Culver Girls Academy Senior Prefect Jacinta Ndubuisi-Obi (Chicago) reminded classmates of a story they learned last year about a Marine who was killed when he exposed himself to enemy fire to get an advantageous firing position and draw attention away from others wounded during an ambush in Iraq in 2007.
The Culver Cannon
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Required
Featured Stories
Each student will now have one advisor to guide them through everything from the best classes to take, to selecting a college, to career options as part of a four-year advising plan that offers more exceptional and personal attention.
Marathon icon Bill Rodgers and All-American runners Waverly Neer ’11 and Rebeka Stowe told about 300 middle school and high school athletes attending a motivational session at Culver Academies on Tuesday that it is normal to be nervous and have doubts before competing.
Read stories written by our very own faculty and staff about their areas of expertise.
Other News
A nun who runs a children’s home in Texas says she is grateful for a family who sponsors a scholarship for two residents a year to attend Culver Summer Schools & Camps, calling it an “extraordinary experience.”
The families of four summer campers from Ukraine say they are grateful Culver Summer Schools & Camps is providing a respite from the stress they’ve been under since Russia invaded their country in February.
Bill Kuhl has been selected as one of 58 Schwarzman Scholars. The Culver Academies graduate will be leaving in August to study at Tsinghau University in Beijing for the next year. He graduated from MIT this spring with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering. He is also a commissioned Air Force officer through MIT's ROTC program.
Dan Moore '80 and Navy Capt. Adam Carlstrom '90 are experts in their fields. Moore is owner of Video Hawks, a company that supplied video equipment to the new movie "Top Gun: Maverick." Carlstrom is a Top Gun pilot and the wing commander at the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, where the mountain sequences were shot in 2019. They met during filming, thanks to Moore's Culver ring.
Dr. Jacqueline M. Erwin, Humanities Department instructor and Batten Fellow at Culver Academies, delivered the Commencement Convocation address at the boarding school on June 4. Erwin retired after 28 years at the boarding school. Six other retiring faculty and staff members were also recognized for 20 or more years of service.
Five Culver Academies students received major college scholarships, including the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship and the GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship. One student won two from the Indiana High School Athletic Association and the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States. And two others won National Merit Scholarships.