Campus Visits
Please respect the private property rights of Great Commission University, present owner of our former campus. All buildings are closed to the public. GCU kindly allows drive-through visits and an annual photo at St. James Chapel, as a courtesy to HMS alums, only on Alumni Weekend. Please help us maintain this positive relationship. Thanks.
Howe Military School Alumni Association®
The Howe Military School Alumni Association®, Inc. is an Indiana not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in 1972 to continue the unincorporated Association founded in 1901 to provide support to, the School and its Cadets and Alumni and to provide a venue for Howe Alumni to get together and reminisce, both at its Annual Meeting and at Regional Meetings more locally convenient.
Howe School™ was founded in 1884 by a bequest from banker-lawyer John Badlam Howe to the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana to establish a grammar school for boys. In 1895 high school grades were added as Howe Military School™ was established. The School briefly dropped “Military” to welcome the 21st century, but quickly renamed itself Howe Military Academy™ until it closed in 2019. The School hosted an Army Junior ROTC unit from 1918 until 2019.
This Association has preserved 135 years of Howe memorabilia at the Howe Alumni Club in Sturgis, Michigan, where some will be exhibited each year at our Annual Meeting in October.
We have digitized the entire run of Tatler yearbooks, 1923-2019, 14,708 pages, which can be viewed online.
Your donation helps fund more digitizing of Howe documents, such as the School weekly paper, The Howe Herald.
We also issue occasional newsletters and history notes to which anyone can subscribe.
Your Howe Military School Alumni Association® (HMSAA) is happy to remind you that a 25-minute video about Howe is now available for free viewing and/or downloading on YouTube. It was produced by History In Your Own Backyard, which lists videos by state and county. The video offers a convenient way to explain your Howe experience to friends and relatives. The drone aerial footage in the video gives us a new view of Dear Old Howe.
Here is a YouTube link to Richard Stamats ’67 marvelous video showing Howe at its peak of enrollment. His video includes the famous Crest toothpaste commercial, the best mass-media marketing any military school ever did. The Crest commercial caused the 1960s enrollment explosion at Howe. Linked with permission.
The mission of the Howe Military School Alumni Association®, Inc., is to support the interests of Howe alumni and alumnae, friends, family, and affiliates, by preserving memorabilia, hosting events, fundraising, and connecting individuals through fellowship, so as to continue the legacy of Howe, and to make the memorabilia accessible to anyone wishing to learn about the Church-related military prep school as a method of formation for teenagers.
News & Events
Foundation Launches Howe Legacy Scholarship
Applications are now being accepted for the Howe Legacy Scholarship, marking the inaugural year of a program created to honor the 135-year legacy of Howe Military School. The scholarship was established in December 2021 at the LaGrange County Community Foundation using proceeds from the sale of Howe Military Academy following its closure in 2019. For the program’s first year, the Foundation will award ten one-time scholarships of $5,000 each to students currently enrolled full time in a two-or-four-year program who plan to continue their studies in the fall 2026 semester. Applications may be submitted through the Foundation’s online scholarship portal at www.lccf.net/scholarships no later than 4 p.m. on Feb. 6, 2026. To be eligible, applicants must be enrolled full-time at an accredited two- or four-year college, university, trade school, or vocational institution in the United States and have a minimum 3.0 GPA. Official documentation will be required. Applicants must also meet at least one of the following criteria: be a graduate of Howe Military Academy; have been enrolled as a cadet at the time of the school’s closure in June 2019; be a descendant (up to two generations) of a Howe Military Academy graduate; or be a resident of LaGrange County. While preference will be given to applicants with ties to Howe Military, the Foundation encourages all eligible LaGrange County post-secondary students to apply. “The Howe Legacy Scholarship reflects the commitment of preserving the school’s spirit of leadership and educational excellence,” said Beth Retterbush, LCCF Scholarship and LIFE Program Manager. “We are honored to steward this legacy and support students as they pursue their goals.” Howe Military Academy traces its origins to 1884, when it was founded as the Howe Grammar School through a bequest from John Badlam Howe, a prominent banker, lawyer, and politician who settled in Howe in 1833. After his passing, his widow, Frances Marie Glidden Howe, used his $10,000 bequest — along with support from the Episcopal Church — to establish [...]
2025 Alumni Weekend Most Beautiful In Years Part 1
Our Association celebrated its most beautiful Alumni Weekend in many years. Not only was the weather more like June than October, but the attendance and participation of our membership was the best in a decade. Class agents were organizing class reunions on their own again, showing the restoration of Association involvement, which has been our goal since the turn of the century (21st). Directors and Officers were elected/re-elected at the Annual Meeting, almost 50 attended the Annual Banquet, and the Alumni Club remained open until 0002 Sunday morning!!!
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