Word: hackett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hackett, George Haydock...
Small, neat, pink-cheeked Headmaster Frank Hackett launched Riverdale on a shoestring. As a young assistant headmaster of a Manhattan school, he brought a group of small boys home from an outing one day, found an older boy on the school steps dead drunk...
...Frank Hackett thereupon decided to start a school in a wholesome atmosphere. By having his pupils commute, instead of keeping them as boarders, he proposed to combine the advantages of country school life and "the steadying influences of a good home." Encouraged by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, Hackett sank his capital, $500, into a quarter's rent on an old Riverdale house, where he opened his school in the fall of 1907 with twelve students. He canvassed apartment houses for pupils and was one of the first headmasters to use display advertisements...
Headmaster Hackett puts his boys through a stiff curriculum. Nearly all of them go on to college: 85% of them get by the College Boards at the first try. Riverdale musicians give a concert every year in Manhattan's Town Hall; until the war Riverdale boys toured Europe on bicycles. Two Riverdale boys, musicians' sons and themselves musicians, Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr., were pioneers in the development of color photography...
Third Period: Scoring--(H) Harding (McGrath) 2:26; (H) Loring (unassisted) 2:45; (H) Hackett (Burton) 7:57; (P) Schmon (unassisted) 13:45. Saves--Fenn 12, Kelley...