Shattuck School - Shad Yearbook (Faribault, MN)

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TWIZNTY T H E S H A D DR. CHARLES WATSQN NEWHALL

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THE SHAD The Corporation. of Shattuck School TRUSTEES RIGHT REVEREND FRANK A. MCELWAIN, D.D. - Minneapolis, Minn RIGHT REVEREND STEPHEN E. KEELER, D.D. - Mz'nneapoIz's, Mz'nn MR. ALVIN C. POEHLER ----- Mz'nneapoIi's, Minn MR. HERBERT C. THEOPOLD - - Faribaalr, Mz'nn MR. HENERY A. SCANDRETT - - Chicago, III. MR. JAMES D. BRONSON - - Stillwater Mz'nn MR. JOHN R. MARFIELD - Mz'nneapoIz's Mz'nn MR. CHARLES M. CASE - - Minneapolis Minn MR. ROBERT L. MEECH Minneapolis, Mz'nn MR. EMERSON C. WARD - Waseca, Mz'nn MR. CHARLES E. PURDY - Mz'nneapolz's, Mz'nn DR. C, WALTER RUMPF - - Faribault, Mz'nn MR. WILLIAM J. WARNER - - Mz'nneapoIz's, Mz'nn MR. DAVID E. BRONSON Mi'nneapolz's, Minn OFFICERS OF THE BOARD RIGHT REVEREND FRANK A. MCELWAIN, D.D. - - President CHARLES W. NEWHALL, A.B., Pd.D. - - - Secretary MR. ARCHER YOUNG - - - Treasurer NINETEEN

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T H E S H A D The First Shattuck Commencement SI-IATTUCK SCHOOL which celebrates this year its seventy-fifth anniversary is the outgrowth of a small mission school established in Faribault in 1857 by the Rev. James Lloyd Breck, an Episcopal Missionary from Philadelphia, and two associates. With the support of Faribault citizens, the several schools started off auspiciously. Buildings for the mission, and the divinity school were built on the hill east of the river, and frame buildings, near the present site of the Cathedral in Faribault, accommodated the schools for white and Indian children. When Henry Benjamin Whipple was elected in 1859 the first Bishop of Minnesota, the good start already made upon the church work in Faribault induced him to choose this city as his home, and the seat of the Cathedral which he planned to build. By the year 1860 the number of boys in the Mission School, twelve boarders and as many day pupils, was sufficient to justify organizing them into a separate school known at first as the Grammar School, and two or three years later as the Shattuck Grammar School, after Dr. George C. Shattuck of Boston. a generous contributor to Bishop Whipple's work in Faribault. In the early summer of 1860 occurred the first commencement exercises in which the Grammar School had a part as a separate school or unit. On this occasion the entire membership of the several schools, students and teachers, assembled at the school house in town and marched to the mission grounds across the Straight River, preceded by the Faribault brass band. The exercises opened with oral examinations in the several subjects of study. These examinations were assumed to be of interest to the parents and friends of the students, many of whom were present, but it must have been rather difficult for the students to do themselves justice in the presence of such an audience. At noon a bountiful repast was spread on tables under the trees, to which visitors as well as students were invited. During the afternoon there were games among the boys, white and red, at which the Indian boys showed themselves quite as expert as the white boys. The exercises closed with a brief service, followed by an address by the Rev. Ezra Jones of St. Peter on the Connection of Sound Learning and True Religion, the first of many on this subject, I venture to say, that have been heard at Shattuck Commencements. , The records do not tell the number of graduates in this first Shattuck class of 1860, but it is safe to assume that the number did not exceed two or three, and their graduation consisted of little more than a transfer from the Grammar School to the Divinity School for which they had been preparing. Such was the simple program of the first Shattuck Commencement. It is a long way from this to the crowded Commencement schedule covering three days at the present time. TWIENTY-ONE