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

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“THERE IS A MAGIC ABOUT THE PLACE” { becomes appropriate theme material for a group of visiting evaluators and for Curt Selby, lost in his own magic during early fall clean-up. Evaluators sense the united effort. Past hang-ups were analyzed. Efforts to improve were sought, sometimes bringing results. Many continued to wonder what any drill, parades, haircuts, discipline, restriction to rooms for study, or daily shoeshines produced, but visiting evaluators sensed what students often found only after leaving Augusta... “There is a magic about the place which could only come from a higher source.” Even they made everyone realize more positively that There are many different ways of looking at things

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yy Evaluating opposite views, seeing many different sides, bowing to unsampled discipline, the majority waged arguments daily in classes, in workshops, in bull sessions. In unexpected ways some prejudices began to dissolve; others solidified. Faced with different values, up against obstacles, some broke. Deep differences never prevented functioning of the whole. Understanding increased the idea slowly and steadily that SHENANDOAH SERENITY dominates the atmosphere of the chilly November parade in honor of the late Parker Ward, former AMA First Captain and Presi- dent of the AMA Alumni. There are many different ways of looking at things

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CK MAGIC, Mark Magennis feels that he is really under the spell of one of Mrs. Canevet’s cats. . . especially since it is the night of the occult. SAM(son) IN THE CHAIR worries about the possibility that his strength may go just as his hair under the touch which ‘Benny gives everyone, even Sam Marshal! TOWARD A HIGHER SOURCE proceed Al Collins and Roger Rodriguez. Altar boys at St. Francis, they precede the priest just as Mass begins. 4RD MAN, Mr. Bill Young, a member the State Board of Education, admits dmiration for AMA’s Sunday parade to Col. John D. Kramer. SE EVALUATION from an inspecting team reveals tops in spit and polished sharpness during one of the monthly “best individual’ competitions.