1957 Oak Ridge Military Institute academy school Yearbook North Carolina NC

Description

1957
Oak Ridge Military Institute
Oak Ridge, North Carolina
Published by The Corps of Cadets
Dress Parade
hard cover yearbook ; good collectible condition ; appears to have NO signatures or writing to pages ; some pages do show foxing ; good binding
rare and hard to find , as seldom offered  !
Oak Ridge Military Academy
(
ORMA
) is a college-preparatory
military school
in northwestern
Guilford County, North Carolina
.
The academy is located within the town limits of
Oak Ridge, North Carolina
,
which is named after the school.   Located
near
Greensboro NC.
Oak Ridge was established in 1852 by the
Society of Friends
(Quakers) as a "finishing school" for boys. From 1875 to 1914 Oak Ridge was led by two brothers, Professors J. Allen Holt and Martin Holt. Under their leadership the "Oak Ridge Male Institute" became one of the best
prep schools
in North Carolina, boasting business and humanities departments, literary and debating societies, and sports teams which regularly played Wake Forest College (University), the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
, and Trinity College (later
Duke University
) in football and baseball. Several of the academy's baseball players went on to play in the major leagues. Despite the school's public name, women were admitted as students during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the
First World War
the Junior Reserve Officer Training Program (
JROTC
) was admitted to the campus. In 1929 Oak Ridge officially became an all-male military secondary school. From 1929-1967 Oak Ridge was a
junior college
as well as a military school. During the
Second World War
127 of the academy's alumni were awarded a
Purple Heart
during the conflict, while another 27 alumni earned the
Silver Star
. In 1972 Oak Ridge became the first military high school in the United States to admit female cadets. The Academy is the third-oldest military school in the United States still in operation
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