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Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) is a coeducational college preparatory school for grades 6 through 12 and one academic postgraduate year, located in Woodstock, Virginia, United States. ==History== The Massanutten Military Academy, named for the nearby mountain, was established by the Virginia Classis of the Reformed Church in 1899. The school opened on 12 September 1899 with 40 students, half of whom were boarders.〔Shenandoah Herald, September 15, 1899, Image 3〕 From the beginning the school was coed, with the first graduating class in 1902 consisting of 3 boys and 3 girls. In 1905 the first of two significant events in the history of the school occurred: Howard J. Benchoff was appointed the school president. He stayed in that position for nearly 5 decades, to be succeeded for the next decade and a half by his son. Lantz Hall, the second structure on the academy grounds, was begun in 1907 and dedicated in 1909, to accommodate a growing student population. During the early years of his stewardship Benchoff established several polices. The first was expanding the school size to include number of students, staff, buildings, and acreage. The second, as a result of an otherwise undocumented "incident", was limiting the boarding department to boys beginning in 1910. The last policy, and the second significant event in the school's early history, was adopting a military program. While the program was not implemented until 1917, early in his tenure Benchoff described the goal of a military program as "to train the boys with a discipline that is valuable and give them that easy and graceful carriage which is an accomplishment in any gentleman's claim to culture" In 1930 after receiving an application and inspecting the existing program, the U.S. War Department formally made the school a JrROTC unit "placing it on a par with the highest rated military schools in the country". In 1984 the school began using the name Massanutten Military Academy. However, in many legal documents the name was still Massanutten Academy. In 2013 to end the associated name confusion, the school reverted to its original name of Massanutten Academy. Despite the dropping of Military from its name, the school retained its military tradition and JROTC unit, but in 2014 when certain members of the administration resigned the school decided to return the Military in the name. Academy Presidents / Headmasters / Superintendents / Head of Schools ::1899-1903 J. Silor Garrison ::1903-1905 Robert Raymond Jones ::1905-1952 Howard J. Benchoff ::1952-1955 Robert J. Benchoff ‡ ::1955-1968 Robert J. Benchoff ::1968-1969 Gordon Bowman Sr. ‡ ::1969-1974 Lloyd D. Graham ::1974-1975 Gordon Bowman II ‡ ::1975-1991 W. Crawford Moon ::1991-1993 Robert L. Oesterling ::1993-1994 Robert Rossi ::1994-2001 Jack Albert ::2001-2008 Col. Roy F. Zinser ::2008-2009 Thomas N. Connors ‡ ::2009-2012 Craig Jones ::2012-2014 Merle Henkel ::2014- Present Dr David Skipper ‡ ‡ 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「Massanutten Military Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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