Fork Union Military Academy - Skirmisher Yearbook (Fork Union, VA)

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FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY home cares and outside distracting influences, is enabled to devote a maximum amount of time to his education and training. The best and most luxuriously ,appointed home cannot offer an environment adapted to study such as is found in a good preparatory school and this fact is appreciated by parents who rightly value the benefits of sending their boys to a boardihg school. Our cadets are under the constant super- vision of the school authorities. QBJ It is a home school. The Academy nurse lives in Hatcher Hall. Members bf the faculty live in each section of the barracks and board in the school with the cadets. The limited enrollment and the close personal contact of instructors and cadets maintain a real home atmosphere. CCD It is a rural school. The community is made up of people of old Virginia stock, and it is exceptionally free from evils which are harmful to young people. The school is away from the dangerous influences of large cities, and is therefore the center of a cadet's interest and activities. It is the right place for a growing boy. CDD It is a military school. Fork Union Military Academy is one of the few preparatory schools aided and inspected by the War Department and lits work has been frequently praised by United States Army Inspectors. Three military instructors, guns and extensive military equipment are furnished by the United States Government free of charge to our cadets. QED It is a school inspired by Christian motives and guided by Christian principles. QFD The health record of Fork Union is unsurpassed in all the land. Pure arteiian water flows in every room in Snead Hall. The school owns a farm of 300 acres from which come fresh vegetables, meats and milk fbr use in the mess hall. Fork Unionlis located far enough south to escape the bitter cold of the north and far enough north to escape the extreme heat of the south. The climate, free from sudden and dangerous changes in tem- perature, is just right for healthy, happy living during all seasons. l 5. RELIGIOUS LIFE l It must be understood that the Academy is avowedly and positively a Christian school. It aims to give to its cadets the advantages and influences found,in the best Christian homes. All forms of religious beliefs are sincerely respected-jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant. There are seventeen different religious denominations in the student body of our schobl. l23l

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wh S -rr X 4 SNEAD HALL Dormitory U p per School ERECTED 1923

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ALUMNI GYMNASIUM ERECTED 192 3 be scene of many a hard fought battle. NT