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...custom for all new presidents and headmasters to speak at the meeting which takes place in the year of their inauguration. Two other new presidents, President Bancroft Beatly of Simmons College, and President Hugh F. Baker of Massachusetts State College, and one new headmaster, Claude M. Fuess of Phillips Andover Academy, also spoke...
Andover's Fuess...
Andover's trustees have elected a new headmaster. Dr. Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, June 5) to succeed Headmaster Alfred Ernest ("Al") Stearns, resigned because of illness. No introductions were necessary; Dr. "Jack" Fuess, 48, has taught English at Andover since 1908. He became acting headmaster in March upon the death of Dr. Charles Henry Forbes, who had functioned during Dr. Stearns's absence. Bald, smooth-faced "Jack" Fuess (pronounced "Feece") has long edited the alumni bulletin and is secretary of the alumni fund. His fame reaches far beyond Andover as a scholarly biographer of Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz...
Tall, well set up, "Jack" Fuess went to Amherst where he roomed for a year with Bruce Barton and knew its present President Stanley King. He married an Andover girl. Elizabeth Gushing Goodhue (no kin to Grace Goodhue Coolidge), has a son, John Gushing Fuess, who will be Harvard's baseball manager in 1935. The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover. "Jack" Fuess plays good contract bridge, good golf. When he dubs he remembers his German ancestry and cries: "Drei hundert tausend donnerwetters...
Elected. Dr. Claude Moore Fuess, 48, acting headmaster of famed Phillips Academy (Andovcr. Mass.), to be headmaster, succeeding Dr. Alfred E. Stearns. Biographer, historian, lecturer, Dr. Fuess has taught English at Andover since 1908, will be the school's tenth head. Resigned. William John Cooper, 51, U. S. Commissioner of Education since 1929; to become professor of education at George Washington University (Washington...