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Fishburne Military School is located in
Waynesboro, VirginiaWaynesboro, deriving its name from General Anthony Wayne, is an independent city surrounded by Augusta County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 21,006 in 2010.....
. Founded by James A. Fishburne in 1879, it is one of the oldest military schools in the country. Fishburne still thrives today with a current (2008–09) corps of approximately 170 cadets.
Military activities
Fishburne is a leading Army JROTC boarding school, having continuously held the honor school distinction for over 90 years. The JROTC staff supports rappelling, Raider Team (military skills other than close order drill), two drill teams: Regulation (Precision) and the Hudgins Rifle Exhibition Drill Team ("trick"), Military & Social Courtesies and the marksmanship team. In addition there are normally annual trips to Virginia Military Institute and Fort Pickett or Fort A.P. Hill to utilize their obstacle courses and other training facilities.
History
James A. Fishburne, a student and protégé of
Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....
, opened the coed
Waynesboro High School in 1879. The school became male only in 1881 and a series of name changes followed:
Fishburne Home School in 1882,
Fishburne School in 1883, and finally
Fishburne Military School in 1886, two years after the school adopted a military program. The school is listed on the
Junior Reserve Officers' Training CorpsThe Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is a Federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the United States...
charter and has continuously been rated an Army JROTC Honor Unit since 1924. In 1951, the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation, Inc. was formed as a Virginia non-profit and since that time has owned and operated the school.
Campus
The 1916
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barracks designed by Staunton architect T.J. Collins was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1984 (Ref. # #84000058). It is the center of the Fishburne campus and dominates downtown Waynesboro as it sits on a hill overlooking the school's parade and athletic field. The barracks building is constructed in the form of an open three floor rectangle with cadet rooms, some offices, and most classrooms facing the open Quadrangle. Attached to the barracks themselves is a wing containing the chapel above the messhall which is above the soon to be modernized swimming pool.
Attached to the barracks by a breezeway is the administrative/gym building. The most recent occupied campus building, sitting on the southeast corner is Hobby-Hudgins Hall, combining a modern computer center and library with physical education facilities including locker rooms and weight room.
Notable alumni
- Gerald L. Baliles
Gerald L. Baliles was the 65th Governor of Virginia and is the director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia...
, 1959, Governor of Virginia 1986-90
- Reno Collier
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, stand up comedian
- Otto Felix
Otto Felix was a motion picture and television actor, an acting teacher and a still photographer.Raised in Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Virginia, then he served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a disc jockey in Florida, before beginning an acting career...
, 1962, actor, writer
- Vince McMahon
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, 1964, World Wrestling Entertainment chairman
- John O. Noonan
John Noonan is a conservative national security commentator and analyst. He is a principle defense writer for The Weekly Standard, and currently works as a policy adviser at the Foreign Policy Initiative...
, 2000, Conservative policy advisor and writer for The Weekly Standard
- W. Richard Stevens
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, technical author
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