can someone identify this hat or what this badge means?

[traderoftreasures]

can someone identify this hat or what this badge means ? it may be police. i don't know the age or what the writing means ? found it at the flea market.

 

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[traderoftreasures]

That's cool. You found the mystical invisible man hat........NGE

pictures help huh....

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I think its from the Marmion Military Academy, a Catholic high school for young men located in Aurora, Illinois. The academy is run by the monks of Marmion Abbey, located on campus. The academy has a United States Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmion_Academy

http://www.marmion.org/academy.html

motto = "Credere Deo, Luctari pro Eo" ("To believe in God and fight for Him")
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/5189013

 

[traderoftreasures]

thanks bch that was top speed

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dont know what the badge is for but here is some history of the academy.

History

Marmion Academy was created in 1933 when the monks of St. Meinrad Abbey combined Jasper Academy (Jasper, Indiana) with the Fox Valley Catholic High School, which the Augustinians had just returned to the diocese of Rockford. During the Great Depression era it was difficult for students to pay their tuition, so the monks, in 1935, associated with the JROTC program and changed its name to Marmion Military Academy. In order to provide more options for its student body and a return to the original spirit of the school, the monks of Marmion Abbey decided to make JROTC an optional program and to reinstitue the original name of the school, Marmion Academy

 

[traderoftreasures]

are they still in operation today? or what would you guess the age of the hat to be ? modern?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

are they still in operation today? or what would you guess the age of the hat to be ? modern?

The Academy was created in 1933 and they celebrated their 75th anniversary in 2008. I only know what the links say.





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