Laborare, Ludere, Orare(Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard)
Established
1884
President
Robert J. Fine, Jr.
Grades
6–12
Enrollment
185
Colors
Red, Black, White and Purple
Athletics
FALL SPORTS: Football, Soccer, Cross Country, JROTC Raiders, F-TennisWINTER SPORTS: Basketball, Wrestling, Precision Air Rifle, NASP ArcherySPRING SPORTS: Baseball, Golf, Tennis, SCTP Trap and Clays, JROTC Drill Team (Silver Rifles)
Team name
Lancers
St. John's Northwestern Military Academy (SJNMA) was founded in 1884 asSt. John's Military Academy (SJMA) inDelafield, Wisconsin, by the Rev. Sidney T. Smythe as a private, college preparatory school.[1] In 1995,Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (NMNA) inLake Geneva, Wisconsin, merged with St. John's Military Academy to become St. John's Northwestern Military Academy on the Delafield campus. In 2020, a Leadership Academy was added and the combined schools became St. John's Northwestern Academies. SJNA (St. John's Northwestern Academies) is a coed independent boarding and day school for boys and girls in grades 6–12. St. John's Northwestern Summer Academy offers Little Lancers Day Camp, Summer Academy Plus, and ESL courses.[2]
St. John's Northwestern campus consists of a collection of historic buildings, many with towers andbattlements in a style that suggests a medieval castle, with most of them arranged in a U around the drill field.
The school's oldest surviving building is the oddShingle style Memorial Hall, designed by John A. Moller with its two caps and built in 1893 as a recreational building/gymnasium.[3]
Next among the surviving buildings is DeKoven Hall, designed inCollegiate Gothic style byThomas Van Alyea and built in 1906, a four-story barracks/administration building with octagonal towers at the corners and battlements topping the walls.[4]
The dining hall and barracks Welles Hall was also added in 1906, designed by Van Alyea in a style similar to DeKoven Hall, but with a large square clock tower.[5]
The Beacon is a fieldstone monument built in 1923. It holds an eternal light and displays quotes from St. John's founder.[6]
Victory Memorial Chapel of St. John Divine was built from 1921 to 1926, modeled by Van Alyea on the chapel atWest Point, and clad inlannonstone.[7]
In 1927 the school added the two-story Hazelwood Hall designed by Van Alyea, housing barracks and classrooms,[8] and it was expanded with Scott Johnston Hall in 1930, with a corner turret.[9]
Smythe Hall was added in 1929, a dormitory designed by Van Alyea in a "castle" style like the previous buildings.[10]
In 1977 these historic campus buildings were listed on theNational Register of Historic Places for the complementary design of many of them and since the school is the oldest military academy in Wisconsin.[1]
Curtis Roosevelt (NMNA 1948) — eldest grandson of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt; statesman who served as a delegate representing the United States to the United Nations[32]
^T.F.D. (1939)."Obituary, William Alexander Shunk".Annual Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Newburgh, New York: Moore Printing Company. pp. 130–133 – viaGoogle Books.
