Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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TABLE GE CGNTENTS FACULTY THE YEAR FALL SPORTS WINTER SPRING ACTIVITIES STUDENTS SENIORS PATRQNS vis

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BOARD E TRU TEE ... -4v.qp-..,...-.-. f-rg,-2--- T ffgrs , 1 - , Q-f ,Z-.1 '-A --M Z , , ' f 1 I 1 fl lg ,J BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER ALUMNI FELLOWS TRUSTEES EMERITI . 'C 1 Richard D. Phippen Carl A. Pescosolido, Ir. William B. Ardiff Richard B. Osgood Frederick G. Crane, Ir. Edgar F. Kaiser, Ir. George D. Kirkham Phebe S. Miner Iames B. Moseley Iohn IN. Ragle Peter R. Remis Widgery Thomas, Ir. Iosiah H. Welch Nathan N. Withington Paul W. Wright Stanley A. Hamel David I.. Powers Marshall B. Dalton Morris P. Frost Lispenard B. Phister

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DEDICATI In the first decades after the birth of the United States, America was faced with many great challenges and perils both home and abroad. It was a period during which the new nation charted a pathway to security and prestige, but first she had to win the war for independence. To do all these things America needed men of great capability, courage, foresight, and initiative. For this she looked upon the scattered educational centers of the day: places such as Dummer Academy and Harvard College. Many graduates of this academy did help America achieve greatness under the influence of its first Preceptor, Master Samuel Moody. We can only allude to a few of the S25 boys who graduated under Master Moody At the top of the list stands Theophilus Parsons and Rufus King. King was an able, showy, ambitious man who wielded great power in the U.S. Senate. I-Ie was skillful in diplomacy, and was as much at ease in the drawing rooms of princes, as he was with his comrades on the school green. He was four times elected to the Senate, and was later twice defeated candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the U.S. as well as a defeated Federalist candidate for the Presidency in 1816. Parsons had a profound influence on the development of the judiciary system in this country, and indirectly played an important part in the drafting of the federal Bill of Rights. It was at his office in Newburyport that lohn Quincy Adams studied law before he became sixth President of the United States. The distinguished lawyer William Prescott and Chief lustice Samuel Sewall were fitted for college here, so also were Iudge Samuel Tenny of Exeter, and Nathaniel Gorham, who became President of the Congress. From a host of other men who rose to distinction in civil and political life there was Samuel Osgood of Andover who became the first Postmaster General of Massachusetts, and Samuel Phillips who deserves credit for establishing two noble institutions, Phillips of Exeter and Phillips Andover Academy. Chief lustice Theophilus Parsons Samuel Phillips Wllllam DUTHHIGI 4