Edgewood School - Bridge Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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was that they were given something definite to do. Many of them now have re- sponsible positions in banks. Chicago became the center of educational traning in America where Colonel Parker, President Harper, john Dewey, Jane Adams, Ella Flagg Young and others became interested in the practice of educational theories. During this time the Uni- versity needed a Womens Gymnasium. We organized a great drive called The Path of Pennies , asking people to help supply the coppers that would reach from Lake Michigan to Cottage Grove Avenue! Before our energies were exhausted, Mr. Noyes, Cwho made his wealth with the dictionary standardj in memory of his wife, gave the necessary money and our own Lucine Finch who organized our first dra- matics, wrote and presented the pageant at its dedication. Scenes from this pageant now constitute the famous murals in Ida Noyes Hall of the University of Chicago and I was invited to assist Doctor Myra Reynolds in selecting and purchasing its furnishings. ' Because of my association with these people I was twice called to Europe to represent the ideas of the new education which they helped to develop. So, when later Mrs. Marietta johnson, who had developed her own school in Fairhope, asked me to help her establish The Edgewood School. I gladly came. Edgewood at that time was a partially burned house without a roof and badly water-soaked for seven and one-half years, and a neglected stable. The overgrown grounds showed signs of formal gardening. The present Science building. now the laboratory for the learned. was once the home for pedigreed cows and the Bell- Illava Studio a storehouse for their food! This end of the athletic held was a very large duck pond and the rest was covered with magnificent trees. The evolution of these early days into the present school represents the ideals, the enthusiasm and the generosity of many friends of whom Miss Evelyn McKinney, President of our Board of Trustees. is the present representative. Edgewood today has an Alumni of 325 boys and girls, some of whom live and work as far away as South Africag others in different places in Europe and America. One hundred boys and girls did active duty in the last War. In memory of the nine who did not return, Mr. Illava's Memorial Plaque bears testimony. Your school has taken honors in over twenty colleges in this country and four universities in Europe. Besides the number of its Alumni we have a growing group of grandchildren. three of whom have been attending school this year. EUPHROSYNE LANGLEY

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