Washington College - Pegasus Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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Robert H. Penkethman Editor-in-Chief Richard R. Farrow Business Manager John B. Kenny Associate Editor Ralph H. Usilton Photographer

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w 7i e Z edtccite . . . It is with pride and enthusiasm that we dedicate our 1957 PEGASUS to our adopted home — Chestertown, Maryland. Admittedly an unusual dedi- cation, it is on the other hand a most natural one. Hardly a student enters Washington College and remains to graduate who does not wish that some- time he could make Chestertown his permanent home. The virtues of this famed old Eastern Shore town have heen particularly impressed upon us in this, our senior year. Chestertown, in the fall of 1956, staged a great celebration of its 250th Anniversary. And we were more than casually im- pressed with its record since 1706 when the Maryland Colonial Assembly erected the port of Chester Town. What is it that is so impressive about Chestertown, that makes it more than just the town in which we have spent four college years? The answer is that Chestertown is so many things. Few towns, in any of the original colonies, have produced so much rich history and tradition. Few other towns can boast so many great Americans. Among others, for example, are John Peter Zenger who more than any other American in colonial days set the pattern for freedom of the press and who resided in Chestertown as a printer for a period; Charles Willson Peale, who so ably embodied the spirit in American art as it flourished during the Revolution, and who lived in Chestertown in the mid-eighteenth century and attended Kent Free School of which his father was headmaster, and which later became Washington College. T hen there are the famous Nicholson brothers and Lambert Wickes who were in the top flight of our Revolutionary Naval leaders. And despite its size, this little community was the home of five United States Senators — James Lloyd, Philip Reed, Ezekiel Forman Chambers, James Alfred Pear- cex, and George Vickers. Chestertown was the residence of the Reverend Dr. William Smith, founder of Washington College, but whose fame spread wider. He was first Provost of the College of Philadelphia, which grew into the University of .-.-.■ ■