Fork Union Military Academy - Skirmisher Yearbook (Fork Union, VA)

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4 THE ACADEMY FROM THE AIR SCHOOL PLANT BUILDINGS AND EQUIPNIENT HE ACADEMY BUILDINGS are of brick, cement, and fire- resistant construction. The type of architecture is English battle- ment Gothic modified to suit present-day collegiate buildings. All buildings are supplied with hot water and heated with steam from a central heating plant. SNEAD HALL This building is a three-story structure, named in honor of Capt. Charles G. Snead, the first Vice-President of our Board of Trustees. It was erected in 1923 and is of brick and cement, a fire-resistant structure. There are three units-each having its own showers and toilets. Each room has hot and cold running water. Snead Hall also has quarters for instructors in each unit. All rooms are outside rooms thereby insuring proper lighting and ventilation. MEMORIAL I IALL This building was erected in 1941 and is the last word in modern dormitory construction. It is absolutely fireproof with hot and cold running water in every room, and showers and toilets on each floor. Instructors are quartered on each floor in this dormitory.

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FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY A MOTHER SEARCHES FOR A SCHOOL This letter came to a beadmaster from the mother of u boy of prep-school age. I have studied your catalogue very carefully and I am impressed, she wrote. Your school has handsome buildings, a tremendous gymnasium, and a very fine location. Your course of study is complete and your teaching staff very large. Your students seem to be from excellent homes, your graduates have been singularly successful. And the expenses are satisfactory-But still I ask: What can your school do for my child? Pm sure you'll give him a good academic education. I know you'll help him develop physically. I think you'll add to his social poise. All this is fine. I think it's great that you'll help him become a good swimmer, a sharp student, a poised conversationalist. But-this is not enough . . . not nearly enough. I want to know what you'll do to his character. I want to know how you'll help him lit into the complex world of today. It is not enough that he be mentally and physically above average. It is not good enough that he will be able to make a good living. It is not enough, even, that he will be satisfied with himself and with his life. I want for him a broader outlook than that. I want him to feel his responsibility to his fellows and I want him to do something about it. Yes, I want him to have the old-fashioned virtues-those basic concepts that have so many newfangled names, but remain always the same, under- standing, consideration for others, faith . . . I don't care whether you teach him these lessons from the New Testament, from the latest books-or both. I don't care whether you can name them by names of one syllable or three. But I want to be sure you have them in your impressive curriculum. Pvc spent twelve years trying to plant the seeds that will make this boy a useful and happy human being. Now Pm asking you to help me with the job. It's a difficult job and a dangerous one. Can you help me? Pm inclined to believe you can. This mother is exactly right. She is seeking the right thing and Fork Union stands for just what this mother desires for her boy. To meet the needs of such a boy as set forth in the above letter is the aim and ambition of Fork Union Military Academy. l9l

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