Saint Andrews School - Andrean Yearbook (Barrington, RI)

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r C M M E N C E M E N T I have studied many times The marble which was chisled of me - A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me, and I shrank from its dis- illusionment; Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid; Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life And now I know that we must life the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in one ' s life may end in madness. But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire - It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Edgar Lee Masters 45

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Rev. Packard of Tennessee, one of several visiting speakers at the Chapel dur- ing the year. SO MUCH IN A HANDSHAKE 44

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HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL St. Andrew ' s School was founded in 1893 in a barn on Rumstick Point by the Reverend William Merrick Chapin, then Rector of St. John ' s Church in Harrington. The first building to be constructed was what is now the Little Sanctuary which is presently attached to the northwest end of the Chapel. The School ' s growth really began in 1895 with the purchase of the present rectory and ten acres of land surrounding it. Kind and generous friends made it possible through gifts of money and land to increase the size of the school to its present holding of nearly one hundred acres on which are located some thirty buildings of veU ' ious sizes and uses. As the success of the School ' s work grew through the years, so has the interest of hundreds of friends. Very few schools provide the wide variety of vocational opportunities in addi- tion to the regular academic work that St. Andrew ' s does. Again, interested friends have made it possible for the school to have most of the equipment needed for its many activities - academic, vocational, and recrea- tional. Our alumni are to ' be found in all branches of business, industry, and the pr o- fessions. 46