Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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The list of Moody's pupils includes several men who helped serve and die for their country's freedom. Major Andrew McClary fell on Bunker Hill attempting to stem the flow of British troops leaving Boston. Captain Frederic Fry was an officer in the Continental Army under the leadership of George Washington. No name in the traditions of the school is more famous than that of Commodore Edward Preble. He led a fleet of U.S. ships against the Tripolitan pirates who had been menacing commerce of the high seas. Tobias Lear had been for many years the able secretary and close friend of George Washington. He also distinguished himself as a skillful representative of his country in the Dominican Republic. It was he who ultimately negotiated with Tripoli the treaty with the United States. Meanwhile, The President of Harvard College was Joseph Willard 5 another Dummer graduate. The three most important professorships on his faculty were held by David Tappan, Hollis Professor of Divinityg Eliphalet Pearsn, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages 5 and Samuel Webber, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. All were graduates of this great Academy. Within the first decades after the birth of the United States, men like Rufus King, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Osgood, Theophilus Parsons, Tobias Lear, Samuel Phillips, David Tappan, Eliphalet Pearson, Samuel Webber and Joseph Willard played an important part in contributing to the growth, strength, and wisdom of the new nation. This they had in common, but also they all had, in their youth, gone to the Dummer School where they had studied under the famous Master Samuel Moody, the first Preceptor of the School. We, the Senior Class, respectfully dedicate the 1976 Milestone to these outstanding Alumni and all who have followed, for their exceptional contributions to this great country of ours. Inside the Red schoolhouse. Samuel Moody's cane and watch, the British flag, the Bible box and the student slate boards. Moody's desk stands in the center with the school bells he rang for silence. 5

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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

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