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

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Pal oF ° ae es t ard eer aN Pia ee we gp Be: cl ils TEN eg MAYHEM, orderly disorder, reigns after Parents’ Day, a football win, a turned-on dance, and a big parade. Exuberant cadets sing and dance for joy. QUIET, and then crunching on autumn’s leaves shatters the bleak soli- tude of the woods surrounding Au- gusta. The search was on for perfect Christmas trees which the companies used to beautify barracks’ stoops. HEAVY ROCK is the message during a well attended festival. The scene’s slightly different in Fort Defiance at AMA‘s dances, but the music is very similar. CRACKED CELLS burst with new found determination. Steve Wat- kins’ personal revolution transforms him from the sidelines to the action of the Honor Roll. Immersed in thought, Steve pours out the new knowledge.

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i a et é Burn, baby, burn! What’s the harm in going mainline? Long hair, bell bottoms, wide belts, and WHAM! From the permissive society, we are thrust into the disciplined world called Augusta. It’s a shock to realize that on the outside, patriotism is shoved into obscurity, and to discover that those shouts for PEACE are contradicted by a lack of peace among men. It hits. At Augusta there is a revolution. It’s to create, and it’s AMA’s new image, but it is AMA’s Revolution Theme — 3

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Hip cadets turn-on in novel environment Reality, man! Well, what is more real than crunching footsteps on ice crystals with winds whipping around ‘A’ Company? Expand your mind. We blew ours in Col. Koogler’s class, with physics and its myriad formulae, and with Big Ed and his reverse approach to the study of communism. It’s wild, discovering that there is power in building-up, in wanting to stand-out, in participating, and in being involved in the action at AMA. Theme — 5