Hackley School - Annual Yearbook (Tarrytown, NY)

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l DEDICATION HAT could be more fitting than to dedicate the 1953 Hilltop to Lawrence Wliittier Newell, who has been intimately connected with Hackley School since its earliest days. After graduating from Harvard in 1904, Doc Newell taught at Cloyne House in Newport, Rhode Island, and St. Lukes school in Wfayne, Pennsylvania. He came to Haclcley in 1911 as head of the lfrench Department. During Worlcl Wilt' I he served in Foyer du Soldat in the French Army, and returned to Hackley in the fall ot' 1919. ln 1925 he went to Choate School. He retired from active teaching in 1948 and returned to Haclcley. livery Hackley student and graduate is indebted to Mr. Newell lior his tireless work in recent years, first as Director of Admissions and now as Director of Alumni Relations. Doc Newell has been a true friend and advisor to many ol us. We sincerely hope that he will continue to he our historian and guide for many years to come.

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Q' 1 I 919613231-t MSIZISIUBJSI iw- 'QI FRANK R. MILLER H et1d1llt1.i'lc'1' TO THE MEMBERS OE THE CLASS OE 1953: S I write this you have still several weeks of work before your graduation, but in the years to come you may re-read this message as alumni. Graduation from Hackley is an important time in your life, it is a time when many of you pause and look hack over the years you have spent here. You may remember many things: perhaps .L foothall victory, a particularly inspiring teacherg a moment when you suddenly dis- tovered some great truth in one of your classesg a particularly worthwhile hull SCSSIOIIHZ .1 lazy spring day down at the tennis courts: the gray gloom of a winter morning. This will always he a part of your life, hut it is a chapter which is now ending. As the years go hy the unpleasant memories will disappear hut many of the pleasant ones will remain with you all your life. They are worth cherishing. Graduation is also a time when you must look forward, as well as hatk. Many people have told you, and will continue to tell you, that you graduate into a world of tension, of confusion, and of unfair demands on young men. However, if I have learned any- thinij from a study of history, it is that every period in the history of the human race thag has shown great advancement, change, and progress, has been a period of tension and pressure for those who lived in it. Therefore, I urge you to accept willingly and enthuiastically the challenges the world will thrust upon you. You are fortunate to he young in such an age. Although the chapter of your life as undergraduates at Hackley is ending, and you move forward to new adventures, may your interest in your school never slacken. As Alumni you have it in your power to keep I-Iackley the kind of school you have known, or to help it become an even tiner school. Come hack and visit us often. We shall always he glad to see you. Good luck and good hunting! FRANK R. IWIIIIIER, Hetnfllltliler 6