Word: romford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FRANCIS GILROY ROMFORD...
...Romford School, perched in the Litchfield Hills, will be on the grounds of an old school of the same name, which folded in 1942. Its 60 students will pay a tuition of $1,580 a head. Its brash slogan: "College preparation PLUS...
...politics, science and industry, serving as kind of visiting scoutmasters, will supply the "plus." A regular faculty will prepare the boys for college; Stettinius & Co. will "prepare them for life." Each of the 15 big-name visitors has promised to spend two weeks of the school year on Romford's 680 acres-teaching, hiking, fishing and just chatting with the boys. Says the catalogue: that way a Romford graduate should develop "an interest beyond the next dance...
Publisher William B. Ziff, amateur aviation enthusiast and determined author (The Gentlemen Talk of Peace), is the man behind the Romford plan. Explains Ziff: "My son went to an ordinary prep school, but his real education was picked up in our home-meeting the industrialists, statesmen, journalists and educators who are my friends." Ziff wanted to see a school with "the advantages of a first-class salon...
...Romford's headmaster-to-be, Joseph Stetson, a teacher of science in Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...