St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 31 BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER Thornton B. Penfielcl, Ph. D., of Englewood, N. J., has been secured as the Baccalaureate speaker for the ninety-third graduation exercises. The service will take place at Fuller Hall Sunday evening, June 7. Dr. Penfield was graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in the.class of 1886, the class that is holding its fiftieth reunion this year. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1890 and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1893. He next took up post graduate work at New York University and Taylor University. Dr. Penfield has been the assistant secretary on the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions for northern New Jersey. COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER The Class of 1936 is fortunate in securing Professor Robert Tristram Coffin of Bowdoin College for its Commencement speaker on Monday, June 8. Professor Coffin recently won the Pulitzer prize for the best collection of poetry published during the year. A graduate of Bowdoin in 1915, he secured his Master’s degree from Princeton University in 1916. During the World War he served in the 72’d Artillery Regiment in the A. E. F. Following the War, he received the honor of being appointed a. Rhodes Scholar from Maine to Trinity College of Oxford University. Later, for a number of years, he was professor at Wells College, leaving there to accept the position of professor of English at Bowdoin. Professor Coffin is the author of many books, essays and collections of verse. His collection of poems “Strange Holiness” won him the award for being the most outstanding poet of 1935. “Lost Paradise,” a story of a boy’s life on a Maine farm, has won laudatory comments from critics as has the biography of his father “The Portrait of an American.” —Tack Miltimore

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Editorial Board Prof, and Mrs. Hardy at the planting of the Coolidge Elm. Left to right: — Dermot Cosgrove, Dr. Frank Farmer, Mrs. Hardy, Prof. Hardy, Mr. Oldham, Mr. Rowe.

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32 THE ACADEMY STUDENT CLASS HISTORY Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here to witness the departure of the illustrious class of ’36 from these halls of St. J. A. which we 133 young aspirants to fame and fortune entered on September 6, 1932. Soon after our arrival the old and popular game of soccer was organized by Mr. Batchelder who also entered the Academy in the fall of ’32. Up until January 3, 1933. we advanced under the fatherly guidance of Mr. Brown, when the task of piloting 133 egotistical freshmen through scholastic reefs was taken over hy our new principal, Mr. Stanley R. Oldham. On March 28, 1933, we paid deserving tribute to the memory of Dr. C. A. Cramton, for many years a-distinguished member of the Board of Trustees. In April, three of our optimistic students, Kathleen Smith, Ruth Kearney and Eleanor Dahlbergh sought to carry off the honors in the University of Vermont Oratorical Contest. In dramatics our sole representatives were Betty Lou Witters and Donald Bovee, who set a standard for the class by their excellent acting in “Shirt Sleeves.” We started our sophomore year minus nineteen classmates and one of our teachers, Mr. Chadwick, who was succeeded by Mr. Robert Hubbard, Mr. Steele being added to the faculty at the same time. Late in the fall we were saddened by the untimely passing of Mr. Brown, a true friend and kindly advisor. We were well represented that year in the field of sports; in football by Homer Stuart, Clarence Wheelock, Paul McGinity, Randall McDonald and Robert Dresser; in winter sports by Gratia Nolin, Betty Lou Witters, Irene Howland and Margaret Sprague; in basketball by Clarence Wheelock and Henry Fuller; in baseball by Clarence Wheelock and Randall McDonald Realizing that we would concentrate better when surveyed by an unseen eye, the faculty wisely transferred the teacher’s desk to the rear of Room 6.