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Florida Military School, Florida Military School and College, Florida Military High School, and FMS all refer to the school located in DeLand, Florida during the years 1956 to 1971. It was located just south of DeLand Airport at Sky Harbor Station, DeLand, Florida. The Florida Military School Association, Inc. (FMSA) was founded on 2003 April 10. The first annual meeting of FMSA was held in DeLand 2003 October 25. == Florida Military School History == 1956-1971 by: Thornton J. Ridinger, Historian Class of 1959 Year 1: 1956-1957 On September 4, 1956, Florida Military School opened its doors to 63 cadets. Colonel Carl Ward, with founding partners Arthur Seascholz and W. K. Beman, started the school in a converted World War II Infirmary at the old DeLand Naval Air Station. The Mess Hall was in the old Officers Club, which later became the Canteen (the Joe C. Long Building). During the second semester they moved into the Naval Station's Bachelor Officers Quarters that was later named Howard Hall. At Christmas break, Seascholz and Beman left the school, and Carl C. Schaefer, Sr., a trucking company executive from Dayton, Ohio, bought into the corporation and was given the title of Vice President (to Colonel Ward’s President and Headmaster). He maintained a partnership interest in the school until about 1961. In the beginning, the school offered flight training for the cadets, but that was not offered in subsequent years, after the death of a cadet pilot, Donald Thompson, who crashed while on his first solo flight. In sports, FMS fielded basketball, baseball, and track teams that year, but not a football team. The cadet corps was under the command of Cadet William V. Howard. Company B was named Honor Company of the year. There were five graduating seniors the first year. Their names would be remembered by all subsequent cadets because the major buildings on campus were named in their honor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florida Military School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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