Title
Report of the Headmaster to the Board of Trustees / 1951 - 1952
Date
November
7
1952
Decade
1950s
Notes
Excerpts from the Report of the Headmaster to the Board of Trustees, 1951-52
Rev. Pell opens this report on the state of the 22nd year of the School by proclaiming it to be "one of our happiest and most successful."
Plant, equipment, finances: "It was an expensive year" [pg. 2]; new Pension Plan enthusiastically received; purchases made and projects completed (Gaul Hall, T-Dock, outdoor rifle range, dorm furnishings, lighting study, History Corridor display units, Ozalid copying machine); School bus damage; New Wing necessity remains constant.
Farm notes: Manager Samuel De Boer; under UD recommendation the farm converted to "high grade dairy farm"; improvements, purchases, finances, herd details catalogued. Middletown "agricultural revolution" discussed.
Personnel notes include: resignation of business manager "Pat" Schoonover and replacement Norman Thornton; "radical reorganization of the kitchen"; switchboard operations; faculty summer school; death of Dan Holder; faculty children over 4 years old may eat in the dining room.
Alumni report details include: commencement, deaths, meetings and election notes; Alumni Award for Outstanding Public Service recipient William Day Scott, Jr., '34.
Enrollment and Curriculum report includes: student demographics; scholastic achievements; college matriculations; Middle States interim report prepared; Fortune Magazine Essay contest; generational concerns regarding sex, alcohol, military service addressed. Library, Discipline, and Health details reported on. The Athletic report notes the inclusion of non-football activities: volleyball, tennis, campus projects.
Activities and School Government report include the noted success of the Student Activities Committee (SAC); the completion of the revision of the School Government (School Meeting supplants Student Vestry as highest vote - Student Vestry strictly concerned with religious life); Student Government committee composition; affiliation with Friends Boys' School in Ramallah, Jordan.
Chapel report notes include: attendance; hope for pipe organ; a review of the School's religious instruction
Gifts are acknowledged and catalogued (notably a silver coffee urn gifted from the Fathers' Club for the Faculty).
In conclusion Rev. Pell quotes extensively from a statement drawn up by the Faculty, "The Purposes and Responsibilities of St. Andrew's School".
Rev. Pell opens this report on the state of the 22nd year of the School by proclaiming it to be "one of our happiest and most successful."
Plant, equipment, finances: "It was an expensive year" [pg. 2]; new Pension Plan enthusiastically received; purchases made and projects completed (Gaul Hall, T-Dock, outdoor rifle range, dorm furnishings, lighting study, History Corridor display units, Ozalid copying machine); School bus damage; New Wing necessity remains constant.
Farm notes: Manager Samuel De Boer; under UD recommendation the farm converted to "high grade dairy farm"; improvements, purchases, finances, herd details catalogued. Middletown "agricultural revolution" discussed.
Personnel notes include: resignation of business manager "Pat" Schoonover and replacement Norman Thornton; "radical reorganization of the kitchen"; switchboard operations; faculty summer school; death of Dan Holder; faculty children over 4 years old may eat in the dining room.
Alumni report details include: commencement, deaths, meetings and election notes; Alumni Award for Outstanding Public Service recipient William Day Scott, Jr., '34.
Enrollment and Curriculum report includes: student demographics; scholastic achievements; college matriculations; Middle States interim report prepared; Fortune Magazine Essay contest; generational concerns regarding sex, alcohol, military service addressed. Library, Discipline, and Health details reported on. The Athletic report notes the inclusion of non-football activities: volleyball, tennis, campus projects.
Activities and School Government report include the noted success of the Student Activities Committee (SAC); the completion of the revision of the School Government (School Meeting supplants Student Vestry as highest vote - Student Vestry strictly concerned with religious life); Student Government committee composition; affiliation with Friends Boys' School in Ramallah, Jordan.
Chapel report notes include: attendance; hope for pipe organ; a review of the School's religious instruction
Gifts are acknowledged and catalogued (notably a silver coffee urn gifted from the Fathers' Club for the Faculty).
In conclusion Rev. Pell quotes extensively from a statement drawn up by the Faculty, "The Purposes and Responsibilities of St. Andrew's School".