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
Alumni Weekend—October 2-4, 2026
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LCCF Announces Howe Legacy Scholarships
The 2026 winners of the Howe Legacy Scholarships have been announced by the LaGrange County Community Foundation. They are funded by the proceeds of the sale of our former campus. Howe alum relatives: Nathan Grubbs, grandson of Rick Grubbs '70, and Elizabeth Ralph, Laura (Morabito '93) Hinz's 2nd born and niece of Brian Morabito '90. The LaGrange County Community Foundation has announced the inaugural recipients of the Howe Legacy Scholarship, awarding ten students each a $5,000 scholarship to support their continued post-secondary education. The Howe Legacy Scholarship Fund was established to honor the 135-year history of Howe Military Academy™ and to invest in the future of students connected to the institution and the broader LaGrange County community. This year marks the first round of awards, with recipients selected through a competitive application process. A volunteer committee reviewed applications using a criteria-based evaluation process, with selections based on academic achievement, eligibility, and demonstrated leadership inside and outside the classroom. The 2026 Howe Legacy Scholars are: Cassidy Blackwood, Redwood City, Calif., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Aeronautical Studies; Mason Clark, Middlebury, Ind., Indiana Wesleyan University, Business and Exercise Science; Scotlyn Gayheart, LaGrange, Ind., Trine University, Psychology, Law; Nathan Grubbs, Delaware, Ohio, Ohio State University, Pharmaceutical Science; Elizabeth Ralph, Indianapolis, Ind., Marian University, Education and Special Education; Phillip Sheets, Wolcottville, Ind., Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering; Wade Springer, Millersburg, Ind., Grove City College, Biochemistry; Arlene Thompson, Howe, Ind., Ball State University, Political Science and Media; Ezekiel Wachtman, Howe, Ind., Purdue University, Electric Engineering; and Maxwell Wright, Columbia, Tenn., University of Tennessee at Knoxville, History and Education. "The Howe Legacy Scholarship reflects the commitment of preserving the school’s spirit of leadership and educational mission," said Beth Retterbush, Scholarship and LIFE Program Manager at the Foundation. "We are honored to support these outstanding students as they pursue their academic and career goals."
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