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

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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

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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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THE BULKELEY ANNUAL 1922 Our New Headmaster L UNDERWOOD was born July 9, 1878, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He entered Washington and Jefferson College in 1895. Having graduated with honors in 1899, he spent the following year at Yale University in graduate work for a Master of Arts degree. Two more years were spent at Yale and Columbia, to be followed by a trip abroad, where he visited the various educational centers in England, France and Italy, storing up knowledge of foreign peoples and their customs. On h is return from Europe, Mr. Underwood wras appointed Principal of the model high school in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where he remained six years, leaving at the end of that period to become Head of the English Department at the B. M. C. Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts. After three years of valuable service at that school, seven years were spent in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and at Passaic, New Jersey, in turn, where he reorganized and placed on firm bases the English Departments of the schools. From 1918 until the time of his coming to Bulkeley, Mr. Underwood made an enviable reputation as Head of the English Department at the Newton Classical High School in Newton, Massachusetts, one of the finest schools in America. Mr. Underwood has attained considerable recognition throughout the country for his literary ability. Besides having contributed frequently to such periodicals as The Journal of Education and the Journal of Modern Language Association, he has edited several books used in English courses in high schools, among them being The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, published by The American Book Company; Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson and Selections from Johnson s Writings, published by The Charles E. Merrill Company. While in New Jersey, he w'as editor of The Leaflet, published by the Association of Teachers in that state. (4)