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

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CRACKS IN THE MOLD PUMPED UP ENTHUSIASM. Tom Johnson and Phil Matthews add music to a basketball game. Corps spirit ranged from wild enthusiasm to streaks of apathy. ; 5 “7? + ae. Opening —5 0

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GETTING RID of pent up energy, Chris Vetick tries to keep his backstroke style at a peak until swimming returns as a team sport. SUSPENDED IN AIR, Larry London and Val Vintila climb the nylon road to the top of Skyline Drive. Agnew was proclaiming his innocence; officers saw their duty and didit —onthe ©% | surface. In both cases, those cracks became ee Resignation came for one; demotion and change in companies for the other. There 44 were even cracks in the tradition that AMA couldn't have a winning football team, could have aswimmig team, couldn’t have guys go bananas over taking their lives in their hands in doing some strange new rope dances. O 4 — Opening 2

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OC 6 — Opening NEW RANKS Just when the mold seemed about to break from within, officers found that the real crackdown had come. New ranks forced everyone to keep a scorecard to see who was heading which company. There was still a give and take fight about tradition, but most of the cadets seemed to want the security which the new mold was providing. SOUND OFF sounds in the rural community. Dogwood trees reflect in Paul Peters glasses as the notes sound out loud and clear.