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Discipline & Purpose. Growing up in Manhattan, where his father was vicar of St. Chrysostom's Chapel, "Pater," as generations of school boys affectionately called him, had no idea of becoming a prep-school headmaster. At Columbia College, he enjoyed himself while he edited the Spectator, was a campus social lion, coxed the crew, and took five years to get his degree. Not until he had spent a year as a newspaper reporter did he start thinking about the ministry. Then, in the Anglo-Catholic faith of the monastic Order of the Holy Cross, he found the discipline and purpose...
...down farmhouse on the banks of the Housatonic. On the first night, the cook fell ill and the houseboy sprained his ankle. The 18 students and three-man faculty had to pitch in to clean away what was left of the debris of generations of indifferent housekeeping. Pater managed the kitchen. Thus began the self-help system that continued even as the school prospered...
...head of the school. But he stayed on at Kent, living in his modest house, watching over the school he loved. He still attended regular meetings of the school trustees, and every Sunday afternoon some of the senior boys gathered to hear one of their number read a paper Pater had prepared. The weekly column "Pater Recalls" still ran in the Kent News, and letters went out steadily to Kent alumni all over the world. Not until last week did the youthful energy run down. At 78, after 46 years of service to his school, Father Sill died...
Mother & Mankind. Walter Pater tried to pierce her veils with a poetic sigh: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times . . . and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands...
Alma Mater or Rich Pater...