Word: franke
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...sending their sons there. Though Deerfield children could still come free, the academy became one of the top ten private prep schools in the U.S. (total charge: $1,600), with a waiting list as long as any. Exeter's Principal Lewis Perry described the rise of Deerfield under Frank Boyden as "magic." Yale gave Boyden an honorary degree "for his researches into the minds and hearts of boys...
Last week, hundreds of Boyden's boys were back at Deerfield for the school's 150th anniversary. The school put on a pageant, complete with oxen, stagecoach, blunderbusses, and a tableau of the Deerfield Massacre of1704.* But the sight most visitors had come to see was Frank Boyden himself...
...anniversary time, Frank Boyden had almost 500 boys and a campus that spread over the heart of old Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the last of a generation of great headmasters-a man who cannot show a visitor to Deerfield an empty classroom without shaking his head. "You should see it full of boys," he says. "It's not right without boys...
When Editor Louis Seltzer fed Staffer Frank Stewart a fancy lunch one day in 1938 and then "promoted" him to church editor of the Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then...
...years "on the God beat" for the Press since that Sunday, Frank Stewart has been a welcome stranger at 550 of Cleveland's 800 churches, and his Monday column on the editorial page ("A Stranger Goes to Church") has become probably the liveliest and best-read newspaper church column in the U.S. This week, at its first meeting in Buffalo, the Religious Newswriters Association took official note of this; it elected 55-year-old Frank Stewart president...