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Col. Guy Gardner,
USAF Retired
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Riverside Military Academy, has been helping young men excel for 100 years
Riverside’s head of school, Colonel Gardner is well-qualified to lead boys in setting high goals for their lives. In addition to being a distinguished fighter pilot in the Vietnam War, Colonel Gardner also served as a NASA astronaut, flying two missions to space as pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis in 1988 and Columbia in 1990.
Riverside was chartered August 23, 1906, by Brenau College professors A. W. Van Hoose and H. J. Pearce. In 1907, they purchased 25 acres of land on the west side of Riverside Drive, which was then two miles north of Gainesville and half a mile from the Chattahoochee River. Construction on the academy began in 1907 with plans to open the school that fall. However, due to construction delays, the school did not open until September 1908. Riverside Military Academy, one of the country’s premier college preparatory boarding began celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2007.  |
