Woodstock Academy - Spire Yearbook (Woodstock, CT)

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15 Aside from the historic facilities here, there are also traditions still active today, which have been in existence for several generations of students. Activities such as the Senior Tea at the Pink House, Academy Sunday, and school spirit are among these. Although spirit is not an activity, It is still a tradition which livens and unites the students here. It is participation in these activities which brings us closer to our history. The Academy has a special histry that has been carried on through the years, and has gradually been changed and added to by each generation of students leaving their mark. Along with carrying on long established traditions, we also continually add to and change our traditions to make them more our own. By starting such activities as the slave auction, spirit week, senior-faculty sports events, language volleyball, and Homecoming, we are contributing something from today's world which may become part of Academy history in time; our mark in history. Historical prints used in opening section are from the We there!I Photograph collection of the Woodstock Historical Society. -T.D

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MAKING OUR HISTORY Who is that? This is a question which many students may soon be asking each other when the old portraits from the White building attic are restored and hung in the Old Academy Hall. Sitting in a classroom with as much history as room 100, the Old Academy Hall, often inspires one to think of what this same place was like almost two centuries ago. What people sat here an what was this room used for? Stories of past headmasters, of buildings that are no longer in existence, or about the dormitory room that is now the room in which you have English, makes students more aware of the vast history behind the Academy and evokes a certain pride in attending this school. The many rooms of the White building and the Hall gymnasium, as well as the common on which we have gym classes and the campus on which we eat lunch, all have been part of the Academy for a very long time and can make a student feel honored to use them. 14

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 THE 1986 SPIRE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF LAURA CASS 1968-1985 She's gone. I do not understand. I only know That as she turned to go And waved her hand, In her young eyes a sudden glory shone: And I was dazzled by a sunset glow, And she was gone.