Word: putney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, she averred, would "break through some of the traditional ideas of education for adolescents." In the rolling dairy country near Putney, Vt., she bought up 620 acres of farmland, pitched in with her first pupils (54 boys and girls) and teachers to equip classrooms and a library, convert outbuildings into dormitories...
...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...
Inevitably, Putney's unorthodox approach drew fire from more conventional competitors, although Putney's graduates held their own with their college classmates. Moreover, when two of Director...
...publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...
...Belmont, Mass.; Frederick B. Churchill of Belmont, Mass.; Ernest B. Dane 3d of Newport, R. I.; Lindsay E. Fischer of Colorado Springs, Col.; Harrison Gardner Jr. of Wenham, Mass.; Daryl R. Hawkins of Seattle, Wash.; Noel H. Scullin of Newton Centre, Mass.; Hans C. Vitzthum (Capt.) of Putney, Vt.; John H. Vohr of New Hampton, N. H.; Roger F. Langley Jr. of Barre, Mass...