Trinity School - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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DEDICATION O Vivlor M, Bonsall, alumnus anrl for forty- lwo years a master of Trinity School, who through thc years has encouraged so many hoys in the appreciation of the worthwhile things in life and the love of all thathis goofl, we respectfully rletlicatc this hook.

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Y1c'l'oR Nl. BONSALI

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HEADMASTER MATTHEW EDWARD DANN UR headmaster, Matthew Edward Dann, has heen at Trinity School for seventeen years, seven of them as head of the school. Mr. Dann received his A.B. from Columhia University in 1926 and his M.A. from Columhia in 1927. ln 1927 he came to Trinity, after resigning a position as an cconomist with the Chase National Bank. He switched from French to mathematics and taught that suhject for eight years. After two years as Assistant Headmaster he became Headmaster of the school in 1937. In 1940 he was made head of St. Agatha school for girls, continuing in that post until the school was dis- continued, In 194-3 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of Trinity School. hecoming the first active headmaster in the history of Trinity to he a trustee. Since Mr. Dann took over, Trinity has hecome a different school in many ways. The physical plant of the school has more than douhled in size and there have heen numerous improvements in the huildings themselves. The enroll- ment has heen increased to capacity, and Trinity's scholastic standing with the major colleges has heen advanced. Among the innovations he has introduced have been the role of music in the curriculum of the school, and the activity programs in which every hoy has some part. Under Mr. Dann's leadership, Trinity School has comhined the hest of its traditions of more than two hundred years, standing with the more valuahlc features of modern education. Wie trust that he will continue for many years his excellent work in administering the school. 6