Beaumont High School - Caduceus Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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H .1-35 4.1 ' L' , . M Q .h I fa- pl, J ,X ,. A mg - ' .V :TT H' ' il .Q z a L Y S QA ? a ff A ' . il -5 wmv, H v ANL -s G X 1.k,,S., ,n l V l l l T Htl T H E C A D U C E U S A KNIGHT OF BEAUMONT By JOHN LANGTON Ther was a worthy man. a manly man. Of him I now will tel yow al I can. His stature was. I gesse. of evene lengthe. He was a thikke knarre and greet of strengthe. Full big of bones: and eke his shuldres brood Without a doubt could bar a heavy load. But for to tellen yow of his array. In this respect he was discreet, not gay. Avoiding niceity and wantounesse, His fetis clothes hadde been sometyme in presse. And now to telle yow of his visage, lt disclosed a curteys hind corage. His heed was qray as is a Marche cloude. In it was much of which he might be proude. A brow expansive hadde he overhanging His eyen depeg a latent glow ther shining. A pleasaunt mouthe and verray firm withalle. And no unmeasured word from it did falle. Few peers he hadde from York to old London. And known by alas Mister Huntington. MR. ALBERT H. HUNTINGTON By HELEN TIEFENBRUNN whom do these remarks .remind MQ514 you 1- You must succeed in your JQQQQ, studies in order to succeed in the i 'h worldf' This reminds me of a story: There was a city cousin visiting us in the country, etc., etc.? Yes, you've guessed it. The person of whom I speak is Mr. Albert H. Huntington, our assistant- principal. Although you have learned a few things about Mr, Huntington's life through the stories that he has told to us in the audi- torium, I am sure that you want to know more. Our assistant-principal was born on a farm in Baldwinsville, New York, on Sep- tember 24, 1879, and there he grew up. He began his education in a country district school, where he remained until he went to Baldwinsville Academy, As the school was a distance from his home. he had to drive a horse five and one-half miles each way. Connected with these daily drives was a young lady. It hap- pened that her father, who was a neighbor, furnished the horse half of the time, while Mr. Huntington's father furnished it the other half. This partnership means of Seven teen

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ALBERT H. HUNTINGTON

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VW: S J QT wt- , fl 'Tl '92 f 'll ll ,M C ' I H il gaf ll T H E. C A D U C E U S transportation involved the doubtful pleasure of escorting the neighbor's daugh- ter to the seat of learning. Sometimes this pleasure was more than doubtful. Just think how much better a Ford would have been! As a boy, Mr. Huntington had another responsibility. He was expected to act as mailman, since there was no rural delivery at that time. For this service he received pay but once. A poverty-stricken young woman gave him five cents and two letters. She asked him to buy the stamps for the letters and mail them. Yes, she let him keep the change. In June, l898, he graduated from the Baldwinsville Academy. He was the presi- dent and valedictorian of his class. He received a Blue Seal Diploma from the Re- gents' Department of New York State. This was the first honor of its kind given to a graduate of the academy. ln the spring of l898 he took a com- petitive examination and won a scholar- ship to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He attended this University for four years, working his way through. He tried for a place on the first crew, but made the second. He was attending Cornell when the Varsity made at Poughkeepsie the world's record, still unbroken, for a four-mile race. He was elected a mem- ber of the Sigma Xi Society, an honorary scientific fraternity. He graduated from Cornell in 1902. ln the fall of the same year he began teaching at Ardmore, Pennsylvania, in the Lower Merian High School. After two years, he was awarded a graduate scholar- ship from the University of Pennsylvania, but resigned in order to come to St. Louis to teach in Central High School, where Eighteen he stayed until l9l7. In September of that year, he was made the assistant- principal of the Ben Blewett Junior High School. A year later he went to New York City, where he taught in the Lincoln School of Teachers' College for one year. From there he went to the Silver Bay School for Boys, where he remained for two years. During this time he spent the summers in Teachers' College of Columbia University in New York, and he received the degree of M. A. in the summer of 1921. The following fall he came back to St. Louis and taught for nearly two years: served as assistant-principal in Cleveland High School. In 1926, as we all know, he was transferred with us to the new Beaumont High School. Mr. Huntington has taught in Harris Teachers' College both in extension work and in summer sessions. Mr. Huntington is married and has three sons and a little daughter. The two older boys, Donald and Wendell, have graduated from Cleveland High School, and now both are students at Cornell Uni- versity. Donald is a Junior and Wendell is a Sophomore. Albert Jr. is a student at Webster Groves High School. Mr. Huntington belongs to many so- cieties, some of which are as follows: The Missouri State Teachers' Association, the Mathematical Association of America, the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, the Mathematics Club of St. Louis, the Na- tional Education Association, the Asso- ciation of Secondary School Principals, and the National Society for the Study of Education.