Linton Hall Military School alumni memories

For the past eight years, I've been writing about Linton Hall Military School, which I attended while Sister Mary David was principal. A few years ago, she resumed use of her birth name, and is ...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2018/09/sister-mary-david-osb-writes-back.html

Maxime "Max" L. DuCharme, Jr. who was Linton Hall Military School's fourth and last Commandant, passed away on or about June 11, 2018. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on June 21 at Sunset H...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/maxime-max-ducharme-commandant-of.html

A picture is worth a thousand words ... here are some photos of the Linton Hall dress uniform.

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2018/01/linton-hall-military-school-uniform.html

On the web, Linton Hall School describes itself as "a Catholic school in Benedictine Tradition." So what really is this "Benedictine Tradition?" I doubt that most people really know; and I think ...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2017/01/linton-halls-benedictine-tradition.html

Bill Farquhar, who was sports coach as well as gym and geography instructor at Linton Hall for several decades, was also somewhat of a history buff. In 1992, he delivered a speech on Linton Hall...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2016/09/bill-farquhar-on-linton-hall-history.html

That was, after all, the condition under which the Benedictine Order was given 1,736 acres of land by Sister Mary Baptista, V.H.M.. (Note 1) In 1893, Sister Mary Baptista gave the land subject ...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-didnt-linton-hall-help-poor.html

A scathing report by Joseph Tobin, O.S.B. written on August 4, 1922, described extremely filthy conditions at Saint Joseph Institute, the boys' boarding school run by Benedictine priests and bro...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2016/09/linton-halls-precursor-st-joseph.html

During the 1962-1963 school year, Luis Somoza, age 12, and his brother Alvaro, age 11, attended Linton Hall Military School. (I do not know whether they attended Linton Hall other years.) They w...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/linton-hall-alumni-included-nicaraguan.html

Linton Hall School has undergone radical changes during the time since I was there. As far as I can tell, most of these changes were in response to external factors, rather than the result of a d...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2016/02/why-linton-hall-had-to-change.html

The newest, biggest book about Linton Hall ever has just been published. And you can buy it at cost! This book is huge: 7x10 inches, 208 pages, 51 chapters with over 60,000 words of text, p...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2014/04/huge-new-book-about-linton-hall.html

I never ran away, because I had nowhere to go. If I had gone home I would have been sent right back, and I had no sympathetic grandma or adult older brother living on his own who would let me sta...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2014/02/running-away-from-linton-hall.html

The best thing about being in the eighth grade was knowing with complete certainty that it would be my last year at Linton Hall Military School. That didn't really sink in at first, since I had...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-last-days-at-linton-hall-school-is.html

Among the graves at the Linton Hall cemetery, one stands out from the others.  It is the grave of Eduardo Facha García, a cadet born in 1944 and who died in 1954 at Linton Hall Military School....

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-boy-who-died-at-linton-hall.html

An alumnus has provided me with photos of the cemetery at Linton Hall.  The cemetery is located on the LHMS (now Linton Hall School) grounds, if you're walking from the canteen towards the pool,...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/linton-hall-cemetery-photos.html

In his memoir about his first year at Linton Hall Military School during 1968-1969, Augustus Cho has written more than just his autobiography; this is really a biography of everyone who attended...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/06/new-book-about-linton-hall.html

Augustus Cho, a Linton Hall alumnus, appears in the "GI Joe 2 - Retaliation" movie that just came out. Congratulations Augustus!

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/04/linton-hall-alumnus-in-gi-joe-2.html

Although I have been scooped on this one by the other blogger at I want to share the news that a Linton Hall alumnus has just published a fictional book about a Special Operations Unit. "Duty,...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/lhms-alumnus-publishes-fiction-book.html

(I am coming out of my self-imposed retirement to publish a blog post I had written last year and saved in draft form.  It covers some of the letters I wrote during the first weeks at Linton Hal...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2013/03/i-am-coming-out-of-my-self-imposed.html

If this is not my last post, there will probably be only one or two more. As 2012 draws to a close, I have decided to say goodbye to my blog about Linton Hall Military School. I will check in o...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/12/goodbye-linton-hall-military-school-my.html

When we went camping and the temperature at night dipped below freezing, we were awarded an "Over and Under" patch which was sewn on the sleeve of our blue sweater. The patch was awarded only...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/11/camping-and-over-under-patch.html

For new readers, I suggest you begin reading the oldest entry first (the one shown first on this list.) Click on any of the links below: Linton Hall Military School Memories LHMS from an ad...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/11/index-linton-hall-military-school.html

One of my best memories of Linton Hall Military School was coming back to my dorm in the afternoon, after either drill or free play, and finding a letter from home on my bed, partly tucked under ...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/mail-from-home.html

Occasionally, some Linton Hall alumni have contacted me in their attempts to locate other Linton Hall alumni. The task is not easy because we live in a big country, with many people sharing the s...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/finding-linton-hall-alumni.html

During "rest" in the evening, as well as after school, we would get a candy bar or, sometimes, a popsicle. Sometimes we had a choice and we would line up at the canteen; other times we all got th...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/fun-in-snow.html

When I was thirteen years old, I and other boys my age used to shoot live ammunition inside the Linton Hall Miltary School building every other Friday. Because of the tragic school shootings...

http://lintonhallmilitaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/06/we-used-to-shoot-real-guns-at-linton.html