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...Admiral's Son. Just before Christmas last year, Assistant Professor Kent Ponder, 34, a Spanish teacher, handed out a flock of Fs, including one to Midshipman Donald Minter, the son of a retired admiral who once headed Annapolis. Superintendent Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, 54, a much-decorated World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform...
Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be the prerogative of the individual teacher...
Ware said he was shoved into the back seat, and that the Sheriff and Jack Minter drove him to Newton, each taking occasional swigs from a whiskey bottle. Ware then stated that the Sheriff told him to lean his elbows on the front seat and, when he did, was punched in the mouth by Johnson. He was ordered not to lean back in the car, not to let any of the blood dripping from the laceration over his eye fall on the seat...
When asked by Atty. Hollowell: "You never did care what happened to Charlie Ware then and you don't now, isn't that right?" Minter emphatically replied "That's right...
Then Watson took the stand. Slow witted, he didn't hear any conversation after the Sheriff came back from the jail to the car, but heard some talk before he went to the jail. Also, he was sure that he got to the car before Minter. Although according to the Sheriff it was Watson who found the knife, Watson maintained that when he got there the Sheriff showed him the knife. The relief the State felt when Watson left the stand was audible...