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

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FREAKED OUT and enjoying every second of his moment, Tim Cooper, Cotillion Club president, whips up audience enthusiasm during the first informal of the year. oe FALLING STAR. Scott Rosensteen (61) a digs for yardage, but Hargrave’s Mike “ Connors (10) becomes a roadblock. . HMA ended on the wrong end — 12-6. Vitality — 11

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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.

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FAR REACHING OFFENSIVE is explaine: vividly by Herb Maher (15) to John Eden (17). Rob Stump waits for the soccer action to begin. Front field confrontations dominate action as year begins Footmen survived long hours on the practice field to prepare for the tight soccer schedule. Toiling just as hard was the ex- panded football squad. Point possibilities for the companies swelled with a new intramural sports program which not only offered an outlet for excessive energies, but also brought over 150 boys into the scene and out of barracks. Wedged into the schedule was a full formal inspection — the first for many. Military strate- gists then programmed in a fall clean-up day, polishing every- thing for the coming evaluation. Eager Cotillion Club men waited for the arrival of the vari-colored crepe paper for the work to begin on the Fall Formal. Anxiously the faculty prepared and waited for the days of the approaching evaluation. ROOTERS IN A VARIETY OF MOODS clap, rap, stomp, and cheer for action to peak on the football field. Woodberry dampened soaring hopes. BROOM BRIGADE of high ranking (in the ratings and in spirit) ‘“C’ men oat stroll in formation to their fall-day tl rer Giee: clean-up assignment at the gym. :