New York Military Academy - Shrapnel Yearbook (Cornwall on Hudson, NY)

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I I . ilu 11111: 5 -fill fr The I-IISTCDRY of NEW ORK ILITARY ACADEMY 1889 - 1939 EW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY, as it stands today, is the distillation of the characters of all those who have passed through its doors, but its history falls naturally into four cycles-the regimes of its four superintendents: Colonel Charles Wright, Colonel Sebastian C. jones, General Milton F. Davis and Lieutenant Colonel Frank A. Pattillo. Of vastly different phil- osophies, each of them made important contributions to the school and its background. The founder, Colonel Charles jefferson Wright, had an unusual personality, in which the dreams of a visionary were combined with the energy and acumen of a businessman. He not only dreamed of opening his own military school but initiated the project and saw it successfully launched in September, 1889. Colonel Sebastian Chatham jones presided over the Academy from 1894 through the most critical period of its growth, and when he retired, after 28 years of service, he had guided it through more than half of its existence with a sure and steady hand. A worthy successor to Colonel jones in 1922 was General Milton F. Davis, distinguished soldier, administrator and explorer. Enjoying the confidence and admiration of both his students and associates, General Davis impressed the stamp of his own fine character upon the thousands of boys who were privileged to know him, and he kept the school in the advance guard of American education. Under his careful supervision it had grown to take its place among the most eminent training grounds for young men in America. And, from 1956 on, Colonel Frank A. Pattillo has ably faced the problems that educational directors the country over must deal with, in fitting young men for a world of rapidly shifting values and increasing complexities. In the three years he has already served, Colonel Pattillo has given ample proof that the future of the Academy rests safely in his hands. Coming out of New Hampshire, by way of the Civil War, Colonel Wright's ability brought him, in 1872, to the principalship of Peekskill Military Academy. There he stayed for almost seven- teen years, but toward the end of that time his active mind was chafing under the perfect routine which he had established. He sought greener fields for his boundless energies, and his eye fell upon Cornwall, twelve miles further north across the Hudson. Page Seven