: displaying, opening, sending, or creating offensive messages or pictures OR harassing, insulting, or attacking others via the Technology. If you have received an email that is offensive, harassing, insulting or attacking please send it to Mr. Emmons at emmonsl@culver.org.

Quiz bowl team places ninth at 24-team tournament. This past Saturday, Nov. 3, the varsity and junior varsity quiz bowl teams traveled to Tipp City, Ohio, for their second tournaments of the season. The varsity placed ninth out of 24 varsity teams, and the junior varsity placed fourth out of 16 junior varsity teams. Erich Stuebgen paced the varsity with 44 ppg, while Zhaoheng Zheng led the junior varsity with 43 ppg.

An all-school meeting will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7, followed at 2:30 p.m. by mentee/mentor time.

Send us your best. Elections for dorm/unit class representatives for the class student councils will be held tomorrow, Nov. 7. Class representatives are responsible for promoting class unity, class communication, class T-shirts and fundraisers. Eligibility requirements are as follows: Students must have an acceptable grade- point average based on first-term grades, have a satisfactory citizenship grade (C or above) first term, and not be on Citizenship Probation at the time of election. Other campus leadership positions do not affect eligibility to be a class representative for a dorm/unit. Each class will have its own student council made up of the 16 class representatives from the dorms/units. Class officers then will be elected from, and by, the class representatives. Questions? Please contact Mrs. Norton.

Hillsdale College will be here at 11:20 a.m. today, Nov. 6, followed at 1:30 p.m. by the University of Evansville. Florida Southern College visits at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7.

Join Amnesty International. Help stop the violence against women, the use of child soldiers, and the genocide in Darfur. End human rights abuses around the world by attending the first meeting of Culver’s newly started Amnesty International, an organization dedicated to defending those without a voice. Drop by at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7, in Mr. Oberwetter’s room 103. We will be discussing our mission and selecting officer candidates. Contact wangy@culver.org or trippr@culver.org if you have any questions.

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Faculty/ Staff

A faculty/staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 7.

Our confidential document ‘Shred Day’ opportunity is coming up on Nov. 14.  Many departments have already expressed an interest in having their boxes of shred material picked up for delivery to the County Problem Waste Collection Center for this secure, on-site shredding event.  Because we will come around to collect your materials that day, I need to start scheduling departments for pick-up of their materials, as well as confirming our total volume for the Collection Center’s scheduling purposes.  Please send an email to John Kowalski or call 8223 by tomorrow, Nov. 6, to be included and to send your box count or best-guess estimate of volume.  Last call to clean out those files and closets.  

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Athletics

The first home CGA swimming and diving meet is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, against Warsaw.

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