South Kent High School - Yearbook (South Kent, CT)

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SOUTH KENT SCHOOL TO THE BARTLETTS May their retirement be as fruitful and beneficial ro them as their thirty-two years at South Kent have been for others. 4

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YEARBOOK 1956 The news of the retirement of Mr. and Mrs. Bart- lett came too late last June for the 1955 Yearbook to do full justice to the event in its pages which were even then prepared for the printers. At the time of his retirement Mr. Bartlett, with thirty-two years of headmastership behind him, was the senior headmaster in point of service of all the headmasters of the group of schools with which South Kent is regularly associated. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have returned to Eastham on Cape Cod where they plan to keep themselves happily occupied working, reading, and watching their grandchildren arrive and grow up. They also plan to travel and see some of the Alumni from time to time. They will be missed here at South Kent not only The Bartletts and two grand-children because of their devotion to the school, its students, faculty, alumni, and friends, but also because, as in- dividuals, they were so truly a part of the place that its personality seemed, in a measure, to be theirs. The familiar face and voice of the Old Man will be remembered often as individuals perhaps uncon- sciously recall certain events and actions with which he was connected . . . conducting the evening chapel service . . . calling out of the Study window . . . speaking in assembly or after supper Chumorously, informatively or forcefully as the occasion demandedj . . . calling vigorously as he hit flies to the outfielders . . . counselling individuals in the Study . . . sitting on the porch on a Spring evening . . . handing out diplomas in St. Michaels Chapel. In his speech at the school on Prize Day Mr. Bartlett spoke of victories in this process of learning and educating that few individuals ever realize occur. We feel that Mr. Bartlett has perhaps experienced , mmm Mr. Bartlett - 1956 and been responsible for more of these victories than either we or he may know. Possibly the best summation of Mr. Bartlett's achievement at South Kent is reflected in the citation awarded him by the Independent Secondary Schools Group of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools which was read at the Boston meeting of the Association by Chairman Frank Lloyd on December 9, 1955: Over twenty-live years ago a young man from Lafayette College picked out a lovely farm site in a little Connecticut valley for a school. Sam Bartlett, known affectionately as the Old Man , and a friend, named their school South Kent after the little village in which the farm was located, It was the grim de- termination of these two young men that nothing was going to stand in the way of or interfere with their desire to provide an education centered in God's truth. The school has grown and prospered under your leadership without compromising in any degree the high purpose for which it was founded. Your fellow workers in New England are honored to be able to pay you this tribute today. -'we fa if Mrs. Bartlett