Augusta Military Academy - Recall Yearbook (Fort Defiance, VA)

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Views From the RECALL of Some years Back

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Augusta Military Academy About 1920 iH meee

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Tue Late Cotonet THoMAsS J, ROLLER CoLoNEL CHARLES S. ROLLER, JR. In 1907 when Prof. Charles S. Roller, the founder of Augusta retired because of ill health, his two sons, Col Thomas J. Roller and Major Charles S. Roller, Jr. assumed active control. Under their management the Academy has grown to the largest student body in the history of the school and has attained a nationwide reputation for successful education for the young man, This partnership existed until March 10, 1946 when Col. Thomas J. Roller passed away while on a visit with his son in Florida. Since that time Col. Charles S. Roller, Jr. has been the principal of the Academy. He furthered the ideals that his father instilled in him and his late brother and carried Augusta on to even greater heights. The student body this year is larger than any previous year and boasts of many states and foreign countries in its representation, The faculty is the largest in the long his tory of the school. Two outstanding additions this past year were the erec: tion of the Memorial Science Build- ing and the new entrance to the school. These and many other improvements may be attributed to the progressive povicy adhered to by the late Col. T. J. Roller and continued by our present principal.