Knox School - Rose Leaves Yearbook (Nissequogue, NY)

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FIFTY YEAR The Knox School was founded fifty years ago in 1904 at Briarcliff Manor, New York, by Mary Alice Knox, who had previously been head of tl1e Emma Willard School at Troy, New York. Upon the death of Miss Knox in 1911, Mrs. Louise Phillips Hough- ton took over the school. After the building at Briarcliff was destroyed by fire in February 1912, Mrs. Houghton incorporated thc school and moved it to Brookside Park, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, where the school steadily developed and within eight years outgrew the Tarrytown buildings. Mrs. Houghton was fortunate to find a spacious sun-filled building known as the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, New York, and the school opened there in October 1920 with a greatly increased enroll- ment. During the past thirty years, more than three thousand students have received an important part of their education in the beautiful surroundings of the Leatherstocking country made famous by James Fenimore Cooper. Keeping pace with the changes in educational organization and control, The Knox School in 1924 was chartered as a non-profit educational institution governed by a Board of Trustees which always includes some alumnae. While the school was still at Tarrytown, Mrs. Houghton introduced such Knox traditions as our Senior Pledge, the Christmas Bevels, Carnival, the launching of the Senior Ship, and Lantern Nightg and it was through her inspiration that the Bose and White teams were initiated. All of these traditions are held close to the hearts of all those who have graduated from Knox and are memories to be cher- ished long after school-days are left behind. Knox is well known for its extensive sports curriculum and is justly proud of the fact that Knox was the first girls' school in the country to introduce skiing as a part of its sports program, also, it brought skiing to Cooperstown. In 1948 Mrs. Houghton retired and became President Emeritus, and Mrs. Alexander Stewart Phinney, Associate Principal was elected Principal and continues in that capacity. While isolation has its advantages, students should be kept in touch with the stream of modern thought in music, literature, art, science, national and world events, and politics. The Knox School has been able to do this over the years by bringing distinguished guests to the school. The aim of the school is to be college preparatory, although it offers a general course for those who do not wish to enter college as 52