Columbus Academy - Caravel Yearbook (Gahanna, OH)

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Dedication Mr. Kenneth R. Evans is unquestionably one of the finest teachers The Academy has seen. Yet he is more of a scholar than a teacher. Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year at Yale, he is very well versed in classical Greek and Latin and has spent parts of his summer vacations in New Haven translating new Latin manuscripts. ln conjunction with a local doctor, he has translated a medieval work on skull fractures, De F ractura Cranei. He is also on the Board of Elders of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church. At The Academy his courses have been among the most interesting the members of the Class of '63 have taken. His third-year Latin is as much a philosophy course as a language exercise, and his second-year course is partly a history. Classes with Mr. Evans are always lively, witticisms and unfailing good humor have enlivened virtually all the subjects he has taught. During his career at The Academy he has taught Latin, ancient history, mythology, plane geometry, and developmental reading. He is the school,s dietitian as well, a position in which he has smilingly Weathered a deluge of feeble witticisms about Academy lunches. All of us in the Class of 1963 have great respect for Mr. Evans. His complete grasp of his subject, his informal manner of teaching, and his sym- pathy and interest in his students make him as close to being an ideal teacher as any man we have met. We are proud to dedicate the 1963 Caravel to Mr. Kenneth R. Evans.

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'N Y The Q Building Q43 asv' W u h Q Q 915' 612559 M' The Academy is fortunate to have one of the finest educational plants in the area. Its classrooms, laboratories, natatorium, gym- nasium, and athletic fields offer to faculty and students an attractive and well-equipped school in which to Work. The buildings of The Academy are the creations of the men who established and developed the school. ln the early l900's, the group of Columbus businessmen who bought the former roadhouse on Franklin Park South envisaged a school that would be the best in the city. Frank P. R. Van Sickle, the first Headmaster, began changing this vision into reality. The present buildings of the school, however, are monuments to the school,s last Headmaster, lVlr. Sumner F. Dennett, who kept the school open during the Depression. It was Mr. Dennett who started the enlargement of the school by funds donated by friends and alumni. During Mr. Putnam's first three years as Headmaster, yet more classrooms and equipment have been added to the school. The buildings of The Academy exist to make possible the education which the school's founders hoped to offer. And, in a deeper sense, they exist because of the teachers, alumni, and friends who have helped this hope to be realized.