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

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ON STAGE “Scootch” Melcher puts on quite an act — but it is reserved for the seco nd stoop tower audience. As BC, he acted a different role. “There’s no free time around here.” “It's a drag; I’m bored.” “You mean I have to get a haircut?” “You mean our hair CAN be longer?” “It’s only a rumor! We won't be home for Thanksgiving!” “Sure, I’m wailing— there’s no social life.” “We've got to cut some dances; no one’s showing up.” “Ugh—I can’t eat sloppy Joe’s.” “English muffins and bacon!” “What a change they’ve made— food’s now on a cycle.” In many ways vitality depended on whether students were new or old — but all discovered that There are many different ways of looking at things Vitality — 9

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GLIDING RUNNERS skim across a snow patched slope on Jordan’s hill. An early winter’s sunset halted the yells, cheers, slipping, and sliding. All was silence in the crystal air.

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T-SHIRT BATTALION couldn’t change the Shenandoah’s weather, but it could offer a show of defiance. Lee Mattox purposely added jeans to his protest. Varsity football’s fate melts in nerve straining democratic drama Sun-baked early September found beaded foreheads packed into the Ole House. Pro and con spewed back and forth. With 14 men, should AMA play a varsity football schedule? Stomachs qualmed as each man thought of facing a tough VMSL schedule. The team vote was to field a JV squad. New cadets arrived, not par- ticularly affected by the vote, but old cadets shared mixed feelings, supporting the JV’s. NEW CADET PUPS appear just as school opens. Taffy and Tina, Tallulah’s two females, make an appearance while Jimmy-Joe and Blackie sleep soundly. ox . Two man rooms opened up as enrollment dropped, following a national trend for all private schools. Still, the old cadet re- turn was larger percentage-wise than in the recent past. Social success was battled for by the Cotillion Club which sponsored a hot dog-out and informal with Fairfax and Stuart Hall. Stammering new cadets were rapidly pushed aside by the old sophisticates of the corps when the girls appeared.