Frederick Military Academy - Cannon Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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MOTHER’S DAY: Leadership Receives Its Reward Every year on the occasion commonly known as Mother’s Day, Frederick Military Academy celebrates its annual Parent’s Day. On Parent’s Day our honored guests have a chance to view their children parading before them in a manner befitting a military cadet. Some parents even get to see their son receive an award of some sort. All the officers receive awards and the scholastically inclined are presented medals for their generally unheralded achievements. The two boys pictured below, Jim Borror and Jay Kurs have just received ribbons for being best drilled old and new cadet respectively. Parent’s Day is a ' big shindig at FMA and the results are usually enjoyed by all.

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During the course of each school year, the (Mrps of Cadets performs in several parades and festivities in 4H| Tidewater area. These activities afe performances of tj!ff leadership ability of the officers and itco’s a $ well as of the marching ability of corps itself. Frederick prides itself in being one of the best, if not tire best, march- ing unit in the area.

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CHANGE OF COMMAND: Leadership Is Passed On Near the end of the year, a ceremony is performed on the drill field knows as “Change of Command”. The leadership of the Battalion is exchanged between the retiring senior battalion commander and the oncoming junior battalion commander. All the seniors form up behind the staff and review the corps as it passes in review. As the corps passes by the leadership is passed on. i , ■ « V«f — — ■ ■ r. 1