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

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English furnishes the foundation for life’s work. CAPT. MOWBRY MAJOR GLENN ; ALLAN KOOGLER i % B.A.; B.S. B.A. Hampden-Sydney Col- Bridgewater College; lege; Swimming; English ; Athletic Director; Ac- Latin. ademic Board; English. CHECKING REVIEWS... So President Eisenhower visited the Staunton area! Tom Miller checks “The Kablegram” with Capt. Allan. Out of class, Capt. Allan’s avocations are reading, swimming, and tennis. CAPT. ROBERT T. SAUNDERS B.A. Virginia Military Institute; DOWN TO EARTH ... Capt. Saunders gives Bob Ray pointers on how to take standardized tests. Getting into college is serious business and he wants his boys to have success on CEEB’s. The only way to get Capt. Saunders off the subject is to mention guns! Business Sponsor, Cotillion Club; English. 22

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HUNTING FOR ERRORS .. . Col. Deane, AMA’s leading hunter, checks theme work just as carefully as if he were spotting deer! Bill Huller and Dave Curl find amusement as Colonel points out obvious errors. Not By your English, Foundation for the “‘part’’! There can be no doubt that the basic need for any part that we have in our life at AMA or after we leave is a sound foundation in English. Realizing this absolute fact, the English teachers stress parts of speech and vocabulary building for the first two years, and theme writing, vocabulary training and literature during the last two years. Each teacher is known to have some pet phase of English: Col. Deane and vocabulary; Major Koogler and parts of speech; Capt. Saunders and literature; Capt. Allan and theme writing; Capt. Hanson and his abstract appreciations; and Capt. Holstein and Lt. Parrish and their workbook drill! Yet all of them manage to give a complete and clear picture of the necessity to learn every facet of the English courses, only does Col. Deane stress theme work, but he also is a taskmaster on vocabulary and artificial language training (bosop OP). It pays off on ACE tests and also on CEEB’s, and certainly in college. you will be judged! 21 COL. H. D. DEANE B.S. University of Virginia; Headmaster; Head, English Department; Academic Board; English.

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Foreign languages provide the spice! EVERYONE’S IN THE ACT... Col. Gardner reads the citation from the National Association of Modern Language Teachers to his two winners in the French Tournament. John Canevet placed first in the state, east, BEHIND THE MICROPHONE .. . Clay Willcox re- cords his Spanish lesson for Capt. Kreisler. Tape re- corders, microphones, and language records give AMA’s language teachers the chance to stress oral techniques. 23 and nation, while Bill McVey placed third in the state. Major Livick, Bill Bowen, Sgt. Spurlock, Sgt. Thornton, Col. McCue, and Col. Deane listen during Finals’ Exer- cises and show that they are as proud as Col. Gardner. LT. COL. W. L. GARDNER B.A.; M.Ed. The Citadel; University of Virginia; Academic Board; Guidance Chair- man; Head, Foreign Languages.