{"id":4589,"date":"2020-01-30T19:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:47:54","slug":"a-different-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/a-different-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Williston Junior School, 1944<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The cover of the April,1944 Williston Bulletin, featuring what was then called Williston Cottage, later Conant House. (Please click images to enlarge them.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Williston Junior School was a semi-autonomous branch of Williston Seminary and Williston Academy, offering a boarding program for students in grades 5-8.\u00a0 Founded in 1918, it shared facilities with the Upper School, but had its own Headmaster and faculty.\u00a0 Originally operating out of Payson Hall on the Old Campus, it eventually relocated to four buildings on Main Street.\u00a0 Present-day alumni will recognize the “Main St. Quadrangle,” or Clare House, Swan Cottage, Conant House (a.k.a. Williston Cottage), and Sawyer House.<\/p>\n

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The title page. showing the Junior Schoolhouse, now Swan Cottage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Edward Clare was Junior School Headmaster from 1936-1947. Clare House is named for him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve reproduced a Junior School viewbook from 1944 \u2013 largely without comment, because the often charming images speak for themselves.\u00a0 It was a different time.\u00a0 (Copies of the viewbook are from donations by Ellis Baker ’51 and Peter Stevens ’60)\u00a0 Please click on any image to enlarge it.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>In 1954 Headmaster Phillips Stevens and the Trustees decided to phase out the Junior School, one class at a time, the 8th grade to be incorporated into the Upper School program.\u00a0 The 8th grade was discontinued in 1966, until the creation of the Williston Northampton Middle School in 1972.<\/p>\n

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The Williston Junior School, 1944 The Williston Junior School was a semi-autonomous branch of Williston Seminary and Williston Academy, offering a boarding program for students in grades 5-8.\u00a0 Founded in 1918, it shared facilities with the Upper School, but had its own Headmaster and faculty.\u00a0 Originally operating out of Payson Hall on the Old Campus, … Continue reading A Different Time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13,453,12],"tags":[532,531],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-building-history","category-sports-history","category-student-life","category-williston-academy","tag-edward-clare","tag-williston-junior-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}