Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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,ti A , ,, . ,.,- Y Recently two well known alumni of Cheshire haxe published autobiographies which tell of their days at the Academy Some of the trials and problems which they faced were those which almost any boy would find in a boarding school But other problems show us an Academy so different from the present that wc become excn more conscious than before of the great changes which haxc tilcen place in a history of one hundred sixty two years If we count in four seasons there are 618 seasons As early as lebruary 1792 the Episcopal Comention of Connecticut began to make inquiry what can be done toward erecting an Episcopal Academy In 1794 Cheshire was chosen as the seat Ex en before and building could be erected the Rex Mr Bronson opened a school in accordance with the wishes of the Conyention The cornerstone of what is now Bowden Hall was laid April 28 1796 a constitution was adopted and Dr ohn Bowden was chosen principal The Thirty Proprietors conxeyed to the Trustees the building at a cost of 702 pounds lawful money These proprietors who raised the money must haxe been xery adxanced people One account says they were deeply impressed with the importance of establishing literary in stitutions Only thirteen were Episcopalians and the constitution forbade compulsory religious serxices except as the parents and guardians should direct Provision exen in that early moment in the life of our country fthe federal Constitution was then only fue years oldj was made for female education Few of the Cheshire men who raised the crucial 702 pounds were men of wealth The wife of one is reported to haxe thought that instead of her husband s giying money to the Academy he should haxe bought her glass for the windows of their home since they had only oiled paper and she was unable to see her neighbors Most proprietors were farmers on farms fairly distant from the pro posed site around which there were only a few houses, There were also the Congrega- tional Church-predecessor of the present exquisite one on the green-and St. Peter's Episcopal Church with whose history the Academy's has been so intertwined that the yery transepts of the present edifice were built to accommodate our students and which still has close friendly relations though the Academy has long been non-sectarian. 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lim Wi' M W tif la lxwlwlll Jiri: l umltllll X H y A is 43 ,E 5 H T3 Mlmllm u T umllll J Mll AB-M f' l I T that he hoped the parrsh would soon burld a steeple to the church the brshop replred that they mnght better buuld a church to the steeple An old brll of 1798 shows that for one quarter s tuntxon 1n Englrsh grammar a father was charged 18 shrllxngs plus one shnllnng for repanrs Dr Bowden resngned rn 1802 and a succession of prmcrpals were also rectors of the church Thrs combmatron of dutres was not happy But rn 1862 the Crvrl War and the headshrp of Dr Sanford J Horton changed the srtuatron The Academy became a mrlrtary school and rts students cadets who wore a blue gray umform and were under strict mllrtary dnscxplrne Therr drrlls were passronately mterestmg to the small boys of the town and when the call The Cadmy boys are coming' was heard all the chrl dren on Mann Street llned the fences whrle no doubt therr older srsters peeked through the curtains Many remarkable storres are told about Dr Horton some of them too remarkable to be true He was supposed to haxe a burning love for buying old wrndows and portrcos and burldmg houses around them QWe need htm as school architect todayj Another tale rnforms us that a boy wanted to take a postgraduate course But presumably he would be free of the struct mrlrtary drscrplme which all the other boys had to accept Thrs would never do Dr Horton found a solutron, he appomted the boy brrgadrer general So pleased was the youth at thus trtle, hrs gold lace, and the orders he gave the other boys that he seems never to have realrzed that he too was under mrlrtary drscrplnne The story of thrs perhaps the fzrst post graduate student should brnng a reflectrve spnrnt to the many post graduates who now play such an rmportant part rn Cheshrre lrfe After hrs retrrement m 1892, Rev james Stoddard served for four years and was succeeded by Er: D Wwdbury, who had retrred from the Academy wrth Dr Horton but who now returned Hrs regrme remrnds us agam of the close relatronshrp between the Academy and the Crvrl War, of whrch he was a veteran Of the four clubs whrch play such a sxgnrfrcant part rn Chesh1re's lrfe today, three got therr names from men who played rmportant parts rn thxs CODfllCt-GldCOD Welles, Lmco1n's Secretary of the A 11 A 1 X Q wr .I if w ax, V f - ' A ' t ' 1 4 f A L . . '- , Y ,. ,Q , K ' : ' A ' f X , 1 A fi, fl, 7 X hu gg , 'Mg 5 Q -- . , 1 vi l. . t 1 ffl' a r . e 4 X , -Q 1 A me - . ' ,xr ,r HI l N 4. 4. ,. - rg . 5.. 'a fi ' s -s f..-1:1312 ' ' ,Nia-,4,,, A ' A -- ' ' , . ,,.. - V.-.f.,-X. , H , ,U v ' Q--ww'--' f 4- , fins i h, 23 :JA l E -- . . Us r,,. . Q , , . ,Liv - . 1. .6 f ' I L-. ns? 2' T rv : -'Z el- ' ill E J, , - .t rl V - -- s. c...o.f..., -l 1 V I Q' .3 , fu , M, ,nv . .-hr E-VL-V H . ,I . lawn n f K I N- I ,gf Q- . X17-Q M - N 1 ,W J' v p e wg g l + 2 tg .. 2 r 1 ' -l ' A Q .V l -A T' V e 'Q ' V fa .., a - ,A ,' A 15 ,J 5. 2: ' A v M . ' ' ' H x '11, I :fj,.f5:Qg' psf-L: ggi, 'Ly' IAA, A 5 1 5 1 P Q j 5 ly '34 'f f ' 5 'sec, 3. f' ef- i1f'af'l ','.irllQ,-ff ze f :f e . f . . rr f' 2- . . . - . - A , 1- ,.,,, 3- , 1 lf ,,-v....'fY 1 . 1:HA.,,,v ,. , .V LY,-,S-. 1 ... ,gnu iz ,f - V .'. ,-5 - Y, 1,-V ,Ju K ,. Q an X ' M X' X' ' - ,1.zfl+f,'! . 3-tg,-. ww iq' A ' ' - - i:':. .. . ti' ' ' '- , . 5, A Q -. ' f 3 ' Y' 2'1 ec' W- a ' Q, l 'l'i , llillonll-!.1'1i T ,W f ,QQ If- xl? ,N ., 9 lltr h -' ' ,' 5- V ' me-l la - l'l 1 ?l'?fV2W ' 'ff A .-11-w 7:1 l Wi '-1sa: H Q ,- 'fiifr 'T ve - , Y ' ' 'l pw'i 1 ' . 5, 1 ' .a-fH 3i'ff--.Za-F.,-1-:ALl f?i ' N S, 'L' - -...kv ' WL., .l.g,L,L' -M .0 mag? - ...:,.f,s-::g:+.g- '-' 'M1-, p3 ig?2., ' 'A ,Q ' Y, -,L .1-. 1., ,,L: :, ' ' 5... f u. 'fa iggkvru - ' ' -...- , f , - b . Nr, f:Y: 4 L1..m. ' 1, T' - ..,.---- ln QAEI i3l1t ' 4'-'A I. fs, ,C fl T YU lin r lf- Vvflf' 5 .Q - - H , r ' ' v . . , , .. - .. - 1 - y ' 3 . , ,