Windsor High School - Tunxis Yearbook (Windsor, CT)

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WINDSOR! Past and Presen Poem by Virginia Case Photographs by Philip Ellsworth, Ir. PATRIOTS MONUMENT FYLER HOUSE Ancient Windsor, early town, with houses old, Slim-shaded green and streets elm-arched enfold, And ambling roads, all winding in and out, and farms And fields and meadows flat and far Along the stream. From distant shores they waved farewell to all the past And sought horizons new-came from the sea at last, Through dangers drear and death and awesome fear: At last fulfilled the long long quest and built Their castle on a hill. And so they came and Windsor came from far across the sea, And axe and plow and scythe marked where its name should be. From dawn to dusk they toiled through days and years: From forests and from streams and from the fields They gathered up God's bounty. Here lived the redmen where the two streams meet, Here in full faith and trust they walked the white man's street, In dimness taught the English ways they did not know And showed them how tobacco grew and where the otter lay, And where the shad in April run. Long gone the weary horse and in its place Along the mighty roads the screaming motor cars now race, Swift messengers in haste. And through the sky The winged ships sail high and far o'er cities and o'er towns To lands below the sun. All this was long ago: gone are the ancient pain and tears The weary hands long gone to rest, and still the dream is here, And still the tasks to build and ever new the hopes and ever New the song, and all the striving and the labor To better do than e'er the past has done. Three hundred years have come and gone-the seasons roll, And war and pestilence and floods have taken toll, And yet serene above the green, the bronze bird On triumphant wing looks on the old and new alike, And knows that time does not stand still. wi . , OLIVER ELLSWORTH MEMORIAL HOMESTEAD 6

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1 73 RFQ. t a y Q Al OUT OI' Tl-IE OLD Because of continual population increase, a plan was presented at a town meeting in 1920 to erect a two-story high school on a seven acre lot on Bloomfield Avenue. It was under consideration for some months but had to be abandoned, because it was found that the de- sired building could not be constructed and properly equipped for less than S2l0,000. On February 16, 1921, W. H. McLean, architect from Boston, was authorized to draw a new plan of the bungalow-type construction, provid- ing for substantially the same class and recita- tion rooms, laboratories, auditorium, gymnasi- um, and other school accommodations, but omitting much of the space devoted to corridors and stairways. On the following March a special town meeting appropriated the sum of S150,000. On March 24 the building committee voted to award the general contract to the Schwarz Brothers of Bridgeport. The ground was broken in April and the comer stone laid on Iune 17. All rooms were equipped with up-to-date furni- ture and efficient apparatus of that period. The school was named in honor of Iohn Fitch of Windsor, a hero of King Phi1ip's War and the founder of the Union School Fund of Windsor.