10/09/2026
The Ridge stays with you long after you leave.
For 175 years, cadets have come to Oak Ridge Military Academy and left with stories worth telling: the challenges, the friendships, and the moments they still talk about decades later.
Charlene’s book brings those stories together with the history of an academy that has endured and evolved for generations.
If you marched here, taught here, or watched your child grow here, you can keep this piece of The Ridge and pass it down.
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Hanging on a wall in the hallway of the Alumni Building on the campus of Oak Ridge Military Academy is a framed document dated April 7, 1850, listing the signatures of forty-three men, mostly Quakers, who started this school. I was intrigued that Quakers were responsible for the beginning of a mi...
