Marmion Military Academy - Pass N Review Yearbook (Aurora, IL)

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Although cadets may not readily admit it, they do enjoy classes the hard work that they demand.

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This is Marmion Marmion - the name is that of a dedicated man, Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. We need not tell his history but only his philosophy - to serve Christ. This is our way of life at Marmion Military Academy as well. To serve Jesus Christ is the work of not just one aspect of education, but is the goal of all depart- ments that make up Marmion. Military training aims at producing leaders and officers, but more basically to make men, disciplined men. Teaching boys to make themselves better and to accept lawful au- thority, rooted in God, it makes them men. As it is a boy that becomes a man, it is a man that becomes a good citizen. Learning being the essence of any school, it holds a place uppermost in the life of a Marmion cadet. Studies form the mind of a boy to become the thinking of a man, one seeking to serve God in all aspects of his mental activity. And as Christ can be found and served only in religious pursuits, the final outfitting of a Marmion cadet is religious. As a boy he meets God not only in the chapel but in class, in his teachers, in his sports, in his eating, in his sleeping. Discovering Him everywhere he cannot avoid being formed as a man serving Christ. A Marmion cadet Spends many hours in the classroom discovering truth. Lights burning in the studyhalls give ready evidence that educational progress is being made by the Marmion cadet.

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With reverence and respect, each day the American flag is flown over the campus. Winter garments clothe Marmion ' s Butterfield campus in frigid splendor. In the chapel the day begins and ends vvfith cadets on their