Monson Academy - Pharetra Yearbook (Monson, ME)

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THE PHARETRA hort tlme after the fire the framework of the present bu1ld1ng 37 by 56 feet was ransed ln the presence of a large gathermg of people and was st1ll standlng uncovered May 27 1860 when Monson was vxslted by 'mother conflagratlon which destroyed the greater part of the vlllage mcludmg the Cong egatlonal Church two hotels nearlv all the hops and stores and slx dwellmg houses In splte of this great calamxty the work of the Academy went on and the out slde ol the bulldmg was fimshed durmg the the carpenter work The legislature of 1861 m response to an apphcatlon by the trustees granted to Monson Academy one quartel of a tovmshlp IH Aroostook County whlch the 'Trustees sold January 24 1864 to George K Jewett of Bangor for S2000 On the strength of this grant the Academy had been fl 1Sh6d on the mslde 1n 1861 the work mg dore by James Washburn of Parkman 1th some changes ln th mterlor arrange ments the bulldmg was then what lt IS today except that the second story was left as a hall the lower storv only being used for school purposes It was fltted with hard wood double desks and seats of a pattern much superlor to those of the old buxldxng but now dlscarded Among the contrxbutors we note wlth interest the name of the flrst prlnclpal Wllllam Seavey who gave S50 Smce 1872 the Academy had been umted w1th the Monson Hlgh School ln exchange for a grant made by the town for thls pur pc e The mvested fund of the Academy ln cleased from S2 798 41 Julv 27 1850 to 8326431 July 18 1859 and 5404443 Januarv 23 1867 flom whlch It has var1ed but httle smce The demands upon an mstltutlon of lealn mg at the present tlme make a much larger endowment lmportant to 1fS highest useful ness In no better way could the former student show thelr grateful appreclatlon of the debt thev owe to the mstltutlon than by fakmg steps to mcrease lts endowment Monson owes much to the academy and to the public splrlted men who founded lt Let xt nevel be forgotten that society d1d not rest upon lumber and slate but upon those Cllll and rellglous mstltutlons which have ever been the 'rue glory of New England Dudley P Bailey Ey erett Mass t t These addltlonal facts have been obtamed from the Monson Academv Trustees book January 3, 1873 the matter of maklng the school free to all scholars ln town was con sldered In 1881 the sprlng term was dlspersed Lecause of low' finances On Januarv 5, 1887 lt was voted that a sum not exceedlng S25 bc spent on the Academy grounds On Jan uary 4 1888 ll was voted to have an addltlonal Insurance not exceeding S1000 on the build mg In 1889 the expenses of the teachers were reduced to not less than S100 On Aprll 29 1891 510 was approprlated for setting up trees on the Academy ground In 1891 C E B Llbby was appomted Prlnclpal On July 1 1892 the nrst floor of the Academy was made mto two scnool rooms and the hlgh school room was calcmuned On Januarv 3 1894 S5 was appropliated for each of the three terms of scnool as prlzes for declamatlons one half to bovs and one half to gxrls In February 1895 S10 was approprlated for school paper On January 1 1896 S500 was added to the ln urance On January 25 1895 the spring term wa extended to ten weeks On January students of Monson vxllage Dramatic entertamment partlclpated m by scholars durmg school eason was abolxshed because yt tended to dlstract and mjure the school The Senior Class at the clo e of the spring term had to pass an examinatlon whlch would certify thelr fitness for graduatlon On January 16 1908 arrangements for a laboratory were made It was to be finished by the fall term 5100 was spent for lmprov mg the laboratory Athletic teams belonging to the Academy were allowed to be awav from school not ex ceedmg two weeks durmg the school year and were required to make up all lessons mlssed durmg that period Iwo dlplomas were granted unless the usual public graduation was held and all students had ranks of not less than 70 On January 26 1910 the Treasurer recexved S5 annually for h1s servlces March 16 1922 S100 was spent for electrlc llghts for the Academy On February 27 1924 the Academy bulldmg was remodeled S3000 wa spent on repalrs and the msurance on the bulldmg was ralsed to S10 000 Dudley Balley left all the books of hls lxb ary which related to the State of Maine to the Academy On June 18 1930 525 was approprxated for a prlze spealung contest in the Academv Dls trlbutyon of money was left to the Supenn tendent On June 17 1931 lt was voted to have Baccalaureate Sermon ln the Baptlst Church and hereafter held alternately be tween the Baptlst and Congregatlonal Churches It was voted to purcha e dlplomas each year as requlred On June 15 1932 Public Speaking was made compulsory for Freshman and Sophomore Classes On June 19 1941 S1000 special approprxatlon from the State was to be put on a Commumty Hall fund On June 'll 1944 the band stand was put on the Academy grounds In 1945 the treasurer was authorized tc let garden lots on Academy' lands and collect not less than S2 each The treasurers salarv was Increased to S10 annu ally On January 20, 1947 the teaching facultv of the Academy was glven full authorltv to buxld a 1947 edltlon of the Pharetra around the hundredth annlversarv of Monson Acad emy A commlttefe of SIX alurnnx was aPP0imCd to take steps to form an Alumnx Association U 12 s ' . K , ' , ' . . , T ' , 1 . ' . . ' ' . S ' . . - . l . ' - ' s . W Y .. . ' season of 1860, Cyrus Stone of Ripley doing 2, 1901 the Academy' was made free for the A - . L . S . i - . . s . W . 8 . . - Q Y y . . , , - . Y ' - , . , . , ' , v . . A c a- s : le ::: :zz fl. .z ' - . . ' ' Y . ' ' . , . Q . , Y S , , 1 ' . V . . . . . . - , F V D Y . 7 ' F, ' - Y . . . . . A ' , . ' 1 ' ' . . Q . . . . .' . 5 ' ' . V I l D . ' M . '. ' I . v 4- ,

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2 Edxttlrlal 2 WHY WE NEED A C0'VI'VIUNITY HALL The gxxls of Monson Academy d dnt haw a basketball team thxs seal Thex could hate had one xf ther had had a place to practxce The town hall IS 'zlwaxs used fox practlce but as 1 few wmd ws axe out 'xxxd xt IS a rather draftw place lllXXK'lX they felt It was lmposslble to have a gxrls t am If only they had a place to plactxce A Communxtv Hall' Wxtlx 1 gymnasxum Wouldnt that be wonderful lox the students of Monson Academy Just thxnk what It would mean a place fox bask tball practxce and games a place fox vocatlonal txaxmnv and school dances fx place fox plays and other dramatxcs There would ls be shower and locker rooms We already have enouvh money to start the constructxon of the Communxty Hall Yet xs anythxng bexng done to start the actual buxldmg of xt If the town needs more money t buxld the hall xt certaxnly wouldnt co t the people more than three dollars per person ll'l taxes to ralse the amount It would actually pay the people to mvest thexr monev xn the bulldxng Who knows' Maybe the basketball team would Wln the state champxonshxp or at least there would be a basketball te 1m for both boys and glrls MONSON ACADEMY Reprmt from the Pharetra March 1895 Monson Academy owes xts blrth to prlvate enterprlse The petltlon fox lts lncoxpoxatlon dated June 14 1841 was slgned bv a com mxttee COI'l51St1 lg of John H Rxce Alpheus Dawson and Ephraxm Flxnt ln behalf f fifty four persons afterwards named as cor 'Joxators who as the petxtlon set forth had subscrlbed the um of S1000 for the purpose of establxshmg an academv for the educatxon and lmpxovement of youth The act of ln corporatxon approved July 26 1847 wxll be found rn Chapter 62 of the Acts of that year The corpoxate name was Stockholders of Monson Academy each subscrxber holdxng a. number of shares colrespondlng to hls sub crlptlon Of the flfty four corporators ten stxll sur vxve The persons who wexe lctxve ln pro motmg the xnterests of the mstxtutxon xn xts earlxest wears were John I-I RICE Ephraxm Flxnt Dr Alpheus Davxson Zennas Scales Dx S A Patten Aretas Chapm Rev Hor atlo Illslev Rev Lucxus Bradford Horac Pullen J H Pullen P H Rice Solomon Cushman Samuel Pxllsburw Hxxam Folsom Judge James Bell Wxllxam D Hoar Wllllam Tenney Roland Taylor Isaac Phxllxps Hor ace Flanders A G Houston P S Merrlll Dr Joslah Jordan James Tarr Charles W Gower Ozlas Blanchard Leonard Howard Abner Brown Rev D P Baxley John Hem mengwaw Atwood Barrows and Morrxll Prescott Mot of tnem hate passed fxwax but the Academy stxll llV6s as the best monument to thexr memory The corporators met fox oxganxzatlon at tho Centre School House xn Monson on September 4 1847 at whxch Dr A'pheus Davx on fathex of Rev Charles Dawson of Greenville was chos n chaxrman and Ephraxm Flmt clerk A permanent crganx zatxon was effected September 18th by th cholce of Rev Luclus Bradford pastor of the Baptlst church as Presxdent Zenna Scales Vlce Presxdent Ephraxm Fllnt clerk and Aretas Chapxn Treasurex w1th fxfteen trustees Of the first board of Trustees J H Pullen xs the sole survlvox Steps were taken to provxde a buxldlng whlch was sub at a cost of S935 51 The bufdlllg of a wo fl house and the cost of heatxng apparatus brought the total esp nse up to 3101487 Tre buxldxng COmmltt66 consxsted of Aretas Chlpxn Zennas Scales Lucxus Bradford Al pheus Davlson and Hxram Fol om The bulldlne was Iinlshed ln the summer of 18-18 and was dedxcated Au ust 28th xn that year John H Rxce Ozlas Blanchard and Ephraxm Fllnt bexng the commxttee of arrangements The Leglslature by an act passed ln 1848 and modified IH 1849 granted to the mstxtutlon a half townshxp of land whxch was sold December 2 1852 for S3 000 wh1cl1 constxtuted for several 3 ars lts en txre xnvested fund The orxgxnal buxldxng measured on the ground 37 by 40 feet and was two storles hxgh the mam school room bexng on the ground floor and the hall above being used for a recltatlon room also for concerts lectures and other publxc pur po es The lnstltutlon was provided wlth an excellent chemxcal and phllosophlcal appar atus md a small though well selected lx brarv It IS to be reg etted that no pxcture of the old Academv IS known to be xn exlstence The first sessxon of chool opened ln the fall of 1848 Wlth Wllllam Seavey as Pre ceptor Or the thxrty fxrst day of March 1860 the Academy owxng to defectxx flue caught fire xn the attlc out of reach of the xmper feet means for extmguxshmg fxres then pos sessed bv Monson vxllage and ln 'x few hours was burned to the ground the appar atu: and some of the other contents bem saved xn a damaged condltxon The frlencls of the xnstltutlon lmmedlately set about erectxrtg a new bulldlng some contrxbutlnff money some labor some lumber Wxthxn a T ll I P l . i I ' R A ll V 1 V ' v A 1 . . . , . - ' . , v 3 , 'Q , . . . , ' ' . e , r 'I y v ' ' I M - 1 - S l , . . . 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