Grosse Pointe University School - Pericon Yearbook (Grosse Pointe, MI)

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Respectfully Dedicated to Those Who Chart Our Course E OF THE CLASS OF I949 dedicate this, our Pericon, to the Board ot Trustees whose untailing interest and caretul planning have maintained the high standards ot Grosse Pointe Country Day School and Detroit University School. We appreciate your taith in an educational ideal and the tact that you have constantly kept the weltare ot the two schools upper- most in your minds. To you, the members ot the Board, we profess an earnest hope that our ideals and accomplishments in the coming years will iustity the trust you have always had in us. BOARD OF TRUSTEES EDWARD P. WRIGHT. President WENDELL C, GODDARD, Vice-President C. H. HABERKORN, JR., Secretary ANDREW W. BARR. Treasure Carl Breer John B. Ford, Jr. Dr. John G. Mateer A. H. Buhl, Jr. Mrs. William R. Hamilton ll Henry L. Newnen William R, Clarlr Richard W. Jackson H. Lynn Pierson Mrs. Selden B. Daume Mrs. Harry W. Kerr Stephan T, Stackpole Dexter Ferry James McEvoy. Jr. Charles B. Warren. Jr. George R. Fink Dr. Arthur B. McGraw James B. Webber. Jr. Emory M. Ford James McMillan 5

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A Message from the President of Board of Trustees HE LOWELL who said We learn noThing by precepT and very liTTle by example meanT To emphasize ThaT we learn by doing , We celebraTe This year The FiTTieTh Anniversary of The Tounding oT The DeTroiT UniversiTy School, which has operaTed since i942 wiTh The Grosse PoinTe CounTry Day School. These, our Schools, have learned by doing , The way To produce The well balanced graduaTe. PrecepT and example have Their well deserved place in The aTTaclc which our FaculTy makes upon our problems, buT The soluTion oT These problems is made easier because oT The wealTh oT ThaT TiTTy years of experience behind our Schools' eTTorT. The places which members oT previous classes have made Tor Themselves in college, in professional, in indusTrial, in com- mercial, and in civic life evidence The doing oT which our Schools are capable. And, if TurTher proof were needed, look in The following pages aT The happy promise Tor The TuTure oT our counTry and our children which lies in The conTidenT hands of The Class oT '4-9. -EDWARD P. WRIGHT

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D. U. Sfs Fil1y Years N THE SPRING OF I899 Mr. Henry Gray Sherrard and Mr. Fredericlc Leroy Bliss, who were respecTively head of The Classical DepT. and Principal oT The DeTroiT CenTral High School, decided To organize a boys' privaTe school. They TelT The need since The DeTroiT public schools were involved in a local poliTical squabble which lcepT Them Trom being able To mainTain educa- Tional sTandards which meT easTern college reguiremenTs. ATTer receiving encouragemenT and assisTance from numerous civic leaders, These men Tinally locaTed The old building of The Michigan AThleTic AssociaTion on Elmwood Avenue beTween Congress and Larned STreeTs. This building, oTTering adequaTe educa- Tional and aThleTic TaciliTies. was purchased and repaired. By Fall suTTicienT funds had been raised Through The sale oT sToclc aT TiTTy dollars a share so ThaT The school was opened on SepTember 25. I899, wiTh Mr. Bliss as Principal and Mr. Sherrard as AssociaTe Principal. All grades were covered from primary Through college preparaTion. The school oTTered a good general course Tor The non- college sTudenT as well as courses Tor The college 6 preparaTory sTudenT. ln boTh cases The school sTressed more Than iusT The scholasTic Training by including an ArT DeparTmenT and Manual Training DeparTmenT, and by requiring Physical Trainingvas well. The TirsT Two pupils To be enrolled in The school were C. Henry Haberlcorn. Jr.. and Joseph Berry Sherrard. The TaculTy consisTed oT eighTeen members. In The TirsT year There were I55 sTudenTs enrolled in The school. Many of These sTudenTs had been aTTracTed To The new school Trom DeTroiT CenTral High School because oT Their admiraTion of boTh Mr. Bliss and Mr. Sherrard. Also a num- ber had been sTudenTs of The DeTroiT School Tor