 At Christmas break, Seascholz and Beman left the school, and Carl C. Schaefer, Sr., a trucking company executive from Dayton, Ohio, bought into the corporation and was given the title of Vice President (to Colonel Ward's President and Headmaster).He maintained a partnership interest in the school until about 1961.In the beginning, the school offered flight training for the cadets, but that was not offered in subsequent years, after the death of a cadet pilot, Donald Thompson, who crashed while on his first solo flight.