Rowland Hall Saint Mark's - Hallmark / Lantern Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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DEDICA TION For a hundred years, students, faculty, and administrators have been gathering at the site of Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School to pursue a lofty goal, the building of the best educational program in Utah. Although many members of the school community have departed, their influence lives on in the spirit of the Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s educational experience. By no means, however, is the school a dying institution living on past glory. Today, the school is a vibrant, growing institution dedicated to the continuance of a century old ideal. Students, faculty, ad- ministration, parents, and alumni are all individually striving to maintain and improve the school’s tradition, just as their predecessors have for the last century. In view of this, the 1980 Centennial Hallmark staff dedicates this book to the many people who have had a part in the history of Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School. We honor all of these people for helping to make Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s into Utah’s finest school, and we hope that the people of the school’s second hundred years will be as devoted and caring as the people of the first hundred years.

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HISTOR Y RHSM In this 1980 Hallmark, the yearbook staff has vowed to record a view of Row- land Hall-St. Mark’s history on the oc- casion of its one hundredth birthday. Rowland Hall- St. Mark’s can trace its roots back to 1867, when the rapid growth of population in what is now Utah necessitated the formation of a number of new schools. Among these schools was St. Mark’s Grammar School, established by George Foote and Thomas W. Haskins. The school was placed under the direction of The Right Reverend Daniel S. Tuttle, and classes were held in an abandoned bowling alley. A second school, St. Mark’s School for Girls, was established four years later. The school admitted girls and boys younger than ten years of age. Classes were held in the basement of St. Mark’s Cathedral. The history of Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s present campus began in 1880 when a plot of land was donated in memory of Benjamin Rowland by his daughter and wife. The school estab- lished on the property was named Row- land Hall. The left wing of present day A building, which had been constructed in 1862, was included with the property and served as the first of the school’s buildings. A close relative of Bishop Tuttle, The Reverend G.B.D. Miller, was Rowland Hall’s first headmaster; the principal was Miss Lucia M. Mar sh.