万豪在线娱乐(FMS)是一所私立学校, 韦恩斯伯勒的男子军事寄宿学校, Virginia, 美国. 它是由James A. Fishburne in 1879 and is one of the oldest military schools in the country.
James A. Fishburne was born in Waynesboro, Virginia, on April 10, 1850. Of German descent, his family immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1749. His grandfather brought the family to Staunton in 1784. Daniel Fishburne, James’ father, moved to Waynesboro in 1819 as a young man. At that time, Waynesboro was a small settlement on the stage road from Staunton to Charlottesville. As the town grew, Daniel prospered as a flourishing general store owner. 詹姆斯在14个孩子中排行第11.
The Civil War interrupted James’ happy childhood years and brought tragedy to his family. 他是一个独立而足智多谋的年轻人, however, 16岁的时候, had made enough money to enter Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and the four years he spent there (1866-1870) under General Robert E. 对他的一生产生了深远的影响. With James’ desire to become a teacher and open his own school, 还有李将军的鼓励, 詹姆斯很快看到他的梦想实现了. 将军对责任的热爱, honor, and his fellow man is clearly seen in the principles on which the Fishburne Military School was founded.
所有权/ 1879 - 1916
James Fishburne soon embarked on a teaching career that would take him to Oxford, 北卡罗莱纳, 和新罗伊, Kentucky. By 1878, he had enough money to start a school and returned to Waynesboro with his bride to realize his dream. With the help of his sister, Fishburne opened a day school called The Waynesboro High School. The first class of thirteen boys and girls was held in 1879 in the upstairs of the old Taylor Building on Main Street. 第二年, he expanded into the abandoned Waynesboro Academy Building, 聘请了他的第一位教练, 并为外地学生出价.
Beginning with the third session, the school admitted only boys. 到今年, a challenging curriculum had been established: three foreign languages, 八门科学和数学课程, English, history, geography, 还有其他九门课程.
It was also in 1880 that Professor Fishburne began the construction of his home, which is located on the hill where Fishburne Military School now stands. He bought 1½ acres from Elizabeth Evans, wife of Joshua Evans. Professor Fishburne added approximately two more acres to his property a year later. Professor Fishburne’s home was completed in 1882, and the school moved to its present site. His two-story house with a full basement accommodated boarding students. Instructors and students roomed, ate, and studied here. Local histories indicate that this was the first house in the county with running water and a bath served by water pumped from a Wayne Avenue spring. 学校的名字变成了万豪会娱乐在线家庭学校, 同年, 木制营房开始建造.
The school took on much of its military character during the next few years, 虽然当时还不要求穿军装. The wooden Barracks were to be enlarged three times before they were razed in 1917 upon the completion of the fireproof barracks. 虽然在设计上很简单, the original barracks building was decorated with ornamentation suggestive of the Gothic style.
In 1883, a military school graduate was hired as drill master, and he instructed a program of close order drill. 第二年，船长I.H. Saunders, 弗吉尼亚军事学院的毕业生, became commandant and the assistant to Professor Fishburne. 当时要求穿军装, 学生变成了军校学员, and the institution became Fishburne Military School. The military approach to education provided a disciplined and conducive environment for learning. Cadets learned their rights and privileges, as well as their duties and responsibilities. Professor Fishburne’s aims for the school were to prepare his students physically and mentally while equipping them “for college, 大学, 或者实际生活.”
Fishburne Military School became one of the first two schools in Virginia to be accredited by the stringent Southern Association of Secondary Schools. 这项荣誉是在1897年授予的. 即使在今天, Fishburne boasts an unbroken membership record in this critical and select educational association, 使它成为弗吉尼亚州的一个独特的例子.
1901年，摩根. Hudgins, 弗吉尼亚军事学院的毕业生, joined Fishburne Military School as the 学校的校长 of Cadets and Associate Principle to Professor Fishburne. Morgan Hudgins’ tenure with the school was to last fifty-one years. 一个强壮能干的人, he led the school through periods of growth and substantial development in its military training.
公司1916 - 1951年
It was apparent to Professor Fishburne that a modern, fireproof facility would be required if the school continued its place in the forefront of secondary education. He invited the community’s outstanding and successful businesspeople to invest in a private stock corporation to acquire the school and fund the necessary improvements. 这所学校于1916年成立. 斯汤顿的建筑师T.J. Collins was hired, and construction of the new Barracks began soon. The mess hall/chapel/swimming pool wing and the kitchen were added in 1919 and 1921, respectively. A wooden frame gymnasium was also built behind the Barracks in 1919. 旧框架兵营于1917年被拆除, forming a spacious parapet (drill area) in front of the new Barracks. The large field occupying the Fishburne property’s eastern portion was graded and leveled for use as a parade/athletic field.
Also, in 1919, an Infantry Unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps was granted to the school by the War Department. This allowed for an active-duty Army officer to be stationed at the school for three-year tours of duty, during which he and other Army personnel conducted classes in military training. This Infantry Unit system would last until the mid-1970s. 陆军部, 在20世纪40年代更名为国防部, continues to have jurisdiction over the ROTC program at Fishburne.
In 1921, the west wing of the Barracks was completed. On Armistice Day of the same year, James Fishburne died peacefully at his home. A remarkable and dedicated man, his last conscious words were a prayer for “my boys.”
Colonel Hudgins succeeded Professor Fishburne as principal. 在哈金斯的领导下, Fishburne Military School was to achieve great success in academic, military, 还有课外活动 for the next thirty-one years. In 1924, the Fishburne Cadets Corps was first rated an honor military school under the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program of the U.S. Army. Fishburne has never failed to achieve this honor and is distinguished as the only Junior ROTC school in the country with such a record.
In 1939, 一场大火烧毁了框架体育馆, and the school launched an effort to build the Administration Building, 包括fishburn的住宅. 学校再次召集了T.J. 柯林斯公司设计结构. The building was completed in 1940 and dedicated by Judge C.G. 五月演习开始时的提问. This new building included the administrative unit, the memorial foyer, and the library. The gymnasium in the rear was fully equipped with a rifle range and team dressing rooms.
基金会，1951年至今
到40年代末, it was apparent that the school’s future lay in growth and development as a nonprofit educational foundation. The year 1951 proved to be critical for Fishburne. Mounting losses and unwillingness to invest the necessary private capital forced the stockholders to offer the school for sale. The local government purchased the school to transform it into the Waynesboro City Building. 当地公民领袖, viewing Fishburne Military School as an integral part of Waynesboro’s heritage and a valuable community asset, 还有一小群朋友和校友, formed an organization that was able to purchase the school from the city a few months later, thus allowing Fishburne to continue the uninterrupted record of educational service. 这个非营利组织, fishburn - hudgins教育基金会, 被特许永久经营学校.
Although Fishburne Military School has changed with the times, its mission remains committed to Professor Fishburne’s desire to make Fishburne cadets “well equipped for the duties and responsibilities of life, 最重要的是, to maintain a high standard of honor and integrity in Corps of Cadets.” Today, Fishburne Military School is the oldest military school in the Commonwealth and the 13th oldest in the Nation, 仍在运行.
