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Died. Dr. William Beach Olmsted, 55, longtime headmaster of Pomfret School; at Pomfret, Conn. (see page...
Last week through the bare boles of the trees, past the stocky, red-brick buildings of Pomfret School, a sombre hearse made its way. As it must to all men, Death had come to Headmaster William Beach Olmsted, whom Pomfret boys have affectionately, awesomely known as "Mr. O" for 32 years. Pomfret boys knew that he was not leaving the school as he had found...
Graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1887, Professor Olmsted began teaching at St. Mark's. In 1897 he left to go to what was then called Peck's School, a sparse collection of school buildings on a hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...
...Hotchkiss Marting, F. L. '30 Line 21 200 6. Exeter Miller, H. C., Jr. '30 Back 21 180 5.10 Taft Palmer, A. E., Jr. '30 Line 21 198 6.2 Shaw High, Cleveland Rotan, E., 2nd. '32 Line 19 225 6.3 Hotchkiss Snead, C. S. '31 Back 22 186 6. Pomfret Stewart, J. R. '31 Line 20 200 6. Andover Strange, A. B., Jr. '32 Line 20 182 5.11 St. Paul's Taylor, A. T. '32 Back 21 186 5.11 Milwaukee Country Day Tyson, M. '32 End 22 195 6. Exeter Ulhiein, J. E., Jr. '32 End 21 200 6.4 Milwaukee...
...motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most architecture students. At the age of 16 he went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years...