Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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 I8F)) ]] o o MR. HENRY V. SHELLEY Mr. Shelley graduated from Columbia in 1913 with high honors and is now taking the course of Latin, Greek, and German. Mr. Shelley is also an expert at the piano and is a great help to the Musical Club. MR. FRANK L. HEWITT Mr. Hewitt graduated from Wesleyan and joined the Faculty two years ago. to take up the teaching of the English courses and has put them on a basis which coincides more nearly with college entrance requirements. MR. JAMES CLEVELAND Mr. Cleveland, the only new member of the faculty this year, came to us from Columbia where lie finished off his college course having been to Princeton for his first three years previous. Mr. Cleveland has charge of the younger fellows and does some outside tutoring. 15

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CD o MR. HORACE E. SCHIEDT After having graduated from Harvard in 1001 . Mr. Schiedt came here and lias taught History, Latin. Mr. Ruck after graduating from Trinity a year previous joined the faculty in 1910 and taught Mathematics and Science courses. Mr. Ruck as coach of the football and baseball teams, has succeeded very well and frequently made winning teams out of comparatively raw material. Mr. Rankson as a graduate of Columbia University came to Kent two years ago to take the courses in Latin and German left vacant by Mr. Monroe. The courses lie takes call for a great amount of work, but lie has made a success of them. MR. JONATHAN S. CUTHBERTSON Mr. Cuthbcrtson is a graduate of Yale and came to us in the middle of last year to take the place of Mr. Haley as a master of French, and has done his work well and earnestly. and Chemistry ever since. Mr. Schiedt, as secretary of the faculty, is owed a great deal of thanks. MR. GEORGE S. BUCK REV. B. C. CHANDLER Father ('handler studied at the University of Maine and later at the General Theological Seminary. He came to us in 1910 from Morristown, N. J. to take courses in Latin and Greek anil also serve the Parish Church. MR. PHIL S C. BANKSON 14

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©)t cfjool JStulbtngg The most striking feature of the school equipment is that it differs essentially from most other institutions. Whereas other schools have opened with an adequate equipment, here it has been necessary to build as opportunity offered. The result is obvious: instead of the luxurious buildings found elsewhere, wo have at Kent modc-t houses, yet very comfortable, developed from a New England farm house. The old structure which forms the nucleus of our present buildings, was erected by Jeremiah Fuller, a man of Puritan stock, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Somewhat after their arrival, one of the-. , an adventurous spirit, moved with his family up the Honsatonic valley into the depths of the forest and settled on a tract of land in Kent, granted him by George III. In 1808 Jeremiah established himself on a farm by the river and built the house which is now part of the school. The rooms «»f the ground fl« or comprise the dining room of the school. The old fireplace is still used, in front of which, a hundred years ago- «» tin old country folk assert—Indians might be seen lying on wintry nights, driven from their huts in the reservation by the old. In the North and South Dormitories, the old oaken floor-hoards of varying widths, secured by hand-wrought nails, arc yet visible; in the “Sunday School and Stable”, the old plaster, more than an inch thick, may he seen. When Father Sill introduced the school of thirty odd hoys into its new quarters, few change' in the original structure had been made. The parlor and living room assumed a more academic air. when cquip|»cd with desks. The old kitchen had been converter! into a dining room; a wood shed had been improved and elevat .1 to the dignity of kitchen; the end of the upper hall, curtained off in the day time, served as a eh a pel; the attic supplied generous dormitory possibilities which were fully realized. When the school opened the next fall, extensive improvements had taken place to accommodate the in- 10