THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APR. 15, 1976
Page 5
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that w, es on the historic Allen Academy
ntr< Iryan. In this story, Karen Ar-
s ques ! ton ’ Christy Kelm, and Mark
rule oi ta h e a looh at the people and
veapi: ^ ra,ns at t ^ ie sc hool. —Ed.
uopaij ll en Academy has 140 day
( ] ov lents—half of them female—and
°f p er5 l®oardeis, but the student-
o cross ; her ratio remains 15 to 1. The
i the G ra § e c 'hiss numbers less than 20
aokainiM 8 -
3r Geof l ^ en President Roy T. Sheffield
-uts in I he hopes to keep the school
uld\v t llh with total enrollment below
HarlioiS
gramstlH is community needs a small
thmikipte school and I’d like to keep
;ses around the 15 student level,
said.
dost of Allen’s students are from
r, cas, although about 20 of its board
V dents are from South America.
en can boast of some famous
Jnt Fnduates, among them Speaker of
I at theHexas House, Bill Clayton, and
N.Y. Blarke, former United States
Vernierhassador to Australia.
Kashin Army Capt. Steven C. High-
of thelver, a 1968 graduate of Texas
nman.JcM is in charge of the Junior Re-
iltural (i'vJ Officers Training Corps at Al-
Emki, ivhich has a storied history as a
adentllitary school.
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dauntless Blue and Gold . . Allen Academy’s school song tells the stu
dents’ story of a 50-acre campus in Bryan that is sprinkled with trappings
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it. Steven C. Hightower, a
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my.
“We don’t try to run a boot camp
here,’’ Hightower said. “We don’t
even act as recruiters by encourag
ing the cadets to enlist in the armed
forces when they graduate from Al
len.
“We are concerned with teaching
them citizenship and leadership for
application in any job situation.”
Hightower noted that ROTC en
rollment is steadily increasing
nationwide and that more women
than ever are enrolling. Allen had a
few day students in its Corps of
Cadets last year including three
females. There is only one female in
the Corps this year.
“We don’t push the military here,
but the discipline seems tight to the
new arrivals,” Hightower said.
“There is a problem with resentment
at first; a culture shock comes with
the discipline to those students who
haven’t been exposed to it.”
All boarders are required to wear
military uniforms and participate in
drills, even though, they may not be
involved in ROTC. The cadets drill
two hours each Thursday and one
hour a Saturday each month.
“The cadets’ leisure time is not
restricted, however, to drills and
military-oriented activities,” High
tower said. “We let them try to do as
many things as they want. Many
boys get to play varsity sports here,
whereas they would be competing
with many more athletes in public
schools. ’’
Allen’s 50-acre campus in east
Bryan includes brick dormitories, a
student center, an indoor rifle range,
a 600-seat dining hall, a hospital, a
library and a laundromat. The
academic portion of the school is
housed in four main buildings.
Lloyd Lietz, a senior journalism
student at A&M and a 1970 Allen
graduate, came to the military
academy his sophomore year to at
tend a U.S. school (his parents lived
in Beirut, Lebanon) and to be in its
military training program. At the
time, Lietz was considering the mili
tary as a career and spent two years
in the Aggie Corps.
I wa s hoping for a West Point
appointment, but Allen was on pro
bation my senior year,” Lietz said.
“Allen was much more realistic in
their attitudes and discipline than
A&M is,” Lietz said. “At A&M you
always did as you were told, but at
Allen you were allowed to ask
‘why? ”
Part of Allen’s prestige may be as
sociated with its enrollment costs.
Boarding students pay from $3,430
to $3,830 a year; day students pay
from $1,040 to $1,360. Pre
schoolers’ costs range from $230 to
$400.
With a proposed modernization
project of approximately $152,000, a
stable financial condition, and an in
creasing enrollment, the Allen
Corps promises to keep marching.
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