Frederick Military Academy - Cannon Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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Norfolk’s new Kirn Library. The tidewater area is one of the most pro- gressive sections in the country and can well boast of its accomplishments in the areas of urban renewal and of its wide variety of cultural and recreational facilities. The urban area has lifted itself out of the stagnation of the past and is on its way to becoming the great metropolis it has always been destined to be. Twilight view of down- town Norfolk and Ports- mouth.

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Here rests in honored glory General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur. The interior of Nor- folk’s century-old courthouse building was entire- ly refurbished for its transformation into the memorial. As a Virginian himself, whose parents were married in Norfolk, and whose mother came from a long line of Virginians, the General was honored that Norfolk, his “home by choice,” should build a memorial to his name. America’s most decorated officer, General MacArthur’s awards ranged from the Congressional Medal of Honor to the Philippine’s Medal of Valor, the French Croix de Guerre and Great Britain’s Knight Grand Cross of Bath. This man, perhaps more than any other, exemplifies the Frederick ideal of Knowledge, Truth, and Valor.

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This monument on downtown Court Street was raised to commemorate Ports- mouth’s Civil War dead. Just behind it can be seen the historic old Court House. On Sunday morning, March 9, 1862, the squat U.S.S. Mon- itor engaged the C.S.S. Vir- ginia (formerly the Merri- mack), in battle in Hampton Roads. The Virginia had been converted to an ironclad at Gosport Navy Yard, now Nor- folk Naval Shipyard, Ports- mouth. 6