2 20 90 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/21/Collectio_AlmiraJGoss_RuinsPoem1847.pdf e9f639c02d0f0bc9cc8bde6df40a2ade PDF Text Text RUINS I I X f OF THE MM MHffl & DEDICATED IT® A FRIEND BY ALMIRA J. GOSS. I RUSSELL EATON, PRINTER. 1847, �, b D J y. L!_■ j £T*tsZ >4 <^-* * ?/* tj, jb-h-L^* • tx> /l-O Aa " l'- e t. - ?. ■ ’-s’’-- C £ Z- Cl ./ 7;i'.' ct.4 v?> i 5\-- ' . z / . ■ /. z ; #e c*v«-•? t t-* &%?// PREFACE. ■ e- c. <£-t.t,.^..J c/i- ?. ~ Z- /> Jti '•■ This Poem is the production of a youth, written with a view to pas a few leisure hours, without a most distant thought of its ever being seer by any but indulgent friends. It was suggested by the demolition of tin Seminary building at Kent’s Bill, after a new and more aspiring structuri had been erected for the purposes cf the institution. The old building wasj one full of delightful associations to hundreds, who, in times past, had re-1 paired there for the purposes of receiving instruction, and more especially } I so, to one endowed with youthful enthusiasm and a strong love for the! 1 scenes and grounds so intimately connected with the very morning of hen j life. Every spot brings forth some interesting reminiscence and calls up* thoughts of happy hours and absent faces that come clustering around her,' like the visions of a sweet and pleasant dream. The author makes no pre­ tensions to faultless skill in poetic arrangement of language; to the weaving of harmonious numbers—to deep knowledge of classical literature, sq con­ ducive to smooth and expressive diction. All she cun claim for this pro­ duction, which her friends have overpersuaded her to give them, is,—that it is the simple language of the heart, indulging in the outpourings of affec- . lion and love for the old schoolroom and surrounding grounds, where were spent so many happy and innocent hours. The memory of them is like the songs of Ossian, pleasant but mournful to the sou), and the intensity of this affection, must be offered as the excuse for daring to express her fecliugs in the following imperfect form, by way of an offering on the altar of love , and gratitude. �4 i o -t j Harp of the Hill! that long hath hung, Scarcely a note has yet been sung By me, the lowli’st of that train Who’ve touch’d thy strings, and not in vain, Oh! not in vain—and would that I Might with some skill the harp-strings try, Might wake one chord—but not to Fame, I ask not that to keep my name. Come, oh, my harp! and bid one strain— In metn’ry of the fallen fane Awake, and consecrate the dome, Where Learning erst did make her home, To Metn’ry. Bid each youthful heart Which in these halls once took its part, The lovely girl, the noble youth, Who here have drank thy waves, oh, Truth! Remember days, the past, the dear, And bathe their metn’ry with a—tear. Thou’rt lying in ruins—thy brave old walls No more will resound to mirth—or the calls Of happy youth with their notes of glee, Thou’rt lying in ruins, we mourn for thee. Thou’rt lying in ruins—never again We’ll meet as we’ve met, in sunshine or rain, Never shall meet at the call of the bell, It long since has sounded that note—farewell. Farewell—o’er hill and valley it sounded, Farewell—each grove the echo resounded, Farewell—the saddest, the loneliest note That has, or will e’er on the glad air float. Lonely the sounding, and sad was the knell When peal’d o’er our Hill that mournful farewell; Falling were tears when that silvery chime Broke on the silence and for the last time, The last time ’twould sound from that belfry tow’r Whore oft it had noted the passing hour. Well may we weep when to drea?y decay Is consign’d the halls ot the young and the gay �[; MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. Many’, oh, yes, very many have met In these once proud halls, who cannot forget Who’ll never forget the days of the past/ ind hours that were all too blissful to last. What one of the many who’ve gather’d here In these now ruin’d balls but holds them dear, Who of them will tell us this lovely spot,— Hill, valley and lakelet are now forgot? dill, valley and lakelet!—how lovely they lay' lath’d in the light of a glad summer day, 3r wrap’d in a silv’ry veil by the moon, 111 hush’d in the silence of nights’ still noon, That mystic hour when, we have all heard say, sprites o’er the earth are wending their way. ?erchance it is so, or, it may be not, 8ut this 1 know, it were a dreary lot for us, poor mortals, if there were no space 3n our earth for a spirit’s resting place, if we’d not one guardian angel to keep Us safe on the way over life’s rough deep. Many, old fane, ay, many there be When they hear of thy full, will weep for thee. Many will pay the sad tribute—a sigh To the mem’ry of days long since gone by, To the mem’ry' of friends, the lov’d, the dear— Dearer perchance that they first met them here— Here, where, from the censer, kind Learning flung incense over the shrine where knelt the young. Of that beautiful band, the bright, the gay, Many, yes, many have passed away,— Many, who here, in their hour of bloom, □nee met, now rest in the shadowy tomb; But friendship’s strong chain that once link’d us here Is binding us now to a brighter sphere, A happier, lovelier band than this, May we meet them there in their bow’rs of bliss. But turn we from tho’ts of the blessed now, To those who, perchance, with a care-worn brow, Are struggling on in this world of strife, And find that the dreams that they drenm’d of life,— [rhe beautiful viaionn that gather d heie Iwere not of this earth, but a brighter sphere, ll'.lse were this world too lovely—oh, yes! l\Ve else should forget there is greater bliss, flight cease to reinember our fairer home, MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. 1 1 1 And be all too willing on earth to roam. Those visions of bliss, of beauty and heav’n On the threshold of life alone are giv’n. Alas, for us, as we cuter life’s hall Those gleams are hid by a shadowy pall, Spread over them by the fingers of care, Alas, for hopes of the young and the fair, Alas, that a worldly spirit should fling A cloud and a shade o’er youths’ bright spring. Yet Memory rules—and now with her hand She has raised the veil, and her magic wand Has bidden sorrow depart for awhile, I Her sceptre is moving. Ah ! see that bright isle That rests on the shaded sea of the past, See now, into beauty ’tis gath’ringfast. Look, look! and behold those radiant flow’rs, We have seen them before—our school-day hours,— The joys that are flitting with rainbow wings, And such radiance on that fair isle flings, Alone could have rear’d to beauty so rare The flow’rs of joy that arc blossoming there, The veil rises higher,—I see a band A smile on each lip, a book in each hand. A bell is ringing—with hurrying feet They’re hastening in yonder ball to meet. The teacher is there—with a kindly' smile He welcomes each as they enter the while. Tasks are recited—some timidly meek, With trembling arise—with diffidence speak— Others repeating with voice loud and bold— Their well conn’d lesson is speedily told; On the brow of a few a proud seal is set, They’ll rule in the halls of the Senate yet. Those are there who have thoughts of the boundless sea,’ “Like an eagle caged” they’ pine to be free. I fear me much some are thinking to weave The poets sweet song. Oh, much I should grieve, If any one there, in that happy band, Should give their best tho’ts to a stranger band, Should forma lyre of their hearts’ finest strings, The breath of the world breathes there, and it wrings From the harp a moan, where music should be, Alas! for the poets’ sad destiny. The lessons arc told—the prayer now is done, Afar m the west, as a king, rides the sun, Again is the sounding and hurry of feet Again does a band with welcomings meet. �MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. I They are winding now in the vale by the hill, I And now they have paused by a babbling rill I Where a sweet cascade in mimicry plays, I It looks like a haunt for naiads and fays.’ The botany class have met in the bower, See! they have pluck’d a wild-wood flower, I hear them telling the order and class As fall its torn petals abroad on the grass. rTis lovely “Viola,” with meek blue eye, I They rudely have rent and left her to die, The queen of the flow’rs must think with myself Oh! Science! thou art a stern, cruel elf, Thus, mangled and torn, to cast at your feet The loveliest gem of this sylvan retreat. Again in gay groups they hasten along, Now echoes a laugh—now echoes a song. Lengthen the shadows—now rises the moon, Bright hours ye have sped, ye hasten too soon, Laden with leaves, sweet buds, and sweet bells,— Fast are they leaving the bow’rs and the dells, Seeking their rooms with a wealth of rich thought From woodland and vale, and bright flower caught. ’Tis.night!—how calmly, how gently they sleep! Their watchings bright angels over them keep; But scarcely has risen the morning sun Ere each is aroused and their tasks begun: i Oh, how pleasant a task to gather flowers I From gardens of science and learning’s bowers. The days have pass’d quickly, and Friday night Has come. In school-days how rapid Time’s flight!. A glad joyous shout rings out on the air, Farewell for a day to study and care. A long day is theirs for walk or for play, Now see them to ball or grace-hoop away; Some here, and some there, now gaily they trip, With joy-glancing eye and gay smiling lip. Ah! this world has no hour so joyous—believe— Or bright than the students gay Friday eve. Oh! Mem’ry, we thank thee for the blest pow’r Thou hast to soothe us in each weeping hour, (HowS'the words mmeT’hiever forget.” And lovely thou art, oft with painter’s hand Thou makest of the past a picture land. If darkness there was thou has softened the shade, If light was too strong—its brightness allayed, Thy colors on the canvas glow more fair Than we had hoped—when Hope was sketching there, Hope, that so fondly here once seem’d to roam, That I tho’t this earth would e’er be her home, Has fled. She plum’d her many color’d wings, Now near the gates of fadeless beauty sings. Cease, cease, my fond heart—thy throbbings, oh, cease, Hope sings nearer Heaven, oh, look there for peace. My harp return 1—and bid thy strain Be near the ruin’d hall again. J 7 Many a student who’s heard the bell Sending sweet music thro’ woodland and dell, Calling from circle or leafy bower All those who must meet at reciting hour, Or the bell that each evening call’d them, where Their spirits should bow in humble prayer, Will deem, oftentimes, that they hear it now, When the Spirit of Dreams her bright wings bow To the shaded earth. They will dream the gay Are yet untouch’d by the breath of decay, That their smiles are yet glad—their steps yet light, And their hearts unstain’d by mildew and blight. They will dream affection has not grown weak, That distrust has never, with vulture beak, And talons, struck deep in the trusting heart, Till they bade the life-spring of Love depart. They will dream that friendship has not grown cold. That hearts are unsoil’d with a wish for gold, They will dream their wealth is still a flower, And all that Nature has, giv’n as dower To hearts that love her. They’ll dream, and the past With its lovely scenes, will come thronging fast. They will dream such dreams till the glare of day With its thousand cares will fright them away. And yet, tho’ the past you cannot forget, Tho’ but in dreams it will visit you yet, Look to the prize that is yet to be won— And on! let thy course be ever right on! And carefully fold up the pinions of thought Over the work that is yet to be wrought Now set the standard! and let it be high What tho’ it waving should meet with'th’e sky’ What tho’ its folds should envelop a star? J Would’stdeem the banner hud floated too far’ No, let it only in Heaven find rest— Let not its foldings by earth be caress’d. �MAIME WESLEYAN SEMINARY. ■ 0 MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. ■■ Tho’ ns mortals, ours is a lowly lot, Scarce dare essay one simple note, That might, an echo, onward float. I scarce dare sing, in humble lays, The names that merit loftier praise, Yet, if the heart’s deep rev’rence pay, For simple note, for humble lay, I’ll even onward with my song, And know that they who linger’d long— In days gone by, long linger’d here, Still love these names, love and revere. I As living immortals,—we know it is not! I The mind, the mighty, all glorious mind, I What tho’ it now with this earth be entwined? I Is it not sublime, in a world such ns this, I Tho’ stain’d, to mate with the spirits of bliss? I Is it not grand, tho’ our way it be dark, I 'Thatyet we possess one radiant spark? I' Glorious! all brilliant! that never’s to die, I Each hour showing clear that its destiny’s high! | Know, that laying our clay prison aside I We mount into Heav’n, an angel our guide? I Know, tho’ bound in so narrow a place, The home of the spirit, is space, all spnce? , And tho’ we’re imprison’d, we know not why, | In a world such as this, our home is the sky? Then bend the pinions of thought to the sun! I Faint not, oh 1 rest not, the goal may be won! I Onward and upward, thy course shall be free, I And thy rest with thy God eternally be. ’ Many have met here who’ll ne’er meet again, I Some died on the green earth, some on the main, I And some are ploughing its bright waters yet, I And some are where lovely Islands are set, I Like gems on the ocean. Why went they there? I They have gone to teach the dark Indian pray’r— B They left their homes and the beauties that wrought ■ Around those homes by associate thought. I And I think me now of one noble youth* B Who caught, from this altar, bright sparks of Truth, I He tho’t to have left his lov’d native strand I As missionary to a distant land, I With the dearest one on earth by his side F He deem’d it not hard to brave the rough tide I Of “Old Ocean:” but alas, for the love I Of earth. Her spirit like a weary dove I Fled to its home in God. From that same hour I He languish’d, as if her love had power I To bind his heart to earth: the chain was riv’n, I He long’d to bind the broken link in Heav’n. He linger’d here not long, but droop’d and died, . In peace now he rests on the green hill-sido. No marble column o’er Ins grave 18 plac d, L But from our niem’nes he’ll ne’er be efiaced. * There’s yet one strain I’ve left unsung, 1 And my poor lyre, so badly strung, 411 ■, :■ I was a child—a tiny one, 1 know not now how old, When Caldwell good In these halls stood, I’ve heard all hearts he won; And I remember now His calm and placid brow. His manner gently mild, His voice was kind As music wind, I lov’d him, as loveth a child. 1 He had a brother here before. But him, I never knew, But many say, That, every day. All knew and lov’d him more; And they often have said That they all mourn him dead, All those who knew him here, And oft I know I have seen flow, To his mein’ry, a silent tear. My childhood’s years were passing away, When Larabee knelt in these halls to pray, The kind, the noble, the lofty, the true, All lov’d him well who his goodness knew. He had ever a tear for those who wept, His steps were where sorrow its vigils kept. Here might my lyre cease full well, It cannot of his virtues tell. Too feebly weak the untaught strain, let will I try its strength again. 1 was an orphan, and a widow’s si"h Was my infant brother’s lullaby, “ r : ■ i �MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY. Aly widowed mother’s heart wns drear, Sad and faint-hearted, I’d much to fear, But he to our lonely and humble cot, Like a pitying angel sought the spot. He came with a sad, but a gentle smile, He sought from our hearts dark sorrow to wile, In kindness he came, and drear carking care Fled from our roof with its look of despair. A widow’d heart blesses, and orphans pray That his path with flowers may spring alway, That never a stormy cloud may arise To dim one star of his home paradise. Oh! yes, we will beg kind Heaven to save His generous heart front sorrow’s dark wave. And many whose youth with sadness grew dim, Whom his kindness has cheer’d, will pray for him. Do you not recall where his cottage stood Embower’d in trees almost like a 'wood ? And the garden where his amiable wife Hnd planted sweet flow’rs, till the air seem’d rife With sweeter perfume than ever might rest On a gale just wafted from Araby blest? There oft I have stood when the young Twilight, A child at play with the mantle of Night, Had flung its slight shade o’er leaflet and flow’r, 1 lov’d them all better at that still hour. Oft I visit them now, but one by one, They, too, are departing, since she is gone. Ah! rude, rude harp, so rough thy strain, How dare I touch thy chords again! Yet, Allen, some kind thoughts of thee— Kind thoughts in mem’ry set, Thoughts of past days, the gay, the free, That I can ne’er forget. My girlhood’s earliest days were when Thy footsteps linger’d here, And I was glad, and gay, and then I dream’d not of a fear. To those whose brightest hours wcro spent When thy smile lighten’d here, Thon’lt come with many mem’nes blent, Of joys that ask a—tear. Torsev, thy voice was last, that here Echoed oft with kindly cheer, But it were hardly meet for me To sing the praises due to thee, Yet might I sing what others say, I’ll hasten onward with my lay. I need not tell, the midnight oil Hath been a witness of thy toil, For who ere gain’d a height as thou, Without a trace upon their brow— Of tho’t, such tho’t as only’s found, When all is hush’d and silent round, But tho’ it have no line to trace, Its secret tells its dwelling place. And leaves a light where ere it rest, As tho’ with angel seal imprest. I need not say, that oft, thy feet Seeks Nature in her green retreat, Nor that thou lovest all that’s giv’n As links to bind us unto Heav’n, For who has seen and cannot tell The beauty drawn from Nature’s well, That leaves a light, we know not how, Of better thought upon the brow. Nor will Isay thy low-toned voice Has made the desolate rejoice,— But well I know a sad one’s prayer, Is sent to Heav’n for thy welfare. Oft as the garish light of day Has wrap’d itself in mantle gray, I’ve listened to thy eloquence, And held my breath in rapt suspense, And I have seen the throng, as bound Their every sense in that of sound, List to the melodious rush Of thy grand thoughts, that like the rush Of mighty torrents’ influence, Held all bound with power intense. E’en seem like those, which we are told Were bound in stone by magi old, Only we know the strong of mind Have sway o’er all, of deeper kind Than they in fairy times of yore, As sung in tales of minstrel lore. Oh! much we hope thy coming days May be all that thy morning rays Of life foretell they yet may be, How bright then’s thy futurity. �11 MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY, Opso, cease, my harp, thy forward song, Lest he should weary, ’tis so long. Old ruin ! one more thought of thee, Then I will set this worn harp free. I I I I I But shall I cense, and not one word ; Of generous Sampson here be heard? No thought of him, who caused to rise The walls whose mem’ry thus we prize? It were not meet, methinks, that I, In such a lay should pass him by. What shall I say? Has any told All beauty that the stars enfold? No, we may worship from afar, Who is there that loves not a star? We see them radiantly bright, And blesss them for their lovely light. Has any ask’d the gentle show’r, And it has told them of its power To renovate the drooping flow’r? The stars and showers’ influence, Are types of his benevolence. I And now we’ll bid the fallen fane farewell, i Yet know that thoughts of it shall be a spell I To guide us ever on in virtue’s ways, r And they shall be as sunbeams to our days I Of stormy sorrow. Well we’ve lov’d the hall, ' Not that it boasted fine wrpuglit.capital L And architecture’s device, rich and rare; I Not that its beauty ever bound us there With such strong ties. Little had it of all i That made Rome mighty, even in her fall, Not that the hopes of greatness, no, it sought Grandeur in the magnificence of thought. “Science crosvns her votaries,” that’s a spell Deeper than words of Eastern Oracle. “Science and Religion,” the surest guide Man ever had in his, else, path of pride. This was the motto, and thus let it be— Science—Religion—to Eternity, * •9 :■ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ruins of The Maine Wesleyan Seminary; A poem dedicated to a friend Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Goss, Almira J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Augusta: Russell Eaton, Printer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1847 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/8/22/Program_KHSseniorplay_1942.pdf 139a30d38d8711ff0af0ed81d56a5ab7 PDF Text Text 7 .-’IB I !■ ? liar ch 21, 19^-2 Kents Hill Senior Play ’’Have A Heart11 ii i :1 A new musical comedy in two acts d Book, lyrics and music by Frederick Ao McCue - The Oast ! Gil Payson o.. 0,,. <,.... .,. <,,.. * Norman C» Weisbecker Minerva, o *. o..».. o.. . ....... .. .0o Minnie Barr Mrs* Jason.*A*....»oVirginia Ross Windy Brewster* o .... aa . o... .Russell Ho Baker Connie Brewster* o 0.... 0 0... .Patricia Weston Linda Lawr encea .Naomi R. Rogers Glenn Morton.. e «Richard M, Burst on Professor Carman,.Howard Co Phillips Smudgeberg. ............................. .William Fo Brennan •t Smoocholi* * .a... ........coo..co »o .John Ho Garvin Gladyc® .......o,.B_arbara^ F .’Bond' The students? Dorothy 1I« Corbo,,Phyllis E- :Berry, Katherine Pa Earl, Marilynn Ms Fogg, Emalue S* Petei^en, Rena J, Allen, Harriet Jo Pollard, Faye Wetmore, William F, Brennan, Kenneth A* Cobb, Lawrence 0» Reed, Howard 0*,Phillips, William Ao Meader, Ray W. Harris, Joseph Eo Burrell, and Robert Wo Tomlinson.* Synopsis of Scenes -■ ■■ - - - ------ i'. Act I Scene I; Living room in a college dormitory o Afternoon Act I Scene II; Mrs* Jason’s sitting rooma A little later Act I Scene III? Living room in the dormitory* Later Act II Scene I: Windy ?s room* Before the dance Act II Scene II? Living Room in the dormitoryo Later that evening Musical lumbers 1* Opening chorus,,.,,.,, 2. Minerva the Maid**..... 3 q Dr earns ............... 4, Prom Girl,,,,,,.,..... 5. Reprise*.9Prom Girl Girl,Q&. o* Verdi Gets the Birdie* 7♦ Who Said It First?,n<,* Joe Prepsao,,4... oo,.:. 0 to d «o 9* Something is rotten in Denmark 10* Have A Heart, , ■> ..... * 11* Reprise-Dreams........ 12o Tonight’s the Night**«*..*„o.0 & I Made Up My Mind0.. Finale, „ .... ............The Students *0*o*.Minerva and Students *.. flConnie and Students .. * <> o □.a« • p* . .Linda and Boys ...flflGil, Linda and Students *a.....A..Linda and students a** *Connie, Gil and Students ..»...Windy and Students .»..o.o 0 o.Windy and Ensemble .Gil, Connie and Ensemble ..ofl *0q.oConnie and Girls The Students Linda, Minerva, and Students .*o.....^Entire company Staff for ’’Have A Heart” r5 Entire production written and directed by Hr0 Frederick A, McCue Faculty Assistant*.Miss Edith Lv Pillsbury eo , Kenneth I* Hineks. Stage ManagersKenneth Hineks, Robert Lange, Carl M. Holden Property manager I Barbara 0< Richardson • • �Pl 1 Richard M. Burston I ■ •* June 4th, 1998 To George Dunn, Director of Drama I George, Phoebe found the enclosure sans frame when she was cleaning out my tons of saved memorabilia at our Connecticut house. She insists that you have it for the Kents Hill archives. IP ! i? L r McCue put the entire show together, from the first note to the last, a not-so-small fete for an untrained musician/song writer. He had written a couple of plays during his summer stays in Kennebunk where he worked at a hotel. Have A Heart was already destined to go to Hollywood after we graduated. McCue went into the Salem, MA hospital for minor surgery in June and survived it, but died a matter of days post-op, probably . i. from a bloodclot, a fairly common occurrence way back then. Mitzi Gaynor was cast in the lead role. See soon. Best, Beyond that, I know nothing. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Theater Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Program Senior Play : Have a Heart Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 21,1942 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/23/Collection_LouiseGreene_Rejoinder1867.pdf f94c0b78fc760209acc660fc72f615fc PDF Text Text ’’'crsnhm x / i / I II I F ' J millS Dr. To’ sey, whom I have arraigned before the bar of the public as doing, under prejudice,'great wrong to my child, is the motive power which runs that Institution on Kent’s Hill." He does not meet me openly before the public and answer my complaints against ■ him, but takes shelter behind the Trustees. While, nominally, this committee of three, of the Trustees, make the Reply, yet I know enough about lawyers and their ministers being employed in the work, to believe that it is the combined effort of this Faculty and Trustees, with the aid of many of their ministers and leading men through the State. Would it not have appeared more manly for that Faculty to have made their own deftwee ? But thjs is Dr. T. style — to keep his own paws out of the tire as long as he can, so that he can say, “ I havemot done this, that, or the other thing.” This committee in th -r reply say: 11 The Trustees have twi " sought to have a fair aud^ borough investigation, in the presence and with the concurrence of ;ter. Greene, for the purpose of determining in a satisfactory manner1' ''ether the.teachers or any other person culpable.” Their first / tempt to investigate this affair is fully explained in the “ Croy/J Won ”— on pages 132 to 135. See my objections there in flip*11 “But as the propos?^ was declined by Mr. Greene, on the ground that the committee was appointed by the trustees from their own members, the plan was abandoned.” I now desire the reader and- parent to note carefully, their record as given in their reply—which record I had seen before I published my book. p I1 h. 1. I Vf c •. Ii'/ I* p t U REJOINDER. ! -fl A I 1 “ Copy from Record of Trustees, Annual Meeting, June 5, 1867. —In accordance with a request of Dr. Torsey, it was voted to make a thorough investigation of the administration of the Faculty in the case of Miss M. Louise Greene, now deceased. (Messrs. Torsey and Robinson being both excused from" acting in the investigation, at ■H H / 1 .. /" �V 1 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ' 4 their own request, and A. P. Morrill appointed chairman and J. J, Pony secretary). To this end, witnesses were examined at length, after which the subject was quite fully discussed by different mem­ bers of the Board. Rev. S. Allen then offered the following pream­ ble and resolution: \ “ Whereas, certain reports have been published and industriously \ circulated during the past year, in which the administration of the school, and particularly the conduct of Rev. II. P. Torsey, the Pres- ident, in the case of the late Miss M. Louise Greene, has been severely censured, although no complaints have been made to the Trustees, by the parties professing to have been aggrieved; and whereas, such reports are damaging in their tendency, and are cal­ culated to mislead the public mind ; therefore, “ Resolved—First: That after a careful and patient hearing of the facts of the case, the Trustees find no ground for censure against II. P. Torsey, or any other person concerned in the management of the Institution, in the case of the late Miss M. Louise Greene; that so far from having been “expelled,” Miss Greene left the Institution of her own accord, without the knowledgei of the teachers, and action in in her her case; case; am and .that jn the before the Faculty Faculty had had taken taken action pursued in the sad case was judgment of the Trustees, the course extremely lenient and kind. vum. .: That the Trustees! ' iJLstill have undiminished “ Resolved—Second ability and lundly dis;fiition of Rev. H. P. Torconfidence in the : soy, in the discharge of the difficult anciejsponsible duties of the station he has filled for twenty-three yeai^Kith success unsurpassed by that of any other teacher within our kiMwledge. “ Resolved—Third: That the M. W. ScSmary and Female Col-- o lege was never more deserving of the confidl of the public than and that the continued prosperity of the school, at the present time ; a—---- . notwithstanding the damaging reports above referred to, is a gratify­ ing popular endorsement of the administration of the Institution. “Attest: John J. Perry, Secretary pro tern." In their Reply they go on to say that, “ During the session Mr. Torsey informed the Trustees that he desired them to investigate his administration, in the ease of Miss Greene. Accordingly, an even­ ing session was agreed upon for this purpose; aud Mr. Knight, who was still in the neighborhood, was invited to bo present. lie accord­ ingly came in, and remained till the close of the investigation, at a h on the rent’s hill tragedy. 5 late hour of See on page 135, “ Crown Won,” more ■auu uuur or the rue night. night."” See . about this investigation. Mr. Knight now tells me that it was about seven o’clock when the Trustees went into session, aud that an hour, at least, was spent in attending to other business—about the pur­ chase or sale of real estate connected with the Institution, and the taxes on some wood land which they thought they ought not to pay. Between ten and eleven, Mr. K. says, this “ careful and patient hearing of the facts in the case”—the words in their preamble — this investigation closed, which was about an hour before the exer­ cises in the chapel broke up—two and a-half or three liour^ given to this investigation, from which they made the aforesaid record, in which they say the Trustees find no ground for censure against H. P. Torsey or any other person concerned in the management of the Institution. . .4 . ' ’1 i V ■J 1 }f MR. KNIGHT’S STATEMENT. On the morning of the sixth of June, 1867, Miss Mira I. Reed stated to me that Dr. Torsey having ascertained that she had received a letter from Mr. Greene, came to her boarding place aud desired to see it; and then with her consent carried it away. And I positively deny that I was in any way employed to prevent Miss Reed from testifying in the ease of Miss Greene, in the hearing before the Trustees; aud I also stated that no blame could be attached to the teachers, according to the testimony then and there given. Peru, March 21, 186S. A. M. Knight. VI - i They suppress, in the Reply, the last eight words of Mr. Knight as above, which greatly misrepresents him aud deceives the public. Sec at the bottom of page 131. “Crown Won,” what was pub­ lished in the papers in regard to this pretended thorough investiga­ tion, in June, 1866, in several journals of this State. The reader -V II can now see where these published accounts came from, aud the way Dr. T. and the Faculty were cleared- from all blame. The careful aud patient investigation, of oue whole short evening in June — a wonderful length of time to hear the evidence, discuss this sad case, aud make out the preamble and the resolves 1 — to make up their deliberate, sound judgment, and put on record, there to remain for all time, this wonderful decision and wicked statement, that no complaint had been made to the Trustees by the parties professing to have been aggrieved 1 (See preamble before the resolves.) Why ■I A •J �I A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. this bitter complaint of Torscy, and my letter to Robinson, two of the Trustees, if no complaint had been made by us to them ? M ith the publication of that pretended investigation of that committee of students, May 6,1867 (see “ Crown Won,” pages 127-8-9, for full explanations, — with this record, published to the world, exoner­ ating the faculty from all blame, and the difficulty I encountered to get my statements before the public, as explained on page 144, “ Crown Won ”— with all their efforts to blame Louise, and to clear all those who dealt with her from blame — I would ask any parent, What less would you have doue under like circumstances than to publish such a book ? Please answer this question satisfactorily to yourselves before you condemn ine. When all this had gone before the public — the result of those ex-partc investigations — and I had replied through my book, then they show for the first time some signs of fairness, when on the 14th of November, 1867, the trustees at a meeting held at Lewiston authorize William Deering, of Port­ land, one of the trustees, to write me to join them in a reference, who wrote me, Nov. 15, 1867, and appended the following resolve, case, your child, how much less would you have been likely to have said than I have, in a case so sad, if it was clear to your mind that it was prejudice that destroyed your child. Your proposition is respectfully declined. Yours, respectfully, fl 7 Jonas Greene.” The public may judge how I must feel about this show of fairness at this late day, after all I have showed had been done to try to clear this Faculty, and to disgrace the memory of Louise. See what has been attempted and done, as shown on pages 88-94, “ Crown Won.” It did seem to me to be too late, and they had gone too far in spread­ ing their misrepresentations over the State against the deceased. I and the good people of the State may judge what is meant in that resolve by “ honorable legal gentlemen, to whom the whole matter may be referred.” The public will, with all the twisting, turn­ ing and maneuvering of this Faculty, and some of the Trustees, in pursuing me at Lewiston, while there for the remains of my child —see pages 130—31, “Crown Won”—and their persistent efforts to circumscribe my influence, to annoy and perplex me. What satis­ faction I should have received from such a reference I am unable to judge. Have all the claims of justice aud humanity, the moral and religious obligations, fled from the managers of this Institution ? Are there no responsibilities resting upon them but legal ones in this sad case 1 Now comes in the Reply, the affidavit of Torsey; aud if I had nothing but the conversation we had with him, aud others of the Faculty, and those who surround him, to rely upon in my defence, against him whom I believe to be unscrupulous, I should despair of getting him to admit one single thing which he said or did with Louise, or said to us, which makes against him. But, thanks to an over-ruling Providence, who in a measure holds the destinies of us all in his hands, I have enough of his aud her written statements, which I think will satisfy the public that all of his sworn statements in the Reply cannot be true. The reader can see in the “ Crown Won,” pp. 22-27, the whole explanation of his denial to let her go home with Mary Chapman, in August, 1864. See all of the correspondence between her and myself, between myself and Torsey; and when I wrote him she would leave his school unless some recon­ ciliation could be had, he was in a place where, if he had any good . reason for refusing her, and he had anything against her for viola- passed at the said trustees’ meeting: “Resolved—~That William Deering, of Portland, be authorized to present to Mr. Greene the following proposition, viz; that Hons. W. Davis, E. Shepley, W. G. Barrows, or such other disinterested persons as may be agreed upon, be requested to nominate a reference, con­ sisting of disinterested and honorable legal gentlemen, to whom the whole matter, together with all the testimony and facts in the case, may be referred, and whose decision in the case shall be final, and whose opinion, together with the testimony, shall be laid before the community in such a manner as said reference may determine.” To this I replied. November 20, 1867, as follows: “ Mr. Deering,—Dear Sir,—Yours of the 15th inst. came to hand last evening, and in reply permit me to say that as you (the trustees) have put on record in the book containing the records of the Institution, what purports to be a thorough investigation of the circumstances and death of my daughter, the substance of the same having been published to the world, from which decision I have appealed to the public and to the Ruler of the Universe for the just........................... ice of my course, by the decision of an intelligent public and the Judge of All I am ’willing _ to stand or fall. And, sir, were this your 1 ft �8 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. tions of rules or any bad conduct, he would have made use of it and given it to me in excuse for his rude conduct to her. In that long letter of Louise in August, 1864, giving a particular account of this affair, she says, “ Preserve this letter, and if you doubt any part of it I am willing to read it myself before you to Dr. Torsey. It is only to-night that I saw him, and I’ve taken particular pains to write down what was said, as near as possible, word for word.” And now when I give quotations from Dr. Torsey’s sworn statement in the Reply, which contradict Louise’s statements in this letter, which I shall give word for word in quotations to disprove his statement, the public may judge, under all the circumstances, whether his recollection, after the lapse of four and a-half years, is more reliable as to what was said and done, when it is for his selfish interest to tell it as he chooses, than her’s, which was written in the very hour in which it transpired, to her parents, with the assurance that she would read it to them in the presence of Torsey. From Torsey’s affidavit—“At the time Miss Greene met me on the Seminary grounds, and desired permission to leave the Hill and spend the night and the next day with Mary Chapman, I asked her if she had a permit from her father. She said she had not.” From Louise’s letter—“ So when she came I went to Dr. Torsey for leave to go home with her, carrying the general permission you had given me, and on the strength of which he had heretofore granted my request.” He (Torsey) says—“A short time afterwards she met me again on the street, and again importuned me.” She (Louise) gives a minute and particular history of her asking him, when, where, and all about it, and says, all this occupied about three miuutes; we were talking on the sidewalk.” Here is the'length and only time she importuned him (as shown by this letter written at the time), except the second time, at his house. She says she made the request to him once on the sidewalk, and stopped about three minutes, and then went to Miss Robinson, and in about a half-hour again went to his house. Torsey says in his affidavit—“ This refusal of favors referred exclusively to her going to Mr. Chapman’s, and was not on account of any difficulty between Mr. C. and myself, for we were on the most friendly terms, but because she had been there three times without permission.” August 29,1864, Dr. T. wrote me and said, “ Once I gave per­ mission to Louise to go to the Corner to visit, and once she went without permission. Last Friday she asked to go again and spend the night. I told her we should give fewer leaves of absence this term; and after I had retired for the night she came again. I answered her in the same manner and in the same words as before.” Now I submit those two statements to the public—one written to me at the time, when he would have availed himself of any excuse or reason possible against Louise. He then put her offence, only once of going to the Corner without leave. (See on page 26, “ Crown Won,” how this is explained.) Now he swears it was three times. He then says nothing about his neuralgic pain in his eyes and head; now he would seem to make that as an excuse. If all was so smooth and pleasant with Mr. Chapman, then why did Mary leave his school ? Mr. Chapman has once given me a different version of this affair. She says in this long letter, “ I was advised to go home with Mary C., but thought it not best.” For the truth of this statement I will say that on the 7th of November, 1866, Mary Chapman told me and my wife that she advised her to go, and said she ought to have gone. I am willing to put Louise’s record, made the very day of the conversation in Miss Robinson’s room, April 11, 1865 (see pp. 28-9 of “Crown Won”), against Torsey’s statement, made from recollec­ tion, in 1868, in the Reply. Read both, and judge which is true. Again Torsey says—“ The Monday evening before Louise left. Miss Case called on me and informed me that Miss Greene had been taking articles of clothing not belonging to her, and that Mrs. Dag­ gett and herself were investigating the matter. I requested her to do it quietly, and to say nothing to any one about the matter. I had also learned Miss Greene had taken money.” Mark well, that Torsey has here sworn that on Monday evening, which was the 21st of May, before any investigation was had, and before Miss Case and Mrs. Daggett had been into Louisa’s room at all, to see what they could fiud,,and before any one had accused Louise of taking the money, —for it is known to everybody there and elsewhere who knows any­ thing about her confession, which was on Tuesday, the 22d, that she made that confession, not to Dr. Torsey, but to Mr. Daggett and his wife and Miss Case, and Torsey could not have known anything about her taking the money,—yet he on oath has certified that he had also learned that Miss Greene had taken money. i j 9 �■■ J i I! 10 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY on the rent’s hill tragedy. His admission here that he knew all about her being accused, and that the investigation was to go on, and he taking no measures to notify her parents, makes his case look worse and worse. And can I believe him when he says, “ Had she not determined to leave, the ease would have been presented to the Faculty for final settlement. In the investigation and settlement her parents would have been allowed to take a part” ? He says, On Wednesday morning, at the request of the Faculty, I called to converse with her.’’ Who believes that they had any intention of notifying; me of her trouble? that they It does not appear, by the course they were pursuing, ]_ intended any such thing. In the Reply, Torsey says, referring to his conversation with Louise‘the morning she left, “After she determined to go home, she said she would go to her sister’s room and make arrangements with her.” Again he says, in another paragraph, “Nor did I say, if she went to Lewiston she must make arrangements with Chestina.” See. how he contradicts the last two assertions, in a letter written to me May 27, 1866, four days after Louise left, when all was fresh in his mind: “ She named going by the way of Lewiston, or writing you to meet her there, but did not insist upon it any further than merely mentioning it; finally agreeing, as I understood her, to make no arrangements herself, but allow Chestina to make them.” As I have said in the “ Crown Won,” does this not look as if he knew she was not capable of taking care of herself?” Again he says, “She thought she had better leave that day.” Hoar her, in that letter to her sister, written the day she left, contradict this last statement of his: “ Dr. Torsey informed me this morning that I had better leave to-day.” See this letter in full, p. 39, “ Crown Won.” She does not say she thought she had better leave, but soon adds, “ How I feel, God only knows.” See on page 117 of “ Crown Won,” about his kind treatment of students. In view of the foregoing statements and contradictions of Torsey, and all of his twisting and turning, as shown in my pamphlet of ’ 162 pages, I am not at all surprised that he should deny the truth of my book, and declare it grossly false under oath—that is but a small offence compared to what I believe him guilty of. He has a right to his opinions, and I to mine, but the public will judge im­ partially. One other point. If Mr. and Mrs. Daggett and Miss Case said nothing to Louise about the school knowing it, and as they say the 11 class knew nothing about it until the morning she left, and the stu­ dents none of them knew it, how did she know the school knew it, and it was common talk and public property on the Hill, before she left? If Dr. Torsey did not tell her, for no one else talked with her, as she writes in her class letter, who did inform her? If I could have had an opportunity to retrieve the past at the Hill, who did prevent her from having a chance to retrieve the past at the Hill? Who had a long talk with her just before she left, and just before she wrote that letter? Will the public believe Torsey did not tell her the school knew it, and that she had better leave that day ? See pp. 37-8, “ Crown Won,” for further explanations. Torsey, in the Reply, testifies—“ I then determined to send some one to Lewiston to look after her. I spoke to B. Harriman to go with his team; but after consulting with others I concluded to ascertain first by the return train whether she had stopped at Lew­ iston.” Miss M. I. Reed says, p. 54, “ Crown Won,” that Mr. Harriman agreed to go to Lewiston after Louise with Chestina, and she told him she would get Chestina ready in fifteen minutes. Miss Reed, in her recantation affidavit does not deny this, nor does Mr. Harriman. With those statements of Torsey’s, as above, aud the positive agree­ ment of Mr. Harriman to go to Lewiston after her, who will doubt the truth of my logic on pages 90, 138-9, “ Crown Won” ? I will leave the public to judge of the truth of Torsey’s state­ ments—he being the implicated party, aud testifying in his own defence—and his denial “ That I told her that the school kuew it ” ; and R. Smith’s denial that he told me that Torsey told him so is shown to be false by the following affidavit: “ In the month of August or September, 1866, I heard Roscoe Smith tell Jonas Greene, of Peru, that Dr. Torsey told him (Smith) that in answer to Louise’s request to have this affair kept from the school, and she be permitted to stay and graduate, ho told her that it would be impossible, for the school knew it. “ Wm. S. Walker.” ■“ Oxford ss., March 21, 1868.—Personally appeared before me William S. Walker, the above-named, and made oath that the above statement by him made and signed, is true. “ Wm. Woodsum, Jr., Trial Justice.” In reply to the affidavits of F. A. Robinson, J. L. Morse, D. G. I i �12 ih 13 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. Harriman, and Miss P. B. Robinson, and notwithstanding their accu­ sations against Miss Greene and myself, and their denials of the facts as stated in the “ Crown Won,” in regard to that conversation in the Faculty meeting, I affirm it to be true, as stated by us. Why it escaped their notice that Torsey stamped his right foot upon the floor so hard as to jar the room, is more than I can tell—unless they were so accustomed to his outbursts of passion and show of authority as not to notice it. Torsey does not deny it; Miss Case says, “ he did not, to my knowledge.” II "Hnrly deuv. pronounce---as false, O.euy, and auu pronounce utterlyjr deny, and this crimination ? The object that Torsey said, “What avails ’’ ”all ‘ t__ .... should be the finding of Louise. How can we aid you in this now should be the finding of Louise. How can we — power to assist you.” matter ? Wc are ready to do anything in our word in those statements. The only thing There is not a w ...----of....truth ..... close, ----- , when it appeared __ I as though he Torsey did say, near the near the i—he did say, “ What do you want us to wanted to get rid of usreference to Louise in cconnection _____ ' with 1,: thisdo?”—making no remark. to this D. G. Harriman. And now I wish to put one question -------------------conversation down to its How dares he to make oath to all this - x------. ]ctlow close, when he and all that were present L that he left the room and and house more than an 1hour --------2 _a-half ” before this Faculty meet- sey’s part of the house first, that morning they came and searched the room; and I can tell you the way—I remember particularly. I went down to the college to practice. There Mira told me that Miss Case, and Mrs. Daggett had gone up to my room and wished to see me alone. I immediately started back to my room and overtook them. They said they were going up to my room to see me. We walked along till we got to the house. They opened the front gate and went into the front door. I went into the side gate and hur­ ried into my room, picked up some things laying about the room, and changed mg dress before they eame in. I was just fastening my dress, with trembling fingers, when I heard them coming. I remem­ ber this distinctly, and what dress I put on—it was that slate-colored one, -like Estella’s gymnastic dress.” Yet Mrs. Daggett has on oath denied this fact. Chestiua further writes me that she had heard Louise speak against Torsey several times. “ Louise did advise me to enter the Seminary Course, as I should be put forward more, and be required to read before the school; and in many ways it would be better for me. ‘ And you will not be obliged to stay; you can leave any time.’ ” Then was it true, what Mrs. Daggett declares on oath? Mrs. Daggett is quite ready in her sworn statement to charge me with making “ additions, omissions, changes and exaggerations, in my book, which are untrue.” as to herself and Mr. Daggett. She further says, “ I never saw in the wash sueh garments as Mrs. Greene describes in her statement.” I wish to ask her if she does the washing, or has personal knowledge of every article those sixty girls put into the wash ? And is she trying to dispute Mrs. Greene in regard to the articles Louise had at that term ? It may be as well for Mrs. Daggett to explain to me, and perhaps the public would like to know, how she camp in possession of Louise’s Adclphiun pin, plainly marked with Louise’s name, which she kept, with several other articles of Louise’s, for more than four months—after we had written them that various articles of Louise’s were missing. See “ Crown Won,” pp. 112-13, when and how they were obtained. I here re-assert, and will say I do positively know, that the only article named by Mrs. Daggett, in her statement of May 30, 18G6, as found in Louise’s possession, which was marked, was an old linen handkerchief with holes iu it. Sarah E. Dow says—“I think it incredible that she could have lost so many clothes iu eleven weeks as she is represented to have lost during her last term.” I do not know how Miss Dow should I i ing closed ? Miss Case admits much in her affidavit which others have denied, which goes to show what Louise said—“ I think she said she took the clothing from necessity, as all her’s had been lost, and intended to restore them at the close of the term.” She further says, “ Upon being questioned she confessed she took the five dollars.” And I here again say Mr. Daggett did tell me she (Louise) confessed she took the five dollars, not denying a word. Mrs. Daggett states under oath that, “ We did not go into Dr. Torsey's part of the house; nor did he have anything to do, directly or indirectly, with the investigation in regard to the clothing or money.” Now hear what Mr. Torsey says on oath—“ The Mondayevening before Louise left Miss Case called on me and informed me that Miss Greene had been taking articles of clothing not belonging, to her; and that Mrs. Daggett and herself were investigating the matter. I requested her to do it quietly, and to say nothing to any­ one about the matter. I had also learned that Miss Greene had taken some money.” Chestina writes from Virginia, March 31, 1868, and says—“ Miss Case and Mrs. Daggett did go into Dr. Tor- & & i Ar-/.'.. I �REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. know anything about Louise’s under-clothes, except such as she bor­ she did write me. And further, she has given, in her affidavit, for what she wrote me what another student did write me in June, 1867, and from which I did make the extract on page 138, “ Crown Won”—from which Miss Bowers, in her zeal to implicate me and clear them, has mistaken this for her own language. I have both letters before me, and know what I write. rowed of her to wear. In answer to Eliza C. Bowers’s very singular affidavit, I feel com­ pelled to make a thorough rejoinder, and will ask the careful perusal by the public of all the facts here produced. Miss Bowers says “ I further say that Dr. Torsey was impartial and kind in his treat­ ment of the students under his care. There was scarcely a student who did not think thus of him, and who did not love and respect him as a teacher and friend. I never knew him to make any dis­ tinction among the students under his care, or to show any partiality on account of any religious or sectarian views of any student. I have never intended, in anything I have written or said, to cast any blame upon the Faculty, in their treatment of my lamented ciassnlate, M. Louise Greene; but sincerely believe they desired and intended to exercise justice and kindness towards her in this matter. Mr. Greene has given in his book several extracts from my private letters to him and Sirs. Greene, and S. R. Newell (not, however, giving my name), in answer to letters addressed to mo, proposing numerous questions about the affair connected with my unfortunate classmate; also about the Faculty, especially Dr. Torsey, and Miss Case, the Preceptress. These extracts are published without my knowledge and consent, and in violation of the confidence which I placed in Mr. Greene. These extracts make me say what I did not intend to say. and what the letters do not say. Were the whole letters published ? ” These charges against me compel me in self-defence to publish six of her letters, four to Mrs. Greene and two to Mr. Newell, in full, as they arc all bearing upon this sad ease; and more than all from which I have made a single quotation in my book ; and the public will see that none of them are marked “ private” or “confidential.” And all can judge with what truthfulness these charges are made against me. Miss Bowers further says—“ The extract on page 138 was in answer to a letter of Mr. Greene, dated June 22, 1867.” Then she quotes from what I wrote her. Then she gives what sho says is the substance of her reply to me; and further says, “ I am confirmed in this by a friend of mine, to whom I read my letter to Mr. Greene.” I will inform Miss Bowers, her friend and the public, that I did not in my book quote a single extract or word from this letter of Miss Bowers. Thus she and her friend are very much mistaken in what 15 MISS BOWERS’S LETTERS. I j I ! Belgrade, Sept. 24, 1866. My dear Mrs. Greene,—I was very glad to receive a letter from you, setting my fears at rest in regard to your feelings toward us. I did not believe you thought hardly of us, but I wanted to know from your own lips. We all truly sympathised and suffered with you. I never felt so badly in my life, except when my mother died, and that was a very different grief. I am just now excited by the rumor that Louise is at her uncle’s, in Petersburg, Va. I cannot believe it, it is such good news. The way the story goes is this: A gentleman travelling South met a Miss Greene, from Maine, at your husband’s brother's, and conversed with her. He described her, and the description agreed with dear Louise’s appearance. Knowing you would know if it is true, by this time, as Ches, was gone there. I write you immediately—hoping, yet scarcely daring to hope, it may prove true. If you have heard from Ches., if you will, please write me immediately, I am so anxious to know. I can think of nothing else than perhaps Louise is alive, well, and with friends. So will you please take for an excuse for my not writing you a letter; but be assured, I feel the deepest sympathy and regard for you. and wish to be numbered among your friends for Louise’s sake. If this rumor should prove true. I shall write her a sisterly letter, as of old. Nothing that has occurred will malm the slightest difference in my feelings. But I dare not think of this ; I dare not hope the rumor is true. Write me soon, and believe me, with love, Truly your friend, Eliza Bowers. Belgrade, Oct. 14, 1866. Mr Dear Mrs. Greene,—I received your letter containing the sad news to-night. I’ve never ceased to hope till to-night that Lou­ ise was still living. I knew not till now how strong those hopes were. How terrible ! that her poor body has lain there all this time. I am so glad sho is found; yet the uncertainty, with hope, was �r\ li A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY almost better. I wish I could be with you, to pay my last tribute of love and respect to dear Louise’s body, even. But 1 fear it is not possible, though I thought at first I must and would be there. I think, if I remember, there is no way to go in one day, by cars or stage; and I am much too far away to come with a team. I can say truly I shall be there in spirit, as will all the class. I’ve written them all this eve., except Miss Forsett; and I judged you had writ­ ten her, or would before this, and I’d just sent a letter to her this morn. I am very glad to say that none of the class, to my know­ ledge, said they would not graduate with Louise. I think I should have known it if they had. Truly, I never said or thought so. The rumor must be classed with a thousand others, false like that one, with no foundation whatever, saving the imagination of some gossip­ ping persons. I have not words to express my sympathy with you, or my own sorrow, which is very deep; but I Scarcely dare speak of it when I think of your deeper grief. We can only pray, knowing Jesus suffered too, and can and does pity our suffering. Louise is at rest now. I can only hope she is better off than she would be if tossed on the billows of this troubled life. If you can, I wish you would write me all about how you found her, and how long you think she had lain there. It seems as if I must see her, even as she must be. I cannot realize that it is our own Louise that we loved so much that I am writing of. It is too dreadful .to think of. If I had only spoken to Louise of this that morning; but how could we? We would believe nothing of it until she was gone. So we talked to her until she went away, as if our hearts were not full of bitter anguish. When we knew the truth, we believed her good and true, but only suddenly tempted. No ope of the class but feels so, and would have then received her with open arms if we only could have had the opportunity. If -Louise could only have known how we suffered that she left us so. Addie Webb and I called for her Wednesday morning, to go to breakfast. We went down to the hall together, and that was the last time I saw her. I was longing then to throw my arms about her and tell her of my love, but could not • —how could we then? We were almost crazy ourselves. I wish I could see you and talk of these things; sometime I hope I shall Good bye/ I shall think of you hourly all this sad’ week," and'Y’ll not forget you when I pray. hour. Jesus only can give support in this ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. J I ( f,- I . 17 Belgrade, Dec. 11,1866. Mr Dear Mrs. Greene,—I should have written you before, but my pen seems almost palsied. I can speak no words of consolation to you; yet I feel, 0! so much, for you—and my own grief is not light. I began a letter for Ches.; but I could not write what I wished, so I threw it aside. I suppose she is in Virginia. Is she not? I regret so much now that I did not go to your place; but I did not know how you would feel about it. It is so dreadful that Louise should die so 1 It is su mysterious ! Did you ever see the poem Louise wrote for the public Adelphian last spring ? It now seems prophetic of her fate. I ask myself every day, Why is it so? I dare not judge the teachers of intentional wrong—though that some great wrong has been done I think none can deny. In regard to what you ask me, if the others you named would have been treated so, I know not what to say. There certainly ought to have been no difference. There seems to mo a fatality about it—about everything connected with that last term. We can never understand with mortal powers; but I trust sometime all things will be clear, and we shall sec all things in their true light. I would like some of Louise’s hair very much. I have a picture of her which I would not part with for money. It is very, strange where so many of Louise’s things are. Louise’s room was open after she went away till you came for her things ; yet it scarcely seems that any of the girls would go there and take anything; though there are things taken as supposed every term by the help, and were last term at the close of the term. I have in my possession two napkins which belong to Louise. I forgot them when you came for her things, and they’ve lain in my trunk ever since. I’ve intended to send them to you, but have neglected, or waited for an opportunity. I see you arc to erect a monument over Louise’s place of death. I shall visit the spot, I hope, but only with such bitter feelings of distress for her fate. Louise teas very much loved by the students, and with but very few exceptions. I think no one will deny that. I always loved her, even before I knew her well; and since I’ve known her intimately I’ve counted her among my dearest friends. Louise was a true friend, and had the kindest, most sympathising heart of any S*11,,1 kne"; We llor wlilcu/u ! or sorrow. I shall never forget the last time I was sick there. She sat up with me. I was so nervous I was almost crazy. She bathed my head and petted me till I was perfectly calm. I should always remember B �18 ■ Before I give her letters to Mr. Newell, perhaps I should explain why her class was written to for such a statement of her character, as they understood it, prior to the accusations against her. It was because Mrs. Daggett had, in November, 1866, admitted to us that she did accuse Louise in that investigation of being an “ habitual thief”; and gave us to understand that the students did not think well of Louise; and very unfavorable reports were continually reaching us, as coming from the Faculty, against Louise’s previous character. i • ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. her with the kindest gratitude for that alone, if for no other cause. Her life was full of sympathy and care for those around her. Write me again, if you consider this worthy your time. I shall ever be happy to hear from you for Louise’s sake, and hope some time to see you. Remember me in love and sympathy to your family. E. 0. Bowers. Affectionately, . b A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY Belgrade, Dec. 17, 1866. Mr. Newell,—Your communication is just received. I shall be most happy to do as you wish, for Miss Greene was a very dear friend, and one highly esteemed by me. I wish time to consult other members of the class. How soon do you wish to publish this ? It will be a week or more before I can hear from the mem­ bers of the class, as we are widely separated. If you will wait this time you ’ll oblige, Very respectfully, Eliza C. Bowres. ■ II V L . Belgrade, Dec. 28, 1866. Mr. Newell,—I scarcely know what to say to you after writing my former letter. I was unable to consult the class, we were so far separated, so we might act together. I thought then I could as easily speak to the public of Miss Greene as to you, or any one in private. But when trying to write for publication I could not do it, and for several reasons think it best not to publish anything. I regarded her character as above reproach until this last act; this I could say, but it has been said continually to the public, We all know she ought to have been saved; but we, as it were, were para­ lyzed with grief, and did not act, as we now regret so much. 1 have written Mrs. Greene more fully. Very respectfully, E. C. Bowers. ! 1 ij 1; I i 19 Belgrade, Dec. 28,1866. Mr Dear Mrs. Greene,—You probably know of the letter we as members of dear Louise’s class have received from Mr. Newell, of your town. I thought immediately it would be a pleasant task, and wrote Mr. Newell that I could and would do so most gladly, but wished to consult the class. I have been unable to consult the class so we can act together. I have tried to write; and I could write of Louise’s character with much pleasure; but when I came to say, until this last act, I could not write it for the public to criticise. I know Louise took that money from her letter; but I believe that for a moment she was under an influence she could not resist, and therefore not guilty of an intentional error. The cold eyes of indif­ ferent people cannot feel thus. I think of Louise’s last request, to forget her; and cannot feel to bring her before the public again, which were she living she would shrink from, most of anything. Her letter I prize highly. I believe every word of it, and have not the slightest feeling but love and kindness for her memory. If it would do Louise any good I would do anything right. I cannot think you will misunderstand my motives in thinking it not best for me to publish a statement of this. I do not know where you were intending to have this published, or in what form, but suppose in the State papers. Please let me hear from you again soon; and believe me truly your friend, E. 0. Bowers. These letters show her to have the best opinion of Louise, and her desire to have the class consulted and act together. But there must have been some power behind this naturally truthful and kindhearted young lady to have prevented her, as her letters show, from giving Mr. Newell a first-rate statement of Louise’s standing up to the time of her trouble. None of her class were requested to say a word about that last act, or to blame anybody therefor. Who has advised, assisted, and obtained from her the very flattering state­ ments in her affidavit, as to Torsey’s love for and justice to his students, his impartiality and kindness to theifi, and how she knows that, is more than I know. And as to her belief that the Faculty ■desired and intended to exercise justice and kindness towards Louise, seems to be somewhat doubted by her letters. And what has led her to make such statements as to what she wrote me, and the unfair extracts she accuses me of making from her letters, I do not know. But one thing I do know, that Miss Bowers’s home is in ♦ \ �I r r I ' li". 20 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT'S HILL TRAGEDY. Monmouth, the present residence of Rev. D. B. Randall, who is one of the authors of the Reply to my book, and he is also one of the Trustees of that Seminary and College. il In regard to Miss A. S. Fuller’s affidavit: I did not call several times in the winter of 1867, to talk with her about Louise. Only once I called and' talked with het. She then told me what I state in my pamphlet, on page 78. The second time I called I met her and another lady just out on the sidewalk. She stepped into the entry. I then told her I only called to say that Mrs. Greene desired to have her write and give her a descrip­ tion of the garment, as it was said it was plainly marked. (Mrs. F. had told me that it was not-.) She agreed to do so. We went immediately out. The lady waited outside for her. I called again for this letter; am confident I did not stop at all then These are the only times I called on her. There was no urging at all about getting that letter; and why she should so-state I cannot tell, nor why she says that was a strictly private letter. There is no-, such request or intimation in the same. If this classmate regrets that a “ word in season was not uttered byour class to save her,” or to go to her the night before she left and utter words of sympathy and consolation, how can she say that 111 have always thought that the Faculty did everything they could have done to- save her” 2 If a word from her class would have saved her, would not tho same from the Faculty have been as likely to*have accomplished the. same ? There is not a person living who shall read all the facts in this sadcase but who would see and believe that if the female portion of that Faculty had gone to Louise in a kind and friendly way, that night or the morning she left, and spoken words in kindness and sympathy, they would have saved her. Why is it that this class­ mate shows so ■willing a disposition to clear the Faculty’from al! blame, and then represents the largeness of Louise's faults, and closes with the assertion that she committed “ suicide ” 2 That is unknown to any person. As this assertion is made by other parties, I will here state that when her remains were found, though very much decayed, they were in no way disturbed. She lay' nearly straight, with her right foot crossed and resting on the lelt, with her shawl on, close up around her neck; the left hand laying on her breast, close up to the crossing of the shawl. It had the appearance of holding the shawl close together under her neck in her last . i) j H li i ■i 21 moments. This hand was not gloved. The other hand was thrown back under her head,. as persons are accustomed to do in such position, to rest the head upon, especially if they have no pillow, •or to ease the head from a hard substance. Her hat and reticule ■were set close up under the large projecting rock under which she partly lay, she laying her head a little from the rock, on a small mossy knoll, thus giving room for her hat and reticule between her head and the rock. Her feet and legs lay closer to the rock. Her •water-proof had been taken off, and appeared to have been spread over her when she lay down. The wind had blown or slipped it over towards the rock. It there lay nearly the whole length of her; near the top a handkerchief had gone into the fold with it. Her head and shoulders had slipped off this mossy knoll further from the rock, which caused the head and shoulders to turn on to the right side. Her hand was under her cheek, where it was so much decayed that some of her teeth and finger nails were left in the decayed matter when her remains were removed. Three weeks after, Mrs. Greene and I found several teeth, and a finger ring, with some finger bones, in the space of the size of a hand, covered with •a putrid mass and leaves. This hand had a kid glove on, mostly decayed. The other glove was in her reticule. In her reticule were found a common ink-bottle, pen, pencil, note paper, a few envelopes, some other small articles, and a small memoranda. There was not a word written or anything there found to give any explana­ tion of her fate. Dr. Harris, who assisted in removing her remains, says there was no evidence how or from what cause she died. He thinks she did not take the poison, which it is believed she purchased at a shop in Lewiston. He gave me several good reasons why he thought so. If she died from the effects of poison, how could she lay so apparently quiet, straight, smooth, with her hands and feet in thqt position, just as calm to all appearance as if she had lain down to sleep. So all testify who saw her. I have thought that she lay­ down tired, exhausted, broken-hearted and ehilled to death. How long she was there before she died, no one knows. That she did commit suicide, no person is authorised to say. Aud whoever says that shows a disposition and would, in my opinion, exaggerate every circumstance possible against her. In 11. Ella Pike’s affidavit— I find her very ready to say that “ Louise would evade the rules whenever she could without detection. Her general character was �22 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY that of a sly, cunning person.” These are bold assertions, for one who had roomed near her but a portion of one term. She never boarded in the College, while Louise was there thirteen terms. She was not in her class, and had but a slight acquaintance with Louise. While in the “ Reply,” Miss Perley, who Was one of her class, and had known her intimately for three years, says : “As to my opinion of the character of Louise I can truly say I knew nothing against her. I never knew any violation of rules on her part. As to her veracity, I never questioned it. Of her possession of a skeleton key I had no knowledge. Of Louise as a classmate I loved her truly, and at her death I was a sincere mourner.” Feeling compelled to publish Miss Bowers’s letters (another classmate of Louise), which brings out a strong re-endorsement of Louise’s good character, her great love for her, and fear of the sad results which followed—and no doubt but what at the time that feeling was largely shared by all of her class, as well as all others on tho Hill—with the long personal knowledge and intimate acquaintance that ’ Misses Perley, Bowers and Webb (three of her classmates) had with Louise, and their endorsement of her general good character, the public cannot fail to see why students of slight acquaintance should show such dispo­ sition to defame her “ general character.” Let those who wish to know what those students who knew her intimately for the three years say of Louise’s character, turn to and read, pp. 61-3, “ Crown Won,” what there is said of our departed child. Miss Pike says—“ On the morning Louise left she came to Chestina’s room, where I was studying alone.” (How came she in other girls’ rooms in their absence ?) She goes on to tell such inconsist­ encies, and what all the subsequent acts of Louise do not sustain, and shows such a disposition to make out so bad a string of state­ ments against her, and make so favorable a case for Torsey, and so conflicting with Chestina’s and Miss Reed’s sworn statements, in this long extract of what she has chosen to get up against the dead to please the living, that I put but little confidence in anything she has stated. I shall let her pass by, reminding her that she could find some violations of rules nearer home, if she should try. Does, she remember, in the absence of Dr. Torsey. in May, 1866, of any riding, hunting and fishing excursions made by students, in which her brother took a part, with my team, in the absence of MrsGreene and Louise, May 12, 1866, and the threat she made to tell Dr. Torsey if they did not catch her any fish, and other small acts- of disobedience? ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. 23 In Miss N. E. Hunton’s statement she says— “ I gave him a minute description of the undersleeves, not onljof the manner in which they were made, the peculiar stitches, etc., but also of the material of which they were made, and of the differ­ ent marks by which I was able to identify them.” What a charge this student brings against me, and what is the offense ? What are the different marks she gave me, by which she could identify them ? Let her letter answer. “ The above mentioned articles were of my own make, and consequently the stitches were somewhat peculiar; moreover, the garment consisted of a part of a dress I had worn in my younger days.” This is every word of description given me in that letter, which I now have before me. And no other mark was given me in that letter but the peculiar stitches, and no description as to how they were made is given whatever. The reader sees how false are her accusation and statement of what she wrote me. There was no other mark whatever given me but what appeared in the “Crown Won.” A person who will make such a false statement about what she had written me, I will not believe a word she says about Louise speaking in Torsey’s praise, or anything else of what she pretends to know of Louise’s feelings. I In regard to Mrs. H. E. Merrill’s statement of the amount of washing done for my girls in the fall term of 1865, it is false, so far as Estelle is named. She was not there that term. And as to the amount of clothing washed by her, if she means the public to understand that was all the clothing the girls had washed while there, she is much mistaken. The girls used to do more or less of their washing each week; and while Mrs. Greene was there, about four weeks, while two of them were sick with fever, she washed some things every day; and several times bundles were sent home to wash, and other articles taken back. As we had to make three trips home during those four weeks, she could not know much about their clothing. This shows a foolish yet labored effort to make out something in their favor. The statements of other persons and stu­ dents as to the amount of clothing she had. and not hearing her complain of losing clothing, etc., and Mrs. Patterson’s statement from recollection after the lapse of six or seven years, about what Louise lost or how abundant her wardrobe was, and the assurance that “ Mrs. Greene’s statement of her daughters’ losses is not cor­ rect,”—this attempt to contradict Mrs. Greene, the mother of Louise, �24 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY in regard to her statement about the loss of clothing, the mother who furnished all, who knew all about the making, marking, wash­ ing, ironing, packing and unpacking, six times a year, to take to and. from that school for five years,—yes, I repeat, those students, stewardess, and others, who could know but little about her under­ garments, to attempt to contradict the statement of the mother’s own positive knowledge of facts that must be fully known in such a case to every mother sending a daughter far away into a college to board, among so many students—and no person who knows Mrs. Greene and the fact that she had free access, year in and year out, to my store of goods of almost every description, but knows that she would not send her eldest daughter to such a place without ample under­ garments. Mrs. Greene says such garments of Louise were abundant at every term she was there. Such attempts by this Faculty to work up something to offset our statement of her losses, our positive knowledge of the facts we state, may satisfy their friends; but the public at large will see through their labored efforts—their access to and the favorites by whom they are surrounded, and the motives of the members of this denomination and those whom they can influ­ ence, to over-state every little thing in favor of them and against Louise and her friends—to put much confidence in this effort, and thousand other things worked up and stated in the Reply. ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. is Mr. Packard’s affidavit— In regard to my going to his place to purchase his house, I can inform him that he is entirely mistaken. I did not go there to pur­ chase it. I went to carry articles to my girls who were occupying a room in his house. He then for the first time told me he was about to leave the State, and should sell his stand if he Could. I had learned that Torsey had made him a standing offer of 82500 before I talked with Mr. Packard. I knew this was said to be a good house, and desired to look it all over, thinking some day I might want to purchase or build a like one. He showed me the same, stated his price, which was 82700, and his reason for selling, etc. I made him no offer whatever. But I then thought he would make use of the circumstance of my being there and looking it over, to help him sell it to Torsey. He (Torsey) would not like to have me so near to him. perhaps remembering my plain letter to him a year and a-half before. And I havo good reason to believe (as Torsey was seen talk­ ing with Mr. Packard that morning, before this looking over the house y $ I 25 took place) that he (Packard) made the most out of it, to make Torsey believe I was there to purchase, and help him get his price, the other 8200. While I was gone two or three hours to the Corner on business. Torsey closed the bargain at 82700. And the representations of Mr. Packard to Torsey at that time may have something to do with the production of this affidavit, which bears evidence of haste or carelessness. One gross mistake for a man of his business capacities to state under oath—“ Early in the spring of 1866 I determined to sell there and remove from the State.” Now I would like to have Dr. Torsey, from the date of his deed from Mr. Packard to him of the sale of this stand, inform Mr. Packard that in the spring of 1866, he (Packard) had no such property to sell on Kent’s Hill; that his deed of the same was given on or about 24th of January, 1866; and that Mr. Packard had, long before the spring of 1866, ceased to be a resident of this State. I will inform Mr. Packard that I was not disappointed when in a few hours I returned and found the bargain closed and the deed made to Torsey. It is easily seen that there was no necessity for such haste if Packard believed I would purchase the same. If not, Torsey would take it, why this haste ? Was it not, when he got Dr. Torsey up to his price, that he feared, when I returned, Torsey would find out that I did not want to purchase, and had made him no offer whatever, and then Torsey would back out from his offer. He (Packard) understood what he was about. Dr. Torsey’s fear that I should live too near him, or his desire to get the stand, prompted him to give the other §200. I was pleased to think how my presence there at that time had helped Mr. Packard to sell his stand at his own price, and to see the maneouvering of Torsey. My silence is grossly misconstrued in Mr. Packard’s affidavit. It is very strange that while Mary E. Chapman could not remem­ ber to tell us, in November, 1866, scarcely a thing about what was or was not in their room when Louise left, or but little about the whole affair, that more than a year later she makes so long and minute a statement as appears in her affidavit. And her Statement that she had “ never received any but the kindest treatment from Dr. Torsey,’’ is so much at variance with what she has heretofore told and written, that I can but remind her how and why it was that she left that school, close at. home, and went miles away, to Westbrook, two terms, and with what she said to induce Louise to �26 PI i i h i i ’ Si A BEJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. go with her, and afterwards wrote her, makes her present state­ ment look incredible to us, especially when again she says, “ I never knew nor believed that Dr. Torsey made any difference in his treatment of students on account of their religious opinions.” This does not agree with what her father told us in Nov., 1866, and why she went to Westbrook.. He also told me, at his barn, this same time, that he felt bad to think Mary left her alone that night, and it was because Mary and some other girl, or girls, were talking about Lou­ ise, and how bad she would feel. Some of them said they should be afraid she would do some act of violence to herself or room-mate; and he said as Mary was of a nervous temperament, she was afraid to go back to her that night (which was the night before she left). Mary says in her affidavit, after telling how she had gone, “ I then feared that she might commit suicide. This fear was caused by the fact that Louise had told me that once before she had attempted to com­ mit suicide. She also added, ‘ If any great calamity ever happens to me, I think I shall commit suicide.’ She told me these things confidentially.” And again this room-mate of Louise says, “ I did not stay with Louise the night before she left, but had no permission from any teacher to be absent from my room. On the contrary, I twice asked Miss Case for permission to stay with Miss Hunton that night; but she positively refused to grant my request, and told me that I must stay in my room.” Miss Case swears, “ I did not advise Mary Chapman not to remain with her that night, and did not know that she did not intend to remain with her.” How are these state­ ments reconciled ? And how does it look for the room-mate, after what she has stated about Louise telling of intentional suicide, and against express orders to leave her alone, after the talk with other girls about her doing acts of violence, and remain away from her and give no warning to others to look after her ?—their “ dear sister,” as she afterwards wrote me, and one that had been a sister to her, as she said of Louise. And why this long statement, so favorable to them and against her ? With her own admission of breaking the express orders of the Preceptress, she seems to be in good standing with this Faculty. She may have learnt that “ acquiescence in the opinions and decisions of the Faculty would cover a multitude of sins. On the other hand, Louise had learned that they would notice little things done by her that they would not in others. While Miss Case refused her reasonable request to go up to see her mother see p. 90, “ Crown Won”—she obeyed. As to Miss Chap- man, she has betrayed the confidence of her departed friend, and as it looks to us, to gratify the malice of Louise’s enemies. We feel justified in quoting from a letter of her’s, written to Louise from Westbrook, Sept. 30th, 1864, in which she describes an offence com­ mitted by her and other students, for which they were summoned before the Faculty: “They talked, but not as they do at Kent’s Hill, far different. Their talk did not consist in threats, but he talked to us as well as a parent could have done. They spoke to us very kindly and dismissed us. They talked spendidly. I wish you could have heard them.” I ft 8 1 27 Notwithstanding all that B. W. Harriman has stated in his affida­ vit, and “ the falsity of these extracts,” pp. 90, 133-9, of my pamphlet, as he says, yet I affirm they are true; and he not only said that, but another time, as I met him on the street, I said, “ I am sorry that you did not go to Lewiston after her; I think if you had you would have found her at the Elm House and saved her.” He said, “ I think so.” Why, if he remembers all about Torsey’s asking him “ if he would take a team and go in pursuit of Louise,” as stated in his affidavit, did he not tell us that on the night of the 29th of May, 1S66, when Mrs. Greene and I stopped over night at his house, when he appeared to be willing to give us all the informa­ tion he could ? He told us no such thing. And when I asked him, on the 26th day of January, 1867, why he did not go to Lewiston after her, he did not then say a word about Torsey’s request, as above, or name Dr. Torsey at all, until I asked him how soon he saw Torsey after he returned from the depot. And when he said some one suggested waiting until the return train, to ascertain if she stopped at Lewiston, I asked him if it was Torsey, or what he did say. He said he “ did not remember who it was or what Torsey did say.” Yet when called upon by this Faculty or their friends, he, like many others, can remember everything desired so minutely that it is surprising to all who read their Reply. His statement that the “ travelling at that time was very bad,” is not true, as I positively know by going to Lewiston the next morning. And the reason that Mr. Chandler was so long coming here that night was because he lost his way after dark. I know it was first-rate travelling for that season of the year. And those over-strained statements are seen in this affidavit all through. If, as he says, she told him she was going to Lewiston, and the reason for going, and would return that night, an �r on the rent’s hill tragedy. A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY 28 said page, the reader will see I there state no such thing. I do not connect Mr. Chandler with what I say Chestina told me. Then I say, :1 Mr. Chandler said,” &c. An attempt of this commitme to falsify facts through Mr. Chandler. she appeared all right, why did, he “ ask the ticket agent for what place she had bought a ticket”? And why did he tell me, six days after that, “he thought he ought to get on to the train and go to see what became of her”? Torsey had written me, May 27, 1866, that he thought our fears were groundless as to the course Louise had pursued. He tells Chestina and Miss Reed he has no fears of her, etc., the day she left. With all this from Torsey, Mr. Harriman testifies in the hearing before the Trustees, June 5, 186/, “ After he (Torsey) found she had left under such circumstances, he urged that we had better start immediately after her.” In the Reply he says, “ I soon met Dr. Torsey, who asked me if I would take a team and go in pursuit of- Louise.” A wonderful fact and strong state­ ment!—enough to spoil the whole, in view of Torsey’s own state­ ments to us, and what he had written. I know he is wickedly trying to deceive the public; and if others could know as well as I do the influences by which he is surrounded, they could better judge why it is done. I't / I, Louisa M. Greene, hereby testify and declare on oath that I did not tell Mr. Chandler on the morning of May 24th, 1866, at my house, that ‘ I am sorry’ Louise has done as she has. but hope the matter can be so arranged that she can go back and graduate at the end of the term.’ [Go back in twelve days and graduate, how improbable.] I further say that this statement is false, as I do • know from the fact that Chestina had already told me that Torsey had told her it would not be best for her to go on to the stage and graduate; and against his wish I knew it would be impossible for her to do so. But this I did say, I hoped it would come out right. He remarked he hoped so, but feared it would not; said it was the general belief bn the Hill, if she had taken money and clothing as represented, that she was crazy and she would make way with her­ self. As soon as he retired Mr. Greene was called, and our worst fears were excited he and Chestina was off as soon as possible. “ Louisa M. Greene.” Oxford, ss., May 5th, 1868.—Personally appeared the abovenamed Louisa M. Greene, and made oath that the above statement by her subscribed is true. “ Before me, Jonas Greene, Justice of the Peace.” 1 i” .1 Tu . .1 • T 1 T- i , _ _ Mr. Chandler states on oath, and asserts what I have said on page 33 in my pamphlet, about what I said he1 me. told By reference to .... ----------------- 29 I ; 1 i! ■ , ■ This committee, a majority of whom are Methodist clergymen, who go about preaching and proclaiming the gospel of Christ to fallen man, who profess to be his followers, they would have you believe they embodied all that was great, good, noble and righteous here below—perfect patterns to follow! In their Reply they com­ mence by charging me with making “garbled extracts from anonymous letters.” I brand this charge as false, and defy then to produce the proof. And I will here repeat what I have said in my book, that I have not in the same made a single extract from anv letter marked private or confidential, notwithstanding the commit­ tee’s charge of “ falsehood " against me. Yet with this charge of “ garbled extracts ’’ scarcely dry from their pen they do the same thing, by publishing extracts of Mrs. Greene’s letters to Dr. Torsey. Why did they not publish the whole of those letters, which would have put a very different phase on them ? Why follow (as they would say) this wicked practice which they denounce in me ? They say, “ Mr. Greene makes no small parade of his religion." I brand this charge as false, and will appeal to every reader of the “ Crown Won ” for the truth of the same. I have not set myself up as a pattern of piety, or attempted to force my opinions upon the public ; but did say (see preface of “ Crown "Won ’’) : “ :To err is human.’ If I am in error, after giving the facts aud circumstances on which I base my opinion,—if the public shall decide that I have no cause,—I stand corrected.” (See the whole of said preface.) They find fault with the “spirit aud temper exhibited” in my book, If true, how much worse spirit and vindictiveness have their committee exhibited all through their Reply. Think of the loss of our child, and look at their special pleadings against me, judge and say, ye parents of Maine, who has the greatest cause to complain. I will quote from the editorial of a city paper: “ The spirit of Mr. Greene’s pamphlet we could not endorse, though the natural feelings of a parent afford some palliation and excuse. The spirit of this reply finds no sympathy with us, in so far as it attempts to put the worst construction upon every act of the unfortunate girl. Her dying confession to her sister, published in both pamphlets, tells the truth, we have no doubt. By �J 1 ii 30* A REJOINDER TO THE' REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. that let her be judged. Those who have not sinned more may con­ demn; but how few the number.” From an editorial of another paper, when speaking of those letters written by Dr. Torsey to Mr. Greene, after his daughter left, I make the following extract: “ These letters are in terms so insulting to Mr. Greene, so destitute of common courtesy and wanting in dignity, and so deficient of every lineament of Christian charity and forbearance, that all we wish to know of a man in order to form an estimate of his true character is to know that he wrote those letters.” I think they will be ashamed of their charge of falsehood against me in Miss Bowers’s, Reed and Hunton cases. Also they state and put forth as a fact that “ the tuition in the College course, while Miss Greene was in the Institution, was $6 per term.” The following copy from her bills, as paid by me, will nail this falsehood right here : Kent’s Hill, Nov. 4, 1864. M. L. Greene— To Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, Dr. To 11 weeks board (§3.25), $35.75; lamp chim­ ney, 15; incidentals, 25, §36 15 Tuition, $7.00; books, §8.11, 15 11 I' i $51 26 Winter Term, Feb. 24, 1865— Tuition, Incidentals, 25; books and stationery, $6.71, Twelve weeks board, $4 per week, •June 5, 1865— Tuition, $7,00; Chemistry, §1, Incid., 25; books, &c., §5.90; catalogue, &o., 66, Board, 12 weeks, $45 ; sheets of music, 40, $7 00 6 96 48 00 $61 96 $8 00 6 81 45 40 §60 21 Nov. 9, 1865 — Tuition, $7.00; incidentals, 25, books, $5.96, (She boarded herself.) May 25,1866, Spring term— Tuition, $7.00; incidentals, 25, Painting, $10.00; materials, $4.86; books, &c., $8.80, Besides board bill, which I paid but took no §18 21 $7 25 23 16 $30 41 receipt for. I I 31 This Committee speak sneeringly of the amount I have paid to this Seminary. If such bills are computed three times per annum, for five years, and a part of that time for two other girls, it will amount to more than they can wink out of sight. Add to this their begging bills for meeting house purposes, and presents to teachers, and various projects to coax and draw money out of those 100 to 250 students, with incidentals, amount to a large sum yearly, which goes to build up that Institution, and fill the pockets of those who run it. Those little pickings are by the force of circumstances wrung out of many a student who cannot well afford to contribute, and would not if they could well avoid it. They are shrewd beg­ gars and ten cent figurers up there. (See catalogue price of board.) Those who are there less than eleven weeks per term, ten cents addi­ tional will be charged per week. (See tuition and incidental fees per term.) “ Students who remain less than six weeks will be charged ten cents per week additional tuition.” “No deduction for the first or last week of the term.” “ Books and stationery are kept at the Seminary, and will be sold at reasonable prices.” Those rea­ sonable terms I found to be from twenty to forty per cent, profit on books, stationery, slates, pencils, pens, diaries, and a hundred little notions which they furnish students. On those sales the profit amounts to no small sum yearly, which comes out of those 200 or more students, or thdse who send them there. I had in the fall of 1865 three daughters boarding themselves; and while the two youngest were sick with a fever, Mrs. Greene went there to take care of them, and stopped about four weeks. Being crowded for room, Louise watched part of the nights with the sick, and part of the time she took her meals and lodging at the College, for about two weeks, for which she paid her board while there, the usual price. It is known to all how inconvenient it is to take care of tho sick away from home; and many little extras can be procured at home that cannot conveniently be obtained elsewhere; and neigh-" borly assistance relieves much at such times. Mrs. Greene tells me that during the whole sickness, not one of that Faculty ever called to offer or know if she desired any assistance whatever, or sent the least thing (except a bunch of grapes), and from no source was there anything sent them. Whether this was because they were self-boarders, or their prejudice against Louise, I do not know. Al­ though I had paid them for Louise’s board about five hundred dollars, and had received no deduction for her absence on business, �- V 32 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY I to visit, or at camp-meetings, during this five years, they did not from the college send in a single article ’ to those sick ‘ 1 girls;■ and —J some broth, and Mrs. Greene could not once, when the girl desired just then get it elsewhere, she sent to the College for a pound or two of fresh beef, which they took pay for. Whether they will deny this, as they have other facts which were said to us and transpired before us, at the College, anl in that Faculty meeting, is yet to be seen. They are truths. ■ In 1863, when Widow Knight, of our town, went there to see about sending her daughter to that Institution (the daughter after­ ward did go awhile), Louise invited her to stop over night. They charged Louise seventy-five cents for Mrs. Knight’s horse-keeping that night. Mrs. Knight on finding it out refunded it. This I know by reference to her receipted bill for that term. And these are what she meant in her letter to us in 1861—“ All he has done is to drain father’s pockets, and give me what justice demands he should give the meanest student”—see p. 26, “ Crown Won.” Mrs. Greene had no one to call on to assist her through this sick­ ness but Louise; and she, with all her studies and sohool duties to perform, had to run round for and get the necessary things for their wants, assist her mother, and watch with the sick ones a part of the time. The whole tenor of this Reply, and those of this Faculty, and other fear or favor seeking witnesses who testify to her appearance and actions before she left the Hill and on her way to the depot, are so over-stated, and show her to be, if true, so hard and unfeeling, ' beyond all precedent, that it looks so barefaced and bad, that no rea­ sonable person can believe them,—when those words, “ Heart break­ ing; .dearly beloved, adieu!” were written just as she left the College—and all sho wrote in those two letters—and her weeping appearance at the Elm House, and on the road to her couch of dehth,—are in and of themselves a complete refutation of this wicked, damnable testimony against her,—and with all the evidence given to the public of her previous good character, honesty and truthfulness from a child, as known to all. We, her parents, are not bound to believe all that her accusers say they said and did with her, and what she first admitted and requested and shew them, and what they say she afterward and immediately denied or equivocated about. By her whole life we have a right to judge what she would be likely to say and do in that hour of trial—especially when it is 1 u i i s I p on the rent’s hill tragedy. 33 for the selfish interest of this whole pack to say what they do to attempt to clear themselves from blame. This may go down some people’s throats; but I will not and am not bound to take the dose. Torsey does not deny his stamping, his prejudice, and many other things. I charge him with wrong doing. He does make a sort of sweeping denial of the statements, and says they are “grossly false,” as made up in my pamphlet, of fragments of different sen­ tences as to convey false impressions. He dare not particularize what wrong I had done in quoting from his letters, as I have them to produce. He chooses to get others to testify for him, and not to burn his own fingers. And as it is attempted and labored hard in the Reply to show that she thought well of Torsey, and would have the public infer from it that he (Torsey) was particularly kind to her for a long time before she left, I feel compelled to state that I have positive proof from her writing, and other evidence, that she had good reason to and did dislike Torsey continually the whole of the last year and a-half she was under him; and that about one year before her departure she wrote a long letter to us, explaining anew all the annoyances she was receiving at his hands, her wish and desire to leave that school and go elsewhere, where she could be treated fairly. She makes mention of the fact of writing the letter, and what it was-about, and on the whole she concluded not to send it to us; so we never saw the same. Torsey’s dislike of Louise and prejudice against her are so well known, and are so clearly shown in my pamphlet, that he dare not, ■and it would be useless for him, to deny it. He said, when I charged him in that Faculty meeting with prejudice against her, that he and Louise had made up. Now I appeal to any candid mind, was not that virtually admitting his prejudice. Hr. Torsey does not deny his lecture, as described in Louise’s diary—see “ Crown Won,” p. 28. The admission of this one fact should con* vince all that the other circumstances as described in her diary and •other writings were enacted there as described by her. It is not strange to me that such numbers of certificates so favor­ able to Dr. Torsey and his associates have been worked up through the influence of this denomination, which I am told by one of their ministers is so large and powerful, reaching all over the State, that it would be useless for* mo or oue family to contend with it. I ■believe that I know something about their crushing process, as felt C �■ 34 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. jh and described by my poor dying girl to her sister in that letter where she says, “ It will be useless to try to stem the tide; bend beneath it or it will break you down; say nothing of excuse or pallia­ tion.” I am aware that this breaking-down process is going on to crush and break down me and my family. And for what? Because I dare say what I know and believe. But I will charge Dr. Torsey and his associates, while on earth I stay, and if need be at Jehovah’s Bar, with dealing under prejudice, which sent our child from their presence broken-hearted to an untimely death, when they could have saved her. This Committee speak of consulting counsel in regard to my book. If I am rightly informed, they have had an attorney employed for a long time in getting’ up the Reply. This mountain of influence has labored long and hard to produce the same. And the public may think that some of their language and phrases are more suitable for pothouse politicians than for a choice committee, the majority of which is composed of minis­ ters. Covert accusations against me and family, such as “ libel,” « falsehoods,” “ sentenced to the State Prison for the crime of per­ jury,” “depth of depravity,” “such convicted felon,” “utterly undeserving of belief, whether under oath or not under oath,” “promulgating falsehood”! All choice language, coming from those who profess to love God and man! But this is not the first time in the history of this denomination that such a crushing process has been carried on. And, as it were, heaven and earth were moved to clear a big villain who was proved to have been seen going to and from a haystack in a field where the remains of Miss Sarah M. Cornell were found the next morning hung to a stake, in 1832, in the town of Tiverton, near Pall River, Mass. I have the pamphlet of 191 pages beside me, of that trial, in which can be seen the mighty effort made to break down the deceased's written testimony against that Rev. E. K. Avery, who was one of the leading clergymen of the Methodist’ denomination. Not only to destroy her written testimony, and the influence of her friends. The whole New England States were ransacked to obtain funds and witnesses, who, it was believed, were suborned, to testify against her previous character, and to clear him. No time or money were spared to disgrace her memory and acquit him, whom the public more generally believed guilty after his acquittal than before. We know something about this wicked affair, as Mrs. Greene lived at that time in the vicinity, with a leading Methodist family, where I I I I 35 she heard and saw much of their plots and schemes to clear him and of their own private opinion of his guilt. Yet publicly they would loudly proclaim their opinion of his innocence. The most cruel acts on record have been committed in the name and under the garb of religion. And ’the most wiexed, cruel and bloody wars recorded in ancient and modern history have been pros­ ecuted under the same name and for the same purpose. The most cruel tyrants and despots of the Old World shield themselves under the same garb. And a man, sect, or government which fight under that cloak are the most to be dreaded and feared. I think Dr. Torsey’s prejudice is so clearly shown in my pamphlet, and his dis­ position to annoy students who doubt the justice of his decisions mid do not acquiesce in his opinions, it is not necessary to pursue it here; but will mention that on one occasion this desire to control did find vent, and was brought to bear upon one Andrew Walsh, a teacher in that school (a gentleman of splendid educational acquire­ ments), for voting in 1855, as he was of different polities from the managers of that school. Yet he chose to exercise his right of suf• frage, and did go to the polls and vote, which brought down the displeasure of the refined and over-wise would-be rulers and judges of what a student or teacher on Kent’s Hill should think, say or do while under their supervision and instruction, at this fountain of all morals, as' they would have you understand. At early dawn, Sep­ tember 11, 1855, near the church on Kent’s Hill, on a tree, hung the form in effigy of this learned teacher, Andrew Walsh, who could fluently speak a dozen or more different languages. To show their malignity and disgrace Mr. Walsh, there were about a half-dozen different devices, written placards, attached to his arms, feet and body, a mean and contemptible affair, all of which was published at that time. I have the evidence and published account, establish­ ing all I have said in relation to this disgraceful affair, and know whereof I speak. For days after this act took place, no signs of disapprobation were seen or any means taken by Dr. Torsey to disap­ prove or condemn the act. Not until some of the oldest students had drawn up a paper and were circulating it for signatures, to con­ demn this transaction, and an account for publication had been sent off, did Torsey move to ferret out the actor or condemn the act. His forbearance and kindness to students might uot be much helped by consulting some students—the one who said all the notice he had of his expulsion was just ten minutes to pick up his things �36 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON TEE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. and leave the Hill. And a young man by the name of Lord might think when he claimed to be sick that pulling him out of bed and jerking him about his room, by Dr. Torsey, was no very kind act to I him. spent much argument, under a mistake, or This Committee have to what room I claim the wrong of entering without design, as authority—see “Crown Won,” p. 121, all about it. They had better pick their flint and try again before they make so long an> argument on false premises. Yet they claim her (Louise’s} room was at their disposal the same, and “did not belong to her any more than a man’s house belongs to a child who occupies one of its rooms ; and the teacher has the same moral and legal right to enter her room as a parent would have to enter a room in his own house occupied by a child.” If this logic# is true, how can they escape universal condemnation for not eaercising parental care and protec­ tion over those who occupy such rooms ? They find fault and would have the public blame me for publishing Louise’s letter to her sister, when the class letter (which is about the same} which this commit­ tee know that letter was written to her class, with a request for them to do with it as they would like for others to do in like circumstances to them. “ Decide for me," she says. That letter was copied and. sent in many directions. And that committee of students did copy the worst sentence, “ garbled extract,” from the same, in their whitewashing report, and ask all the newspapers of the State to pub­ lish it to the world. And when in my pamphlet I give a fair aecount of both sides, all they charge her with and their excuses for so deal­ ing with her, and with her. own written statement, which was givento the public by her class, through that letter. And to free myself from the liability of any unlairness, so that the public should have all the facts before them, I publish both letters, while they in their Reply publish only one—an unfair attempt by this Committee to mystify the fair course I have pursued in this heart-rending affair. Another charge they bring against me is the sale of my book at highly remunerating prices.” A grave charge, in the face of the fact that they are selling their book for as high if not higher price, according to the amount of reading which it contains ; while they have the advantage in selling theirs, through their circuit preachers all over the State, as has been the case with such reports as they choose to send out from Kent’s Hill, instead of paid agents, as in my case, to sell my book. ■ 37 11 Who are its authors ?” “ And where was it printed ? These are the slurs thrown out against me, which I care but little about. But so far as its author is concerned, I will say that no attorney or .clergyman prepared or saw a single sentence of the “ Crown Won " before it was published. And the same is true of this Rejoinder. As to where it was printed, I will say it was printed at a responsible house, who when properly called upon will state all the facts desired, and where I thought the office would not be besieged by Methodist ministers. They try to make a false impression upon the reader where they refer to where I say she lost at the sixth term three pairs of white woolen stockings—oil she had. Just add, of woolen stockings. I did not say but what she had cotton ones, which she always had, and there was not a term when she did not have more than three pairs of stockings with her. It may answer this Committee’s purpose to try to satisfy their special friends, to say that “ the statements of Mr. o-and Mrs. Greene are undeserving of any credit, whether made under oath or not,” in relation to the amount of clothing our daughter had when she went to the College to board; but it will not go down with the mass of thinking people. They will believe that her mother did know what her daughter took with her, eleven weeks -before she was sent away. She does know that, and also what she carried to her during those eleven weeks. And we do know that from Louise’s ample stock of common under-clothing, which has been returned to us or accounted for, there was but one pair of drawers so old and worn out that they could not be worn. The .remaining articles are so few that it is a heart-sickening sight to look al. 1 wish my readers could see them, so that they could ■appreciate what a miserable and wicked attempt there has been made, by drumming up outside testimony, to discredit our positive knowledge of what we state. In addition to ell that Louise has written us, and what she told her mother in October, 1865, about her fears that she would not be .allowed to graduate, Miss Reed says that Louise came up to where she and Ches, boarded, about two weeks before she left,'and said (while speaking of the short time before the term would close, and of the end of her school life), u Do you see anything now that will prevent me from graduating?” She (Miss Reed) replied, “No, unless you are sick; and then you can substitute painting." Thus showing a fear up to .the last that she would not be permitted to graduate. �38 f A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. The careful reader of the “Crown Won” will see that many of the complaints and points I make against the whole management of this sad ease are not answered in the Reply. And one great fact the public must see. That they pursued in accusing, searching (even to her body) and lecturing, until they broke her down, and sent her heart-broken away, which caused her death, without noti­ fying her parents. He failed to fulfil his moral obligation, and to extend to her parental care and protection. And, without cause, his writing those insulting letters to me in June and July, 1866. The haughty, overbearing manner in which he met me in Lewiston (the first time I saw him after it was known Louise was dead), while I, with a sad and aching heart, was there for her remains. Again, the Sth of November, soon after her burial, when Mrs. Greene and I were on the Hill to see if we could get any satisfaction in regard to their treatment of her who they then knew was lost to us forever. Before this, as many know, various slanderous reports had gone from the Hill, as to the cause,* and where she had gone—all false, as the sad result proved. After passing Dr. Torsey’s house and going towards the College, and as I was putting up my horse at Mr. Adams’, which was near the College, where we were going, and as Mrs. Greene stood waiting on the side of the street, Mr. Torsey came down in a lordly manner—he was talking to a young lady in a lively tone—and just as he passed Mrs. Greene, and as I was approaching her, he, as it appeared to us, to show his disposition, and careless indifference for our presence and feeling, gave a loud laugh. His whole appearance and bearing was haughty, and as much as to say, “ I care not for your presence, your sorrow or disappointment—it does not affect me. I am lord of all I survey; from the centre all over Kent’s Hill there’s none my right to dispute. You may stop or pass along.” In view of all that has transpired on Kent’s Hill, and this won­ derful Reply, I am constrained to exclaim, “ How fearfully and won­ derfully (self-righteous some people are) made. People often become so self-righteous, so tenacious of power, of denominational pride and self-will, as nearly or quite to take away moral accountability: and it is often very difficult to determine whether their ravings and maledmtmns proceed from a sane or an insane mind,-therefore their sayings should be received with great caution. “Whether those who claim the right and do use skeleton keys, use them wrongfully we do not certainly know.” We do not .know of any way how such articles as laelts, buckles, bosom-pins, napkins, and many other articles could disappear from Louise’s trunk, We do not see how certain articles belonging to Louise, which were plainly marked, came into the possession, and why they were retained months by one of her accusers. The public will see what any one may expect from the managers of this “safe and pleasant home,” if they dare say that they do'not believe them perfect in ail things. The covert and mean insinua­ tions against their old student, now she cannot answer for herself, their great effort to put the worst possible construction upon every act of her’s, getting positive affirmations from those who once were in doubt about things—even the rattling of a door, the late appear­ ance at the breakfast table, are set down to Louise as vicious acts, while it is well known that it is an act of everyday occurrence for students to come to breakfast late in the College. Also their labored attempt to make the public believe that we are perjurers, liars, devoid of parental affections, mad, crazy, unfeeling, and proper sub­ jects for the State Prison. Parents cannot fail to see the safety of that “ pleasant home.” I think'every intelligent reader will agree with me when I say that I would as soon trust myself or property in the hands of high­ way robbers as with a set of men who will tell me “ it is not their object to deprive me of any portion of my wealth,” and then go on to stigmatise my character and that of my family. I would not believe them if they said that “ under oath or not under oath.” It may answer the purpose of this Committee to try to put a gag into our mouths, and to stop us from expressing our opinion of Dr. Toraey, or any one who dealt with our girl, aud call these opinions (as in the case of Mrs- Greene’s letters to Dr. Torsey) atrocious libels. The public will see by dates that Dr. Torsey’s insulting let­ ters to me were written a long time before Mrs. Greene wrote him. And her letters .were written him on account of his insinuations against her and her dead girl, which if this Committee and the pub­ lic understood as well as Dr. Torsey must, they would better account for some things therein written. If this Committee will publish the whole of Mrs. Greene’s letters to Dr. Torsey, they will brand their own assertion as false, “ that the substance of these letters are given io Mr. Green.’. book," K“"™« I the illtao.. of h-’ <“>«'«■ 39 ,1“. c“‘ "‘d'fre""c0 ”,h which many look upon the. wrong. eomm.tiod upon others, they �40 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. counsel patience and forbearance. Yet those same persons, when a like wrong is committed upon them, no matter who are the perpetra­ tors, will show the greatest resentment, and will not care who is hit. Those pious savans are hard to please. They ridicule me in their characteristic style as representing my daughter “so nearly perfect,” and again in mock solemnity bewail my lack of “ paternal kindness and love.” For the perfectness of Louise’s character I respectfully refer them to the letters of her classmates, the numerous letters I have from other students, and her townsme:',. Contradictcry testimony of Kent’s Hill witnesses— Mrs. Daggett on oath says—“ We did not go into Dr. Torsey’s part of the house, nor did he have anything to do, directly or indi­ rectly, with the investigation in regard to the clothing or money.” Dr. Torsey declares on oath—“The Monday evening before Louise left Miss Case called on me and informed me that Miss Greene had been taking articles of clothing not belonging to her, and that Mrs. Daggett and herself were investigating the matter. I requested her to do it quietly, and to say nothing to any one about the matter. . I had also learned that Miss Greene had taken some mohey.” Dr. Torsey swears that he knew about the matter and gave directions, ’ while Mrs. Daggett swears that he did not. Which swears false is more than I can tell. And how Torsey knew about her taking money Monday evening, before her confession on Tuesday, is passing strange, if there was not preconcerted action among her accusers. See also Mrs. Daggett’s denial of going into Dr. Torsey’s part of the house before entering Chestina and Miss Reed’s room. See Chestina s sworn statement, p. 56, “ Crown Won,” and her letter to me of March 31, 1868, where she explains how she knows she went into, and when they came to her room. Again, look at the inconsistency of B. W. Harriman’s sworn states ment and what Dr. Torsey wrote me. Harriman says, “When I got back from the depot I soon met Dr. Torsey, who asked me if I would take a team and go in pursuit of Louise.” The day after Chestina and I had been on the Hill, the 26th, and found those two letters, which, with all other circumstances, had caused me to express great fears on the Hill of her destruction, and I then believed that most of hei class and other students had the same fears, or they would not have shown by their tears and anxious looks, such signs of grief as they did. My fears must have reached Torsey’s ears, as I did not / 41 see him. Torsey writes me, May 27, 1.866, “I do not think your fears of the course Louise has taken can be well founded.” s * He three days later tells us in that Faculty meeting he had no such fears. He tells Miss Reed the day she left, “ he had no fears of that.” He also tells Chestina, “ Oh, no; I do not fear that.” * See her affidavit on page 57, “ Crown Won.” Now with all these asser­ tions of Dr. Torsey, and the fact that no team was sent after Louise, who will believe that he asked Harriman as soon as he saw him, “ if he would take a team and go in pursuit of Louise”?—especially when I have this same Harriman’s testimony before the Trustees. June 5, 1867, wherein he says of Dr. Torsey, “ After he found she had left under such circumstances, he urged that we had better start immediately after her.” Which is true—Dr. Torsey asking him to take a team and go, or his urging him to start immediately? Who believes all this, if Dr. Torsey had asked and urged, but what he would have gone ?—if he had been so anxious, but what some one would have been started immediately ? If this is not overstrained testimony, then I am no judge. I think they can prove most any­ thing they choose. I have all the testimony before the Trustees’ meeting of June 5, which is very positive, and is worth preserving. Our assertion of favoritism is proved true by this Committee in their seeming approval of Mary Chapman’s disobedience of the pos­ itive orders of the preceptress. The labored exertions of this Rev.’ J. W. Hathaway, to back Mr. Houghton down in a simple statement of facts, must be convincing to all what they have done to get others to do. Having obtained from a student a copy of one of Louise’s exhibi­ tion pieces, the one mentioned as lost in the “ Crown M on,” I will give it to the public, and ask my readers to judge of this, and with all of her other productions, as published in the “ Crown M on, whether Louise’s opinions were well founded that Torsey s prejudice had and would prevent her from receiving any prize or reward for the best composition, book-keeping, painting, or anything else, while she remained a student under him. She had striven hard to excel in some of these branches. She had been a student there longer than most of the others. She bad, long before she left, become satisfied that it was useless for her to try, after she had so well learned Ins prejudice. She has a record in her diary, saying (after her attemp to obtain it in book-keeping), “It is no use for me to try. I shall never obtain a prize here. Oh, dear! how hard I have tried. But �A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY on the Kent’s hill tragedy. I did not care so much on my own account as on father s, as I think it would have pleased him.” She was generally acknowledged to be as good a writer as there was on the Hill; and it was believed by many that justice would have given her the prize in composition, painting and book-keeping, during her stay there. If the prize pieces, etc., could be placed beside her’s, the public could better judge whether justice was done her in those cases. I believe that they have a way to manage so as to have their rewards turn up where it will best gratify their wishes, or make to their pecuniary advantage — a sort of project to increase the number of students there. life. Let the boy well win his spurs, for please God, the day shall be his, and the honor shall rest with him.” Who that has perused the pages which recall those deeds of valor, those romantic adven­ tures, those tournaments, where all brave knights might try their prowess, and where glove, ribbon or jewel from the hand of lady love was the chief incentive to exertion and reward of success,— who, I repeat, has not regretted their departure, and mourned in his heart that the days of chivalry were past. Bold baron and belted knight have vanished from the scene of action, and their deeds are as the recollection of an half-forgotten dream. Yet who shall dare to say that the Spirit of Chivalry is not living, moving, breathing among us at the present time. Better than lady fair is love of coun­ try, purer than ambition’s fire is the hope of a nation’s freedom. Nay, we do wrong to compare the two; for the first wild flashing-up of a rude spirit of honor, in those dark ages, was to the present lifeor-death struggle for freedom what the lurid glare of a meteor is to the calm, steady light of the sun. Our heroes are everywhere. 42 r ANCIENT AND MODERN CHIVALRY. i How often have I longed to welcome back the days of ancient chivalry. How often through the long vista of departed years have I gazed back upon the first faint gleam of that chivalric spirit which broadened and brightened till its enthusiastic spirit lit up all Europe and the Holy Land I Peter the Hermit, poor and untitled, who, moved almost to mad­ ness by the injuries of his brethren at Jerusalem, raised to frenzy the hearts of nearly six millions of his people, and hurled them like the surging waves of ocean upon the shores of Palestine. Boemond, Prince of Tarendum, who, at the first unfurling of the red-cross banner dashed his armor in pieces with his battle-axe. and from it made crosses for his soldiery; and with him Tancred, called noblest of the Christian chivalry, of whom historians have dis­ coursed and poets sung. These are but few of the many who left home and heritage to die in a foreign land. Even the children, with scrip and staff, prepared to journey eastward. Like all other human institutions, chivalry presents a new aspect in every page of tho book of history. Sometimes it is severe and stern, sometimes light and gay; but the qualities of valor, courtesy and enthusiasm shine out at every period of its existence. At the battle of Cressy, where Edward tho Black Prince fought for his knightly spurs, word was brought to his father, Edward III., that his son, then a boy of fourteen, was surrounded on all sides by the enemy and needed succor. “Is ho dead, or overthrown, or so wounded that ho cannot continue to fight ?” asked the king When told that his son still lived, he added, “ Go back to those who sent you, and tell them to ask no aid from me, so long as my son be in 43 By the widening Mississippi, On the prairies of the West, Where the broad Potomac rushes, Union troops for battle thirst. They fight not for a shadow, the gay phantasm of ambition has not lured them from the quiet of home pleasures, but wives and mothers have said to them, “ Go I for our country needs you more than I.” God bless them 1 With the echo of ringing bells and booming can­ non, proclaiming the glad news of victory for truth and right against treason and rebellion, still sounding in our ears, who will not with me say, All hail to Modern Chivalry! Who will believe, if she had been fairly dealt with, she would not have received some reward of merit during those five years ? Her writing brings to light some things which were unknown to us while she was living. . ’ Persons invested with much power become tyranical and capri­ cious, almost of necessity, and the self-dependence of those under them is much impaired by relying on'favor, hypocrisy and fawning, playing on the weaknesses of those autocrats, and not studying, by patient diligence and integrity, to deserve and reap their due reward. However strange it may appear, yet it is a self-evident truth, that disobedience thrives on severe examples. A elose observer cannot Z �44 ON THE EENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY fail to see that an aspect of external obedience is maintained by severe discipline, which veils much of the real effect from superfi­ cial observation. The good conduct which insures the granting of ’favors, may consist in betraying a friend, or in some other way crushing out or blunting that nice sense of honor which is so desira­ ble in every person, and which should be the part of education to cultivate and strengthen. It might be as interesting to some portion of the reading public, who know the limited education of this H. P. Torsey, for this Com­ mittee to explain how, where, and by what means he has received some of his titles, as it is for them to ridicule me for the want of a better education. They perhaps might be as profitably employed to sustain the reputation and credit of this Institution, by explaining some things which have transpired on the Hill before Louise went there, as they are in stigmatising her character and abusing her friends. If the veil could be lifted, perhaps the public might see that some of their managers have not made a very nice “ distinction between vice and virtue.” How far that veil will yet be attempted to be lifted, depends upon the action of others. Tell me, ye wise Committee, is there no deception, or false pretenses, for the Trustees, of whom you are a part, to proclaim to the world by titles that your Principal is possessed of every literary qualification desired, and ask the parents of this State to send their sons and daughters to an Institution whose head teacher and president is so.deficient in the languages. This Committee have the unblushing effrontery to accuse us of a lack of love and care for our child. They had better cast the beam out of their own eye, etc. They speak of love and care. What love was shown Louise, and what care for her? I refer them to her class letter. That letter ought to'be engraved with a pen of steel upon their hardened hearts—" I could have died for one friendly hand grasp, and thought it happiness to die.” Think of this, kind reader how came she to pen these, her dying words, if there was any friendly hand offered, kindness or sympathy shown her; neg­ lected and cruelly deserted by those “ people of God, the leading members of the little church at Kent’s Hill.” It is not surprising that they feel compelled to publish to the world that they are the “people of God.” This Committee s unfeeling and,contemptible slur about the spot where Louise’s remains were found, is no more than we ought to < 45 expect. Her life and character seemed to be invested with no sacredness in their estimation ; therefore it is not strange that they appear to be divested of the common feelings of humanity. This is in keeping with the whole treatment we have received from those managers of that Institution. Yet there is to be a monument erected, and the spot suitably dedicated, of which the public will have due notice, and no favors will be asked of this Committee. They also have spun out (in their closing special pleading) a long argument to try to create the belief that we are hard with and unfeeling towards our children. This will not take with our child­ ren, or with those who know us. And to show the love, confidence and respect Louise had in and for her mother, I will quote a little from her diary : “ January 20, 1866—Such a nice old day with my mother ; had her all to myself this P. M., only the girls kept run­ ning in.” “21st—Mother was quite sick all last night. ' My precious mother 1 All that I have aud all that I am, under God, I owe to my mother. Even Sarah spoke of the great change in her since G. H”. died. And I am powerless to help.” “ March 27,1866 —Coming up from the College, found Ches, and mother had come.” “ 28th—I have devoted this day to my mother—a pleasant duty.” “ 29th—Came from the Packard house by seven, just before mother started for home. The day began with wind and snow, but ended in a drenching rain. Did I do wrong to detain her yesterday • M ill the public believe that she in her right mind would have feared to have gone to that mother whom she always spoke so kindly of and loved so dearly. That mother who Louise knew loved her most ten­ derly, and would have done anything in her power to have assisted her under any and all circumstances. This Committee, in the Reply, have endeavored to create the belief that Louise had not lost articles of clothing; that she had not complained of losing any. Yet they are contradicted by thenown witnesses. Miss Case says, “I think she said she took the clothin" from necessity, as all hen’s had been lost, and intended to restore°t at the close of the term ” None who should see what was left aud returned to us, would doubt the “ necessity. Mr.. Dagge testifies before the Trustees, June 5, 1867 (I have a copy dt all that testimony), and among other things says, “She said she had also lost articles of clothing, and had endeavored to keep her clothing ood - Then is it true, as stated in the Reply, that Louise made no Lplainl of losing clothing ! !•«> ““ �A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY, ing members of the little church at Kent’s Hill,” tell me who took the money, the postage stamps, books and clothing, from Louise, before they further pursue and testify to disgrace her memory, and In reply to Mira I. Reed’s recantation al” ' .ffidavit, and with what she has declared was said at my house, and what v.____ " UUI was said and done at Readfield when she gave me her affidavit—how she could and she did make this statement, is more than I can tell, .J why shall make my statement just how this affidavit of her’s wasI given to me, and all the material facts connected therewith, then produce the evidence I have to corroborate the same, and with the circum­ stances and means for remembering the facts, and let the people judge who tells the truth. In the fall of I860 I learned by reports that Miss Reed had made some statements in regard to Louise leav­ ing, and particularly in regard to Torsey’s admissions as to that conversation he had with Louise, and being desirous to get the facts in this sad case, I wrote her at Roxbury. She soon after called at my house and explained, and said, “As she was coming down so soon, she thought she would call and tell me, as she had not time to answer my letter (or words to that effect). When she, her brother, my wife and other members of my family, were seated, I asked her to tell me all about what Torsey said and did on the day Louise left. Seating myself at a table, with pencil and paper, I carefully took down her statement, which was nearly verbatim as it appeared in my pamphlet. She gave the statement freely, without hesitation, in full, and did not appear as though she desired to hold back any­ thing, and she never asked a single question what I intended to do with it. I had no occasion to repeat my questions or to urge her in the least. And it is very remarkable, if as she says in the Reply, <• I did not answer his letter, because I did not wish him to have any writing signed by me, I fearing that he might use it against the Institution at Kent’s Hill,” that she of her own accord should call here and tell us so freely what she did. Had she written she need have stated only the /acts. And here is where the trouble is, the facts are against Torsey, hence their great efforts to suppress or break them. down. She gave me no occasion for, nor did I tell her, “You need not fear; this will not be used to injure you. She again says I said, “ This is a matter of great interest to us, and we wish to know all about this, swyffy for our otrn satisfaction.” The former part of this sentence is correct (and who would not want to ?) ; but I positively deny saying the latter, “ Simply for our own satisfaction” When she got through, I said, “ If you could stop I should hke to rewrite this with pen.and ink, and get you to sign it But knowing they were in a hurry, and they could not well do so, 46 ’ try to break down all who dare to defend her, I think it very strange that Miss Huntington should, as she states in her affidavit, after locking herself into her room, take out her key and hang it up in her room. Now for what reason would she do that, if she desired to be alone and quiet while, as she says, she was studying ? She would simply take they key inside, turn it, and let it remain in the door, as it would not be but a short time before she would want to open it again; and it looks very strange when any one knocked at her dpor that she should not answer or go to the door. How did she know but it was some of the teachers ? And who, if knocking at a door in that manner, would stand a minute or two before they would knock again ? The most usual course would o be timmediately repeat the raps, and the occupant would reply in some way. It is also strange that she makes no allusion to this to Louise, until she is dead and could make no answer for herself. And it is still more strange that at this late day she can so distinctly • remember, in the absence of her room-mate, what she had done with her key. “ My room-mate’s key was also hanging up in my room.” A little too positive, I should think. As I have shown, p. 83, “ Crown Won,” that Miss Church was not accusing any one, I will give here an extract from a letter of her’s to me of August, 1867, in which she says : “ I communicated my suspicion to none but my sister and one other, till requested to do so by my superiors.’' She also says in this letter she lost the money “ Thursday evening or Friday morning.” Here is another strong proof that some of her superiors (she docs not say who) were seeking, requesting some, to implicate this old student, who'had but a few more days to remain with them; and as Miss Church writes me she went home Tuesday morning, this request of her superiors must have been made before the investigation and the searching of Louise things, as her confession was that day after Miss Church had gone. In most all of the statements and affidavits of students, Mr. and Mrs. Daggett, in the “ Reply,” there are admissions of mixim>- and losing of more or less articles of clothing, and that Louise said she took them from necessity, and intended to return them when she found her’s, or leave them at the end of the term. ‘t 1 7 47 �48 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY only mentioned it. They said they could not stop any longer, as they intended to go through that night. Having received several letters from Miss Reed, speaking well of Louise's character and standing on the Hill, I wrote in the first part of her affidavit a short recommendation and explanation. And then from the minutes I had taken at my house, wrote out the affidavit, leaving several blank spaces where I thought she might wish to explain further, or where I thought I might not fully understand how she meaut to state .or explain. Soon after she was at our house, when I took those min­ utes, it came to us that she had told other persons in our town, where she had visited, about the same she had told us. I remarked to Mrs. Greene that if sho had told others what she had us, it would in some way reach Torsey’s ears at Kent’s Hill, and Miss Reed would have to suffer for it. He would in some way annoy her, or would get her to recant her statements about his admissions to her, what he said to Louise, and she (Louise) desired to have done. He would get her pledged by words or by writing so that we could not obtain the facts. I knew this man so. well that it would not do to have him know that Miss Reed had informed or given me the facts as she did at my house. This is why and the only reason that I was so cautious about having it known in Readfield, what my business ’ was when I went there and obtained that affidavit. And why I did not have that writing finished and read in the presence of the Skolfield family, in the kitchen, was for fear that some neighbor or , student from the Hill would drop in upon us, and report to Torsey, or to some of the parties interested on the Hill. For the same reason I did not request the Justice before whom she appeared to make oath, to read it, or to inform him of its contents, was because he was a stranger to me, and might disclose the same, as I then thought it would be to her great injury to have it known while she was a student there. tin Saturday, January 26th, 186", I-went to Kent’s Hill with my team, and called on Miss Reed and asked her if she would like to take a ride with me, as I desired to talk with her. And as she, her brother, and Miss Springer, were boarding themselves, it brought the matter so fresh to my mind, when I used to go there when my girls were there, with the long struggle-Louise had with books and tutors there, and the wicked management with her, without notice to me, and her final destruction. And those students, referring to those things, and of my coming with and after her during those “five ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. 49 years. It was not strange that I did at the mention of those things shed tears. Those tears ought not to make against me. nor be con­ strued as an effort to induce her to go with me (if she so intended it), in the Reply; it is wicked beyond measure. She showed no signs of holding back and not going. I said, as it was Saturday (no school) and work-day with them, “ Perhaps you have so much work to do you cannot go.’ She said, “ We have not much to do.” Miss Springer gave her to understand she could do the work, and in a very short time she was ready to go. As we left I said to Miss Springer, “ We shall not return till after dinner.” I had told Mr. Skoficld that if she came with me, to give us the sitting-room, with a fire in it, for the reason before explained. I had informed him for what I was going after her, and said she might not come. I think there was something said to her by me when I asked her to take a ride, about going as far as the Corner. After arriving at Mr. Skofield’s and having the horse put into the barn, as I intended to stop there until after dinner, and after getting seated I told her what I wanted, and went on to read what I had written, and said, “ If I have not got it written as you understand it you will tell me. and I will make it as it should be.” Part of those blank spaces was filled and part was not. Some of them were crowded and some partly filled, just as her statement and explanations required. They remain so to-day. The filling, out was done with very pale, poor,— what I call frozen ink. It bothered mo to write with it very much; before 1 finished I warmed it quite warm and shook it up, and it did a little better toward the last. When 1 had finished reading and filling it I re-read it through; then gave it to her to read, and told her I wanted her to sign it, and go before a Justice and make oath to it. As she was reading it to herself, and when I thought she had got to those largest filled-up places, and thinking the pale ink and some close filling up would bother her to read it, I asked her if she could read it all, and said, •' If you cannot make it all out I will assist you.” She said she could read it all; and when she had finished reading it she went to the table and signed it, with the same ink and pen that 1 had filled it out. I did not hurry her. We took dinner there, and talked some time with the family; then took her to the Corner, before Justice Bean, who asked her some questions, administered the oath and made the affidavit. As we left the office, Miss Reed said to me, if I was not in a hurry, or could wait, she would like to see her friend (aunt, I think she said), a D �50 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY on the rent’s hill tragedy. while.- I told her I could wait, and would take her there. She said, “ It is but a little distance, and I will walk.” I said, “ Very well,” and unhitched my horse, led him to her friend’s house, hitched him, and went in; stopped as long as she seemed desirous to stop—about half an hour, I should judge. I then took her back to the Hill. She did not, at my house or at Readfield, ask me what I wanted this for, or what I was going to do with it, or in any way during the whole transaction ask a single favor or assurance from me as to keeping it from the parties interested or the public. I thought very strange of it at the time. I did once, and only once, of my own accord, say to her that, “Nothing you have said or done shall be known while you are a student there.” I was not in great haste while at Mr. Skofield’s, and did not read the certificate rapidly. She did have time to read it as long and as thoroughly as she chose, and the writing is a plain hand, except some of the filling, which was there done with that pale ink, as the original will show. The vacant spaces she speaks of can now be seen on the same. I did not tell her “ I left these spaces for the purpose of inserting other things afterwards.” If I had inserted other things, as she insinuates, those blank spaces would be filled, as also the bottom line, above her sig­ nature, would be filled, where there is more than one whole line above her signature now blank. I never told her, “ I will put this document in better language.” But I did say to her, about the time she was to sign it, I wished I had time to re-write it and put it in better shape (meaning, of course, before it was signed and sworn to, it should be done, if at all). She must have so understood it at that time. She did tell us at our house that Miss Bowers said, •‘Won’t you go and see Dr. Torsey; I think you will do best with him.” Could not Miss Bowers have gone to Dr. Torsey as well as Miss Reed. There was some reason why she did not besides that given by Miss Reed. She did say, and I took down at our house her exact words, that Dr. Torsey, “ in that first conversation in our room told us that he had never suspected Louise of any dishonesty in that direction.” Alb the main points in her affidavit, in “Crown Won,” were taken down by me at our house, as she admits in the Reply; and the public will judge whether I, from my notes taken down at tlie time, have not the means of knowing what she did tell us better than she and her brother have from recollection one year afterwards, as stated in said Reply. I did not ask her to say anything against 51 __ , or seho°l- I only asked her to state what she knew ie facts without any reference as to who it would hurt or I e She gaye me what I then and do now believe was true. , e<^/>re SOme ^ings Miss Reed did state at our house not given in he “Crown Won,” which I will here state. Mrs. Greene and I recollect them well. One was when T— told Ches, and I, and when I cited her going in her poorest clothing. He said that looked like going into the factory to work, or running away. She (Miss Reed) said that made her mad clear through.” She said two students went into Louise’s room the night before she left, after Mary Chap­ man had left her. and stopped awhile; and when they were about to leave, Louise said, “ Girls, do n’t leave me alone.” Mira said that seemed the hardest of ail. She said she ought not to have been left alone, and if she had known it she should have gone to her if it had been in the middle of the night. She also spoke of the carelessness of students about clothing, and related incidents. Said one time Mary Chapman went down to a party, or public gathering, at the Corner. She by mistake wore another student's cloak. It was there lost, and Mary’s father had to pay for it. Also, she said a lady stu­ dent, told Miss Robinson that she had found a handherebief in her possession with another student’s name marked on it, and they might accuse her of stealing it, as they did Louise. She said she lost, after Louise had left, a large music book in the College building, from the room where she practised. Mrs. Greene did not say in that conver­ sation at our house, when I took Miss Reed’s testimony down — and she utterly denies of saying, “ For we already know enough against them back of this, without your testimony.” The absurdity of this statement is seen at once, as we were then trying to get more inform­ ation. Sho also denies saying “ You need n’t try to shield him,” for we did not think they were trying to, and she had no occasion to say that. Miss Reed did say, after all she had told us, and as she was about leaving the house, “ I do not wish to say anything that will hurt Dr. Torsey or the Institution.” This was in the fall of 1866, and in January, 1867. She gave me her affidavit (after she had graduated from the Seminary, and was no longer a student there). I received in reply to one I had written her, a letter from which I make the following extracts: “ Belgrade, July 4,1867. “ I do not know as Dr. Torsey knew that you wrote me before, but i �■■■■ V 52 1. ii A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY some were condemning me, thinking I was coming out against the Institution, and I had not said anything against it. You know that I never did to you. Ben. Harriman said he thought I was in league with you, informing you of all their proceedings, and injuring the Institution all I could. I have always been a friend to Louise, but I am not to judge those who dealt with her, and never have. There were some girls in my room when I received your letter, and I spoke of it to them. Your letter proved that I was not doing more than I pretended. I have been in a bad place, and have kept as quiet as possible; but I did not escape the tongues of slanderers. My neu­ trality only excited suspicion. That letter you wrote me made my case clear, and of course could not injure you. I do not wish to say or do anything to injure the Institution, and do not think you wish me to. Those questions you asked me, and answers you have written down are only the plain facts.” The reader will see although Torsey did not know of her affidavit, yet a suspicion had sprung up against her (hence hiswatching for and obtaining my letter), and she felt a pressure or prejudice before she graduated. What she “was pretending” to do I do not know, when she says, “I have been in a bad place,” etc., “I did not escape the tongues of slanderers.” Who they were shedoes not fully say, but clearly indicates one of them. One question —What were their “proceedings” on the Hill,for which they would be justified, or choose, to annoy or slander any student for informing, any person they chose. (Kent’s Hill fear, favoritism or mental insubordination, I would call it.) Her “neutrality” would not answer their purpose; they were not willing for her to state facts of what she knew. “ I do not wish to say or do anything to injure the Institution, and do not think you wish me to.” Then she assured me long before I published my book, “ Those questions asked mo and answers you have written down are only the facts." After this, what was my surprise to see in the Reply her affidavit. The public can judge when the evidence is before them : “This is to certify that on the 28th of November, 1866, at our house in Peru, Mira I. Reed, of Roxbury, in couversing about the sad affair—of what she knew about M. Louise Greene leaving Kent’sHill, and her subsequent death, told in substance the same as ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. 53 appeared in her affidavit in the pamphlet entitled ‘ Crown Won,’ ■and I would so testify under oath. I<• i J j ■k if “ Peru, Dec. 26. 1867.” Eveline A. Knight, aged 22 years. Knowing that JUiss Miss Peed u.uvwing tnat Reed and her brother came direct from 8. R. Newell, Esq., when they called on us in 1866, when she gave me her statement;— Mr. Newell then lived in town, but now is Regis­ ter of Deeds of this county, and resides at Paris; — not having seen him or any member of his family since December last, I wrote him to know if he and Miss Gammon would give me a sworn statement of what Miss Reed did state at his house in regard to what appears in her affidavit in the “ Crowfl Won.” From each I received the following statements. This is all Mr. Newell has in any way to do with this Rejoinder: Paris, April 20,1868. Friend Greene, —Your request was duly received, but such ' has been the press of business that I have been unable to live it that thought and attention which I desired before answering you. In the present condition and aspect of the case I feel extremely reluctant at giving any affidavit to be connected with the matter as proposed. When honorable senators come before the public with statements under oath concerning what their own eyes have seen and • what their eats have heard, and learned and reverend D. D.s step forward and swear as plumply that such statements are false; when reverend gentlemen and learned professors write private letters, and then in affidavits before the public swear to the reverse of statements therein made; when intelligent and fair-famed deponents make oath to statements one day and the next swear that their testimony was false, or was never made; when deponents complain to the public that they have been duped or tearfully persuaded to swear to what is false; — there is reason to fear that the public will withhold all con­ fidence in affidavits connected with any matter that seemingly has sueh a tendency to demoralize and corrupt the morals of the parties interested therein. The public perhaps, to-day, would award me a fair reputation for truth and veracity, but should I volunteer an affi­ davit, the ‘pros’ or ‘cons' might reasonably raise a question, after the adverse statements that have appeared, which I have uo disposi- �54 x ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. 55 wishing for affidavits to prove that she had uttered the same things in A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY tion to discuss nor the folly to covet. As to what Miss Reed said at my house in the fall of 1866,1 do not think I could from memory give her statement with accuracy, in her language, as she expressed herself at the time. We had at that time quite a conversation­ respecting the case of Louise, all my family taking part in the talk. Many of the statements made by Miss Reed were in sub­ stance, though perhaps not in the same language, as they appear in your book. I recollect of her mentioning her conversation with Mr. Harriman relative to going after Louise, and of her wishes and anxi­ ety in that matter — of the expressed fears and feelings of Mr. Harriman — of the excitement on the Hill—of the delay—and her own feelings of-impatience, etc.; but what language she used to express these ideas I cannot remember to quote. I do not think, she did use the terms 1 terrible suspense,’ ‘ terrible commotion,’ ‘ terri­ ble excitement,’ etc., etc. These expressions, I presume, were the language of whoever wrote out the affidavit for her to sign. It is not often that deponents write their own depositions. Hence it it the case that illiterate people and extremely broken in language are made the authors of flowing words, elegant expressions, of which in ordinary communications they might well deny the paternity. I noticedin the ‘Reply’ that the affidavits, as they purport to be, have the stamp of the same hand on most of them p but this does not justify’ those who signed them in denying the paternity, because their own language is not used, after they have signed them and made oath to their truth. I do not recollect that Miss Reed censured . Dr. Torsey in the conversation alluded to, but rather seemed to regret that the condition of the case and facts were such as to make him unavoidably subject to censure. When speaking.pf the preju­ dice against Louise, I asked her if it was known on the Hill that Dr. Torsey was prejudiced, to which she replied in the affirmative, -and said it was unfortunate for him that it was known. I came to theconclusion, after the conversation with Miss Reed, that she did not hold that the Faculty or Dr. Torsey were culpable, for or guilty of an intentional wrong, but for an unfortunate mistake, which resulted in a fatal wrong to Louise. When I remarked in substance that a seri­ ous or cruel wrong had been done . Louise, Mr. Stillman A. Reed replied, ‘ That is what we think.’ I inferred by that we he meant to include his sister, whose views, I suppose,, he understood. If Miss Reed on reflection wishes to say that her first affidavit was false, and. that she there uttered untruths, I canuot see the utility of your t private conversation. 21s to her making the statement in the affidavit in your book, you need go no further than to her last affidavit in the ‘ Reply’ for testimony to prove that she did make them. She says Mr. Greene said, ‘ This is a matter of great interest to us, and we wish to know all about this simply for our own satisfaction,’ ‘After this explanation from them, I proceeded to answer their questions as well as I knew ; but they gave me no intimation that these answers , would be printed or made public ; nor did I ever intend or suppose that they would be, till after the publication of Greene’s pamphlet ’ (P- 30 of Reply). It seems after the publication of your pamphlet She knew 'they’ had been printed and made public. They—what? Why the very answers that she gave you, as she says, she supposed, for your ‘own’ personal and private ‘satisfaction.’ She saw them in print, and knew them; and th^y were answers made ‘as well as she knew.’ From what she says about noticing that you were taking her answer in writing, and her hesitating about giving them in ‘this form,’ till after your explanation, I infer that these answers formed the basis of her affidavit, which, being arranged in form, she signed, and to which she made oath. I think this must be so, for these answers to which she alludes I believe appear in no other place in your pamphlet, except in her affidavit. She says you wrote her a letter asking questions about Louise and the manner of her leaving the Hill; but she says, ‘ By the advice of my friends at home I did not answer his letter, because I did not wish him to have any writ­ ing signed by me, I fearing that he might use it against the Institu­ tion at Kent’s Hill.’ Why did she hesitate to write, and give you simple and truthful answers? If she thought the truth was not against tho Institution, why did she fear you would use her answers against it ? She could scarcely use plainer language than she has in this part of her affidavit, to say or impress the idea that if she wrote you the truth it would be against the Institution, and you might thus use it. I am sorry that Miss Reed, by her attempt to retract from her former statement, finds herself placed before the public in so unenviable a position. It is true, both yourself and the authors of the ‘ Reply ’ have endorsed her moral worth, high standing, and veracity; but she can scarcely afford to be made the recipient of such puffs and fawning at tho risk of public ridicule. _ “After respectfully declining putting forth an affidavit in this matter, I will close this communication by saying that if you hav �a 57 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY ON THE KENT’S HILL TRAGEDY. been guilty of using undue influence and tearful entreaties, as she represents, to induce Miss Reed to swear to a falsehood, or if the parties interested at Kent’s Hill have, by letters of persuasion, emis­ saries or attorneys sent to her, exercised a similar influence over her feelings, to obtain a retraction of her former statement, at the expense of her truthfulness and reputation, the guilty party ought to share the larger portion of public condemnation, rather than this unwary young lady, who doubtless would gladly have avoided any recollect that she repeated or said anything about the conversation she had with Dr. Torsey; but I do remember that she said in sub­ stance that it was known on the Hill that he was prejudiced against Louise, and that it was unfortunate for him that it was known. If Miss Reed has made statements at variance with each other and with facts, to please you, or to shield and please any other party. I am sorry for her. Yours, &c., 56 connection with the affair. “ Very respectfully yours, “ Sumner R. Newell.” ' “Paris, April 20, 1868. “Jonas Greene, Esq.,— Dear Sir, — After the exhibition of the extreme uncertainty of the truth of affidavits, as recently made in certain pamphlets now in circulation, I feel that public confidence must be shaken, and not much reliance placed on such productions. I must therefore decline making an affidavit of what I heard Miss M. I. Reed say, in the fall of 1866, concerning your daughter Lou­ ise leaving Kent’s Hill, as you have requested. It would be difficult for me, after the time that has elapsed, to quote from recollection many of her expressions, or much of the language made use of at that time. I find by recent observation that when people undertake to give the statements of others, it is very safe to accuse them of. falsehood, if they fail in giving the same language, although they convey the same idea. I well recollect that Miss Reed — in the fall of 1866, I think it was November — gave me, and others at the same time, a partial history of that affair. I do not think she went minutely into the matter, to tell all she knew about it; but talked freely, and answered all inquiries freely— not censuring or blaming any one. I have read her affidavit in your pamphlet, and I find many of the ideas therein were the same she advanced iu the con­ versation to which I allude. I think she did not go into all the details in the matter at that time, as she did in her affidavit. She related the conversation with the stage-driver, Mr. H., very much as it appears in her affidavit; and she also spoke of her feelings, fears and wishes, and of her impatience at the delay, of the excitement on the Hill; and giving or conveying the same idea as one might gather by reading her affidavit; but I caunot say what the phraseology of her language was in giving expression to those ideas. I do not S. P. Gammon. L I I I, Robert G.'Skofield, of Readfield, in the County of Kennebec, of lawful age, upon oath make affidavit and say, that on the 26th day of January, 1867, Mr. Jonas Greene, of Peru, and Miss Mira I. Reed, of Roxbury, came to my house at Kent’s Hill. Mr. Greene came there from Augusta on the evening of the 25th, and stopped during the night On the morning of the 26th he asked myself and wife if he could have a room, as he wished to have some conversa­ tion with Miss Reed in relation to his daughter Louise. We told him he could have a room as he desired; and about half past nine o’clock in the morning he went with his team to the Eaton House, near the College buildings, and about ten o’clock returned with Miss Reed. They stopped at my house to dinner, and were there some three hours or more. While there I heard no expression nor did I see any iudication of haste on the part of either of them. They were in conversation together some two hours before dinner; but what their conversation was I do not know, as I was not in the room with them. They dined with myself and family, and remained some half an hour at my house after dinner. Mr. Greene informed me at this time that Miss Reed was going to the Corner with him, to make oath to a statement made by her iu relation to his daughter Louise, and when they left they went iu that direetiou. Robert G. Skofield. State of Maine. — Kennebec, ss.— April “ HAth, 1SG8. — Then the above-named Robert G, Skofield personally appeared and made oath to the foregoing statement by him subscribed. “Before me, Emery 0. Bean, Justice of the Peace.” “I, Sybil M. Skofield, of Readfield, in the County of Kennebec, ' of lawful age, on oath depose and say, that Mr. Jonas Greene, of Peru, came to our house at Kent’s Hill the night of the 25th of * �58 A REJOINDER TO THE REPLY January, 1867. That on the morning of the 26th of January he asked if he could have a room for the purpose of having some con­ versation with Miss Mira I. Reed, of Roxbury. Myself and husband. Robert G. Skofield, told him he could; and about half past nine o’clock that morning he went with his horse and sleigh to the Eaton House, about one half-mile from our place, and immediately returned with Miss Reed. He came into the house with her and introduced her to me. They remained until after dinner, and were there three hours or more. After they had been in the house a short time, Mr. Greene asked me for pen and ink. • I told him the ink had been frozen, and was rather pale. He replied that it would answer his purpose. They occupied a room adjoining and opening into the one where I was, and I heard Mr. Greene and Miss Reed in conversa­ tion. I saw Mr. Greene writing at the table where he and Miss Reed sat, and he was reading from a written paper and asking her questions. When I went into the room to ask them to dinner, they were near the table where he had been writing, and Miss Reed had a written paper in her hand which she appeared to be reading. Im­ mediately after this Mr. Greene came into the room where the dinner table Was set, and said we need not delay dinner for them ; but we did wait some half an hour, and they then dined with myself and family. After dinner Mr. Greene went out of the house, and Miss Reed and myself went into the room adjoining the dining-room, where they had been before dinner. On the table was a written paper, Which Miss Reed took and began to read. Soon after this, Mr. Greene came into the room and said to Miss Reed. ‘ Can you read it?’ She replied, ‘Yes; I thought I would look it over.’ or ‘ read it over again.’ I will not be positive whether she said ‘ look it over again,’ or ‘read it over it again.’ It was one of these two expressions. I left the room soon after this, and when I left she was still reading this paper. They went from our house about half-anhour after dinner. While Miss Reed was putting on her clothing to leave, I said to her I wished to send some apples to a friend of mine rooming at the same house with her. She replied that she was not then going back to the house, but was going to the Corner. Before dinner I heard Mr. Greene reading to Miss Reed from a written paper. This reading and the conversation between them I could have heard had I chosen to listen. His reading was not rapid, nor • was the conversation between them in a low tone of voice. There were no expressions or acts on the part of Mr. Greene or Miss Reed I 'W- » 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rejoinder https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/24/Collection_LouiseGreene_Rejoinder1867.pdf 8f2c674679b7b87b02d8d258eeb05a5c PDF Text Text & V8A2> X'<U>ERSi'z/ Kents Hill School Kents Hili, Maine Volume 20, Number 6 April 1998 �Fourth Floor Mystery The True Story < Ghost in Bearce By Stephanie Jones Many community from KH after writing members have taken interest two letters, one to her in finding out more about sister and one to her the ghost of Louise Greene. schoolmates. She Her name was Martha confessed in both of Louise Greene, but for some the letters and asked •» reason we all refer to her as for forgiveness, inLouise. She has a granite eluding hints of suimonument that sits on top r cide. Louise wrote, “I of Mt. Gile in Auburn, ''<■ do not know what will Maine, The monument become ofme. If I get reads: “Martha Louise L __ I home do not do anyGreene; Age 22 Years; thing with this letter; Daughter of Jonas and L.M. if not, will you please Greene of Peru, Maine; A send it to my mother The real Louise, in her 1866 student of five years at Kents before term closes?” senior portrait Hill; A member of the She spoke of a feeling graduating class of 1866; Who perished of “an iron door to the Savior shut and here in May, within two weeks of gradua- bolted to her.” tion; A martyr to the prejudice and caOnce Louise left school, she travpneeot man.” eled by stagecoach to Lewiston, purLouise entered Maine Wesleyan chased rat poison, and disappeared. Miss Seminary at Kents Hill, a college back in Greene’s body was missing for a total of 1861. The headmaster was Rev. Henry T. five months. On October, Friday the 13th, Torsey. Louise was a good student and a 1866, her body was discovered by a senior dorm proctor. She had been ac­ hunter. Louise’s parents were enraged cused of stealing several items of cloth­ over their daughter’s death and directed ing. School officials searched her room their anger towards Rev. Toisey, accusing and found clothes, a substantial sum of him of sectarian fanaticism, cruelty, and money, and a master skeleton key. Con­ neglect in expelling their distraught daugh­ fronted, the girl tearfully confessed to ter. They claimed he showed no mercy, stealing the money and other items. Fol­ which drove Louise to suicide. lowing interviews with Preceptress, A group of six students were cho­ Frances Case, and President Torsey, sen by their fellow school mates to be in Louise left Kents Hill for good. charge of investigating further into On May 23, 1866, Louise departed See Louise on page 4 Wk. I �tay num i u hili :e to challenge i Sunday. Louise from page 1 whether Mr. Greene was correct...did Mr. Torsey treat this student unjustly? The committee decided that Louise was guilty of the thefts and Dr. Torsey had behaved with kindness and restramt. Infuriated, Greene wrote to each student and asked them a series of questions, probing their, “wicked and uncalled-for attack on our dead child,” and their exoneration of, “the old angler,” Henry Torsey. One ofthe stu­ dents returned Greene’s letter unanswered saying, “Should advise a careful perusal of English grammar...” across the top. 1 talked to many members of our com­ munity about the stories of Louise sightings and experiences. Mr. Erie Turner was one who had a very interesting en­ counter. One late night a few years ago Mr. Turner (and Lily) was working late in Bearce. He was in the room that is now Mr. Rockwood’s office getting some files. Mr. Turner looked over to where Lily was and saw her with an “erect mohawk,” growling at the air. The photocopier had begun to bang repeatedly in the faculty lounge. Lily was obviously barking at something or someone and Mr. Turner knew no one else was in the building. Mr. T says that Lily hardly ever ag­ gressively snarls like she did that night. He had heard tales of the ghost in Bearce, but had never thought of an encounter occurring until this very moment. Mr. ond floor of Bearce, has had two encoun­ Turner became very frightened, and ran ters of her own. The first time was a couple down the stairs where he hid under his of years ago in the winter. Mrs. Coates desk. While cowering under the wooden was photocopying in the faculty lounge structure he called his wife, Mrs. Adria when she heard a “psssttt...” and some Turner, who came to his rescue and walked moving around. First she thought it might the poor soul home. the Chapel, just as her hair began to stick I have obtained a sheet from Mr. up on the back of her neck. In front of her Dunham with quotes from Mr. Hansen, and hung, “the hem of a white dress in the top his experiences with Louise. He was of the ceiling.” Although she does not quoted as saying, “The ghost of Bearce believe in ghosts, she knows that this Hall is real It’s the spirit of Louise Greene... event is something unexplainable. One night while checking Bearce with anOver Spring Break, Mrs. Coates was other teacher, we clearly saw her. We were working and all of a sudden she heard a on the first floor looking up and we saw a piano play, but it didn’t go along with the white luminescent light go from one chapel music she was listening to over the radio doortothe other...weranaroundthe build- inheroffice. Mrs. Coates got up and went ing from top to the basement. It was locked to the Chapel, the music stopped. Later, tighter than a teddy bear. There were no she was working and felt someone look­ windows open, no sign of any person.” ing over her shoulder. She turned toward Mr. Hansen had another experience the doorway and saw a white form similar as well, in the late 60’s. “One spring night, to a sheer curtain that quickly disappeared, very late, I was checking Bearce and I So, next time you are in Bearce, do heard a very clear; lovely laughter. It didn’t not fear the ghost of Louise Greene. In­ scare me. This was a weeknight. I ran stead remember what I have told you. upstairs but saw nothing. It was after Maybe ifwe as a community welcome her lights out, all the lights in the dorm were and treat her kindly then we may be able out. It was clear, distinct laughter coming to find out more information or possibly from inside the building; there were no even help her “move on.” windows open and no signs of any kids Formore information about Louise, outside the dorm.” please refer to the upcoming display in Mrs. Coates.who works on the sec- Bearce Hall. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kents Hill Connection Article Description An account of the resource Kents Hill Connection Volume 20,Number 6. April 1998 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 1998 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/25/Collection_LouiseGreene_Newpaper2011.pdf feefd5dc1bcbf5144b26227c223c537e PDF Text Text C9 Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Tuesday, September 13,2011 ADVICE Greene girl’s story told in pamphlets DEAR SUN SPOTS: In your Aug. 27 column, a reader inquired about the monument on Gile Moun­ tain in East Auburn. I have enclosed a copy of a Sun Spots’ column from January 1988.1 saved the column at the time because it was a sad and interesting story. I en­ joy your column very much. —David, Poland Spring ANSWER: Thank you, Da­ vid! Sun Spots never would have found that old column without your help (pre-Internet). Since other readers prob­ ably will find it interesting, too, Sun Spots re-typed it. It read as follows: “This is a true and tragic sto­ ry of the young girl for whom the marker was erected. On top of the crest at Mount Gile is the marker, which is inscribed piest to die.’ On the south side “There are three sizeable is the inscription: ‘Heartbreak- pamphlets written about this ing, dearly beloved, adieu.’ tragedy. One is by her father, “This monument was placed entitled ‘Crown Won but Not by the parents of M. Louise Worn,’ another by the trustGreene, whose father could not ees of the Maine Wesleyan overcome his grief and bitter- Seminar and Female College ness at the death of his daugh- at Kents Hill, entitled ‘Libel ter, who was a kleptomaniac. Refuted: A Reply to Greene’ She had been accused of steal­ and the third, ‘A Lugubrious, Sun Spots ing and other misdemeanors Doleful Tale and Death of Lou(which her father refused to ise Green,’ by Judge George C. with the girl’s name: ‘M. Lou- believe) by the administrators Wing. ise Greene, age 22, daughter of the school at Kents Hill. She “For many years the Bowof Jonah and L.M. Greene of had been expelled and rather doin College graduating class Peru. Student for five years than go home, Greene boarded was brought on a field trip to of Kents Hill, 1868 graduate, the train to Auburn, where she Mount Gile to visit the markperished within two weeks bought poison in a pharmacy, er, just prior to graduation exof graduation, a victim of the wandered out to Mount Gile at er’cises. The pamphlets are prejudices and caprices of East Auburn and drank the poi- in the Maine Collection at the man.’ son (said to be iodine) and died Auburn Public Library under “On the north side of the on the spot where the monu- Kents Hill Tragedy and are for marker is inscribed: ‘I could ment was erected in her mem- in-library reading only.” have lived for one friendly ory. She was found by a hunter The current Sun Spots hand grasp and thought it hap- after an extensive search. checked with Suzanne, the li­ brarian for the local section in Auburn Public Library, to see if the pamphlets are still available to patrons. Suzanne said she “verified that we do have all three pamphlets, they are in poor shape but readable. They are bound together and catalogued as ‘The crown won but not worn: or, M. Louise Greene, a student of five years at Kent’s Hill, Me., by Jonas Greene.’ The call number is Local History CT 275 .G77 G6. It is in our local history collection and is for in-library use only, as your correspondent states.” DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am writing in response to Chickie Gorey (Aug. 30) who was looking for a snagit. At Craft-Mania we sell the Snag Nab-It for $2.19. It is used for repairing snags in knits and wovens. — Lee,_ lmdl@prodigy.net ANSWER: Thanks for ex­ plaining the snag-it’s use tothose of us who are craft-impaired! This column is for you, our readers. It is for your questions and comments. There are only two rules: You must write to the column and sign your name (we won't use it ifyou ask us not to). Please include your phone n umber. Letters will not be returned or answered by mail, and telephone calls will not be accepted. Your letters will appear as quickly as space allows. Address them to Sun Spots, P.O. Box4400,Lewiston,ME042434400. Inquiries can also be emailed to sunspots@sunjournal.com. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine. September 13, 2011 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 13,2011 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/26/Collections_LouiseGreene_Newapaper1958.pdf 7820b256dd8fac648810f34f7bcb1ecd PDF Text Text Marne WtoirD>i>eiaft Maidks nn i By FRANK W. LOVERING off carrying millions of years and consciousness of her guilt tim of your revenge, persecu­ before. led her to commit suicide tion and tyranny was found Regularly each Fall as part bS -?.re: ---rather than face her parent. That would be the place! of certain Bowdoin College Father Never* Forgot In that sense alone she was a dead in Auburn yesterday. . . ! fraternity initiations, and as Her ~ father, Jonas Greene, martyr to the prejudice and Our opinion is that jou are a one objective of the Bates would never forget, nor let caprice of man.” base scoundrel and a black­ Freshman class ride, neo- others. He bought a small area A barrage of pamphlets was hearted murderer, and we, Phytes from issued by the contending par­ every one of us, not only con­ ------ -Brunswick „„„ in the andforest, indicated today Lewiston climb Mount Gile at by granite markers as about 30 ties. ■ The father published a. sider you so, but others look East Auburn, where they are feet square; and had a costly book, “The Crown Won But upon you in the same light." ~ln 'each >o'’h anniversary of «*■required to find in the woods monument set on exposed Never Worn.” The Auburn <On the a monument set by an angry ledge straight up beside the lawyer read all of these and young student's death the ■I and grief-stricken father in boulder. The marble memorial said “Jonas Greene’s book may mother wrote the Head Master memory’ of his 22 - year - old and the great rock are fenced 'lead one to think Miss Greene's to jog his memory—if need be. daughter who took her life with square iron bars let into offences might have been con­ Tire lawyer, Wing, summed the year after the Civil War. ornamental cast iron posts, doned and her face saved. But up his renew of the case in The Bowdoin pledges hunt hollow, rising from octgaonal the facts stand forth that she these words: “The efforts of out the granite shaft by flash­ bases and capped with urns admitted her guilt, and the Jonas Greene to injure and conclusion must obtain that' defame the reputation of a light around midnight, and surmounted by acorns. must copy word for word the Where the posts receive the she was the victim of ‘the school and its head but cut­ 1 three inscriptions to prove they rails there is an applique of prejudice and caprice of man,’ ting in enduring ‘stone an as­ visited the eerie spot. Because rosettes to form the standard that prejudice and caprice are sertion of the martyrdom of of .this tradition the inscrip- old-time cemetery fence. The best expressed in the passion­ his daughter, finds no justifi­ tions are never quoted fully in bottoms of the posts are dow- ate and vindictive conduct of cation other than his own ca­ print. her father, and cannot be pricious and prejudiced spirit eled into granite blocks. One line lifted from the text The monument stands on a found in the officers and which warped his judgment and embittered his heart.” has been the subject of debate granite pedestal 30 inches teachers of the Seminary.” Jonas Greene's printed ti­ ever since the monument was square, bedded in mortar on Resentful Spirit set. In it the father of M. the ledge; and springs from a .The girl’s mother took the rade put the affair wholly on Greene of East Peru, moulded 10-inch base two feet situation in the same unbe­ the shoulders of Kent's Hill i Louise Maine, expressed his opinion square. Rising eight feet the lieving and resentful spirit as Seminary. The contending which a stone-cutter preserved shaft tapers to a slightly bev­ the husband and father did. publications led to embattled for posterity: the girl was “A eled top. The upper half of On October 14, 1866, tile day sessions of the trustees. After martyr to the prejudice and the monument has chamfered after the girl’s body was found every fact had been combed caprice of man.” corners, but the faces into on Mount Gile (formerly more out the trustees issued a Miss Greene was within six which the inscriptions are cut pleasingly named Oak Hill) pamphlet which cleared the weeks of graduation fl-om are at right angles to the cor­ Mrs. Greene wrote Head Mas­ school of Greene's fiery allega­ tions, and Head Master Torter Torsey: Maine Wesleyan Seminary and ners. Female College at Kent’s Hill, Two of the inscriptions are “Mr. Torsey—Sir: The'vic- sey, a noted teacher, as well. Readfield. She had been sent puzzling: the third out of the j home by the Headmaster, Dr. ordinary. Nearly all the text is H. T. Torsey, accused as a in italics. The first inscription 1 the visitor sees is on the west raffles. ■;3 Clothing of other girls had side: “I could have died for been found in her room. Those the friendly handclasp and who defended her said it was |thought it happiness to die.” -|“a matter of mixed-up laun- This “ is from the despondent dry.” But she had a skeleton girl’s last letter homo. key, and admitted taking The east face of the marble . $5.00 from a student’s purse. carries the words, extraor­ Discovered By Hunter dinary until explained: Miss Greene’s body was “Heart breaking. Dearly be­ * found by a hunter in the loved, adieu.” ■ :.i shadow of a boulder October Tears The Veil 13 1866, coincidentally a Fri­ booklet day. She had taken poison the A ----_ by . Atty. George G. afternoon of Wednesday, May Wing, Jr., who lived in Au23, five months and a half be- burn, t‘~_, tears the veil from this fore That tragic day Spring had mystery. As Miss Greene pre­ returned to brighten the rough pared for her rendezvous with she took her class ” ring wood road that winds on a death ’ ”” shelf to the top of Mount Gile from a finger in’ her dormitory . Spring, with gold and room, as well as her gold sleeve scarlet honeysuckle blossoms buttons; and removed from her and lady’s slippers and jack- neck the cord on which she in-the-pulpit nodding drows­ had long worn the tiny key ■ to a trinket chest. These she ilyThe si t u a t i o n she had cherished as the dear posses­ brought upon herself preyed on sions of her school life. She iher mind. She did not have sealed them in an envelope, the courage to go to her home wrote on it the words quoted. ______ ____ distant folded the thin package and in East Peru 20 miles had determined what she put it in her trunk. . . the ... Kent’s Qn front pane] appear would do. "She ‘took '’■Till stage to Lewiston, 27 miles Miss Greene's name, age and away, and passed several hours parentage; her home! town, m Auburn across the river that the date of her death and, morning. She had been seen among other statements the Irving but her. apparently controversial phrase of her Inscription on monument to girl student v.ho o^mought condition did not father. “A martyr to the pre­ took poison after she was suspended from a Maine 4 register with a drug clerk who, judice and caprice of man.” seminary: under one pretext or another, Attorney Wing turned this barbed shaft which was aimed M. LOUISE GREENE E01Shfewande°red slowly along at the Kent’s Hill Seminary AE. 22 yrs. tu? dusty road toward East Head Master, to direct its luburn. and suddenly, through stinging impact on the father. dau. of budding trees, saw Mount Wing wrote in an analysis of Jonas & L. M. Greene the case: of Peru, Me. GiA’few rods up the grade she “. . . If her father was the passionate, vindicative man his A student of five years at Kent’s Hill, a mem­ own printed pamphlet shows ber of the College graduating class of 18G6, who it m^eand looked about. Fifty him to have been, Louise perished here in May within two weeks of grad­ ^afedowm the slope through Greene knew she had to meet uation. Tet brush at her left was the that condition when she went ,___ _______ thC7,H top of a great boulderfrom the Seminary in discrace A martyr to the prejudice, and caprice of man. had wearied . . . and fear of her father I f i J sr ■: SB *** L-;■ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Portland Sunday Telegram September 28,1958 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 28,1958 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/27/Collection_LouiseGreene_Newspaper1979.pdf 351c50561d833b80a570bcc7adff79c2 PDF Text Text LEWISTON DAILY SUN LEI5IST0W, ME. D. 32,000 !<OVT A New England Newsslip pACT Workers Uncover Gravestone Mystery I By SCOTTL.PARKIN Ten young people from the Lewiston Auburn area were working on a cemetery restoration this fall, when they stumbled upon a lone monument on Mount Gile in Auburn. Inscribed on one side was the inscription “A Martyr to the Prejudice and Caprice of Man.” The name M. Louise Greene was etched above. With that information in hand, and their curiosities aroused, the teen agers, all participants in the Androscoggin Comprehensive Training Program (ACT), began to in­ vestigate the mystery of Miss Greene. With some help from counselors, they dug for clues at local libraries and in the newspaper, and a few even went to talk to the West Peru town manager, who knew about the Greene family history. They uncovered a tale of suicide and grief. Martha Louis Greene was a student at Kents Hill Seminary in 186G. but was suspended for allegedly^stealing a fellow student’s clothes. Apparently fearing what her father would say about her suspension. Martha took a stage to Lewiston. At a city pharmacy, she bought poisonand walked into the Mount Gile woods. Her corpse was found by a hunter on Oct. 13,1866. The ACT group found out that her father, Jonas Greene, decided to inscribe Martha’s monument with the above in­ scription. It was meant to remind the seminary of the suicide for all time. He also published a pamphlet denouncing the seminary. According to ACT Outreach Worker Marie Stevens, the 10 participants in the project were proud of what they had ac­ complished "They really learned from the experience,” she said. “These are kids who dropped out of high school They really enjoyed it.” Ms. Stevens pointed out that most young people in ACT’S Training Readiness lor Youth have been disillisioned with with education. TRY programs attempt to rekindle interest in learning. “The kids have to really want something from our program. We try to teach them basic skills.” she noted. "A lot of young people think their situation is hopeless. By coming here, they do have something positive going for them." Ms. Stevens believes that education does not seen very importamt to parents in the area, and that effects the young people. "Dropouts seem to be on the rise.” Ms. Stevens said. According to Ms. Stevens, the typical participant in the TRY program is from an economically disadvantaged home. All young people have to meet Comprehensive Employment Training Act 'CET V guidelines, be unemployed and be a resident of Androscoggin County. ' W-' I : M1 ’ I / .I /YGr 11 ■'; i -r:~. “i'. I i I C'Ai t i -v ' -v • - w. v A ACT GROUP UNCOVERS MYSTERY These participants in the Androscoggin Comprehensive Training Program did historical research into this lone monument on Mount Gile in Auburn They discovered a sad tale of suicide and bitterness.’Left to right are Laurie Scam- mon. Doug Bragg, Jeanette Wright. Rachel Grady, Kelly Twitchell. Emily Searle istandingi, Janet Wood. Debra Cyr, Sheila Girard Bottom right: Mark Lauze, Tina Gervais. (Staff photo by Wardwell) M � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Newspaper Story from the Lewiston Daily Sun November 7,1979 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 7,1979 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/29/Collection_LouiseGreene_Newspaper1988.pdf 4fa3b89b713382f3f147e1987213362e PDF Text Text Something has been bothering me for years. Many, many years ago, while hunting in East Auburn on Mt. Gile, I came across a small stone marker erected in the mem­ ory of a young girl. The marker was aged at that time. I asked around town and was told by a resi­ dent that he knew of the stone and that the young girl had been a stu­ dent at Kents Hill and due to some misunderstanding in her grades had become distressed and walked from Readfield to where she had collapsed. Does Sunspots know the true story? Willard Grover, Sabattus This is a true and tragic story of the young girl for whom the marker was erected. On top of the crest at Mt. Gile is the marker which is inscribed with the girls name, “M. Louise Greene, age 22, daughter of Jonah and L.M. Greene of Peru. Student for five years of Kents Hill, 1868 graduate, perished in May within two weeks of graduation, a victim of the prej­ udices and caprice of man”. On the north side of the marker is in­ scribed “I could have lived for one friendly hand grasp and thought it happiest to die”. On the south side, is the inscription “Heartbreaking, dearly beloved, adieu.” This mon­ ument was placed by the parents of M. Louise Greene, whose father could not overcome his grief and bitterness at the death of his daughter, who was a kleptoma­ niac. She had been accused of stealing and other misdemeanors (which her father refused to be­ lieve) by the administrators of the school at Kents'Hill. She had been expelled,.and rather than go home, Greene boarded the train to Au­ burn where she bought poison in a pharmacy, wandered out to Mt. Gile at East Auburn and drank the poison (said to be iodine) and died on the spot where the monument was erected in her memory. She was found by a hunter after an ex­ tensive search. There are three sizeable pamphlets written about this tragedy. One is by her father entitled “Crown Won but Not Worn,” another by the trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminar and Female College at Kents Hill enti­ tled “Libel Refuted: A Reply to Greene”; and the third entitled “ A Lugubrious, Doleful Tale and Death of Louise Greene”, by Judge George C. Wing. For many years, the Bowdoin College graduating class was brought on a field trip to Mt. Gile to visit the marker, just prior to graduation exercises. The pamphlets are in the Maine Collec­ tion at the Auburn Public Library under Kents Hill Tragedy and are for in-library reading only. l\ J � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lewiston Sun Newspaper, January 14,1988 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 14, 1988 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/30/Collections_LouiseGreene_Newspaper1966.pdf c598c520dfb681fe3d27a28d8f2edd86 PDF Text Text PAGE TWENTY I I itlM, p it ; v,< >. .7 Of cc.I' ■ V Eg®?:' 2.-» -Mil Ia. -—------■popsHi ... - r <■■; i: , . n r? " M r <® ' •• 7-trt •tjv'V isvu.-x. . . :: f ' IK o .. .•.iil».... • .?■??<■ Hif i • : - ■ '■ ' .ll t® ®. ■SO SWEI r-;->*1,i ■<■■■' ■■- ■' «■■?'•><.s.' ■<■■ -.''iti Staff Photo By Wardwelli FORGOTTEN MONUMENT ON MOUNT GILE — This 1 monument to the tragic suicide death of a 22-ycar-old girl lies almost hidden on the west side of Mount Gile overlook­ ing Lake Auburn. After a hundred year's, the fence is rusted 1 with age and the marker with its bitter epitaph has been toppled by weather or needless visitors, but the granite still clearly shows a father’s indictment against “the pre­ judice and caprice of man.’ The monument is located about 50 feet to the left of the trail up the mountain from the end of the Oak Hill Road. I "Caprice of Man" ML Gffe Monument Recalls Century-Old Tragic Story >3 © - a 1 "instead 'of heading for her ?hnoeugfhrKaPXsTdio”nd Ih. fore long, the cimtrover y -:'r.ar. i tra':- ew.iil fiar/d. H r mrdiirr v.rote the headma-P-r of lite -Pool. “VJnde 1: t pares v;i life i n] nnr, a of e;: ,, tj.e animver ary of roar I.o ,i c dentil n-'iin I .Lai! write t, p.i.r, -c Iione.-lly and firniiy >> -iiei <■ wei'e the cause of liar dcatii,” Her father, fo.ia L. ?' Green.:. p-bii-h, a a iar e 1 ' inpi.i.'. “I h" Cro.'.T. V.’on lint ri'i tile Llrrm for :r;“ '-H' ' teilm; Of. id . ofi.'n.'i: ■.-.rr, 6 a nil a. pabii-in ■> ronort a felt VI Vi By DAVID SARGENT ............................. investigation, and..... Greene pub­ A hundred years ago this lished another pamphlet. month, residents of Greene claimed that Louise Androscoggin County were had lost clothing in the school laundry and had been forced to caught up in a passionate i ' ’ take other clothes to replace itcontroversy over the suicide death of a young, heartbroken The officals alleged she had a girl. Today, a monument to her skeleton key to open the other memory on Mount Gile lies in students’ rooms, and had con­ disrepair almost hidden from fessed to stealing $5. sight and largely unknown to For months, the facts andl the hundreds of people living the event event were were I fantasies of the within the. limits of its debated, and eventually the dede-l irn'intipanoramic view of East Auburn tails were compiled in a book unci the lake. !*»* ’ ■ intuvov fianrita and the lake. ! by the Auburn lawyer George The .... death ------ of - . M. Louise c. Wing. Greene, 22-year-old student at •;; ,.w ~ “If she is „a victim of the Kent’s Hill Female College, prejudice and caprice off rman, aroused sentiment in the area (hat prejudice and . .. - . caprice - .! are to a fever pitch, but feelings best expressedI in I.. th? I... passionate were divided. Some blamed and vindictive conduct of her! college officials for driving the father and not in the offices of I girl into taking her own life (he teachers,” he said. ““'In In that I and thought of her as “a martyr sense alone was she a martyr to I to the prejudice and caprice the prejudice and caprice of I of man,” as the granite man.” I monument at the site of her Wing believed that fear of her! death says; others believed that father and consciousness of her I feelings of guilt and fear of guf]t led to her suicide. i an unforgiving father led to her often, time brings events I death. such as this into perspective, I The tragic series o f but a century has only served | circumstances began on May to dim the facts surrounding 26, 1866, when Louise was called Louise’s death. In fact the cirto the office of the headmaster: cuins(ancOs Of (his incident a at the college. i too years ago have been re-i She was told that clothing peafe(i tjmB and again in one belonging to other students had form .. or another, and. after: been found in her room, and tragedy has struck, the charges with graduation only two weeks of “prejudice and caprice of away, she was ordered to return man” begin to fly. to her home at Peru. Louise The eight-foot granite obelisk went to her room, tore the gold on Mount Gile lies fallen in buttons from her sleeve, took front of .the iron-fenccd bottldoff her class er (oday, a victim of either] — ring, and tore M th: ■>;___ the string ~:th with h: her- trunk >— key| weather of wanton vandalism. from her neck. Putting these The bitter epitaph on the front ' -‘■•"3 tne ®e|The j... in an envelope; on which she can be read by pU]jjng -.1 the had written, “Heart breaking — ]eaves anc] branches away, but Dslipped ,?arly, ,,be 0Vbetween ud? bidden underneath ar? the ‘a'dsn “..j^coufMVdied slipped them them between the the pages, pages, ywordSi Cfluld haye died for home, Louise took the stage: to Lewiston. No one can what liimielit.- were ”°'na throiwri her mind, but er.il people saw her cning as -lie w.iiliwl along the street.. Siw l;0ll ..;’t Ol,)P pel',>n a: one of tile stores, and then d: appeared S-.-n, particver... formed, br it e, .:-i un'i'. Oc'oiier tha; mm!, r found her i, < i. id !1 .1 In .de tile !0 r A' Kiel; • r, 'Jo int G.ie where the m a in. in ..., rn iii d f.ne 4, bar,,'! at Ea-t Pera. ' s a Ugnt n happiness to die. ‘ ‘ i M 1=] © a i e a s > i i 0 > £i © Ia 49 SS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lewiston Daily Sun /Lewiston-AuburnTuesday Morning.May 24,1966 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/6/31/Collections_Louisegreene_NewspaperMay1966.pdf a6b4c4dfa35248e8cca84f048617a7b5 PDF Text Text Konneboc Journal, Augusta, Tuesday, May 31,196& 5 Bitter Anniversary o o By DAVID SARGENT she a “martyr to the prejudice ly and firmly believe were tile the issue were brought together The Lewiston Sun and caprice of man," as the en- icause of her death." in a book by an Auburn lawyer, Pamphlet AUBURN (AP)—One hundred graving on the weathered gran­ George C, Whig. tars ago this month, residents ite monument says? Her father published a pamph­ “If she is a victim of the pre­ Androscoggin County were The tragic series of events let, "The Crown Won But Not judice and caprice of man, that mght up in a passionate con- began May 26, 1866, when Worn.” claiming that Louise prejudice and caprice are best oversy over the suicide of a Louise was called to the office had lost clothing in the school expressed in the passionate and I >ung, heartbroken girl. of the headmaster at the col­ laundry and had been forced to vindictive conduct of her father Today, a monument to her lege. take other clothes to replace it. and not in the offices of the emory on Mount Gile lies in She was told that clothing be­ The officials replied that she teachers,” he said. srepair almost hidden from longing to other students had had a skeleton key to the other The eight-room granite obelisk ght and largely unknown to been found in her room, and rooms, and had confessed to on Mount Gile now lies fallen io hundreds of people living with graduation only two weeks stealing $5. in front of the rusted iron fence ithin the limits of its pan- away, she was ordered to le- Eventually, all the sides of around the boulder, a victim of •amic view of Lake Auburn turn to her home at Peru. either weather or wanton van­ ■ id a busy state highway. dalism. The bitter epitaph on She placed her class ring, I Divided the front can be read by pulling the gold buttons from her I The death of M. Louise school uniform, and her trunk I tire leaves and branches away, / reene, 22-year-old student at key in an envelope, printed! but hidden underneath are the-' ents Hill Female College, "Heart breaking — Dearly be-l Il words, “1 could have diecLpr ■oused strong sentiment in the loved, adieu" on the outside, I Bone friendly hand gravtXnd •ea, but feelings were divided, and slipped it between I thought it happiness^ he] ad the girl brought the pages of her diary. Then, in-] agedy upon herself, or was stead of heading for home, she] took the stage to Lewiston. i t * ElStilB#ISib Poison Si. FORGOTTEN MONUMENT—This memorial to the tragic death of a 22-year-old girl lies almost hidden on the west side of Auburn’s Mount Gile overlooking Mount Auburn. After 100 years, the fence is rusted with age and the >■ xAtf ’ , ’ i : -• marker with its bitter epitaph has been toppled by weather or heedless vandals, but the granite still clearly shows a father’s indictment against the “prejudice and caprice of man.” She bought poison and then] disappeared. Search parties] were sent out, but it wasn’t un-| til October that her body was! found huddled beside the huge] boulder on the mountain where] the monument was erected. She! was buried at East Peru. Before long, controversy I flared. Her mother wrote the, school officials, “While God | spares your life and mine, as often as the anniversary of poor Louise’s death returns I shall write to those who we honest- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greene, Louise Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kennebec Journal, Augusta, May 31,1966 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 31,1966 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/1/33/Yearbooks_KHS_1955.pdf d5e3c91424cbb05cafaa64dc1c4790ff PDF Text Text ■ . ... .... - 1 ' C -i I 4 �EBE! Kents Hill School CORPORATE NAME MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY AND COLLEGE Kents Hill, Maine / 73 <4 D<^ V (& < \ '. \ / \ 5E (J 3 T4 y 'f 7^ 4 L/ % / K i^iZ* // VxJLnjx_a. 9 fr tu 2h r £- �I �KENTS HILL SCHOOL KENTS HILL, MAINE 1955 �ADMINISTRATION WILLIAM WARREN DUNN Headmaster, A.B., Wesleyan, A.M., Brown. HESELTON BOWDEN B.S., Gorham State Tchrs., Shop, Crafts. BARBARA A. BUTLER A.B., Middlebury, French, English, Field Hockey, Ski­ ing, Tennis, Dance. WILLIAM B. CHASE, JR. A.B., Springfield, Biology, Football, Skiing, Track, Outing Club. EDMONIA J. CHASE A.B., Randolph-Macon Col­ lege, Latin, English, Basket­ ball. OLIVER STUART CHASE A.B., Williams, English, History, Algebra, Skiing. v*> ~n ■ . MARGARET S. CHOATE A.B., Colby, Latin, Crafts. re' y'* ; w- KATHERINE CULLEN A.B., Bates, English, History, Civics, Archery. �ALLAN P. CURRIER A.B., Colby, History, Prob­ lems of Democracy, Boys' Athletic Director, Football, Hockey, Tennis. ARTHUR A. DEXTER A.B., Wesleyan, History, Consumer Economics, Foot­ ball, Basketball, Baseball. SILAS B. DUNKLEE B.S. Univ, o SILAS B. DUNKLEE B.S., Univ. New Hampshire, Basic Math, Cross Country, Track, Skiing, Outing Club, BENNETT MEYERS A.B., Amherst, Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, Basketball, Baseball, Ten­ nis. 1 EDWARD GALLIGAN A.B., A.M., Boston Univ., English, German, Piano. FRANCES GALLIGAN A.B., A.M., Boston Univ., Spanish, Algebra, Remedial Reading. JOYCE MITCHELL A.B., Boston Univ., English, Girls' Athletic Director, Field Hockey, Basketball, Softball, Volleyball. PAULINE RUSSELL Boston University, Typing, Shorthand, Bookkeeping, BREEZE. VIVIAN RUSSELL A.B., Colby, A.M., Bates, Dean of Girls, English, Dra­ matics. ‘ WARREN E. THAMARUS A.B., A.M., Bucknell, Chem­ istry, Dining Room Super­ visor, Band, Assistant to Headmaster. BYRON C. TILLOTSON, JR. A.B., Hamilton, A.B., Mid­ dlebury, French, English, Chorus, YEARBOOK. LEIGH C. VAN ETTEN B.S., Univ, of Connecticut, Physics, General Science, Physiography, Algebra, Out­ ing Club, Skiing, Movies. �* -■ 1 HOUSE IN THE FIELD fa*. ! Field House: Artist's Conception. Some day -- not this year, nor even next, but some day -the sports program will function far more smoothly and ef­ ficiently at Kents Hill, thanks to the existence of a versatile Field House behind the tennis courts, on the site of the present hockey rink. Throughout the country this sort of construc­ tion is proving invaluable in giving to all students more extensive athletic opportunities, summer and winter alike. The Kents Hill field house, which has by now moved out of the planning stage, will provide more field hockey practice room, better ice hockey conditions, more tennis courts, and a chance for baseball practice to get under way earlier and continue more regularly than the whims of Mother Nature usually make possible. Our field house will be of steel, artificially lighted and provided with dressing rooms. The gymnasium, now overworked especially in the winter, will be relieved of much of its congestion, and team performance will improve with the assurance of regular practices. Thus both student and school will profit by the new facilities of Kents Hill's sixth campus building. I ° £ A.; "tr- - . jft- i �A. O r 1 % ■ ■ k2* r ^•ssn �JOHN SHERMAN McGRATH 248 Main Street New Hampton, Mass. Entered from New Hampton High, 1954. Plans: Air Force. Hobby: Cars. Football 4; Hockey 4; Track 4. DIANA BUTLER LIBBEY (Liberace) 136 Arlington Street Haverhill, Mass. Entered from Haverhill High, 1954. Plans: To enter either Green Mountain Jr. College or Colby Jr. College. Ambition: To become a good commercial artist and interior decorator. Hobby: Knitting, collecting records, drawing. Tennis 4; Ski­ ing 4; Sailing 4; Chorus 4; Outing Club 4. JOSEPH ARTHUR MARCEAU (Art) 222 West Main Street Georgetown, Mass. Entered from Perley High, 1954. Plans: to enter the Univ, of Mass. Ambition: to become an engineer. Hobby: Playing saxophone and clarinet, making model airplanes. Baseball 4; Crafts 4. 6 �THOR MILLER, JR. (Duke) 752 Main Street Westbrook, Maine Entered from Westbrook High, 1951. Plans: University of Maine. Ambition: To graduate! Hobby: Any kind of Music. Football 1; Skiing 1,2,3, 4; Tennis 1,2,3,4; Outing Club 1,2; Crafts 1,2. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. MARCIA ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM (Cookie) 22 Jefferson Road Winchester, Mass. Entered from Winchester High, 1954. Plans: College. Ambition: Social Service Work. Hobby: Music. Tennis 4; Basketball 4; Softball 4. CHARLES BLACK (Blackie) 48 Chapel Street Augusta, Maine Entered from U. S. Coast Guard Academy, 1955. Plans; to return to the Coast Guard Academy. Am­ bition: to be a Coast Guard officer. Hobby: Sail­ ing. Track 4. 4 7 �PAUL ANTHONY JOHN BURKE (PAUL) 195-06 Woodhull Avenue Hollis, Long Island Entered from Belmont Jr. High, Belmont, Mass. 1952. Plans: Air Force or University of Maine. Ambition: To be a success in farming and in life. Hobby; Fish­ ing, camping and stamps. Basketball 2; Track 2; Football 3,4; Hockey 3,4; Baseball 3,4; Yearbook 4. 1 MARCIA CAROLINE BIRKENWALD (BERG) 16 North Chestnut Street Augusta, Maine Entered from Cony High School, 1954. Plans; College. Ambition: To be happy and suc­ cessful in life. Hobby: Reading, Knitting. Tennis 4; Choir and Chorus 4; Outing Club 4; Basketball 4; Softball 4; Carnival Court 4. 1 ■ '■ Ht J FREDRIC VAUGHN STONE (STONIE) 17 Fairmount Street Portland, Maine Entered from Deering High in 1954. Plans: Wesleyan. Ambition: To be in business with Heselton. Hobby: Swappingnicknameswith'Moon*. Football 4; Basketball 4; Baseball 4; Carnival Court 4. 8 �PIERRE EUGENE QUIRIN (PETE) 5 Elm Street Wellesley, Mass. Entered from Wellesley High, 1954. Plans; College. Ambition: Work in aviation. Hob­ by: Aviation and guns. Cross-country 4; Hockey 4; Track 4. A. ___ POLLY-ANN PETTINGILL (PET) Wayne, Maine Entered from Northfield, Minn. High, 1953. Plans: College. Ambition; Career and happy life. Hobby: Dancing, dramatics and music. Tennis 3,4; Basketball 3; Dramatics 3,4; Choir 3; Glee Club 3; Field Hockey 4; Skiing 4; BREEZE 4; Outing Club 4; YEARBOOK 4; Carnival Court 4; Carnival Queen 4. ZETA RUSSELL LEVINE (ZETE) Sidney Road Waterville, Maine Entered from Waterville High, 1953. Plans: College. Ambition: Tobe married and to be happy. Hobby; Knitting and reading. Tennis 3,4; Basketball 3,4; Outing Club 3,4; YEARBOOK 3,4. 9 �RONALD AVERY MILLER (Ronnie) Box 43 Woodland, Maine Entered from St. Croix High, 1954. Plans: to enter Bowdoin College. Ambition: To be­ come an M.D. Hobby: Boating. Football 4; Basket­ ball 4; Baseball 4. t <1 i < JEAN ELIZABETH WHEELER RFD #1, Fayette, Maine Plans: to be married. Hobby: Dancing. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. CHARLES DONALD HAZZARD (Chad) 61 Winter Street Gardiner, Maine Entered from Hebron Academy, 1954. Plans: College. Ambition: to graduate. Hobby: Girls. Basketball 4; Baseball 4. 10 �JAMES ALEXANDER RUSSELL (Jimmie) 11 Mountain View Road Cape Elizabeth, Maine Entered from Cheverus High, 1954. Plans: Bowdoin. Ambition: to become an M.D. Hobby: Pestering Mr. Dexter. J.V. Football 4; YEAR­ BOOK 4; Chorus 4; Skiing 4; Baseball 4; Outing Club 4. DOROTHY MARION PHILIPP (Dotty) 1990 Main Street Walpole, Mass. Entered from Orchard Home School, 1954. Plans: Nurses training. Ambition: to become an R.N. Hobby: playing the piano and singing. Tennis 4; Basketball 4; Chorus 4. STANLEY HOWARD BLOCK (Stan) 25 Catherine Street Portland, Me. Entered from Deering High, 1953. Plans: college. Ambition: to become successful and to live a full life. Hobby: Swimming and fish­ ing. Football 3; Hockey 3,4; Track 3; Baseball 4; YEARBOOK 3. 11 �■i PATRICIA MAE NOBIS (PAT) Readfield Depot, Maine Plans; College. Ambition: To raise a happy family. Hobby: Music, Dancing, and Boating. YEARBOOK 4; Dramatics 4; Crafts 3,4; Sailing 4. FIVE YEARS AT KENTS HILL. KI i 5 ( JAMES DOONAN (DOON) 50 Harold Avenue Somerset, Mass. Entered from Somerset High, 1954. Plans: Univ, of Connecticut. Ambition: To become a pharmacist. Football 4; JV Basketball 4; Baseball 4. PHYLLIS ALTHEA NASON (PHYL) Kents Hill, Maine Ambition: To teach crafts, to get married, and to go to California. Hobby: Leathercarving and writ­ ing to someone special in the Army. Crafts 1,2,3,4; Glee Club 2. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. 12 - i ■ 1 �/ DAVID ROURKE (DUCKY) 351 Chestnut Street Lynnfield, Mass. Entered from Wakefield High, 1953. Plans: Wentworth Institute. Hobby: Cars. Baseball 3,4; Crafts 3,4. 1 IRENE MARY FOGG (FOGGY) Readfield, Maine Ambition: To travel. Hobby; Collecting stamps, singing, writing letters, archery, water skiing. Ten­ nis 1,2,3,4; Basketball 1,2,3; Archery 1,3,4; Glee Club 2,3,4; Crafts 1,2,3,4; Dramatics 2,4. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. WINFIELD HUTCHINSON BEARCE, JR. (HUTCH) 163 Second Street Hallowell, Maine Entered from Hallowell High, 1953. Plans; Bowdoin or Wesleyan. Ambition: Physicist. Hobby: Science and swimming. Cross-country 4; Basketball 3,4; Glee Club 3,4; Track 3,4; Outing Club 4; YEARBOOK 4. 13 �LILLIAN JOYCE GILMAN (Sis) Readfield, Maine Plans: Gates Business College. Ambition: to be a successful secretary. Hobby: correspondence with Army, collecting miniature horses. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. ROBERT LAWRENCE DAVEE (Larry) Tenafly, New Jersey Entered from Tenafly High, 1954. Plans: Engineering at the Univ, of Maine. Ambi­ tion: to become an engineer and get married. Hob­ by: Boatsand boat racing. Football 4; Track 4; Cho­ rus 4. JOAN MEREDITH GOUCHER (Jo) Readfield, Maine Plans: Office work. Ambition: to be a secretary. Hobby; riding. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. 14 �WILLIAM WARREN DUNN, JR. (Bill) Kents Hill, Maine Plans: college. Ambition: to be a success at some­ thing orother. Hobby: music.Football 1,2,3,4; Hock­ ey 1,2,3,4; Baseball 1,2; Tennis 3,4. FIVE YEARS AT KENTS HILL. MOLLIE DRAPER NOLEN (Moll Doll) Spring Lane Canton, Mass. Entered from Canton High, 1953. Plans: Medical training. Ambition: to learn and practice kindliness and tolerance. Hobby: Art. Cho­ rus 3,4; YEARBOOK 3,4; BREEZE co-editor 3, editor 4; Basketball 3,4; Field Hockey 3,4; Softball 3,4; G.A.A. President 4; Outing Club 3,4; Religious Con­ ference 3,4. RICHARD HOWARD DIADONE (Dick) 66 Broadway Woodland, Maine Entered from St. Croix High, 1954. Plans; to work for General Electric. Ambition; Electrical Engineering. Hobby: Fishing. Football 4; Basketball 4; Baseball 4. 15 �ARTHUR HENNISON STUTZMAN (STUTZ) 17 Cosby Avenue Amherst, Mass. Entered from Cushing Academy, 1953. Plans: Univ, of Mass. Ambition: To become an engineer. Hobby: Model building. Football 3,4; Basketball 3; Skiing 4; Track 3,4. ill ALTHEA JOAN DOLLOFF (CHIG) Mount Vernon, Maine Plans: College—Mount Holyoke or Colby. Ambi­ tion: Teaching physical education. Hobby: Sports. Softball 1,2,4; Skiing 2,3,4; Tennis 2,3,4; Allan Nightingale Ski Trophy2; Highest class average 1,2; OutingClub 2; BREEZE 4; Student Council 2; G.A.A. Vice-president 3; Assistant Editor, YEARBOOK 4. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. LUNNIE WENDELL CLARK (LOONY) 27 Grove Street Wells River, Vermont Entered from Wells River High, 1953. Plans; Air Force. Ambition: To be a jet pilot. Hobby: Hot-rods. Outing Club 3; Basketball man­ ager 3; Cross-country 4; Sailing 4. 16 �LISA FLEISCHER Augusta, Maine Plans: Florida State Univ. Ambition: To lead a happy, successful life. Hobby: Dancing, collecting records. Tennis 1,2,3,4; Skiing.1,2,3,4; Crafts 1,2,3, 4; Outing Club 1,2,3,4; Archery 1. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. £<5^ I Ji *6". 1 HARRISON D. SMYTH (SMITTY) Millville, Mass. Entered from Blackstone, High, 1954. Plans: Miami University. Hobby: Cars, skiing, sailing. Skiing 4; Outing Club 4. PATSY JOE STEPHENS (P.J.) Box 167, Westernview Drive Marlboro, Mass. Entered from Lexington High, 1952. Plans: Melrose Hospital School of Nursing. Am­ bition; Tobe an R.N. Hobby; Sports. Tennis2,3,4; Skiing 2,3,4; Softball 2; Archery 3; Crafts 2,3,4; Choir 2,3,4; Outing Club 2,3,4; YEARBOOK 4; Fa­ culty Prize 2. 17 4 I �ROBERT MALCOLM DOLE, JR. (Bob) 100 Pond Street Georgetown, Mass Entered from Perley High, 1954 Plans: Bates. Ambition: to be a teacher. Football 4; Hockey 4; Baseball 4. 4 PATRICIA LOW PETERS (Patti) Box 44 Gardiner, Maine Entered from Gardiner High, 1954 Plans: Taking a pre-xray technology course. Ambi­ tion: tobe an xray technician. Hoppy: Sports, skiing, typing. Tennis 4; Skiing 4; BREEZE 4; Outing Club 4. GEORGE ARTHUR WITHEE (Bobo) 98 South Front Street Richmond, Maine Entered from Richmond High, 1954 Plans: Colby. Ambition: to become an engineer. Hobby: Sports. Football 4; Basketball 4; Baseball 4. 18 �CHARLES B. DOYLE (Charley) Old Brunswick Road Bath, Maine Entered from Morse High, 1954 Plans College. Ambition: To stay single. Hobby: Golf. Football Manager 4; Skiing 4. FRANCES MURRAY BUXTON(Sancy) Readfield, Maine FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL Plans College. Ambition: Interior Decorator. Hobby: Art. Tennis 1,2,3,4; OutingClub 2,4; BREEZE 2,3,4; Crafts 1,2,3,4; Kreger Prize 3; Softball 1,2; Skiing 1,2,3,4; Field Hockey 3,4; Cheerleader 2,3; Head cheerleader 4; G. A.A. Secretary 4; Carnival Court 2,3,4. A DAVID W. COLLINS (Dave) 569 Webster Street Lewiston, Maine Entered from Lewiston High, 1954 Plans: Army or University of Maine. Ambition: to graduate from college. Hobby: Sports. Football 4; Basketball 4. 19 �CALVIN L. MESLER (CAL) 834 East Main Street Newport, Vermont Plans: Univ, of Maine. Ambition; To become an electrical engineer. Hobby; Photography. Hockey 1, 2,3,4; Football 1,2, manager4; Track4. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. ■ NANCY EVELYN BOWLBY (BO) 39 Locust Avenue Lexington, Mass. Entered from St. Anne's School, Arlington, 1952. Plans: Physical Education. Ambition: To help younger children. Hobby: Dogs and sports. Hockey 3,4; Skiing 3,4; Softball 3,4; Glee Club 3,4; Crafts 3; Outing Club 4. 4 PAUL HAVENER GRAY ("P") Castine, Maine Entered from Castine, High, 1953. Plans: Bowdoin. BREEZE 3,4; Dramatics 3,4; Crafts 3,4; Glee Club 3,4; OutingClub 4; Skiing 3,4; Track 3; Sailing 4. 20 �DOROTHY ANN SYLVESTER (DOTTY) Winthrop, Maine Plans: Gates Business College. Ambition: To be successful as a secretary. Hobby: Writing letters and cooking. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. ROBERT MICHAEL SEYMOUR (MIKE) 6 Paul Revere Road Lexington 73, Mass. Entered from Lexington High, 1953. Plans: College. Ambition: To be successful. Hobby; Cars and model airplanes. Quartet 3; Outing Club 3; Hockey 3; Track 3; Skiing 4; Sailing 4. HELEN ENGLAND O'NEILL (O'NEILLSKI) 47 Taylor Street South Braintree, Mass. Entered from Braintree, High, 1954. Plans: Nurses' training. Ambition; To take a slow boat to Madrid. Hobby; Music. Chorus 4; Outing Club 4; Basketball 4; Tennis 4; YEARBOOK 4; BREEZE 4; Softball 4; Religious conference 4. 21 �ROBERT EDWIN PEARY III (Bert) 25 McLellan Street Brunswick, Maine Entered from Brunswick High, 1953 Plans: Air Force. Ambition: to be the first man on the moon. Hobby: Women, Basketball 2,3; Football 3; Cross-country 4; Tennis 2,3,4. JOAN H. POMEROY (Jo) NAAS Corry Field Pensacola, Florida Entered from Pensacola High, 1954 Plans: to attend Florida State University. Ambition: tobe a flight stewardess. Hobby: Dancing, collecting records. Cheerleader 4; Tennis 4; Skiing 4; Outing Club 4. LINCOLN LULL TURNER (Link) 6 South Street Gorham, Maine Entered from Gorham High, 1954 Plans: University of Maine. Ambition: to have my own business. Hobby: Tinkering. Cross county 4; Skiing 4; Track 4; BREEZE 4; Outing Club 4. 22 �WILLIAM CROSSLAND HESELTON (Wilbur) 12 Plaisted Street Gardiner, Maine Entered from Gardiner High, 1954 Plans: Bowdoin. Ambition: to be in business with Stone. Hobby: Playing pool. Football 4; Basketball 4; Baseball 4. NANCY JANE MAHONEY Readfield, Maine Entered from Cony High, 1953 Plans: College. Ambition: to be a career girl. Hobby: reading. Field Hockey 3; Basketball3; Tennis 3; Sailing 4; YEARBOOK 4. HAYWARD LANE (Woody) Readfield, Maine Entered from Cony High, 1953 Plans: College. Ambition: to build a better bear­ trap. Hobby: Holding Bets. JV Basketball 2; Track 2; Football 3,4; Track 4; Chorus 4. - ^5__ 23 ■ �RICHARD ALMON WHITE (DICK) Kents Hill, Maine Plans: Service. Ambition; Drafting. Hobby: Cars and boats. Football 1,2; Skiing 2. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. ELIZABETH PUTNAM ROBERTS (BETSY) Maiden Lane Durham, Conn. Entered from Durham High, 1953. Plans: College. Ambition: To get through college successfully. Hobby: Ice Skating. Basketball 3,4; BREEZE 4; OutingClub 4; YEARBOOK 4; Tennis 3,4; Softball 3,4; Chorus 3,4. EDWARD ARMSTRONG DODGE (EDDIE) RFD#2, Winthrop, Maine Plans: Univ, of Maine. Ambition: To be success­ ful. Hobby: Skiing and living it up! Football 8,1,2, 3; Cross-country4; Skiing8,1,2,3,4; Baseball 1,2,3,4; Outing Club 1,2,3,4; Tennis 8; YEARBOOK 4. FIVE YEARS AT KENTS HILL. 24 �CAROLINE POSIK (POSEY) Fayette, Maine Entered from Livermore High, 1952. Plans: To enter Mercy Hospital. Ambition; To be a nurse. Hobby: Music. Glee Club 3,4; Tennis 3,4; Basketball 3,4; Archery 3; Tennis 3. ROBERT JAMES QUALTERS (HANK) 105 North Main Street Winchester, New Hampshire Entered from Thayer High, 1954. Plans: College. Ambition: To graduate from col­ lege. Hobby: Watching T.V. Cross-country 4; Bas­ ketball Captain 4; Baseball 4. NEVA JEANINE OWEN R.F.D. #2 Winthrop, Maine Ambition; Airline hostess. Hobby: Singing. FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL. 25 F �DONNA JEAN BANNARN (Banny) Fayette, Maine FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL Plans: College. Ambition: to be a veterin­ arian and to help people. Hobby: Animals, art, and sports. Tennis 1,4; Basketball 1,2,3; Softball 1,2; Archery 3; Field Hockey 2,3,4, Captain4; Skiing 4; Crafts 1,2,3,4; BREEZE 1, 4; YEARBOOK Editor 4; Dramatics 1. JAMES BLAINE COUSENS (Cuz) 170 Maverick Street Rockland, Maine FOUR YEARS AT KENTS HILL Plans: Air Force. Ambition: to be well liked by elephants. Hobby: Fooling around. Foot­ ball 1,2,3,4; Basketball 1,3; Skiing 2,4; Base­ ball 1; Track 2,3,4; Outing Club 1,2,3,4. FAITH PETERSON 98 Montgomery St. Poughkeepsie, New York Entered from Fryeburg, 1954 Plans: An school in New York City. Ambition: to be an artist in "the Village." Hobby: Art. Chorus 4; Tennis 4; Basketball 4; Softball 4; BREEZE 4. ROBERTA LEE HARRINGTON (Bobbie) Litchfield, Maine Entered from Gardiner High, 1954 Plans: Chamberlain College. Ambition: to be a buyer. Hobby: Art. Field Hockey 4; Skiing 4; Outing Club 4; Crafts 4; Sailing 4. 26 �Zjj J �Well here I am and after only three months here I allready feel as if I have reely ben here for months. You rember how bad I usta talk and wright, well you oughter see me now youd never would beleive your eyes or eres neither. This here Kents Hill is wonderfull even for educiation. Miss Chote she told me wen I first came here thet she new they would be abel to de alot for me and they shur have. Starting rite in the first day wen we had meetins to get to no each other everyone with a nametag on him, and soon afterwerds dances up to the jim. One feller I think his name is Bert he ast me to dance but I didn’t dare to cuz my shoos werent broke in yit. The next Sun. we went to the coast to et lobster and I et seven, one more then at the Forth July Social last year. Youd have dyed to see me at the Saddie Hawkings dance, I wore a Buck Rogers soot that I borrowed from one of the senyers. Miss Butler was drest like a little girl she was very cute and Mis Mitchel was her mother, and the Galligans were in native costyune, Jermin I think. It was shur fun. Theres to much to rite I cant even rember half the things like the football games they wuz fun axept pore Larry Davy got hisself nocked rite out at Rockland, and the girls hocky was gud to. Ill allways rember Mr. Tilatson on his Back in the middle of the socker game becuz Kris Godsey tripped him up wuz he muddy. Then Mrs. Chase come and did she talk funny shes from Viginiar or somewheres. I went to Mount Blue and watched the crost-country fellers runnin in the rain they wuz good and tired to after it. O yes I saw some Plays, reel live playacters to I guess anyone can do it would you beleive it. The roommate of the best freind of the girl next to me wuz one of the playacters and wuz she gud Ill say. There wuz a western Play with Jimmy Cuzens and Bill Done and Bert Perry and it sur wuz a riott. And one called Chimbley Corner that was just beautifull with Polly Pet some­ thing and Karol Posick and other peepul, and one called the Twelve Lb. Look that wuz nice, onely I didnt understand it much. I think it wuz Englesh or some­ thing. Also there wuz a weekend called Home Coming onely nobody goes Home insted peepul come here old grads and such and we had a lekture by Docter Pettingill called Wildlife Mischif all about anumuls and birds werent they funny though and we also had a football game with a school called Holdurness and we wun. Just latelly we had a bankwet and et stake and ice cream and got Letters and Awardes and two boys Bill Heselton and Fred Stone got a big Cup for Good Sports and Sansy Buxton got a pin for GAA you no what that is. Thats the news sofar Ill write more later. Say hy to Jodey and keep the tracter oiled good and tell Mrs. Piggley she should send Elmer here its great well solong now. 28 �•r r » kO'Cs J5/ * G vi) r > r> -Ye- '; ' ■ / RTH3"' t )' r" ■ ? e^y ,_^ RS MH Dip/ -V®J V > * , (.2^ V jh.DEPT. -■ ==. C* 0 BK» **• KH I ’ k B '»I ° ! A e ] >*' / I IM • ■'; y T& ’ i’.^ :.<>*•£• 4 ■ .4’ -r • - ‘3 &? -b ■ r*' * W ’ Z““t /Cfi '’■«» J 14 �CHEERLEADERS Kneeling: Janie Aldrich, Sancy Buxton, Margie Steeves. Standing: Sheila Mahoney, Joan Pomeroy, Sally Cartlidge, Mary Pettingill. 30 �FOOTBALL • "4 • UH First row: Coach Currier, Dick Larsen, Jim Doonan, Bill Cummings, Bill Heselton, Jeff Adams, Dale Totten, Charles Pearson, AssistantCoach Chase. Second row: Jim Cousens, Fred Stone, Pete Hay, Captain Art Stutz­ man, Bill Dunn, DickBean, Bob Swansburg, Tom Hazzard, Bert Perry. Third row: Larry Davee, George Withee, Dave Collins, Don Green, Haywood Lane, John Rogers, Bob Sween, John McGrath, John Mahoney. Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Earth Angels 31 0 - 6 7 - 8 6 - 6 0 - 25 6 - 0 12-7 Kimball Union Brewster Fryeburg Rockland Holderness Higgins �X-COUNTRY I i/ KH Front row: John Nichols, Don Taylor, Arad Philpott, Link Turner, Jon Luce, Jack Morse, Wayne Harmon. Second row; Stan Block, PierreQuirin, Don Stevenson, Dick Friberg, Richard Posik, Eddie Dodge. Third row: Gary Andrews, mgr., BobMcQuoid. Lin Hussey, Lunnie Clark, Hutch Bearce, Hank Quakers, Bert Peary, Harry Knight, Mr. Dunklee. Take several underdressed youths, several large sheets of paper with num­ bers on them, a three-mile course through underbrush and swamp and muddy incline, a raw autumn wind, (a few rather puzzled but well-wishing spectators will help too) and a vague homing-pigeon instinct; bring to a boil with a fiveminute pep-talk and set in motion with the report of a .22-calibre pistol. That is the approximate recipe for Cross-country. This fall, after an absence of five years, X-country returned to the sports program at Kents Hill. The results of our meets with other schools, who have been at it steadily for years, were only mildly gratifying to coach Dunklee, but Don Taylor, running against marathoners from all over Maine, finished third in the state meet, with Arad Philpott and Link Turner carrying our colors over the finish-line just behind him. Alto­ gether, the prospects for the future are encouraging, and we hope that Xcountry will attract an even larger field of enthusiasts next year. Wiscasset Gardiner Wiscasset Waterville Waterville Hebron Lawrence Hebron 28 -- 37 49 — 15 27 -- 30 18 -- 57 19 -- 39 33 -- 23 23 -- 35 34 --30 32 Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill �JAYVEE FOOTBALL ! ■' - i. it- Front row: Coach Dexter, Shep Williams, Dick Diadone, Jim Russell, Mac Palmer, Dave Sterling, Harry Mc­ Laughlin, Phil Watkins. Back row: Elliott Spears, Andy McConnell, Larry Bird, Dick Jordan, Ron Miller, Jerry Hinds, Paul Burke, Ernie Brown. Charlie King. Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill 0-45 6-18 7 - 6 0 - 6 Winthrop Winthrop Hebron Hebron Push ’em back, push ’em back. . . ■ �FIELD HOCKEY * -ft < •J From row: Mollie Nolen, Jane Aldrich, Sally Cartlidge, Nancy Russell, Jean Bannarn, Sancy Buxton. Back row: Miss Butler, Nancy Bowlby, Sheila Mahoney, Elissa von Letkemann, Jane Smith, Brenda Boutilier, Miss Mitchell. Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill 0-2 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 1 3-0 1 - 2 0-4 Little Bo-Peeps -- with a difference... 34 Cony Wilton M. C. I. Farmington M. C. I. F armington Cony �-■ ■'V 2> / Sy 'S* \ /; j ••■ Jj ; Xy / 1w u-2» zy .! . . -, ■■ 'I I * 1 £: 7 1 ’■ ' V' V ■>.. 1 ■: ’/ .! • tg$s« �J I am writing this, in study hall, so you will have to excuse the pencil, my pen is out of ink; Mr. Dexter is looking, souspiciously at me, but I don't think, he'll mind besides this is Friday. I have to Wait on this noon, I promised Zeta I would a e er place, she is at Mr. Meyers table, that is good, he is very nice: and always talks alot at dinner, not silent like some of the teachers ! I have ment or some time now to tell you, about how the winter has been, here. Ordinary amt. of snow, I guess, quite a lot of it. The wind is terrific all the time. I have T ’ tbe sch°ol has a hill, of there own. We skied at Farmington l ° ° allmost broke her neck! Betsy Tamarous was very good, and s e skis like the wind. Sancy Buxton is also extreamly good! Meantime, the boys i, too: they had a meet a few weeks ago at Winter Carnival. We lost but it was c ose, an o n Nichols hurt his ankel badly! But Eddie Dodge jumped over the jump an set a Record. I went to the dance, since I wrote you, the last time; it as ureing e Winter Carnival, and, boy it was very pretty. Mr. and Mrs. Galv gan +^ere in Charge and made hundreds of little snowflacks, out of paper, and ng t em on strings, in the gimnasium, it was beautiful. I danced all night long, iit^rh SUC r11’ was sore the next day where I fell on it dureing a kino nUmi,er'j °iiy Pettingill was our queen, and Mike Seemore was the v •’ +Vkery; a,n s°mecouPle you bet. Miss Russell helped me, with my dress, 7 . 1S ® ay eac er’ and that reminds me, we had more. There was one with nast + anCy’ and Pat Nobis, and Joan Pomeroy, she is Southern, from down one wkT somewheres- It was very sad: I cried a little ! But not for the other wore a htar-iTV U^ny’ witb Paul Gray, and Ron Miller, and Tore Miller, who most foront ^n° r®iat.i°n! Charley Gaunce was also a cop in it too. I altown anrF+h’ k • & ore Chris tmas, that was long ago, we went caroling around ful a ftArt j6 C O1^ S?ng in the church, with candles all over, it made a beautitenur w'r a am .Slnglng with the chorous now, I sing sort of between alto and Mrs Stuart slnS1J1g I talk to the Trees and Once in Love with Amy. Mr. and Armv ii + >.aSe t a Ieave to go into the Army, that is he went into the And the nth^ I/LaS gettin8 to teach Mrs- Chase about speach and things, want t ±^°rS;? aSe ha? "we Baby ’ a gir1’ gosh is she Oh> yes’ 1 don,t shoes' TkJ* 6 you’ had another banquet: I had trouble with my the heel« i/+WTere really mine, they were Julie's, and I borrowed them, for nv noem/ k .C,?U 4.n bardly wa-lk-in them. Mr. Currier told, some very funbov? nr a ,,e.eacbers’ especially about Mr. Chase, was it going to be a won the r gir/' Wa^ before was anything. Also, about Mr. Dexter. Zeta bov dUR-ifi°nthe girlS fowl-shooting contest, and Fred Stone won it for the won all the^r1 Dun? wo?.the trofy; for being good at hockey, and Eddie Dndge tion hut T Prizes or skling say he can really go! Then we had a long vacaaeain Sa^ tbat» didn't I. Well, that's all for now, and I will write lish a aili aw. 1 e- I am having a wonderful time and especially I like Engnaraaranhc6 Ponctuation; it's more fun, and next week, we begin about thinac ° j’ ^ever even asked, about the farm, well I must have other g on my mind, and say, hello to everyone for me. Your friend, 36 �Left: Coffin, Worthen, Pomeroy at the Ski Tow. Center: Carnival Court at the Snow Ball: Eddie Dodge, Harry Knight, PeterHay, Fred Stone, MikeSeymour, Polly Pettingill, Marjorie Steeves, Faith Peterson, Sancy Buxton, Nancy Russell. Right: Their Highnesses. i % ■ Left: Ed Dodge receives the MikeUrsinSkiTrophy. Center: Father and son beam as Bill, Jr. receives the 1954 Hockey Award. Right: Fred Stone smiles cautiously as he reaches for the Huse Four-Shooting Award. & ; < St - Left: f “ ‘ /... and JCousens sniff the wind. Center: Hoopsters' powwow. Skiers Gaunce, Sween, Harriman, Knight, Taylor, Right: Bill Dunn, Williams, McGrath and Pearsons demonstrate how to keep cool. 37 �HOCKEY SSafeS L X ■ - Front row: Nate Nickerson, Jack Morse, Bill Dunn, Elliot Spears, Roy Waitt. Second row: Shep Williams, Bob Dole, Paul Ryan, Charles King, Pierre Quirin. Third row: Mr. Dunn, Gary Andrews, Paul Burke, Cal Me-'-t, Ernest Brown, Eddie Murrell, Mr. Currier. Jl> They've got the game on ice, so to speak... �OUTING CLUB i, i H r r x I r t r t t L K £ i: L I c t £ t S L First row: Mollie Nolen, Nancy Bowlby, Peter Calzolari, Paul Gray, Pete Hay, Jim Cousens, Elissa von Letkemann. Sue Randall. Second row; Bobbie Harrington, Nancy Gamage, Kay Reed, Mary Pettingill, Betsy Thamarus, Chris Godsey, Polly Pettingill, Dottie Philipp, Julie Coffin, Jane Smith, Sancy Buxton. Third row: Zeta Levine, Patty Peters, Diana Libbey, Caroline Dunn, Betsy Roberts, Marcia Birkenwald, Helen O'Neill, Janet Levine, Jill Kellogg, Jean Sims, Patsy Joe Stephens. Fourth row: Lunnie Clark, Jim Russell, Larry Davee, Hutch Bearce, Bob Sween, Mac Palmer, Dave Rourke, Dick Larsen. OUTING CLUB OFFICERS President. . . .Pete Hay Vice-Pres. . . .Paul Gray Secretary. . . .Jim Cousens Treasurer. . . .Peter Calzolari 39 �BOYS’ SKIING auZiasEats .75 agsaB '' ,..U h 1 SI i SI fFront row: Donald Stevenson, Jerry Cadarett, Don Taylor, Charles Gaunce, Harry Smyth, Link Turner. Second row; Coach Dunklee, Danny Harriman, John Nichols, Bill Johansen, Eddie Dodge, Jon Luce, Coach Chase. Third row; Bob Sween, Dick Larsen, Dick Friberg, Dick Jordan, Harry Knight. At Kents Hill Rumford: 390.9—Kents Hill: 380.0 Kents Hill Winter Carnival Hebron: 390.9--Kents Hill: 369-9 Hebron Winter Carnival Hebron: 388.7 --No. Conway: 368.3 Kents Hill: 340.5--Colby Frosh: 236.3 At North Conway No. Conway: 387.0--Hebron: 365.5-Kents Hill: 342.4 40 �GDKLS’ SKIING 1 J VJ3S3BC1 ‘jkiUO Front row: Sancy Buxton, Nancy Harriman, Betsy Thamarus, Jill Kellogg, Patti Peters. Second row: Coach Chase, Polly Worthen, Chig Dolloff, Elissa Von Letkemann, Miss Butler. Farmington: 197.6 Kents Hill: 164.9 Kents Hill: 181.6 Edward Little: Wayneflete: 173.0 171.5 * Farmington: 198.2 Kents Hill: 155.9 r/3 �KENTS HILL CHORUS SOPRANOS S. Belton C. Caouette S. Cartlidge N. Chase I. Fogg N. Giles B. Gordon N. Harriman H. Hock ALTOS M. Birkenwald J. Coffin M. Cunningham D. Libbey J. McGowan F. Peterson D. Philipp C. Pinkham L. Pinkham P. Pinkham SOPRANOS J. Kellogg R. Nason H. O'Neill C. Posik S. Randall B. Roberts N. Russell P. J. Stephens TENORS & BASSES H. Bearce N. Bowlby L. Davee P. Gray P. Hay L. Hussey W. Lane R. Larsen M. Nolen J. Russell R. Sween Accompanists: S. Belton, J. McGowan Director: Mr. Tillotson APPEARANCES ON THE PROGRAM "Once in Love with Amy" "The Night Before Christmas" "The Happy Wanderer" "A Spirit-Flower" "Waters Ripple and Flow" "I Talk to the Trees" "He's Watching Over All the World" "All on the April Evening" etc. Rotary Club, Winthrop Candlelight Carol Service, Kents Hill Grange, Readfield II "Keep Maine Green," Kents Hill College Club, Augusta Choral Concert, Kents Hill Baccalaureate Service 42 �THE KENTS HILL YEARBOOK KENTS HILL, MAINE 1955 Editor-in-Chief: JEAN BANNARN Assistant Editor: CHIG DOLLOFF MR. TILLOTSON ART Elissa von Letkemann, Editor Sancy Buxton Mollie Nolen SPORTS Pete Hay, Editor Paul Burke EDITORIAL Nancy Mahoney Betsy Roberts Janet Levine Helen O'Neill Eddie Dodge PHOTOGRAPHY Hutch Bearce, Editor Patsy Joe Stephens LITERARY Paul Gray, Editor Pat Nobis BUSINESS Jim Russell, Editor Zeta Levine Clockwise from bottom: Jim Russell, Zeta Levine, Helen O'Neill, Eddie Dodge, Betsy Roberts, Mr. Tillotson, Elissa von Letkemann, Janet Levine, Paul Gray, Pat Nobis, Patsy Joe Stephens, Chig Dolloff, Hutch Bearce, Pete Hay, Jean Bannarn, Nancy Mahoney. I I •j �GIRLS’ BASKETBALL __ r tj.o a c? a ~ a o o rz.o zj o s w j !*** I ’I 0 . £J a a >□ ,CJ Front row: Betsy Roberts, Sally Cartlidge, Chris Godsey, Marcia Cunningham. Second row: 1,Miss Mitchell, Mrs. Chase, Jane Smith, Zeta Levine. Not pictured: Holly Hock, Ann Walbridge, Nancy Haight. 1 I Xs?' Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill 50 - 25 8-44 30 - 43 44 - 56 36 - 58 39 - 54 26 - 43 31 - 57 31 - 58 22 - 58 Bridge Jay M. C. I. Cony Farmington Wilton M. C. I. Winthrop Cony Jay The stockholders express their approval. �BOYS’ BASKETBALL r r. i SSfe'll ' 1 j 2 i ri i i i i i i i i i i I ji r i H l Kneeling: Fred Stone, Arad Philpott, Bill Heselton, Wayne Fish, Charles Hazzard. Standing: Coach Meyers, Dave Collins, John Rogers, Hutch Bearce, Hank.Qualters, George Withee, Lunnie Clark, Mgr. Kents Hill 62 - 108 M. C. I. Kents Hill 67 - 62 Hebron Kents Hill 107 - 63 Frybeburg Kents Hill 65 - 50 St. Dom's Kents Hill 68 - 63 Coburn Kents Hill 87 - 100 Higgins Kents Hill 71 - 40 Bridgton Kents Hill 69 - 62 Bates J. V. Kents Hill 54 - 66 Coburn Kents Hill 87 - 109 M. C. I. Kents Hill 103 - 60 Bridgton Kents Hill 62 - 85 Kimball Union Kents Hill 106 - 74 Brewster Hazzard hits the bucket �KENTS HILL BREEZE □ diKMiSK Clockwise from bottom: Helen O'Neill, Janet Levine, Pat Nobis, Faith Peterson, Cig Dolloff, Polly Pettingill, Mollie Nolen, Mrs. Thamarus, Paul Gray, Mrs. Russell, Elissa von Letkemann, Patty Peters, Hutch Bearce, Sancy Buxton, Jean Bannarn, Betsy Roberts, Link Turner. Editor: Assistant Editor: Art Editor: News Editor: Sports Editor: Production Manager: Faculty Advisors: (Midi Mollie Nolen Paul Gray Elissa von Letkemann Royal Waitt Patty Peters Mrs. Russell Mrs. Thamarus CHIEF CONTRIBUTORS Jean Bannarn Hutch Bearce Sancy Buxton Chig Dolloff Helen O'Neill Faith Peterson Mary Pettingill Joan Pomeroy Betsy Thamarus Link Turner freeze .1 1 wm:* 17. i ku, o o 0 P 7 1 i H»n *80 <•«..«« - w«. 1 Kt*" Hm il!5 < 46 �CRAFTS AND SHOP The crafts classes and activities groups did their bit for the Christ­ mas celebration this year in producing a ceramic creche, adapting a Euro­ pean tradition and a centuries-old art technique to a New England setting. About twenty figures composed this Nativity scene: shepherds, Wise Men, Mary, Joseph, the Infant Je sus, the angels, plus the attendant animals -- camels and sheep and donkeys and chicken. The creche was placed on display in the ceramics room, appropriately housed in a stall-like box lined with straw, and many admiring visitors were attracted by the novelty and the excellence of the project. Elsewhere in the crafts room, the leather-pounders continued their Anvil Chorus all year long, and the looms were busier than ever. Even Miss Choate herself succombed to the lure of the warp and woof and turn­ ed out tweed material for a suit. Meanwhile, belowstairs, Mr. Bowden and his crew had a sizable pro­ ject under way: the construction of the Kents Hill First Fleet which, it was hoped, would invade Lovejoy Pond in the spring, converting it into a minor "mare nostrum." Below, master-builders Cadaret, Harmon, Rourke, Bowden (father and son), Harriman and Dunn are shown hard at work in the shipyards. J' i �JAYVEE BASKETBALL IIIHIIIIIIIIU .1 ir- * j 13 ' ■ 7 U' I » >■ I V. 18 IS tiM 1 AI ■ki .<1 10 r ut' t r: i La Kneeling: Mike Caouette, DickDiadone, Bill Cummings, Dave Sterling, Mac Palmer. Standing: Coach Dexter, Lindley Hussey, Ron Miller, Andy McConnell, John Mahoney, Henry McLaughlin, Roy Marshall, Mgr. - ’ ' ' -.'“Sv:-. • - ifliiiiaiaiiiHiiiBUiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiOQnfiiiiiiiNBatEiaflunucLiBtuufi friri.;iP—T.crs-tjciz----------------------------------------------------- -—“------------- e 12-LD LJjfiKZZI ^7^ L.IX.3 ST - .fcEZV a Eli ,fc5t3 lT—5t? <30 0; \ iftt (£723’1 LSI Kneeling: Marcia Birkenwald, Christine Caouette, Janet Lermond, Carol Posik, Mary Hewett. Standing: Miss Mitchell, HelenO'Neill, Joan Kisonak, Caroline Dunn, Janet Levine, Janet McGowan, Nancy Russell, Lucy Pinkham, Mrs. Chase. Kents Hill Kents Hill Boys’ JV Basketball Kents Hill 52 - 24 Bridge Academy Kents Hill 40 - 58 MCI Undergrads Kents Hill 45 - 46 Winthrop Kents Hill 43 - 56 Hebron Kents Hill 38 - 34 Waterville Kents Hill 62 - 45 Winthrop Kpnts Hill 21 - 46 Waterville Kents Hill 41 - 25 Jay YMCA Kents Hill 32 - 37 Jay YMCA Kents Hill 48 - 64 Hebron 39 - 57 36 - 41 M.C.I. Jay YMCA Girls’ JV Basketball Kents Hill 14 - 15 Jay Kents Hill 30 - 43 M.C.I. Kents Hill 33 - 35 Winthrop Kents Hill 4-40 Cony Kents Hill 17 - 15 Farmington Kents Hill 14 - 16 Wilton 6-25 Cony Kents Hill 48 �A\s 0 ,-V- ■A ■f *. i A '' SJ 'til . Ml 1* 1-I i I s. •« L >1 \« 1 'i |! i h ft J J If hll I I 1 I I �QUIETEST Neva Owen, Harrison Smyth She: Mumblemumblemumble. He: Me too. BEST-LOOKING Polly Pettingill, John McGrath He: May Isay that you, ah, are a terrible typist, but, ah, an excellent secretary? She: Oh, Mr. McGrath, tell me morel SUPERLATIVES - CLASS CLOWNS Bert Peary, Mollie Nolen He: What's the difference between a duck? She: It's better with your shoes off! MOST SINCERE Jean Bannarn, Jim Russell She: Are you frank and earnest? He: I ain't Sears and Roebuck! �i Sssif -5’ p, 7 t,-'" i ’ill. MOST FRIENDLY Mike Seymour, Zeta Levine He: Whose little buddy-buddy are you? She: Everybuddy'sl a al r 5' MOST CONSIDERATE Mollie Nolen, Jim Russell She: I wish to express to you my heartfelt grat­ itude for yout assistance. He: Shake a leg, honey, you're letting the flies ini MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Sancy Buxton, Fred Stone She: Well, we finally got the job, didn’t we? He: Yep — it's a good thing you thought of telling them we'd supply our own brooms I SUPERLATIVES - BEST DANCERS Bobbie Harrington, Dave Collins He: May I have this hokey-pokey? She: Please, I'm ticklish! iW 'HE Bag ®'X"\ B [ I t-'f-“— i- �I MOST INTELLIGENT Stan Block, Sancy Buxton He: There must be something in xanthium besides xanthinin and xanthatin, don't you think? She: Indubitably. BEST-GROOMED Eddie Dodge, Polly Pettingill She; I was reading an article in Mademoiselle today and — He: Just a little more to the left, please. SUPERLATIVES - MOST ARTISTIC Dick White, Faith Peterson She: Wouldn't it be exciting to watch Van Gogh paint? He: It'd be more exciting to watch Van go jump in the lake. MOST ATHLETIC Fred Stone, Chig Dolloff He; Okay, Pitch, let's have it right over the old plate 1 She: I beg your pardon, these are my own teeth. �I a BEST ALL-ROUND Fred Stone, Sancy Buxton He: Polo-work-out lasted so long last night that I didn't have time to practice the harp before the Chess Club meet­ ing. She: You may be the best all-round, but you're a mess from the front! CLASS FLIRTS Faith Peterson, Bert Peary She: You're sweet, but let go of my chin! He: Aw, let me have it — you've got others. SUPERLATIVES - CLASS SWEETHEARTS Paul Gray, Pat Nobis She: I love you. He: Truly? She: Truly. He: Dear. nii i' �VARSITY SOFTBALL J Front row; Marcia Birkenwald, Manager, Nancy Haight, Jane Aldrich, Mollie Nolen, Mary Hewett. Second row: Sally Cartlidge, Nancy Bowlby (Captain), Jeanette McGowan, Jane Smith, Brenda Boutilier, Chris Godsey, Miss Mitchell. Kents Hill 8-22 Rumford Kents Hill 15 - 34 Cony Kents Hill 15 - 11 Farmington Kents Hill 19 - 20 M. C. I. Kents Hill 7-11 Wilton Kents Hill 5-19 Rumford Kents Hill 5-20 Farmington Kents Hill 4 - 54 8 Cony �VARSITY BASEBALL s Front row: Manager Roy Marschall, Eddie Dodge, Dick Diadone, Paul Ryan, Charlie Gaunce, Arad Philpott, Scooter Pearson, Jim Doonan. Second row: Coach Meyers, Fred Stone, John Rogers, Stan Block, Hank Quakers, Dave Collins, Ron Miller, Art Marceau, Pete Bridge, John Mahoney. Kents Hill 4 4 Fryeburg Kents Hill 0 6 M. C. I. Kents Hill 3 14 Colby Frosh Kents Hill 1 2 Dixfield Kents Hill 4 3 Bates J. V. Kents Hill 16 3 Higgins Kents Hill 3- 6 Hebron Kents Hill 9 5 Holderness Kents Hill 9 4 Bates J. V. Kents Hill 1-15 Bowdonn Frosh Kents Hill 1-3 Fryeburg 55 �VARSITY TENNIS A ■J if * ' MB / i / JS.—'' V Ml ■ ’ fW? -w _....................................... S.:7' - >=> 3 Front row: Bill Johansen, Jerry Hinds, Bert Peary. Second row: Harry Knight, Jeff Adams, Thor Miller, Bill Dunn, Bill Heselton. Kents Hill 4-1 St. Dorn’s Kents Hill 4-3 Hebron J. V. Kents Hill 2-7 Holderness Kents Hill 7-1 Portland Kents Hill 6-1 Brunswick Kents Hill 1-8 Colby Frosh Kents Hill 3-5 St. Dorn's Kents Hill 5-1 Fryeburg Kents Hill 7-0 Lewiston Kents Hill 4-3 Hebron J. V. Kents Hill 4-3 Fryeburg John Nichols steps up to the bar. 56 �TRACK IKH ' - 'if > ' X ? Front row: Dick Larsen, Wayne Harmon, Bill Cummings, John Nichols, Don Taylor, Link Turner, Shep Williams. Second row: Coach Chase, Manager Cal Mesler, Charles Black, John McGrath, Hutch Bearce, Pete Hay, Larry Davee, Coach Dunklee. Kents Hill — 28 1/2; Edward Little — 80 1/2; Gardiner — Kents Hill — 72; Lawrence Acad. -- 19; 8. Wiscasset —26. Kents Hill — 58 1/2; Lewiston — 58 1/2. Kents Hill — 53 1/2; Fryeburg — 63 1/2. Kents Hill — 84; Jay H. S. — 33. Kents Hill — 49 1/2; M. C. I. -- 67 1/2. Kents Hill — 58 1/2; Gardiner — 58 1/2. Kents Hill — 11/2; Hebron — 82; Fryeburg -- 33. Kents Hill — 58 1/3; Morse H. S. — 58 2/3. Kents Hill — 37; I Cony — 80. *• Turner and Taylor in a photo-finish mile at Cony. 57 R I • l;,. 4. , ' ' �JV BASEBALL - - GIRLS’ TENNOS TEAM I JUi SHl IV an rJ Front row: Lindley Hussey, Don Stevenson, Dave Sterling, Mac Palmer, Dale Totten, Eddie Murrell, Bob Dole. Second row: Roy Waitt, Nate Nicherson, Andy McConnell, Jim Baron, Paul Burke, Jim Russell, Pierre Quirin, Coach Dexter. Jean Sims, Julie Coffin, Sheila Mahoney, Carol Hodgkins, Elissa Von Letkemann, Zeta Levine, Chig Dolloff, Sancy Buxton, Coach Butler. V.'.V?AVVA’ VA <’.i.V.'A• " I 'AV •• • 1 i ■/. 1 'J&faM.- 58 �JV SOFTBALL - - ARCHERY • 4; V; wp ?■ * E’jF"' « wA'^ p<v> I l -.Mr A -s'' I -1 i » . ? k I t f* •'■ t ’ i )i 1 ’) Z// K) -(fe .1 / i rvrl I 7- ^77- Front row: Nancy Russell, Betsy Thamarus, Marjorie Steeves, Mary Pettingill, Cookie Cunningham (Captain), Jean Kisonak, Nancy Harriman. Second row: Dottie Philipp, Di Libbey, Carolyn Dunn, Polly Worthen, Sue Randall, Peggy Morris, Ann Walbridge, Coach Mitchell. Nancy Chase, Janet Lermond, Dorothy Peachey, Patty Peters, Coach Cullen, Nancy Gamage. 59 I �CLASS WILL We, the members of the Kents Hill Class of 1955, being in possession of the faculty and of a sound­ proof mine, hereby bequeath our chattels and property as follows: I, Jean Bannarn, leave my nicknames "Pansy" and "Bubbles" to Nate Nickerson. I, Hutch Bearce, leave my initials on the chapel ceiling. I, Marcia Birkenwald, leave my weekend permissions to John Rogers. I, Charlie Black, leave my blue eyes to Peggy Morris. I, Stan Block, leave my skill with figures to Harry Knight. I, Nancy Bowlby, leave my sports ability to Nancy Jones. I, Paul Burke, leave one step ahead of Brenda. I, Sancy Buxton, leave the slalom posts standing. I, Lunnie Clark, leave my ten-cent literature to the library. I, Dave Collins, leave one regiment to join another. I, Jimmy Cousens, leave my pink fedora to Mr. Galligan. I, Cookie Cunningham, leave for Star Island and Warren. I, Larry Davee, leave my vaudeville repertory to Elissa von Letkemann. We, Chig Dolloff and Dick Diadone, leave the back row of the Colonial Theater to the next Senior Class. I, Eddie Dodge, leave my ninety-foot jump to Mr. Van. I, Bob Dole, leave my picturesque expressions to Frank Allen. We, Jim Doonan and Bill Heselton, leave our igloo to some future Eskimo. 1, Charlie Doyle, leave my philosophy of life to J. Fred Webber. I, Bill Dunn, leave my tennis form to Wayne Fish. We, Lisa Fleischer and Polly Pettingill, leave our suntan lotion to Miss Taylor. I, Irene Fogg, leave my gentle nature to Holly Hock. We, Lillian Gilman and Dotty Sylvester, leave undecided. I, Paul Gray, leave coffee at Miss Choate's table. I, Bobbie Harrington, leave my blond streak to Nancy Chase. I, Charlie Hazzard, leave my driving ability to Sy Snell. I, Woody Lane, leave half my tires on the K. H. campus. I, Zeta Levine, leave a box of New Blue Cheer as a start toward the K. H. laundry. I, Diana Libbey, leave thirty pounds lighter. I, Nancy Mahoney, leave the wagon to Sheila. I, Art Marceau, leave a little food for the rest of the table. I, Cal Mesler, leave my short circuits to Roy Waitt. I, John McGrath, leave my sideburns to the Great White Father. I, Ronnie Miller, leave for Bangor in a hurry. I, Duke Miller, leave the alma mater eight to the bar. I, Phyllis Nason, leave the Crafts room to Polly Worthen. I, Pat Nobis, leave Kents Hill confused. I, Mollie Nolen, leave my broad-mindedness to Betsy Thamarus. I, Helen O'Neill, leave my high yodel to Frank Carleton. We, Neva Owen and Joan Goucher, leave as quietly as we came. I, Bert Peary, leave with one broken spring, no ignition switch, one dead battery, and no registration. I, Dotty Philipp, leave my way with the faculty to Paul Ryan. I, Faith Peterson, leave my New York veneer to Nancy Gamage. I, Patty Peters, leave my continual chatter to Harriet Whitcomb. I, Joan Pomeroy, leave my Hula license to Mr. Currier. I, Carol Posik, leave my datebook to Sally Cartlidge. I, Hank Quakers, leave my empty coke bottles for Miss Choate to smash. I, Pete Quirin, leave my stride to Mike Caouette. I, Betsy Roberts, leave Woody for the 26th time. I, David Rourke, leave the first sight of dawn to Shep Williams. I, Jim Russell, leave my moose to Jeff Adams. I, Mike Seymour, leave Miss Choate to Peter Calzolari. I, Harrison Smyth, leave in the middle of a game of Oh Hell. I, P. J. Stephens, leave the bell to Baron. I, Art Stutzman, leave my cannon to Mr. Tillotson. I, Fred Stone, leave my brownie points to Bill Johansen.I, Link Turner, leave my Jize four track shoes to Lin Hussey. I, Jean Wheeler, leave for the altar. I, Dick White, leave my clutch to anyone who finds it. I, George Withee, leave my dramatic ability to Marilyn Johnson. The Will Committee Mr. Tillotson, Advisor 60 1 �HONOR PARTS CUM LAUDE SOCIETY ft4’ -J Frances Buxton, Third Honors; Althea Dolloff, Valedic­ torian; Hutch Bearce, Fourth Honors; Faith Peterson, Fifth Honors; Dorothy Sylvester, Salutatorian. ■■■• .'J Hutch Bearce, Marcia Birkenwald, Faith Peterson, Sancy Buxton, Chig Dolloff, Zeta Levine, Fred Stone, Stanley Block. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS I. L £ I « V i .Lj_- J 'WBBBB Jfv ^A Edward Dodge, Presi­ dent; James Russell, Vice-President; Jean Bannarn, Secretary; Michael Seymour, Treasurer. r SB * J. I �Ci f ■ 4 I ;pFA > ft «• -B :» Cvr ';• -v r\ i h * ■ i m ■J?.. 1 L n i y '■) 7 ' i �AWARDS The Readers’ Digest Prize, given annually to the Valedictorian of the class: ALTHEA DOLLOFF. The Colonial Daughters Medal, for an outstanding patriotic essay: WINFIELD H. BEARCE, Jr. The Bausch & Lomb Award, for the highest average in three sciences: WIN­ FIELD H. BEARCE, Jr. The Rensselaer Prize, for an excellent record in science and mathematics: STANLEY BLOCK. The Faculty Prize, givenby the faculty to the girl who has kept the most order­ ly room during the year: MOLLIE NOLEN and HELEN O'NEILL. The Paul Prize, given in memory of Dr. Willard A. Paul and awarded to the boy who has kept the most orderly room during the year: ROYAL WAITT and HARRY KNIGHT. The Lois Masterman Dramatics Prize, presented by Miss Adelaide Hatch in memory of Lois Masterman, for excellence in dramatics: PAUL GRAY. The Kreger Prize, established in 1937 by Jennie Flood Kreger and awarded to the junior who is outstanding in character and scholarship and who plans to re­ turn to school for the senior year: SALLY CARTLIDGE. The 1913 Prize, given by the class of 1913 and awarded to that senior who has exercised the greatest influence for good during the year: MARCIA BIRKENWALD. The Rutgers Award, to the senior boy who is outstanding in citizenship, ath­ letics and scholarship: FREDRIC STONE. The Knowles Prize, given in memory of Mark T. Knowles and awarded to a senior for excellency in scholarship and other outstanding merit: FRANCES BUXTON. The Lois Masterman Award, presented by her parents in her memory, to that senior girl who in the opinion of her classmates and the faculty has most ex­ emplified the following philosophy of living which was Lois Masterman's motto her senior year at Kents Hill, 1954: "To be helpful to others and make some­ thing useful of my life": MOLLIE NOLEN. SPECIAL PRIZES For her willingness to help anywhere at anytime: PATSY JOE STEPHENS. For her excellent work in the crafts department: PHYLLIS NASON. For his help with the audio-visual work at the school: CALVIN MESLER. HIGHEST CLASS AVERAGES Eighth Grade: Freshman: Sophomore: Junior: Senior: Edward Murrell Joan Kisonak Elizabeth Thamarus Sally Cartlidge Dorothy Sylvester 63 I I �1 r- —------ - --- -------- —------ ------- * pww |t»- iff X Fi.'l m :1 1 ' ' I z F V -------- T ~ it •/ • e Ci G fa® 5 f. «: "hili ■! 4 'As I•- * f j - 'V* ’ •U i c < v‘ i : h fl I w li / r First row; C. Dunn, P. Worthen, C. Godsey, J. Kisonak, M. Sleeves, M. Hewett, M. Pinkham, M. Lucas, G. Gates, J. Gilman, N. Hanson, E. Piper. Second row; N. Harriman, B. Thamarus, A. Walbridge, J. Sims, M. Pettingill, J. Giles, M. Schmidt, L. Bean, E. Crowell, N. Russell, H. Hock, H. Wyman. Third row: E. Cheitman, H. Whitcomb, C. Caouette.C. Hodgkins, N. Giles, N. Gamage, J. Lermond, J. McGowan, B. Boutilier, M. Whitworth, J. Levine, S. Cartlidge, S. Mahoney. Fourth row: J. Briggs, H. Smith, L. Pinkham, M. Morris, J. Coffin, K. Reed, N. Haight, R. Smith, C. Pinkham, C. Sylvester, M. True. Fifth row: R. Nason, B. Gordon, E. von Letkemann, S. Randall, N. Chase, J. Kellogg, N. Jones, J. Aldrich, S. Belton, J. Smith, M. Johnson, M. Thomas, V. Wyman. & kI ' J * * I • •rJi R First row: J. Pinkham, R. Baron, J. Cadarett, D. Bowden, L. Jones, D. Totten, P. Wyman, D. True, R. Whitcomb, W. Harmon, R. McOuoid. Second row: J. Fogg, R. Larsen, F. Carleton, R. Friberg, C. Pearson, P. Hay, G. White, O. Piper, H. Knight, A. Philpott, N. Nickerson. Third row: D. Stevenson, E. Murrell, D. Sterling, A. McConnell, O. Cummings,}. Hinds, E. Speers,}. Nichols, W. Fish, J. Mahoney, J. Rogers, C. Gaunce. Fourth row: J. Palmer, J. Morse, P. Calzolari, R. Jordan, L. Hussey, S. Williams, R. Bishop, H. McLaughlin, D. Harriman, F. Webber, S. Kinley, W. Johansen. Fifth row: R.Sween.J. Adams, P. Ryan, R. Bean, N. Doore, R. Eaton, E. Brown, R. Waitt, E. Rolfe, R. Posik, R. Marschall, J. Luce. 64 �UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTORY Margaret Lucas, Readfield, Me. Jonathan Luce, Orchard Knoll, Farmington, Me. John Mahoney. 130 Lincoln St., North Easton, Mass. Sheila Mahoney, Readfield, Me. Roy Marschall, 21 Meridian Rd., Rowayton, Conn. Andrew McConnell, R.F.D. 1, Gray, Me. Jeanette McGowan, Box 85, Vassalboro, Me. Henry McLaughlin, Readfield Road, Winthrop, Me. Robert McQuoid, 91 Grove St., Bangor, Me. Margaret Morris, 47 State St., Groveton, N. H. John Morse, 75 West Cedar St., Boston, Mass. Edward Murrell, Fayette, Me. Ruth Nason, Kents Hill, Me. John Nichols, Jr., Readfield, Me. Nathan Nickerson, Jr., Main St., West Barnstable, Mass. James Palmer, Range Road, Cumberland Center, Me. Dorothy Peachey, Mount Vernon, Me. Charles Pearson, 556 Quinobequin Road, Waban, Mass. Mary Pettingill, Wayne, Me. Arad Philpott, Readfield, Me. John Pinkham, Readfield, Me. Carole Pinkham, Readfield, Me. Lucy Pinkham, Readfield, Me. Margaret Pinkham, Readfield, Me. Eleanor Piper, Readfield, Me. Ormand Piper, Readfield, Me. Verna Piper, Readfield, Me. Richard Posik, Fayette, Me. Susan Randall, 65 Oak St., Boothbay Harbor, Me. Kay Reed, 7 West Clayton St., Central Islip, N. Y. John Rogers, 84 Highland St., Portland. Me. Edward Rolfe, Readfield, Me. Nancy Russell, Kents Hill, Me. Paul Ryan, 23 Locksley Rd., Newton Center, Mass. Maxine Schmidt, Box 38, Fayette, Me. Jean Sims, 54 Nathanael Ave., Pawtucket, R. I. Helen Smith, R.F.D. 2, Winthrop, Me. Ruth Smith, R.F.D. 2, Winthrop, Me. Jane Smith, Lake St., New Vineyard, Me. Elliott Speers, 2 Fernway, Winchester, Mass. David Sterling, Box 44, Readfield, Me. Marjorie Steeves, 76 Bartlett St., Malden, Mass. Donald Stevenson, Kents Hill, Me. Robert Swansburg, 125 Court Rd., Winthrop, Mass. Robert Sween, Bass Hill, Wilton, Me. Carolyn Sylvester, R.F.D. 1, Winthrop, Me. Donald Taylor, Readfield, Me. Elizabeth Thamarus, Kents Hill, Me. Mary Alice Thomas, Wayne, Me. Dale Totten, Readfield, Me. David True, Wayne, Me. Margaret True, Wayne, Me. Elissa von Letkemann, 163 Burrill St., Swampscott, Mass. Royal Waitt, Wayne, Me. Ann Walbridge, 29 1/2 Union St., Boothbay Harbor, Me. Fred Webber, Mount Vernon, Me. Harriet Whitcomb, Readfield, Me. Ross Whitcomb, Readfield, Me. Gary White, Mount Vernon, Me. Mary Whitworth, 40 Garland St., Bangor, Me. Shepard Williams, 164 Lincoln St., North Easton, Mass. Polly-Ann Worthen, 309 Lake St., Arlington, Mass. Hazel Wyman, Mount Vernon, Me. Phillip Wyman, Mount Vernon, Me. Vivian Wyman, Mount Vernon, Me. Jeffrey Adams, 7 Depyster Avenue, Tenafly, N. J. Jane Aldrich, Box 502, Brunswick, Me. Gary Andrews, 162 Warren Ave., Quincy, Mass. Richard Baron, 37 Green St., Augusta, Me. Richard Bean, 42 West Broadway, Bangor, Me. Sandra Belton, 422 So. Fayette St., Beckley, W. V. Lawrence Bird, 123 Summer St., Rockland, Me. Robert Bishop, Box 72, Readfield, Me. Brenda Boutilier, Readfield, Me. Dennis Bowden, Readfield, Me. Constance Boyle, Fayette, Me. Peter Bridge, 69 Sewall St., Augusta, Me. Joyce Briggs, Readfield, Me. Ernest Brown, Jr., Wayne Me. James Cadarett, Readfield, Me. Peter Calzolari, 25 Roosevelt Ave., Waterville, Me. Christine Caouette, Readfield, Me. Michael Caouette, Readfield, Me. Frank Carleton, Aina, Me. Sally Cartlidge, Readfield, Me. Nancy Chase, Winter Harbor, Me. Edith-Ann Cheitman, Readfield, Me. Julia Coffin, Southwest Harbor, Me. Elizabeth Crowell, Readfield, Me. Orman Cummings, R.D. 2, Augusta, Me. Arthur Dodge, Wayne, Me. Nelson Doore, 7 Pleasant St., Foxboro, Mass. Caroline Dunn, Kents Hill, Me. Robert Eaton, Readfield, Me. Wayne Fish, Readfield, Me. James Fogg, Wayne, Me. Richard Friberg, 216 Cottage Road, So. Portland, Me. Nancy Gamage, South Bristol, Me. Gloria Gates, R.F.D. 2, Winthrop, Me. Charles Gaunce, 12 Dalton St., Waterville, Me. Jean Giles, Readfield, Me. Natalie Giles, Readfield, Me. Jean Gilman, Readfield, Me. Christine Godsey, Readfield, Me. Barbara Gordon, Kents Hill, Me. Nancy Haight, Steamboat Landing Rd., Southport, Me. Nancy Hanson, Box 654, Augusta, Me. Wayne Harman, Lovell, Me. Daniel Harriman, Readfield, Me. Nancy Harriman, Readfield, Me. Peter Hay, 795 Main St., Westbrook, Me. Thomas Hazzard, 61 Winter St., Gardiner, Me. Mary Hewett,.Fayette, Me. Jerome Hinds, Sheepscott, Me. Holly Hock, Readfield Depot, Me. Carol Hodgkins, Mount Vernon, Me. Lindley Hussey, 92 Harvard Ave., Brookline, Mass. William Johansen, 41 Salisbury St., Winchester, Mass. Marilyn Johnson, 107 Addison Drive, Dewitt, N. Y. Lloyd Jones, Mount Vernon. Me. Nancy Jones, 17 Allen St., Hanover, N. H. Richard Jordon, 114 Clifford St., So. Portland, Me. Gillian Kellogg, High Mowing, New Ipswich, N. H. Charles King, Wayne, Me. Stewart Kinley, Mount Vernon, Me. Joan Kisonak, Ridge Road, Lisbon Falls. Me. Harry Knight, West Scarborough, Me. Richard Larson, 6 University Road, Cambridge, Mass. Janet Lermond, North Haven, Me. Janet Levine, Sidney Road, Waterville, Me. 65 �V if vL_d.lka.wtey My roommate is sitting on her bed, which is unmade, crying into her Klee­ nex. She says that a) that makes her feel better, and b) if she uses up all her Kleenex she won't have to take it home with her. We're all set to leave, just awaiting for our folks to arrive. I've just said goodby to Miss Choate, who says that I am without a doubt the most changed person here at school a) in charact­ er, b) in talking, c) and in looks. I hardly ever braid my hair anymore. Just when I am getting used to these civilized habits I am going to leave. You should be honored that I am spending these last few minutes writing you a summery of the spring term so that 1) you can see what it was like, 2) you can keep it and give it back to me so I'll remember too, 3) since I am likely to forget in time. These are the things I can remember from the spring: I. the last plays, called a) "The Neighbors" and b) "Suitable for Charity," with 1) Dotty Sylvester, 2) Lillian Gilman, 3) George Withee, 4) Joanne Goucher, and 5) lots of others; II. the track team—1) Don Taylor and Link Turner running, 2) John Nichols pole-vaulting, 3) Pete Hay shot-putting, 4) Hutch hurdling, and 5) Paul Grey keeping score; III. the picnics for a) sports and b) seniors and c) undergradu­ ates, and the IV. banquets at the Wooster House for both the a) boys and the b) girls. Lunnie Clark, they tell me, had such a big seegar that the teachers were a little worried for his health, and there was nearly a riott when the girls got back from their banquet and wanted to seethe movie, which the boys didn't want them to do. I remember also V. Bowlby at first bass and Mollie behind the plate and Mr. Dexter making himself unpopular calling the balls and the strikes; also VI. Pete Hay and Mr. Galligan at the last chapel, giving their best wishes to the seniors; also VII. all those a) chorus rehearsals that took presidents, as Mr. Dunn would always say, whatever that means, and all the b) will and professy committee meetings; and I remember VIII. that Mr. Currier was without one of his teeth, lower and IX. spring-cleaning, and cleaning up after it, what a mess; also X. Betsy Roberts who got very sunburned and XI. Fred Stone who got a scholarship and XII. the many June bugs that came into the dorm while we tried to study; and also the XIII. graduation ball, with its a) wonderful murales that Faith did, sort of Chinees and b) its wonderful orchestra that everybody liked; and of course XIV. the a) Baccalaureate and the b) Commencement and the 1) music and 2) prizes and the 3) caps and 4) gowns. There's a lot more, but I'm getting tired of these Roman numerals. We studied outlining last of all in English and I try to keep in practice. I'll see you all sometime soon. Probably I'll be on the farm this summer, but come next fall I'll be back here, you can bet. It's just great, it's a) one of the prettiest places and b) the kids and the c) teachers are swell and d) besides, look what it has did for me already! Goodby for now, your friend, &Lu. 66 i } ! �\\\ u U '. S’.. / -z l\ I /■ fl. . •I ■ h* J- ;; * i I >/! �FRIENDS OF KENTS HILL Eric G. A. Adde, Inc. 74 Exchange St., Portland, Me. Frank Allen, Genl. Merchandise Kents Hill, Maine Compliments of your Nearby A&P Super Market Art's Motor Mart Winthrop, Maine Bates Manufacturing Co. Augusta, Lewiston, Saco L. L. Bean, Inc. Hunting & Fishing Specialties Freeport, Maine A. H. Benoit & Co. Portland — Lewiston -- Brunswick Westbrook — Biddeford Apparel for all the family Bolton-Smart Co., Inc. 19-25 South Market St. Boston, Mass. C. B. Dolge Co. Howard Ragdale Waterville, Maine Loring, Short & Harman Monument Square Portland, Maine Compliments of Farmington Oil Co. Farmington, Maine Louis Levine& Sons, Cattle Dealer Waterville, Maine Phone TRinity 2-7152 Gee & Bee Sporting Goods 58 Court St., Auburn, Me. Gordon Motor Co. Readfield Depot, Me. Gordon Linen Supply Co. Cambridge, Mass. Hand-Skill Looms, Inc. 59 Social St. Woonsocket, R. I. Famous Nadeau Portable Looms Har-Co Sporting Goods Co. 141 Bangor St., Augusta, Me. Mr. Edwin N. Harriman Readfield, Maine Macomber, Farr & Whitten Insurance Augusta, Maine McNamara's Restaurant 46 Main St., Winthrop, Me. Mansur's Photographers -- Stationers Augusta, Maine I John C. Paige Co. Portland, Maine The Page Company 112 State St., Augusta, Me. Compliments of J. E. Palmer & Co. 543 Congress St. Portland, Me. Bonafide Mills Winthrop, Maine Howard H. Harriman Plumbing & Heating Winthrop, Maine M. F. Bragdon Paint Co. 47 Exchange St., Portland, Me. R. P. Hazzard Co. Augusta, Maine Bunker & Savage, Architects Augusta, Maine Compliments of L. D. Herring, M.D. Mrs. Agatha M. 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Rochon Co. 710 Casco Bank Building Portland, Maine Mr. Reginald Smith R.F.D. 2, Winthrop, Me. Wills Home Laundry Kents Hill, Maine Hope B. Wills Kinney Duplicator Co., Inc. Office Machines 159 State St., Bangor, Me. Willeys Mobilgas Station Washing & Lubrication 548 Shore Road Cape Elizabeth, Maine A. F. Knight 40 Depot St. Livermore Falls, Me. Winthrop Drug & News Winthrop, Maine For the Best in Ouality Kirschner's Leading Meat Products Augusta, Maine Knowlton & McLeary Co. 3-5 Church St. Farmington, Maine The Worster House Hallowell, Maine A. R. Wright, Co. 221 Forest Ave., Portland, Me. University Cap & Gown Co. 486 Andover St., Lawrence, Mass. The Kents Hill students and Senior Class take this opportunity to express their deep gratitude to the above Friends of Kents Hill, whose generous assistance made this yearbook possible. 68 �Kents Hill School CORPORATE NAME MAINE WESLEYAN SEMINARY AND COLLEGE Kents Hill, Maine VxJLJtTV_Q_- Q �ee z in ooseus �i ■ s n I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yearbooks Subject The topic of the resource Polaris 1943-2022 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yearbook 1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/1/34/Yearbook_KHS_1948.pdf cdb243c7eba1a6fcddab802e22d65fc7 PDF Text Text O « A Jb-Ja1 '' 4 * WS ■■ lJPR M. sa^-wI ■> 1 . ;k '•*&. x. • 1 < Az5’*' — :=!*<..; ‘ - ‘ ■’ - ■ •: -. *'! ll or i .\*.- ter r— i^' X o? fe 1»S ­$ . " ’ €$6k - _ _1 L ii ! ! .2__ ilrwlfiiif j& KENTS HILL 1948 �>t ��I! ■ I J? �u KENTS HILL SCHOOL 1948 KENTS HILL, Maine �KENTS HILL FACULTY Third Row: Second Row: First Row: Mr. Swett, Mr. Currier, Mr. Manchester Mr. Vellante, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Boerker, Mr. McCaffrey, Mr. Gordon Miss Fairbank, Miss Wiggins, Miss Capone, Mr. Dunn, Miss Russell, Mrs. Gordon, Miss Parker. Miss Choate �FACULTY 1947-1948 William Warren Dunn, A.B., A.M. President & Headmaster, Latin Wesleyan, Brown Secretarial Science Gwendolyn Rice Gordon, B.S. Nasson John Lee Gordon, B.S. Dean of Boys, Science University of Maine Malcolm Swett, A.B. Mathematics, Football Middlebury Hockey, Track Vivian F. Russell, A.B. Dean of Girls, English, Dramatics Colby Bowdoin Barnes, A.B. Mathematics Bowdoin Stenography, Director of William A. Vellante, B.S. Boston University Boys’ Athletics French, Spanish Sylvia B. Capone, A.B. Boston University English, Latin, Crafts Class Margaret L. Choate, A.B. Colby Anatomy, Physiology, Biology Virginia E. Parker, B.S. University of Director of Girls’ Athletics New Hampshire Social Science, Cross Country, William F. McCaffrey, B.S. Dartmouth Skiing, Track Piano Clarice Smith Virgil School of Music, N. Y. Voice and Choir Audrey Gray Am. Inst, of Normal Training Allan E. Bocrker, B.S. Science, Outing Club Dartmouth Allan P. Currier, A.B. Social Science, Football, Colby Hockey, Baseball Rebecca Fairbank, B.S. French, Girls’ Sports University of New Hampshire Leonard F. Manchester, B.B.A. Bookkeeping, Mathematics Boston University Dorothy Wiggins, A.B. Science, Mathematics, Girls’ Sports E. Carolina Teachers College �KENTS HILL SENIOR CLASS, 1948 John Boutilier, Richard Berry, Harry Thompson, Mallory Killam, Russell Shepherd, Fred Mansfield, Jr., Charles Cook, Charles Armstrong, Robert Rooney Jacqueline Cadaret, Anne Gleason, Barbara Wyman, Francina Hill, Crosby Keay, Third Row: Gardner Richardson, Merrill Bartlett, Turner Perkins, Donn Worth, James Sterling, •• ■ Anne Allen, Jean Wills, Jean Rolfe, Marilyn Owen Second Row: Noralee Hudson, Patricia Bailey, Lillian Thomas, Beverly Latham, Jean Penta, Joanne Drew, Margaret Wood, Constance Barr, Victoria Samaha, Patricia Wyatt, Virginia Truche, Eva Scott First Row: Barbara Brandt, Rosemary Fettinger, Sallie-Jane Hamilton, Marian Luce, Nancy Gardiner, Virginia Welch, Beverly Wight Fourth Row: �SENIOR CLASS YEARBOOK COMMITTEES Editorial Board Beverly Latham, Turner Perkins, Jean Rolfe Finance Committee Second Row: John Boutilier, Dwight Chapman First Row: Jean Wills, Russell Shepherd, Beverly Latham Photography Committee Victoria Somalia, Charles Armstrong, Anne Allen �Geographies Junior College Constance B. Barr— “Lumpy 71 West Central Street Natick, Massachusetts Junior College Valedictorian Entered from Natick High School, Natick, Massachusetts Activities: Spanish Club President, ’48; G.A.A. VicePresident, ’48; Minstrel Show, ’47; Country Fair Committee, ’46; Snowball Decorating Committee, ’47, ’48; Dramatics, ’47, ’48; Choir, ’47, ’48; Glee Club, ’47; Aviation Club; Cheer Leader, ’47, ’48; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Field Hockey, ’46, ’47; Skiing, ’47, ’48; Softball, ’47, ’48; Carnival Queen Attendant, ’48; Class Ode Committee, ’48; Class History Committee, ’48; Chairman and Toastmistress of Sports Banquet, ’47, ’48 Hobbies: Music, Swimming, Deep-sea Fishing, Boats, and Dramatics Ambitions: To become an Air Line Stewardess and to earn a pilot’s license Joan Lillian Drew—“Drewsie” Junior College 170 Broadway Arlington, Massachusetts Junior College Salutatorian Entered from Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts Activities: Varsity Hockey, ’46, ’47; Varsity Basketball, ’47, ’48; Softball, ’47; Glee Club, ’47; Min­ strel Show ’47; Orchestra, ’47; French Club, ’48; Arts and Crafts, ’48; International Re­ lations Club, ’48; Maroon and Gray, ’48; Honor Roll, ’48; Class Will Committee, ’48; Yearbook Softball Committee, ’48. Hobbies: Sports, Reading, Playing Clarinet and Saxaphone Ambitions: To be a lawyer or research biologist �Beverly Suzanne Latham—“Bev” Junior College 31 Brookside Drive Marblehead, Massachusetts Entered from Marblehead High School, Marble­ head, Massachusetts Activities: Ski Team, ’47, ’48; Ski Team Captain, ’47; Tennis, ’47; Softball, ’47; Field Hockey, ’48; Arts and Crafts, ’48; Aviation Club, ’48; Grange Night, ’47; Glee Club, ’47; Minstrel Show, ’47; Christmas Choir, ’48; Editorial Board Committee, ’48; Financial Committee, ’48; J. V. Field Hockey Committee, ’48; G. A. A., ’47, ’48 Hobbies: Skiing, Skating, Horseback-riding Ambitions: Secretary or Airline Stewardess n Jean Joan Penta—“Thunder-Foot” Junior College 2 Avon Street Stoneham, Massachusetts Entered from Stoneham High School, Stoneham, Massachusetts Activities: Cheering Squad Committee, ’48; Varsity Field Hockey, ’46, ’47; Varsity Basketball, ’47, ’48; Country Fair, ’46; Softball, ’47, ’48; Head Cheerleaders; Glee Club,’ 47; Aviation Club, ’47; Minstrel Show, ’47; G.A.A., ’47, ’48; Snow Ball Decorating Committee, *47, ’48; Class Prophecy, ’48 Hobbies: Music, Sports, Fishing, Dancing, Sleep­ ing, Riding, Swimming Ambitions: Medical secretary, To travel around the world. To teach Lumpy how to play cribbage �Victoria May Samaha—“Vicki” Junior College 40 Main Street Plymouth, New Hampshire Entered from Plymouth High School, Plymouth, New Hampshire Activities: Photography Committee, ’48; Skijng Com­ mittee, ’48; Captain of Varsity Basketball, ’46; Tennis Captain, ’47; Basketball, ’47; Softball, ’46, ’47; Tennis, ’46; Assistant Ski Coach, ’47, ’48 Hobbies: Skiing, Tennis Ambitions: Skiing Instructor Lillian Ann Thomas—“Tomi” Junior College Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Entered from Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Activities: Tennis, ’47, ’48; G. A. A., ’47, ’48; Field Hockey, ’46; J. V. Field Hockey, ’47; Skiing, ’47, ’48; Class Prophecy, ’48; J. V. Basket­ ball; Spanish Club, ’48; Country Fair Com­ mittee; Chairman for Refreshment Com­ mittee of Snowball Dance; Junior College Class Treasurer Hobbies: Dancing, Sports Ambitions: Laboratory Technician or Airline Hostess :1 ‘W’ <7 �Virginia Jeanne Truche—“Ginny” Junior College 18 Larchmont Road Salem, Massachusetts Entered from Mary A. Burnham School for Girls, Northampton, Massachusetts Activities: J. V. Hockey, ’46; J. V. Hockey Captain, ’47; Varsity Basketball, ’48; J. V. Basketball, ’47; G. A. A.; Tennis; J. V. Field Hockey Committee, ’48; Varsity Basketball Com­ mittee, ’48; Junior College Class Secretary Hobbies: Sailing Ambitions: Airline Stewardess Margaret Fuller Wood —“Woody Junior College 3119 Fair Oaks Avenue Tampa, Florida Entered from Rumson High School, Rumson, New Jersey Activities: Softball, ’47, ’48; Skiing, ’47, .’48; Hockey, ’47, ’48; Choir, ’47, ’48; Glee Club, ’47; Dra­ matics, ’47, ’48; Arts and Crafts, ’48; Honor Roll; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’43; Class Will Committee, ’48; Choir Committee. ’48; Jun­ ior College Class President, ’48 Hobbies: Swimming, Sailing Ambitions: Nursing, To find my one and only �Patricia Bell Wyatt—“Pat” Junior College 107 Lincoln Avenue Saugus, Massachusetts Entered from Saugus High School, Saugus, Mas­ sachusetts Activities: Varsity Field Hockey Substitute, ’46; Varsity Field Hockey, ’47; Skiing, ’47; Ski Team, ’48; G. A. A.; Arts and Crafts; Individual Sports, ’47; Class History Committee, ’48; Snowball Decorating Committee; French Club; Mid­ year Honor Roll, ’48; Junior College Class Vice-President Hobbies: Dancing, Piano Playing, Swimming, Skiing Ambitions: Social W orker Barbara Ann Wyman—“Barbie” Junior College Mount Vernon, Maine Entered from Mount Vernon Grammar School, Mount Vernon, Maine Activities: Commencement Award, ’46; Secretary to Alumni Secretary, ’47, ’48; Class History Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Typing, Reading Ambitions: Secretary �Annie Elizabeth Allen—“Anne” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Readfield Corner Grammar School, Readfield, Maine Activities: Photography Committee, ’48; Class History Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Sewing, Photography, Knitting, Boat­ ing, Driving Ambitions: To be a private secretary, To tour Canada Bradford Granville Ames—“B. G.” Preparatory School 92 High Ridge Road Worcester, Massachusetts Entered from Classical High School, Worcester, Massachusetts U. S. ARMY Activities: Dramatics, ’48; Class Will Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Art, Photography Ambitions: To attend University of New Hamp­ shire To be a business executive To stay out of the next war �Charles D. Armstrong—“Joe Prep” Preparatory School Underhill Center, Vermont Entered from Pebble Hill School, Syracuse, New York Activities: Football, ’45, ’46, ’47; Skiing, ’46, ’47, ’48; Outing Club, ’46, ’47; Choir, ’47; French Club, ’46, ’47, ’48; Dramatic Club, ’46, ’47; Boys’ Glee Club; Minstrel Show, ’47; Ma­ roon and Gray, ’48 Hobbies: Skiing, Loafing Ambitions: To become a big business man and a champion ski jumper Patricia E. Bailey—“Pat” Preparatory School 2230 Old Eastern Avenue Baltimore, Maryland Entered from Gunston School, Centerville, Mary­ land Activities: Varsity Hockey, ’45, ’46, ’47; Varsity Basket­ ball, ’46; Varsity Softball, ’46, ’47, ’48; Ski Team, ’48; French Club; International Re­ lation Club; Honor Roll, ’48; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Football Committee,’ ’48 Hobbies: Horses, Skiing Ambitions: To learn everything, do everything, go everywhere, and I’d like to have a horse, too w ’J Ife > \ �Merrill Day Bartlett—“Red” Preparatory School Belgrade Lakes, Maine Preparatory School Fourth Honors Entered from Belgrade High School, Belgrade, Maine Activities: Hockey, ’46, ’47, ’48; Baseball, ’47, ’48; Track, ’47; Dance Committee; Kreger Prize ’47; Class Ode, ’48; Baseball, ’47; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Cum Laude, ’48 Hobbies: Sports, Boating Ambitions: Engineer, To travel Barbara Carolyn Brandt—“Bobbie” Preparatory School East Waterboro, Maine Entered from Waterboro High School, Water­ boro, Maine Activities: Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Glee Club, ’47; Softball, ’47, ’48; Basketball, ’47, ’48; Field Hockey, ’46, ’47; Class Will Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Swimming, Bowling, Dancing Ambitions: Air Line Hostess and Secretary �I Richard Edwin Berry—“Rich” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Northeast High School, Lincoln, Nebraska Activities: Class Will Committee, ’48; Spanish Club Hobbies: Building model airplanes and tinkering on automobiles Ambitions: To learn to fly and become an air­ craft mechanic or technician John Patrick Boutilier— Preparatory School “Big John” “J. B.” “Boot” Readfield, Maine Entered from Livermore Falls Grammar School, Livermore Falls, Maine Activities: Football Squad, ’45; Football Team, ’46, ’47; Basketball Squad, ’45, ’47, ’48; J. V. Basket­ ball Captain, ’47; Baseball Squad, ’45, ’46; Baseball Team, ’47; Carnival King, ’48; Ma­ roon and Gray, ’48; Ticket Committee for Christmas Formal, ’47; Finance Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Sports, Food, Olympic Games Ambitions; Athletic Coach, Sports Broadcaster �“Jackie” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Readfield Corner Grammar School. Readfield, Maine Activities: Tennis, ’48; Basketball, ’48; J. V. Basketball Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Dancing, Swimming, Skiing, Skating, Driving Ambitions: Secretary or School Teacher Jacqueline Ann Cadarette Elzina May Cates—“Tillie” Preparatory School Kents Hill, Maine Entered from Readfield Corner Grammar School, Readfield, Maine Activities: Outing Club Committee, '48 Hobbies: Dancing, Ice Skating, Movies, Music Ambitions: Secretarial Work �Dwight Crosby Chapman—“Chappie” “Roy” Preparatory School 8 West Hill Place Boston, Massachusetts Entered from Ipswich Junior High School, Ips­ wich, Massachusetts Activities: Football, ’45, ’46, ’47; Skiing, ’45, ’46, ’47; Hockey, ’47; Baseball Manager, ’45; Finance Committee, ’48; International Relations Club; Dramatics, ’47; Class History Com­ mittee, ’48 Hobbies: Boats, Animals, Girls, Money Ambitions: Make lots of money, Leave a bus for Kents Hill, Get Married, Own a yacht Charles Sydney Cook"—Blower” Preparatory Schoo! 173 Berkeley Street West Newton 65, Massachusetts Entered from Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mas­ sachusetts Activities: Maroon and Gray, ’48; Varsity Football, ’48; J. V. Basketball, ’48; Maroon and Gray Com­ mittee, ’48 Ambitions: Wesleyan University Lev �Rosemary Fettinger—“Rosebud” Preparatory School 15 Winter, Street Saco, Maine Entered from Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine Activities: Varsity Field Hockey, *46, ’47; Ski Team, ’48; French Club, ’47, ’48; Carnival Queen, ’48; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; G. A. A. ’46, ’47, ’48; Field Hockey Committee, ’48 Ambition: To be a kindergarten teacher Robert Arthur Fisher—“Bob” Preparatory School 3 Beverly Place Fitchburg, Massachusetts Entered from Saugus High School, Saugus, Mas­ sachusetts U. S. ARMY Hobbies: Photography, Chemistry Ambition: College; to be a Bacteriologist �Nancy Ellen Gardiner"—Nan” “Nance” Preparatory School 50 Follen Street Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Entered from Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Massachusetts Activities: Choir, ’46, ’47, ’48; Glee Club, ’46, ’47; Ten­ nis, ’47, ’48; Skiing, ’46, ’47, ’48; J. V. Basket­ ball, ’48; Choir Committee, ’48; J. V. Foot­ ball Committee, ’4<8 Hobbies: Playing the piano; Ping-pong, Helping others Ambitions: To be a concert pianist and a parttime commercial secretary, Housewife Anne Gleason—“Andi” Preparatory School 13 Pine Street Winchester, Massachusetts Entered from Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine Activities: G. A. A.; Class History Committee, ’48; Colonial Dames Award; Field Hockey, ’40, ’47; Basketball, ’47, ’48; Archery, ’47; Tennis, ’47, ’48; Arts and Crafts; French Club; In­ ternational Relations Club; Country Fair Committee, ’48; Honor Roll Hobbies: Art, Riding Ambitions: Social Worker �Sallie Jane Hamilton—“Hammie” “Skipper” Preparatory School 35 Temple Street Boston 14, Massachusetts Entered from Natick High School, Natick, Mas­ sachusetts Activities: Varsity Field Hockey, ’46, ’47, ’48; Varsity Basketball, ’46, ’47; Varsity Softball, ’46, ’47, ’48; Commencement Music Award, ’47; Fac­ ulty Prize, ’47; Dramatic Club, ’46, ’47; Glee Club, ’46, ’47; Choir, ’46, ’47; Arts and Crafts, ’48; Square Dancing, ’46; Cheer Leader, ’47, ’48; Cheer Leader Committee, ’48; Girls’ Basketball Committee, ’48; Class Prophecy Committee, ’48; School Song Award, ’47 Hobbies: Collecting post marks, poems, dog and boat pictures Ambitions: To be a concert singer; To raise dogs Francina Blackwell Hill—“Fran” Preparatory School 14 Hamilton Avenue Hopewell, New Jersey Entered from Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey Activities: Field Hockey Team, ’46, ’47, ’48; Ski Team, ’47, ’48; Spanish Club, ’48; French Club, ’46; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Girls* Skiing Committee, ’48; International Relations Club Hobbies: Swimming and skiing Ambitions: To be a ski instructor, To model �Noralee Hudson—“Lolly” “Lee” Preparatory School 5950 Yorkshire Road Detroit, Michigan Entered from Denby High School, Detroit, Mich­ igan Activities: Tennis, ’47, ’48; Skiing, ’47, ’48; Field Hock­ ey, ’46, ’47; G.A.A., ’47, ’48; Choir, ’47, ’48; Glee Club, ’47; Music Award, ’47; Grange Night, ’47, ’48; Dramatic Club, ’47; Choir Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Music, Photography Ambitions: Light Opera Alfred Martin Johnson—“Skip” Preparatory School Winthrop, Maine Entered from Revere High School, Revere, Mas­ sachusetts Activities: Spanish Club, ’48; Class Prophecy Com­ mittee, ’48 Hobbies: Hunting, Coin Collecting Ambitions: Forester or Game Warden �Crosby George Keay—“Bing” Preparatory School Albion, Maine Entered from Lawrence High School, Fairfield. Maine U. S. M. C. Activities • Basketball, ’47; Baseball, ’47; Class Will Committee, ’48; Baseball Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Sports, Hunting, Fishing, Swimming Ambitions: A successful merchant Mallory Loomis Killam—“Mai” Preparatory School Killshire Farm Wallingford, Connecticut Entered from The Loomis School, Windsor, Con­ necticut Activities: Varsity Football, ’47; Varsity Hockey, ’46, ’47; J. V. Baseball, ’47; Choir, ’46, ’47; Glee Club, ’46, ’47; Varsity Football Manager, ’48; Varsity Hockey, ’48; Varsity Baseball, ’48 Ambitions: To travel, To meet people, To repre­ sent a hotel or a concern from this country in some other country �Marian Evelyn Luce—“Mickey” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Readfield Depot Grammar School, Readfield, Maine Activities: Softball, ’45; Archery, ’45; Tennis, ’46; Class History Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Photography, Skating, Sewing Ambitions: Bank clerk or accountant Frederic Elmer Mansfield, Jr.—“Fred” Preparatory School Kents Hill, Maine Preparatory School Salutatorian Entered from Hamden Hall Country Day School, Hamden 14, Connecticut Activities: Cross Country Captain, ’48; Skiing, ’48; Track, ’48; Class Prophecy Committee, ’48; Cross Country Committee, ’48; High Honors; Midyear Honor Roll; Cum Laude, ’48 Hobbies: Reading, Hiking, Swimming Ambitions: Undecided �Marilyn Owen—“Jimmie” Preparatory School Kents Hill, Maine Entered from Readfield Depot Grammar School Readfield, Maine Activities: Varsity Softball, ’45, ’46, ’47, ’48; Varsity Field Hockey, ’46, ’47; Varsity Basketball, ’48; Varsity Field Hockey Captain, ’47; Class Prophecy Committee, ’48; Yearbook Softball Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Sports, Swimming, Riding, Collecting dog statues and pictures Ambitions: To become a physical education teacher ch Roger Turner Perkins—“Pinhead” “T. P.” Preparatory School 27 Deerwood Avenue Milford, Connecticut Entered from Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts Activities: Outing Club, ’45; Hockey, ’45, ’46, 47, ’48; Football, ’46, ’47; Baseball, ’46, ’47, ’48; Lump Lump Play; Editorial Board for Year­ book; Hockey Committee, *48 Hobbies: Electricity, Listening to the radio, Sports Ambitions: To travel around the world, Own a business of my own �Howard Gardner Richardson—“Richie” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Glen Allen High School, Glen Allen, Virginia Activities: J. V. Basketball, ’46, ’47; Varsity Baseball, ’47; Tennis Committee, ’48; Boys’ J. V. Basketball Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Hunting Ambitions: Architect., Mechanical Engineer Jean Rolfe—“Jeat” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Readfield Corner Grammar School, Readfield, Maine Activities: Tennis, ’48; J. V. Basketball, ’48; Softball, ’48; Choir, ’48; Editorial Board for Year­ book; J. V. Basketball Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Music Ambitions: Secretary, preferably medical �Robert John Rooney Preparatory School 91 C^ss Street Providence, Rhode Island Entered from Classical High School, Providence, Rhode Island Activities: Football, ’47, ’48; Hockey, ’47, ’48; Track, 46’, ’47,. ’48; Skiing, ’46; Dramatics, ’47; Choir, ’47; Boys’ Glee Club, ’47; French Club; Minstrel Show, ’47; Preparatory School Class Vice-President Hobbies: Hunting, Fishing Ambitions: To become a big businessman Eva Hannah Scott—“Evusia” Preparatory School Palo Seco, Trinidad, B. W. I. Entered from St. Joseph’s Convent, San Fer­ nando, Trinidad Activities: Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Basketball Team, ’47; Skiing Team, ’46; Tennis, ’46, ’47, ’48; Varsity Hockey.Team, ’45, ’46, ’47; Secre­ tary of G. A. A., ’47, ’48; International Re­ lations Club; Class Will Committee, ’48; Boys’ Skiing Committee, ’48; Outing Club Committee, ’48; Preparatory School Class Secretary Hobbies: Diving and swimming Ambitions: Airline Hostess and to be able to drive a car �Russell Bliss Shepherd—“Russ” Preparatory School East Main Street Westboro, Massachusetts Entered from Westboro High School, Westboro, Massachusetts Activities: Basketball, ’48; Finance Committee, ’48 Hobbies: Collecting ties Ambitions: Engineer James Victor Sterling, Jr.—“Jim” Preparatory School 24 Myopia Road Wollaston, Massachusetts Entered from Quincy High School, Quincy, Mas­ sachusetts Activities J. V. Football Captain, ’46; Ski Team Co­ Captain, ’47; Track Squad, ’47; Maroon and Gray, ’47, ’48; Varsity Football, '47; Ski Team, ’48; Skiing Committee, ’48; Maroon and Gray Committee, ’48; Christmas Dance Committee, ’47 Hobbies: Sports, Reading Ambitions: Marine Engineer �I Harry Perkins Thompson — “Gopher” “Supermouse” “Harry, The Cat” 29 Codman Street Portland, Maine Entered from Deering High School, Portland, Maine Activities: French Club, ’47, *48; Football, ’44; Basket­ ball, ’45, ’46, ’47, ’48; Baseball, ’46; Track, ’47, ’48; Cross Country, ’47, ’48; Aviation Club, ’48; Basketball Committee, ’48; Tennis Committee, ’48; Track Committee, ’48; Pre­ paratory School Class Treasurer Hobbies: Basketball, Movies, Sleeping, Fishing, Hunting, Swimming Ambitions: College, Wholesale Lumber 4 Virginia Maxine Welch—“Ginger” Preparatory School Readfield, Maine Entered from Readfield Depot Grammar School, Readficld, Maine Activities: Softball, ’46; Senior Class History Com­ mittee Hobbies: Bicycling, Movies Ambitions: To be a taxi driver or a typist �Beverly Lois Wight—“Bev” Preparatory School Mount Vernon, Maine Preparatory School Third Honors Entered from Seavey Corner Grammar School, Vienna, Maine Activities: Senior Class History Committee, ’48; Cum Laude Hobbies: Sewing, Reading, Drawing, Piano playing Ambitions: To be a teacher Jean Content Wills—“Jeannie” Preparatory School Kents Hill, Maine Preparatory School Valedictorian Entered from Readfield Comer Grammar School, Readfield, Maine Activities: Freshman Honors, ’45; Sophomore Honors, ’46,; Junior Honors ’47; Yearbook Finance Committee, ’48; Senior Class History Com­ mittee, *48 Hobbies: Movies, Crocheting, Cooking, Corres­ pondence, Card Games, Flower Gardening Ambitions: None in particular at present except to be successful in anything I attempt in the future �Donn Hamilton Worth—“Hi-Donn” Preparatory School 17 Lincoln Street Hingham, Massachusetts Entered from Governor Dummer Academy, South Byfield, Massachusetts Activities: Hockey, ’46, ’47, ’48; Baseball squad, ’46, ’47; Track Team, ’47, ’48; Senior Class Presi­ dent, ’48; Christmas Dance Committee, ’45, ’46, ’47; Glee Club, ’46; Maroon and Gray Key Society, ’47, ’48; Smoker Committee, ’46; Yearbook Track Committee; Foot­ ball Committee; French Club, ’48 Hobbies: Sports Ambitions: Engineer I * SENIOR CLASS WILL I, Franny Hili, leave my skiing ability to Betty Worster in the hope that she will not be half as lame as I am. I, Pat Bailey, leave to Janet Caldwell my ability to get into difficulty and to get men. I, Lolly Hudson, leave my talent in the field of music to Sonny Cleveland. I, Rosie Fettiiiger, leave my crown to the Carnival Queen of 1949. I, Andi Gleason, leave my early-bird tactics to the person who is quiet enough to get by Miss Choate’s door. I, Ginnie Truche, just leave with a few changes. I, Vickie Samaha, leave my athletic ability to inspire good sports next year. I, Drewsie Drew, leave the infirmary at last. I, Connie Barr, leave my address book under lock and key to the siren of next year. P.S. I’ve memorized Cookie’s!!! I, Tommie Thomas, leave my hustle and bustle to Mary Lou Whittredge. I, Eva Scott, leave my choice of football heroes to Polly Lewis, who learns well. I, Charles Armstrong, leave my jumping ability to Gilbert Laite in the hope that he may some day jump too far. i �I, Sallie Hamilton, leave my knitting mania and my needles to Vit. I, Jean Penta, leave my basketball ability to Evie Yeaton. I, Bev Latham, leave my seat in the back row of the movies to Carol Place in the hope that the next one to it is filled. I, Peggy Wood, leave my long weekends to any girl who can manage to stay. I, Pat Wyatt, leave my seat at Mayo’s, but not Robert, to Barbie Pursell. I, Barbara Wyman, leave my biology notes to graduates of Johns Hopkins. I, Ann Allen, leave my good marks and pleasing ways to Betty Shillaber. I, Tillie Cates, leave my industrious ways to Barbara York, the beaver of ’49. I, Bobbie Brandt, leave my fickleness to Anne Graves, in the hope that she has as much fun as I have had. I, Jackie Cadaret, leave my beauty to any girl who is lucky enough to in­ herit it. I, Nancy Gardiner, leave my seat at Mr. Vellante’s table regretfully. I, Marian Luce, leave my ability to do shorthand to some poor soul of next year. I, Jimmie Owen, leave my ice-hockey instruction book to next year’s goalie. I, Jean Rolfe, leave my nocturnal letter-writing habit to Polly Butman. I, Ginger Welch, leave my excess height and weight to Romany Richmnod. I, Beverly Wight, leave my place on the honor roll to John Atwood, commonly called the “quiz kid.” I, Jean Wills, leave to Edna Giffin the advice that she do her homework when assigned and not three days later. I, Martin Johnson, leave my love of dancing to Red Daniels. I, Crosby Keay, leave my wit, humor and sincerity to Fred Worster. I, Fred Mansfield, leave my love for women, to Blaine Woodcock. I, Red Bartlett, leave my luxurious lost weeends, plus my ability to tell about my baseball career, to John Hamilton. I, Richard Berry, leave my Model T Ford, along with my great driving ability, to Mr. Barnes. I, John Boutilier, leave my great athletic prowess and quick temper to the most deserving Irishman in the Junior Class. I, Turner Perkins, leave my famous collection of hats to the Smithsonian Institute as there are no others like them in captivity. I, Roy Chapman, leave my business transactions plus the talent of collecting bills to Harry Phillips. I, Charlie Cook, do leave my water pistol to McDougall Palmer with the hope that he can control sulfur fumes on the fourth floor. I, Gardner Richardson, do leave my line to Bob Simonds since his is rather frayed. I, Robert Rooney, leave my ability to reform in time of crisis to Joe Kelley. I, Jim Sterling, leave my natural skiing ability to Mr. Mac in the hope that some day he’ll learn how to ski. I, Harry Thompson, leave “Gopher’s Comer” in the Club Room to Ivan Witham in the hope that he can keep it filled. I, Donn Worth, leave the barrels in Sampson Hall to the Junior with the strongest back and weakest mind. I, Russell Shepherd, leave anything over six feet to Davie Doten. • Signed) Robert Rooney Eva Scott Margaret Wood Barbara Brandt Richard Berry Joan Drew Crosby Keay �upe AIM AWN 11 Ir \ j John Boutilier, Eva Scott Best Dispositions Best Sports Most All-round Most Friendly �f »jmmjj • CL K ift D DE IX DL, MM" D- 1X7} C . "75 lx r ex i" I i 'f ? Charles Armstrong, Eva Scott Most Typical James Sterling, Francina Hill Best Looking £ 69 ! I : Mat ■*. ■an 1.1 I 7' i r'«nt> Frederick Mansfield, Jr., Noralee Hudson Most Talented Merrill Bartlett, Constance Barr Most Likely to Succeed �: Jii ES 'yr * cd A I t tv D L. d 'QT Donn Worth, Marilyn Owen Best Athletes Harry Thomspon, Virginia Truche Best Dancers James Sterling, Rosemary Fettinger Most Sincere Robert Rooney, Joanne Drew Class Clowns �CLASS HISTORY This is the history ol a people the narration of their amazing progress since their discovery four years ago, when they were unorganized, uncivilized, and un­ sung, to their position today of self-discipline, culture, and honor. They were discovered in September, 1944, in Bearce Hall a trembling, lost, odd assortment of characters, come from who knows where? The faculty of Kents Hill first noticed them and after some consideration and consultation among themselves deemed them worthy of examination. The newcomers, now thoroughly frightened by these strange and august personages, offered no resistance but fol­ lowed silently and submissively where they were led to Mr. Dunn’s office. After examining their certificates of entrance papers with strange signs intended to denote the mental alertness, if any, possessed by the owners, Mr. Dunn more or less reluctantly accepted them as a part of the school. The first weeks were exacting. The young strangers, unused to the ways of intellectual refinement, made many serious blunders before they learned to follow in the well-ordered purposeful life of the experienced students. Gradually their barbarian ways became less prominent and were superseded by the polished Kents Hill manner. It was in social activities in particular that these strangers evidenced the greatest agony that first fall with difficulty they restrained themselves at such informal occasions as the Cushman picnic and the Country Fair. The formal dances at Christmas and the Winter Carnival were sheer torture to them. Suffer, persevere, and triumph they did, however, so that today they are immoderately proud of their record and wish to proclaim it here. So great has been their pro­ gress that after only three years of the influence of the school their savage natures became so mellowed that they captured many of the prizes offered at the 1947 Commencement. Merrill Bartlett had manifested so great an aptitude for social living that he was awarded the Kreger Prize; Anne Gleason had learned to write as well as speak the English language and earned the Colonial Daughters’ Essay Prize; Sallie Jane Hamilton had proved that she w.s capable of assimilating the little refinements of gracious living and won the Faculty Prize for the most orderly room in the dormitory. Jean Wills took the prize for the highest class average showing that those early certificates of entrance were not entirely false. Others in the class were recognized for native talent and constructive work were Noralee Hudson in music, Constance Barr in music and dramatics, and Lillian Thomas in cooperative spirit. Socially, too, these at-first-frightened foreigners had made an incredible advance at the Snow Ball the king and queen were James Sterling and Eva Scott. When the Maroon and Gray Key Society was formed ip the spring of 1947, nine of this band were elected to membership, a high honor, since they were charter members of an organization designed to play a large part in school life. The nine so dignified were Patricia Bailey, Constance Barr, Barbara Brandt, Rosemary Fettinger, Francina Hill, Eva Scott, Merrill Bartlett, James Sterling, and Donn Worth. In the fall of 1947 this group, somewhat altered from its original membership in size, entered the portals of the school for their last year of training. How changed they were! No longer awkward and wild but now graceful and gracious, they were �ready for the dignity and distinction of their senior year, a model of excellence for the underclassmen. True enough, at the fall picnic at the Cushman’s delightful home and waterfront they reverted to their early ways, being unable to resist the temptation of the prize pear tree. Since such relapses were rare by now, they were cordially forgiven. True it is that a savage can never be completely tamed. In October the entire school, emitting native war cries, journeyed to Hebron where they watched the Kents Hill football team brutally attack the Hebron gentlemen. After a long battle the Kents Hillers made a concerted and merciless assault on their enemies and forced a victory from them. Such rejoicing as resulted is unique in the annals of mankind. It continued, with the full ceremonies of the conquerors until Lewiston was reached, where consumption of a strange food, called the Italian Sandwich, effectively stilled all other noise. A little later the animal spirits broke out again, but since there was no enemy to conquer this time, the students exhausted themselves by climbing Mount Blue. Late October brought a sobering condition almost to the very campus of Kents Hill. Forest fires surrounded the school enveloping the whole area in their smoky haze. Then it was that the true generosity of the class of ’48 asserted itself. Boys climbed into trucks to be taken to the fires for active fighting; girls anxiously watched and waited and made sandwiches. School was finally closed for the duration of the emergency. A memorable occasion was that of the Armistice Day exercises. Deering Chapel was the scene of a stirring address by Mr. Cymbrid Hughes of Augusta honoring the men and women who had served in the past war. A plaque com­ memorating their service was placed in the vestibule of Bearce Hall and the Tower Music System, a constant reminder of their sacrifice and devotion, was installed in the tower of Bearce, from which float hymns, chimes, and carols throughout the year. The Maroon and Gray Key Society needed new members by this time to fill the vacancies left by last year’s graduates. The class of ’48 contributed Joan Drew, Charles Armstrong, John Boutilier, and Charles Cook. The members of the class, wanting to leave no stone unturned in this process of getting an education, participated in dramatic productions. In the fall they romped through the absurdities of the one-act play “Scrambled Eggs” and made their audience tense with the supernatural horror of the offering “The Opening of the Door.” Proud of its accomplishments in the social world, the class determined to make the Christmas formal the best yet. Laid aside was any suggestion of irregular behaviour. Beautiful gowns and decorous manners graced the Christmas-tree atmosphere of the Newton Gymnasium. Immediately following was the yearly observance which proves inspiring to all in spite of themselves the Christmas Candlelight Service at Torsey Memorial Church. Highlighting these impressive vespers was Noralee’s singing of “O, Holy Night.” Following the winter’s mental gymnastics in the form of mid-year exams, native spirits were again given free play at the Winter Carnival — hockey, basketball, ski meets, and the anticipated Snow Ball. Here was joy, indeed! At the Snow Ball, Rosemary Fettinger and John Boutilier were crowned king and queen. �Hockey, and basketball, and skiing vied with lessons for supreme interest of the students, but never did any member of the class of ’48 falter in complete devotion to his studies. Only one outside topic was allowed to interrupt the usual flow of academic conversation the weather. The questions “How cold was it this morning?” and “How much snow fell last night?” began to pall by the middle of March, and they settled into a dumb resignation to the possibility of another ice age. An unexpected interruption to the routine program came in a much enjoyed trip to the movie “Great Expectations.” At last arrived the round of activities which brought these seniors to the reali­ zation that their school days were almost over, and oh! how much they had learned! No longer, as in their early unenlightened days, did they grab food as soon as they sat down at the table; no more did they run up and down the dormitory corridors; almost forgotten were the days when they had yelled from the first floor to the fifth. Now they were the charming, gracious personalities they had dreamed of becoming. At the three banquets, held by seniors, dormitory boys, and Girls’ Athletic As­ sociation at the Worster House, each individual was a standard of courtesy and charm. The Class Day banquet and program was observed in the Sampson Hall dining room. In spite of the hilarity there was an undertone of sadness this was almost the end. The round of senior functions approached, was here final senior meeting at Blethen Hall, while the dorm boys made merry at the school cabin and the girls celebrated in the recreation room; final baseball game; the tea given by the hos­ pitable headmaster and Mrs. Dunn; and the Senior Prom mingling of sadness and joy, of laughter and tears. This is the history of a people and their amazing progress in four years they became worthy and honored citizens of Kents Hill School. Four years ago they closed these doors behind them. Then they were on the inside, uncertain of the future, confused as to purpose, doubtful of the wisdom of this step they had taken. Now they close the doors again behind them. This time they are on the outside: they have charted their course; they have determined their purpose. They face the future with courage. They take with them a storehouse of memories and the confidence of those who remain behind. Anne Allen Constance BanRoy Chapman Andi Gleason Marian Luce Virginia Welch Beverly Wight Jean Wills Patricia Wyatt Barbara Wyman �MEMBERS OF THE CUM LAUDE SOCIETY, 1947 Marie Bean and Marion Davis CUM LAUDE SOCIETY The Cum Laude Society was founded at Tome School, Maryland, in 1906 by Dr. Abram W. Harris, late President of the University of Maine. Dr. Harris was determined that scholastic achievement should be accorded at least as much recognition in schools as was given to all other activities, and he envisioned a society on the secondary school level, modeled on Phi Beta Kappa, which should encourage and reward the scholar. The only chapters of the Cum Laude Society in Maine are at Hebron Academy and Kents Hill. Cum Laude is an honor society, and only students who stand in the first fifth of the class are eligible if they have an honor record. To make election to Cum Laude is one of the chief honors by our standards, and we have had about two hun­ dred students elected members of Cum Laude. Every four years there is a Cum Laude meeting of all the schools in New Eng­ land. Kents Hill sent Mrs. William Dunn, Mr. Goldthwait, Marie Bean and Marion Davis to attend this meeting last spring. Students elected to Cum 'Laude in 1948 are: Merrill Bartlett, Frederick Mansfield, Jr., Beverly Wight, and Jean Wills. Faculty members who belong to Cum Laude are Mr. and Mrs. John O. Newton, Headmaster and Mrs. William Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon, Miss Sylvia Capone, Miss Vivian Russell, Miss Mona Ingraham, and Mr. Malcolm Swett. Marion Davis �SENIOR HONOR PARTS COMMENCEMENT, 1947 Preparatory School Marie Ellen Bean Mary Philbrick Marion Davis Ruth West Virginia Shorey Roberts Juniot College Annie Marjorie Frost Valedictorian Salutatorian First Honors Second Honors Third Honors Valedictorian PRIZES AWARDED AT COMMENCEMENT, June 8, 1947 THE KNOWLES PRIZE: To a Senior for excellency in scholarship and merit. Awarded to Marion Ellen Davis. THE 1913 PRIZE: To the Senior who has exercised good influence. Awarded to Frederick Allan Wilson, II. THE KREGER PRIZE: To the Junior outstanding in character and scholarship. Awarded to Merrill Bartlett. READER’S DIGEST PRIZE: To the Preparatory School Valedictorian. Awarded to Marie Ellen Bean. COLONIAL DAMES’ PRIZE: For the outstanding patriotic essay. Awarded to Anne Gleason. PAUL PRIZE: To the boy who has kept the most orderly room. Awarded to roommates, Ivan Witham and John Hamilton. FACULTY PRIZE: To the girl who had kept the most orderly room. Awarded to roommates, Ruth West and Sallie-Jane Hamilton. PRIZES FOR HIGHEST CLASS AVERAGE: Senior Marie Ellen Bean Junior Jean Wills Marie Hopkins Sophomore Freshman Geraldine Boiley Junior College Senior Annie Marjorie Frost Junior College Freshman Harry C. Aldrich, Jr. SPECIAL PRIZES: For contributions in music, to Noralee Hudson For her cooperative spirit, to Lillian Thomas For outstanding work in mathematics, to Frank Deininger For contributions in music and dramatics, to Constance Barr For a fine spirit and numerous contributions, to Gerald French For his spirit in athletics and interest in outdoor life, to Roger Owen Lake For school spirit and numerous contributions in school activities, to Joan Mathilda Harrison For his conduct and interest in school activities, to Gordon Malcolm Fenton For his conscientious effort in athletics and extra-curricular activities, to Richard Hartman �Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL MAROON AND GRAY KEY SOCIETY J. Drew, J. Sterling, R. Fettinger, J. Boutilier, F. Hill, J. Atwood, M. Wood, A. Greg ory, M. Sprague, K. Sprague, B. Brandt M. Bartlett, P. Bailey, C. Armstrong, E. Scott, C. Cook, C. Barr, D. Worth, M. Davis MAROON AND GRAY KEY SOCIETY RECORD Mr. Dunn The Maroon and Gray Key Society is an organization of leaders in every walk of school life. The Society upholds leadership, personality, courtesy, and school spirit, which enables all to contribute to school life at Kents Hill in a worth-while and wholesome manner. The functions of the Society are to act as visitors’ guide on campus, to sponsor each season’s sports banquet, to help greet visiting teams, and to meet and discuss student policies on various student activities. Of the twenty members from last year, eleven returned to Kents Hill last fall. At once the members began thinking about filling the ranks to capacity again. In December Joan Drew, Muriel Sprague, Charles Armstrong, John Atwood, John Boutilier, Charles Cook, Augustus Gregory, and John Harunk were elected by student vote. The Society sponsored the Fall Sports Banquet at which Patricia Bailey was toastmistress and Donn Worth toastmaster. During the evening the newlyelected were declared neophyte members. Sunday evening the neophyte members were initiated at Headmaster and Mrs. Dunn’s home. During the school years the members of the Society have been busy greeting visiting teams. In the spring the main function will be to act as visitors’ guides on the campus. Charles Cook James Sterling �i Third Row: Second Row: First Row. i KENTS HILL CRAFT CLUB L. Paul, S. Hamilton, N. Atkinson, N. Jackson, D. Tenny, B. Worster N. Lord, N. Hayden, G. Fenton, R. Richmond, R. Stephens, C. Flagg, F. Worster, J. Wheeler D. Doten, P. Wyatt, J. Drew, Miss Choate, B. Latham, M. Wood, J. Hamilton, A. Gleason CRAFT CLUB ACTIVITIES Miss Choate Because of the nature of the work in Craft Club, membership has been open to anyone who wished to complete one project. The members worked with few tools, trying to become true craftsmen, not tool-handlers. Metal tooling was the first undertaking. The completed designs were made into decorative plaques. Since confidence was weak and hands were shaky, the students attacked the less ambitious projects of braided leather belts, cigarette cases, and small purses. Lanyard making occupied some as did linoleum block cutting. A few launched out into glass etching and metal etching. Attractive painted-mirror coasters resulted from the diligent efforts of some of the Wednesday afternoon devotees. By far the most popular project was the making of moccasins from a commercially prepared kit. With the coming of spring, fabric painting appealed to many. Craft Club has been a source of enjoyment, but more important, it has pro­ vided the group with new interests for leisure time. J ��Third Row: Second Row: First Row: * KENTS HILL MIDYEAR HONOR ROLL, 1948 B. Boiley, M. Hopkins, B. Harrington, J. White, M. Giffin M. Gilnatrick. G. Boiley. C. Cleveland. H. Seaman, J. Wills, C. Wyman. L. Austin M. Bartlett, B. Wight, P. Wyatt, M. Wood, J. Drew, P. Bailey, F. Mansfield KENTS HILL HrrrAMTOMrStKXX JCMOK CcUtGE ■ �- V M -«f t> d r v. /*/*•' •> ■■ - Y 17 I '/Vi Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL SPANISH CLUB C. Barr, R. Berry, K. Sprague, G. Boutilier, J. Boutilier, I. Witham, F. Hill L. Thomas, N. Gardiner, A. Geason, Miss Capone, A. Graves, C. Cleveland, C. Flagg, B. Purssell SPANISH CLUB RECORD Miss Capone Constance Barr President John Boutilier Vice-President Ivan Witham Secretary Kenneth Sprague Treasurer The Spanish Club this year has carried on with some enthusiasm under the fine guidance of .Miss Capone. The Spanish Club meetings have been very ed­ ucational and recreational with the singing of Spanish songs and the playing of Spanish games. Here and there through the year the members have put on skits, exclusively for other members, which were meant to be comedies but were some­ times tragedies. Much of the conversation and recreation was carried on in our own Spanish lingo, by the fine example of our student-Spaniard president, Connie Barr. AH of us enjoyed the Spanish wit of Pattangall Nicolet even though some gi it was not humorous. Throughout the gatherings various members have given interesting reports on different Spanish-speaking South American countries. We duly appreciated Ann Graves’ talks on Mexico and her contribution of data for reports of other members. We have carried on correspondence with persons in South America, thus getting incentive for learning more about their countries and language. A moving picture with a Spanish background, too, added to the pleasure of our work. Ivan Witham �Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL DRAMATIC CLUB N. Arnold, R. Stephens, J. Aspden, M. Davis D. Blackadar, J. Hart, C. Flagg, J. Wheeler, F. Worster B. Ames, L. Roberts, M. Wood, Miss Russell, C. Barr, M. Gilpatrick, M. Palmer DRAMATIC CLUB ACTIVITIES Miss Russell While the entertainment value of dramatic productions makes their inclusion in the school program worthwhile for the school as a whole, their greatest value lies in the experience gained by actors and stage technicians in the use of their talents and in the cooperative effort which is necessary for a successful production. The fall program consisted of two one-act plays presented at the Newton Gym­ nasium, December 6, 1947. The first was “The Opening of a Door,” a play of the supernatural, which successfully communicated an effect of suspense and horror to the audience. Constance Barr, who appeared last year in “The Professor Roars” and “Our Town” played the meek and loyal wife to a husband plagued by guilty fear, a role well interpreted by James Aspden. Others in the cast were Marcia Corliss in effective characterization of the elderly mother whose murdered son returns for revenge; Mima Gilpatric and Bradford Ames as the young couple who help interpret the plot; and Lucille Roberts, who was comical and convincing as the terrified hired girl. The second play was a new farce comedy, “Scrambled Eggs.” At a lonely mountain cabin an odd assortment of characters arrive. They are the owner and his guest, played by Pattangall Nicolet and Herbert Seaman, and their unexpected and amazing visitors — a haughty movie star, Reno-bound, Margaret Wood; her husband, disguised as a Russian chauffeur, Raymond Stephens, Jr.; a middleaged woman aptly characterized as a “fluffy-headed idiot,” who adored her two �goldfish, Natalie Arnold; and her level-headed step-daughter, Marion Davis. The character conflicts which inevitably rose, augmented by isolation and a food shortage, furnished a mirthful ending to the evening’s program. Credits should be given to the production staff, as follows: sound effects and lighting, Frederick Worster, Dexter Blackadar, and MacDougall Palmer; properties lighting, Frederick Worster, Dexter Blackadar, and MacDougall Palmer; pro­ perties, Carollyn Flagg, Joyce Wheeler, and Joan Fairbank; prompter, Joanne Hart; posters, Margaret Choate, faculty; director, Vivian Russell, faculty. Members of the preparatory school and junior college senior classes who took part in plays last year are listed after the title of the play in which they appeared: “Thank You, Dr.” Patricia Bailey; “The Professor Roars” Constance Barr, Margaret Wood, and Marion Davis; “Our Town” Constance Barr, Noralee Hudson, Roy Chapamn, Sallie Hamilton, Robert Rooney, and Charles Armstrong. At the time of the yearbook’s going to press, plans have not been completed for the presentation of a three-act comedy in May. �Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB P. Grenier, H. Richardson., D. Lawliss, R. Simons S. Hamilton, F. Hill, J. Sterling, G. Leavis, L. Jaspon, K. Sprague, H. Wilson, A. Gleason, J. Weinfeld R. Chapman, J. Drew, Mr. Currier, P. Bailey, T. Walsh, E. Scott, M. Feingold INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB RECORD Mr. Currier Realizing the importance of international affairs in the world in which we are living, a great number of students have shown great enthusiasm and interest in matters pertaining to the international field. Many of these students are those who do not have the opportunity of such discussion as they are not members of the social studies classes. The meetings of the club have been held every other Thursday in the activ­ ities room at Ricker Halt Here the grroup gathers to discuss world affairs and decide for themselves what steps they think should be taken to solve these problems. Mr. Currier, a member of the faculty and history department, is the leader of the group. Through him the members receive a clear picture of the subject under discussion and, with his help, begin to analyze the problem and give their opinions. The many topics discussed this year included the Marshall Plan, Communism, the fate of Czechoslavakia and Finland, presidential candidates from the different parties for the forthcoming elections, and the Palestine problem as it stands today. Many of the members have benefited by these discussions, and all have gained considerable knowledge of world affairs. The season has been a source of pleasure and profit for the entire group. Lawrence Jaspon �r t 1 ... 1 *1 Second Row: First Row: 9 i f r 11 KENTS HILL FRENCH CLUB P. Wyatt, D, Blnckadar, J. Drew, C. Armstrong, R. Fettinger, H. Thompson, P. Bailey, R. Rooney, D. Tenny, J. Hamilton D. Worth, M. Davis, A. Gleason, Miss Capone, C. Cleveland, B. Vitagliano, M. Feingold FRENCH CLUB RECORD Miss Capone Marion Davis President Rosemary Fettinger Vice-President Robert Rooney Secretary Charles Armstrong Treasurer The French Club under the capable leadership of Miss Capone has had a very successful and enjoyable year. The club met once a week to discuss current events in France, to put on French skits, to participate in French games and to talk over the various ways that they could help the school they adopted in France. This school, like Kents Hill, inasmuch as it, too, is a four-year preparatory school and two-year junior college, is situated in a town called Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Haute-Loire region. The name of the school is College Cevenol, and it now has enrolled some 250 pupils. Up-to-date Kents Hill (the New Look!) has sent its sister school eleven packages composed of clothing donated by all the students. Each package has been gratefully acknowledged by friendly letters written by teachers and officials of the school, some of whom are Americans, by the way. The letters have been read in chapel and have helped to develop a real, feeling of friend­ ship between the French school and the students of Kents Hill. The officers of the club, Marion Davis, Rosemary Fettinger, Robert Rooney and Charles Armstrong have, in no small way, helped to make the club the huge success that it has been. The patience and hard work of Miss Capone, the officers, and the members of the organization, it has become one of the most popular groups the Hilltoppers have. It can truly be said that all members have benefited from being a part of such an organization. Joanne Drew I �Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL CHOIR L. Roberts, E. Heald, J. Hart, J. Aspden, C. Cleveland, K... Sprague, J. Wheeler N. Lord, N. Hudson, M. Wood, N. Gardiner, C. Barr, S. Hamilton THE CHOIR Mrs. Gray This year the choir began an ambitious program with a conscientious group of boys and girls, some of whom were carrying on from the previous year. Others, new at Kents Hill, gave additional talent to the group. Their faithful attendance at rehearsals and their cooperation in the programs gave a pleasant musical innovation that was enjoyed by all the students and visitors. The seasonable programs offered an opportunity for specialty numbers by Noralee Hudson, Constance Barr, Cynthia Cleveland, Sallie Hamilton, Kenneth Sprague and Gus Gregory. The latter, a newcomer this year, proved to be a great asset to the original group. There has been a variety of group numbers, solos, and duets sung at programs given during the school year. Mrs. Audrey Gray, director of the group, made this activity a pleasant and successful one through her persistent efforts and untiring guidance. Lee Hudson Margaret Wood Nancy Gardiner �Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL AVIATION CLUB C. Barr, F. Worster, J. Hamilton, L. Roberts A. Kelley, J. Hart, C. Flagg, J. Aspden, B. Latham, J. Wheeler, R. Kennerson B. Purssell, V. Truche, Miss Wiggins, B. Vitagliano, J. Drew, J. Penta AVIATION CLUB RECORD Miss Wiggins This fall the Aviation Club was formed by Miss Wiggins, a Civil Aeronautics Administration instructor, for the benefit of any students interested in flying or any other phase of aviation. At the first meeting, the members decided to have no officers and they decided upon some of the subjects to be discussed, learned, or studied at their Thursday meetings. Since that time, we of the club have studied navigational charts their reading and course plotting with compass and ruler meteorology, map symbols, the reading of government weather bureau maps and airport weather reports with their special symbols, astronomy,the variable factors in dead reckoning, and Civil Aeronautics Administration rules and regulations. We have built, flown, and studied model planes in learning Elementary Aero­ dynamics. Several members have purchased CAA approved technical books through the club. In addition, members may be instructed in actual flying by Miss Wiggins. This club has given a great deal of fun as well as education to us all. James Aspden I ! ! I �'S-'J ri?, SB SB SB i M �-<7; ' 11 jjjy IJCfffLL R‘- J® & t r 1 J, t»n I ‘) '/H ----- e -f 1 \ •L* < �SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY I, Noralee Hudson, having spent the last six years in Venice studying voice under the able direction of Sir Harra Zard, finally decided to return to New York. Awaiting my arrival was to be the famous Merrill Bartlett, Esquire, who has been trying since my senior year at Kents Hill to convince me to accept the leading role in one of his first musical productions. A= I boarded my plane in Italy headed for London, who do you suppose should check my passport? It was none other than Lillian Thomas. We fell into deep conversation, and it was she who related to me the fact that Crosby Keay was to pilot me safely over the Swiss Alps. I had a very pleasant trip, but nevertheless I was glad to arrive in London even though we made our three-point landing in a deep blanket of fog. I had an hour to wait before my ship weighed anchor, so I went immediately to my stateroom and assembled my belongings. Knowing this was to be a fiveday trip, I thought I would look for some familiar faces as soon as we were under way. However, being tired from my plane trip, I fell on my bed for a short nap. It seemed only seconds later that a loud rapping disturbed my slumber. Opening the door, I looked straight into the eyes of the popular stewardess, Virginia Truche, who handed me the luncheon menu. We conversed for a short time and I dis­ covered that there were a number of our acquaintances aboard the ship. As I sat in the dining room having lunch, I was amazed to look at the head table and see that Dwight Chapman was the Captain of the ship! This brought forth memories of Sallie Hamilton. So, inquiring about her, I was told that she was on board, taking excellent care, as usual. Strolling along deck, I saw two playboys loafing in the sun, playing shuffle­ board. Ah-h-h-h, yes!!! I always knew that Charles Cook and Charles Armstrong would be bachelors. I wandered over to the swimming pool to see if I might catch sight of a familiar figure. There was much commotion at the far end of the pool; who should be completely surrounded by admirers but the former Miss Trinidad Eva Scott. Among her associates were the glamorous Barbara Brandt, Con­ stance Barr, and Margaret W’ood all soaking up the glorious sunshine in bathing suits of the latest style. It was five days later that I sighted the lightship off Sandy Hook. The man at my elbow informed me that Martin Johnson was now in charge of its upkeep. I exclaimed, “Why, I went to school with him!” We were now approaching the Statue of Liberty. As we lifted our eyes to the world-famous monument, who should we see but Joanne Drew brushing the statue’s teeth. Ah, good old “Drewsie” still joking around. Fascinated by the ease with which our pilot brought the big ship into the harbor, we simply stared when we recognized his face. It was no less than Gardner Richardson! As I walked down the gangplank, I was thankful to see Mr. Bartlett. Some­ what surprised, however, I saw he had a lady with him. It was his private secre­ tary, Elzina Cates. My, what a small world! The three of us hastily hailed a cab and directed our driver to the Biltmore. Hearing a familiar voice, we closely scrutinized his face Richard Berry! It was also very surprising to see Jackie Cadaret behind the clerk’s desk in the hotel lobby. �Rehearsals were soon booming along. It was then that I found that Donn Worth was to be my leading man; and Andi Gleason would be the costume de­ signer. Besides all this;, Nancy Gardiner would provide the piano accompaniment. After an extremely late rehearsal, it seemed good to breathe the fresh air (what there was of it!) and especially good to bump into Marian Luce, Jean Rolfe and Barbara Wyman. I was very interested to learn that they are now employed by three prominent brokers that were now financial wizards: John Boutilier, majority stockholder of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Russell Shepherd, President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company; Frederick Mansfield, Jr., a powerful influence in the E. I. Dupont Company. Opening night finally arrived. Among the celebrities to attend were Jean Wills, owner of the Greater New York and New Jersey Cleaning Company; and accompanying her was a former classmate, Beverly Wight. A private box was occupied by Harry Thompson, escorting Francina Hill who is now the star model for the Neiman-Marcus Store, and Rosemary Fcttinger with her world-famous husband, James Sterling, the first American member of the Olympics to bring home the gold medal for downhill- Rosemary’s guest for the evening was Victoria Samaha who returned home with Jim after winning great fame as a lady member of Olympics. In the lobby, taking pictures of these world-famous people, were Mr. Robert Rooney, star reporter of the New York Herald Tribune and Jean Penta, progressive reporter for the New York Times. As the audience filed out after the final curtain call, I kept my eyes open for any familiar faces. Who should I see but three former classmates from Maine who were visiting the big city. They were Anne Allen, Marilyn Owen, and Vir­ ginia Welch all of them now teachers at dear old Kents Hill. Suffering from an infection of the larynx, after two months of acting, a rest in Maine seemed to offer the best opportunity for recuperating. Taking the State-of-Maine Express from New York, I began my journey to Augusta. I heard a man shout, “Have your tickets ready, please.” When I looked up, a beaming countenance shone down on me; it was Turner Perkins, the con­ ductor for the New Haven! Hearing a friendly voice, I looked about. “Beverly Latham,” I cried, “Where are you going?” “O Patricia Wyatt and I are returning for the annual August reunion,” she replied. After an unpleasant, tiring journey, I was more than happy to have my dear roommate, Patricia Bailey meet me at the Augusta station. It was relaxing to sit back in Pat’s ’5 4Buick and dream of the pleasant days to come in her Mount Vernon home. I was also very desirous of seeing her new museum of fine rocks and fossils which she has been collecting ever since her days at Kents Hill. Jean Penta Sallie-Jane Hamilton Frederick Mansfield, Jr. Marilyn Owen Lillian Thomas Martin Johnson I �■: I *n?»iw a . r-r‘’••*S r >"<.® ,. ..^ ■‘-il il. “' 'r- < f '^' r j^a TJ w S O'^-’£ MB 1 ■/ I ? h P- i r 1 tfWi [j7 >'/ Jgr-| f r1 —• k4 I �■L ’t J WlV{i _£y f-^ . t °1 &--U I .5 i < 7W r”T”£. >V" \ . J1 wr -■ I ®iiii | iI * — i a -j • ■■;: I'/ , .'6. '. *<• r ?/* :4dsm( ■ - hj'T ; I J t-— . r— vWMijfet^T «9- ' _^E 9&T * *v ..> ■- egg^ 0 l ■ ’.‘ L % '< &1 zF'A f RSLJB PW^MHi -rf< u w S_SiH ■ /-Mt •Jj .hsl I 'j Sr I RBHWfcr,. hi it-,- ... L . a. 1 W t KF £ 11 to-a. ...wssa \ ,1'C? >*£4; $ $ ‘X3T % • I 'Sbi? f Yr? Ssiosa ?X 7, '71 hr v �F»l u. ItlllilOl ■■ s f catf Bssai »:st j. Fl : =J C to« Cl c ■■ I Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM M. Killam, Mr. Swett, P. Grenier B. Woodcock, K. Sprague, J. Aspden, H. Wilson, D. Taylor, R. Kennerson, G. Boutilier H. Young, D. Lawliss, G. Michaud, M. Feingold, R. Simonds, P. Nicolet, E. Heald, G. McCarthy REVIEW OF JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL SEASON Mr. Swett Coach Donald Lawliss Captain Mallory Killam, Paul Grenier Managers Kents Hill 0 6 Livermore Falk Kents Hill 12 Jay 0 Kents Hill 0 Hebron 12 Kents Hill 0 Jay 14 Hebron Kents Hill 0 13 If a team’s success is to be judged by its percentage of games won and lost, then the Kents Hill junior varsity football team had an unsuccessful season. But, on the other hand, if spirit, the will to win, and hard work mean anything at all, the season was a success. Coach Swett was given a squad of fifteen boys from which to pick his first team. Most of these boys were in the light-weight class and had little or no ex­ perience. The team respected their coach and played to win every game, and even though their only win was with the help of the varsity reserves, they were never badly beaten. The team was always able to play an even game with their op­ ponents during the first half, but the second session always found them outscored. Had the team had ample reserves, so that the first team would not have had to play the entire game, many of the games could have been won. The team’s heavy-weight and easily their most outstanding lineman was Gene McCarthy. Much credit goes to the team’s coach for this, for Gene disliked football at the beginning of the season. But under Coach Swett’s guidance he found football his favorite sport. He has three more years on the Kents Hill gridiron. Donald Lawliss 1 �■■■ ffl a 8 Third Row Second Row: First Row: Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill KENTS HILL FOOTBALL TEAM M. Killam, P. Grenier, J. Harunk, H. Seaman, R. Stephens, J. Sterling, N. Higgins, Mr. Vellante, Mr. Currier J. Hamilton, T. Walsh, T. Perkins, G. Gregory, H. Sebert, H. Phillips, E. Perkins, M. Sawyer, C. Cook, J. Atwood R. Chapman, C. Armstrong, I. Witham, J. Boutilier, R. Rooney, C. Hitchings, H. Richardson, D. Worth 6 7 7 18 REVIEW OF FOOTBALL SEASON Mr. Vellante, Mr. Currier Coaches Paul Grenier, Mallory Killam Managers John Harunk, Marshall Sawyer Co-Captains Kents Hill 20 Farmington 12 Hebron 0 Kents Hill 0 Maine Frosh 34 Livermore Falls 18 Wilton 6 Kents Hill 7 St. Dominic’s 13 M. C. I. 0 Starting on September 17 with thirty boys, Coaches Vellante and Currier shaped a team in little more than two weeks’ tinfe that was to be the best Kents Hill football team in nine years. After Kents Hill and Hebron pushed each other up and down the field for three quarters, John Harunk returned a punt to the two-yard line. Two downs later he pushed it over for the only touchdown of the game. The next game was the Livermore Falls game which'we lost. The following week the team came back to win a close game with Wilton, 7-6. The team came out on top again with an 18-0 win over M. C. I. John Harunk sparked the team, as usual, to a fine victory. The team traveled to Farmington the next week to trounce them, 20-12. This was the hardest fought, roughest game of all the season. A powerful Maine Frosh team walloped us, 34-0. The last game was a heartbreaker which we lost 18-7 to St. Dominic’s. The season was one to be proud of and one which most of us will never forget. Charles Armstrong Donn Worth �ihiiiihni srzzs III IM ; □□□ E=dl aiaavMm KENTS HILL VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY TEAM M. Davis, F. Hill, R. Fettinger, E. Scott, Miss Parker, P. Bailey, C. Flagg, M. Owen, C. Cleveland J. Hart, S. Hamilton, A. Gleason, M. Wood, J. Drew, J. Penta, R. Richmond, P. Wyatt, V. Truche Second Row: First Row: REVIEW OF VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY SEASON Miss Parker Coach Joanne Hart, Virginia Truche, Cynthia Cleveland Managers i i Kents Hill Kents Hill Kents Hill 5 4 3 Wilton M. C. I. Cony 2 1 3 Kents Hili Kents Hill Kents Hill 8 1 5 Wilton Cony M. C. I. 0 2 0 I I i l I i The field hockey season opened last September with most of last year’s team members returning. As it was the last year for all the varsity team member’s participation in hockey, we wanted to make it a good season. We succeeded in doing this in spite of all the casualties, resulting in many black-and-blue shins, twisted ankles, and broken hockey sticks. Each day some progress was made under the able direction of Coach Parker. Our first game was away with Wilton. Andi Gleason, dodging the opposing team’s defense, quickly scored our first goal. The game was a victory for Kents Hill. Two weeks later the old, faithful orange-colored bus was waiting to take us to Cony. We weren’t victorious in this game, though we were not defeated. We tied, the credit going to Jimmy Owen, our center forward, for scoring our three goals. �We followed the newspapers anxiously every day to note the triumphant results of Cony High. We played our return game at Cony. Much to our dis­ appointment the tower bell did not ring that day. This game showed two evenlymatched teams fighting with much spirit. We ended our season with a victory over M. C. I. A great deal of credit goes to that important member, the goalie. Joanne Drew let only eight balls go by her in all six games. The total number of goals made by us was 28. Patricia Bailey Rosemary Fettinger �FkinKnmnnn ■■ 10. si □□□ ss i Second Row: First Row: s lx* KENTS HILL JUNIOR VARSITY- FIELD HOCKEY TEAM B. Vitagliano, A. Graves, E. Yeaton, B. Shillaber, Miss Wiggins, M. L. Whittredge, D. Tenny, B. Brandt, L. Thomas, C. Barr J. Hart, V. Truche, B. Latham, N. Arnold, C. Fogg, J. Caldwell, C. Place, M, Giffin, M. Bean REVIEW OF JUNIOR VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY SEASON Miss Wiggins Coach Virginia Truche Captain Cynthia Cleveland, Virginia Truche Managers Kents Hill . 0 Cony 2 Kents Hill 0 Cony 3 The Jayvees opened their past fall season under the able assistance of a new coach. Miss Wiggins. Although most of the Jayvees were inexperienced, we profited by the coach’s careful guidance. Our game at Cony High, in Augusta, was played under unusual conditions as the field resembled a dust bowl! Blown about by a strong wind, the dust made it rather difficult for the players to locate the ball. Nevertheless, it proved to be an interesting, if not victorious, game. We also lost our game with Cony that was played at Kents Hill, but from experience gained in these two games, the returning members are bound to be Varsity material. Even this year we had two members, Constance Barr and Janet Caldwell, who were able to advance into varsity field hockey! Virginia Truche was a returning member to the squad, and that she had ability and popularity was proved by the fact that she was elected captain. The managers, Virginia Truche and Cynthia Cleveland, backed the team with their cooperative spirit. Beverly Latham Virginia Truche �KH kh" KH Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL CROSS COUNTRY TEAM Mr. McCaffrey, G. Philbrick, H. Thompson, F. Mansfield, M. BartSetl C. Kimball, L. Flagg, A. Mead, D. Doten REVIEW OF CROSS COUNTRY SEASON Mr. McCaffrey Coach Fred Mansfied Honorary Captain J; Hebron 34 Kents Hill Livermore Falls 24 15 Kents Hill Bates Freshmen 41 17 Kents Hill 21 Gardiner 36 Kents Hill £0 37 Gardiner Kents Hill 37 M. C. I. Kents Hill The first Kents Hill cross country team was organized in September with. Mr. McCaffrey as coach. The members practiced on the open fields are na a Kents Hill and through Mr. Russell’s apple orchard. The squad lost its first meet to Hebron, Kents Hill’s traditional rival. ib.* team then proceeded to top Livermore Falls at Livermore; this victory was fal­ lowed by another at Bates when the Bates freshmen lost to Kents Hill. It lest to Gardiner at Kents Hill and at a return match at Gardiner. On a odd day m November, the team held its last, unsuccessful contest at the Hill with M. C. I. Under the patient and excellent coaching of Mr. McCaffrey, the team main­ tained its enthusiasm and spirit. Every member worked haul and did his best. The team considers this season a successful one. Fred Mansfield, Jr. Mallory Killam �=3 2= USE USS Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL OUTING CLUB G. Leavis, T. Stenger M. Palmer, M. Kennedy, K. Daniels, C. Blaisdell, G. Laite D. Blackadar, Mr. Boerker, R. Holmes, F. Worster �REVIEW OF OUTING CLUB SEASON Mr. Boerker Any boy who aspired to follow in the footsteps of Charles Atlas might receive his basic training by joining the Outing Club which is ably supervised by Mr. Boerker. Whether the weather was fair or foul, every afternoon at three o’clock ten or twelve strong-looking men could be seen making their way to the ski slope to ready it for the winter season. Armed with shovels, picks, saws, knives and fortitude, they were out for an hour of developing their muscles. These fair lads were never discouraged, for at the end of the trail a bulldozer was always waiting. Wonders were accomplished to the sound of dynamite, trees crashing to the ground not to mention “Red” Daniels’ jokes! The great opportunity arrived when Stephens, Holmes, and Stenger offered to clear the girls’ slope only to find the gals were missing but they did a great job! So hats off to the Outing Club for its efficiency and effort! Eva Scott Elzina Cates �18 Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL BOYS' JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Mr. Currier, G. Gregory, H. Seaman, R. Davis, K. Daniels, M. Kennedy, H. Richard­ son , K. Sprague, L. Jaspon L. Flagg, B. Woodcock, D. Lawliss, P. Grenier, G. Boutilier, H. Phillips REVIEW OF BOYS’ JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL SEASON Mr. Currier Coach Larry Jaspon Manager 55 Kents Hill 35 Livermore Falls 27 Kents Hill 43 St. Doms 45 Kents Hill 23 M. C. I. 32 Kents Hill 16 Deering 24 Kents Hill 19 St. Dorns 23 Kents Hill 38 M. C. I. 26 Kents Hill 32 Jay 28 Kents Hill 24 Jay Kents Hill 34 Hebron 41 Kents Hill 44 Livermore Falls 42 Kents Hill 51 Wilton 44 58 Kents Hill 28 Hebron When the basketball season started, we of the junior varsity group did not know who was to be our coach. Mr. Currier came to the rescue to show the boys the techniques and rules and to give us his able leadership. He was more of friend giving help where it was needed than coach. The season began well with a victory after a very short period of practice. There were defeats when we became over-confident, but on the whole the season was a sficcess. On looking at the scores we might find that the team was weak on the court, but the scores will not show all the fun that everyone had- at the practice sessions, in the gym and the bus. The books do not show the times before practice when everyone fooled around and joked nor the serious feeling that each one of us had after practice. It was then that we would feel that “tomorrow” we should try harder and that we would try this, or that, play again. The time was well spent in the building of character and in keeping physically trim. None of us realized that we were in good condition until we had missed the game for a while. Our season was a success as it helped to round personalities and kept our minds busy with a good clean sport. Lillian Thomas Gardner Richardson �Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL BOYS’ VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM E. Perkins, J. Boutilier, J. Atwood, T. Walsh, R. Holmes, H. Wilson M. Sawyer, C. Kimball, R. Shepherd, H. Thompson REVIEW OF BASKETBALL SEASON Mr. Vellante Coach Curtis Kimball Captain Harold Wilson Manager 44 Kents Hill 48 Wilton Kents Hill 34 Lawrence 38 37 Kents Hill 36 Deering Livermore Falls 29 Kents Hill 40 57 Kents Hill 51 M. C. I. 35 Kents Hill 43 Wilton 37 Kents Hill 35 Jay Kents Hill 28 M. C. I. 57 Kents Hill 44 Farmington T. C. 39 Kents Hill 51 Farmington T. C. 43 24 Kents Hill 47 Kingfield Kents Hill 42 Jay 57 46 Kents Hill 57 Livermore Falls Kents Hill 55 Hebron 72 33 Kents Hill 46 Hebron Kents HiU 33 Law-rence 39 The final game of the football season started Mr. Vellante thinking in terms of basketball. A large group of able men reported for the first practice. Soon after we started, Gilbert Philbrick, our center, had to leave school be­ cause of basketball injuries. This was a serious blow to the team. Within a few­ weeks w’e were fortunate in the arrival of a new student, Russell Shepherd. He was a basketball player, and tall enough to take Philbrick’s place. Again our hopes began to rise. Our team began to shape up for the big test before us in com­ peting with the best of Maine preparatory schools. As the season progressed we won and lost our share of games. Our most exciting and heartbreaking game was a loss to M. C. I. by a score of 57-51. Then we began to profit by our errors and went on to win our last four games. The highlight of the season was Kents Hill’s beating Hebron in the last game of the season. “Red” Kimball wTas the spark of the team with a total of 178 points for the season. Ed Perkins was also a serious threat from the corners of the floor. John Atwood was a help to the team by taking rebounds off the opposing team's board. Marshall Sawyer was a key man with his pivot shot from the bucket. Harry Thompson John Boutilier �r» * ■■P M d m t if « ' wii II a V I I II I * ■& -1 'r Third Row: Second Row: First Row: /JI I KENTS HILL GIRLS’ JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Miss Wiggins, J. Fairbank, A. Graves, M. Wood, R. Richmond, M. Bean, B. Shillaber B. Purssell, C. Fogg, J. Cadaret, C. Flagg. J. Rolfe, N. Jackson J. Caldwell, M. Giffin, B. York, N. Gardiner, J. Weinfeld REVIEW OF GIRLS’ JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL SEASON Miss Wiggins Coach Barbara York Manager Kents Hill 28 14 Wilton Kents Hill 31 23 Jay Kents Hill 20 18 M. C. I. Kents Hill 21 23 Jay Kents Hill 16 17 Cony Kents Hill 22 22 Cony Our Jayvee team this year was very susccesful. With the exception of our last game, which was a tie, we now stand the “Undefeated Kents Hill Jayvees”! Although many of the games were very close, we usually came through a few points ahead, thanks to Miss Wiggins’ constant coaching and enduring patience. Outstanding forwards on this years’ team were Barbara Purssell, Carol Flagg, and Joan Weinfeld. Guards were Jean Rolfe, Carol Fogg, and Betty Shillaber. These six were usually on the starting line-up. Our best and most exciting game of the season was our next-to-last game which was with Cony. The score was very close all through the game and many times a tie. At the close of the last quarter, the score was tied, 16-16, when Barbie Purssell saved the day with a foul shot and won the game. This has been a happy and enjoyable season for all members of the Jayvee team, and we hope that next year’s Jayvees will be equally successful. Jackie Cadaret Jean Rolfe �Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL GIRLS’ VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Miss Fairbank, C. Cleveland, A. Gleason, B. Vitagliano, J. Penta, J. Drew, V. Truche. E. Yeaton B. Brandt, E. Scott, M. Owen, S. Hamilton, C. Place REVIEW OF GIRLS’ VARSITY BASKETBALL SEASON Miss Fairbank__ Coach Cynthia Cleveland__ Manager 28 19 Kents Hill Jay 28 17 Cony Kents Hill 21 Cony 12 Kents Hill 30 17 Lawrence Kents Hill 20 22 Wilton Kents Hill 15 21 M. C. I. Kents Hill 38 24 Wilton Kents Hill 37 IS Jay Kents Hill 21 20 Lawrence Kents Hill 18 20 M. C. I. Kents Hill The varsity basketball team under the coaching and careful guidance of Miss Fairbank was successful in the sense that it showed excellent sportsmanship and teamwork. The team was very well balanced, but much credit must be given to Jean Penta and Cynthia Cleveland for their consistent and outstandingly good per­ formances. The most exciting game of the year was the Winter Carnival game with Lawrence High. Kents Hill was in the lead until the last few minutes of the game when a Lawrence team member made the fatal basket and made the score 21-20 in favor of Lawrence. Cynthia Cleveland also proved her ability as the manager of the team. Virginia Truche Sallie Hamilton �Third Row:' Second Row: First Row: KENTS HELL HOCKEY TEAM Mr. Swett, D. Doten, G. Cowperthwaite, G. Meggison, W. Trefethen J. Stevens, R. Simons, G. McCarthy, M. Killam, R. Chapman, M. Bartlett, R. Kennerson, E. Heald D. Worth, T. Perkins, A. Mead, H. Phillips, M. Feingold, N. Higgins, R. Rooney REVIEW OF HOCKEY SEASON Mr. Swett__ Coach Herbert Phillips_ Captain Ernest Heald, Jarvis Stevens__Managers 0 Kents Hill St. Dominic’s Kents Hill Hebron 4 Kents Hill Lewiston 2 Kents Hill Colby Frosh0 Kents Hill 3 Lisbon Falls Kents Hill 5 Cony 6 Kents Hill Wilton Kents Hill 4 M. C. I. 1 Lewiston Kents Hill 4 Dixfield Kents Hill Cony Kents Hill 7 Colby Frosh 1 Kents Hill 5 M. C. I. Kents Hill St. Dominic’s Kents Hill 1 Lisbon Falls 5 Kents Hill Mechanic Falls 4 Kents Hill Mechanic Falls 6 Kents Hill Hebron 1 Kents Hill Wilton 1 Kents Hill 1 9 8 8 5 2 2 8 5 1 3 1 11 1 9 2 2 3 8 2 �a 8 a a —Jil I M t II H II 0 II B Individual Scoring Player Higgins Perkins Phillips Worth Bartlett Rooney Killam Goals 27 12 14 4 1 1 1 Assists 9 5 2 Total 36 17 16 4 1 1 1 Once again the maroon-and-gray pucksters more than held their own on the ice with eight wins, ten defeats, and a tie for the season. Under the excellent coaching of Mr. Swett, the team came a long way as can be seen by the steady improvement in the scores. Favored by good ice and plenty of cold weather, a stiff twenty-game schedule was played with much action and excitement provided for the onlookers who braved the cold. A good first line with Norm Higgins in the center and Herb Phillips and “Pinhead” Perkins on the wings accounted for most of our goals. Backed by a good defense and goalie, points were precious and many low-scoring games were played. Typical of these was the Lewiston game in which we played to a 1-1 tie after suffering an 8-2 defeat on their home ice. We all agree that it was a successful season with plenty of spirit and action, a good advertisement of the school, and a tribute to Mr. Swett. —Robert Rooney Turner Perkins �Third Row: Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL BOYS’ SKI TEAM G. Laite, R. Stephens, F. Mansfield, G. Leavis, F. Worster Mr. Boerker, J. Hamilton, H. Young, J. Aspden, I. Witham, J. Forada, Mr. McCaffrey P. Nicolet. M. Palmer. J.Sterling, C. Armstrong, D. Blackadar.T. Stenger. G. Fenton REVIEW OF BOYS’ SKI SEASON Mr. Boerker, Mr. McCaffrey_Coaches Charles Armstrong__ Captain Fred Worster__ Manager Kents Hill 306.1 Rumford 379.4 Kents Hill 176.1 Hebron 193.8 280.3 362.1 Kents Hill Livermore Falls 339.3 Wilton 263.7 Farmington 194.5 Jay 80. 62.5 Farmington Kents Hill Wilton 85. 50. Livermore Falls 27.5 Jay 25. Kingfield Kents Hill 226. Hebron 299. On January 5 the ski team, under the direction of Mr. Boerker and Mr. Mc­ Caffrey, reported to the boys’ ski hill. Kents Hill had a stiff schedule planned which made practice very spiritied. The Rumford ski team came to Kents Hill on January 17. Rumford took an early lead and stayed out in front to the end. Charlie Armstrong and Gordon Fenton were Kents Hill’s only men to place. On January 24 the Hebron ski team came to Kents Hill. The Kents Hill team did better in scoring high in each event, but Hebron took most of the im­ portant first four places. �< I I I > I ■J____ 1 Our Winter Carnival came January 31, and with it came our first victory It was the fourth consecutive year that Kents Hill had won its own Winter Car­ nival. In the slalom Dexter Blackadar took first, Jim Sterling second, and Charlie Armstrong took third place. Ivan Witham placed third in cross country. In jumping Charlie Armstrong placed first this made the third time Charlie placed for the day. Winter Carnival ended with a “Snow Ball” at which King John Boutilier and Queen Rosemary Fettinger were crowned and the skiing awards for the day were given. Kents Hill traveled to the Wilton Carnival on February 7. In the field events of the morning Kents Hill was tied for last place. In the slalom and downhill events of the afternoon Kents Hill led the field which pushed the team into third place in final scoring. On February 17, Kents Hill traveled to Hebron for a return meet. There Kents Hill received its worst trouncing of the season. Eva Scott James Sterling �KENTS HILL GIRLS’ SKI TEAM Mi»s Parker, J. Wheeler, B. Latham, F. Hill, R. Fettinger, M. Davis, P. Bailey REVIEW OF THE GIRLS’ SKI SEASON Miss Parker Coach Victoria Samaha Assistant Francina Hill Captain 44 Kents Hill 52 Farmington Farming ton 43 43 Kents Kents Hill Hill 69 69 Rumford Kents Hill 37 Jay 2 Kents Hill 100 Rumford 44 Jay Kents Hill 100 Thirty potential skiers turned out at the beginning of the season, and with daily practice the squad progressed with turns, control and technique. The season turned out to be a banner one, with our girls emerging victorious in each of four meets. This year’s ski team is the first official Girls’ Ski Team that Kents Hill has ever had, and the impressive record the team has made has done honor to Coach Virginia Parker and her' assistant, Vicki Samaha. Outstanding characteristics of our team members are below. Frannie Hill Captain Frannie a translation of music into motion, or smooth and easy grace on any slope. Pat Bailey showed such enthusiasm in one of our meets that on the way through a flush she decided to straddle a flag and went zooming down the hill with it! Rosebud Fettinger lost her ski in one of the races and she finished gallantly on one ski, hobbling to the finish line. Joyce Wheeler surprised us all when she took first place in downhill at Jay, and as a result she became an official member of the team. Bev Latham quiet, reserved, Bev has the right technique on the ski hill! Davie Davis certainly got in her share of sitzmarks at the beginning of the year, but she has shown us all that where there’s a will there’s a way. Victoria Samaha Frannie Hill �III ■I KH KH -' Lilli Second Row: First Row: n KENTS HILL TRACK TEAM, 1947 S. Norton, Mr. Swett, L. Flagg, B. Lent, R. Rooney, P. Buswell, R. Rawson, J. Ster­ ling, Mr. McCaffrey C. Flight, L. McSorley, R. Burtt, T. Burgess, C. Armstrong, D. Worth REVIEW OF TRACK SEASON Mr. Swett, Mr. McCaffrey Coaches Stanley Norton Manager 40 59 Wilton Kents Hill Farmington 69 2-3 38 1-3 Kents Hill Hartland 82 17 25 M. C. I. Kents Hill Lawrence 8 50 1-2 Bridgton 52 13 1-2 Hebron Kents Hill The team’s first meet was with Wilton, and it resulted in a victory, 59-40. Tom Burgess turned in the best performance with three first places in 100-, 220-, and 440-yard dashes. Bob Rooney also placed, taking a first in the shot put and discus. In the meet with Farmington, the Kents Hill team met a little more oppo­ sition and lost 69 to 38. Tom Burgess and Paul Buswell took their usual first places in the 440 and the high jump, respectively. Next came a quadruple meet at M. C. I. Kents Hill’s team came in second with twenty-five points. Burgess took two firsts and Buswell one. Charlie Arm­ strong turned in a fine performance, entering in four events and placing among the top four in three of them. In the final contest the Hilltoppers were completely outclassed by Hebron and Bridgton in a tri-meet at Hebron. After the regular season Burgess, Burtt, Armstrong, and Sterling were en­ tered in the Bates Relays by Coach Swett where they took a second in the 880yard relay race. Boys awarded varsity letters in track were: Charles Armstrong, Tom Burgess, Robert Burtt, Paul Buswell, Robert Rooney, Ronald Rawson, and Bonn Worth. Donn Worth Harry Thompson �sininmn ■■I Ill ■■■ Third Row: tiBI KENTS HILL BASEBALL TEAM, 1947 I. Witham, G. Cowperthwaite, R. Berry, Mr. Collins, M. Killam, T. Perkins, G. Boutilier Second Row: First Row: ! C. Frank, T. Stenger, J. Boutilier, D. Bayer, R. Hartman, R. Flood, Mr. Vellante G. French, F. Deininger, M. Bartlett, R. Lake, R. Rider, K. Springer, G. Richardson, J. Hamilton REVIEW OF THE BASEBALL SEASON Mr. Vellante _ _ Coach Mr. Collins__ Assistant Coach Charles Frank_ Manager Kents Hill 6 Livermore Falls 14 Kents Hill 5 Jay 16 Kents Hill 3 M. C. I. 16 Kents Hill 5 Livermore Falls 2 Kents Hill 4 St. Dorn’s 3 Kents Hill 4 Jay 3 Kents Hill 6 M. C. I. 7 Kents Hill 13 Farmington 2 Kerits Hill 1 St. Dorn’s 28 Kents Hill 4 Hebron 3 Kents Hill 5 3 Hebron When the candidates for the 1947 baseball team at Kents Hill reported in April, the outlook was not bright as we had but one veteran from the team of the previous year, Roger Lake. Lake and Rider were the only players to collect three or more hits for every ten trips to the plate. Roger, by the way, was the mainstay of the team with his hitting, pitching, and fielding prowess. All in all, the boys had a good season, the highlights being the two wins over Hebron. Even though the team got off to a poor start, they improved steadily to finish with a six won-five lost record under Coach Vellante’s able guidance. The following received baseball letters at the annual spring Sports Banquet: Roger Lake, Reginald Rider, Richard Hartman, Gardner Richardson, Richard Flood, Frank Deininger, Keith Springer, Merrill Bartlett, John Boutilier, John Hamilton, and Manager Charles Frank. Merrill Bartlett Crosby Keay �itiiiMmaiiin' IM ■■■ III « r a Third Row: Second Row: First Row: ■■■ J KENTS HILL GIRLS’ TENNIS TEAM J. Wheeler, N. Jackson, J. Rolfe, N. Lord, Miss Fairbank M. Corliss, M. Sprague, N. Atkinson, N. Hayden, B. Purssel), L. Roberts, N. Gardiner, D.Johnson P. Lewis, V. Samaha, M. Gilpatrick, E. Giffin, J. Weinfeld, B. York, J. Fairbank, B. Worster, L. Paul REVIEW OF GIRLS’ TENNIS SEASON Miss Fairbank Coach Vicki Samaha Captain The tennis group reported to Miss Fairbank twenty-one strong in Sep­ tember. Many of the group had never played tennis before, but with the help of Miss Fairbank they all began to learn rapidly. Vicki Samaha was elected captain of the group. A very few of the players had had previous experience, and these people spent their time trying to improve their techniques. This section included Vicki Samaha, Joanne Weinfield and Joyce Wheeler. Among those who had not played much before but who improved the most were “Dusty” Paul, Barbie Purssell, Nancy Lord, Polly Lewis; Marcia Cor­ liss and Nancy Jackson. Several exciting matches were played with Mr. Dunn and Miss Fairbank playing against Joanne Weinfeld and Joyce Wheeler. The outcome was the same each time a victory for Mr. Dunn and Miss Fairbank. The experience gained from these matches was good for the girls and all enjoyed them. There were no outside games with other schools this fall, but we took ad­ vantage of the gorgeous fall weather to get a firm hold on the fundamentals. In the spring, when playing other schools, we expect to profit from this. Joyce Wheeler �r mu □ II II B * (. \ 1/ Third Row: Second Row: First Row: ws z * \ KENTS HILL VARSITY SOFTBALL TEAM, 1947 J. Harrison, A. Graves, P. Lucas,M. Wood, Mr. Dunn, C. Flagg, J. Penta, J. Hancock, B. Latham S. Hamilton, F. Marble, E. Yeaton, J. Haslam, C. Place, C. Barr, J. Shackford, J. Caldwell, R. Romano, T. Norton M. Owen, A. Wilkinson, V. Samaha, J. Drew, B. Brandt, P. Bailey REVIEW OF VARSITY SOFTBALL SEASON Mr. Dunn Coach Jane Hancock Manager Kents Hill 17 Lawrence 5 Kents Hill 8 Stephens 12 Kents Hill 19 Farmington 17 Kents Hill 4 M. C. I. 12 Kents Hill 22 M. C. I. 10 Kents Hill 10 Stephens 16 Kents Hill 15 Cony 5 Kents Hill 23 12 Lawrence 29 Kents Hill 6 Cony The softball team, coached by our experienced headmaster, was very success­ ful and came through with six games won out of nine. Often we found strong opposition ,on the other teams we played, but our spirited group really practiced “hustling.” �■kF 111 The Hilltoppers’ winning pitchers were Jeannie Penta, Connie Barr, and Pat Bailey. Jimmie Owen, our veteran catcher from the previous season, proved her ability behind the plate on many occasions. First base and second base, Vicki Samaha and Joanne Drew respectively, would have been a boon to any team. We were lucky we had them, not only as good ballplayers, but also for their never­ ending supply of humor on the field. Pat Bailey, home-run queen, provided many thrills with her excellent playing not only as a pitcher but as a shortstop, too. That season witnessed many good hits, runs, and plays by Kents Hill and we hope for another good showing in 1948. Joan Drew Marilyn Owen �kiavannii HI III □□a KENTS HILL BOYS’ TENNIS TEAM, 1947 Second Row: H. Seaman, R. Chapman, H. Phillips, R. Fellows, D. Blackadar, H. Thompson, A. MacKinnon, G. Fenton First Row: G. Laite, K. Daniels, Mr. Goldthwait, A. Wilson, T. Stivers REVIEW OF BOYS’ TENNIS SEASON Mr. Goldthwait Coach Kents Hill G Hebron 1 In the spring of ’47 twelve boys reported to the new tennis courts to get some early practice. Under Mr. Goldthwait’s guidance, the first organized tennis team at Kents Hill prepared for two matches with Hebron Academy. The first of these contests was “rained out” as Hebron’s clay courts were not in condition. Practice continued with an inspiration of Mr. Goldthwait’s a ladder com­ petition. The ladder is a form of intramural matches. Late in the season the meet with Hebron materialized as the Maroon-andGray and the Green teams met on Kents Hill’s courts. We won all but one match. It was a good season and we enjoyed Mr. Goldthwait’s coaching. This year we are looking forward to several matches with Hebron Academy and other schools. Harry Thompson �lllllllHS£|i|> till lltlllll'IlIilSSlHHI Second Row: First Row: KENTS HILL CHEERLEADERS M. Davis, D. Tenny, B. Purssell, M. Sprague, B. Vitagliano, J. Weinfeld C. Barr, J. Penta, S. Hamilton CHEERLEADING ACTIVITIES Tryouts for the positions of cheerleading were held early in October and soon nine of the volunteers were officially chosen. From that time on rousing cheers might be heard on campus and, without doubt, for quite some distance beyond the bounds of campus as the girls practiced cheering and put that practice into effect at the many athletic contests. The cheering sections at this year’s football and basketball games were led by this group of all-girl cheerleaders whose captain was Jean Penta. The girls gave untiringly of their time and abilities —cheering loyally through the blazing sun of the Hebron game and the blasting wind of the game with St. Dominic School. Whether their enthusiasm came from school spirit, or from a personal interest in the team, the girls certainly deserve praise for their hard work this year. Their parting cheer for the Kents Hill teams for the future is: V-I-C-T-O-R-Y Come on Kents Hill do or die, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y Victory, victory is our cry! Jean Penta Sallie Hamilton �fl ! ' kT ?.Cs vn PV ! / 11/ a4. 11 i I f" '.-ir OP /Ua • p • <; r A ’ J 't , 1 1.¥5£&: * �? fl ;E : -fl i] at. yp £ J, MH ' 4. . .f -.—i <1'- :- .-’ . ■■- ___ & t <g j^8&n aflCjJp . llj -•flf.... H HK..-P Ji-/ Etll 1 �CLASS ODE What waits us now, eager for its prey Of youth and happiness, life and song? The past is over, as the closing day; Tired with past, from past we would be gone. We balance on the brink of fears Trembling, with the knowledge of our power; And Time, driven by the spheres A vast shadow moves, a year an hour! Forget the old, the stale, the dead, With singing souls rise and amend! On this proud world our minds are fed; Youth flames within us, a helper, and a friend. Who knows what honours wait him on the morrow? Who knows how much his life doth hold? This is no time for fool’s grief or sorrow Come swagger! Come laughter! Come youth! Make us bold! The downhill road of life will tempt us — So easy to travel, yet stumble we may; For that gained with ease soon becomes worthless. Go forward with courage and take the hard way. There’s not a joy the world can measure Like that so soon it steals The joy of youth, our prize! our treasure! Given to us, with its utmost appeal. Oh Memory, write your praise Of ancient glory and decay; ■Your image soon will have no phase To torture us, when past we cast away. Have faith in Life, in Self, in God; Faith soon your trembling fears will soothe. The past is dead Hearken to this word, Come, take this step thou sacred, glorious, Youth! Constance Barr ��I 1 * I �H zr A o a rb 2 1/ ( \ �. r’ :j'&:‘‘.. Lal i ’ t 5~ ■31 ' 1 NTS HILL � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Rev.William Wood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev. William Woods Pocket Watch Description An account of the resource "This watch was presented to me by Dr. Henry P. Torsey at Kents Hill School in 1891. A fine time-keeper. - Wm.Wood Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1891 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/10/38/Collection_Rev.WilliamWood1892_CharlotteKillam1963.pdf a50a8ae41cc96b36b927d9f6d0855d0f PDF Text Text The Creator of The Kents Hill Hymn The Rev. William Wood, Kents Hill Class of 1892 By Charlotte Killam, Class of 1963 The Rev. William Wood was my great-uncle. He died before I was born but this information comes from my mother, (Mary Wood Killam, KH Class of 1936) and family documents. William Wood was born in Ryegate, Kent County, England in the fall of 1863. He was the second oldest of what would eventually be a total of 9 siblings. His parents, John and Mary Couchman Wood had lived in various small hamlets in Kent County when John's work as a shepherd and husbandman compelled him to find new work. Lured by the promise of land he could own, he came to Canada in 1871 to investigate farming property. He went back to England in 1872 and prepared to take the family to this new land they would call home. George (1861), William (1863), Fred (1865), Horace (1867), Lucy (1869) and twins Thomas and Edith (1872) comprised the family at the time. Sadly, the young Thomas died just as the family as about to embark on their journey and his sister Edith died just after they reached Ontario. Joining them was Mary's mother, Elizabeth Couchman, or "Grandma Couchman" as she is referred to in existing records. My mother recalls her father, Horace, remembering chasing lambs in Kent and being awed by the White Cliffs of Dover. The journey by ship in the fall of 1873 lasted more than five weeks. The family landed in a tiny town near Toronto that fall and stayed there for the first six years. John worked on various farms in that area and about 1880 he was able to buy land about 30 miles west of Toronto in a place called Luther, near the town of Grand Valley. �nd harvest crops, and split There the family worked hard to clear fields, plant a years on the rails for fences. Two more children were born during t ese farm; Charles in 1874 and John Wesley In 1876. The boys worked long their father on the farm and there are no educational recor s them going beyond Grade 6. The family had converted from Church of England to Wesleyan Methodis leaving England. The Wood family was instrumental in building a Wes ey Chapel in Luther and Rev. William Wood prided himself that he had preache there several times. Eventually the children grew and chose occupations. George became a celebrated apiarist in Grand Valley; Fred and Charles stayed in the farming business in Manitoba and Ontario; Lucy married John Henry Pearce and in the 1890's became some of the first settlers in Regina, Saskatchawan. It is the story of the three brothers who came to the States, William, Horace and John Wesley, that is of most interest to me. Before they left England, the Woods were good friends with a family by the name of A. W. Shaw. The Shaws left England about the same time as did the Woods and chose to settle in Lisbon, Maine. Mr. Shaw opened a cobblers business that was quite successful and eventually provided more work than he could handle by himself. According to family anecdotes, he wrote to John Wood in Ontario and asked if there was a son who would be willing to come to the States and work for him. George declined the offer but William snapped it up. He HATED farm work and apparently determined that anything would be an improvement. So he came to Lisbon, Maine sometime in the early 1880's. But, alas, he found that he equally detested the cobbler business! My mother, Mary Wood Killam, said "So he decided that being a minister would be much easier and started on the road to becoming a Methodist preacher." He had work in Vassalboro and Cornish ME before coming to Kents Hill in the Class of 1892. We have no records of how many years he was a student or how he compensated for the lack of previous education. But when he graduated he had his religious degree from Maine /' , I �___________ Wesleyan Seminary and Female College (aka Kents Hill). His obituary states that he attended Boston University but there are no family records indicating that. Again needing help in the shop, Mr. Shaw wrote to John Wood and asked if he had another son who would be willing to undertake the same kind of employment. Fred, the next in line, declined and my grandfather, Horace, set out for the States. He worked in the shop for several years before marrying and moving to Readfield, ME to take up farming. By 1890 John Wood had died and Mary Couchman Wood did not have the means to adequately support the two boys still at home, Charles and John Wesley. So when Mr. Shaw offered to take another boy on as an apprentice, John Wesley was sent to Maine in the care of the two brothers who were already here and the Shaw family. John Wesley "took to the shoe business like a duck to water"' (family quote!) and when, a few years later, Mr. Shaw died, he left him the business. John Wesley ran that business for a few years and eventually entered into a partnership in Auburn, ME with a Guy Smith to manufacture shoes for children. The company was very successful and John Wesley became quite wealthy. The family always maintained that Rev. William Wood was "wild with jealousy and regretted that he had passed up the best chance of his life"! Rev. Wood married Helena Sterling Snellgrove of Berlin, NH in 1895. They had one child, Paul, born in 1901, who died the same day he was born. As is the custom with the Methodist Church, clergy are frequently moved. Rev. Wood served in many pastorates in Maine and New Hampshire; Colebrook, NH in 1893, Boothbay Harbor in 1899, Berlin, NY 1900-02, Bridgton, ME 1906, Cape Porpoise, ME 1908-10, Kents Hill, ME 1910-15, Madison, ME 1918, Kennebunk, ME 1922-26, Bath, ME 1926-28, Wilton, ME 1928-30. He retired to Bath, ME where he served that church for two years. Rev. Wood was known as "The Poet of Maine Methodism" and his poems appeared frequently in Maine and Boston newspapers. He published one volume of verse, "Kennebunk and Vicinity in Poetry and Pictures", in 1927. �Itimes The most memorable was in He went back to his childhood home several times. Qod Ki||am/ he, 1936 when, as a graduation present for my mother, a week trjp tQ brother John Wesley Wood and wife Eula, and my mot er place" she Ontario. My mother said that although she enjoyed seeing home to see was much more interested in the stop that they made on the way the Dionne Quintuplets who had been born the previous year. It was while he was serving as pastor at Kents Hill that he introduced his brother Horace to my grandmother, Bertha Symmes, of Billerica, MA. Rev. Wood performed their wedding in the Kents Hill parsonage on November 9,1911. My mother graduated from Kents Hill in 1936. My father, Robert Killam, had lived in Readfield but his family had moved to Danvers, MA by the time he started high school. My parents were married in 1940 and lived in Readfield for the next 30 years. I graduated from Kents Hill in 1963. Rev. Wood died in Bath Maine, in 1937 and is buried in Berlin, NH. The Kents Hill Hymn has always been special to me I I am giving the Kents Hill archives two notebooks of unpublished poems and a notebook of poems published in various newspapers, plates that were owned by Rev. Wood, his pocket watch that was a gift from Dr. Torsey, a pen knife that he always carried and a spoon owned by his wife Lena. �SK lj,i[l6m hJc(,l sn kiiii t "in mn LS—□UL_J .I— ^E~3!ZZj _JOC~3' ‘I 1?^1A :rrxzaq I*V1 »iK! IS® n ■M ■Ju. w di ■^?W !%v. W ■ II yify^A % •.*> ■ w- S'; EHjahrk ,>’:/- i.- O'^-; ? i SO .-j'O'. ■ '-O ..-; ! f'lcrQcz,. Cl) cik4 to -s b <? n t ([Q LJtccl Iji ll i ^tV{ 4t e C. lY^O c"cL �S! 3 ET-' 6 i 0 -'•' r^- -ir-1 I ! I °r ! ' -------- 7>kq LCoed l^i (I a-W !}%&/. L^'t7l. I^DcA I ■ Ucicl. R>ii ftiecz f\£t/ tJi'A. C' 3<J) CLIlCif I o 1-J « Ktllam C^) Rei/. lAn. Ldc:cl �REJECTED a WGJOURNTdj^ STATE CHAT AN ALUMNI TRIBUTE TO J. O. N. (Prof. Newton of. Kents Hill) He had a vision, and a will Invincible! Stout-hearted, He hitched his wagon to a star. And on life’s journey started. Whither bound he scarcely hnew An inner urge commanded, He bade farewell to home and friends, His heart with hope expanded. His parents shared his youthful dreams. And, tenderly caressing, Assured him of their constant pray- [ ers And fond, abiding blessing. A Latin motto gripped his heart. Its simple English meaning, “Take no steps backward”,—Anti-, dote For all ignoble learning. Five decades have come and gone. Since that vision of the youth Urged him forth he knew not ■where. In search bf all-alluring truth. Now the man with tasks completed, Loved and honored far and wide By a host to whom those decades Made him Teacher, Friend, and Guide We crown, If tributes ever crown. And praise, if words can truly praise; Cents Hill and “J. O. N.” were one Through all those happy yester­ days, nd one they ever must remain Through all the days that are to be; heir noble deeds and. worthy aims Have made enduring history■William Wood, ’92 Written for the Boston Banquet, arch 19. j J A stranger s<bod at the gates of Hell And the devil hilnself answered the bell He looked at him from head to toe And said, "My friend, I’d like to know What you have done in the line of sin To entitle you to come within." smile Then Franklin D with his usual guile Stepped forth and flashed his toothy smile. "When I took over in thirty-three Anation* s fate was mine," said he. "I promised this and I promised that, And I calmed them down with a fireside chat. I spent their money on fishing trips And fished from the decks of their battleships. I gave them jobs on the W.P.A. Then raised their taxes and took it away. I raised their wages and closed their shops. I killed their pigs and burned their crops. . I double-crossed both old and young And still the fools my praises sung. I brought back beer, and what do you thinfe I taxed it so high they couldn’t drink. I furnished money with government loans, When they missed a payment I took their homes. If I wanted to punish the folks, you know I’d put my wife on the radio. I paid them to let their farms lie still And—imported-£oods±u£fs jfrom Brazil. I curtained crops, when I felt real mean, I shipped in wheat from the Argentine. When they’d start to wori*y stew and fret, I’d get them to chanting the alphabet. With the A.A.A. and the N.L. B. The p.W.A. and the C.C.C. With these units I’d get their goats And still I’d cram it down their throats. My workers worked with the speed of snails While the tax— payers chewed their fingernails. When the organizers needed dough I closed up their plants with the C.I.O. I ruined their jobs and I ruined their health I put the screws on the rich man’s wealth. And some, who couldn’t stand the gaff, Would come to me, and how I’d laugh. Whem they chased me up on certain things, I’d pack and leave for old Warm Spring. I ruined all they had and them I placed the blame on nine old men." Now Franklin talked both long and loud As the devil listened with his head bowed. At last he said, "Let’s make it clear, You’ll have to move, you can’t stay here. For once you mingled with this mob, I’d have to hunt another job." lcqn ! 1 �P5V sawd » Yests “ <3JSents &Mymn Tune: “Matema” The fathers name and viewed this land, These hills and valleys fain Its lakes, like precious gems, adorn The landscape rich and rare: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the beautiful, Long may this vision stay, Of hills and dales and fertile fields To cheer us on our way. Here saints and seers and hopeful youth Commingle in the quest For life abundant and the power To be and do our best: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the wonderful, What charm thy name recalls In vanished personalities Amid these stately halls. Here scholars breathed ambrosial air And tasted hallowed sweets While learning in these halls of light And mingling on these streets: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, though beautiful, — -A hidderTpower is 'thirie ~— “ * -~By God’s good grace above all else, A spirit all divine. The fathers saw beyond The Hill, And we that vision share: To Heights Beyond they led the way With faith and courage rare: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, we will pursue That star in Yonder Sky Thar leads to service here below And honors God on High. Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the Masterful To all who come and go, Implant thy spirit in our hearts For conquests here below: To thee. Kents Hill, we will be true, Enchanted by thy lure, Make good thy confidence in us • While Fellowships endure. —William Wood, *92 paster in i i of Maine i ■----- ~~Z ~ • 74. •‘:incn Vfflihun, ,5ains coni °xetilndist-Episcopal 18JJ3 Eference vid»iv kn&’vndied WedChurches and -fJhodisin," Poet. of Maine od nesday monJn=, . mg front| Washington st£*v. came j Rev. £«?««« jwas a boyand he came u> the’States in his late 'teens. Attending j>ravS Hill Seminary he graduated wiur .no class of 1332 and while a student a» • that institution he pres died at V'assalboro. He also attended Boston Uni­ versity. His career as a minister of the gospel included parishes in Cornish, Berlin. N. H„ Boothbay Harbor, Ken­ nebunkport. Madison, Kittery, South , Portland, Cape Porpoise, Kent’s Hill, Bridgton, Readfield Corner and Wil­ ton. His wife, the late Helen Sncllerovc Wood, died two years ago last March. A son died in his early years. ■ ‘ . Four brothers and a sister survive: ’ John W. Wood. Auburn; Horace Wood, I ■’.eadfield; Frederick Wood. Davidson,I skaicliewan; Charles Wood, Carman, Manitoba; and Mrs. Jarnos H. Pex-ce, Brora, Saskatchewan. The funeial will bc held at. 10.30 a.m.,. Friday m Eeaeon Street. Methodist-i Episcopal church where, durinp. his re­ tirement, he had preached on numer­ ous occasions. Rev. Arthur A. Callaghan, superintendent ol th* Au­ gusta district of the Maine ConforKel,-di’rdine, pastur ot ii.* church, will officiate. k.1”0 .COd? ’)e.liken to Berlin 1bi the family lot. I <137 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rev.William Wood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Creator of the Kents Hill Hymn: The Rev. William Wood, Kents Hill Class of 1892 Subject The topic of the resource Brief essay and copied photos about Rev William Wood Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource written by Charlotte Killam, Class of 1963 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/5/39/Collection_GraduationPamphlets_1936.pdf 7bb95ea023dcd2ff36b409116927b159 PDF Text Text One Hundred and Twelfth <2GraduationG€,xercises of the (§4€aine ^IVesleyan (Seminary and od&ollege KENTS HILL, MAINE TORSEY MEMORIAL CHURCH Monday, June 8, 1936 9:30 A. M. �(program Processional — Hymn 251 (Hymns of Praise) “Holy, Holy, Holy” 78 (Methodist Hymnal) Prayer Rev. F. Ernest Smith Mixed Quartet: “Who is Sylvia” Merrilyn Smith Christine Fogg Cufford Cunningham William Wright Schubert Graduation Address: Prof. F. Alexander Magoun, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology— ~ *' (Hymns of Praise)) “The Son of God Hymn 241 416 (Methodist Hymnal) Goes Forth to War” Announcement of Academic Awards and Prizes Violin Solo: “As My Dear Old Mother” Dvorak Henry Gerrior Presentation of Diplomas: John O. Newton, Pres, of the Board of Trustees Kents Hill Hymn Benediction Recessional GRADUATES 1936 Clara Louise Bigelow Harold William Bly William Henry Breen Isabel Virginia Chaples Druzilla Irene Clark James Robert Cochrane Moulton Page Coffin Arthur Frederick Cole Herman Ward Cole Clarke Parker Colman Joseph James Conaty, Jr. Ernestine June Dakin Hope Irene Damren Rosemary Helene Danforth Herbert Elmer Darling Christine Elizabeth Fogg Ivan George Fraser Rena Joan Gamage Henry Joseph Gerrior Lucile Gordon Mary Frances Gosline Walter Wadsworth Gosline Roy Herbert Holmbei almberg Elwin Norman Hurd Richard Wendell Jackman Frederick George Jermyn Frank Lyon Jewell Arthur Edwin Johnston, 2nd Erla Martha Keep John Robert Lewis John Webster Ludlam Edward John Martin Elsie Mae McAlIian John William McCue John Paxton McKenney Edith Elizabeth Megil! John Francis O’Donnell Joseph Francis O’Neil Eli Edward Power Walter Hamilton Reed Elinor Adell Rolfe Jean Rose Robert Ryan George Gerald Schmidt Edward James Sheehan, Jr. James Joseph Sheerin Horace Clifford Smith, Jr. Merrilyn Rae Smith Ruth Mae Smith Harry James Stabile, Jr. James Edward Sullivan Wayne St. Brown Swanson Kenneth Merle Turner Edith Louise Virgie Richard Henry White Ray Merton Whitten Mary Harriett Wood William Prentiss Wright JUNIOR COLLEGE Almond Dexter Coffin Glenn Dexter Foss Allen Richard McEIman Dorothy Elizabeth Pierce Janet M. Pettingill Mary E. Tatlock �events &Hill Tune: “Materna” The fathers came and viewed this land, These hills and valleys fair; Its lakes, like precious gems, adorn The landscape rich and rare: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the beautiful, Long may this vision stay, Of hills and dales and fertile fields To cheer us on our way. Here saints and seers and hopeful youth Commingle in the quest For life abundant and the power To be and do our best: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the wonderful, What charm thy name recalls In vanished personalities Amid these stately halls. Here scholars breathed ambrosial air And tasted hallowed sweets While learning in these halls of light And mingling on these streets: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, though beautiful, A hidden power is thine By God’s good grace above all else, A spirit all divine. The fathers saw beyond The Hill, And we that vision share: To Heights Beyond they led the way With faith and courage rare: Kents Hill, Kents Hill, we will pursue That star in Yonder Sky That leads to service here below And honors God on High. Kents Hill, Kents Hill, the Masterful To all who come and go, Implant thy spirit in our hearts For conquests here below: To thee, Kents Hill, we will be true, Enchanted by thy lure, Make good thy confidence in us While Fellowships endure. —William Wood, ’92 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Uncategorized Description An account of the resource To Be Categorized Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Graduation Pamphlet 1936 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 8,1936 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/2/40/handbooks_KHS_circularMWSandwomenscollege.pdf 95e66d7aa9a11715fad8ae60504b4c08 PDF Text Text CIRCULAR of the MAINE Wesleyan Seminary 1820-1907 and FheWomans College 1860-1907 Kent’s Hill, Maine The Fall Term of fourteen weeks opens Tuesday, SEPTEMBER I Oth, 1907 WILBUR FISK. BERRY, D. D„ President KENTS HILL, MAINE & �6, >•/. ? '• i A . .. ■ < , ...... ■ ’ - ■ • j v.; ” ■ - ■ " ' ■ v f i?-’ }W-.. ■ ■ •. . . ■ ■ ..... ________ ■ & -A 1 . . . �J X z o X s (fl Ji’ If X X U1 X o *O1Ljh KF1 ,___. ; L J • 'V'?' ’ V Pi ' -ti yi .j X J j • i- X ! l'h UJ o X UJ co J X z bl X UJ m - £ •». �_______ I The Maine LDesleyan Seminary and Womans College. Founded. The Maine Wesleyan Seminary, now entering upon its eighty-fourth year, was opened to students in February, 1824. Character of the School. The Maine Wesleyan Seminary is a school for both sexes. It aims to cultivate high scholarship and to develop high moral character. The close association and fellowship of teachers and students make the school a large family in which a kindly spirit directs a firm, loving discipline to further a manly self­ control and a true self-development. It is a religious school, but is not sectarian. Location. The school is located on Kent’s Hill, four miles from Read­ field Depot, its railroad station, fourteen miles from Augusta and sixty miles north of Portland. It is reached over the Lew­ iston and Skowhegan line of the Maine Central Railroad. Faculty. Its corps of fourteen teachers are specialists in their several departments and instructors of acknowledged skill and ability. Home. This school is a home. Its separate dormitories have light, airy, well-furnished, steam-heated rooms, modern bath and toilet rooms supplied with hot and cold water, and a large dining room where teachers and students eat together. 2 IBS �F D O < UJ I �'__________ __ ___ _ ■ An abundant supply of pure water, pure food much of which is produced on the large farm of the school, pure, bracing air, good drainage and regular hours for meals, work and sleep, all contribute to the remarkable healthfulness of the student body. Added to this the constant and wise supervision of the students by the teachers makes this school an ideal home. Furnishings. The students’ rooms are provided with necessary and com­ fortable furniture. Students will, however, provide their own sheets, pillow cases, towels, toilet soap, napkins and napkin rings, also a lamp. Carpets, pictures and other ornaments if desired are provided by the students. The Seminary. College Preparatory. Students are here prepared for any college, also for profes­ sional, scientific and technical schools. . Certificate. This is an approved school of the New England Entrance Certificate Board, and its certificates admit students to any col­ lege accepting students on certificates. Seminary. ■ ’ " Two high grade Seminary Courses are offered to those who desire to extend their studies beyond the high school, but do not intend to take a full college course. These courses offer studies which broaden the outlook on life and specially fit for intelligent citizenship. ■ Elementary. An Elementary Course is offered for students not prepared to commence a College Preparatory or Seminary Course, and yet would feel out of place in a grammar school. 4 �_ _____ .Art. A three years’ course in Art under a competent teacher is provided, which fits for teaching or lays the foundation of Art as a profession. Freehand Drawing is a part of each literary course. Business College. The well-equipped Business College occupies four large rooms in Bearce Hall. It offers a one and a two years’ Busi­ ness Course and a Shorthand and Typewriting Course. As good instruction and facilities for a practical business education are here provided as can be found elsewhere, at much less expense both for tuition and board. The quiet of the school’s location and its freedom from temptations and allure­ ments insure a much closer application to study than can be expected in a crowded center with its many inviting amusement attractions and temptations and consequent waste of money and time. Students in the Business College have all the privileges of the school, access to the library, the reading rooms, the literary societies; they can take studies in Art, Music or such literary branches as they may desire, and live in the school with its many advantages under the constant care of the teachers. Music. The school offers excellent musical advantages. The building housing the music department is the finest and best appointed to be found east of Boston. It was planned and built for this department. It is supplied with eleven new high grade pianos and one large concert grand. The musical directors have had many years’ experience as teachers, and are this summer studying at the Summer School of the Institute of Musical Art, New York City. The piano­ forte teacher is a recent graduate of the New England Conser­ vatory, and is a fine performer and an up-to-date instructor. Instruction is given in voice, harmony, pianoforte, violin, organ, cornet and other orchestral instruments. 5 X �Ii I The Woman’s College. The Woman’s College was chartered in i860, and confers the degrees of A. B. and A. M. in course upon its graduates. The College Courses are as broad as those of any college in Maine admitting women, and opportunity is furnished not pro­ vided in other Maine colleges to take Art and Music as studies in the course. The past effectiveness of the Woman’s College is attested by the successful work of the several hundred graduates now at work. Last year a College Literary Society was organized, and Campaspe, a play written by John Lyly, was successfully given commencement week. The colleges in Maine now admitting women limit the number they will accept. It is now fully determined to develop rapidly the Woman’s College, and so give the many young women in Maine who desire and need a college course the needed opportunity. Seventy-five young women can be accom­ modated in the Freshman class this fall, and efforts are being made to secure that number. The college is well equipped with teachers, laboratories, library, gymnasium, has a physical director, a graduate of Posse Gymnasium, and needed appli­ ances for college work. Its thorough College Course is fur­ nished at small cost and under the most healthful surroundings. The expense a year for tuition, board, room rent, steam heat, lights and incidentals is about $200. r 'j Physical Training. s fee A healthy mind needs a healthy body. A healthy body necessitates systematic exercise that should be taken as far as possible in the open air. Ample opportunity for such exercise is here provided. The campus is large and beautiful. There are five tennis courts and an athletic field. 6 �s u m Ld (/) CD J �■ i I I ■ The Gymnasium. i A good gymnasium, well supplied with suitable apparatus, provides opportunity for indoor exercise. A competent physical director is provided for the boys in the winter, and a graduate of Posse Gymnasium will direct the physical exercises of the girls throughout the year. I I Laboratories. Large and well-equipped Biological, Chemical and Physical Laboratories make possible most efficient experimental and testing work in these branches and add greatly to the value of these studies. Buildings. The buildings are among the finest school buildings in New England. The grounds are extensive and beautiful. Sampson Hall, the dormitory and boarding house, is a substan­ tial brick building, with large, well-ventilated, steam-heated rooms, and contains the well-appointed dining room, modern bath and toilet rooms, and the ladies’ literary society halls. Bearce Hall is a fine brick structure which contains the recita­ tion rooms, chapel, museum, chemical and physical laborato­ ries, the reading room and the literary halls of the gentlemen. Ricker Hall is a modern building containing the gymnasium, art rooms, library and superb accommodations for the music department. Library and Reading Rooms. The large and growing library now has ten thousand volumes. The books were selected with a special view to the needs of students and are readily accessible for reading and reference. The reading rooms are well supplied with daily and weekly papers and the best of the magazines. Literary Societies. There are four literary societies, the Calliopean and Lit­ erati, for gentlemen, and the Adelphian and Eromathean, for ladies. Each society holds a private meeting on Friday even­ ing and one public meeting a term. Each society occupies an elegantly furnished hall of which it has exclusive possession. 8 I 4 �■ Q a: o m er o H D UJ U) s UJ a: m UJ x _ l_ r— 4« fa AJL I �No feature of student life has more important relation to the responsibility of after years than the drill in these society gatherings, whereby are acquired parliamentary skill, inde­ pendence of thought and readiness in expression. Superior .Advantages. i ] The superior advantages of such a school are seen in the above enumeration. The students are under the care of Chris­ tian teachers twenty-four hours a day for seven days in each week. Not only are they given brain training in the recitation room, but they are also taught good manners in the dining hall, a proper respect for each other’s rights and a proper regard for property. In the social life of the school they become acquainted with the usages of good society. In the literary societies, practice in debate, in recitation, in presiding over assemblies, in public work, all unite to bring out the possibili­ ties in youth that otherwise might not be discovered. Wise examiners of these phases of this school’s life have affirmed that these alone are worth more than the cost of the school to a student. Expenses. Table board is $3.00 a week. All students except self-boarders, those living with rela­ tives and those working their board will board in the Seminary boarding hall. No deduction in board will be made for absence the first or last week. Room Rent. Rooms in Sampson Hall are for each occupant from $3.00 to $7.50 a term. Steam Heat. F Steam heat is $4.00 a term for each occupant of a room. Two persons are expected to occupy a room. If a student rooms alone from choice he will be charged double for room rent and steam heat. Tuition.. Tuition in Arithmetic, Geography, English Grammar, Elementary Physiology, each per term, $2.00. 10 �Ill All other Literary studies, each per term, $3.00. An extra charge is made in Chemistry, Physics, Botany and Zoology for laboratory expense of from Si.oo to S3.00 each per term. Full Business College Course, per month, $6.00. Shorthand, per term, $10.00. Typewriting and use of typewriter, per term, $5.00. Freehand or Mechanical Drawing, one period a day, per term, S3.00. Freehand or Mechanical Drawing, two periods a day, per term, $5.00. Perspective Drawing, two periods a day, per term, S6.00. Advanced Drawing from Casts of the Antique, Portrait Crayoning, Modeling, one period a day, per term, $6.00. Drawing from Life, two periods a day, per term, Sio.oo. China Decoration, Oil, Water Colors, Tapestry Painting, two periods a day, per term, $15.00. History of Art, per term, $2.00. Piano, Organ, Vocal Culture, Orchestral or Band Instru­ ments, Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition, Theory, each per term, $15.00. Each of above in class of two, per term, $9.00. Each of above in class of three, per term, $6.00. Each of above in class of four, per term, $5.00. Each of above for less than twelve private lessons, per les­ son, 75 cents. Use of Piano or Organ for practice, one bell daily per term, $2.00. Tuning Pianos or Organs, private lessons, per term, $25.00. Reading, Pedagogy and Spelling, free. Registration. Each student is charged a registration fee of one dollar a term. Deduction. Deduction for room rent or tuition will not be made for less than a half term. Cash Payment. Boarders must pay twenty-five dollars to the steward when they register and the balance of the board bill at the middle of the term. Students failing to make the above payment may be suspended from school work. 11 ► �Tuition bills must be paid in advance for the entire term. All bills must be paid or secured before a student can receive his diploma. Estimated Cost a Term. Board, twelve weeks, Room Rent, Steam Heat, . Registration, . Tuition, three studies, $36.00 6.00 4.00 1.00 9.00 Total, $56.00 The fall term is fourteen weeks and the board for that term will be six dollars more, other expenses the same. In addition to the above amount, twelve dollars a term should be added for the items of light, washing and books. Outside these necessary expenses are certain incidentals such as a student would incur at home. Self'Hoarding. Convenient rooms for self-boarding can be obtained; but permission to room out of Sampson Hall must be obtained of the President. Calendar. 1907. September io — Tuesday at 1.45 p. m. the fall term begins. December 13 — Friday at 12.00 M. the fall term closes. December 31—Tuesday at 1.45 p. m. the winter term begins. 1908. March 19 — Thursday at 4.00 p. m. the winter term closes. March 31—Tuesday at 1.45 p. m. the spring term begins. June 14-18 — Commencement exercises. For catalogue and any other information, address the pres­ ident, Rev. Wilbur Fisk Berry, D. D., Kent’s Hill, Maine. I 12 �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Handbooks Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Circular of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary (1820-1907)and The Woman's College(1860-1907) Subject The topic of the resource The fall term of fourteen weeks opens Tuesday,September 10,1907 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilbur Fisk Berry, D.D., President Kents Hill Maine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1907 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/3/41/HistoricalPublications_HIstory_of_MWS_French1919.pdf f3fe04565198adf2be47ba470ecc3dbb PDF Text Text History of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary by Hon. E. R. French PORTLAND SMITH & SALE, PRINTERS 1910 �L. Edwin Ruthven French �History of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary by Hon. E. R. French PORTLAND SMITH & SALE, PRINTERS 1918 ��FOREWORD i I ■ I Edwin Ruthven French was born at South Chesterville, Maine, December 13, 1828. He attended Kent’s Hill as a student from 1847 to 1850, and from the time of his gradua­ tion to the time of his death on December 5, 1912, he devoted the major part of his life to the interests of the School. As a teacher in 1850 and 1851, as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1873 to the time of his death, as Steward from 1882 to 1890, as a member of the Prudential Committee from 1891 to 1904, and as Secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1891 to the end, he was always thinking, planning and work­ ing for Kent’s Hill. Moreover, in this work for the School he did not lose sight of his duty to the community. He was lay preacher, doctor, lawyer, justice of the peace, student, farmer, trusted adviser and sincere friend. Called upon to preach or to attend the sick, as was often the case, he invariably responded gladly, although in many instances the response required him to travel miles in rain or snow. He sought no high honors, but thought most of doing the work at hand. A rare blessing to the community, he still lives in the hearts of his friends as a fine example of what an unselfish heart and an enlightened mind can do toward making life brighter and more livable. The following history represents a labor of love. It was written by him from a store of knowledge and lore of Kent's Hill gained by his sixty-five years of intimate acquaintance with the School. Probably no one living possessed similar qualifications for writing such a history. �PREFACE Progress is not an accident. The Creator does not work alone. In every age, in the secret chambers of thought, deep, far-seeing plans are laid that become the foundations of future events. God chooses from among the militant forces at His command those who are to carry forward His work. Across the broad seal of their commission is written the single word, “sent.” They are so like their fellows of the common lot that they emerge from the walks of life unknown and unheralded, till the consummation of the event of their life reveals their identity. The gaping crowd wonders whence came their power, who planned their work, and when they cannot answer, disbelieves; but the coming time, with its backward look and broader sweep, applauds. Humanity is coming to its own. Sometime its wants will be met. It may be a long time, but the God of the whole earth is in His heavens, and the longings of the hungry, the toiling of the millions, will avail; the day of the Lord will be at hand. �CHAPTER I Luther Sampson i (if ii n March 25, 1760, there was born in the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, a boy destined to a varied career and the founding of an institution that was to have much to do with molding the character of the rising generations that came within the pale of its influence; and, through them, the bene­ fiting of many lands and the remotest time. Before he was sixteen he joined the Revolutionary forces of his country and continued in the service at different times for three years. He was a carpenter by trade. In 1783, he married and settled in Marshfield, Massachusetts. To them were born five children, a son and four daughters. He received from the Government an assignment of land for his services in the army, which, together with his earnings at his trade, gave him a fair start in life. He was of that old pioneer stock that had had so much to do with shaping New England character, and the severe puritanical ideas of the times were deep rooted in congenial soil. In 1798 Mr. Sampson left his home in Marshfield on a trip of exploration, intending to locate on the Hudson River. He had not proceeded far when he felt a strange inclination to go in the other direction; so much so that coming to a wood, he dismounted, hitched his horse, and turning aside into the grove he sought divine direction in prayer, and there deter­ mined that when he reached the next forks of the road, if his mind was still drawn eastward, he would let his horse choose the way. He remounted, gave his horse the reins, and soon found himself journeying toward the rising, instead of the setting sun. He continued his eastward travel till he reached the locality now known as Kent’s Hill, in the town of Read­ field, in the then Province of Maine. Here he located a tract of two hundred and fifty acres of land and returned to his Marshfield home. �6 It would be most interesting if we knew of the incidents of that journey, and what led him across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, on into the wilds of Maine, and induced him to locate in this particular spot. He was not a first settler; the Kents—Warren, at least—were there before him. Starling Plantation to the West began to be settled more than ten years before, and Isaac Ford, of Marshfield, likewise, had taken up the mill privilege at Fayette Mills. This latter fact may have been a determining feature in Mr. Sampson’s choice. The first house built on Kent’s Hill is said to have stood back from the main road on the west side of Will Thompson’s west field, later a part of the Waugh farm. The next year, 1799, Mr. Sampson moved his family onto his farm and with the assistance of his son, then sixteen years old, erected suitable buildings for their protection. Soon after his coming to Kent’s Hill, by the death of a relative, he fell heir to two thousand dollars, which sum, together with his other accumulations and holdings, made him a “fore-handed” man for his times. He was shrewd in his dealings, and was accounted a man of rare good judgment in business affairs. His opportunities for education had been limited, but he had improved what he had and his natural abilities enabled him to detect the want of it in others, as well as in himself. It is said the inability of the young preachers who came among the people to read with proper emphasis their Scripture lessons and hymns distressed him greatly. He set himself to devise ways and means to lessen these deficiencies and improve social conditions around him. His first efforts were directed to the supply of regular preaching of the Gospel on Kent’s Hill; the lengthening of the terms of the district school; the giving of aid to struggling Methodist Societies; providing for support of worn-out preachers, and helping the needy generally. It is not to be presumed that conditions around him were inferior to those of pioneer communities generally,—rather the contrary, if we are to judge from what develops later. A meeting house was in process of construction; the district school and a circulating library well under way. �7 CHAPTER II Readfield Religious and Charitable Society In 1820, Mr. Sampson interested some of his fellow­ townsmen to associate themselves with him for the before­ named purposes, and at the first session of the Maine Legis­ lature, in 1821, Luther Sampson, Charles Kent, John Hub­ bard, Abraham Morrill, Zechariah Gibson and John Morrison were incorporated Trustees of the Readfield Religious and Charitable Society. “In the House of Representatives this Bill passed to be enacted, February 26, 1821. Benjamin Ames, Speaker. In the Senate, finally passed, February 27, 1821. Wm. D. Williamson, President. Approved by the Governor, February 28, 1821. Wm. King. Secretary of State’s Office, Portland, March 5, 1821. A true copy. Attest, Ashur Ware, Secretary of State.” The Province of Maine was set off from Massachusetts in 1820. This act of incorporation, therefore, must have been one of the first legislative acts passed upon by the Legislature. Mr. Sampson’s knowledge of conditions in his native State probably had much to do with it. The act of incorporation provided that the Trustees should be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of Readfield, but if there were no members of said Church in or near said town suitable for trustees, then some pious person not a member of the church should be chosen Trustee that the number remain at six. The Trustees were authorized to hold property, real and personal, the income of which should not exceed three thou­ sand dollars annually. A gift of five thousand dollars by any one person entitled the donor to appoint an additional Trustee, without regard �8 to church membership. The liberality of these provisions placed the objects of the endowment above sectarian con­ siderations. The Board was organized the first Monday of June, 1821, by choosing President. John Hubbard, Secretary. Zechariah Gibson, Treasurer. Luther Sampson, A set of By-laws governing the Board were presented and accepted at this meeting. There is no record of any operations of the Society the first year of its existence. No funds had been provided. At a special meeting of the Board, April 29, 1822, Luther Sampson delivered to the Trustees a deed, elaborately drawn, conveying to them three parcels of land, real estate to the amount of two hundred acres of land and buildings, valued at four thousand five hundred dollars. Accompanying this deed and attached thereto was an instrument equally specific as to the purposes of the gift and how it should be applied; an inventory of personal property to the amount of five thousand five hundred dollars, making the benefaction a gross sum of ten thousand dollars. These two papers reveal a familiarity with legal forms and a minuteness of detail truly wonderful in one not trained in the intricacies of the law. It is doubtful if a superior exists for the disposition of property in the archives of County or State. It was expressly provided that there should be no “strip” or “waste” of land values, and that personal property that disappeared should be faithfully restored and handed down to each succession intact. For an intelligent understanding of the nature and availability of Mr. Sampson’s gift, we give a resume of the properties constituting it. Real Estate: The farm of one hundred and forty acres of land on Kent’s Hill, with the new house and two barns thereon, and other buildings; the pasture in Wayne of fortyfive acres; the house and lot adjoining the Meeting House lot, of one and one-eighth acres; the whole of the value of four thousand five hundred dollars (§4,500.00). �9 This was divided into three tenements: The 1st Tenement consisted of about seven acres in the southeast corner of the main road and the North Wayne road, to which was assigned the personal of the first schedule, amounting to $33.38. The 2nd Tenement, about five acres adjoining the Meeting House, and the sum of $176.00. The 3rd Tenement, the farm proper, with the Wayne pasture; except that the occupants of the first and second tenements were to have their fire-wood from it, and four acres to be reserved for a Camp Ground. To this tenement was assigned the personal of the third schedule, equal to $905.85. The personal property was itemized in seven schedules, of amounts as follows: 1st Schedule, eight sheep and lambs, S10; cow and calf, $20; sundries, $3.38: $33.38. 2nd Schedule, eight sheep and lambs, $10; cow and calf, $20; house furnishings, $26.38; beds and bed linen, $39.62; Bl. Shop, $80: $176.00. 3rd Schedule, two hundred sheep and lambs, $450; one yoke of oxen, $73; three cows with calves, $60; two hogs, $12; eighteen bushels corn, twelve of wheat, $27.50; seed corn and wheat and rye, $13.38; peas and oats, $15.12; potatoes, $7.50; grass seed, $5.37; provisions, etc., $19.38; cart wheels and carts, $43; plows, harrows, chains and iron, harnesses, etc., $64.05; shovels, hoes, scythes and sleds, $36.33; cord wood and hay, $39; other farm implements, $43.22; making the whole outfit for farm $905.85. 4th Schedule, furniture and furnishings in west part of new house for his daughters, $97.38. 5th Schedule, Bible, hymn books and communion set, $18.50; blank book, $4; stove and other furniture for Meeting House, $34.61: $57.11. 6th Schedule, Clarke’s Commentaries, $47; other books for library, $78.31: $125.31. �10 7th Schedule, notes and securities, with interest due, secured, $3,136.60; cash to balance sum donated, $968.37: $4,104.97. Making a total of personal, $5,500.00. On the acceptance of this deed of trust by the Trustees, Mr. Sampson appointed his son, David Ford Sampson, addi­ tional Trustee, and it was stipulated therein that his. family should be thus represented on the Board forever by some nearest of kin, or someone chosen to represent them. After repeated adjournments, the annual meeting of 1823 was held March 11 th, at which time the first move was made to use the funds in the hands of the Trustees for chari­ table and religious purposes by a tentative agreement with Eliakim Scamman to supply preaching at Kent’s Hill. Mr. Sampson, as Treasurer, presented a bill for $340, which was allowed, presumably for aid to the Meeting House, provision for which was made in his instrument to the amount of $345. In considering Mr. Sampson’s gift as a whole, from what sources its incomes were to be derived, the amount of the benefactions yearly required, it is difficult to see how all its terms could be met by a Board of Trustees thus constituted and governed by iron bound restrictions. Fortunately for the Board, Mr. Sampson was their Treasurer for the first three years and managed the property with the same shrewd­ ness that he had ever been used to do in the management of his affairs. One thing is evident, no one who succeeded him in the office of Treasurer was able to keep pace with him in financial acuteness. Important changes are impending this year. Mr. Samp­ son is thinking. There has come to him a conception of greater possibilities, and he is intent on seizing them. CHAPTER III Elihu Robinson In 1820, Elihu Robinson, of Augusta, a carpenter by trade, moved by the lack of opportunities for an education that came to the young men around him, especially those who were looking to the Gospel ministry, opened a school in his �11 own house, having teachers to give instruction. His wife attended to the household affairs, and was a mother in Israel to her house. Mr. Sampson heard of this school, and forthwith visited it. Here was a man without means, doing what he, in a lesser way, had thought to do with means. His vision broadened. Was it not possible to combine these two instrumentalities, he pondered? During the season of 1823, Mr. Sampson had repeated interviews with Mr. Robinson, and induced him to move his school to Kent’s Hill. Meanwhile, he set himself about adjusting the affairs of his Board to meet the changed condi­ tions. An outlay of six hundred dollars, or more, was required by the original instrument, which absorbed all the income under the most favorable circumstances. The annual meeting of 1824 was called for January 6th, at which time only routine business was attended to and an adjournment taken to the 27th inst. The Trustees met, and, without transacting any business, adjourned to the next morning. At this time Mr. Sampson presented a new instru­ ment, modifying former conditions as to the bestowal of his charities, eliminating some and reducing the amount of others. This paper was duly executed, and accepted by the Trustees. A committee was raised to attend immediately to providing for the intended school and to report at the next meeting, and adjournment was taken to February 17th. CHAPTER IV The New School Mr. Sampson’s new deed, or instrument, provides that when certain conditions therein named are met, “the remain­ der of said property shall be appropriated to the establish­ ment, and for the benefit and support of, a school, to be located on the premises in Readfield for the purpose of afford­ ing instruction to youth in the principles of Experimental Christian Religion, Theology’, Literature," in a practical knowledge of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.” �12 Here is a University for the common people! I doubt if you can find an older one in the country. On the acceptance of this new paper, Luther Sampson retired from the Board of Trustees, and Elihu Robinson was elected in his place and was also made chairman of the Super­ intending Committee. At the adjournment, February 17th, the plan and report of the committee was accepted, and on the 27th of February, 1824, Mr. Robinson formally opened his school in the new house,—now known as the Little Mansion. We have no account of whom his teachers were, but presume he conducted it along the same lines as heretofore. At a special meeting, March 22nd, a committee was chosen to provide a school house. This was done by buying of Mr. Sampson the old house he had reserved in his deed and fitting it up for a school room. In 1869, when repairing the Mansion, Albert Wheelock, standing in the back door of the house, pointed to what had been for years the woodhouse of the “New House,” saying: “That was the first school building and it stood down there,” pointing as he spoke to a spot a little to the southwest of the Mansion. “I was one of the scholars.” There were two rooms in the upper part of it fitted up for scholars who boarded themselves, known to students of a later day as “Oregon.” Mr. Robinson held a close and important relation to the school for the first year, not only as its Supervisor, but being in charge of what was known as the “first tenement,” which had been cleared of all incumbrances that its income might be devoted to the school. The financial situation was cleared up by effecting settle­ ments with those indebted to the corporation and reducing the charities to less than one-fourth. This meeting was adjourned to May 10th, at which time a committee was chosen, consisting of Elihu Robinson, Moses Springer, Jr., and Moses Stone, to mature a plan for a new school house. It reported the next day “that it is expedient to build a School House of brick; that such a building would cost two thousand dollars;” and recommended measures whereby funds might be raised to erect it. �y 13 This report was accepted. Likewise a vote was passed to petition the Legislature for a change of name and to increase the number of Trustees to twenty. The name proposed was The Maine Methodist Educational Society. A committee was also appointed to address the Maine Conference at its next annual session in favor of the interests of the Institution. It is evident from these movements that the school was exceeding its limits, and that its possibilities began to loom up before the public and those who were more intimately con­ nected with its administration. An incident occurred at this meeting worthy of more than a passing notice. Mr. Sampson had practically retired from an active part in the affairs of this new enterprise, but kept a watchful eye on every movement. He had sent a letter to the Trustees which they saw fit to raise a committee to reply to, but which committee, after an interview with him, asked to be discharged without the formality of a report. The letter was pigeon-holed. It was understood privately that Mr. Sampson was not pleased with some of the measures and methods of the Trustees, and took this means to call their attention to the importance of their trust and their obligations to him. At a subsequent meeting, August 16th, the Superintend­ ing Committee were authorized to proceed with the erection of the school building according to the plan recommended by them. This they did forthwith. Circumstances demanded it; the school had outgrown itself, and the demand for its privileges and opportunites was growing. Again a special meeting is called for December 29th, when the progress of the Building Committee is approved and their accounts audited. The votes of a previous meeting with regard to a change of name and increase of the number of the Trustees were reconsidered, and a vote passed for a new act of incorporation changing the name to “Maine Wesleyan Seminary” and the number of Trustees to twenty-five. Up to this time the school had evidently been conducted according to Mr. Robinson’s method, but at this meeting a committee was appointed to secure an instructor. There is �14 no report of the doings of this committee, but it is known that Asa H. Thompson, of Industry, was chosen Principal, but died before taking charge, and Rev. Henry Cushman was engaged for the Spring term. At the next meeting of the Legislature, January, 1825, an act additional to the act of incorporation was passed, and approved by the Governor, Albion K. Parris, February 23, 1825. This act makes the number of Trustees twenty-five and changes the name to “Maine Wesleyan Seminary.” CHAPTER V Maine Wesleyan Seminary The foregoing legislative act was received at a meeting of the Trustees, February 23, 1825, and accepted by them. The first school year is closed and plans are maturing for the future. Construction of the Seminary Building is progressing favorably, but we are not advised how the plan for raising the money for it, viz.: that a three-years loan of five hundred dollars at six per cent be raised; that the fifteen hundred additional be divided into shares of one hundred each, to be subscribed for by friends, who are to be reimbursed when the institution is in funds—this latter practically a donation, has succeeded. The loan was raised. This meeting was continued to March 16th, when the business of the annual meeting was completed and an execu­ tive committee added, who were to have the general super­ intendency of all the affairs of the institution,—now known as the Prudential Committee. A further continuance was had to the 22nd, when a conference was sought with Mr. Sampson as to present conditions. As a result of this con­ ference a committee was chosen to make a new draft of the instrument limiting the objects and sums to which Mr. Samp­ son’s donation should be applied, which should be the basis of future action forever. In this pact the Trustees covenant with Luther Sampson that the amount of his endowment shall be and remain ten thousand dollars; and if, by reason of depreciation of value, �15 it shall at any time fall below that sum, the incomes arising from it shall be applied till the original amount is made good. And in order to make more plain the intent and purposes of said Trustees and said Sampson, it is agreed that the government of this Institution shall be established on the same principles as that of Bowdoin College, and the same rules and restrictions apply to its permanent fund as to that; and when these requirements are complied with by the Trustees, Mr. Sampson on his part exonerates the Trustees from all errors and deficiences on their part and relieves them from maintenance of preaching at Kent’s Hill, except supply. The report of this committee was not accepted till a subsequent meeting, October 12th, nor finally concurred in till December 28th. This meeting, however, was of much importance as mapping out the future course of the school, and included two days’ work. The enlargement of the Board of Trustees was begun; the Superintending Committee were authorized to set up a “Female School;” the price of board and tuition was fixed; an address to the public accepted, to be published in Zion’s Herald. What do we of the present day think of the charges of that day, who pay for a single meal as much or more than was expected for a week’s board? 25 cts. per week. Tuition, Boys’ Department, 12# « « « “ Girls’ S1.00 “ “ Board, Boys’ “ “ Girls’ “ 87# “ “ “The children of the Traveling Preachers to be received at seventy-five cents per week.” Is it any wonder that the poor boys and girls starving for an education such as this school was to afford, flocked to its doors? Would that there were the same inducements now! �16 CHAPTER VI Zenas Caldwell’s Administration Zenas Caldwell was made Principal and took charge of the school September, 1825. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, and he together with his brother Merritt were said to be the first Methodist boys to graduate from college in the State. Thank God, they were not the last! We shall hear of them more. They were sons of a great mother. Why can there not be more of them in the earth, that a nobler race of men may people it? They are coming, sometime. Mr. Caldwell’s management of the school was com­ mended from the beginning. At the meeting of Trustees October 12th, he was made a Trustee and Chairman of the Superintending Committee. The report of the committee on new instrument was made and accepted, and an additional instructor authorized whenever thought necessary. This is an evidence of the increasing popularity of the school; or, it may have been seen thus early wise to conserve the physical powers of the Princi­ pal. We incline to the former opinion, as the records bear evidence that the Trustees were not slow to promote him to responsible places. The agreement between the Trustees and Mr. Sampson for a change in the conditions of the deed was completed at the annual meeting December 28, 1825, by the formal execu­ tion of the pact entered into. Mr. Sampson absolutely declines to be considered a Trustee any longer, and the Trustees feel constrained to grant his request. Arrangements for the coming term were made by con­ tinuing Zenas Caldwell, Principal, and providing for issuing what was probably the first circular, or prospectus, giving information as to its courses of study, length of terms and vacations, that the Seminary ever sent out. The proper management of the farm was one of the most difficult things that Trustees had to contend with in those early days, and as to that matter, has always been so. When, therefore, at an adjournment of this meeting, February 12, �17 1826, Elihu Robinson presented the name of Wager Besse and his wife to have charge of “all concerns,” there was evident relief and speedy acceptance. At a further continuance of the meeting to May 2nd, a committee, of which Zenas Caldwell was chairman, was raised to carry into effect the late agreement with Luther Sampson, by framing a code of “rules and regulations” for the govern­ ment of the school, after the manner of Bowdoin College. Thus early the Institution was seeking to place itself on a high plane of educational efficiency. That much of this was due to the leadership of Zenas Caldwell cannot be doubted. A movement was made at this time also for providing for a Manual Labor Department, want of funds alone checking it. The one great lack is the lack of funds. Again the Conference is to be appealed to. The affairs of the farm, at one time so hopeful, are again at a stand-still, and the offer is made to Mr. Sampson to pay his expenses if he will find a suitable man to carry it on. It must be remembered that the farm was practically new land; stumps and stones not all removed; not an inviting field of operations. During the summer vacation, 1826, the Trustees met August 29th and were in session three days. The financial situation was the burden of their desire. The Treasurer had succeeded in selling the Dr. Hubbard property for $2,300, but the pay was in promissory notes and time loans. The dormi­ tory was in want of beds and bedding; the expediency of begging for it was considered. A committee was chosen to raise $2,500 by one hundred subscriptions of twenty-five dollars each. Elihu Robinson, who had had charge of the farming operations, was relieved from that duty and later put in charge of the Mechanical Department. Zenas Caldwell was continued Principal, and an assistant instructor authorized. The Superintending Committee were directed “to finish the Preceptor's room in a decent manner.” Rev. Asa Heath was appointed "to solicit donations and form societies through the State as he may think proper,”— what societies the record docs not reveal. He was to have ten per cent of the donations as pay for his services. �18 Zenas Caldwell assumed the charge of the fall term, 1826, but a shadow was creeping over the prospects of the Seminary. The great white plague was claiming a victim, and the Princi­ pal’s failing health obliged him to relinquish his duties and retire to his home in Hebron, Maine, where he died, December 21, aged 26. He died too soon. Charge not to God Almighty the loss of undeveloped years, the crushed hopes of early man­ hood and the vanishing of spheres of usefulness. He planned it not, but one ignorant of His immutable, unchanging laws interfered with their execution. There is no reference in the records as to who was Mr. Caldwell’s assistant, or who was in charge on his retirement, or even a reference to his death, a strange omission, it seems to me. I have an impression, or an intimation derived from some source, that Merritt Caldwell, brother to Zenas, at that time a student at Bowdoin College, came to the rescue on the retirement of his brother, for the remainder of the term. December 27th, 1826, the annual meeting was held and the Secretary directed to inform Joshua Randall, of Dixfield, that the Trustees will employ him for one term on the condi­ tion he proposed,—perhaps longer. The language of this vote implies that they had been in conference with him, and it may be that he had been assistant to Zenas Caldwell, or had had to do with the finishing out of the term. At the adjournment of this meeting to February, 1827, it was voted that Asa Heath continue his agency, and that the Bishop presiding at the next annual conference be requested to appoint one of the Traveling Preachers to collect funds for Maine Wesleyan Seminary. The Superintending Committee were authorized to employ as many students at labor as was practicable. It is evident from what the records disclose that the popularity of the school was abroad, and that there were more applications for its advantages than it could accommodate. It was an open door to the common people; its advantages for instruction unexcelled. This meeting is further continued to March 7th, when a formal vote of thanks is tendered to Mr. Sampson by the following resolve. “Resolved: That the Board of Trustees �19 tender their thanks to our brother, Luther Sampson, for his laborious services, and that he be requested to continue them to this institution.” The reports of committees entrusted with the funds of the institution are more satisfactory. A half township of land had been granted by the Legislature, which was yet to be disposed of. The committee having charge was directed to procure the frame for the shop and set as many boys at work on it as could be employed. Dudley Moody becomes general agent, or steward, and Elihu Robinson has charge of the mechanical department. These departments of manual labor were extremely popular with the public, but exceedingly unprofit­ able to the institution, because of the poor quality of the work, whether on farm or in shop. Students could not be induced to remain long enough at a trade to master it. CHAPTER VI Course of Study Established A meeting of the Trustees largely devoted to internal affairs was held August 9th. A large committee was raised to canvass for a Library, and another to draw up a course of study to go into operation in the spring term. This meeting was continued to November 28th, when the committee reported. It seems that this plan was subse­ quently lost, but tuition in languages and higher studies was fixed at 37Xc. Merritt Caldwell and William C. Larrabee, students in Bowdoin College, were in charge during this fall term. At this point in the records it is disclosed that at the meeting of the Legislature of 1827 the committee who had in charge the plan of government for the Seminary after the form of Bowdoin College obtained an act constituting Abraham Morrill, Obed Wilson, James B. Cahoon, Allen H. Cobb, Thomas Dodge, Joshua Taylor and David Kilburn, together with the President and Secretary of the Board, a Board of Overseers of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary. These met and �20 organized their Board, but after a few years failed to main­ tain it and lapsed into innocuous desuetude. One of the first acts of the annual meeting, December 26, 1827, was to appoint a committee, consisting of Eliphalet Clark, Merritt Caldwell and William C. Larrabee, who pre­ pared a new draft and reported as follows, which report was accepted: Report REQUIREMENTS “Candidates for the Junior class must be able to read with a good degree of ease and correctness; to write legibly, parse correctly in prose, and be well acquainted with the funda­ mental rules of Arithmetic. JUNIOR CLASS. 1ST TERM Modem and Ancient Geography, Worcester’s Arithmetic, Colburn’s First Lessons and Sequel, and Grammar. 2nd term Algebra, Colburn’s, Geometry, Ancient History, Whelpley’s. MIDDLE CLASS. Book-keeping, and 1ST TERM Trigonometry, Smythe’s, Surveying, Navigation, Men­ suration of Surfaces and Solids, and Modern History. 2nd term Mental Philosophy, Upham’s, Natural Philosophy, Con­ versations on, and Rhetoric, Newman's. SENIOR YEAR. 1ST TERM Smythe’s Philosophy of Natural Economy and Paley’s Theology. History, Political �21 2nd term Chemistry, Conversations on, Federalist, Paley’s Evidences, and Astronomy, Wilkins’. Languages, or any of the above studies, may be attended to when a regular course is not wished. Eliphalet Clark, Chairman of said Committee.” The same committee fixed tuition at 25c per week. The distress of the Trustees for want of funds to carry on the school is almost pathetic. They have not disposed of their half-township of land, have twice tried to float a loan, using that as collateral, and even to secure notes by mortgage of real estate. They could not retreat; they must go forward. A committee was empowered to engage a principal for the ensuing term. Dr. Samuel Stevens, a graduate of Water­ ville College, acted as Principal the spring term of 1828. A largely attended session of the Trustees was held in Vienna in August, when for two days the affairs of the Semi­ nary'- were thoroughly considered. Merritt Caldwell, having graduated from Bowdoin Col­ lege, was secured as Principal for the fall term of 1828, and continued in that position until 1834. The annual meeting this year was held December 31, 1828, and the time of future annual meetings fixed for the day after the closing of the spring term. Merritt Caldwell was formally elected Principal, and also a Trustee. The first mention of the Calliopean Society occurs in an order to the Mechanical Agent to make a book-case for it. That that, or similar societies, existed is inferred from votes of the Trustees denying to students the privilege of forming such societies within the school without the knowledge or consent of the Board of Trustees. At this meeting all the books belonging to the Trustees were given to the Calliopean Society. Moses Springer, Jr., is made a committee to again peti­ tion the Legislature for aid, though they have hardly disposed �22 of the last donation of a half-township. This man seems from the record to be one of the most business-like men on the Board. The first annual meeting after the change of time con­ vened July 16, 1829. The Seminary seems to be firmly established, courses of instruction well defined, and admin­ istered by competent instructor who has been in charge for a year, and, were it not for financial troubles and the difficulty of finding proper managers of the Agricultural and Mechanical Departments, would be on the road to success. Elihu Robin­ son has administered these departments to the extent of his ability, but has not had a free hand in doing so, and besides, has been the one man relied on for the discharge of difficult trusts. One can but be impressed with his usefulness as the proceedings of the Board of Trustees are followed year after year, and with what the Maine Wesleyan Seminary owes to him in the formative days of its life. The majority of the Trustees were Methodist Preachers, without much business tact. An exception should be made to this in the persons of Moses Springer, Jr., James Williams, Moses Stone and Philip Munger, and later, Dr. Eliphalet Clark, who were evidently men of affairs. Reference is had occasionally in the doings of the Trustees to finances connected with the Maine Conference. This comes to a settlement at this meeting by the Trustees authorizing their Treasurer to pay over to the Conference one hundred dollars in full of all demands. The Conference seems to have considered itself a beneficiary of Mr. Sampson’s charities in some way, and the Trustees buy off their claim in this manner. A move is made for a College Preparatory Course, and Merritt Caldwell continued Principal, and adjournment taken to January 5th. The Board of Trustees is now increased to the full number, a majority of whom are members of the Maine Conference. Another move is made to raise a permanent fund, whose income shall be S600, or more. This sum is deemed neces­ sary to meet the yearly expenses. The Female School is not �23 yet in operation, but someone is pressing for it. Mr. Samp­ son is considering further concessions, and a continuance is taken to February 10th. CHAPTER VIII A Gloomy Time February 10th, 1830, Mr. Sampson the fourth time alters the requirements of his deed, which is accepted by the Trustees, and in consideration thereof makes over to the Trustees of the Methodist Society on Kent’s Hill the house and land adjoining the Meeting House lot for a parsonage, and donates one hundred dollars for finishing it. This meeting has been continued seven months. There is internal evidence that while the school as such is prospering and that students are not wanting, the Trustees are at a loss to meet the situation. A special meeting is called for July 20th, which deliberates on the situation for three days. That the question of closing the school was under consideration cannot be doubted, for on the third day a direct vote to continue the school was reached, after three members of the Board had guaranteed a sum sufficient,—six hundred dollars— to carry it on another year. These men are understood to be Merritt Caldwell, Dr. Eliphalet Clark and Dudley Moody. Previous to this, the sureties for a note of SI,500 had been secured by real estate. The opening of a Young Ladies’ School was again brought up at the annual meeting, January' 5, 1831, by a Resolve declaring it expedient and directing that the west room in the Seminary be fitted up. Messrs. Moody, Clark and Caldwell were made a committee to engage an Instructress. This was to be used in a petition to the Legislature as an inducement to grant aid. There are indications that this move succeeded in open­ ing the school to young ladies as soon as all the arrangements for it could be effected. Miss Urania Merritt was the first female teacher employed. Later, during Merritt Caldwell’s principalship, Miss Phoebe Payne was engaged as Preceptress. �24 Merritt Caldwell is again elected Principal. That the plan of the school retains its popularity with the people is evident from the fact that the Trustees are obliged to enlarge their shops and increase the accommodations for board. It seems to have been a short-sighted policy to allow their finances to fall behind by mismanagement. CHAPTER IX A Dramatic Occasion We now come to one of the most dramatic occasions that ever occurred in the history of Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Whether considered as an act of desperation, or a stroke of finesse, it was a masterpiece of corporate action. The author­ ship of the scheme or the resolutions, or who presented them to the Board, is nowhere revealed. The Maine Annual Con­ ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in session at Hallowell, Bishop Soule presiding, June, 1831. On the morning of the 10th the Trustees of the Seminary met at the same place, and, without preliminary, voted that the President, Moses Springer, Jr., invite such persons, other than members of the Board, to a seat with it, as he sees fit. Then, without the formality of a committee, the following resolutions were presented: “I. Resolved: That, in the opinion of this Board, the Maine Wesleyan Seminary is established on such principles as give it a claim superior to that of any other literary institu­ tion in this State on all the friends of science, morality and religion; and that its claims for support on the Maine Confer­ ence and the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church are more sacred than on any other class of community. “II. Resolved: That the present depressed state of the funds of this institution is, in the opinion of this Board, a loud call for renewed, strenuous and well-directed efforts on the part of its friends. “III. Resolved: Inasmuch as the interests of this insti­ tution are, in our opinion, associated with the dearest interests of the rising generation and of our growing church in this I �25 State; and as the time has now come when but one alternative is left us, which is to place it on a firm basis, or to let it sink to rise no more; that our best efforts as a Board and as individ­ uals shall be directed to sustain this institution. “IV. Resolved: That the cause of this institution be presented to the Maine Annual Conference now in session, and that their co-operation be solicited in the appointment of an agent whose experience and influence shall be propor­ tioned to the character of the institution and to the great responsibility of making a last appeal in its behalf to the generosity of our church and the public. “V. Resolved: That it be recommended to the Con­ ference to adopt some measures by which the operations of said agent shall be facilitated, and by which subscriptions shall be opened in every station and on every circuit in the Conference.” Messrs. Caldwell, Springer and Cox were appointed a committee to present these resolutions to the Conference, also to petition that Rev. Charles Baker should be appointed Agent. When the committee had presented their resolu­ tions, the Conference rose in a body to accept, and a sub­ scription was started then and there, led by the Bishop, by which the sum of $1,360 was raised on the spot, mostly by preachers who hardly knew from day to day whence their own support was coming. The scene is described as most inspiring. The Rev. Charles Baker was appointed Agent. A resolution highly commendatory of the services of Principal Caldwell was passed, wherein was expressed the hope that “no motive” would induce him to leave his post. His salary was increased one hundred dollars, and a present of fifty dollars was made him. The next term was fixed for the opening of the Young Ladies’ Department. The effect of this move and the success of Rev. Baker’s agency for a time cleared the financial sky and restored confidence. It may seem strange to us, looking back over four score years, that there was so great apathy on the part of the denomination in coming to the support of the Seminary; but it must be remembered that the Methodists of Maine were �26 of the common lot, with more zeal than means, and that one hundred dollars meant very much to them individually, and that the poor success of former agencies had had a depressing effect. Asa Heath’s service the year before had realized but about $160 over and above his salary and expenses. When your staging costs as much as your house, you sometimes let the house go. This session of the Board was continued into the next week, evidently under the inspiration of the Conference, con­ sidering matters deemed essential to the success of the school. Among these was the establishment of a Teachers’ School; securing a Preceptress for the next term, and providing a permanent Professor of Languages. The scope of the educa­ tional work undertaken broadened on their hands continually, and it was difficult to keep abreast of it. The ambition of students to increase the number of literary societies was a source of heated discussion in the Board. In their appeals for aid to the State, the Trustees had represented the school as unsectarian, yet were supporting Methodist preaching. To free themselves from any charge of inconsistency, they suggested to Mr. Sampson that he withdraw a sufficient amount of funds to enable him to meet that requirement personally, and so remove any cause of complaint. Thus early was laid the foundation for the cosmopolitan character the school has maintained, despite its name. There was no lack of theories, discussions and resolutions in this and succeeding sessions of the Trustees relative to the questions before them for consideration. The one most in evidence was the raising of funds for the ever-increasing needs of the institution. More shops are wanted; a larger boarding house must be built. There are social conditions ever recurring that tax the wisdom of Principal and Visiting Com­ mittees. At the annual meeting, January, 1832, these things are provided for, so far as Trustee action is required, and Merritt Caldwell is re-elected as Principal. Despite his spirited encounters with the Trustees in opposition to their f �27 policies, they cannot dispense with his services at the head of the Seminary. Notwithstanding that there were already academies in different parts of the State that were doing the work of the high school of to-day, a different class of students was drift­ ing to Kent’s Hill. Their careers in after life point out to us the type of manhood and womanhood they represented. The subscription at Conference, 1831, with other sub­ scriptions that followed, together with the one thousand dollars of State aid, relieved the financial stress for the time being. At the close of the school year, 1833, it became evident, as once before, that a permanent income of six hundred dollars must be provided for the yearly operations of the school and the Conference was again appealed to to raise a fund of ten thousand dollars. Rev. Gersham F. Cox was appointed Agent; a plan for four-hundred and two-hundred scholarships was worked up, and Mr. Cox took the field. At the next Conference he reported ten thousand dollars collected in cash and reliable notes. At first this seemed to be a great success, but later proved to be a mortgage on the funds of the Institution. Mr. James Dinsmore, of the Trustees, raised about six thou­ sand dollars in addition. This movement gave a more hopeful aspect to affairs, and served as a stimulus to increase the number of students at the Seminary. This same year Mr. Caldwell severed his connection with the Seminary, having been elected Professor of Metaphysics in Dickenson College, Carlisle, Pa. It has been an oftrepeated experience with the Seminary that when it had developed a teacher of admirable parts, some higher institu­ tion of larger means would make requisition on it. The school continued through the year under the charge of Charles Collins, James Bell, A. B., and A. F. Wheelock, A. B. �28 CHAPTER X Larrabee’s Administration In 1835, William C. Larrabee, Principal of Cazenovia Seminary, was elected Principal and entered on his duties at once. A man of unusual tact and ability as teacher was now at the head of the institution. He associated with him Benjamin F. Teft, a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, a brilliant scholar, and other able teachers. The improved financial condition of the Seminary, the reputation of the Faculty, the opportunities for meeting some portion of the expenses in the manual labor departments, drew large numbers of students. Principal Larrabee was extremely popular with all classes of society, and not averse to the humorous side of affairs when opportunity offered. It is related that when stopping at a hotel in the city of Bangor one day he strolled out to the stable, where his curiosity was excited by hearing the hostler swearing at the horses in classic language. He entered into conversation with him and found himself in the presence of a man of unusual scholarly attainments, a graduate of the University of Dublin, but who, because of his love for strong drink, was reduced to this lowly occupation. Mr. Larrabee’s interest in him, however, was very much aroused, and before leaving he induced him to come to Kent’s Hill. In due time the candidate arrived, and the Principal deemed it the proper thing to have his fitness attested by his teacher in languages, and he was sent to Professor Teft for examination. The Professor, in rather a spectacular way, brought out his Greek text books and opening them handed one to the new teacher, reserving one for himself, and, indicating a lesson, requested him to proceed. With lightning-like rapidity—he was very quick spoken—he began to read the text before him. The Professor lost his place and stopped the reader to know where he was. This was pointed out and away again he went, and was again halted to know where he was. The third time he sets the Professor right and is off like a race-horse, when Teft, in desperation, calls out, “Where are you reading?” His candidate answers, “Right there,” putting his finger on the �29 line, “can’t you keep the place?” That candidate was Andrew Walsh, a veritable son of Ould Ireland, one of the greatest linguists of his day and an equally expert mathema­ tician. Father Walsh, as he was known to the students, was simple as a child; indeed, he was more of a child than a man, save for his intellectual attainments, for he was equally a philosopher and a linguist. He was deeply religious, and those who may have heard his exhortations in the social meeting did not soon forget the matter or the manner. Alas! he went back to his cups, and his light went out in obscurity. The popularity of Larrabee’s administration continued unabated. There was not a neighborhood around but was represented by some of its youth. The attendance at the school increased to such an extent that it was absolutely necessary to erect a new boarding house. Notwithstanding the necessity for enlarging the accommodations, every move plunged the corporation deeper and deeper in debt. There was one agency not yet mentioned that came generously to the relief, viz: The Maine Wesleyan Associa­ tion, which pledged the net profits arising from the printing of the Maine Wesleyan Journal to the funds of the school. How much was derived from this source we are unable to state, but the Journal itself was a help as the mouthpiece of the Seminary. The membership of the Maine Conference, except for the one spasmodic effort in 1830, never seemed to realize how great an obligation it was under to the school in their midst. Eventually, a feeling of distrust and indifference engendered towards it. Nevertheless, outwardly everything seemed prosperous; the shops were full of workers, the Seminary of students. No one seemed to know where the leak was financially. Their embarrassments increased. The fact was, they were employ­ ing unskilled labor. The manufactured products were not worth as much as the stock from which they had been pro­ duced. They could not be sold in the market, save at a loss, and accumulated in the shops. The same was true of the farm, and their property depreciated. These were the causes that were leading to bankruptcy, and yet the school was �30 sustained because of its popularity. Principal Larrabee maintained his supremacy, but he at length became involved in the impending ruin, and in 1840 accepted a professorship in the Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind. The funds were all gone; there was next to nothing to show for all the money that had been collected; public con­ fidence in the management was at a standstill. An agent was appointed to dispose of all the available assets,—the real estate could not be alienated—and settle claims against the Institution; but these were not sufficient; it was still in debt. In 1841, Dr. Stephen Allen, at that time Professor of Mathematics in the Troy Conference Seminary, Poultney, Vermont, was elected Principal and took charge that winter term. The situation was forlorn, indeed. The buildings were out of repair; the Seminary hardly habitable because of faulty construction, and liable to collapse at any time. These defects were overcome as well as they could be at the time, a goodly number of students gathered, and the school went on. Dr. Allen brought to his assistance an able corps of teachers, young men and women of ability, who thought more of the service rendered than of the pay received. Among them were George W. Jewett, Miss Mary Ann Moody, afterwards Mrs. G. W. Jewett, Miss C. Sturdivant, Charles F. Allen and Henry P. Torsey. The success of the school had always been due to the ability and self-sacrificing devotion of its instructors, and for three years it continued without other material support. The annuities could no longer be met; the scholarships were an incumbrance that could no longer be carried. In 1844, Dr. Allen resigned to join the Maine Conference, and Henry P. Torsey, who had been his assistant the year previous, was elected Principal upon the condition that he should furnish all the instruction, pay for all repairs, and receive all the income. The Trustees had absolutely nothing to offer save the location of the Seminary. The financial straits to which the Institution was reduced may be inferred from the statement of Mr. Torsey that after paying all bills one term he had twenty dollars left for his services. Men of i �31 affairs hardly understand the devotion and consecration of great souls to the life-work they have in hand, but out of this spirit the things that never die are born. CHAPTER XI Dr. Torsey’s Administration The ensuing Methodist Annual Conference met at Bangor (1844) and the Trustees of the Seminary arranged for a meeting at the same time and place. Its fiscal affairs were at a standstill, and they voted unanimously to surrender their interests in the Seminary to the Conference, according to the conditions of the Trust Deed, which offer was as unanimously spurned by the Conference; mitigating the refusal, however, with the proposal to still aid the Board with their influence in maintaining the school. This action of the Conference created a coldness between the Trustees and that body that was felt for years afterward. The Trustees met at Kent’s Hill soon after that and resolved to make one more effort for the relief of the school. Luther Sampson annulled all annuities and contributed fifteen hundred dollars toward needed improvements. The old Seminary building had become untenantable and a new one must be built. To this end, one fourth of an acre was secured in the northwest corner of David Wheelock’s field, the present site of Bearce Hall, and preparations made to build thereon. 'Squire Underwood, of Fayette Mills, had a kiln of pressed brick at the foot of the hill, intended for a new store, but which, instead, he sold to the Trustees, and these, together with the old brick procured from the Seminary that was being razed to prevent its tumbling down, sufficed to construct a plain, but neat and convenient school building, 40x60 feet, two stories high, at a cost of about three thousand dollars, half of which, as already noted, Mr. Sampson gave. Meantime, the school was in operation. The bell had been taken down and set up on four posts in front of the Mansion, and rooms enough for recitation purposes appropri­ ated from the boarding house. �32 Rev. D. B. Randall gave up his appointment to act as agent for the Trustees to procure the surrender of scholar­ ships and compromise or settle claims against the Institution. In this he was eminently successful, and secured funds neces­ sary for building the new Seminary. Many cancelled their claims, among them Dr. Allen, relinquishing one thousand dollars due on salary. The value of Elder Randall’s services in this year of reconstruction have never been duly recognized. He was a most successful pleader, and, though severely criticized by some, he accomplished a work that freed the Trustees from their embarrassments by scraping off the barnacles that had impeded progress. There was nothing left to them but their realty, and much of this, the farm especially, was much depreciated; but they knew just what they had in hand and what to depend upon. Debts were no longer staring them in the face; the manual labor scheme was dropped, and only the school was on their hands. This was placed on an independ­ ent basis by the arrangement with Mr. Torsey, and they began again. Looking back over the two score years, a visionary haze seems to envelope them. The convictions of a prosperous farmer that it was his duty to share his means with the com­ munity around him, the crude conception of how to do it, and the fear lest the means be misused, are by themselves a chapter in human life. Luther Sampson now practically retires from the stage of action. He has occupied the middle of the stage to the present time, but now has cancelled all obligations of the Institution he has founded to himself, and in addition has contributed nearly half of the new venture. He was of the Puritan type, brought up to the hard and fast facts of colonial times, and he looked at the world as it moved about him. He schemed for his pound of flesh, but when he had gained it he was willing to divide with the Lord. All men do not do this ’Tn SeyemiBht- Fafcher Robinson relates how at one time ..non Mr. Sampson was arranging with him for the bestowal ' three thousand dollars, he suggested that his son might not �33 be agreeable to this, Father Sampson drew back, and straight­ ening up addressed him: “Ezekiel, that money is not David’s; it is the Lord’s,” and to the Lord it went. Such men may seem hard to the world, but be it remembered that the mold they are cast in is not easily changed; it might not be bettered if attempted. That Mr. Sampson was disappointed in the business ability of some of the men he associated with himself is evident, and that he disagreed with them at times as to the methods of conducting affairs cannot be doubted; and that he early retired from the Board to avoid the vexatious dis­ cussions that men of theories without the practice were con­ stantly provoking, is still further evident. It is also apparent that his own views of what was desir­ able to accomplish changed; that it was an evolution of thought that worked out the conception of a Seminary such as would meet the wants of the common people. Mr. Sampson began by building as he knew, but ere the first plan was developed a larger structure rose up before him, and he attempted to adapt the same means to the larger end. To this end he had no experience as a guide, neither had any of those associated with him; hence the financial failure that followed. The conception was equal to anything that has been devised, but a hundred thousand has not been found equal to what ten thousand attempted. Dr. Torsey’s career as the head of Maine Wesleyan Seminary for thirty-eight years is one of the notable events of its history,—at present the most notable. With a common school education and such additions as he was able to make as a student and assistant where he was now in charge, his original research and wonderful tact soon placed him in the lead of educators in New England. The effect of such leadership was soon apparent. Students flocked to Kent’s Hill in such numbers that accom­ modations at the Seminary or on the Hill were inadequate, and the region around within a radius of two miles was taxed for board and rooms. The Trustees of to-day, in their monopoly of board, forget their appeal in the day of need and �34 how it was met. The desire for an education by those who can ill afford it is just as great as ever, but the world that has prospered has grown cold. The open door that Kent’s Hill once offered would fill its halls again. The growth of the school soon raised a clamor for more room. The confidence of the public was restored, and at the session of the Maine Conference in 1853 a convention of the friends of education in the church met to consider its interests. Much enthusiasm was manifested. Dr. Torsey advocated the broadening of the curriculum of studies to include a college for women. Generous sums were subscribed towards the erection of a new building, Dr. Eliphalet Clark, of Port­ land, heading the list with one thousand dollars, and others with smaller amounts. Rev. Stephen Allen was appointed agent to solicit funds for the object in view; and, to avoid the mistakes of former agencies, a separate Board of Trust was organized under an act of the Legislature, with the title of Maine Wesleyan Board of Education, for the safe-keeping of funds. The agency was continued year after year, part of the time in connection with a pastoral charge, Mr. Torsey and others rendering assistance, till a sufficient sum was raised to warrant the construction of a new building. Plans were obtained, and in June, 1858, ground was broken and the laying of the corner-stone observed by an address from William H. Allen, President of Girard College. Dr. Allen was himself a Readfield boy and an alumnus of Maine Wesleyan Seminary. The building now known as Sampson Hall was com­ pleted and dedicated in August, 1860. This time the address was by Rev. Charles F. Allen, of the Maine Conference. Dr. Stephen Allen, in addition to his agency, acted as Chairman and Treasurer of the Building Committee, kept all accounts, drew up all contracts, signed and endorsed personally all notes for borrowed money, till the Hall was completed and furnished at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. This was a large sum for the times, and a larger sum for a Methodist minister to be accountable for, but never a note went to protest, nor payment of a contract delayed beyond the time. �35 It was truly a monumental work, supported and carried for­ ward by the character of the man who stood for it. CHAPTER XII Woman’s College On the opening of the Fall term, 1860, a new mile-stone in the history of the Seminary was set; the curriculum was enlarged to include a college course for young ladies, the com­ pletion of which would entitle them to a degree. The faculty was increased to meet this demand, and the Principal became a President. Funds were in waiting to meet these advances, and the Institution was on a solid financial basis which it was pledged to maintain. The opening of a college for women was in itself a notable event. A Female Institute had been opened in 1856, at Carmel, N. Y. Mary Lyon’s Seminary for girls at Holyoke was in operation, and a still older one at Bradford, Massachusetts, but none of these conferred degrees. Maine Wesleyan at Kent's Hill antedates Vassar four years; Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, ten years, and Smith, fourteen years. For a time it met the purpose of its founder, viz.: to afford the girls who were in the same classes with the boys preparing for college an open opportunity to keep abreast of them, and was popular in so doing, but the shadow of the Seminary has always obscured the College. Its graduates, however, have always made good whenever tested, and are entitled to an honorary recognition by reason of their achievement with those of like educational institu­ tions in the land. J ustice required that a line of demarcation be drawn between the Seminary and the College, but this has never been accorded, and to-day it languishes because pro­ fessed friends have turned their backs to it at the last hour for the sake of a name; perhaps its light has gone out. Dr. Torsey closed his connection with the school as President of its Faculty with the Spring term of 1882, after thirty-eight years of continuous service. The latter years he had not been as efficient as formerly, by reason of impaired health, due to a reckless disregard of his physical powers, but that extreme personality was ever dominant. His aim ever �36 was to make men and women, rather than scholars, and he succeeded. Who that ever heard his impassioned address when a moment of inspiration was on him at the close of a chapel service was ever able to shake off the impression of the hour? He had his imperfections, like other great souls, but despite these he lived and will live in the larger life that his larger conception of life inspired in the life around him. All life is for eternity, and such lives lead the way up the ascending plane the generations of men are climbing, the ultimate of which is the Greater Man. CHAPTER XIII Bearce Hall One want supplied reveals another, and it was soon found that although a chapel and college recitation room had been temporarily supplied in Sampson Hall, the want of more class room was keenly felt. The teachers said: “We will not ask for a raise of salary if you will give us more room.” Planning for ways and means began anew. In 1871, Dr. Torsey’s Seminary was razed and the foundations of Bearce Hall laid, which was builded and first occupied the Fall term of 1874, at a cost of forty thousand dollars. This time a few men were prominent, and a general subscription avoided. Prominent among them were Samuel R. Bearce, of Lewiston, and William Deering, of Portland,—Mr. Bearce with twenty thousand dollars and Mr. Deering with six thousand for the chapel. Over twenty-five thousand dollars of interest-bearing funds are now in the hands of the Trustees, and twenty thousand, to which was later added fifty thousand from the estate of Dr. Eliphalet Clark, of Portland, in the keeping of the Maine Wesleyan Board of Education, the income of which was to be applied solely to instruction in the Seminary and College. Other funds had been contributed from time to time by generous friends for the benefit of students, library, etc., till the amount of investments for educational purposes exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A Con­ servatory of Music and Art School were among the attrac­ tions of the school. �37 This was the condition of affairs when Dr. Torsey retired at the close of the Spring term, 1882, and was succeeded by Rev. Edgar M. Smith. Mr. Smith was also a Maine boy, an alumnus of the Seminary, a graduate of Wesleyan University and a popular preacher. There was now at the head of the institution a highly cultured man, who was to make himself known as a great teacher. He soon demonstrated this in his classes, and in turn gave a scholarly tone to the facul ty board that reacted on the school. Especially was this felt in the Woman’s College, and in this he was greatly aided by Mrs. Smith—herself a graduate of the College—by reason of her charming personality, felt by any circle in which she moved. President Smith was capricious in his methods of disci­ pline, and therefore was not always a success for himself or with the students. He continued in charge till the close of the Spring term, 1893,—eleven years. He had become some­ what restive under the restraints of the Trustees by their not seconding some of his plans, and in June of that year he was elected to and accepted the presidency of the Montpelier, Vermont, Seminary. CHAPTER XIV Blethen and Ricker Halls When Dr. Smith came to Kent’s Hill there was no President’s House, Dr. Torsey living in his own house, but again generous friends came to the rescue and Blethen Hall was erected, Alden J. Blethen, an old-time student, contri­ buting half the cost. A business college was instituted by President Smith, which was very successful under its first Principal, William A. Barton. The increasing wants of the Music and Art Departments necessitated the building of Ricker Hall in 1893. This enter­ prise developed another generous giver in the person of J. S. Ricker, of Deering, for whom the hall was named. Later, steam heat was introduced into all the school buildings by installing a plant in the rear of Sampson Hall. Many improvements were projected and carried out during this �38 administration, but in providing for them the Trustees departed from the rule that had prevailed up to the close of Dr. Torsey’s administration, that no expenditures be incurred before there were means to pay for them; and a debt of con­ siderable dimensions was piling up. When Dr. Smith left the State he was beginning to be appreciated as a public speaker and gaining quite a popu­ larity thereby. Let it be known that he was to preach at a given place, and there would be a congregation to hear him. He was not particularly brilliant, but attractive in his dis­ course; of the kind people liked to hear. The quest for a successor to Dr. Smith was a prolonged one. No alumnus or eastern man was available, and the choice fell ultimately on the President of a western college in the person of Rev. Charles W. Gallagher, a graduate of Wesleyan. Mr. Gallagher came to Maine Wesleyan highly recom­ mended. A fine scholar, an entertaining speaker, he entered upon his work with a large degree of promise. The broadness of the Seminary’s work surprised him. Whereas he thought he was coming to a merely preparatory school, he found courses of study equal to, as he expressed it, two years in college. His wife was a woman of culture, and the interest she took in the young ladies of the Seminary and College was not only helpful to them, but an aid to him. He was in a measure successful in the school room, but for some reason had not the tact and control necessary to be exercised in a school of such mixed character, and in the Conference embroglio over the Frank Jones affair at the annual session in Portland, 1897, he took advantage of the situation to resign. This incident in the history of the Board of Trustees deserves, perhaps, a passing notice. At a meeting of the Trustees in Portland, in 1896, there were four vacancies to be filled in the Board. Nominations and election to three of them were made without comment, but when the fourth was reached there was a halt. At length J. S. Ricker, sitting in the middle of the room with his hands on his knees in a thoughtful mood, raised his head and said: “I have a man, F t �39 but don’t know what you will think of him,—it is Frank Jones. I have known Mr. Jones a good many years and have always found him a man; his word is as good as his bond, I asked him not long since what he was going to do with his money when he was done with it. ‘Oh,’ he replied, ‘there will be uses enough to put it to.’ I said, ‘Why don’t you put it where it will be doing good after you are gone?’ He asked where. I replied, ‘There is the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Woman’s College.’ He retorted, ‘I will if you will,’ and I answered back, ‘I have been doing it for three years; come on.’ ” Mr. Ricker said no more. The propriety of such a move was up to the Trustees. The vote on the election of Mr. Jones was nearly unanimous. President Gallagher and Dr. Allen refrained from voting. The Maine Conference was at the time in session at Auburn, but failed to notice the act of the Trustees. At the session in Portland, however, the following year, the matter was violently ventilated in a heated discussion. The result of the onslaught on Mr. Jones was, whereas he had purposed to equal the bequest of Mr. Ricker,—twenty-five thousand dollars—he ultimately cut it to ten thousand. CHAPTER XV Chase and Trefethen Administrations At the annual meeting of the Trustees in June, 1897, the President of the Board was authorized to engage A. Fitzroy Chase, then Principal of Bucksport Seminary, which he did before the meeting closed. President Chase was not unknown to Kent’s Hill. He had been a successful teacher of the department of Mathe­ matics during part of Dr. Torsey’s administration and was noted for his energy and forcefulness in whatever he under­ took; so much so that he often overstepped bounds; never­ theless, he was a great teacher. He was one of those men of quick comprehension, who take in the situation at a glance and proceed to act, regardless �■ 40 of others’ opinions, and hence their collisions. They are leaders; they cannot be trusted in the rear; they will run onto you. President Chase gave to the institution two forceful years of service. During the Fall term of 1899, he was attacked by a malignant abscess on his neck, whose virus soon entered the circulation, and he died October 22nd. Too early gone! On the decease of President Chase, Professor Henry Emerson Trefethen, Dean of the Woman’s College, was appointed by the Prudential Committee, Acting President, and continued to exercise that office during the school year and until he was elected President. Professor Trefethen did not take kindly to the office; its duties were irksome to him; he much preferred the quietude of his chair in Ancient Languages at a less salary, to the responsibilities of the presidential office, and was glad to resign it at the annual meeting in 1903. His administration was characterized by judicial firmness. He could not be aggressive, but was positive. He stoutly maintained that the student had rights that were to be carefully conserved, but woe to that student that forfeited his rights,—he appealed in vain. Professor Trefethen has been a long time in the service of the Seminary and College. He came to Kent’s Hill a young man at the beginning of his professional career. He has grown grey in the service. He has always retained the respect of the student body,—the one teacher of whom they have said, “If we ask Prof. Trefethen a question we do not have to wait till to-morrow to get an answer.” He has equally the confidence of the community around him. Public men who come in contact with him are surprised at the breadth of his knowledge in civic affairs, and accord him a high place as a man of sound judgment. We wish sometimes that he was more aggressive, more ambitious of position and distinction, that the things he has learned might benefit others more. May what he has been and still is to Maine Wesleyan Seminary long be recognized. �41 CHAPTER XVI W. F. Berry’s Administration On the retirement of President Trefethen from the presidency, in 1903, the Trustees elected one of their own number to the position,—Rev. Wilbur F. Berry, of the Maine Conference. Dr. Berry came to the presidency without the previous preparation of his predecessors. The little experience he had had as a teacher was afar off; his life-work had been in the ranks of the Christian ministry, where he had gained a deserved reputation. It was no surprise, therefore, that he found himself somewhat out of place at the head of a literary institution. He was not a failure, however, for, self-con­ tained, he turned his attention to the outside interests of the Seminary and College and succeeded in building them up by personal effort, as none of his immediate predecessors had. Such work is necessary to be done by somebody, and President Berry did it well. When he came to the presidency he was Secretary of the Maine Civic League, and that body had continually clamored for his return, to which call he yielded and resigned at the close of the Spring term, 1909. He is now reinstated in his former work, where he serves without a peer. CHAPTER XVII The Newton Administration Begins At the meeting of the Trustees, June, 1909, it was a debatable question how the vacant place of President should be filled and who should fill it. The Woman’s College had practically ceased to be; no need of a President for that. At length it was suggested that the Vice-President of the faculty be elected Principal of the Seminary, leaving the presidency to be cared for hereafter. The suggestion prevailed. John Orville Newton, Professor of Natural Science, had for two or three years filled that place, and, in the absence of �42 the President, had been the head of the discipline of the school. He was elected Principal without a dissenting vote. Professor Newton was well equipped for the work. He had had experience in the best of schools for discipline,—the common school. He knew the boys, and, perhaps, the girls, and has the tact to manage them successfully. He promises to make good. Beginning with Dr. Chase, the late Presidents have been of the alumni of the Seminary and graduates of Wesleyan University. A move of far-reaching intent was begun by some of the friends of the school during the summer vacation of 1910, having in view the providing of culture with entertainment. It is sought to accomplish this in the first instance by a highly finished and well furnished recreation room on the first floor of Sampson Hall, on the boys’ side, where healthful games and pleasant sports can be enjoyed; and an equally attractive drawing room on the girls’ side, where they can turn aside for an hour from the tiresome drill of the text-book to the joy and freedom of social intercourse. This is an initial step Towards admitting the claim of most cultured men and women that something besides the letter makes for education. If this develops, as is hoped it will, then may it be demon­ strated with the opening of this twentieth century that the true object of an education, as a few choice spirits have always claimed, is the making of men and women—the development of manhood and womanhood that will always and everywhere adorn society. ��1 ■ ■- �History of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary by Hon. E. R. French PORTLAND SMITH & SALE, PRINTERS 1019 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commemoration Publications Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Geology, Chemistry, Biology, Outing Club, Skiing Margaret Bisbee, Salem Teachers' College - Basic Mathematics, Bookkeeping, Recorder Louise Gilbert, Wheaton A. B. - French, Spanish, Skiing Edna Canham, Bates A. B. - English, French, Algebra Bowdoin Barnes, Bowdoin B. S. - Mathematics Barbara Hall, Sargent B. S. - Anatomy, Physiology, Biology, Physical Education William A. Vellante, Boston University B. S. - General Science, Physical Education Raymond E. Blois, Boston University Ph. D, - Latin, French, English, Sociology, Dancing, Tennis Dominic Fiorillo, Clark B. A. - History, Physical Education, International Relations Club Grace Dow, Columbia B, S. - English, Public Speaking Jane Wein, - Assistant in Physical Education Audrey Gray - Choir, Voice Clarice Smith - Piano Malcolm Swett, Middlebury B. S. - Mathematics, Physical Education �SENIOR CLASS Ruth Addison Mary Balestri Charles Barr Philip Black Alice Card Phyllis Colbath Richard Elias Carolyn Felch Berton Galouch Elizabeth Giles Carol Graham Mary Hathaway Sidney Kramer Harlan Luce Elinor Megert Virginia McMichael Dermott McSorley Medb McSorley Clemente Narcisse, Jr. Harry Richardson Louise Sawyer Charles Trueman David Turner Russell Walters Daisy Welch Randall Whitten Helen Wright Barbara Wyman Dorothy Young JUNIOR COLLEGE Violet Peterson LIST Lancaster, Mass. West Springfield, Mass. Rockport, Me. Castine, Me. Lubec, Me. Presque Isle, Me. Readfield, Me. Malden, Mass. Readfield, Me, Readfield, Me. Melrose, Mass. Warren, Mass. East Lynn, Mass. Readfield, Me. South Portland; Me. Boston, Mass. Mt. Vernon, Me. Mt. Vernon, Me. New Bedford, Mass.. Portland, Me. South Portland, Me. Bethesda, Md. Mt. Vernon, Me. Kents Hill, Me. Readfield, Me. Rockwood, Me. Fayette, Me. Mt. Vernon, Me. Concord, Mass. SENIOR CLASS Milton, Mass. LIST �SUPERLATIVES C. Narcisse S. Kramer C. T rueman D. McSorley D. McSorley S. Kramer R. Whitten C. Narcisse C. Narcisse C. Trueman D. Turner D. McSorley S. Kramer S. Kramer S. Kramer S. Kramer D. Turner C. Barr C. Barr P. Black R. Whitten D. McSorley P. Black D. McSorley B. Galouch S. Trefethen H. Richardson Most Popular Most Musical Most Melancholy Most Conceited Most Argumentative Most Likely To Succeed Best Dancer Best Looking Best Dressed Class Saint Class Clown Class Bluffer Class Ear-Banger Class Flirt Class Grind Class Actor Class Pest Class Benefactor Class Athlete Class Moocher Wittiest Laziest Snootiest Noisiest Quietest Cutest Inseparable st ■ L. Sawyer C. Graham V. McMichael P. Colbath M. McSorley C. Graham P. Colbath L. Sawyer L. Sawyer E. Megert M. Hathaway M. McSorley R. Addison M. Balestri E. Megert V. Peterson H. Wright M. Balestri M. Balestri M. McSorley A. Card V. McMichael D. Young D. Young V. McMichael V. Peterson L. Sawyer �CLASS HISTORY This item on our program is called the history, but it also has aspects al­ lied with other subjects in our curriculum. For instance, consider biology. All of you recall that certain lower forms of life multiply by division. Note here that this class, which in the fall of 1942 numbered fourteen, now graduates thirtythree strong. There are respects in which the history of every class is the same. Those obvious features I shall pass over and rather point out the various ways in which our little group is unique among Kents Hill classes. For instance, we are the first class to have entered under Mr. Dunn’s administration, and we can give to him whatever glory is due the one who has been our sole guide through the past four years. To continue speaking of statistics, m our first year the war manpower shortage cut down the football eleven to six men, whose strength was as the strength of ten at least. We cut a fine figure tiptoeing through the beets and turnips on Harvest Day. Two members were subtracted from the faculty in April, when Mr. Swett, our dean of boys, and Mr. Dennis were called by Uncle Sam to take orders instead of giving them at Kents Hill as they had done so well. By Commencement Day, 1943, some of our members had begun to stand out from the group by reason of individual achievement. On that occasion the award for the highest scholastic standing in the freshman class for the year was won by Russell Walters. An innovation in the school program in the fall of our sophomore year was the annual fall banquet in honor of all the workers connected in any way with the school. If all the guests of honor do as well as Ralph Lane does in preparing the banquet supper they receive their just desserts. borne of the highlights of the year were the publication of five issues of the revived Maroon and Gray, and the second annual trip of a group of boys to Mount Washington under the guidance of Mr, Goldthwait, our faculty geologist and outdoorsman extraordinary. Of all things the boys beat Winthrop at bas­ ketball! The girls so distinguished themselves that they made a trip all the way to the University of Maine to exhibit their hoop marksmanship. The fact that such a sport may be a game of chance as well as skill, however, is pro­ ved by the fact that in the faculty-student basketball game the faculty won. The Winter Carnival Ball climaxed a day of ski events and sleigh-riding, with Ernie Pentheny and Jay Northrup crowned rulers of all they surveyed. Twice during the winter season the young men from Camp Keyes were guests at school parties to the delight of the girls at least. In May our <annua] Spring Day found us hiking to Brown’s Point on Echo Lake, where we arrived . _ with -----1 no lack of appetite for a picnic supper. Some of us were still able to dance that evening in the dining> room. Once again June came in with Commencement exercises, during which the Reverend Cymbrid Hughes of Augusta delivered a memorable baccalaureate ser? mon. History and Russell Walters repeated themselves at Commencement when the latter won the highest award for scholarship in the class for the year. �In the fall of 1944 we returned to school as upperclassmen and Miss Rice returned as Mrs. Gordon. The girls opened the athletic season by picking po­ tatoes - training which enabled them to come through the field hockey season undefeated. The boys started out enthusiastically to form the first eleven-man football squad in three j ears. The practices became rock-slinging duels with manager Sid Kramer taking all honors. All the boys lacked to win games was an occas­ ional touchdown. The season should not be regarded as a total loss because of this deficiency, for, on account of the weather, the boys had lots of swimming practice on the field. In October the students enjoyed the second annual Country Fair sponsored by the Girls’ Athletic Association. The busy Christmas season was memorable for two events. One was the beautiful and inspiring Christmas Vesper Service in Torsey Memorial Church at which Dr. Drumm preached the sermon and the girls’ choir sang Christmas carols. The other was a program of three plays, ‘Right About Face’,*A Mess­ age from Khufu’, and ‘Antic Spring’, presented in the Newton Gymnasium under the direction of Miss Vivian Russell. During the snow season the ski team enjoyed speeding down the hill to Torsey Pond on the fine trail that the Outing Club had cleared in the fall. In the Winter Carnival held January 27 the Kents Hill boys won the ski meet. At the ball that evening Lew Mason and Jean Bunten were chosen king and queen. The boys’ ski team also won ski meets at Jay and Wilton, with Chuck Barr as the outstanding skier. Both boys and girls enjoyed an active basketball season. The boys played a thirteen game schedule - a fact that might seem significant to the super­ stitious. Their feelings were salved by a double victory over Richmond, which pleased everyone but Larry Bond. The spring dramatic production, ‘Second Fiddle', found Sidney Kramer playing second to none as the silent (!) butler. The great May blizzard failed to cool the enthusiasm of the cast, although it did postpone their rollicking performance for a week. The baseball season was somewhat dampened by the weather, with the boys playing seven out of eleven scheduled games and winning four. The girls’ softball team was undefeated, rain or no rain. The two athletic associations closed the season with a banquet apiece - the boys at Cates’ and the girls at the Augusta House. On June third we heard Dr. Drumm deliver the baccalaureate sermon, realiz­ ing wistfully that next year it would be delivered for us. At the graduation ex­ ercises, Charles Barr was awarded the Kreuger prize as the most all-around ju­ nior, and Sidney Kramer received highest scholastic honors for the junior year. �We started our senior year with six returning reacners and seven new ones whose acquaintance we were glad to make. The social season started on a perfect full day with a picnic for all the stu­ dents and faculty at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cushman. Sports and a picnic lunch on the shore of Parker Pond made an enjoyable program for every­ one. The fall athletic program for the girls included, as usual, potato-picking and field hockey, both activities designed for the discovery of new muscles. The field hockey team, coached by Miss Barbara. Hall, came through its second sea­ son without a defeat. Seniors playing on the team were Mary Balestri, Dorothy Young, Daisy Welch, Carol Graham, Mary Johnson, Stevie Sawyer, Violet Peter­ son, and Elizabeth Giles. The Girls’ Athletic Association elected as officers Violet Peterson, Stevie Sawyer, and Mary Balestri. Two new football coaches, Mr. Vellante and Mr. Fiorillo, drilled the boys so effectively that they broke their record of tOo long standing and won a game. Senior members of the team were Charles Barr, Richard Elias, Charles Trueman, Russell Walters, Sanford Trefethen, Harry Richardson, Dermott McSorley, Har­ lan Luce, Philip Black, Randall Whitten. The Outing Club spent the beautiful autumn afternoons clearing the ski slope. The new International Relations Club was formed under the direction of Mr. Fiorillo, the history instructor. Officers of the organization were Dermott McSorley, Sidney Kramer, Carol Graham, and Charles Barr. Programs de­ signed to stimulate interest in current world affairs featured talks by guest speakers followed by general discussion. Those whom the club had the pri­ vilege of hearing were Mr. O’Flaherty, on the subject of Nazism, Dr. Raymond E. Blois, on the possibility of conflict between Russia and the United States, Mr. Richard Elias, on the effect of Nazism on European youth, and Dr. Maloof, on the Arab side of the Palestine question. I i I In October the Country Fair provided a colorful evening with the usual offer­ ing of games of skill to which was added the greatest possible attraction - facul­ ty members (Blois, Vellante, Fiorillo, and Dunn) who exposed themselves at in­ tervals as targets for beanbag-throwing students. Every flunky had his day. For several weeks in the fall feminine voices raised in chorus and masculine voices drawling southern dialogue were heard in rehearsal for the minstrel show which was presented December first. The directors were Miss Russell and Mr. Blois, the latter also serving as interlocutor. The black-faced boys were Char­ les Barr, Sidney Kramer, Gerald French, Weston Dow, Richard Elias, and Cur­ tis Dalton, with two ebony gals, Dorrice Stairs and Sallie Hamilton. On December 8 the girls had a chance to model their evening finery at the Christmas formal dance at which Ralph Lane's Crusaders furnished the music. The Boys Athletic Association sponsored the affair for which the decorations were in charge of Sidney Kramer, Charles Trueman, Donn Worth, and Paul W right. �The The Torsey Torsey Memorial Church was decorated with Christmas greens and can­ dles for the annual Christmas Vesper Service, which was presided over by Dr. dies J Drumm, with the choir, under the direction of Mrs. Audrey Gray, furnishing the musical program. The winter sports program included basketball, skiing, and, for the first time in several years, ice hockey on a fine new rink, with coaching by Mr. Dunn, This group of necessity made a slow start, but showed constant improvement - achievement than any number of easy victories. The and enthusiasm - a bettei 1 girls’ ski group practised on the slope near the Outing Club cabin under the of Miss Gilbert. The girls’ basketball was coached by Miss Hall SUjjpervision _____ _________ with four seniors, Mary Balestri, Dorothy Young, Carol Felch, and Ruth Addi­ son on the team. For the first time in three years, the boys’ basketball sea­ son included moTA more wins wins than than losses, losses, eight eight victories victories and and seven seven defeats. defeats, The team was ably coached by Mr. Vellante and Mr. Fiorillo. The Winter Carnival opened February first with a hockey game with Dixfield in the afternoon, and a double victory over Wilton in basketball in the evening. Saturday morning the ski team defeated Wilton. A hockey game in the afternoon and the Snow Ball in the evening completed the program. By student vote Patricia Lucas and Burton Finigan were proclaimed visiting royalty. Kents Hill Night at Readfield Grange featured the Girls' Glee Club, specialty, numbers, and a contredanse demonstration. In April senior class officers were elected as follows: Clement Narcisse, president; Medb McSorley, vice-president; Elizabeth Giles, secretary; Russell Wal­ ters, treasurer. The spring sports were just getting underway as we went to press. Baseball, coached by Mr. Vellante, found the following recruits among the seni­ ors: Charles Barr, Philip Black, Sidney Kramer, Harry Richardson, Charles Tru­ eman, Harlan Luce, David Turner. Track, coached by Mr. Fiorillo and Mr. Swett, attracted Dermott McSorley, Clemente Narcisse, Randall Whitten. Tennis, directed by Mr. Blois, was played by Phyllis Colbath, Carol Graham, Virginia McMichael, Medb McSorley. 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Harrison, Evelyn Bisbee, Eleanor White, Madeline Girard, Despina Cicma, Joan Gray. Front row: Sallie Hamilton, Nancy Gardiner, Carol Libbey, Shirley Pebbles, Dorrice Stairs, Patricia French, Joan Dudley. �CLASS WILL Be it known that we, the graduating class of 1946, being sane of mind and sound of body, so they tell us, do hereby declare and record this will as our last testament. We do give, unload upon, and bequeath as follows: To our ever-suffering faculty and our headmaster, Mr. Dunn, we seniors leave our sincere appreciation for everything they have done to make our years at Kents Hill happy and memorable, and oui* sincerest wishes for the progress and success of the school in the years to come.. To the struggling undergraduates we bequeath all our crib notes and trots that they may attain as high a class average« as we have. All our individual worldly possessions we bequeath as follows: I, Charlie Barr, do bequeath to Bob Burtt my ability to ski, and my aptitude for breaking at least two pairs of skis per year, not to mention bones. I, Sid Kramer, do hereby leave my Charles Boyer technique to Harry Thomp­ son in the hope that he will wow the women with better success than I have. I, Mary Balestri, do leave my flirtatious abilities to Alice Quinn. I, Carol Graham, do bequeath my indecision about who-shall-be-the-Light-ofmy-Life-tomorrow to Marcia Fyfe. I, Mary Hathaway, do leave to Elly White my aptness for breaking every rule in the girls’ dormitory, hoping she will not get caught as often as I did. I, Dottie Young, do leave my explosive temper to the nearest atomic bomb. I, Randall Whitten, do leave my big beak to my kid brother so that it will no longer get in the way of my love-life. We, Betty Giles and Daisy Welch, do leave our ability < ' " „ to split dates _ to_ Ginger 2__o_. Welch and Marian Luce, hoping that their boy friends will not always run out of gas as ours did. I, Russell Walters, do bequeath my ability to coin new phrases to Bob Stevens. I» Huck Luce, do leave my job as ftaxi driver for Readfield day-hops to my sister, who I hope will keep between the telephone poles. I, Dick Elias, do leave my profound knowledge of all subjects to the freshman whiz-kid, Leer-oy Flagg. I, Helen Louise Wright, leave my startled hair-do to Charlotte Parks, together with three hundred and sixty-six bottles of Slickum, which should, if used ec­ onomically, last her for a year and a day. �I, Elinor Megert, do bequeath my acquaintance witn every minister within a fifty-one mile radius of Portland to Charlie Flight in case he wants to get mar­ ried some day. We, the third floor senior boys, leave to our successors rubber-soled shoes so that they can tiptoe past Mr. Gordon’s door on Sunday morning in silence and safety. I, Stevie Sawyer, do leave my near-sightedness to the next girl who will occu­ py my seat in the front row of the movies every Saturday night; as for the boy who sits beside me, I won’t leave him for a minute longer than I have to. I, Alice Card, do leave my Maine accent to some good Mainiac, if any. I, Dermott McSorley, do leave my love-me-or-leave-me technique with the women to me encantas Cano, the Cubano. I, Medb McSorley, (the other one), do leave some of me, of whom there is too much, to my room-mate, Joy Cohen, of whom there is too little. I, Burton Galouch, do leave my quiet mien to Gaylord Boutilier, because you can’t have too much of a good thing. I, Ruth Addison, do bequeath my ability to go along with the gag to Shirley Pebbles who after dishing it out, I hope will be able to take it. I, Carol Felch, do leave my hours spent in solitary, that is, room detention, to the instigator of it all, Ray Van Tassel. I, Phil Black, do leave my seat in the back row of our ‘local Bijou’ to the next far-sighted couple fore-sighted enough to get there early. I, Dave Turner, do bequeath my pet hobby to Dick Murch who also likes to tease the girls. I, Doc Narcisse, do leave to Bill Post and Paul Wright permission to look for the weekends I lost in Lewiston, together with one stretcher and a box of aspirin. I, Barbara Wyman, leave the overland stage from Mount Vernon, daily, to our mutual relief. I, Virginia McMichael, do leave my room-mate, Joan Harrison, to Senorita Gilbert, who understands a Pennsylvanian in Dutch. I, Charles Trueman, bequeath my zip to the Talon Fastener Company, and to some tired turtle tottering toward the tape. I, Gundy Richardson, do leave my chapel racket-rousing job with three cheers, and bequeath my tomato-red face, reserved for such occasions, to the Camp­ bell soup ads. I �I, Violet Peterson, do leave my best skirt to someone who realizes that both in women's wear and wit brevity is the soul of It. This will, having been signed, sealed, and recorded this first day of June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, we offer our names in testimony: I OUR SEal I �CLASS PROPHECY This gay little scene occurs approximately one quarter of a century from now .n the smoker at Kents Hill School, Kents Hill, Maine, One of the occupants of the room is deeply engrossed in the contents of a newspaper, From her concenttration comes the following conversation about the recent events as offered by the paper: I see here that Mary Hathaway, who is an instructor in the Readfield Primary School, has been committed to a neighboring house of correction on the charge of mistreating one of her pupils. And also have you heard some more astounding news? Stevie Sawyer, who, as you probably know, soon after her graduation assumed responsibility for the fin­ ancial success of Sawyer, Barker, and Company, has accepted a new position at Frank Allen’s place of business, and is selling Worcester-made suspenders. And did you know that the reason behind Stevie’s transferring to another company is that she was instrumental in causing the tragic bankruptcy which resulted in the dissolution of her entire company soon after she took charge of the business? ;■ ■ ■ And more scandal about Stevie I You remember, of course, the fellow she married? He went to Kents Hill, too, you remember. Well, up to a very short time ago he was a very good doctor with a fine reputation, but now it seems that he is serving a prison sentence as the result of a lawsuit pressed by a certain Mr. Fiorillo, once a member of the Kents Hill faculty. The doctor mistreated the Signor for an injury of long standing or - well - to his back with the result that he is listing severely to starboard. Other practitioners have since tried in vain to shift his cargo. Incidentally, there is more to this story than at first meets the eye. This damage dates back to the college days of Mary Balestri at Illinois, where Mary, the first female left tackle ever to play for Illinois, on a crowded field mistook Signor Fiorillo for one of her opponents, and in her usual enthusiastic manner, violently tackled him-, putting a permanent warp in his personality. For old times sake, the Signor preferred not to prefer charges. Encouraged by this success, Mary has entered the professional wrestling field with Dottie Young as her sparring partner. While we are on the subject of the world of sports you would no doubt be in­ terested in Sid Kramer’s thriving business. It seems that Sidney is racing mid­ get arttos up and down the grass plot in the middle of the Newburyport Turnpike and none other than good ole Ede Addison is the very competent manager of this enterprise. A short time ago a tight situation was created when Barbara Wyman and David Turner eloped in one of Sid's midget cars. In their swift take-off they were inter­ cepted by Charlie Trueman, the traffic cop, who overtook them. . .well, he was riding a motorcycle. . . well, they were not going so very fast . . . well, may­ be the car broke down. A slight difficulty arose, however, when it was dis­ covered that it was impossible to remove the happy couple from the car. This I �was finally done by the Walters, Barr, and Luce Manufacturing Company by means of an atomic device which they created for this emergency. I Another former Kents Hill student who has gone into show business is Elinor Megert. She is presenting the second public performance of her gala new pro­ duction, including the famous tattooed ladies, ‘Black Jack’ Card and ‘Wiggie’ Colbath. A short time ago Miss Megert presented the world premiere of her performance at Ma McSorley’s exclusive Musical Mousetrap. Medb has a rush­ ing business, with the bouncer, Doormat, the star of thw whole show, acting as the bum-rusher. I heard also that that lover of everything Irish, “Green Tie’ Galouch, had a bit of trouble there when the bouncer exercised his office. . and Galouch. Incidentally, the other day when I was in Melrose, Massachusetts, I saw a pair of very familiar and very vivid green trousers trudging along the street, together with someone with a very familiar walk. Do we have to tell them whom you were with, ‘Felchie’? Speaking of romance (and what else is there to talk about?), our eminent Fuller Brush salesman, Richard Elias, has shown the value of his training in that business by literally sweeping Virginia McMichael off her feet, thus demon­ strating the high quality of his product. Ah, Love! Ah love in broom! A local visitor to Boston Common reports having seen a bevy of southern gals weathering the northern gales on the swan boats. You-all should have heard their Maryland accents and seen the cute bows in their hair! The pompous captain of the fleet was none other than our old friend, Phil Black We know now that it was no hornpipe-dream that led us to think the Castine boy would some day become an admirable admiral. Phil may never get to salt water but he can enjoy being a big frog in a small pond. 4 I see here that Chester Gould has resigned as the creator of that comic strip character, Dick Tracey, who is now being made by Violet Peterson, otherwise known as ‘Gravel Gertie*. She has added a new character to the already colossal list of personalities of that strip in a certain sleek sheik, Narcisse, who in the last installment was riding a camel a mile for a smile from a harcm-scarum Syrian. Our absent-minded friend, Deacon Charles Trueman, stood before the mirror the other day for nearly three hours wondering where he had seen that face be­ fore, and then it all came back to him . . . Sanky Trefethen, who is now driving the most valuable car in town, most valuable since it is the oldest, says the antique will now run without a speedometer. He has his own methods for determining the rate of speed, At eleven miles an hour the headlights fall off; at seventeen miles an hour the windows fall out; at twenty-six miles an hour the doors fall in; if it goes thirty miles an hour - he’s dreaming; if it goes forty miles an hour- he wakes up. Randy vVhitten, First Class Technique-al Sergeant, while with the occupation forces in Japan chose his own occupation collecting souvenirs that would be attractive to himself and Wendy. He finally located twin geisha girls. With that the speaker folded the paper, saying, The Kents Hill boys always did have a line, but it takes the class of ‘46 to make the headlines. ■I I ■ �CLASS 0 ODE Now I must leave thee, Now I must from thee part; Always within my heart Memory will cling. I Campus so dear to me, Bell that rang merrily, All joys elude me now Since I must go. To him who wishes work No task will be too small, Our best we’ll give to all, No task too great. Dear school, we’ll honor thee, As to new lives we bow Sadly we look back now Though this we hail. Four years once seemed so long In scenes we loved so well, Now no return we’ll tell New paths to come. No time will ever change Friendships these years we knew; Loyalty each year grew. Bless dear Kents Hill!! Helen Louise Wright ■ ! - 1 �AUTOGRAPHS �'C “'" sww® ■ ' \: I ■i' ■ I rn i i ■ * ’ • i • * t i i �BifMMiiaiili KENTS HILL � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yearbooks Subject The topic of the resource Polaris 1943-2022 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yearbook, 1946 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1946