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

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Basketball takes spotlight after exams | PILE ’EM IN! Stan Banes keeps the rim red in his race towards records. AND ANDY’S HOT from so much dancing at the “B”-Band informal. Carol Suter is his “right-in-step” partner at his company’s dance. Gales of snow kept cadets indoors in the heighth of winter, but the warning signals were out—exams were approaching. Study hours stretched out as candles were brought from hiding places. And then basketball took the center stage as Stan Banes, John Needy, and the red-hot team kept up its winning ways. Top men in wrestling Chad Chadwick and Inky Insignares were stars against VMI and Rick Tovornik, Charlie and Tom Pascale, and Rob McDougle kept piling up the records for the swimmers. By February the fencers had also be- gun on their winning way. Smiles did appear also with the series of winter company informals. Best dance honors went to the “B” and Band dance—tradition! Cadet Life 25

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tool March QUIET BARRACKS, but murmurs prove it’s the night before Spring vacation. All is NOT really quiet. Mo- ments are eternities. Scoring follows. AT LAST grey shirts appear, after blue jacket weather for months. Lee Hall and the men of “E-2” wait to go in for DRC and soup and sandwiches. as Spring Vacation approaches Bats, gloves, spikes, golf tees, and kites ap- peared in March, and Doug Bell, Bob Spolozino, Jack Prentice, and Col. Livick took to the di- amond and the fairways, but gloomy weather meant that the exodus was short-lived. Charlie Pascale, Jim Forkovitch, Larry Reed, Dave Valliere, Sam Judd and Harry Orenstein kept the race hot for top Honor Roll honors. As Charlie and Jim passed the 4.0 mark, both deter- mined to stay on top. Social activities came to an abrupt halt as the second phase of College Boards loomed and the juniors signed up for an initial taste of the future. Five-mile hikes added luster to the month, with jaunts through the woods on Saturday add- ing sparkle to the weekends . . . of course, John West, Howard Kaplan, Ron Ginns, and a few more “gordos” added blisters and lost several pounds .. . but excitement reigned as the jour- ney home became reality.