Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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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 . , ,

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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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Nayy Admrral Foote and General Wheeler These three haxe been discussed exten snely nn the many books vxhlch haye reccntly appeared about the Curl Wfar The fourth alumnus for vxhom a club IS named 15 P Morgan This extraordinary fmancner IS creduted mth the school crest and seal stlll the lnsrgnla of the Academy Thus coat of arms which stands on the coyer of our Yearbook IS based on the coat of arms of Cheshlre England for whlch the town was named Among :ts many mterestmg elements of heraldry are the ostrnch plumes Legend tells that at the Battlc of Crccy m 1546 john the old and bland Kung of Bohemla msnsted on bemg led mto battle to struke at least one blou before he dxed After the battle Edward the Black Pnnce of Wales plucked from hrs dead body the crest of whxte ostrlch plumcs vuth the motto Irla dzerz 1 fefze whmch thenceforth became the motto of the Prmce of Wales vsho also held the tltle to Cheshrre m England and thence to Cheshrrc Academy In 1904 the Trustees leased the school to Mr joseph Harriman Durmg hrs and the preuous pernods there had been yast changes mcludmg changes of name from the Epnscopal Academy of Connectrcut to the Cheshlre School to the Roxbury School In 1937 the last change rn name was made to The Cheshxre Academy and the orrgmal charter was restored by the Legnslature This was only one of the many changes durrng the headmastershnp of the present Head Master Arthur N Sheruff who has made Cheshnre one of the outstandnng prepara tory schools nn the country wrth four hundred frfty students and a staff of sexenty Mr Sherlff has led the school m ey ery sense for thrrty srx years He has made a personal con trrbutnon to the education of thousands of boys who haxe graduated and many others besndes He contxnues to keep an touch wrth former and present students all over Amenca and nn dozens of forengn lands What was a vrsnon nn the minds of those thrrty nn a l1ttle town nn New England who rarsed the ongmal 702 pounds has become a fmely balanced preparatory school whose mfluence perhaps lrghtly and sometrmes deeply reaches all oy er the world ILPISCOPAT ACADFMY Ol COYNECIUUT PHESHIRF The xllustratrons on these three pages are reproductxons from the catalogue of 1868 69