Riverside Military Academy - Bayonet Yearbook (Gainesville, GA)

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1 The Bayonet History :aw NINETEEN hundred and eighteen was founded by a small Senior Sig 67 Class The Riverside BAYONET: this group of Seniors, led by kdm Cadet Brown Whatley of LaGrange, Georgia, succeeded in pub- rs lis ing a very excellent book of some sixty pages. In the second year of its existence, the BAYONET was again managed by Cadet Whatley, and was noteworthy for its increased size and its splendid art Work-in which Whatley again starred almost single-handed. With the third volume in 1920, The BAYONET settled down to a well ordered existence as a publication of about a hundred and twenty-five pages. This settled estate changed abruptly in 1925 when the BAYONET appeared in lengthwise, rather than upright form: and again in 1926, with Major A. L. Pendleton and Captain J. K. Mooney as Advisers, the book grew from its usual size to a nine by thirteen inch affair. In 1927, however, the BAYONET resumed its present and accustomed size as the most practicable for prep school annuals. It is noteworthy that the BAYONET has in all its history used practic- ally no outside art work, but has preferred to use the more representative home talent which has invariably appeared. Further, in the ten years of its existence, the BAYONET has been published nine times by Mr. Theo. S. Smith, now President of the Ben Franklin Press of Atlanta. To him and to the various staffs of the BAYONET are due credit for the recording of life at Riverside for the past ten years-the chronicle of the Riverside corps in general and of the Seniors in particular. 1928