Valley Forge Military Academy & College history

After a fire during the night of January 17–18, 1929 destroyed the original single-building campus, the former Devon Park Hotel, the academy was moved to its present site in Wayne, Pennsylvania, the former Saint Luke's School.

During the 1935–36 school year, General Baker expanded the Academy to include a two-year college program, and the first College cadets joined the Corps that year as a result.

E Battery (Formerly E Company under Academy, transformed to artillery battery in 1940)

VFMAC Field Music (Formerly the Drum and Bugle Corps, established in 1956)

Colonel Feltham also introduced the British “Slow March” in approximately 1961.) The unique complement of trumpets are regularly used to perform at the Academy's weekly chapel services, and are frequently booked for off-campus events, both domestic and abroad.

In 1969, he formed Eastern Petroleum Corporation, a home heating oil and diesel fuel marketer.

Since his retirement as Superintendent in 1971, he served the school as President Emeritus, a volunteer Historian and Archivist and the Vice President and Secretary of the Chapel Foundation Board of Directors.

During the Summer of 1973, General Strong announced his resignation, and on October 15, 1973, was replaced by Lieutenant General Willard Pearson, United States Army (Retired), B.A., M.A. General Pearson assumed the Superintendency at a time when the school was in financial crisis.

The full dress headdress is the Academy Capshield with the VFMAC institutional arms on it, worn on all full dress uniforms since 1980 replacing a shako styled cap with the arms.

Cadet Major (first highest rank of C-of-C officers, used by Timothy Hutton in 1981's Taps)

In 1999, the heating oil and diesel business was sold and Mr.

Doctor Christine Anne Royce is currently a professor in the teacher education department and co-director for the MAT in STEM Education program at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania having joined the faculty in 2002.

Having risen to the rank of Colonel, his Senior Officer assignments began as Senior Military Advisor/Military Transition Team of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq (MNSTC-I) in October 2004.

Lieutenant Colonel Josh Meyer grew up largely in upstate New York and is a 2005 Distinguished Military Graduate from Norwich University where he received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in Army Aviation… Read Full Bio

The institutional full dress is gray blue with black pants (for the Academy) and from 2009, all black polo and pants for the college.

Effective June 22, 2010 CAPT Gerald Hale, USCG (Ret.) was named the Chaplain and Director of Character Development.

Valley Forge Military College and Misericordia University signed a formal articulation agreement that will enable nursing students to matriculate to the university to complete their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.SN.) degree beginning in the 2011–12 academic year.

All cadet officers' shoulder boards are blue save for the artillery unit which from 2012 now wears red shoulder boards after a long absence of their use.

↑ Rawlins, John. "First female president of Valley Forge Military Academy and College", 6abc Action News, April 11, 2013

Articles with unsourced statements from November 2014

Before joining Serco in late 2016, he was a Senior Vice President for Conduent Inc. (formerly Xerox and ACS) where he ran their mobility, parking, and court business units.

In April 2019, a former Cadet sued Valley Forge Military Academy for abuse and extreme negligence from the school administration.

Colonel Helgeson was named President of Valley Forge Military Academy and College in March of 2020 after previously serving as Chief Operating Officer, Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets… Read Full Bio