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

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Beam' of Trustees 'I' 'l' HON. BOYKIN lV1uoH'r ....,. ....,.......,... I 'residenl MR. THOBIAS BA1iRE'r'r .,....... .,..7.,................ I 'ice-Prasizlezzt lull. XVARREN BOTH W1-:LL ..,..... ,.,,,,,,., . S'ecref111'y llllll Y'l'6'IlSll'l'6I' MR. JOHN 1,H1NlZY Mic. LAXDON THoMAs Mu. BRYAN CUMAUNL: A New Em HE YEARS 1926 and 1927 constitute an epoch in the history of Richmond Academy, the former because it marks the last year in the century-old buildings from which our two classes are the last to graduate, and the latter because it is the first year of the new era of education in Augusta. Shown by records to be the oldest school of its kind in the country, the new Academy will soon show that it is also the youngest, most progressive, and most modern high school in the whole South. Next year Richmond Academy, long famous as the only high school in the South to be granted college freshman credits for its courses, will become a regular four-year high school. But most important of all, the Junior College of Augusta will complete its first year in full operation and will grad- uate its first class. These graduates will have two years of college credit which will be recognized by any standard college, for our Junior College will be a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and have all of the privileges of that association. Gone is our small campus, gone, our old dark buildings, gone, our poor laboratory equipment, and gone, our semi-formal system of military training. In the place of these out-grown things we have a thirty-acre campus, a magnifi- cent building, a spacious gymnasium, a large auditorium, modern library and laboratory facilities, a definite and strict form of military discipline, and above all a new spirit that will carry Richmond and the Junior College forward in great strides for the next decade, until ours has been recognized as the ideal system and duplicated throughout the broad' Southland. VVith these improvements and changes in the institutions, we anticipate a rapid growth for both the new Academy and the Junior College, with a spirit of zeal and interest among the students, and an ever-increasing number of students. Such a system, with the great leadership that it has and with the city of Augusta to back it up, should soon throw otf its newness and become the center of the life of the community.

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