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

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DEDICATION TO THOMAS EARLY WHITAKER EXECUTIVE, TEACHER, LEGISLATOR, Patriot, Lover oF His Fettow Men, THis Book 1s Lovincty DEpICATED For forty years the story of bis efforts and achievements was recorded in the history of Oak Ridge Military Institute. After long service as a teacher, he came, in 1914, to the presidency of the school. Its buildings and equipment consisted mainly of a heap of smoking ashes. Upon the ruins he built the splendid school plant which constitutes his monument. While bis achievement in restoring wasted buildings and providing spaci- ous grounds, as a necessary means, was very great, it is in his high conception of human values, in his passion for the saving of lives and all that 1s fine and noble in them, in the character and performances of his students—in the building of men— that bis permanent greatness resides.

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DRESS Pree UII As AS WU. 18% 35 MC Was Mii ae Mi mn ltt my Hin Time il THE ANNUAL OF OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE 1929 to Branch Library Kernersvil 3 ounty Publ Forsyth C ic Library $ t Street 7 N.C. 2 238 A air at NA Suman 2 130 Last vis Kernersville,

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PRESIDENT WHITAKER