"Dear Colonel Wikoff, I am indeed glad to learn that Wentworth is about to publish a history of the school. It is a long and honorable history- one with which I am personally fairly well acquainted. Publication of this story of a fine Missouri institution will be a genuine service to both the school and to the community. With my warm regards to Colonel Sellers and yourself and all the members of your staff, I am Very sincerely yours, Harry S. Truman"
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Harry S. Truman in a 10 July 1950 letter to Colonel Lester B. Wikoff, 5th Superintendent of Wentworth Military Academy from 1960 to 1971, as quoted by Raymond W. Settle in The Story of Wentworth (1950), p. III
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Wentworth Military Academy and College
Wentworth Military Academy and College was a private two-year military college and high school in Lexington, Missouri. Wentworth was one of five military junior colleges in the United States. The institution was founded in 1880 and closed in 2017.
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