SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Harold A. Riggs

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Dedication In memory of him, who placed his life in the hands of his country for the vidication of right and right- eousness throughout the world, and made the supreme sacrifice, the Senior class gratefully dedicate this volume. IS Sweet be your rest! Your task is done. The tramp of armies, boom of gun, The furious cry of savage Hun Arc silent now. The victory ' s won.

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Harold A. Riggs Harold A. Riggs was born in Rochester, Now York, February 20, 1890, the son of Art bur Riggs and Mabel Xnrtbrup Riggs. I lis boyhood was spent in the city of his birth. He attended the Turin High School and was graduated from that institution. Kager to tit himself for an educational career, he entered the State Normal School at Pittsburgh and graduated with distinction in 1913, being the president of bis class. Then his teaching profession took him to the Utica Free Academy where he met with great success as a teacher. His work evoked the highest commendation and won for him the friendship and esteem of his pupils and the regard of his fellow teachers. In 1917 he resigned to accept a posi- tion in the Troy High School, which offered, him an excellent opportunity to ad- vance in his chosen profession and to enlarge the scope of his service. He was rilled with the spirit and energy of youth, with a good nature and cheer that was infectious and he possessed a personality that invited the confidence of those who knew him. I lis success as a teacher was due quite as much to the traits of his character as to his ability to impart knowledge efficiently to others. The outlook he took upon life was always bright and his temperment was always sanguine. He was a member of the South Street M. E. Church of Utica. The Spanish Sons of Veterans and the Alumni Association of our school. Harold Riggs was at the zenith of his young manhood, finely equipped for his life ' s work when he answered the call of his country and enlisted in the Base Hospital Unit No. 48. Completing his training in this country he sailed with his unit on July 4, 1918. As a member of this particular unit he saw some of the bitterest fighting of the whole war. ( )n February 11. 1919 while his unit was preparing to sail for home and loved ones he was stricken with pneumonia and died within a few days. ' ' But his death was not in vain, that for which he fought bad been attained, the victory had been won. Riggs will ever live in our hearts as a man of high ideals and earnest devo- tion to his duty. The muffled drums ' sad roll has beat this soldier ' s last tattoo. Xo more on life ' s parade shall we meet this brave and fallen man. Nor. shall his glory he forgotten while fame her record keeps, or honor points to the hallowed spot where valor proudly sleeps. He gave the most that man can give, life itself, and Creator love hath no man than this.