Darrow School - Shaker Post Yearbook (New Lebanon, NY)

 - Class of 1936

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The Peg Board since the limitation of space would not permit the printing of all articles submitted, it was decided to divide the boys not on the Peg Board staff into five groups, assign a separate research project to each group, and give a prize-a one year's subscription to the Peg Board-to each boy who wrote the best paper on his particular project. The plan met with an enthusiastic reception on the part of the school. Accordingly a member of the staff was assigned to each group as a leader to work in cooperation with the English master, Mr. Cowardin. Then such material as could be obtained in the short time available was mimeographed and copies were distributed among the contestants for use as notes. Many of the competitors, moreover, were so deeply interested that they secured additional notes on their own initiative. When the papers were ready, they were collected by the respective group leaders. Thereupon a meeting of the staff was called, and each leader read his papers, designating them by numbers rather than by the names of the authors. Voting then by numbers in order to insure the greatest ossible fairness, the other editors selected the winners and awarded the prizes. The names ot? those who won and of those who received honorable mention are given below. The articles follow, printed in the same order: GROUP I Boys ry' the Lower Middle Year Winner SINCLAIR DANEORTH HAR'F Honorable Mention DU'r'roN SMITH GROUP II Boys of the Middle Year Winner SAMUEL PENDLETON COWARDIN, III Honorable Mention THOMAS MCLEAN GRIFFIN GROUP III Boys fy' the Upper Middle Year Winner NATHANIEL EDWARD GRIFFIN Honorable Mention JAMES OLMs'rEAD HALL GROUP IV Boy.: 4 the Upper Middle Year Winner HENRY MARSHALL COLVIN Honorable Mention RICHARD RICE HENYAN GROUP V Boy: cythe Senior Year Winner WILLIAM BRADFORD HALL Honorable Mention MURDOCK TOWER PEMBERTON, JR. 21

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THE PEG BOARD Volume 4 New Lebanon, N. Y., June, 1936 Number I I EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Art Editor L. SUMNER RICHARDS, JR. WINTHROP B. Col-'HN EUGENE S. WEST, Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor DONALD MCCONAUGHY, JR. DOUGLAS H. WEST BUSINESS BOARD CHARLES H. RHODES, II, Business Mgr. fIss't Business Mgrs. WINTHROP ENDICOTT CHARLES T. DAVENPORT Published four times a year by the students of The Lebanon School, New Lebanon, N. Y. Price of subscription 51.00 per year. Single copy of Shaker Number 5oc. For advertising rates address Business Manager. . EDITORIAL Plans and dreams have been fulfilled with the release of this issue of the Peg Board. It has always been the desire of the students and faculty to devote an edition of our publication to an account of the Shakers who lived here in this valley before us. We have been brought into close Contact with these remarkable people, and we have come to have a high regard for their whole- some simplicity, their high moral code, and their many talents. . R All around us there is evidence of their existence here in the past. We live in what was their main dwelling house, surrounded by the numerous other buildings which they erected, and all these buildings and grounds are rich in examples of Shaker craftsmanship. Today we value immensely the interest shown towards us by those Shakers who still live in the valley. When negotiations were being made for the establishing of this school, their honest and generous methods of transacting the sale of the land and buildings now in the school'S possession clearly showed the founders that the Shakers would always be behind them. As we look back on the four years since then, we realize that we have had their full cooperation and staunch support and also tliat their unsellish interest has meant much in the success of the school. It is because of their gen- erosity and loyalty that we wish to dedicate this number to them to assure them that as long,as we are fortunate enough to have them with us theirs will be our most treasured friendship. The Prize Essays REALIZING that the preparation of articles for this Shaker Number of the Peg Board would give the writers valuable training in composition and'in methods of research, the editors wished to offer every boy in school the opportunity to make a literary contribution. However, 20



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The Peg Board 1936 The Shaker Wash House By SINCLAIR DANFORTH HART, ,39 Prize Article in the Lower-Middle Group HE Shaker laundry, or wash house as it was called, was built in sections from time to time. For this reason it is difiicult to determine the exact date of its construction. I shall reverse the usual order and describe this building from the attic down, reserving the ground floor, on which most of the laundry work was done, to be considered last. In the attic the clothes used to be dried on racks. These interesting old racks are still to be seen. A number of old spinning wheels and hand looms are also to be found up there, but they must have been put there for storage. They could hardly have been used where they are, for it was too hot, and besides, the clothes would have been in the way. Most of the rooms on the second and third floors were used as workshops. In one ofthese shops weaving was done, in another the mending, and in still another the ironing. In the ironing room there is a stove shaped like a truncated cone. All around it run iron racks, each projecting out from it about two inches, and each about a quarter of an inch thick. The back ends of the irons were set on these racks so that the bottoms would rest against the stove. A fire was then lighted and the irons were heated. In one large room on the first Hoor of the building the laundry work was done. In the middle of this room are eight stone wash tubs in rows of four facing each other. Overhead is a barrel- shaped tank capable of holding ia great quantity of Water. It was heated by steam conveyed through pipes. The room was lighted by windows on the east and west sides. All the washing for the Church Family was done here. The Shakers would work all morning and stop at noon and have dinner. Often many things would go wrong. However, the sisters were never sullen. Perhaps a story of a washing day would show how the Shakers washed and what might happen. In the morning about five o'clock a large bell was rung to call the sisters to work. If one were late, she would make up for it by working especially hard all the rest of the day. Every sister, however, disliked to be tardy. In a little while many baskets filled with clothes ready to be washed stood by the Shaker washing machine, and there also stood as many as twelve sisters as assistants. But sometimes things went wrong. The pipes that held the steam might have frozen, and then, of course, no hot water could be obtained. While the engineers were fixing the pipes, the sisters would go off to do other things that had to be done before night. When they were through and the pipes had been put in order, they would continue their work. After a while a dense fog of steam might arise. The Shakers as usual had a remedy for this. They had learned from previous experience that if two doors opposite each other were opened, the draft would take most of the vapor away. But when they tried to open the doors, they sometimes found them frozen. Then a good fire would be made so as to melt the ice. All this might occur before breakfast, but not one sister would be gloomy. Their cheerful- ness in such 'circumstances was caused by the influence of their Sabbath devotions and the vows they had made. After they returned from breakfast, they might find the washing machine frozen, but a little oil and some hammering would soon put it in good shape. This machine, I must say here, was very useful to the Shakers. One of them once said, The Shaker Washing Machine has rendered too much valuable service in the last ten years to permit us to underestimate its many excel- lencies. The Shakers had only one article that was of as much use to them as their washing machine. This was the Shaker Laundry Soap. With this soap they were able to clean many things such as linens, woolens, and cottons and even the finer fabrics, silks, laces, and muslins. They have proved that paint and all kinds of ink and stains can be removed by the proper use of this soap. 22

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