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HENRY H. RICHARDS Groton School Groton, Mass...
...Shaun Kelly Jr., 33, nephew of Groton's Headmaster John Crocker, was appointed headmaster of Virginia's Woodberry Forest School...
While 250 trackmen cavort in the Stadium across the road, the Varsity lacrosse team will play a squad composed of former college stars from the Boston Lacrosse Club tomorrow at 3 o'clock on the Business School Field. The Freshmen lacrosse team plays Lawrence Academy at Groton...
...grandson of U.S. ambassadors (to Japan and Italy), Link MacVeagh gave no early sign that he would follow the family calling. Educated at Groton and Harvard, his interests were literary and classical. For ten years, as a highbrow publisher (the Dial Press), his heart was in the highlands of Greece. Commuting between Manhattan and Connecticut, he read Ulysses' voyages instead of Dow-Jones averages...
This preoccupation with things Hellenic impressed another Groton-Harvard graduate and good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, who sent MacVeagh to Athens as Minister Plenipotentiary in 1933. MacVeagh followed the presentation of his credentials with a speech in classical Greek which few of his hearers understood but all applauded. Since then he has learned modern Greek, which is less euphonious but more useful. An amateur archeologist, he has scrabbled under the ruins of the Acropolis for the broken dishes of pre-Christian housewives...