Speech On School Shield

Why did three chickens cross the road? The answer may very well be to get to their diplomas. Seen almost exclusively on BMR’s diploma’s, our school has a shield that represents our unique background and composition. To learn more about the objects used to represent our school, the place to go is the Blackstone Historical Museum. Curators there were able to answer this question: what do the chickens represented.
They are in fact part of William Blackstone’s family crest. More obviously, Millville is represented by the mill featured on its’ town crest. On the bottom right corner of the shield we see a sandaled foot with wings, arguably the foot of Hermes, representing athlete scholars. Top right a book inscribed with Unitas, the name of our school’s yearbook, and what it would have been called in 1972 when the shield first appeared on the cover of that year’s copy.
While the original art can be credited to Debbie Thibault, we are unsure who updated the art adding the torch and sword, or when it occurred. Our school shield is one of many quirky parts of our communitie history. To learn more about the shield or many interesting people and past events, visit the Blackstone Historical Museum open every Thursday from 12-4 pm and on first and third