Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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fteU. ifrrbericb Herbert i(l O.H.C., D.D., Litt.D., S.T.D. A.B., Columbia, 1894; Litt.D. Columbia, 1924; S.T.D., General Theological Seminary, 1928; D.D., Williams, 1931; Litt.D., Rutgers, 1935. Graduated from General Theological Seminary, New York City, 1898. Ordained Deacon by Bishop H. L. Potter, May, 1899. Served on the staff of Mount Calvary Parish, Baltimore, until January 25, 1900, on which date he entered the novitiate of the Order of the Holy Cross of Westminster, Md. Professed on May 3, 1902. Pounded Kent in 1906. Headmaster, 1906-1941. Headmaster Emeritus. fteb. William ss'tott Chalmers O.G.S., A.B., M.A. A.B., Princeton, 1929; M.A., Princeton, 1930; Graduated from General Theological Seminary, New York City, 1933. Ordained Deacon by Bishop Edward T. Hclfcnstcin, May, 1933. Entered the Novitiate of the Order of the Holy Cross on July 1, 1933. Ordained Priest by Bishop Edward T. Hclfcnstcin, December, 1933. Professed as a member of the Order of the Holy Cross on January 14, 1936. Appointed Acting Headmaster of Kent in April, 1940. Headmaster in June of 1941. Entered the Order of the Good Shepherd in October of 1945. Sacred studies, Greek, and Coach of Basketball. Resigned March, 1949. 7

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QHje eb. Jofjn £ librr Patterson University of Illinois; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Seabury-Wcstern Theological Seminary. Ordained Deacon by the Rt. Rev. F. A. McElwain, April, 1934. Ordained Priest, November, 1934, by the Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart. Rector of St. Ansgarius Church, Chicago; St. Mary’s Parish, Mitchell, South Dakota; Grace Parish, Madison, Wisconsin. Rector and Headmaster of Kent, 1949. 6

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THE FIVE MINUTE STAMPEDE Zlie first lap In a day arranged like ours, the morning is by far the longest part and that part when more of the important activities of the day take place than any other. The rising bell, that instrument of torture peculiar to our campus, is rung at five minutes before seven, and although it supposedly signals the end of the night’s rest, it is only rarely that any old boy lets it disturb his dreams. On Form Communion day there is always a small number of brave souls who manage to crawl out of bed in time to attend, but on the other six days of the Kent week the rising bell might just as well not be rung. At 7:25 another and more urgent signal sounds, the five-minute bell for breakfast. Since the penalty for those unfortunates who fail to make the morning meal in time is an envigorating jaunt around the triangle”, this bell creates an instant and, to the uninitiated eye, amazing effect. The hallways arc at once astir with the feverish activity of the fastest dressing in the history of the human race, and the campus is dotted with hobbling figures trying to focus sleep-fogged eyes on a stubborn necktie or smoothing an incorrigible cowlick as they race against the dreaded last bell. After the delicious breakfast which invariably delights the gourmets of the student body, there is usually a mass influx of the wounded heroes of the athletic fields, sufferers of all sorts of breaks and sprains in THE MAJOR WORK OF THE DAY the process of upholding the honor of Kent, and those less glorious sufferers whose symptoms arc those of sniffles, sore throats, and lesser afflictions to the haven of healing, mercy, and good cheer which is located in three small but well-equipped rooms in the basement of the infirmary where the Kent versions of the angels of mercy hold their daily court. The infirmary’s basement is honored by the daily presence of the distinctly unusual clinic held by the professional medicine and comedy team of Greiner and Freeman. While their ministrations arc healing the bodies and spirits of our ailing confreres, the rest of us busy ourselves with the less noble process of making our beds and tidying the rooms which arc usually so disreputable at that hour. 8