This gold colored hat pin is approximately 2 inches x 1.75 inches. It has a screw back finish, as shown. The composition is unknown; there are no metal stamps that I could find. Could be brass, could be 8k, 10k, 12k, or 14k gold (18k or higher was rarely used on hat pins). Non-magnetic.
This dates prior to 1966, when the Georgia Military Academy was renamed Woodward Academy. I've seen enamel designs from the 1940s & 50s, so I suspect this was made even earlier, c1920.
From the Woodward Academy website:
"We Honor Our Heritage...
Woodward Academy has always been a school of its time and yet, often and in many ways, ahead of its time.
In 1900, Atlanta had a population of 89,872. It was three years before Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the world had not yet seen its first silent film, World Series, or Nobel Prize. Colonel John Charles Woodward was a young Georgia educator who had earned his master’s degree at the University of Chicago and returned to his native state eager to put his philosophies about education into practice. He and his wife, Lucile, settled in College Park to establish Georgia Military Academy, a place where students would grow not only in knowledge but also in the qualities—service to others, strong character, responsibility, problem-solving—that transformed their lives and the world around them.
Surviving and even thriving through world wars, a Great Depression, and two global pandemics, the Academy continues to embrace Col. Woodward’s philosophies and to interpret them in ways that are relevant to today’s students and the challenges of our times. Woodward is a place where caring, engaged citizens grow. It’s a place where children are equipped with empathy, thoughtfulness, confidence, tenacity, and resilience—with a foundation strong enough to support whatever future they can imagine for themselves. Although Col. Woodward may never have foreseen the educational advances of the digital age, he would still recognize the school he founded in the trials and triumphs that students navigate today, in the dedicated educators who guide them, and in the thousands of alumni who make a difference in our world.
OPENING THE DOORS AT GMA
(1900-1929)
1900-1905
1900
1902
1904
1905
Faculty 1905-1906
Original Founder's Hall
Oscar Palmour and cadets, early 1900s
Colonel Woodward with Oscar Palmour, first teacher, and cadets
Rugby Hall
Color Guard
Faculty 1905-1906
Original Founder's Hall
Oscar Palmour and cadets, early 1900s
Colonel Woodward with Oscar Palmour, first teacher, and cadets
Rugby Hall
Color Guard
1908-1918
1908
1909
1916
1920-1929
1920
1929
HONORING OUR MILITARY PAST
(1930-1959)
1931-1935
1931
1932
1935
Cuban Club
Tampico (Mexico) Club
1931-32 football team with Colonel M.C. Paget stopped off at Lookout Mountain en route to play football
Cuban Club
Tampico (Mexico) Club
1940-1957
1940
1941
1946
1957
SETTING TRANSFORMATION IN MOTION
(1960-1969)
1960-1963
1960
1961
1962
1964-1965
1964
1965
1969
There's a lot more on their website, but I'm stopping there since the GMA was renamed in 1966.
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