Columbus Academy Spring2011 : Page 5
1. Founder James L. Hamill 2. Headmaster Frank P.R. Van Syckel 2. By the end of Academy’s first year, enrollment reached 20 students and had to be limited to 40 the following year 5. Ben Fullington ’16 was elected Student Body president in 1915 6. Carey R. Evans ’14 was killed in action while serving in France on April 5, 1918. 6. Paul M. Smith ’14 later became a school trustee and sent his two sons to the Academy 9. Academy’s Junior School at the end of its first year 11. Academy Orchestra in 1918 12. Winter drills inside Edward Campbell Chittenden Gymnasium 16. Academy’s first football team took the field in 1912 19. Sol Morton Isaac ’29 20. G.E. “Geddie” Smith II ’41 as a first-grader 21. Shop class during the 1930s 5
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