Lenox School - Martin Yearbook (Lenox, MA)

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4-x HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE - The six-year history of the Form of 1960 has seen the greatest expansion in the life of the school, and it may well be that no other form in the future will be able to testify to equal physical growth. When the current sixth form entered in the fall of 1954, the enrollment was 125 fwhich was double the enrollment of 19511. In the following five years the registration increased to our current 227 boys enrolled. In this period of time the faculty has doubled. During these years the school has added the Rice Wing, giving us a new dining room, dormitory, study hall, classrooms, kitchen. Hardly had we moved into this completion of St. Martin's Hall, when the Schermerhorn property was given to the school. Clipston Grange was turned into a dormitory and masters' apartments, and the Headmaster was moved to a house at High Lawn. Then, more recently, we were given the Bassett estate, and we con- verted the old barn into the new Field House, and the row of carriage sheds into the new science unit- Monks Hall. We have added three new tennis courts at Schermerhorn, a new playing field and one practice field. In acreage we have expanded from 62 acres to 85, and it now appears as though we may add another IZVZ acres of a nearby estate with the long range view of adding new playing fields. We have rented a double house at Berkshire Estates South for two masters and their families. Certainly it may well be said that thedecade 1950-1960 has been one of expansion, and as far as we can determine we have been the fastest growing school.in the East. Why have we done all this? There are two reasons. The Board of Trustees, seeing the oncom- ing post-war population reaching our level of education, decided that we should do our share to try to give the best in Christian education to as many boys as possible. Combined with this was the rapid succession of gifts-Schermerhorn Hall and the Bassett estate being the largest-and the raising of !54oo,ooo in the Consolidation Fund drive to clear the debt on the Rice Wing, and to help make possible the Science Building and the Field House. What has it accomplished? A real growth in the quality of our education, and the sense of new strength. While we have been expanding, our applications have far outrun the numbers we could take, so that the quality of student at entrance has risen. A larger faculty has made possible the expansion of our program. A larger student body has made it possible to do more things . . . Glee Club C0r1CertS at Northfield are an example of this . . . Thus the form of 1960 has known not only physical growth within the school, it has had the privilege to know and sense the growing strength of Christian education--it has received much and it has contributed much to this growth, and it is the inner or spiritual growth of the expansion which has been the exciting result of the school's physical growth. R. I.. C. The Rev. Robert L. Curry QOpposite pagej Mr. Curry congratulates a winner

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Mr. Edward A. Gleason, Jr. fChairmanj, Mr. David L. Southworth, Mr. F. Brooks Butler. I As the school expanded rapidly from one hu dred and eight boys in our first form year, to tw, hundred and twenty-eight in our senior year, thi need became apparent for a group of men to decidi and enforce school policy. The Disciplinary Com mittee fulfilled this need. In its first year, the Com mittee was an immediate success. Mr. Southworth Mr. Butler, and Mr. Gleason performed a commend able and admirable job. The Committees proceed! ings were especially important as they set a valuablt and enduring precedent. DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE Formerly at Lenox, students were admitted simply on the basis of I. Q. or personal need. Now with the great growth and turn over of the school, the need for an admissions committee be- came acute. Last year one was appointedg it con- sisted of Messrs. Ramsbotham, Wood, and Saw- yer, who, judging by the fine crop of scholars admitted this year, have done their jobs with a great deal of time and thought. Unfortunately, the work of the committee is 'seldom heard of in normal school life, but con- sidering that only about one out of three appli- cants is admitted, the men do conscientiously the difficult task of judging human qualities. I2 I I Mr. David H. Wood fAssistant Headmasterj, Mr. Richard D. Sawyer, Mr. Riker L. Ramsbotham. I A I