Rogers named Class of 2012 valedictorian

Derek Rogers arrived at Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro in 2009 as a high-school sophomore in need of some direction.

“My attitude and my grades were horrible,” said Rogers, a native of Richmond who is leaving Fishburne this weekend as the Class of 2012 valedictorian.

The focus and discipline that is the focus of life at Fishburne, a 130-cadet all-boys private school founded in 1879, were keys to Rogers’ eventual success.

And that success, as it came in the classroom and on the drill field, started to feed on itself. Read more

Chandler Bryant: A Summer School Success Story

Chandler Bryant was struggling through his freshman year in high school in Virginia Beach when his parents came to him with an idea.

Let’s send you to summer school at Fishburne.

“My grades were slipping a little bit, and my parents decided, Hey, how about we just send you here? It would be a good place, a good experience. So I was, like, alright. I was on the bandwagon,” said Bryant, who had such a good experience with the five-week summer-school session last summer that he decided to stay on at Fishburne for his sophomore year. Read more

FMS track competes in VIC meet

Fishburne Military School track highlights from May 12 Virginia Independent Conference meet at Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg.

Discus: Andrew Simons, 6th, 89’5″

Shot Put: Andrew Simons, 4th, 31’10″
Michael Davis, 5th, 31’7″

4 x 800 relay (1st): Chip Collins, David Raines, James Park, Chance Berry

110 Hurdles: Travis Knapp, 2nd, 20.6

300 Hurdles: Travis Knapp, 4th, 50.4

100 Meter Dash: Bevan Morrison-Rodgers, 6th, 12.4

1600 Meter Run: Colin Turnnidge, 2nd, 4:43

4 x 100 relay (3rd): Morrison-Rodgers, Sean Hughes, Zach McIntyre, TJ Mason

400 Meter Dash: Mason, 3rd, 55.4

800 Meter Run: Raines, 2nd, 2:11

200 Meter Dash: Morrison Rodgers, 4th, 25.1; Mason 5th, 25.4

FMS alum Bob Kerby passes

Written by Joseph B. Yount III

Two days before Bob Kerby and I graduated from Fishburne Military School, the then commandant told me that he was happy one of us was going to UVA and the other to VA Tech, because no place could possibly survive if the two of us were enrolled together.

I had known Bob Kerby from grade school and early on found him a genius in many ways. A ham radio operator at age 10, this faithful young Methodist liked to assure us that his call letters W4BLD stood for Whiskey for Breakfast Lunch and Dinner. That was said for shock value, of course, but in truth long before he came to Fishburne he could build his own receivers and hi fi equipment, had a basement that looked like an FM radio station, and regularly spoke with ham pals on every continent. Read more

Track competes in WHS Invitational

The Fishburne Military School track team competed in the Waynesboro High School Invitational on May 2.

FMS Highlights
- 4 x 800 relay (Turnnidge, Collins, Park, Berry), 2nd, 9:29
- 100: Morrison-Rodgers, 3rd, 12.2
- 400 T. J. Mason, 1st, 55.8 (won by .1)
- 800: Berry, 3rd, 2:24 (ran well but somewhat dead legs from a Sunday cycling event)
- 1600: Turnnidge, 1st, 4:55 (slow, tactical race that came down to a final sprint); Park, 5th, 5:41
- 4 x 100 relay (Morrison-Rodgers, Hughes, McIntyre, Mason), 3rd, 48.2
- 3200: Harold, 2nd, 13:30
- Discus: Simons, 4th, 93’8″

Next up: Virginia Independent Conference Meet, Virginia Episcopal School, Lynchburg, May 12, 1000.

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