Burr and Burton Academy - Burtonian Yearbook (Manchester, VT)

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THE BUI TONIAN ONE HUNDRED X EARS OI' QI RW ICF By XValter R Hard and Vw rltcr Rrcc Hrrd s umrng trrt trc rrt run red years ue tre rar est, urr rn Urtotl lrout enter upon hcr stcolltl century o serwrce wrth hrgh hope It wrs to celebrate thc rsrn o trt ctntur mrr trat trc st cnts .rumrrr trcn s met t Crymnasrum on thc rnornrnv of May lvth the date on whrch a hundred ycrrs hcforc thc hrst studcnts crossed the threshold of Burr Semrnrry followrw the srnunv of 'Xmerrca Prrnerpal Howes who presrded called on Ru Ilrrc Allcn for the rnxocatron Nlr Howes then porntcd out the srgnrhcance of thc evcnt whrch the Hrthcrrnff was to commemorate In rntrodutrnvf the next speaker, Mr Loxel md Munson the charrman statcd th rt she had becn connccted wrth the school for Htty hve years Frrst as 'r studcnt nd then for many years as the wrfc of the presrdent of the board of trustees Mrs Munson dtlrgshtfully rnformal rernrnrscences brought to lrfe the hrstory of the venerrble rnstrtutron She sard that lrttle was really known of oseph Burrs prrmte lrfe but th rt he was a clever busrnessman was evrdenced by the fact that rn the course of a few years of mereantrle lrfe rn town he amassed a fortune of S150 000 In hrs wrll hc left S10 OOO to be used rn the establrshment of a school whosc purpose should bc the educatron of young men especral attentron berng pard to those rntendrng to enter the Mrnrstry Grounds and surtable burldrngs of a value equal to the legacy were to be provrded by the ertrzens Mrs Munson spoke of some of the trrals of the men who undertook to carry out the provrsrons of the wrll The land was Urven as part of hrs subscrrptron by Ephrarm Munson Prfteen years after the openrng of Burr Semrnary, another bachelor osrah Burton, provrded for the rnclusron of younff women rn the student body and hrs name was added to that of Ivlr Burr makrng rt Burr and Burton Semrnary Mrs Iviunson told the students that they would know a lersure whrch therr forebears had nexer known Education then was to make a lrvrng Now rt was to lrxe 1 lrfe .1 lrfc rn whrch there would be more and more hours of freedom from torl To be sueccssful an educatronal system must prepare them to use thrs lersure wrstly In conclusron the speaker remrnded them th rt as they marched up the hrll and entered the door of the bemrnary all of those who had crossed that threshold durrnf' the hundreds years would be marchrng wrth them After 1 sclcetron by the Grrls Chorus led by Mr Howes Dr E Herbert Botsford Prrntrp rl of Burr rnd Burton from 1894 to 1900 was called on har Botsford spoke feelrnely of hr years at the school years whrch he looked b c on tle hrpprcst of hrs lfc He rec rlled some of those who had een assocrated wrth hun on the faculty and the men on the board of trustees He rlso spoke of the ehrotrc world rnto whrch the present students would soon be rntroduced and expres ed great rcspect for the rntegrrty and abrlrty of the younger generatron Dr Botsford concluded wrth some anecdotes of hrs days rn the school rncludrng hr warm receptron by Drme Nrture who staged a cyclone soon after hrs arrrval The la t speak r XX rltcr Hard emphasr ed the struggles of the men who rn the face of eemrnffly rnsurrnountable obstacles carrred out the proxrsrons of Mr Burr s wrll, and opened the school wrthrn the trme specrfred Thrs was a task whrch even today would grwe men pause. He referred to a speech grven by udge Edward Isham at the LlxLllc'1K1OFl of the Nlark Qkrnner Lrbrary on the motto on the bookplate Let There Be Lrfht A hundrcd ycrrs :wo a lreht had been ht Now, as then, the rmportant thrnd 1 as judge Isharn had sard What shall we see when there rs lrght I 7 ' ' r ' . C T J ' . ' ' . 1 ' a , jr. Ass ' lz l'fs'l d 'z'as l l'd.' B' zdll' s ll past' 11 f l ' y 1 k l' l ' 'ud' ', 'l ', and A r d: 11 the W S' w ' h A T , . As , sz L1 s si , A. , Q . Sk., . ' I g f A15 ' g h r ., ' ' , Q , . ' Sv 1 ' v v , - 1 V '- ' 1 44' - -' 1 x , Is s xl 1 ' P' . ' f' 5 r : ' s. ' z . , ' . . ' 1 . . e' ' ' ' f '. ' . . ' a N r : .3 ' 5 .' . - S ,S p .1 . 1 , . , . 3 1 1 . . . x p , , . t , U . ' u 1 , - t - '. vm 'x x V , 1 ' ' ' ' 1 u 1 N b, , i. . . ' .. T , I ' . k. 5 . . , , l 'V V I - K A L Y . A I 4 a ' A - V 1 I i- I 5 I v lo K v I ' HI 4 l . ' - -C' . rl ' 1 , r ' .Q 4 h 'X c r ,', r I I . x ss 1 I I sy 1 Q r . . ., . t, . . ' , ' ' i 2 , s' . . J J ' ' A K 's ' ' , . ' ' a'k as 1 1 'eg 1 i '. 'Q . s b r. s' ' ' ' ' . IQ . ss -' x s ' ' 1 V ' . - J Q Y. R 1 5 .K x . 5 i . , .S . 1 ' , 2 2 , ' ' ' ' . rs J . 'e , 71 'X , 'Z. . ,' 5 5 . 4 , ' . x -NK - . A Y K Y. I ,Y 5 H . , . . :Q ' L r a r ' a , - . . . .

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CENTEN NIAL DROCESSION A 195

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THE BURTONIAN Af er the exercrses at the Gymnasxum the students formed nn hne followed by the truste and alumm and marth d up the hxll and entered the burldxng, as the Hrst tudert had done a hundred years before The threshold morn deep gaxe exxdence of the generations which had crossed xt The afternoon was gnen oxer to xarlous sports on the athletic Held lncludmg a ba ebxll game between the alumm and hool teams In the exemng Mr and Mrs Howes C'l1ILff.111lCd the trustees and therr wrxes at a bullet supper Durxng the extmn Mrs Howes read 1 sketch of the early days of Burr Semxnary wrxtten years 1 o hy the Reverend unes Anderson on the occasion of an annrxersary celcbratxon So prssed lnto history the hrst century of SCFNICC of the ilrst endowed academy estabh hed rn the State of Vermont PRIZES ANNOUNCED AT COMMENCEMENT 1992 Tre Mark Slemner Scholarshxp Pr1 e Florence VN ade Fl re Stmxnary Scholarship Prl e Barbara Bmkerd Tre Maile blnnner Essay Prlze Barbara Bmlterd Tre Balfour Award Medal Mmnre G Lockwood Ormsby Chapter D A R Prizes George Thomas and Barbara Bmleerd Dr Lcwrs E Hemenway Prlze Robert Bushee Mnxxm Wells Valentine Prize Barbara Young Rens tlaer Polytechmc Instrtute Medal Robert Young Unxversrty of Vermont Seholarshxp Mmme G Lockwood and Everett E Sheldon The presentatlon of The Presldcnt s Medal grxen for the saxmg of a human hfe to Robert Hunt of the Semor Class HONOR LISTS ANNOUNCED AT 1939 COMMENCEMENT Semor Honors Semors who haxe maxntamed an average rank of 90 per cent or more throu hout the entlre coursel Barbara Hamllton Bmkerd Gertrude Erna Haldx man Mmme Gtorganna Lockwood and Exerett Earl Sheldon Int Honors Qbtudents who haxe mamtaxned throughout the academic year a rank of 90 per cent or more rn each subjectj Mmnxe Georganna Lockwood and llorence Isabel Wade Second Honor Citudents ID addrtron to the Grst honor students who have malntnned throughout the atademlc year a general average rank of 90 per cent or morej Barbara Hamilton Brnkerd Cleo Lrncoln Clayton Paulrne Florence Goyette Olrxe Blame Gxrihth Gertrude Erna Haldxman and Mlldred Helen Markey t Y , X . .3 N es '. ee' ' 1 S is . ' , , Y' . , ,.. ', V .k' N ' , ,' ' sr 1' - ' A' sc . ' '1 ,. . Hlg x . ' . , ' ag: ' J: . Q . V s - ' . , 0 The Frederick Crosbyprize...................................Florence W'ade -Tl' 4 L I Q-nw A I . V .K - , , L i . : it . V . . g . I . , , .I K y 4 I x r , v . f s .: ' . ' ' ' ' I :A 1 e' sz . .,' . , A' K, T I 1 ' ' . 4 3 . Y V I K i 3 '