Summit School - Flame Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Twenty-Fifth Anniversary HIS year we pause to review the past and look forward to the future, for it was just twenty-five years ago that the Summit School was founded. Although America was in a World War then as she is now, the founders of the school went ahead with their plans for a non-profit-making school. Their purpose was to give their daughters a good education since they recognized that education is a Vital factor in a democracy. So today in the middle of a second World War we feel it is an especially appropriate time to think of our history as a school and of the part that such a school as ours should play in the world. In 1917 five old buildings near Dale Street first housed the new school which was the old Loomis School reorganized. Here Miss Converse was kept busy putting out fires and having leaky roofs mended until 1923 when the trustees discovered and bought a dusty lot, then in the country, overgrown with weeds, and next door to a neighborhood dump. They saw its possibilities, however, and through their efforts enough money was collected to build tlaeapresent building. Since then the Ottis Sport House, three new tennis courts, and many other improvements have been added. This April, to celebrate the birthday of the school, a dinner was given which was attended by many old friends. We include some excerpts from speeches given at the dinner which we feel express important factors in the principles and growth of the school. ' - Miss Converse: The Summit School has Abeenamore than just a financial affair . . . more than financial support and backing. It has been a grouping together of all of us working for our school . . . not your school or my school . but working for our school to make it the very best it may be. 3 Mr. Ralph Budd, the president of the Burlington Railroad: l'For the future cer- tainly, there is a great place for the private school in our system of education and higher learning .... This school has gone through one war and 'will go through an- other. Education and religion are the eternal verities .... Certainly the group of people who are interested in this school have taken pleasure and pride in promoting it to the point where it is. Coming here tonight iis all that is needed to prove that the future of the school is secure in their handsf, Mr. Pierce Butler, on behalf of the trustees: We must remember that education is for life as well as for a livelihood .... Miss Converse has always realized that the society for which her pupils and the pupils of any school are destined does not consist of groups or classes but consists of individualsf' In this Flame, we, as students of the school, want to add our congratulations. We prize the opportunity we are given to help carry on the school through our student government. Our suggestions for revising the rules and even the curriculum are always taken into consideration. Especially we appreciate the excellence of the education we receive here. So, in thanks, we have made the theme of this year's Flame the first twenty-Hve years of the school. SALLY AMES Editor 4 THE FLAME

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