New London High School - Whaler Yearbook (New London, CT)

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THE BULKELEY ANNUAL 1922 Staff Ronald M. Donovan, 1922, Editor-in-chief Mr. Robert M. Keeney, Faculty Adviser Lawrence J. Cassara, Managing Editor Literary Department Rufus C. Rose, 1922 Clarence Hall, 1923 Edward Gipstein, 1923 George J. Boras, 1923 Art Department Edward S. Fowler, 1922 Thomas Elder, 1924 Business Department Harry Gordon, Business Manager Robert T. Henkle, 1923, Advertising Manager Circulation Department Leon N. St. Germain, 1923 Herbert A. Downing, 1923 (2)

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FOREWORD HE editors take pleasure in offering for your approval this first volume of the BULKELEY ANNUAL. It has been the aim of the editors to publish a book possessing the qualities of Bulkeley, reviewing the activities of the past year and presenting to you in a clear and impartial manner the doings of the students of Bulkeley School. We have herewith tried to demonstrate all phases of our life: our victories and our defeats, our work and our play, and ourselves as we see each other. We do not claim this to be of any literary value, but merely a reminder of days spent at Bulkeley. May we take this opportunity to express our appreciation to those who kindly contributed to this volume? (l)

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THE BULKELEY ANNUAL 1922 As a Token of Esteem and Gratitude this Book is Dedicated to Walter A. Towne Wh ose keen Knowledge and genial Character have always been an Inspiration to every Bulkeley Student. A Tribute T is indeed fitting that we call Mr. Walter A. Towne the “Father of Bulkeley.” He has been the standard bearer for Bulkeley for thirty-five years, and it is a privilege, an honor, to be numbered among his followers. Vivacious, humorous, kindly and singularly unselfish, his knowledge, his means and his thoughts have always been at the command of the school he loves and its students, in whom he takes the greatest interest. His work at Bulkeley is a long devotion to a cause he loves; and though there are men who have reaped a greater personal profit from their vocations, no man has worked more zealously or is more deserving of success than he. His genial personality and ready wit will always leave a strong impression upon the minds of those who studied under him. His is iijdeed a remarkable character. It is much that a teacher accomplishes when his thoughts, his methods and his teachings have been aids to men in all walks of life, hut there is something far more significant in personal contact with such a man. There is an inspiration of power in his very presence. Our finest experiences of life and our most treasured knowledge are derived from communion with a man of this type. There is a teacher’s touch, or, more specifically, a teacher’s attitude in teaching, at which the scales fall and the blinding eyes receive the light, and many a scholar lakes the mantle of the master in which he walks in the strength and spirit of the greater man who taught him. Just such a touch as this accounts for the influence of Socrates, who was a teacher of doctrine, but whose greatness consisted in the inspiration of his own spirit and infusion of his own knowledge in his scholars. He was an educator who taught not by massive collections of eloquent volumes, or costly laboratories, but rather by imparting his own personal communion. Such a teacher, rich in the treasures of mind, made so by experience and reading and observation and thought, with a sincerity and force of character that makes him loved by all and makes his very presence a benediction, gathers class after class about him and lives under a widening halo of tender memories. Such a man is Mr. Towne, venerable in the eyes of hundreds of fellows who trace to him the best influences of their lives, making them what they are in knowledge and in manliness. These influences are the results of a straight-forward, manly sincerity, going directly to the heart of the student who loves a clear and honest thinker. A remarkable leader and a loving following make a combination with something electric and dynamic about it—this something we call the Bulkeley Spirit. How proud we have always been of this Bulkeley Spirit, and what has it not accomplished for us on the field of sports and in our dailv life! But how much prouder we are of its origin—MR. WALTER A. TOWNE! Hats off, fellows, behold a MAN ! (3) MR. TOWNE