Trinity Pawling School - Scroll Yearbook (Pawling, NY)

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ERNEST JACOR REITER, A.B. Mathematics Mr. Reiter was graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1912. He did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania for one year, and then went to the Yeates School, Lancaster, Pa. lie came to Pawling in 1916. From 1917 to 1919 he served in the U. S. Field Artillery, A. E. F., returning to Pawling in the fall of 1919. FRANK SMOYER, A.B. English Mr. Smoyer was graduated from Yale Uni- versity in 1907. He did post graduate work at the University of Munich and at Colum- bia. Before coming to Pawling, in 1919, he was instructor in rhetoric at the University of Minnesota. THE REV. GRIEG TABER, A.B., B.D. History Mr. Taber was graduated from St. Stephen’s College in 1916 with the degree of A.B. From there he entered Seabury Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1919. He was ordained to the Diaconate in June, 1919, and to the Priesthood in December, 1919. He received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at Seabury Divinity School in 1920. He was English instructor in Shattuck School at Faribault, Minn., in 1918, and remained there until 1920. 18

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JAMES M. ELLIOTT, A.B. Mathematics Mr. Elliott was graduated from Chicago I niversity in 1901. He became Master at North Division High School, Chicago, III. He came to St. Paul’s School, Garden City, L. I., in 1905, and to Pawling in 1907. HORACE E. HENDERSON, A.B. English Mr. Henderson was graduated from Bow- doin College in 1879. He was Grammar School Principal in Bath, Me., for two years, and afterwards he became Master of the High School at Bath. In 1883 he was made Principal of the High School at Whitman, Mass. After teaching ten years there he went to St. Paul's School, Garden City, L. I., and came to Pawling with Dr. Gamage in 1907. GEORGE W. ANDERSON, A.B. Latin Mr. Anderson was graduated from Yale University in 1904. He immediately went to St. Paul’s School, Garden City, L. I., where he taught for three years and came in 1907 to Pawling with Dr. Gamage. 17

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DR. JOSEPH EDWARD HARRY, A.B., Ph.D. Spanish and French Dr. Harry was graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1889 with the degree of A.B., and later received a Ph.D. degree in Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin from the same institution. He began his career as an instructor at Georgetown University, where he taught Greek and German, after which he taught Greek at the University of Cincinnati. Fol- lowing this, he taught courses in Greek drama, in French, at the University of Paris. He then returned to America and became head of the French, German, Spanish, and Latin departments of the Battin High School in Elizabeth, N. J. Besides this, he is the author of six books dealing with the Greek drama, and has done much writing in other lines. He came to Pawling in the fall of 1923. ALBERT J. HILL, A.B., M.A. English Mr. Hill was graduated from Williams in 1908 with the degree of M.A. He imme- diately went to the University School of Chicago, where he became a master of Eng- lish. In 1910 he resigned, and became the head of the English department at the Shat- tuck School, where he remained until his coming to Pawling in the fall of 1924. GASTON GESNF.R, A.B. French Mr. Gesner was graduated from Columbia University in 1923 with an A.B. degree. He immediately went to the Keystone Academy, Factoryville, Pa., where he taught French for a short time. He resigned in 1924, and went to the Ruston Academy, Havana, Cuba, and then to the Westchester School, New York, before coming to Pawling in the winter of 1925. 19