Notable Events

2005 abuse and hazing lawsuits

Public summaries of the school's history report that Lyman Ward Military Academy faced multiple lawsuits in 2005 alleging abuse and hazing by staff and senior cadets, and that settlements followed. The allegations are part of the public record surrounding the school under its former name.

2007 conviction of Walter Edward Myer

Public accounts also report that Walter Edward Myer, a former camp director at the school, was sentenced in 2007 to twenty years in prison for child sexual abuse against students in the 1990s.