Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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Rolling Stone Board Editor-in-Chief GEORGE GILL Associate Editors ROBERT COWING RICHARD SCHWARTZ DOUGLAS DUNBAR EDWARD SMITH Assistant Editors RALPH GRIFFITHS HYMAN JACOBS RAYMOND SALVATI Contributors RYAN BIJUR DAVID HANNEGAN PAUL BRAUER RICHARD NASH EDWARD CLARK SAUL NIRENBERG WILLIAM FLINT EDMUND STILLMAN WILLIAM GROVE SAM TATE Advertising Manager JAMES HAIRE Manager of Photography LAWRENCE ELLIS Faculty Adviser CALEB G. SHIPLEY

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A. KNOX STARLINGS, B.S. St. John’s College, 1909; M.A. St. John’s College, 1917 Instructor in Biology 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. 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. MorRRIS SWEETKIND, Ph.B. Yale University, 1920; M.A. Yale, 1923 Instructor in English Instructor 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 Ma- maroneck, N. Y., and at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn. Since 1913 he has been pro- fessor of Romance Languages, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N. Y., and since 1924 at Cheshire. JACOB WERSHOW, Ph.B. Yale University, 1907 Instructor in Chemistry Mr. Wershow has taught chemistry since 1908 at Iowa 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, Head Coach of Basketball Mr. White was physical director in the Bangor, Maine, Y. M. C. A. from 1926 to 1927. In 1927 he became instructor of Physical Education at Cheshire.

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A History of the Cheshire Academy (Compiled from various sources by CALEB G. SHIPLEY) For nearly a hundred and fifty years, the educational institution at Cheshire has maintained an honorable record and has rendered valuable service to the cause of education. ‘Throughout the Nineteenth Century, and now well into the ‘I’wentieth, its roll of graduates includes names famous in history, politics, education, finance, and society. It has drawn students from many foreign coun- tries, Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Panama: and from the continent of Europe, students from Holland, Germany, Hungary, Rus- sia, Latvia, Spain, and France. There have also been students from England and from China. One might say that the school at Cheshire, in one of its sev- eral forms since 1796, is known all over the civilized world. k Samuel Seabury, the first Episcopal Bishop in America, from his ordination in 1785, had cherished the design of establishing in his diocese an Episcopal col- lege or school. In 1792 he presented a plan for such an institution to the Con- vocation of the Episcopal Clergy, held at East Haddam, Conn., on the 15th of February. Two years later, 1794, the next Convocation (or Convention), taking hold of the matter in earnest, appointed a committee to push the proposal forward. The Bishop and the Episcopal Clergy of Connect icut might have been urged to the establishment of an institution of their own by the illiberal policy of the Corporation of Yale College. While most of the clergy were grad- uates of this institution, extreme caution had been used by the Trustees to pre- vent the admission of anyone as an instructor in the College who should be sus- pected of “‘inclining to Armenian or prelatic principles.’’ In other words, their attitude toward the Episcopal Church was hostile. The Episcopal Clergy loved the church more than they loved their Alma Mater, and they were anxious to increase the number of candidates for Holy Orders without lowering the standard of theological attainments. They sought to effect their object by establishing an institution which should serve the double purpose of a preparatory school and a university. Bishop Seabury was a scholar himself and would have his clergy scholars. He wished them educated upon Church principles that they might be able to contend for Church principles. At the Convention held in Stratford, June 3, 1795, it was therefore decided to establish an Episcopal Academy in this State upon the receipt of proposals for establishing and supporting an Academy from the towns of Wallingford and Cheshire. Proposals were subsequently limited to these two towns and to Strat- ford. This was the last Convention over which Bishop Seabury presided. He died soon afterward and consequently never had the satisfaction of witnessing the completion and adoption of the plan which he had so long urged. The work was taken up by the Rev. John Bowden, a man of sound learning and superior wisdom, who had returned in 1791 from the island of Ste. Croix, where he had gone for his health, and established his residence in Stratford where he ‘‘managed an academy.”’ At the annual Convention in Cheshire, June 1, 1796, a constitution was adopted, a board of twenty-one Trustees was elected, and Dr. Bowden was un- animously chosen the first Principal. This followed the proposition from Ches- hire as to the establishment of an Academy and the opening of a school by the Rev. Tillotson Bronson, pursuant to the wishes of the Convention, in a small building that stood opposite the residence of Dr. Elnathan Beach. The corner- stone of the Academy had been laid with Masonic honors on April 28, 1796, and the Rev. Reuben Ives, who was mainly responsible for securing the Academy for Cheshire, delivered an address in the Church. His concluding remarks were: