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

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Hjistnrg of Hitlkrlry riiool ®nl in txrrrptu from Wlil Srrorbo from 1909 (Cataluiutr ijttjK. LEONARD H. BULKELEY, who died in 1849, left by will a fund of about $25,000, for the founding of a free school for the boys of New London, to be known as “Bulkeley School,” with the provision that the fund should be kept invested until a much larger amount should be available. The original endowment has been increased by several generous gifts pnd legacies, viz: From the estate of Mr. Asa Otis, $10,000; from the estate of Mr. Henry P. Haven, $5,000; and from the Hon. George F. Tinker, upwards of $11,000, for the construction and furnishing of an extensive addition to the building. Besides these large gifts, several good friends of the school have, from time to time, given liberally for specific purposes: Finishing and equipping rooms previously unoccupied, installing excellent chemical and physical laboratories, laying a substantial sidewalk about the school property, providing an excellent telescope, etc. The lot on which the school building is erected was a gift to the corporation from the City of New London. The original Trustees named in the will of Mr. Bulkeley. five citizens of New London who secured the charter for the school in 1850. under the corporate style, “Trustees of Bulkeley,” were; Messrs. Nathan Belcher, William C. Crump, John P. C. Mather. Henry P. Haven and N. Shaw Perkins. Of these Trustees, four served the school until death, the fifth, Mr. Nathan Belcher, resigned in 1884, after a trusteeship of thirty-five years. During the school year 1904—1905, the Trustees made some radical changes in the corporation management and in the course of instruction. Application was made to the General Assembly at its January session, 1905, for authority to amend the charter of the corporation. The amendment was duly authorized by the Legislature and was adopted November 17, 1905 by vote of the Trustees. This amendment provides for a board of seven instead of five Trustees. It also provides that one of the additional Trustees shall be the Chairman of the Board of Education of the City of New London, ex-officio, and that the other shall be nominated by the alumni of the school and elected under such regulations as the corporation may adopt. The adoption of the change of the charter increasing the number of corporators to seven made the Chairman of the Board of Education at once a member of the Board of Trustees. During the month of June, 1906. circular letters were addressed to the graduates, enclosing voting slips, inviting them to vote for an alumnus of Bulkeley School, a resident of New London, who had been graduated at least five years, as a nominee for Graduate Trustee of the corporation. This canvass resulted in the nomination of Mr. Sidney II. Miner of the class of 1886, and this nomination was ratified by vote of the Trustees. June 18. 1906. Mention should be made of a memorial that has been placed on the facade of the school by the efforts and generosity of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The bronze tablet is a memorial to Captain Charles Bulkeley, who served in the Revolution and the Wrar of 1812. and to Leonard Hallam Bulkeley, founder of the school, father and son, and it is most fitting that this lecord of the patriotism of one and the civic generosity of the other should be placed on the enduring granite walls of Bulkeley School.

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Jfamunrii As the representatives of the class of 1927, the editors have earnestly attempted in this School Annual to maintain the high standards of interest, quality, merit and distinction found in past Uulkeley year-hooks and to add, to the height of our abilities, to those characteristics. We ardently hope that the editors of the future Bulkeley Annuals, guided by these ideals, will, through the course of years, adding improvement to improvement, eventually produce the real “Utopia” of High School year-books and so will in this phase of Bulkeley School accomplishment, as in others, preserve the motto of our school: “Blepson Eis Ta Ora Look to llir Hills”