Lenox School - Martin Yearbook (Lenox, MA)

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DEDICATION - At the annual convocation of Kenyon College last October 28th, President F. Edward Lund stepped forward and read into the platform microphone: Robert Lewis Curry, for fifteen years you have been headmaster of the Lenox School, the Church Preparatory School of New England. Under your persevering, energetic administration the school has increased four-fold and is at the moment the fastest growing preparatory school in the East. Your graduates serve State and Church well, many give themselves to the nation's intellectual, industrial, and political life, at this moment more men are entering the ministry from the Lenox School than from any other school. Figures, however, are only outward signs and symbols. Behind them, within them, is the man whom Kenyon reioices to honor today, a faithful pastor, counselor, and educator, a man whose ministry seems patently molded -and guided by that Divine word which is the motto of his school: Non Ministrare, sed ministrari fNot to be served, but to servel. Robert Lewis Curry, you will now be presented by the Secretary of the Faculty for the degree of Doctor in Divinity. Thus a distinguished college of the Church recognized the phenomenal growth of Lenox-spirit- ually and physically-due principally to Mr. Curry's energetic and inspired leadership. Under Mr. Curry, not only has enrollment quadrupled, but eight buildings have been increased to twenty-one, sixty-five acres to one hundred, a new science and math building was dedicated, the field house was renovated, Rice Wing was built, and the faculty increased from eight to twenty-three. More important than this, however, has been the depth of Mr. Curry's spiritual leadership as Headmaster. Now eigh- teen graduates and five former masters serve in the priesthood-a total of twenty-three men giving their lives to Christ in His ordained ministry. The scarlet academic hood and the parchment scroll given to Mr. Curry last October by Kenyon are tributes to the man who has become the symbol of Lenox. A symbol inspiring boys to go into all the world with the light of the Gospel illuminating their lives. Mr. Curry would be offended if anyone were to suggest that he, himself, is the center of Lenox-for the power which inspires him and is the center of the school, is the power of God. For being unto us a symbol of that divine power, for directing us in the life of our community with personal concern, a hearty sense of humor, an Irish temper which flares up when it ought to, and a strong sense of values-on this, his fifteenth year as Headmaster, we dedicate this book. - Mr. Curry receives the hood and the scroll-symbols of his degree.

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SEATED Rev Robert L. Curry, D.D. lHeadmasterJ Mr. Arthur Poole, Right Rev. William Appleton Lawrence Mr Albert Rice lPresident of the Boardj, Rev. G. Gardner Monks lFormer Headmasterl, Dr. Robert Tracy, Mr. David Dana STAND ING Mr James Hart, Rev. Harry Hones, Mr. Arthur Birchard, Rev. Robert S. S. Whitman. TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees is the highest authority of Lenox School. Made up of businessmen, interested laymen of the church, alumni and members ot the clergy, they balance the budget, aid in mak- ing policy decisions, and oversee the administration of the school. An Executive Committee, composed ot members ot the Board residing in Berkshire County, on which Messrs. Hart, Birchard, Wilde, Whitman, and Dana serve, meets weekly with the Head- master to help work out the problems ot day-to-day lite at Lenox. As examples ot Christian stewardship, the Trustees have support- ed and aided the school faithfully -throughout its history, and are in no small part responsible for its present excellent position.