Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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0l QlfUOI Hose who possess this book bear in their hands a literary nionu- nient, erected to the achievenient of a great turning point in lilie. It serves as a marker, separating a vivid phase of our past from the clear and untrodden lields of the future, which the chronicle of events here at Cheshire have spread before us. But it represents more than this. It is a portrait of student lilie-ol' many of our lives as they have been lived here in the act ol' preparing for the many possibilities ol' Toinorrow. It ends a vital period in our education-an education which will arni us for the unforeseen events of a later period. This year, Tnii ROLLING S'roNic stands as a product of the undivided concentration of the Cheshire student, and it is all-iniportant that it should leave a thorough imprint on the niinds ol' future Cheshire graduates. 'With the renienibranee ol' this book, and the Academy lilie which made it possible, may this year's graduating class depart with hope and confidence for the future. 8

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History of Cheshire Academy OR over a hundred and fifty years the educational institution at Cheshire has maintained an honorable record and has rendered valuable service to the cause of education. Throughout the nineteenth century and now dur- ing the hrst half of the twentieth, its roll of graduates includes names famous in history, politics, education, linance, and society. lt has drawn students from many foreign countries: Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Panama, and from the continent of Europe, students from Holland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Latvia, Spain and France, There have also been students from England and China. One might say that the Cheshire Academy, in one of its several forms since 1796, is known all over the civilized world. The foundation of Cheshire Academy as an educational institution was determined in 1792 by the hrst lipiseopal Bishop in America, Samuel Seabury. lt was not, however, until April 28, 1796, that the cornerstone of the Academy was laid and the school ollicially opened by the Reverend Tillotson Bronson. Doctor John Bowden was chosen Principal at the annual Convention at Cheshire, in Qlune, 1796, when a constitution was drawn up and a board of twenty-one Trustees was elected. The First building, Bowden Hall, was completed in the autumn of 1796 by the people of Cheshire. Scarcity ol funds necessitated the granting by the State Legislature of a lottery to raise the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. College degrees, however, were not permitted by the Legislature. The Reverend l'Villiam Smith succeeded Doctor Bowden in 1802, and three years later the Academy was incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Connecticut.. Durinf the followinf ears the Academ went throu '11 several . la la V . , V 3 . . chan 'es ol bros Jeritv and adversity. Ihen in 1862 under the leadershin ol 3 tl l , , U ' I Doctor Sanlord Horton, the Academ was established as a flourislun 1' lllllllklf ' 1' A 1' school which attracted students from far and near. These were the days of the Civil X'Var and three famous members of the Alumni were Admiral Foote, General XVhee1er, and Secretary XfVel1es. The thoughts of students naturally gravitated towards army life, just as they did during the past years when the present Academy included a .lunior R.O.T.C., Military Science and Aviation Science among the courses offered. The last Principal of the Episcopal Academy, upon the retirement of Doctor Horton in 1892, was liri D. llloodbury who served the school unsparingly for seven years. At the end of this period the Trustees of the Diocese of Connecticut leased the school for ninety-nine years to the Trustees of the Cheshire School, Inc. The buildings were entirely renovated and the school placed on a thoroughly modern basis. In 1917 the Academy, under the name of Roxbury School, was under the Headmastership of Mr. lValter Ferris, the father of Stuart Ferris who is now a member ol' the lloard of Trustees. Mr. Arthur N. Sheriff, the present Headmaster, took ollice in 1922 and it was during his regime in 1937 that a Charter was granted by a Special Assembly in Hartford, and the school was named Cheshire Academy. Mr. Sherill' by preserving the best of the traditions of the past and including many modern features has made Cheshire Academy one of the most outstanding institutions of learning in the country. 10