Education
Harvard University; University of Georgia.
Harvard University; University of Georgia.
He served there as president until 1939. Ritchie earned his Bachelor of Law from the University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law in 1897. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1899 from Harvard University and was the first college graduate from Rabun County, Georgia.
In 1901, he was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Harvard.
He was a local historian and in 1948 his Sketches of Rabun County History was published. Before founding the Rabun Gap Industrial School, Ritchie was a professor of English for three years at Baylor University in Texas.
While at UGA, Ritchie was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.
