Captain Ebert with Victoria Lemke
CAPTAIN ROBERT EBERT HAS BEEN INSTILLING DISCIPLINE AND LEADERSHIP IN STUDENTS FOR DECADES students of Jeffersontown High School, not only to shape students into leaders but to provide opportunities of a lifetime to those When you think of the 1970s, you may who, perhaps, needed them the most. remember some of the most legendary Many students from Jeffersontown High movies and songs but also some of the darker School in 1971 would never receive these times for Americans. The Vietnam War was opportunities if it wasn’t for Captain in full swing and anti-war protests were about Robert Ebert. as common as changing your socks. Writer / Anna Kate Goshko Photography Provided
But, discipline was on its way to the
Capt. Ebert was the Military Instructor for Jeffersontown High School’s Junior Reserve
Officers’ Training Corps ( JROTC) program for 20 years and one of two instructors selected by the Marine Corps to start this program in the 1970s. The purpose of any JROTC program is “to instill in students in [the United States] secondary educational institutions the values of citizenship, service to the United States, and personal responsibility and a sense of accomplishment.”
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