Hoosac School - Owl Yearbook (Hoosick, NY)

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ADMINISTRATION

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 Hoosac School has made steady progress over the past few years in the integration of a sound moral philosophy and preparation for college or life. These ideas are simple enough to suggest as the basis of both curricular and extra-curricular training. Nevertheless, to implement them requires a great deal of planning, thinking, adding and discarding. To follow historical patterns, we should strike a proper balance. While this is indeed the Hoosac way, it is not always simple to do. The means by which the mental and moral growth of Hoosac boys is promoted is found in a daily blending of the Christian ethic with all subject matter that is taught. These educational concepts are important and over the past seventy years they have grown to be a part of this school. But age alone does not necessarily make a thing good. We find that what is good in the concepts is that they provide the best hope we have of preventing man from becoming an animal. They are the best guides for us to follow in our constant search for justice, world understanding and peace. In this day of missile armament growth and compe- tition, let us not forget (and in 1985 when the class ol 1960 has its twenty-fifth reunion, let us not forget) that we must constantly ask ourselves the question which the psalmist asks in the one-hundred and twenty- first psalm and in our own school song: . . . From whence cometh my help? Page 4

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Headmaster’s Message Three score and ten years ago the Hoosac School under Dr. Tibbits had completed a phase of the idea he had in mind. He had finished an academic year, as we have, but with a very small group of boys. It is not significant whether or not he had a Prize Day for a few Sixth Formers that year. Neither is it significant that boys out of that Form went or did not go to college. The real point is that the Rector began something that has been sustained as a part of the American educational scene by the love and labor of people who believed in what he had established. To a large measure, the devotion of a few has given us something of great value. The few who have sustained it and who have given the school to us were men devoted to the service of God. They taught several generations of Hoosac boys that the one continuing force in life is the belief in a greater power. While new boys who come to this lovely spot in the Taconic Hills may have been brought up in varying re- ligious beliefs and ways of worship, we hope that old boys who leave us will do so with some measure of understanding of the part God plays in their lives. I hope that this year’s graduating class — the Seventieth Anniversary Class — will look back on their years here and find that the significant fact of their lives rests in the constant recognition of the statement expressed in the school motto — Deus Regit. This is our bequest to you, and with it we wish you Godspeed.