Academy of Richmond County High School - Arc Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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A Tribute pl: U Tubman, our Sister School, garden of the Flower of Georgia Girlhood -genus Southern Belle-class American Beauty, do we dedicate this page. You are the inspiration of our every effort-it is the desire to rin g be worthy of you and your ideals that drives us on-and with you we Q share our successes. Your presence on the side-lines and the knowl- edge that you are for us, heart and soul, have swept us on to many a victory on the gridiron. Every memory of our school days will be sweeter because of their asso- ciations with you. For it is in the Halls of Old Tubman that our Cadets are rewarded by promotion, there that the Orators, the Declaimers and the Debators receive their cups. and there that the Honor man reaps the reward of his labors. Finally, it is from your Auditorium, sponsored by you, that our Seniors leave the shelter of the Academy and begin the voyage of Life. But for this, above all, do we revere you. YVhen, in the midst of the greatest fight of our history, we called upon you for aid, you did not fail us. You toiled at the polls-you paraded with us and you fought beside us until our battle was won. In the course of a few years we will be your neighbors. May Old 'I ubman and Old Richmond then be still closer in spirit than ever before. Br YVM. D. HARD1-:N.

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Greater Rzfchmomz' Academy l' N November 1, 192+ a bond issue w'as voted on and passed by the people of Richmond county. This issue appropriated !f2300,000.00, to which ijt... amount the Trustees of the Academy added tf2100,000.00, for the it erection of a new and greater Richmond Academy. Wifi . . 7' After the bond issue was passed the next thing to do was to secure a suitable and centrally located site on which to build. Several loca- tions were considered and finally the property on Baker Avenue. belonging to the city, and consisting of 28 acres of ground, was donated to the Academy, together with 2'F12,000.00 for drainage purposes. To this tract was added many private lots that were bought by the Academy in order to have plenty of space. This site has many advantages, although it is considered low and damp by some people. This objection can be easily eliminated by the proper dain- ing and filling. This tract is large enough to allow room for expansion in later years and to provide ample parking space for the numerous automobiles that now nearly block the street. It will give us a drill field that will be three times the size of Academy Park as compared with the one we have now which is only one third the size. It will also enable us to have our atheletic field on thc campus, thus giving our athletic teams plenty of room and privacy for practice. All this, together with its central location, make it the best site in the city. After the site was obtained there was a committee appointed to select the architects and to oversee the construction in general. On this committee Messrs. XVm. Martin, J. G. Belding. and Grover Maxwell were appointed from the Board of Education: Messrs. Tom Barrett, Bryan Cumming and E. C. B. Danforth were appointed from the Trustees of the old Academyg Messrs. J. Roy Cooper, C. B. Holley, and J. M. Hull, Jr., were appointed as private citizens to represent the public. This connnittee together with Blr. Lawton B. livans and Major George 1'. Butler selected Scroggs N Ewing as the architects, who began the drawing of the plans immediately, and who hope to begin the const1'uction work by July 1, 1925. The new Academy is to have three large, modern equipped school build- ings that will accommodate between 800 and 1000 students. These buildings will be the main academic building: the teclmical building. where the forge, wood shops. and drawing rooms will be located, and the auditorium and gym- nasium which will be combined in one building. It is also hoped that it will be possible to have a large stadium that will complete one of the best prepara- tory schools in the south, and of which Augusta may well be p1'oud. H. R. PUND, '25.