Millersburg Military Institute - Sniper Yearbook (Millersburg, KY)

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MICHAEL EDWARD BOZEMAN CHRISTOPHER McCLURE BYNUM HOSEA YACOO BYNUM DANIEL RAY DAMP I E R

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an about- face since Viet era store the proud tradition MMI has en- joyed for much of its 89-year history. Saunders, 43, the school’s third president in three years, said he plans to stay at MMI at least until his 12- year-old son, Jeffrey, now an eighth- grader, is through the school. Saun- ders’ wife, Margaret Ann, a former college math professor, has joined MMI's 16-member faculty. Board members are confident that Saunders is the man for the job. Unlike many of those who served as MMI president, Saunders is not a mili- tary man. But board members point to his background — an undergradu- ate degree in accounting from the Vir- ginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a doctorate in education from Duke University — as evidence he can get the school back on a sound financial footing. “He said he’d rather have 70 good people than 90 with some bad ones,” said board member Frank Dawahare of Lexington, a 1946 MMI graduate. Dawahare, and two of his younger brothers, Martin and Hoover, practi- cally grew up at MMI. They were sent there in 1940, a year after their mother’s death, and all graduated from the school. Later, a fourth brother, A.F., came. And currently, Hoover Dawahare’s son is enrolled in the school. During the lean enrollment years that began in the late 1960s, the school took in some students “just to fill beds” that Saunders admits should not have been enrolled. And because the school needed to keep the students for their tuition, troublemakers were tol- erated and it became “a little hard to enforce the rules because youngsters pick up on that,” Saunders said. And once one or two get in trou- ble, you get a bad reputation. Reputa- tions are funny things, once you get a bad one, based on one or two kids, it’s hard to get rid of,” he said. Already this year, Saunders has expelled nine students, including seven for drug use, the only thing that, results in immediate dismissal. “We’ve had to come in and get tough. We’ve taken a no-nonsense ap- proach, and a lot of people aren’t doing what they did last year,” he said. Next year, Saunders said the ca- dets are all “going to be more polite. Next year, they’re all going to be say- ing ‘Yes sir,’ and ‘Yes, ma’am.’ We’re trying to teach them manners.” Saunders also hasn’t been bashful about asking alumni and friends of the school to help out financially. One friend is going to pay for putting a new ceiling in the cafeteria. Another donated a van and then a bus, which Saunders used recently to take some cadets to Lexington to see the popular movie “Taps,” based on life in a mili- tary school. He also has gone to court to get $11,000 owed by a student’s family that failed to pay tuition, Saunders said. Tuition, room and board this year at the school cost $4,900, up 10 percent from last year. But adding in other items, such as haircuts and dry clean- ing uniforms, total expenses per year run nearly $5,700. Saunders expects tuition to go up another 10 percent next year. 5

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JUAN LEON DE LA BARRA HARO RONALD WAYNE FRANCIS BRYAN DONALD ELAM MARION KASH HUNTER