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

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... Glances at the many moods of barracks. CLEAN CUT MOOD .. . When snow fell, which was seldom in 60, barracks had a clean, crisp look, and all of the corps stepped more lively. There’s nothing like a good snow to clean the cobwebs out of the system! a portrait of Big Barracks in cycle. From September to June, the Main Barracks is home to over 400 boys. Here, indeed, is their center of activity. From season to season, the building presents a varied picture. In early September the campus is alive with green. As October rushes in, color takes over. Then comes the brown of winter, softened only when an infrequent snow cleans the atmosphere. Imperceptibly, light greens begin to appear in late March, and by June the campus has returned to the same picture it presented nine months earlier. AUTUMN LEAVES . . . Barracks “catches fire’ when the Virginia creeper turns a brilliant red. Then the whole campus comes to life in fall raiment. “Soupy” is the call which means FOOD! But ” here, the formation is for drill, drill, drill! ats 4g CT TAG A i : SHADOWS CREEP .. . and lights come on all over barracks. i Showers have to be taken; studying has to be done, and the ew cents ata 9 meres Dick Clark Show finds favor with the boys who get away from a aeer: it all for a while. +

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olimpse a Augusta ACADEMIC ENDEAVOR . . . Lab work in chemistry (or in any of the sciences) is necessary for putting into practice what is learned in lecture section. Clough, Timberlake, Zinkhan and Blakely are oblivious to the telephoto shot of them during qual- itative analysis experiments.