Oak Ridge Military Academy - Dress Parade Yearbook (Oak Ridge, NC)

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HIGH LIGHTS IN THRE HIstorRy OF OAK RIDGE NUMBER 6 In early January of 1914, the Chapel, Holt Hall, and the Church on the Campus were destroyed by fire. The dormi- tories were not burned. The spirit of 1566 was in evidence in 1914. The sessions of the school were not suspended. Rooms in private homes and storehouses were converted into classrooms, and school work went on with a deeper meaning. Difficulties, seemingly almost insurmountable, were over- come and the 1mmortal lesson that true greatness finds its supreme example in the spirit of a people, rather than in might and 1n power and 1n material things, was emphasized. Before the ashes had cooled, telegrams came from several towns, offering land and money if the school would move to them. But Oak Ridge Institute, born in northwest Guilford, up among the headwaters of streams that make the great waterways of the state, would have been and could have been Oak Ridge Institute nowhere else, and the kind and generous offers were declined. By the financial assistance of friends and alumni, preparations for rebuilding were made, and on the tenth day of June, 1914, the cornerstone of the new administration building was laid in the presence of a great host. Page one hundred two.

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STE REND = — (pues Athletic Association Every boy at Oak Ridge is a member of the Athletic Association. He auto- matically becomes a member on his entrance in school, and his dues are included in his tuition. The Athletic Association this year is the largest association in the history of the school, due to the fact that the enrollment this year was the largest in the history of the school. The Athletic Association had at its helm this year the very capable Cadet Major, William Harvey Dixon, Jr., while the financial affairs were handled very nicely by Lieutenant Joseph D. Abernathy. The hardest job of the whole associa- tion, that of student manager, fell upon the shoulders of Captain Wesley F. Sheep, who really had a hard job keeping things working smoothly, but Captain Sheep had the ability and used it to good advantage. All the athletic affairs are handled by the Athletic Association, which means that the athletics are controlled by the students, as it should be, but, of course, not without the much needed advice and suggestions of the faculty and coaches. W. F. SHEEP W. H. Dixon J. D. ABERNATHY Manager President Secretary and Treasurer Page one hundred three