Hargrave Military Academy
| Hargrave Military Academy | |
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200 Military Drive Chatham, Virginia United States |
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| Type | Military college preparatory boarding school Private |
| Motto |
Mens sana in corpore sano (A sound mind in a sound body.) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Baptist / Christian |
| Established | 1909 |
| Founder | T. Ryland Sanford & J. Hunt Hargrave |
| President | Doyle D. Broome, Jr., BG, USA(Ret.) |
| Dean | Dr. Dewitt 'Hunter' Powell, Ph.D. |
| Chaplain | Jacob Kave |
| Grades | 7th-Post Graduate |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 220 |
| Campus | Rural |
| Color(s) | Black and Orange |
| Athletics conference | Virginia Independent Conference |
| Mascot | Tiger |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Accreditation | Virginia Association of Independent Schools and AdvancED |
| Yearbook | Cadence |
| Affiliation | Baptist General Association of Virginia |
| Website | Hargrave Military Academy |
 Main building, Camden Hall |
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Hargrave Military Academy (HMA) is a private American college preparatory boarding school located in the town of Chatham, Virginia.
Hargrave is a school affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia emphasizing Christian values that focuses on a college and military preparatory program. The school serves boys from around the world for grade 7 through post-graduate (PG).
Hargrave Military Academy was founded in 1909 as the Chatham Training School (CTS). CTS and its predecessor, the Warren Training School, were general training schools for boys. In 1925, it was renamed in honor of one of its founders J. Hunt Hargrave, a well-to-do local farmer. The renaming was part of the school's evolution into a military high school, and is detailed in Colonel Aubrey H. Camden's 1959 book "Fifty Years of Christian Education in a Baptist School: A Historical Record of Hargrave Military Academy:
"In the early twenties, national magazines served as an advertising medium for solicitation of students. Out-of-state inquiries soon convinced the management that Chatham Training School was being interpreted to mean an institution for incorrigibles. It was deemed wise to change the name to Hargrave Military Academy. This change in name served two purposes. First, it corrected a misunderstanding as to the type of clientele desired. Second, it established a permanent memorial to Mr. J. Hunt Hargrave, who sponsored the school with deep convictions, devout faith, and collateral security from 1909 until his death in 1935."
T. Ryland Sanford resigned as President of CTS on February 19, 1918, and recommended to the Board of Trustees that Aubrey H. Camden, then the Dean, be his successor. Camden assumed the position of President on June 1, 1918 and would remain there for more than thirty years.
In response to appeals from patrons and students for military training to be made part of the available academics, a formal government inspection was conducted and H. W. Thomas joined the Hargrave faculty as the first commandant in January 1919. Hargrave has been approved for Junior ROTC (JROTC) numerous times since then, but many in the Hargrave community, most notably the Board of Trustees, feared that the addition of that program would put too much emphasis on military studies and lessen academics. Hargrave has consistently operated independent of JROTC, creating its own uniforms and cadet rank structure.
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