Rhoda C. Kavanaugh founded the Kavanaugh School on Woodford Street, which became known as "Little Annapolis." Its first boarding student came in 1914 to prepare for the Naval Academy, and from then until 1945 Mrs. Kavanaugh sent 150 future Navy officers from her "dry-land harbor." She also prepared students for West Point, and fifteen later became Army officers. The school's success was credited to her superior teaching methods, and students also underwent rigorous physical training combined with stern but impartial discipline. Kavanaugh School merged with city schools in 1949. Its alumni included many distinguished naval officers, among them Admiral Edmund Tyler Wooldridge, Vice Admiral Charles K. Duncan, Rear Admirals John Huston Brady, Rhodam Yarrott McElroy, Andrew Irwin McKee, Logan McKee, and Elliott West Shanklin, as well as numerous captains, and distinguished Army officers including Major General William Mattingly Breckinridge, Brigadier General William Robards Buster, and several colonels who graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Graduates often remarked that the academic courses and physical discipline there were more strenuous than at the service academies.