Kathryn MacGregor donated this saber (sabre) to the Wenonah Historical Society. The saber was given to her father, Captain David Knight, by an academy cadet. The saber was made by Reed Company in Philadelphia and is engraved with the name Robert Q. Hinckle, Cadet Major and graduate of the class of 1932 at the Wenonah Military Academy. He contributed to an article on the Wenonah Military Academy that appeared in this issue of our newsletter.

Wenonah resident Lauren Leer donated this copper plate, which was used for printing postcards of the Wenonah Military Academy, to the Wenonah Historical Society. The inscription on the postcard reads "Wenonah Military Academy; Wenonah, NJ; Pub. by H. Heinkel." Larry Smith hopes to print an actual postcard.

A positive image obtained through photo software reveals the following possible result of actually printing from the plate. In both cases the rectangle is skewed by the camera angle.

Views was contributed to the Wenonah Historical Society by Jeff Wentzel.

These garments from the Wenonah Military Academy are in the collection of the Wenonah Historical Society.

This image is from the Library of Congress (LOC). More information about the image can be seen at

https://www.loc.gov/item/2007663493/

A copy of that information is in the PDF below also.

The LOC listing reports that the photo was taken in Wenonah. It is difficult to find a match between the buildings in the photo and the buildings in Wenonah in 1915.

This photograph is dated Nov. 7, 1907.
Courtesy of Wenonah Historical Society Museum

Larry Smith wrote:
The opening of the Wenonah Military Academy in 1904 by Stephen Greene and his son William changed the character of the community. No longer did things close down in the winter as they did with the Wenonah House and Wenonah Inn. Visiting parents, lectures, dances and band concerts provided year-round activity and greatly boosted the local economy. This photo was taken in 1907, a little more than 3 years after the academy opened.

Three pennants from the WHS Museum.

This photo was recently donated by Lynda Bovey McCombs. The Wenonah Military Academy cadet is Ken Stroh (1901-1971). Lynda believes he was her mother's cousin. Perhaps, we should compile a list of all WMA graduates.

Below you can see a link to a June 12, 1913 Philadelphia Inquirer that lists the names of the graduates of the Wenonah Military Academy for 1913. [See column 4 toward the bottom -- just above New Jersey Notes.] They are listed below.

BEHOLD the gladiators of the Wenonah Military Academy in their Warrior garb. They are posing as titleholders For the picture that is herewith
presented. Reading from left to right, these cadets include in the back row: Shoemaker, Elliott, Boote. Bayuk, Frank, J. Woodburn.
Middle row: Manager Max, Zanger, Sparks, Jones, Eckert, Dingler, Tripician, Wallace, Holton, Pizzano, Burdan, Coach Baker. Sitting:
Purdy, Brodie, Rivas, Captain Scott Muir Stroh, Noss, F. Heburg, Goldenburg.

Read the story of their season in the newspaper scan linked below.

At the northeast corner of S Clinton Ave and E Cherry St. In 1931, the house at 11 S. Clinton Ave., known as the Chas. H. Lorence Cottage, was the residence of senior cadets from the Wenonah Military Academy. The house was built in 1873 by George McGill. Dr. Charles H. Lorence was a dentist who took charge of the Academy in 1912. At one point the Academy enrolled over 200 cadets.--- Courtesy of the WHS Museum.

The first image seems to have the shape of the baseball diamond.

The second image from a 1917 "The Literary Digest" magazine, is home plate, isn't it?

Did they use different PO Box numbers to track the number of replies to the ads?
A quick check confirms the conjecture. In a 1917 copy of the "The American Magazine" the home plate ad uses PO Box 437. The same ad in McClure's Magazine uses Box 407. Still using that ad in 1920 in Cosmopolitan, Box 401 was used.

Looks like some ice polo. --- Courtesy of the WHS Museum

See the entire page 15 of the Jan. 10, 1928 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The caption under the photo reads.

NOVEL ICE POLO PLAYED AT WENONAH MILITARY ACADEMY
The picture shows an exciting moment during the "ice polo" game between members of the regular
polo team and the substitute team of Wenonah Military Academy at Wenonah, New Jersey. Saw bucks
are used instead of horses and with telling effect.

A 1932 advertisement for the Wenonah Military Academy --- Courtesy of the WHS Museum