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WEEKEND LIFE
School organizations include drum and bugle corps, Scholastic Honor Society, dance committee, school newspaper, drama club, yearbook, glee club, weight lifting club, ski club, and Christian Athletes Society. Many students take piano lessons. Additional activities include debating, declamation, hiking, and JROTC activities such as military police, raiders (military skills), color guard and drill team. Social events include formal and informal dances (including the military ball), outside entertainment programs, alumni homecoming, two parents' days, an overnight camping trip to Camp Carson, plays presented by cadets, a military "Dining In," and trips to Philadelphia, Lancaster, Hershey, Gettysburg, and Washington, D.C., and to movies in the vicinity of Harrisburg. Cadets may volunteer for community service to rake leaves or shovel snow for senior citizens.
The school has a liberal policy on town permission. Unless a student is on restriction, he is permitted to walk into town two times a week. Off-campus movie trips are scheduled at least once a month. Each dormitory day room has its own television and VCR. The school selects and provides appropriate movies for weekend student viewing. There are exchange dances with two independent girls' schools that are within approximately 50 miles of the campus. Interscholastic and intramural athletic games are sometimes played on Saturday afternoon. Since the school is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, hiking is a very popular weekend activity.
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