Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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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

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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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Officers of the Class of 1940 WILLIAM R. WE ILAND President FREDERICK M. DALEY LAWRENCE BARNES PROCTOR Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer 21