Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remembers Mrs. Thayer...
...your issue of Dec. 2 under the caption "Education" you comment on Dr. William G. Thayer's retirement as Headmaster of St. Mark's School. TIME'S lack of space undoubtedly prevented the correspondent from writing many complimentary things about Dr. Thayer, of his influence on the many hundred boys who have been placed under his care for six years and in what high regard and affection he is held by all graduates, but irrespective of the lack of space, no mention of St. Mark's School or Dr. Thayer is complete without mention...
...years of Dr. Thayer's Headmastership, Mrs. Thayer has been his constant and never failing assistant. From the day a boy enters St. Mark's at the age of twelve as a first former he is always conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates...
...Parker, Parker, W. F. Pedersen, Donough Prince, F. E. Remick, Brewster Righter, E. T. Ritter, W. C. Ropes, J. H. Rowell, H. E. Scott, P. M. Sheldon, F. E. Shipp, R. S. Shuman, C. V. L. Smith, C. F. Sommers, R. W. Stokes, W. K. Sturges, J. A. Thayer, H. E. Thorner, J. N. Trainer Jr., E. T. Tryon, P. A. Tyko, R. C. Walker, A. A. Weeks Jr., W. L. West, J. W. West, J. W. Welch Jr., C. A. Wheeler, H. O. Wilson, W. M. Wing, F. C. Winston...
...world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest...