Greenbrier Military School

The Greenbrier Military School was a boys-only, private, military, boarding high school and Junior College, located in Lewisburg, West Virginia. The school was founded in 1812 and closed in 1972^[1], when the campus was converted into the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Present Day Impact

In the early 2000s, alumni of The Greenbrier Military School created a program called The Greenbrier Cadet Program where they partnered with Fork Union Military Academy. The program honors one cadet each year that exemplifies the values held by The Greenbrier Military School and the cadet wears an honor cord which is presented at the spring parades, where Greenbrier Military School alumni are the guests of honor.^[2]

The school's alumni fund a scholarship at the osteopathic college.

The Greenbrier Military School Alumni Association directs and funds the Greenbrier Leadership Institute, delivering principle based leadership programs to high schools throughout West Virginia.

Notable alumni

• Sheriff Blake, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lester W. “Cappy” Burnside, Jr., Long-time business owner and highly respected community leader who was instrumental in bringing the FBI fingerprint division (Criminal Justice Information Services Division or CJIS) to North Central West Virginia
• Bob Evans, Restaurateur, Class of 1937
• Homer A. Holt, 20th Governor of West Virginia
• Alan Mollohan, former U.S. Representative for West Virginia's 1st congressional district
• Joe Palumbo, All American football player, University of Virginia
• José Armando Bermúdez Pippa (Don Poppy), Former CEO of Ron Bermudez
• Winston L. Shelton, Engineer and Inventor

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