Word: spivey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spivey's Corner (pop. 100), North Carolina, had its big day in history last week. It was there that once and for all they drew the line between hollering and hollerin', in the goldarnedest contest that the village had seen since Dewey Jackson won half a ton of fertilizer for hog calling...
...Discipline Is Essential." The man who has lately done most to demilitarize Culver is its sixth superintendent, retired Air Force Major General Delmar T. Spivey, 56, a West Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the turncoat performance of some U.S. prisoners in Korea, Spivey turned down fat offers from industry, decided to devote himself to educating youngsters "in the real meaning of citizenship...
...genial general, whose uniform of the day is a tweedy sports coat and slacks, Spivey has raised faculty salaries, doubled scholarships, banished Sunday reveille and the pseudo-military titles (for example, "captain" for assistant instructor) that cadets formerly used to address their teachers. He even did away with marching to classes, but so far has kept the student uniform (royal blue jacket, grey trousers) as standard campus dress...
...must shape the attitude of the cadets toward the academic. We mustn't let the things they like to do, the leadership program and athletics, overshadow their education in the arts, sciences and humanities," says Spivey. "I have friends who have said, 'Little Pete is an absolute hellion and I just don't know what to do with him.' Well, I won't take little Pete any more than Exeter or Andover will." Then why be military at all? "Discipline is essential to the learning situation,'' says Spivey. "Without it there would...