Loomis Chaffee High School - Confluence Yearbook (Windsor, CT)

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THE LOOMISCELLANY FOR 1937 TO NATHANIEL HORTON BATCHELDER TO HONOR THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AND TO RECORD OUR FAITH THAT IN THE YEARS TO COME ACCOMPLISHMENT YET RICHER ' SHALL REWARD H15 WISDOM AND DEVOTION PAGE 4

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THE LOOMISCFLLA NY 1 1937 BEING THE YEAR BOOK OF THE LOOMIS SCHOOL PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS '35 'is' WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT

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LOOMIS SCHOOL ' WINDSOR - CONN. An Appreciation We have tried to build a place where it would be easy to be good and to be friendly, and we have tried to build a place of such beauty that our pupils should take inspiration from it. It is significant that these Words, spoken by Mr. Batchelder at the dedication of Founders Hall in 1917, should have lingered, as we are told, in the memory of one who heard them uttered, while all else that the speakers said on that occasion has been forgotten. These words have been remembered because they reveal a spirit and an ideal. There- fore, in dedicating this volume to Mr. Batchelder to mark the twenty- fifth anniversary of his appointment as Headmaster, we would compli- ment him not merely for his distinguished record as an educator, or for any technical excellence, although we are proud of these things, we know that he has taken care that the methods of the school should exhibit the spirit of progress tempered with common-sense, and that he has caused Loomis to win the respect of the educational world. But he also has made it plain to all who come to Loomis that no man may call himself educated, unless to intellectual training and social success he has added the ability to love goodness and to practise friendship and to be sensitive to beauty. Because these are qualities which Mr. Batchelder not only com- mends but possesses, we tender him at this happy time both our congrat- ulations and our affection. PAGE S