Bayonet - Vol. 20, Issue 1

the

Bayonet

Volume 1, Issue 1 BECOMING A FUMA MAN

T H E What a terrific start we’ve had to the

-LTC Eldridge

school year. One of my favorite activ-

P R E S I D E N T ’ S

September 2014

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tions of each of these values are also

body, mind, and spirit. Since we did

available online. Our goal for the MS

not reduce our staffing, these 50

this year was to assemble 90 cadets.

are getting much quality atten-

By now, most people around

ities again this year was the Ice Cream

here understand that when we talk

Social which begins each school year

tion. The Middle School program is

(there is always a good reason to have

a gem at Fork Union Military Acad-

ice cream) and this was my first

essarily talking about someone

emy, and we continue to discuss

opportunity to address the Middle

how to reach more young men. Our

who has a leadership position.

School. I gave a shortened version of

total school enrollment is 440, over

We believe that true leadership is

the Upper School Convocation remarks

20 more cadets beginning than last

about modeling the core values of

which are available on our website. I

about leadership, we are not nec-

respect, integrity, faith, character

am always impressed by the attentiveness of our Middle School cadets. The

year. I ask that you continue to PRESIDENT J. SCOTT BURHOE FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY REAR ADMIRAL, U.S. COAST GUARD, RETIRED

pray for the faculty and staff as we educate, develop, and inspire these

and discipline. The most seeming-

entire campus is focusing on our Core

ly insignificant, young cadet can

Values of Respect, Integrity, Faith,

While we only enrolled 50, we upheld

pray for your sons, as we lead them

have profound impact on his

Character, and Discipline. The defini-

our high standards with regard to

on a journey to success. Go FUMA!

young men. We will continue to

teachers, peers and community.

That said, the beginning of true leadership starts by learning to lead one’s own self. Leadership is about living these values outwardly towards others….otherness. It is treating others with respect and with integrity. Leadership is selfless, not selfish. Jesus said in Mark 10:43 “…whoever wants to be great among you must be your

FROM THE HEADMASTER’S DESK pect to see even better grades, more effort toward earning “Excellent Conduct”, a greater willingness to accept responsibility, and even more attention given to helping others. As a faculty and staff, we commit to doing our best to help you, but know COL ROBERT FEATHERS that you have a huge stake in your FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY Now that you are fully aware of our success at FUMA. Work hard and expectations, we expect to see even commit to doing your best!

Congratulations on your completion more determined effort in all areas of of the first grading period of this cadet life as we enter the second school session. For many of you, this grading period of the year. We exis the longest period of time you have ever been away from home. We are proud of your hard work and perseverance, as you have proven to yourself that you can handle responsibilities that may have seemed impossible at the beginning of the school year.

servant.” James Harris put it this

Commandant’s Corner

way, “Leadership is about getting over the ‘two’s’.” A two year old thinks only of himself. The world exists to meet the needs of the toddler. Consider the following “Property Law As Viewed By A

Toddler” from Michael Hernandez.

Let’s be leaders; let’s share our toys.

We’ve got much to offer one another, so let your light shine.

The start of school is always such a welcome time, especially after a long and hot summer.

Fall days at FUMA are a nostalgic time for me. The cooler weather always revives me and reminds me of the new task at hand. There is so much opportunity in the beginning of the year,

‐ LTC Blanchetti

and everything always seems so new. hope is that the Corps is able to carry the enthusiasm and energy that they We have had a solid start to the 2014 have now through the end of the -15 school year. The officer corps is year. responding well to the challenges and Through Company Competition and pressures of their new positions.

The new cadets have assimilated well the all-around rigors of cadet life, we are really seeing a Corps form out of into the day-to-day rigors of cadet the large group of individuals that life. While we still have a long road arrived in August. It is through their ahead of us until that magical day in strength as a bonded group that the May, I feel very optimistic with the cadets will see their greatest success group that we have here. Parents’ this year.

Weekend is but the first in a set of steps towards summer 2015. My

If I like it, it’s mine.

If it’s in my hand, it’s mine.

Cadet of the month

If I can take it from you, it’s mine.

If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.

Middle School Cadet Gonzalo Bobadilla, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bobadilla of Mexico City, Mexico, is this month’s “Cadet of the Month”. Cadet Bobadilla, who holds the rank of Cadet First Lieutenant, is the “Alpha” Company Commander. He is an 8th grader at the Middle School. He is showing himself to be an Honor Roll student and an “Excellent Conduct” cadet already into this new school year. Gonzalo excels on the soccer field and is also training with the swim team, already

preparing for meets to be held this winter. This “Cadet of the Month” honor is determined by a vote involving both his fellow cadets and the Middle School faculty and staff. When asked about his impressions of FUMA so far, he replied, “You get out of it what you put into it.” Cadet Bobadilla is already making the most of his experience at our Academy and is to be commended for his achievements.

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Games to Come

In the Mind of a Coach Orienteering In the Studio Thoughts from a Thespian Body, Mind and Spirt

- Written by COL Feathers

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RESOURCE TIP MS. PAYNE

“Be prepared, not nervous.

Be confident that you will do well.”

MAJ Butt is beginning his seventh year as a Middle School teacher at FUMA. He and his wife live on campus with their three children.

During the summers they enjoy traveling, gardening, and going down the Rivanna River to swim and have hotdog cookouts. MAJ Butt is blessed during the school year to teach, coach, and mentor Middle School cadets. His passion is to help build them into men who serve God and those around them, and who live not by their words, but by their actions.

Getting to Know Your Faculty

CPT Rodney Carter is the Middle School’s Health and Physical Education teacher. CPT Carter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and a Master’s degree in Education Administration from Liberty University. Prior to his employment at FUMA, CPT Carter owned his own construction company. He also taught Health and Physical Education in the local public middle school. Besides his teaching duties, CPT Carter assists with the Academy’s J.V. football team and is the head coach of the Prep baseball team. CPT Carter lives with his wife, Bridgett, and their six children. One of his sons is a FUMA graduate, and his other son is a current cadet.

COL Feathers has been the Headmaster of the Middle School at FUMA since 1994…and he loves what he does. COL Feathers attended the Academy as a student in the ‘70’s and had no idea that he would end up here, but there’s nothing that he would rather be doing. His father taught at FUMA and was the Assistant Dean before he retired. COL Feathers’ brothers also attended FUMA, as did his sons, all of whom are grown and on their own. His life revolves around his family, church, and COL Feathers’ job as the Middle School Headmaster.

From left to right: Carter, Gottschalk, Butt, Feathers, Greenspon

CPT Greenspon is a graduate of VMI and holds a Virginia teaching license with endorsements in English as well as History and Social Sciences. Before coming to FUMA, he worked with special needs students in Charlottesville, VA and taught both middle and high school students at the United Christian Academy in Stanardsville, VA. He leads community Boy Scouts and assists FUMA's own BSA Troop 125. Here at FUMA he coaches wrestling and lacrosse for the Middle School. CPT Greenspon and his bride, a Registered Nurse at FUMA, have two children-one of whom attends the Upper School. In his own words CPT Greenspon is, “an educated and honorable man, a lifelong learner, confident in the functions and attitudes of servant leadership, and an advocate of the American democracy and free enterprise system.

CPT Gottschalk is entering his third year at Fork Union Military Academy.

He is excited about teaching seventh and eighth grade science this year. His family celebrated their son first birthday Last month. They enjoy growing in God’s word and sharing time with family and friends.

Ms. Jeni Fick is the mother of five grown children, who have blessed her with thirteen grandchildren, who all live locally. Even though her nest is so full, she gladly stretches it to include the FUMA Middle School cadets. She enjoys serving as the weekend Housemother/Activity Director. Jeni feels young again, as she plans and sometimes chaperones the Middle School off and on campus activities. Coming to FUMA from being an associate broker with a local realty company, Jeni feels this job is less stressful and makes her cup run over with blessings.

Mrs. Pam Haislip has worked as the Middle School Administrative Assistant since 1986. Mrs. Haislip has many duties including receptionist, records keeper, allowance officer, and assisting teachers with necessary paper work. She and her husband Jerry, live in Scottsville. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Mrs. Kayla Jones is our assistant librarian. Mrs. Jones is a colorful and whimsical educator with her degree in Studio Art Education. She has been in the education field since 2007 when she became a color guard coach. Mrs. Jones interests on campus consist of the Middle School Newspaper The Bayonet, being a sixth grade advisor, and going to all the Junior Prep Football games, where you can find her husband coaching. Mrs. Jones lives on campus with her husband CPT Jones and their dog, three cats and two rabbits.

From left to right: Jones, Keating, Jones, Fick.

CPT Jones is a young teacher with a strong passion for knowledge and an BOOK OF THE MONTH unquenchable thirst for success. He is - Cadet J. Brown excited beyond measure to start off “Really good book!” the school year with a bang. CPT Jones’ favorite areas of interest on campus consist of: the Middle School, the Estes Athletic Center, and the Library, which you can also find “Very interesting!” his wife. To all the new cadets CPT Jones would like to say, “Welcome”, This month I read The Maze and to all the others... “You have to learn the rules of the game, and then Runner. It all starts with a you have to play better than everyboy named Thomas in a lift. body else.” -Albert Einstein.

He can’t remember anything.

MAJ Keating is teaching Middle School Social Studies. Hailing from When he gets out of the lift, Hull, MA, MAJ Keating received a there are approximately fifty Bachelor of Arts in Politics and History and minored in Literature at boys. As soon as he shows Curry College. While attending col- up things start to change. lege, MAJ Keating coached wrestling at Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA. The day after he shows up a He has coached football at the semi- girl comes. After that everypro level. Along with his teaching one who goes through the responsibilities, he is an assistant J.V. football coach and the Academy’s “changing” sees him in their head wrestling coach. MAJ Keating memory. In about three days resides in Fork Union. He has been teaching and coaching at FUMA the doors to the maze stop since 2004. closing. To learn more, read

“Successful People aren’t born that way...”

From left to right: Blanchetti and Haislip

-William Makepeace Thackeray

The Maze Runner. It will not disappoint.

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Mrs. Christy Krammes has worked at FUMA since 2007. Her teaching duties at the Middle School involve 6th grade “Introduction to World Cultures”, 7th grade “Introduction to Spanish”, and 8th grade Spanish 1 and ll. She graduated from Bridgewater College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Mary Baldwin College. Prior to her employment at FUMA, she worked at St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville, and before that volunteered teaching Spanish to 4th graders in a nearby public school. She lives with her husband, Chris (FUMA class of ’96), and their two sons.

From left to right: Krammes, Nolting, Sherk

Ms. Lindsay Nolting, a well-known artist in this area, was employed by FUMA as the Middle School Art teacher in 1998. She teaches students in grades 6 through 8 and has, in the past, supervised Upper School students in independent study art programs. Ms. Nolting received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts from Goddard College and has a wealth of other educational experiences, including years of study in France. Prior to coming to FUMA, Ms. Nolting taught art in nearby school systems, both public and private. She also taught art workshops through the Virginia Museum Touring Program and served as a guide at Monticello. Her work is often shown in art shows throughout the state. Ms. Nolting lives in nearby Columbia.

Mrs. Beth Sherk began her FUMA career 1994 as the Middle School Drama teacher. She also teaches a drama in the Academy’s Upper School. A graduate of George Mason University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Mrs. Sherk has extensive community theater experience as a writer, actor, and director. She also taught drama classes prior to her employment at the Academy. Among her pastimes is writing scripts for student performances that are presented during the course of the school year.

She has also authored two books, The River’s Bend and Crocodile Smile.

Mrs. Sherk and her husband, Grant, have two grown children and a granddaughter.

Ms. Jennifer Payne is starting her third year as housemother at FUMA and her second year as Associate Chaplain and ESL teacher. Ms. Payne has two wonderful children, Elizabeth, a senior at Shenandoah University, and Nathan, a former FUMA cadet and freshman at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She love participating in mission projects and has taken 11 trips to Ukraine to work with orphans and children with special needs.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Bruce Patterson heads up the Academy’s music program, which includes directing the Middle School band. He has been employed at FUMA since 1998. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Asbury College, a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Troy State University, and recently earned a Master’s degree in Worship Leading/Divinity at Liberty University. He has professional performance experience as a trombonist and as an instructor with the United States Marine Corps Band. He is the Executive Officer of the 80th Division Army Reserve Band in Richmond, VA. Chief Patterson lives with his wife, and their three children. His son is a cadet in the Upper School.

Patterson

Payne

FORK UNION GOES INTERNATIONAL - Cadet C. Yescas

A fifteen year old boy from China, by the name of Ah Fong Yeung, was enrolled to Fork Union Military Academy at attend Richmond College. He excelled at FUMA and became a public speaker. Dr. Hatcher took Ah Fong on many speaking trips. He graduated from FUMA in 1904 and went on to study at Richmond College. Ah Fong went back to China and served as an educator and edited a religious publication.

His brother also attended FUMA in the early 1900’s.

Score Board

THE BIG WIN! Fork Union VS. COLLEGIATE

Junior Prep Football Goochland 20-12 Monticello 12-18 Bishop O'Connell 0-40 Grace Christian 36-16 St. Christopher’s 0-14

to use our skill and teamwork to get the ball past them and score a goal.

Our defense was an enormous help, and we would have lost if not for their amazing talent. Eve‐ ry time the ball crossed into our half, it was very short lived, and there would always be somebody

to clear it out almost immediate‐ ly.

Everybody played very well, and if we keep up the effort that we put in for our first game, we will most likely stay undefeated for the entire season!

By Christopher Merlo

10/23/2014 @Benedictine High School 10/28/2014 Woodberry Forest

10/07/2014

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St. Anne’s Belfield

Robert Wood...

Athlete of the Month

is an exceptional young man.

Whenever he is asked to do

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Although he is not an outstanding

something, it is done without

Fork Union

athlete, he possesses the biggest

question or complaint. He is re-

Invitational

heart of anyone on the field.

spected and loved by all those

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Everyday, Wood comes out to

around him. There is no one on

practice and games working his

the field who plays with more de-

hardest to get better, and to

termination and will power than

make his team better.

Robbie Wood.

Win

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Soccer

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Academy 10/16/2014

Middle School

Collegiate

James River

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School

Soccer

Ragged Mountain Cup

Junior Prep Football

The first game of the season for the Middle School soccer team did not end in disappointment.

The opposing team played well, but not well enough, for the end score was 2‐0, FUMA. Collegiate’s defense was the gem in their team, and several times dominat‐ ed our offense, but we were able

Middle School

Cross Country

Games to come

Written By CPT Nate Thiel

Fork Union Military Academy | 4744 James Madison Highway | Fork Union, VA 23055 | USA

10/16/2014 Home: Saint Anne’s Belfield 10/21/2014 @Collegiate School 10/23/2014 Home: Goochland Middle School

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In The Mind Of A Coach

September 2014 * The Bayonet

Orienteering

In the Studio

The FUMA Middle School Orienteering

Art classes provide Middle School

Team lost 60% of its team that won a

cadets the opportunity to think and

national championship in Indiana last

create. Each cadet in the Middle

April. Nevertheless, the team is mak-

School is doing a different project.

Meheen: “Coach Hooper, do you think

ing good progress. Returning runners,

For example, some people are work-

we are having a successful season so

Jared Giszack, David Muench, and

ing on clay. Some people are creating

far?”

Blake Chiovaro have shown improve-

paintings and drawings or woodwork.

ment over last year in both speed and

All classes usually start with the ca-

navigational abilities. The new orient-

dets getting unfinished work to com-

(An interview with Coach Hooper) Written and interviewed by John Meheen

Coach: “Pretty much the whole of JV is learning.”

eers are growing in prowess. They

plete during class. As we start our

Meheen: “What things can we improve

have gotten regular training on orient-

work, Ms. Nolting reads a devotion to

on as a team?”

eering map symbols, how to read and

us. All cadets have a fun time working

Coach: “Effort, discipline and cohesion

interpret the map, how to correlate the

and having conversations. At the end

and working together.”

map symbols with their surroundings,

of each class, Ms. Nolting assigns a

and how to use the features to navi-

job to each cadet in the class for

Player quote: “You are learning new plays and how to get better as a team and you have to work hard to play.”

gate successfully. The practice cours- cleaning. Once every job is done, we es they have been running have gradu- are allowed to leave to get to our next ally grown in difficulty. Never the less, the times for the cadets to complete the courses is decreasing. We are making good progress and are hopeful as we look forward to several big individual competitions in the next two months.

class.

For first project we took seven random objects and made a collage. Everyone made something different. Lots of people actually made something out of their objects, like a helicopter and a smiley face. We started by gluing our objects onto a piece of card board paper. Then, after the glue had dried,

The Middle School cadets’ works of art are now up for display in the Middle School section of the Beatty Library.

-Jack Milazzo

THOUGHTS FROM OUR THESPIAN Drama students have been learning the basics of acting improvisation and how to build a scene from a who, what, where. We are also playing a lot of drama games for concentration, memory, creativity, and building a team spirit.

cadets painted their collage and let it dry.

The next day, Cadets and Ms. Nolting sat in a semi–circle and talked about what we liked about each piece that LTC Moore & LTC Muench have been coaching at FUMA together for 10 years.

was created.

-Mrs. Sherk

Diary of a Baby (Excerpt from a health class assignment) - Jared Giszack

Body, Mind and Spirit - Steven Tankins

Its nighttime, you can’t sleep no matter how hard you try. Suddenly, you I woke up one hear foot steps outside your house.

It’s so dark in morning and I noYou assure yourself that it’s probably here! Oh no, I ticed my bones were can’t feel my just the wind. Now you’re listening aching. My bones legs! Never mind, closely. Then, you hear them again felt like they were I don’t have any legs… right outside you window. Your try to Week two, day two: There’s screaming. stretching horizontally. Within weeks keep calm, but something inside you my height was changing drastically.

My cover has been blown! is panicking, making you hyperventiInto my first two months of this Week two, day seventeen: What’s haplate. Your heart is beating like never change, I grew four inches! My pening?! I feel so alive! before. Somebody taps on the win“Michael Jackson” was kicking into Week six, day forty-one: I am getting dow, and you jump out of your pants! tiny lungs and my brain’s activities can gear. I could dunk on almost everyA flashlight beam flows through your be measured… whatever that means. I one. My vertical was increased by 65”. have my eyes but I don’t even have eyeroom like it’s looking for you. A miSince I was taller, I didn't have to dive lids! My heart has started to beat!!! I have nute later, after the flashlight has left, to catch spirals. About a year later, I fingers and toes! I have over doubled in there’s a loud thumping on the door. had grown 12”. Everything was size in just two weeks!

You slowly walk to answer it. You Week ten, day sixty-eight: I’m so bored! smaller to me. I felt like a giant as I open the door, shaking and breathing There is nothing to do in here! C’MON leaped out of my desk towering over hard, and scream…

Mom, is this all there is to do?! Float everyone. My bone aches were comaround and wait for nine months! I’m a ing to an end. My growth process - Christopher Merlo big boy now! Almost 3/4 of an inch long. declined each month. My growth Week twenty-four, day 193: My eyelids spurt was over. I remember what can close and open; I can see the light now. I weigh 2 pounds and I’m 10 inches Coach Carter taught our class in P.E.: tall.

“An organ causes this period of growth.” I can not quite remember Week thirty, day 261: I’m a lot bigger and have full-grown fingernails. I’m althe term. It is a major developer of most ready to get out of here! I am almost our growth. Do you know this term? eight pounds and I’m 18 inches tall!

Hint: this gland is called the master First moments, day one: I’m free! I have gland. It affects the other ena long life ahead of me! docrine glands.

One day, I was sitting on the couch watching TV. Outside I heard a loud bang! I ran out to see what it was and my dad was stuck under our car.

Without thinking, I placed my hands under the car and lifted it off of him.

What gland am I? - Jaylen Brown I am on the front of the neck next to the voice box and the wind pipe. I secret hormones that regulate the metabolism. I am the reason human get fat when they eat unhealthy food.

When humans do not eat anything, I am the reason they are skinny. I help regulate growth due to the metabolism.

-Blain Chiovaro, Yohans Lee, Daniel Samurin

Answers: Tes cular Gland , Adrenal Gland , Thyroid Gland, Adrenal Gland

Week one, day one: Where am I?

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“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to… But be respected – that is essential.”

Anna Gould

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.”

Bryant McGill

“Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.”

Philip James Baily

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6. Founded Fork Union Academy 7. System to create an environment focused on academic achievement and leadership development.

9. System to create an environment focused on academic achievement and leadership development.

10. FUMA Alumni who received a Division I basket ball scholarship even though he has only one hand.

John Meheen: FUMA is a safe haven. It is a

Jack Milazzo: FUMA means everything to me

place where I can start. I can have a clean slate

because of all the respect they have for all the

here. FUMA allows me to thrive at excellence

cadets. I enjoy the teachers and other cadets .

using a fresh start. FUMA has given me a

They look out for you and will always have

distraction-free environment to study and

your back. Also, I like that they have certain

work to get good grades. It has also helped

rules to keep everyone in order. This will help

my athletic ability on the field and on the court.

FUMA is my home away from home.

Benjamin Gary- FUMA has an international involvement with a lots of kids from around the

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FUMA

us grow into mature men.

To Me

1. Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability.

2. Behavior in accord with rules of conduct; behavior and order maintained by training and control.

3. The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.

4. The only person who has two building on FUMA campus named after him.

8. The chapel is named after this former FUMA president.

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world. This school is different from other schools. We are tested to our limit. For example, when you are

Jaylen Brown: To me, FUMA means a friendship that will last

here for the first day you are called even

forever. Here you receive an experience that

before school starts and you are inter-

will help you get through life. FUMA is its

viewed by faculty and staff. Also, you are

core values of Respect, Integrity, Faith, Char-

called back to meet other new cadets . You

acter, and Discipline. FUMA means new op-

learn about how they came to this school

portunities. It is good school that you will love.

and why. The whole year is the best. When

You will create memories you will never for-

it is summer you have more time for break

get.

than other schools.

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