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

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STEALING IDEAS for yearbooks of the past, Mike Sisak, Billy D'Orsay and Don Malnati use the portico at the University of Virginia for quiet perusal of yearbooks. OOM-PA-PAH ... Bob Johnson and Phil Matthews add impact to an unusual Christmas presentation in 1974. It just hap- pened to be the well-known Bud commercial. PIN-UP QUEEN PARADE was a big item in the '40s, ‘50s, '60s. Jim Crawford and Clay Wilcox ('61) sit quietly waiting for the parade in honor of their dates. Theme Opening — 50

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neW LEAVES SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS .. it was a long time for the re- call and for AMA. Leaves were turned over each year, but 1975 just felt different. It was a return to patriotism, a winning feel about smack- ing FMS in football and pro- ducing a winning basketball team. Suddenly the corps looked better at parades and in town. The uniform took on a new glow. Even Stuart Hall had begun to notice. Even winters changed. Sometimes it was summer and winter and then came the time when winter was winter. a a ES TT WAY BACK in 1970, Bob Ettinger sought report materials from new catalogs in new library located in the House of History. NO SNOWS like the old snows. Four cadets raced through the snow which came daily in the late '50s. Shirtsleeved winters became the pattern in the mid ‘70s.

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POSED PICTURES were about all that were taken back in 1896. Prof. Chas. S. Roller, founder of AMA, stands proudly in the back left of the corps picture. AERONAUTICS AT AMA? Right after World War II, a trainer held fascination for Fred Shappee ('49) and his fellow classmates in a class which has now disappeared from the curriculum. O 6 — Theme Opening