Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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FOREWORD We chose as The Theme of This yearbook Cheshire Skies, and our Theme is expressed in The subTle and dramaTic phoTograph on The facing page. Any waTcher of The skies can find unusual beauTies in any sky, buT Those which canopy Cheshire are especially lovely To us, and are shared by all of us, like our memories of The Academy. Cloud for- maTions, branches againsT The sky, form symbolic backgrounds for many of our pages. BuT early in our preparaTions for publicafion a suggesTion was made: The Olympian gods of The Greeks, who appear so formidably in all our liTeraTure and TradiTions, were sky gods dwelling in The clouds of Olympus buT conTinually parTicipaTing in The life and growTh of man, would iT noT enrich our sky Theme and Tie iT wiTh our educaTion if we were To include The myThs of Hellas? Such an appealing idea could hardly be resisTed, especially when The riches of Greek vase painTing were so abundanTly available and so well adapTed To giving us uniTy of siyle. WhaT we had failed To realize is ThaT when we Try To Take over The gods They have an overwhelming Tendency To Take us over insTead. The reader viewing our end paper will surely be more impressed wiTh The immorTals Themselves Than wiTh The facT ThaT They happen To live in The sky. And on many oTher occasions he will find as he reads ThaT The human beings whom The Greeks raised To godhead appear, calmly and imperTurb- ably, To have asserTed Their dominion over The book as They have over The skies and us. The symbols which The Greeks creaTed more Than TwenTy-five hundred years ago have sTill The viTaliTy They had for all The wriTers of The WesTern world, if we have The viTaliTy To see and reinTerpreT Them in our own lives. Zeus sTill sTands for supreme rule, Apollo for lighT, Afhena for wisdom, Hercules for physical feaTs, AphrodiTe for social delighTs', Hermes for The commercial acTiviTies wiTh which he inTroduces our adverTising secTion. Of course, we asked all our phoTographers To Try on every possible occasion To geT as a background an especially beauTiful Cheshire sky. Here The gods, however, presenTed an ironically baleful influence. AlmosT always when phoTographs were To be Taken, The sky presenTed a bland panorama, as if unwilling To rival The deiTies who inhabiTed iT when Homer sang. NeverTheless we Think we here recorded The skies of Cheshire which covered us during This academic year. And we close wiTh anxespecially fine phoTograph of one of Them, along wiTh a group poem wriTTen by a class in English Four, every one of whose members conTribuTed a parT of Cheshire Skies. BuT hpw does our TiTle, The Rolling STone, relaTe To all This? No doubT The mosT famous rolling sTone in Greek myThology was The one which Sisyphus had To roll up a mounTain every morning. JusT as he reached The Top The sTone always rolled down again. RoberT Graves in The Greek MyThs Tells us ThaT The sTone undoubTedly rep- resenTs The sun. And The sTory cerTainly also can be a symbol of The making of a year- book . . . and of educaTion iTself. We have To keep on rolling The sTone.

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CHESHIRE THEN - The Academy, Tounded in 1794 as The Episcopal Academy of ConnecTi- cuT, has seen many changes in The 164 years which have passed since a small group of religious leaders and farmers made modesT conTrilouTions so ThaT learning mighT loe advanced in ConnecTicuT. One of iTs mosT imporTanT periods, during and afTer The Civil War, is illusTraTed loelow, when The Academy was a miliTary school. Vw' ws Maxam 'mn -2,-was Tania, .sac .T . ,ii A am fii.i1iMW,g ivifwwiiaswm