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

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MRS. MARGARET DREIFUS 2421 Menokin Drive Alvxamlria, Virginia Sponsor Captain BLAIR DUNCAN HOWARD President SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS R. Ernest Pardue Trueman S. Montfort Blair D. Howard Robert R. Viana Historian Vice-President President Secretary-Treasurer 29

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. SENIOR CLASS To you the Senior Class of Skirmisher Staff hope, this volu ii 956, we the me of the year- book will be one that all of you wil and more as the years go by-fo back memories of a period in y many new avenues of interest you. Here on the campus of F made new and lasting friends, an W an insight into the areas of learnii l cherish more r it will bring our lives when ere opened to ork Union you d you obtained ng which civi- lized man has uncovered through the ages. We hope that you have acquired a background for earning a living and above all a clearer under- standing of how to live . Remember that it is only through the search for truth that man can really become free. So as each of you go forth into a competitive and disturbed world, may you look back on your high school experience as a period when you started your development of maturity and understanding-wh to know yourself as well as you ere you learned r fellow cadet.

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r sergeants were rough and our details 195 fJust Fresh When we entered the freshman class in the of what the future held in store for us. As the 3 I easier with time. Some of us took our task in s road on the way to a even harder first year. O th hard at times, but most of us pedaled through wi first year and the upperclassmen didn't let us for started looking forward to our second year when - 195 fSophisl-ic This was the year we found ourselves comin Fork Union was now our second home. Our old men were strangers to us. We now felt that we many of us were non-coms, important members higher by the older cadets. It seemed funny at fi change to have our names on the good side of th a little. The majority of our class did not worry over plenty of time to pull them up. All we could d hoping it would be better than the previous one. - I 9 5 flntellect Our third year was a start for bigger thin became junior officers, as senior non-coms, some In this year we thought of our senior averages a viously. Our grades became more of a problem t our average up but we were a determined lot and The deep spirit of our old tradition became our job to uphold this tradition for the future turn down to the finish line, our fourth and final i I 9 5 1 Dignifi lt is hard for us to realize now that we ar desires for the last three years. We have worked life, and hope that we have set a good example th very word itself sets us apart as some thing spe many interests, some are officers in the corps, oth athletes, and then there are the few that had a p is a potential leader. Everyone says it feels good to be a senior, day of graduation comes and then deep down ix that everyone gets, wishing we had a few more y ears at such a fine school as Fork Union. As we think back on our life here at school we r sad ones, but now we want only happy memorie on our own two feet and become future leaders th with the spirit to overcome it. Our class will faculty for their many aids in our education for We now go on our individual way knowing body, mind, and spirit on the highest plane. 30 3 S I. police, but we were now telling the first-year m e in our old practice, walking off demerits. We were 5 menl fall of 1953, we were all a little scared ear passed, we found that things became r u ide while others hit the bumpy, crooked flying colors. We were rats, this our fret it, but the year passed quickly and we dur duties would be easier. 4 at edl back to a school that was not new to us. riends were back and only the first-year vere a part of the Cadet Corps, because of clubs, or teams, or were considered st for us, as we had no details or outside EH to do our previous details. It was a delinquent sheet, but some of us kept on cocky and our rank did go to our heads If L C ir grades, for we felt that there was still c then was to wait for our junior year, uall gs for many of us. Many of our class became officers of clubs or good athletes. d college a little more than we had pre- us. It seems rather late for us to bring n o we worked harder. an important part of us, and it was now uniors. We were now rounding the last vear. 6 -I -1- edl e seniors, at last, we have completed our h' rd, learned more about our studies and a everyone will profit from. Seniors, the ci l over the rest. Our class is one with Cl have good grades in school, some are ar, in all of these. Everyone in our class and we will keep saying it until the final 1 our hearts there is that certain feeling emember the happy times as well as the s. We now realize that we must face life at everyone expects of us. The future is what we make it, but all of u s will meet what obstacles confronts us, thank Fork Union and its distinguished mzltany years to come. th t we leave behind a school that holds