Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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THE WILLIAM SPENCER BOYD MEMORIAL CHAPEL

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10 ASHEVILLE SCHOOL Reverend W. H. Jones, the School Chaplain, was named Acting Headmaster, and search was begun for a man who should undertake the administration of Asheville School in consonance with the hopes of its Founders, Trustees, and Alumni. In February, 1927, Howard Bement was elected Headmaster. Dr. Bement, who was for twenty-two years a member of the English Department of The Hill School, and for fifteen years its Head, assumed his duties July 1, 1927. The new administration carried on without a break the traditions of the old Asheville, and incorporated therewith the best that modern progressive education has to offer. The enrollment increased to one hundred and seventy, a number that is now being resolutely adhered to as a maximum. On July 1, 1930, an important step forward was taken. The school property was purchased by a group of incor- porators representing the Alumni; and a new Board of Trustees, a majority of whom are graduates of Asheville, was put in control. The Board, made up of twenty-one members, is self-perpetuating, and under the new charter will conduct the School as a non-profit corporation.

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THE HEADMASTER’S HOUSE