Cheshire Academy - Rolling Stone Yearbook (Cheshire, CT)

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of the Cheshire Academy From the time the Academy was conceived as a church school in 1794, it has flourished and de- veloped into a preparatory school of national and international renown. The first principal was the Reverend John Bow- den, and from his time to 1838, the era of the Reverend Eben Edwards Beardsley, students did not board at school but lived with private families in the village. The school continued as the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut throughout the nineteenth century. From 1862 to 1892, the Academy, although con- tinuing its Episcopal affiliations, became in part a military school. During a period prior to 1916 it was known as the Cheshire School. From 1916 The present gymnasium is about to enter a new era, as its still functional but hardly adequate facilities will assume a new role. to 1937 the Cheshire School combined with the Roxbury School. ln 1937, the Connecticut Assembly granted a new charter to the school as a non-profit institution, and the name Cheshire Academy was permanently assumed. With the coming of Mr. Arthur N. Sheriff, fifty years ago, a new concept of education was adopted. This concept, deeply rooted in New England tradi- tions, has promoted a good neighbor policy which has affected the lives of most students. Teaching all students to respect each other and work as brother with brother, this policy has furthered greatly the achievements of the Cheshire commu- nity. An early photograph reveals the ceiling framework of the newly- dedicated Arthur Sheriff Field House. The field house will take on the heavy responsibilities of the old gym.

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History Seabufry Hall, left, one of the older buildings on campus, now houses almost thirty classrooms, two lounges, and the disciplinarian's office. At one time or another every upper school student enters this main door and becomes part of a tradition stretching hack to the Civil War era pictured below. Clad in their military uniforms, students and faculty parade before the main classroom building of a century ago, old Horton Hall, lost in a violent fire in the early 1900's.

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Headmaster, Arthur N. Sheriff, B.A., Yale University, 19133 M.A., Yale University, 1915. Bursar's Office Helen W. Minkler, ,lulia Hall Frances Grove Helen Johnson Nadine Linehan Secretaries Eileen Bills Dorothy Henry Margaret Reilly Erika Sears Nivette Nadeau Hostess Faye Chubb Bursar Sta Treasurers Frederick J. Hesselmeyer, Ph.B., Yale University, 1916, L.L.B., Yale Law School 1920 Robert A. Hall, B.A., Yale University, 1930, L.L.B., Yale Law School, 1933 Physicians Wilbur 1. Moore, lVl.D., Columbia Medical School, 1921 Edward Wv. Oxnard, M.D., Harvard Medical School, 1936 Charles J. Dayton, MD., Temple University 1947 Board of Trustees: Seated: Mr. William Gager Mr. Arthur Sheriff, General George R. Sturges Mr. Robert Hall, Mr. F. Burton Fisher. 1