Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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ALMA MATER if UTIIE BLUE AND THE WHITE. Our school has always favored That rich and glossy blue, Which, with white in combination, ls beautiful and true. They are always Boating gaily And never out of sight, While in unison we're singing- Long live the Blue and White. We will ever praise our High School, Which in Batavia stands, Individual Instruction, Known now throughout all lands, And its faithful corps of teachers Their duty never slight, For they know that they are Working For the Blue and the White. We recall athletic victories On many a day beforeg How we captured prize and trophy, But still we wish for more. But WC,1'G sure that we'll not falter As we renew the iight, Just because WG,1'0 marching onward 'Neath the Blue and the White. M , - -, .t Ax' in -A C-'t:.Li..-:ku 4.

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4 at QL, -P142-i n it E g '-ii? AY' HERE is probably no other high school in the country where so many in- centives are otlered to the ainhitious student for attaining a high average ot' scholarship as in the Batavia High School. 'l'hrough the thoughtfnlncss and generosity of the Richmond family an opportunity is offered each year to academic as well as eighth grade students to compete for any of nine separate prizes, embracing a wide scope of work, all of which are the gifts of various mcinbers of thc Richmond family. Watts L. Richmond is the present repre- sentative of the Richmond familylin Batavia, and has always taken an active interest in the work of the Batavia High School: He was W.r'r'rs L. RICHMOND. born on April 29, 1872, and for many A years was a well known civil. engineer. Mr. Richmond came to Batavia from Buffalo, in 1903, and vin 1910, began the giving of prizes in all the departments of public school art. Each year Mr. Richmond awards eight handsome books for the best work in the annual art exhibit. Four of these 'prizes go to high school students and one in the eighth grade. Last year another prize was founded by Mr. Richmond ,-the gold watch offered annually to the graduate attaining the best averageduring the four years' course in mathematics. The first Richmond prize was that founded in 1895, by the late E. G. Richmond,-a gold medal for the best standing of the year in the high school course pursued. In 1907, under a provision in the will of the late Adelaide Richmond Kenny, the awarding of three prize medals was begun. One of these is given in the name'of Miss Kennyts father, the late Dean Richmond, for the best general standing for the year in subjects other than classical. Another is in the name of Miss Kenny's mother, the late Mary E. Richmond, and is for the best standing of the year in the grade next below the high school. The third medal is bestowed by Miss Kenny her- self, for the highest general standing in classical subjects. All of the prizes except those in drawing are awarded annually at the Commencement exercises by Mr. Watts L. Richmond. Aside from the above mentioned prizes there is annually awarded the Byron E. Huntley prizes of S25 and 21915 in gold, to the winners of the Huntley Oratorical Contest for Seniors. Daughters of the American Revolution have also founded two prizes which have been given for the past few years. One is for the best standing in eighth grade history and the other for the best standing in American History in the high school. E 1 . ' - .-:5.n,Pi.?+.

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