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Front1Front1Front1 Happy July 4, Thursday, July 2, 2015 Vol. 122 Issue No. 27 50¢ Thursday, X X, 2012 Vol. 119Culver! Issue No. X 50 ¢ Serving Culver • Lake Maxinkuckee • Monterey since 1894 Serving Culver • Lake Maxinkuckee • Monterey since 1894 CITIZEN PHOTO/JEFF KENNEY CITIZEN PHOTOS/JEFF KENNEY In Brief Brief Challenging Honoring CHS grads ABOVE: Recognized with special honors at Saturday evening’s Culver High School reunion, held in the present- Culver Academies Maxinkuckee day gymnasium of today’s Culver Elementary School, were Elisabeth Davis, class of 1935 (TOP PHOTO), on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of her graduation, and Ralph Pederson, class of 1945 (LOWER PHOTO), in con- fireworks Saturday ABOVE: Pictured are participants in the ladies’ rec junction with the 70th anniversary of the same. Davis has been employed with Culver Academies for over 70 years, Culver Academies’ an- race Saturday morning at the annual Lake Max having started work there a year after she graduated (with a brief few years off to raise her children in between), nual fireworks display will Challenge Stand-up Paddleboard race, which took and is a regular attendee at CHS reunions. Pederson, a member of the undefeated 1944 CHS basketball team, begin at 10 p.m. Eastern place throughout last weekend. More coverage of was a three-year starter at Tulane with a distinguished coaching career which included CHS from 1954-57, as the race will appear in the next edition of The Culver Standar Time this Saturday, well as Tulane University from 1964-71; he has been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. Presenting Citizen. July 4. For safety reasons, plaques honoring both was reunion organizer Tom Curtis. MORE REUNION COVERAGE, PAGE 2. the school asks that specta- tors not sit between the Na- val Building and the White Debate over grass American pelicans pay Lake Max a visit Devries Rowing Center, but are otherwise welcome to sit lakeside. length turns heated Gignilliats to speak at July 11 program at council meeting Paul and Ellen Gignilliat will be special guests at a By Jeff Kenney historical program spon- Citizen editor sored by the Antiquarian For the second year in a row, members of Culver's town and Historical Society of council had a heated exchange with the representative of Culver on Saturday, July a local property owner over the length of grass at the site. 11. “The Gignillats --Down Scotty Van Hawk, who told the council he is a paid rep- Culver’s Memory Lane,” resentative of the 27 Group, was emphatic that the grass the personal and heart- length at a residential property owned by the company warming history of this at College and State Streets presents no violation of the Culver family, will take town's public nuisance ordinance. place at the Bramfeld Cot- Town manager Jonathan Leist, responding to Van tage, 1322 East Shore Dr. Hawk's query as to specifics of the violation, said the grass in Culver at 10 a.m. must be cut every 30 days. Council president Ginny Munroe said she had driven by PHOTO PROVIDED According to a web entry regarding Goose Culver history the property the day of the meeting, June 23. Pond, Indiana, by DNR bird monitoring volun- "The whole lawn is this high," she said, indicating more The pair of pelicans pictured here was photo- teer Lee Sterrenburg (who references the ebook boat cruise July 11 than a foot in height. "I could see it from my vehicle and graphed by Bruce Carter on the southeast side of "Brock's Birds of Indiana"), the first published The Culver Marina is de- I have also walked by...it is unsightly and it violates the Lake Maxinkuckee weekend before last (thanks specifically dated record for pelican sightings buting special Lake Max- ordinance and needs to be cut." to Jane Grund of the Lake Maxinkuckee Asso- in Indiana is a report of a bird killed on May 3, inkuckee history boat cruis- Van Hawk countered that the grass had been cut five ciation and Neal Wallace for making the photos 1887, near Connorsville in Fayette. Sterrenburg es this summer, with the times thus far this year, and responded to Munroe's asser- adds that American White Pelicans "continued to next event Saturday, July tion that the town could cut the grass itself and put a lien show up in Indiana over the years but not in great 11, starting at 7 p.m. Cruis- on the property's tax bill, by suggesting the town was se- numbers. Up through 2004 the American White es take attendees through lectively enforcing its ordinance. Munroe, however, asked Pelican high count for the entire state was 52 ac- the history of the lake and how Van Hawk could know the enforcement was selective cording to Brock. In 2005 a migratory explosion the area with host Jeff Ken- without knowledge of who else in Culver received letters began that is still expanding." ney, local historian. A light notifying them of the ordinance violation. It was noted that American white pelicans, which compete with meal with non-alcoholic a number of properties in town received similar letters. trumpeter swans as the largest freshwater bird in beverages will be provided Several minutes of emphatic argument ensued as to North America, typically inhabit islands and re- for all on the cruise, and a whether the property was in violation of the ordinance, mote brackish areas of freshwater bodies. The cooler is available for those with Van Hawk asking to be shown a specific grass length birds join a pair of nesting osprey, another large wishing to bring their own in the town's ordinance which would objectively define the bird species, which are located on a pole placed alcoholic beverages.Those property's length as being in violation. by the Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Council wishing to reserve seats Munroe noted the council is in the legal position of in- on the south side of the lake. In recent years, other may call 574-842-3375, terpreting the ordinance, and has determined the grass, available). large avian sightings at Lake Maxinkuckee have extension 203, or email an- which Van Hawk described as ornamental, is too high. As of this writing it's believed this is the first included a number of bald eagles, sandhill cranes, [email protected]. Council member Jean Rakich moved the town mow the sighting of pelicans on the lake, though one was and swans. The cost of the cruise is grass at the site and put a lien on the property, which the photographed on adjacent Hawk Lake last year. $45 per person. council passed unanimously. July 11 carillon Later in the meeting, council member Dave Beggs asked if the council should review its ordinance as pertains to Culver’s Surrisi elected IMLA president performance fea- grass, with Leist suggesting a specific number of inches be vides forums for attorneys practicing mu- tures compositional designated rather than a frequency of mowing, something PLYMOUIH — Last week, Culver resi- nicipal law to meet and exchange ideas and with which town attorney Jim Clevenger agreed. dent and Plymouth City Attorney Sean experiences. IMLA is open to all Indiana variety A similar exchange regarding the property took place Surrisi was elected president of the Indiana city, town, and county attorneys and cur- John Gouwens, carillon- last year between Van Hawk and the council. Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA) rently has approximately 350 members. neur and organist of Cul- at the group’s an- Since 2012, Surrisi has served on the verAcademies, will present Church sign placement debated nual meeting in organization’s litigation committee that the third in the series of five Another debated matter during the meeting centered on Indianapolis. reviews requests from municipal gov- summer recitals on the 51- a follow-up to a previous request by St. Mary of the Lake Founded in ernments for filing “Friend of the Court” bell carillon in the tower of Catholic Church to place a directional sign at the north- 1983, IMLA is a briefs with the Indiana Court of Appeals the Memorial Chapel, on west corner of College Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, with professional orga- and Supreme Court in cases involving le- the campus of the Acade- Jannie Zehner representing the church before the council. nization that pro- gal issues of concern to local government. mies, on Saturday, July 11, During the previous meeting it was noted the sign, as motes continuing He joined IMLA’s 11 member board of di- at 4 p.m. EST. The program proposed, did not meet the town's ordinance specifica- education of at- rectors in 2013 and later held the office of will include works by J.S. tions, and Zehner distributed an image and information torneys on issues vice-president. Bach, Roy Hamlin John- indicating the sign's specs had been changed to conform. affecting munici- “My work for Plymouth has benefitted son, and, George Frideric The other point of conten- See Council page 4 pal law, and pro- from insights See Surrisi page 5 Handel, among others. The tion at the previous meeting performance of July 4 will center on compositions of a See Briefs page 6 www.thepilotnews.com Click on Citizen Tab E-mail: [email protected] Shawn Reed 574-229-6699 Located at 232 S. Main St., Suite B, Culver • 574-842-4652 • www.collinshomes.com Obits2 Page 2<#> LOCALOPINIONLOCAL - HISTORY Thursday, July 2, 2015 • Culver Citizen CITIZEN PHOTOS/JEFF KENNEY CHS reunions a-plenty A number of graduates of Culver High School (not to be confused with the present-day, consolidated-in-1968 Culver Community High School) were in town Saturday not only for the multi-class reunion held in the former high school gymnasium (today’s elementary school gym -- see page 1), Saturday evening, but also in specific groups at other locations.

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