Bud Louis Hensley died on Dec. 4, 2019 at his home in Plymouth. He moved to Indiana at the age of 15 to work in the kitchen as a chef’s assistant at Culver Military Academy from 1951-1954. A colonel at the Academy was his guardian during that time. Bud later took a job with the State Highway Department. At age 19, Bud met Patricia Shaffer and they married in 1953. He went to work for Rock Industries where he retired as a heavy equipment operator after 42 years. He was a member of Midwest Engineers Operators Union Local #150, and had been a Union steward for Rock Industries. Bud was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia, and two sons. He is survived by three daughters and one son. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandson. Father Lawrence Edward Calhoun C.S.C. died on Dec. 14, 2019, at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka, Indiana. He took his final vows in 1959 and embarked on a 60 year career in the priesthood, teaching and coaching fencing, that took him from Indiana to Illinois, California, and Massachusetts. He introduced fencing to several schools he worked at, won state championships and started the Junior Olympics championships in fencing. Fr. Calhoun taught science and coached fencing at Culver from 1979-1985. Former Instructor of German and Russian from 1966 to 1978, Milton Forrest “Mit” Hughes, died peacefully in his sleep on Dec. 21, 2019 in Walkerton, Indiana, nine days short of his 91st birthday. He graduated from the Naval School and later taught sailing on the summer staff. He graduated from Harvard College, both Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned advanced degrees in Russian and German, and attended numerous graduate programs operated under the National Defense Education Act. In 1971 he earned the Spivey Award for excellence in teaching. Learning and teaching were lifelong passions. Milton had a limitless interest in the cultures of the world. Students remember him for being clever and vibrant with games and foreign folk music, lore, and costumes that rounded out aspects of the nation they were
studying. He was an accomplished musician, sailor, and cyclist. Progressive blindness curtailed his professional career by age 50, but he absorbed audiobooks voraciously, wrote avidly with the help of his voiced computer programs, and walked 1,200 miles a year. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, the former Phyllis Jeanette Egbert, three children — Paul W ’68 SS ’70-’71 ’73, Amy ’75, and Sam W ’83, as well as two grandchildren, Chelsea SSG ’98 and Silas W’98. Jerald E. Miller died on Jan. 1, 2020 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He taught math and physics at North Side High School in Ft. Wayne from 1958-1966, Culver Military Academy from 1966 to 1969 and Ft. Wayne Snider High School from 1969 to 1992. Jerald is survived by his wife of 65 years, Ann; three children, five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Donald Joseph Faulkner, MD, died at the Catherine Kasper Life Center in Donaldson, Indiana on Jan. 17, 2020. He was the Academies Physician from 1967-1971. He attended the University of Idaho for two years before serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps as radio operator in a B-29 crew. He subsequently attended the University of Chicago Medical School, where he met his future wife, Janet. They were married on Dec. 20, 1953 in Crown Point, Indiana. Don practiced family medicine in Hobart where he also served as a city councilman. In the early 1970s he became a partner in the Hammond Clinic, where he continued in practice until 1997. After retiring Don and Jan divided their time between Culver and their home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is survived by sons Joe’73 (Noreen), Jim’76 (Stephanie) and John ’80 (Charlene), and five grandchildren. Prince Gardner Jr., a staff member from 1970-1972, died Feb. 15, 2020. He was a graduate of Culver Community High School and later worked at General Motors for over 30 years. He is survived by his mother, one son, Prince III, and nine siblings.
Former Division VI Commander and longtime Woodcraft Camp staff member, Charles Major Ray, Jr., died on Feb. 19, 2020 in Plymouth, Indiana. A native of Cranford, New Jersey, he earned degrees from Indiana University and Springfield College (Massachusetts). Charlie left the newspaper business to become a National Teacher Corps intern in Springfield in order to further his education and pursue his dream of becoming a school principal. He was the principal at Prairie Heights School Corp. in Orland, Indiana, at DeKalb Eastern School Corp. in Butler, Indiana, and finally at Washington Elementary School in Plymouth, Indiana, which he led from 1980-1997. During his tenure, he was named Indiana Elementary Principal of the Year in 1988 and National Distinguished Principal in 1989. During his years in Plymouth, Charles spent all of his summers (35+) working at Culver Summer Schools & Camps, where he served as a Division Commander, Program Director, Director of Tennis, and Fly Fishing Instructor. In addition, he taught fly fishing for many of the area park departments. He joined the education consulting firm of Speicher and Fields upon his retirement as school principal in 1997. Several years later, he established his own consulting business, InfoRay Education Service, in order to assist small school corporations with technology and grant writing. Surviving are his wife, Sue Ann; two sons, Kenneth (Kim) Ray of Plymouth, Indiana and Kevin W’88 ’93 (Lindsay’95) Ray of Argyle, Texas; two daughters, Kathleen (Toby) Reeves of Noblesville, Indiana and Kellie W’83 SSG ’85 (Paul) Pirkle of Naperville, Illinois; two nieces; 16 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, many of whom have attended and worked in Culver’s summer and winter programs. María Jesús Garzón, wife of retired Spanish teacher José Manuel Garzón, died recently in Spain. José retired from the Language Department in 2009 after 35 years of teaching and they returned to Granada, Spain.
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