Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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Editorial Board LOUIS COEN REESE LEVY JOHN LINSKEY JAY ABERMAN CRANDON CLARK HARRY LEHMAN JOHN PAPE DONALD ANDREW RYAN BIJUR GEORGE KANOUSE Editor-in-Chief JOHN LEPMAN Associate Editors DAVID PRITCHARD JOHN SINCELL HARVEY TASCHMAN Assistant Editors LAWRENCE PUCHTA JOSEPH ROSENBLATT PAUL SHULMAN HOWARD STEINHARDT Contributors WILLIAM KLINGBEIL GERALD MALONEY JOHN MORRELL Manager of Photography JAY ABERMAN ROBERT COWING ARNOLD BREAKEY Photographic Editor RYAN BIJ UR Assistants MICHAEL METZLER Ad uertising Manager JAMES HAIRE Junior Editors IJOUGLAS DUNBAR Faculty Adviser CALEB G. SHIPLEY 19

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A. KNOX STARLINGS, 13.5. St. John's College, 1909: M.A. St. John's Col- lege, 1917 Instructor in Mathematics Mr. Starlings was Commandant of Cadets at Charlotte Hall Military Academy, Charlotte Hall, Md., for one year and during the next six years he was engaged in public high school work in Georgia and Florida. From 1916 to 1921 he was Principal of the Army and Navy Coaching School at Annapolis, Md.: from 1921 to 1927, at the Manlius School, Manlius, N. Y.: and from 1927 to 1930, Principal of Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S. C. Since 1930 he has been at Cheshire. CABLE STARLINGS, University of Maryland Instructor in Physical Education Mr. Starlings was instructor in fencing at the Taft School up to 1938 when he came ot the Academy. JEROME J. SULLIVAN, B.A. Harvard University, 1916 Instructor in Mathematics From 1916 to 1922, Mr. Sullivan was instructor at the Newman School in New Jersey, serving as head of the Department of Mathematics, and as assistant to the headmaster from 1917 to 1922. From 1922 to 1926 he was head of the Department of Mathematics at Canterbury School, and in 1926 joined the faculty of the Academy. MORRIS SWEETKIND, Ph.B Yale University, 1920: M.A. Yale, 1923 Instructor in English lnstructor at Cheshire since 1920. MAXIMILIAN voN DER PORTEN, Ph.D. Heidelberg University, 1902 Instructor in Modern Languages From 1907 through 1910 Doctor von der Porten was instructor in French and German at the Berlitz School of Languages, and at the Blake School, Bronxville. N. Y. From 1908 to 1924 he was head of the Modern Language Departments at Oaksmere School, New Rochelle and Mamaroneck, N. Y., and at Canterbury School, New Milford, Connecticut. Since 1913 he has been professor of Romance Languages, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N. Y., and since 1924 instructor at Cheshire. JACOB WERSHOW, Ph.B. Yale University, 1907 Instructor in Chemistry Mr. Wershow has taught chemistry since 1908 at lowa and Michigan State Colleges, New Haven High School, and Milford School. He joined the Cheshire faculty in 1928. J. ALDEN WHITE, Springfield College Instructor in Physical Education A Mr. White was physical director in the Bangor, Maine, Y. M. C. A, from 1926 to 1927. ln 1927 he became instructor of Physical Education at Cheshire. 18

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History of the Academy The Episcopal Academy of Connecticut dates from 1794, although it was not until 1796 that its doors were opened to receive pupils. On June 4, 1794, a Committee was appointed by the Diocesan Convention to form a plan for establishing an Academy. A year later, June 3, 1795, another Committee was appointed to receive such proposals as may be made in this Convention from any town in this State for the purpose of establishing and supporting an Episco- pal Academy in such town. That Committee reported the following day, and then another Committee was appointed to receive proposals from the towns of Cheshire, Wallingford, and Stratford only. Presumably Cheshire's proposals were the most advantageous, for to Cheshire the Academy went. June 2, 1796, the Constitution was adopted, the lirst Board of Trustees elected, also the first Principal, who was the Rev. John Bowden. That Constitution provided for the education of both sexes, and that continued to be the policy of the School until 1836, when a new Constitution was adopted, making the School exclusively a boys' school. Thus was the Academy organized. Efforts were made to secure for it a College charter, but without success. From the outset the Academy was success- ful, thought later on it was not without its dark days. After the death of Dr. Bronson in 1826 its fortunes for a time were very low. However, it worked on through the years, making a name in scholastic circles. Prior to Dr. Beardsley's administration the boys had lived with private families. He introduced the boarding school system. ln 1862 Dr. Horton came to the school, and with his advent began a period of great prosperity. He introduced the military regime, bringing it with him from his former school in Windham. Dr. Horton was followed, after thirty years as Principal, by Eri D. Wood- bury. He was the last Principal of the Episcopal Academy for in 1904 Mr. Joseph W. Harriman of New York, an old Academy boy, leased the school and overhauled and modernized the entire plant. The military aspect was abolished and the school then became the Cheshire School. The Cheshire School, in turn, gave way to the Roxbury School, which came out from New Haven and continued the educational tradition of Cheshire. Mr. Arthur N. Sheriff became headmaster in 1923. Since this time the school has developed as an institution of learning and it rates favorably with the better preparatory schools in the country. On April 29, 1937, the former Roxbury School was granted a charter by a Special Assembly in Hartford. Now the school is The Cheshire Academy, which name it had earlier in its history. 20