Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-14
Riverside Is Named
As Honor School
War Department Selects College At
Gainesville, Ga, AS Honor Military
School of United States
(By Frank c. Gilreath, Jr.)

GAINESVILLE, Ga, June 18th,
pecial-Riverside Military Acad-
envy, Gainesville, Ga, has been desig-
natedby the Y. S. War Department as
an Honor Military School
Ih1s announcement just made here
officially will be received with extra
ordinary interest not only in Georgia
but throughout the entire country, in
which only ten honor military schools.
are named and these are limited by an
act of Congress.
Riverside Academy is the first school
IN Georgia ever to win this honor. and
this year the credit is more notable
IN that Riverside is the only Honor
Military School in the states of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and
Tennessee.
News Of the selection OF Georgia
noted prep school for the high henor
it has received was contained in a
telegram fromthe War Department
| to Major General David C. Shanks, u.
5, A., commanding the Fourth Corps
Area, with headquarters in Atlanta,
and follows meeting in Washington,
| D. c. of theBoard of Army Inspecting
Officers, who inspected Riverside Ac-
ademv early in April. The telegram
transmitted from the office of the
corps area commander to Colonel San
dy Beaver, president of Riverside Ac-
ademy. Congratulations to Colonel
Beaver both by the Secretary of War
and by he commander of the CORPS
area.
War Dept. Classifications
The various military colleges and
schools in the United States are divid-
ed into several cla/sifications by the
U. S War Department. Among such
schools of the type of Riverside Acad-
envy, the highest classification is known
as class M, which means that such
schools are essentially military in their
nature; that is to say, that cadets in
| these schools are under military discip-
| line for twenty-four hours every day
There are about sixty su&h schools
in the United States. 1t is an act oil
Congress thatthe ten schools among
this sixty, which show the greatest
proficiency in academic and military
training, are designated Honor
Schools" and are given certain SPLEEN
did considerations. For ins-O nee, the
cadets in such schools, as will now be
the case at Riverside Academy, are
permitted to wear a gold star on the
sleeve o ftheir uniform; also the
school isprivilegedto send two of its
graduates each Year direct to Wesl
Point Military Academy without the
necessity of having an appointment
from Congressman or a Senator.
Riverside Academy has developed
more rapidly and won more honors
perhaps than any other similar insti-
tuition in the United States During
the 1929 session, more than two hun
dred cadets were in attendance from
seventeen states. Two magnificent
silver cups, which adorn the trophy
room at the Academy are the gifts
of Uncle Sam to the Cadets for their
record in military training at govern
ment camps.
Colonel Sandy Beaver, president OF
Riverside Academy, is vice-president
of the Associationof Military Colleges
and Scools of the United States, his
election at the annual meeting of the
association in Washington some
months ago eng recognized as an I'M
usual honor for the South. He was al
sothe only Southern prep-school man
invited by the Secretary of War to
attend a conference of educators. and
war department officials in Washington
last Noveber to consider forms of
training for the youth of the country
adapted to- their preparation for use.
full citizenship as well as for the effect
i've defense of the country in time OF
need.