Title
Report of the Headmaster to the Board of Trustees / 1948 - 1949
Date
October
27
1949
Decade
1940s
Notes
Alternate title: Excerpts from the Report of the Headmaster to the Board of Trustees, 1948-49.
19th Year of School's founding. Rev. Pell reports it to have been a happy, successful year. Portrait of Founder by Fred White, dedicated April 14, Founder's Day.
Details of property and grounds report includes: Davis Staats as General Forman is exemplary; laundry building authorized for construction; heating system overhauled; property and road item repairs, equipment purchases enumerated; budgetary savings of over $11K realized. Farm study conducted by the University of Delaware, in looking towards a solid income-producing farm. Strip of land sold to the State; Corbit Mansion in Odessa sold.
Personnel report includes details on the sudden death of head school nurse Betty Tillotson [who had also been - Pell notes - composer of song hits ("Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "You Are My Sunshine")]. Faculty notes include: British Exchange teacher John Maples, Rev. Kenneth Clarke, Blackburn Hughes, James Ten Broeck, George Broadbent '41, Rev. Ernest Hoyt, Coerte Voorhees. Melissa Pell married John Schuyler Thomson.
Alumni notes detail: annual meeting, and other gatherings; War Memorial Fund; 16th Commencement (speaker Dean Francis Godolphin); college matriculations; alumni college success report; deaths of John Wesley Strothman '47, Horst Roloff. Father's Club gathering reported.
Curriculum: Zoology added; evaluation of Sex Education; Remedial Reading Program advances. Library, Discipline, Jobs and Health details given; Job System aided by adding a Job Praefect; running water added to Health Office, as are partitions.
On Athletics, details include: congratulations from Headmaster of St. Alban's School on sportsmanship displayed; new squash tournament established (Hampton Barnes); Crew's King's Cup Race close match and loss noted; Interscholastic Yacht Races at Annapolis.
Activities periods established for programs/clubs. "We Rileys" performed.
Chapel program notes include: details on visiting preachers; Student Vestry donations; Headmaster's outside obligations.
Gifts enumerated and acknowledged.
In Conclusion, Rev. Pell again iterates the importance of building the proposed New Wing.
19th Year of School's founding. Rev. Pell reports it to have been a happy, successful year. Portrait of Founder by Fred White, dedicated April 14, Founder's Day.
Details of property and grounds report includes: Davis Staats as General Forman is exemplary; laundry building authorized for construction; heating system overhauled; property and road item repairs, equipment purchases enumerated; budgetary savings of over $11K realized. Farm study conducted by the University of Delaware, in looking towards a solid income-producing farm. Strip of land sold to the State; Corbit Mansion in Odessa sold.
Personnel report includes details on the sudden death of head school nurse Betty Tillotson [who had also been - Pell notes - composer of song hits ("Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "You Are My Sunshine")]. Faculty notes include: British Exchange teacher John Maples, Rev. Kenneth Clarke, Blackburn Hughes, James Ten Broeck, George Broadbent '41, Rev. Ernest Hoyt, Coerte Voorhees. Melissa Pell married John Schuyler Thomson.
Alumni notes detail: annual meeting, and other gatherings; War Memorial Fund; 16th Commencement (speaker Dean Francis Godolphin); college matriculations; alumni college success report; deaths of John Wesley Strothman '47, Horst Roloff. Father's Club gathering reported.
Curriculum: Zoology added; evaluation of Sex Education; Remedial Reading Program advances. Library, Discipline, Jobs and Health details given; Job System aided by adding a Job Praefect; running water added to Health Office, as are partitions.
On Athletics, details include: congratulations from Headmaster of St. Alban's School on sportsmanship displayed; new squash tournament established (Hampton Barnes); Crew's King's Cup Race close match and loss noted; Interscholastic Yacht Races at Annapolis.
Activities periods established for programs/clubs. "We Rileys" performed.
Chapel program notes include: details on visiting preachers; Student Vestry donations; Headmaster's outside obligations.
Gifts enumerated and acknowledged.
In Conclusion, Rev. Pell again iterates the importance of building the proposed New Wing.