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

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SCHOOL LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION T EACHERS The Masters have been selected with reference to their recognized ability. They are graduates of the best American and foreign colleges and universities, and most of them have specialized in the particular fields which they have elected to teach. Care of Boys The Headmaster has the especial care and charge of all the boys. He and the Masters desire to know every boy intimately, so that natural aptitudes may be discovered and encouraged, and defects of character remedied. Boys known to be vicious, objectionable, dull, or persistently lazy will not be admitted; if unwittingly admitted, they will not be retained. Medical Care A Resident Nurse is in charge of the Infirmary and an Asheville physician makes daily visits to the School for consultations; his services are supplemented by those of specialists when required, and private nurses from the local hospitals are always available. A Dispensary which is open at all times provides for the care of minor injuries and sicknesses. Physical Examination The School physicians make examina- tions each year, that they may find any physical weaknesses and prescribe proper exercises to remedy them. Physical Training Physical training is one of the unique fea- tures of the School, opportunities for health- ful exercise being unsurpassed. The climate of the mountain region of North Carolina invites open-air exercise twelve months in the year. Inclement days which drive boys from their exercise on the playing fields are few. Each boy is required to exercise out-of-doors when possible; otherwise in the gymnasium. The Masters supervise and control the athletic exercise and games of the boys and coach them in their sports. For the various forms of exercise the School grounds contain three baseball diamonds, football fields, soccer football fields, a quarter-mile cinder track with a two-hundred-twenty-yard straightaway, ten tennis [20]

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The Gymnasium, a very substantial brick build- The Gymnasium . . r , , ing, contains five squash courts, three basket- ball courts which may be used also for indoor baseball, a trophy room, an apparatus room with rowing machines and other usual apparatus, the director’s office, an athletic store, locker rooms, shower baths, and a swimming pool twenty by seventy feet. It is the gift of generous friends of the School, Mrs. George Tod Perkins and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beebe Raymond, grandmother and parents, respectively, of George Perkins Raymond of the Class of 1914. The tablet bears this inscription: the george perkins Raymond gymnasium erected as A HELP TOWARDS PERFECT MANHOOD. The Warner Arms Infirmary is situated on the ground nfirmary floor Qf Anderson Hall. It is named in memory of Warner Arms of Youngstown, Ohio, Class of 1931. Funds left by this Alumnus and devoted to the purpose by his parents have recently been employed for the redecoration and refurnishing of all Infirmary rooms, so that they now provide restful and cheerful surroundings for sick boys and convalescents. The portion of the building reserved for this purpose is large enough to accommodate fifteen patients and is completely shut off from the Dormitory halls. Included in the Infirmary are a diet kitchen, a sitting room, and a sun-porch where boys recovering from illness can sit outdoors in pleasant weather. Two large rooms with a separate diet kitchen adjoining can be isolated for the care of patients having com- municable illnesses. The Dining Hall and the Boiler-house are Other Buildings , , ,, . detached buildings. 1 his arrangement secures immunity from danger of fire, since there is no fire in the main buildings. TTT Asheville is noted for the purity of its water, which comes W ATE R • 1 from a city-owned watershed of about seventeen thousand acres of uninhabited and unbroken forest. The water used at the School comes from the Asheville waterworks. jyj The School is especially fortunate in being able to procure all its dairy products from the Biltmore Dairies, situated on the famous George Vanderbilt Estate. [19]

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courts, and a rowing course for the crews, three-fourths of a mile in length. At the lake there is a canoe house with several canoes, and for boys interested in rowing, one boat house with two four-oared gigs, two four-oared shells, two eight-oared shells, one single shell and a motor launch for the coach. The Athletic grounds have been named Jackson Field, in memory of George Jackson, the late Headmaster. Adjacent to the school grounds is the excellent nine-hole golf course of the Malvern Hills Club. Playing privileges of the club are extended to the boys free of charge. It is the intention not only to encourage the usual school sports, but also to arrange for such pastimes as will develop individual talent and inventiveness. It is the conviction that, while football, baseball, and track athletics are excellent training, they should be supplemented to a considerable degree by natural play. The neglect of this old-time play for the conventional routine of athletics leaves boys too dependent upon others and lacking in resources. With the woods, streams, lakes, hills, fields, and the shops, there are abundant opportunities for all kinds of recreation. The School is divided into two clubs, known as the Blues and the Whites. These clubs have contests in the various athletic sports, to which certain points or credits are assigned. The club whose members have won the greatest number of points is declared the winner for the year. The School is not a sanatorium for sickly boys, but rather a place where boys may grow up and develop under the most favorable condi- tions. Boys having tubercular troubles are not admitted. A course in equitation, which is given on two afternoons a lv I DI N G i , .... . i . . week, may be elected in lieu of other required exercise on those days. On one of the two afternoons the class is given a thorough drill in the basic principles of equitation, including jumping; and on the other afternoon there is a ride over one of the mountain trails. No charge is made for instruction, but boys taking the course are charged $40 a term (one-third of the school year) for the use of the horses. There are opportunities for riding under supervision on free after- noons and on whole holidays. The trails of the Biltmore Estate and of Sunset Mountain offer excellent and varied fields for this exercise. [ 21 ]