Trinity Pawling School - Scroll Yearbook (Pawling, NY)

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jfreberids lutljer damage, a. it,, a. jn„ ®. c. l. Doctor Frederick Luther Ganiage, the Headmaster of Pawling, began his eminent career as a schoolmaster immediately upon his graduation from Brown University in 1882. His first position was that of Greek Instructor in the Delaware Academy, Delhi, New York. In 1883 he was elected principal of the Oxford Aca- demy, Oxford, New York, a place which he filled with the greatest success and honor until he. was called to the larger and more important task of taking up the headmastership, in 1893, of St. Paul’s Cathedral School, Garden City, Long Island, at that time one of the growing and promising Church schools of the East. His success at St. Paul's is attested by the wonderful record which he made during the fourteen years in which he guided its destiny. He came into charge when St. Paul’s was a school of about sixty boys. When he resigned the headmastership in 1907, there was a total registration of over one hundred and eighty boys, with a grad- uating class of almost sixty. An achievement as great as that is a sure guarantee of future recognition; and he had no sooner made public announcement of the fact, during the summer of 1907, that he would open a school the following fall, founded by himself, in Pawling, New York, than it was acclaimed with the intensest interest and enthusiasm by his former patrons and boys everywhere Consequently he ex- perienced no difficulty whatsoever in opening school on the first of October, 1907, in the old Dutcher House, at Pawling, with seven masters and eighty-five students. To the untiring efforts and the sincere devotion of this man Pawling School owes the enviable reputation and phenomenal success which it has won during the nineteen short years of its existence. As headmaster of Pawling, Dr. Gamage has worked along lines of scholarship and character building which he knows from long experience will be best for, and will bring out the best in every boy who comes under his care. He has always been a strong exponent of fair play and high ideals. He has ever tried to instill into the hearts of his boys those fine prin- ciples of manhood which are so nobly exemplified in his own character. The reason why he enjoys such splendid and hearty co-operation with the school and with the Sixth Form in particular, is that he appeals to the side of the boy that is fine and fair, and deals with him, not so much as a headmaster, but as a trusted friend and counsellor who, every boy feels, knows just what is best for him in his own peculiar boyish difficulties. In this way he wins and keeps the hearts of his boys not only during their preparatory school days, when they are directly under his supervision and guidance, but after they have graduated and gone out into the larger life of college or business. The Scroll takes much pride and pleasure in paying this well-earned tribute to the man who has done so much to make our Alma Mater what it is today. Further- more, we wish to assure the Doctor that the love and devotion which he showers upon the school is deeply felt and reciprocated by those who yearly go forth from her walls happier and richer boys, both in character and in learning.

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Sima Jfflater Alma Mater, we hail thee with loyal devotion, And bring to thine altar our off’ring of praise; Our hearts swell within us with joyful de- votion, When Pawling’s renown in loud chorus we raise. The happiest moments of youth’s fleeting hours We’ve passed ’neath the shade of these time- honored walls And sorrows as transient as April’s brief showers Have clouded the glory of Pawling’s dear halls. And when life’s golden autumn with winter is blending, And brows, now' sp radiant, are furrowed with care; When the blightings of age on our heads are descending, With no earlv friends all our sorrows to share; Oh! Then as in memory backward we wander, And roam the long vista of past years a down, On the scenes of our student life often w'e’ll ponder, And smile as we murmur old Pawling’s renown.