Massanutten Academy (Woodstock, Va.)

Massanutten Academy is a private co-educational boarding school chartered by the Virginia Commonwealth in 1899 in Woodstock, Virginia, the county seat of Shenandoah County. It was created as a non-denominational Christian school primarily for boys but with some female day students. It adopted a military program in 1917. At the time of the speech, a small number of students lived in Woodstock while many were from out of state and a few from Cuba. In 1965, the open racial policy was adopted. Girls were admitted as boarders in 1972.