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

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History offers multi-hued pictures . . . SHOWPLACE OF STAUNTON . . . Lt. Mendelsohn takes three Bernard White and Rick Tessada fighting all year for class of his best civics students on a tour of the Woodrow Wilson leaders during discussion periods. Outstanding were the current birthplace in Staunton. Deductive reasoning had Al Berliere, event notebooks which the boys kept for a record of the year. 24

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INTENSE INTEREST . . . Col. McCue ' s physics class displays concentration as they try to see the blue spark from the electro¬ static generator. Manuel de la Concha, Jim Jones, and Bill Dorton see it, and later on they felt the charge! Pulley, fulcrum, sound and radiation ... all had a work out in physics. Major Michael E. Kivlighan B.S., LL B. Georgetown University; Uni¬ versity of Virginia; Bayo¬ net ; Book Room; Assistant Commandant; Biology; Physi¬ cal Science. SMELLS AND COLORS . . . Larry Bradbury, Bob Ridgeway, Norm Strehle, Bob Gebeaux, John Einstein, Bill Brooks and Jack Woodson check for yellow, black, red, or white precipitates in qualitative labora¬ tory. Tri-X film allowed no flash ... no knowledge that this was being put on film. 23 IM

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the past ... as a prelude to the future. 1 CAPT G. W. RALPH B.A. Virginia Military Institute; Head Coach, Football; His¬ tory; Civics. CAPT. PAUL G. ANDREWS B.A., M.Ed. Pennsylvania State College; Uniforms; History.. CONQUEST . . . Bob Ray explains the ease whereby England repulsed conquest from Europe. Major Davis, Harry Yates and Dick Jennings listen to the expert. COL. RUSSELL G. DUFF B.S., M.S. Virginia Military Institute; American University; Track; Chess Club; Assistant Com¬ mandant; Science; History. LT. JOHN MENDELSOHN B.A. University of Maryland; Ta¬ ble Tennis,- German; Civics. What better preparation for the future can there be than the study of history? Events which in the part even today color our lives come into focus, and each course provides a background for a better un¬ derstanding of current events. Civics classes were enlivened by the use of cur¬ rent notebooks, parallel reading, and trips to local areas of historic interest. Class discussions were fre¬ quently heated ones, especially those dealing with the policies of the present administration and the future of the United Nations . . . but the result was desired . . . cadets were thinking and trying to an¬ alyze the present by the yardstick of the past. SERENE AND SILENT . . . While looking at the amphitheatre in Arlington, a group of cadets can only be silent. Later the group watched as the guard was changed before the tombs of the Unknown Soldiers. Here again was history come to life.