Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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TEAR BOOK 1935 The Counci TXT’HEN in the year 1908 Mr. R. P. Titus, graduate of Kent in 1909 and now Business Manager of the School, drew up the Constitution for the Student Council, he presented a document which has stood the test of time remarkably well. How well it has worked is shown by the fact that since that time there have been but two amendments. The first of these was passed in 1928, at which time the ever-increasing size of the Student Body, and the consequent growth of the Council members’ duties attendant upon it, made it necessary to increase the membership of the Council from seven to eleven. The second amendment, passed in the winter of 1935, provided that the sub-Prefect should automatically become a member of the Council. The Student Council at Kent, with perhaps broader powers than might be found in other preparatory schools, is in almost complete charge of the discipline of the School, and together with the Sixth Form inspectors forms the foundation on which the self-help system rests. It has charge of all assemblies and study halls, and together with the members of the Sixth Form is in general responsible for the conduct and tone of the School. Except in the case of the most severe offenses, it takes care of all disciplinary questions which may arise. At the present time the Council is composed of the three Prefects and the sub-Prefect, all of whom are appointed by the Headmaster, and who automatically become members of the body, one other Sixth Form member, who is chosen by his own classmates, three members from the Fifth Form, and three from the Fourth Form. Those from the two lower forms are elected by the entire School on a date near May first from a field of twelve candidates, of whom six are nominated from each form by that form which they are to represent in the coming year. The Council meets every Thursday night of the School term, at which time it receives and acts upon any comments or complaints from the Student Body or from the Faculty, discusses and takes action upon those problems which may have arisen in the preceding week, and dispenses advice and reproof to any whom it deems to be in need of them. During the past year, the following have served on the Council: Cyrus Roberts Vance ’35, Chairman: Robert Codington Jackson ’35, Secretary ; Beck¬ man Budd ’35; James Levering Tyson ’35; Lloyd Montgomery Shepard ’35; James Harrison Stanton ’36; Gifford Ladd ’36; Edgar Hull Whiting ’36; Richard Spelman Eustis, Jr. ’37, Sergeant-at-Arms ; Charles Ellicott Hewes ’37; Crozer Fox Martin ’37. Page twenty-seven

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THE COrXCIL Left to right. Top Rote: Whiting, Stanton. Ladd, IIewes, ('. Martin, F. list is. Bottom row: Shepard, Build, Vance (Chairman), It Jackson, Tyson.

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THE GRADUATING GLASS Left to right. Top row. Borsdorff, I M. Wick. Wright, Fremd, Flagler. A. Lee, Stayer. Second rote: Thayer, . Dunning, Chapman, Pickard, Hanning, {cere, . . Lee, M off it. Third row: Booth, Boston, Strebeigh, Durr, Humphrey, Constable, Dale, Woodman. Fourth row: Ynrdley, Shepard, Hudd, Wince (Pres.), Jackson, Tyson. Limberg, B. Stevens. Fifth row: . . Purnell, Penrose, Meade, Satterlee, A. Staley, J. Miller, A. Derby. Greeley, A. Martin. Bottom row: Rosett, Abbe, Hcyl. Ferris, Wood, S. Potter, Howe.