Norwich Free Academy - Mirror Yearbook (Norwich, CT)

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Qawztaf 1919 - .zo First Rott-Left lu Right: Mrs Eastman, Miss Seo' field, Mr. Latham, Miss Woods, Miss Leavens, Mr Tirrell, Miss Marshall, Miss ldalmer. Dr. Bunncll Miss Baker, Mrs. Haskell. Second Rout Miss Taylor. Miss Pierce, Miss Bowman Miss Canty, Miss Currier, Miss Sharp, Miss Brown Miss Crocker, Miss Lathrop. Third Row: Mr. McKay, Mr. Walden, Mr. McGnrrill Mr. Cranston, Mr. Congdon, Mr. Bradlaw. Jfavuf 14. P ' , Born South Chatham, Massachusetts, on August 7, 1873. Graduated Norwich Free Academy 1890, A.B., Wesley'an Univerf sity,1894g University ot' Chicago 1899' 19005 Honorary M.A., Trinity College 1914, Wesleyan Lfniversity, 1934. Teacher, Pennington Collegiate lnstif tute 189-4'96g teacher 1896-99, 190003, principal 1903-1940, The Norwich Free Academy, president, Norwich Savings Society, director, Hartford Connecticut Trust Company, Thames Branch, director, Connecticut Light and Power Company. Corporator, William W. Backus Hospital. Member Head Masters' Association, Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Club,Arcanum. llfaafdnq Jack .20 yeclvin Fa

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THIRTY'SEVEN YEARS DE LEADERSHIP 1903 - Ma. 71?nelZ p 1 . ! For thirtyfseven years Mr. Henry A. Tirrell has been principal of the Norwich Free Acad' emy and has seen the school grow from an ex' ceptionally fine high school to an institution whose influence is felt all over the country. During his period of leadership, the Main Building has been erected to replace the origf inal Academy building. The Manual Training Building has been enlarged and equipped with modern machinery. The Printing Department has presses which make it possible to print the Mirror and the RED AND WHITE on campus. The Art School has added evening classes for adults, who do ine work in painting, pottery and jewelry. Slater Museum has been modern' ized through the efforts of Mrs. Ozias Dodge, who has arranged the many collections which llfaokdfq ,Jack 38 ,qealu- have made the Museum famous. The Vander' poel collection of Oriental treasures is one of the finest in America. Mr. Raymond Case has recently furnished an Early American room for the Museum. The Commercial Building has been built to give expert commercial training to students who are entering business. The Norton Memorial Health Center gives space for the required physical training, is the scene of basketball games and the increasingly popular Dime Hops. Over on Broadway is our beau- tiful Home Economics Building, where girls are taught cooking, sewing, household management, and the gracious art of creating happy homes. A nursery school gives practice in child care. The clubhouse replaces the little white house with a few cold water showers where athletes shivered not so long ago. These are tangible evidences of Mr. Tirrell's leadership, but there is a farther reaching achievement in the hearts of Academy alumni. To them he is the wise, kindly, witty principal who always understood their problems, rejoiced with them in their triumphs, athletic and schof lastic, and given them the encouragement to start all over when things went wrong. It is fitting that Mr. Tirrell should retire while he is active, alert, eager to be a vital part of the community, and happy in the realization that he is still needed. While he will not sit behind the office desk, the Academy is fortunate to have him in an advisory capacity to guide the policies of the school by his wisdom, by his faith in youth, by his broad understanding of the problems which face presentfday high school students. anode!! 7eam of 190.2 Lower Row: Mullen, Barber, Vars Avery Gleason Row Above: Frisbie, Gibbs, Bent, Richards McNamara Keane. Extreme Top: Mr. Tirrell, Thresher Lucas

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THE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY HE Academy IS classlhed by the Connectrcut State Board of Educatron as an endowed and lncorporated Academy approved as a Hrgh School for certrficatron purposes and for the attendance of puprls whose turtron IS to be pa1d from publlc funds Thls means that lt 15 prrvate ln management and publ1c rn servrce For elghty four years rt has served th1s communrty and many surround mg towns The hope of ICS founders that rt mrght be a free school hrs never been fulfrlled Numb rs haxe mcreased far beyond the expectatrons of 1ts or1g1na1 donors and whrle lfS endowment both rn equrpment and 1n the years It requlres very l1tt1e thought however to see that the prrvate manage ment of the school has been of great fmancral value to Norw1ch The burden of expans1on to meet rncreasrng needs has not fallen on taxpayers but has been borne by prlvate cltrzens whose affectron for the school has been mam fested by numerous bequests and glfts These benefactors have belrex ed that they were helplng the communrty by provrdrng for the welfare of 1ts young people Srnce 1856 nearly 15 000 puprls have had at least 1 par tml course hert Over 5 000 have been graduated after a four year course It IS to be hoped that you the members of the Class of 1940 wrll take w1th you a lrvely sense of what you owe to past generatlons and a strong determ1nat1on to do your best to just1fy the hopes and sacrrfices of our bene factors HENRY A TIRRELI Prmapal ll ' ll . K K I I 1 ' . c X V l A ' L c ' ' ' . ' ' ' LL 57 2 y 9 ' ' I investments has steadily grown, the income per pupil has decreased through ' ' , , HB ' 11 I K 4 . 1 I I U x I , C x , ' I . T I 7 ' , y I n T C C - 'K ls X. , . , , , . 5 1 -o