San Antonio Academy - Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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iifikfifkwik ikiifvfkilr Message from the Chairman Of the Board This past year has seen many changes in the basic life of the San Antonio Academy that only time will be able to interpret for all of us. For many years the Academy has endeavored to produce and has produced outstanding young men that have not faltered in this trust. It has been done in the educational field with a group of men who have demanded and received a standard of excellence above the average. Often the ingenuity and the desire of both teacher and student have been the only real tools of this achievement. However the field of general education has been expanded to include at the elementary school level courses of a depth never dreamed of in elementary education fifty years ago. New methods of visual education and audio-education have created needs for equipment and special classrooms for studies in science, geography, history, literature, foreign language, etc. . . , that were not initially planned as a part of the physical properties and plant at the Academy. A lessening of the family participation in outdoor activities and an ever increasing interest in the medium of television by the younger generation has made it imperative that the school take a more integral part in the physical development of the boy. Where one coach was often all a school of the general type of the Academy needed, it now becomes most necessary to have a staff of them and a well developed changing program. A gymnasium was not thought of as being essential when the Academy was young because there were few sports that called for indoor participation. Now there are few schools that either do not have a gymnasium or at least the partial use of such a facility. In changing our status to non-profit and our name to the San Antonio Academy of Texas, we hope that a pattern has been set for the attainment of greater goals than have ever before been realized. Our name and status may be changed but rest assured that we face the new era with a greater strength of conviction in the strong principles of the past than ever before but with an equally strong conviction that though ideals should not change, ideas should and the Academy must set the pace. PAGE

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ik ik ik ik ik ik ik ik Chairman of the Board Colonel W. T. Bondurant

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'ik ik YZ? il? ii? ik' ik 63? The President of the Academy R X V T EX! Major W. T. Bondurant, Jr. ff-YA K- KS