Starting in 1882, Lexington residents who lived close to Wentworth Military Academy heard both. But that all ends soon when the flag comes down a final time. And people will wonder if it had to be ...

For nearly a hundred years, cadets at Wentworth Military Academy saluted “the Doughboy.” The towering sculpture was dedicated in 1923 on the Lexington, Mo., campus to memorialize the 14 alumni ...

Hundreds of Wentworth Military Academy alumni sat in reverent silence during the dedication of the WMA Museum, which had been in the works for a year. Behind the crowd stood a contingent of cadets ...

Wentworth Military Academy, a high school and two-year college in Lexington, Mo., opened in 1882. © 2025 American City Business Journals. All rights reserved. Use of ...

Wentworth Military Academy and College's two top administrators announced the closure in letters Friday to cadets, students, parents and alumni, saying the assets of the site in 4,700-resident ...

At a time when most families are carefully watching where their money goes, more parents are paying $30,000 a year to get their son or daughter into Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington ...

According to the book "The Story of Wentworth" by Raymond W. Settle, the board of trustees for the academy was established in 1881 and it became a military school in 1882 after Principal Sandford ...

Wentworth Military Academy and College, now defunct, reportedly can’t afford to pay its former faculty members, as it previously promised. Michael Lierman, college president, told faculty members via ...

LEXINGTON, Mo. (AP) — Alumni of the shuttered Wentworth Military Academy and College are fighting to salvage one especially precious piece of their history — a 5 1/2-foot-tall copper-plated ...

High school students graduating from Wentworth Military Academy and College, located in Lexington, Missouri, have a ninety-five percent college acceptance rate. Wentworth prides itself on offering ...