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

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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.

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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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Teachers from Cuba, German, and Mexico i HAPPY TALK . . . Latin may be dead, according to some people, but NOT to Lt. LaPlaca ' s class. John Dyer, Herb Kolodsick, John Daugherty, Al Escoda, and Benny Lack finds amusement in Ted Quatman ' s slow but correct translation from Caesar. An Italian background and a love of the classics give Lt. LaPlaca a tremendous source of information for adding spice to his classes. Language students find that besides a wide choice of language study there is a wide variety of back¬ grounds among the faculty. Lt..Mendelsohn, a native Berliner, and Capt. Flanigan who lived in Germany furnish the cadets with stories and cultural parallels which help the German students understand their subject better. Capt. Suarez, who hails from Cuba, and Capt. Briggs who lived in Mexico, enrich the Spanish students with their information, and Col. Gardner, an expert in French, always produces win¬ ners in the Modern Language Tournament. EAST AND WEST MEET! . . . Lt. Mendelsohn from Berlin and Cadet Ken Holt from California find that the twain can meet. Lt. Mendelsohn has no trouble in relating his experiences in Germany and in providing interest in his courses. LT. ANTHONY J. LaPLACA B.A., M.A. University of Rochester; Johns Hopkins University; Latin,- French. CAPT. JOHN A. BRADFORD B.A. Randolph Macon College; Science; Latin.