Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss., the money was still rolling in. It came, largely in five-and ten-dollar bills, from people all over the U.S. who wrote to applaud the 147-year-old prep school for turning down Oilman George W. Armstrong's proposed endowment with a crackpot list of "white supremacy" strings attached (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week, with $9,314 in the till from well-wishers, Jefferson had enlisted a special fundraiser. He was Vice Admiral Aaron Stanton ("Tip") Merrill, a Pacific task force commander in World War II and onetime chief of Navy public...
Poly Guyda's freshman team will also have holiday action tomorrow, traveling to Milton. Yardling inside right Pete Baker played with Milton last season when the '52 freshmen beat the prep schoolers...
...summer vacation from prep school, Harold Lloyd Jr., 17, got a one-picture job acting for Sam Goldwyn. His role: a non-comic high-school boy. Already working in Hollywood, John Barrymore Jr., 17, got a look at his profile in the rushes of his first movie. Marveled he: "It's amazing. I merely said some words while the camera was grinding, and it comes out acting...
...childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...
...contribution to the school's funds ceased, in 1924, Boyden went out and raised money to make up the difference. Governors, judges and college presidents began 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...