Annie Lisle - Alma Maters

Alma Maters

The first college to have used the tune in a spirit song seems to have been Cornell University. In 1870, students Archibald Weeks and Wilmot Smith wrote "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" and used an adaptation of Thompson's melody. Many other colleges and high schools, likely influenced by Cornell's version, have since created their own renditions. Some include:

  • Acadia University
  • Altoona Area High School, Altoona, Pennsylvania
  • Alliance High School, Alliance, Ohio
  • American University of Beirut
  • Anderson High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Annapolis High School, Annapolis, Maryland
  • Ashworth College
  • Astoria High School, Astoria, Oregon
  • Bay City Central High School, Bay City, Michigan
  • Bay High School (Panama City, Florida)
  • Baldwin Boys High School, Bangalore, India
  • Bentley High School, Livonia, MI (George N. Bentley High School)
  • Brent International School, Baguio City, Philippines
  • Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maryland
  • Calhoun Falls Charter School, Calhoun Falls, South Carolina
  • California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
  • Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee
  • CCC Yenching College, Hong Kong, China
  • Central Catholic High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts
  • Charles E. Gorton High School, Yonkers, New York
  • Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (in Chinese)
  • Chung Ling High School, Penang, Malaysia (in Chinese)
  • Coldwater High School, Coldwater, Ohio
  • College of William & Mary, James Southall Wilson
  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • Davis College
  • Decatur County High School, Oberlin, Kansas
  • Deep Creek High School, Chesapeake, Virginia
  • Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey
  • Dripping Springs High School, Dripping Springs, Texas
  • Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, Massachusetts
  • Eastwick College and the HoHoKus Schools, Ramsey, New Jersey
  • Edcouch-Elsa High School, Edcouch, Texas
  • Emory University
  • Erskine College
  • Escambia County (AL) High School, Atmore, Alabama
  • Eureka College
  • Farmington Senior High School, Farmington, Missouri
  • Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana
  • Gainesville High School (Florida), Gainesville, Florida
  • Gallatin High School, Gallatin, Tennessee
  • Giles County High School, Pulaski, Tennessee
  • Grove City High School, Grove City, Ohio
  • Horseheads High School, Horseheads, New York
  • Howard Payne University, Brownwood, Texas
  • Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore (in Chinese)
  • Ider High School (Alabama), Ider, Alabama
  • Ilion High School, Ilion, New York, Down Among the Peaceful Valleys
  • Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 1912
  • Indiana University, J. T. Giles, 1893
  • Irving High School (Texas)
  • Kodaikanal International School, Tamil Nadu, India
  • La Jolla High School
  • Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Oregon
  • Lampeter-Strasburg High School, Lampeter, Pennsylvania
  • Lehigh University
  • Lewis & Clark College
  • Lindbergh Senior High School, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Lyman Hall High School (Wallingford, CT)
  • Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, VA)
  • McDaniel College, Westminster, Maryland
  • Mercer University
  • Milan High School, Milan, Tennessee
  • Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, circa 1914
  • Milford High School, Milford, Massachusetts
  • Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland
  • Moravian College, J. Kenneth Pfohl, 1900
  • Murray State University, A.B. Austin, 1935
  • North Greenville University
  • North Dallas High School, Dallas, Texas
  • Northern Lehigh High School, Slatington, Pennsylvania
  • Oglethorpe County High School, Lexington, Georgia
  • Orange High School, Orange, California
  • Orangefield High School, Orange, TX
  • Palmyra Area High School, Palmyra, Pennsylvania
  • Paulsboro High School, Paulsboro, New Jersey
  • Peninsula Catholic High School, Newport News, Virginia
  • Pflugerville High School, Pflugerville, Texas
  • Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, Evansville, Indiana
  • Pilot Point High School, Pilot Point, Texas
  • Raytown High School, Raytown, Missouri
  • John H. Reagan High School, Houston, Texas
  • Redlands High School, Redlands, California
  • Reinhardt University, Waleska, Georgia
  • Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin
  • Roanoke Bible College, Sarah P. Bondurant, 1948
  • Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy, Chicago, IL
  • Round Rock High School, Round Rock, Texas
  • Saint Lukes School, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1927
  • Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, Texas
  • Soochow University, Taipei (in Chinese)
  • Soochow University, Suzhou, China (in Chinese)
  • Sparrows Point High School, Sparrows Point, Maryland
  • Straughn High School, Andalusia, Alabama, 1886
  • Stuart Hall School, Staunton, Virginia, 1843
  • Jin Ling High School, Nanjing, China (in Chinese)
  • Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
  • Navasota Junior High School, Navasota, Texas
  • Rosman High School, Rosman, North Carolina
  • Sandy Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Magnolia, Ohio
  • The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
  • Sodus High School, Sodus, New York
  • Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
  • Stanton College Preparatory School, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York
  • Swarthmore College
  • Syracuse University, Junius W. Stevens, 1893
  • T.L. Hanna High School, Anderson, SC
  • Tallassee High School (Tallassee, Alabama)
  • TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Ankara, Turkey (Turkish lyrics by Yusuf Mardin)
  • Tennessee Temple University
  • Tennessee Wesleyan College
  • The Great China University (1924-1951), Shanghai, China (in Chinese)
  • Torrance High School (Torrance, California)
  • Tucker High School (Tucker, Georgia)
  • University of Alabama, Helen Vickers, 1908
  • University of Georgia, J.B. Wright, Jr., 1912; (additional verse by Gail Carter Dendy, 1974)
  • University of Kansas, George Penny, 1891
  • University of Missouri, G.A. Wauchope, 1895
  • University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
  • University of North Carolina, William Starr Myers, 1897
  • University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
  • Vanderbilt University, Robert F. Vaughn, 1907
  • Vallejo Sr. High School, Vallejo, CA
  • Western Carolina University
  • Western Washington University
  • Westside High School Anderson, South Carolina
  • West Orange-Stark High School
  • Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, VA
  • White Plains High School, Anniston, AL
  • Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
  • Xavier University of Louisiana
  • Spotsylvania High School, Spotylvania, Virginia

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