Alexandros and Aristotle. Their Latin teachers were signed as D. Coclea and A. Minimevadus. Mr. Barcio’s students build a new trebuchet, called Pacator. David Dortch (Spanish student) builds his own machine, the Ares I and defeats Park and North Central at the Park School Invitational. The event is covered on NBC Chronolog. The contest is also featured in the Britannica Review of Foreign Language Education (1971, pp. 201–2), and in Campus Life magazine (March 1972). April 22, 1972 Culver Military Academy hosts First National Catapult Contest on its campus in Marshall County, IN. Park-Tudor’s Spiro and Ares II, and North Central’s Pacator, Magnus Fiz and Hylus catapults are transported by the US Army Reserve at the invitation of the Pentagon. Thirteen Indiana catapult teams compete in a festival atmosphere, while eight more in three other states call in their achievements. David Dortch of Park-Tudor wins the 1st National Catapult Contest with his newly designed Ares II. David is invited to appear on ABC’s To Tell the Truth, and the contest is once again covered on NBC Chronolog. April 14, 1973 After competing at Culver, the Park-Tudor and NCHS Catapults are reassembled on Stafford Road (off Kessler Blvd) on property owned by Washington Township Schools. Innovation and competition continue “off campus” as other schools from central Indiana and Kentucky join the Invitational. Nationwide, 32 catapults were constructed in eleven states. Although David Dortch’s Ares II performed well, firing a 10-pound rock 583 ft., Ft. Wayne H.S., wins the 2nd National Catapult Contest with its massive twisted rope catapult named Imperator. The competition is featured in Outdoor Indiana (1973), in The Stentor (published by the Michigan Classical Conference), in The Classical Outlook (February 1974), and in Campus Life Magazine (November 1973). May 11, 1974 The contest, now sponsored by Pompeiiana, incorporated by Mr. Barcio with the help of Allen Clowes, Carl Dortch and Philip Kappes, is held on the Stafford Road catapult field as schools from around Indiana try to set new records, with the hope that some school’s catapult may eventually achieve the original goal of hurling a 100-pound rock 100 yards. Park-Tudor students enter their catapults Anteres and Phoenix I. Latin students in Pascagoula, MS, set a world record with their bent wood catapult, Rebelorum, firing a 1-pound spear 668 feet. Ft. Wayne H.S.’s Imperator wins the 3rd National Catapult Contest. NCHS Latin student, Mary Hyde, begins construction on her