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Discover CityViewNC.com's fresh updated look! | 61 • Ranked #1 in the Niche.com 2019 Best Private High Schools in the Fayetteville, NC area • Chromebook and iPad pilot programs • Grades 4-7 LEGO ® Robotics Team • New Middle/Upper School STEAM SmartLab ® • 76 percent of AP exams taken resulted in a score of 3 or higher. • The 29 members of the Class of 2018 were offered more than $3.2 million in college scholarships and grants. • More than $500,000 in need-based financial aid awarded annually to qualified applicants. 910.868.5131 | 3200 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville, NC 28303 | www.fayacademy.org Fayetteville Academy Fayetteville Academy admits qualified students and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, or religion in the administration of admissions, educational policies, financial aid, athletic programs, or other activities. Find Concerts, Children's Activities, Marathons, Fundraisers, and Other Local Events INSTANTLY! Just text the word EVENTS to the number 88000 Local Events Will Display On Your Phone. USE IT ANYTIME & ANYWHERE performance but not Rebecca, who grew up coming to FOIs and loves seeing friends and their parents there. "I would not miss it," she said. "We have to have it." e FOI is full of shared memories, both good and sad. It's named for its first location – Fair Oaks, the historic home on Morganton Road where Stewart grew up. e tournament soon moved to other locations and has long since settled at a Wade-area farm owned by a long-time player. But Fair Oaks remained for many more years the site of the night-before cocktail party at which a tourney cake was always cut first by Stewart's mother, Mary, who was dubbed Lady Fair Oaks. Aer her death in 2004, the FOI men took an oak seedling from Fair Oaks and planted it at the farm in Wade, setting a memorial stone beneath it in Mary Stewart's honor. Now, participants take turn hosting the night-before cocktail parties. An American flag has flown at every FOI since the 20th competition, which happened to be scheduled the Saturday aer September 11, 2001. "It was very emotional" the first time that flag went up, Adam Ancherico remembered. Photo albums of past tournaments are always put out each year so people can goggle at who looked how when and the progression of so many lives over the years. Some show past players who stopped participating because they moved or were too busy or it didn't appeal to them. A few have died. All are remembered. Over the years, nearly 300 men have competed in a Fair Oaks Invitational, with many returning year after year.

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