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

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The Rev. Arthur F. Purkiss, D.D., Secretary of the Christian Laymens Association, Pittsburgh, Pa. Howard E. Rondthaler, D.D., President, Salem College, Winston- Salem, N. C. George Van Santvoord, M.A., B. Litt., Headmaster, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn. The Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, D.D., New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C. Robert E. Speer, D.D., Secretary The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York City The Rev. Theodore Cuyler Speers, First Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y. The Rev. T. Guthrie Speers, Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md. The Rev. Wilson E. Tanner, D.D., Trinity Memorial Church, Binghamton, N. Y. The Rt. Rev. Frank EIale Touret, D.D., Tryon, N. C. The Rev. H. H. Tweedy, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, The Divinity School, Yale University The Rev. William Way, D.D., Charleston, S.C. The Classification System was introduced The Classification • 0 . , , . r in 1928 to provide a substitute tor petty System , disciplinary measures and to encourage scholarship. It is felt that this system has been of great value in developing School morale. Every student’s status is brought under consideration every three weeks by a Committee composed of representatives of the three upper Forms and three members of the Faculty, with the Dean presiding as Chairman. The student is classified in one of five groups designated by the letters “A” to “E”; “A” being the highest possible rating, and “E” the lowest. In determining classifications equal weight is given to the individual’s scholastic achievement, his effort in his studies as estimated by his Masters, and to his general standing in matters of deportment, and of contributions to the life and spirit of the School. An “E” rating is [26)

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Chapel services, led by the Headmaster or one of the Masters, are held every morning. Church services are held on Sunday mornings. The Mitchell Society (named in honor of Charles Andrews Mitchell, co-founder) was organized by the Class of 1923 to foster the religious spirit in the heart of each boy and encourage a life of charity and self- sacrifice on the part of the student body. This Society is conducted entirely by the boys. It publishes annually the School Handbook, which is put into the hands of every boy. CHAPEL PREACHERS Sunday services in the Chapel were conducted during the year by the Headmaster and by the following visiting Ministers, and School and University leaders: Mather A. Abbott, Litt. D., Headmaster of Lawrenceville School The Rev. Albert W. Beaven, D.D., President, Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. The Rev. Hugh Black, D.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York City The Rev. Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., Dean of the Divinity School, Emeritus, Yale University The Rev. Wilhelmus B. Bryan, Princeton Westminster Foundation, Princeton, N. J. Dr. George B. CuTTEN,Presidentof Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. The Rev. Ralph Marshall Davis, D.D., Church of the Covenant, Erie, Pa. Boyd Edwards, LL.D., Headmaster, The Mercersburg Academy The Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, D.D., Dean of the Chapel, University of Chicago The Rev. S. V. V. Holmes, D.D., Westminster Church, Buffalo, N. Y. The Rev. William H. Hudnut, D.D., The First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown, Ohio Alan Jenkins, B.D., Asheville School William Mather Lewis, LL.D., President, Lafayette College Paul D. Moody, LL.D., President, Middlebury College The Rt. Rev. E. A. Penick, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina U5]

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THE GEORGE PERKIN'S RAYMOND GYMNASIUM