![Cedars Cottage, a dormitory and headmaster’s quarters known as The Cedars, once existed on the site of the new Centennial Dormitory. By what means was this building demolished?]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1682971144/rectoryschoolorg/qdtwjn0xdciuydkvnqok/Untitleddesign2.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1682971144/rectoryschoolorg/qdtwjn0xdciuydkvnqok/Untitleddesign2.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1682971144/rectoryschoolorg/qdtwjn0xdciuydkvnqok/Untitleddesign2.png","width":800}])
Bonus Question:
Click here for Lucius Carroll’s 1955 story of the Cedarites prepping for a dance, "The Cedars Is Dancing Tonight."
Do you know what GL-70 and Gardol are?
Answer:
The Cedars was demolished by fire, which the Pomfret (CT) Volunteer Fire Department planned and intentionally ignited as a practice exercise. Rene Moreau, who worked in Rectory’s Facilities department for 35 years gives us this eyewitness account. “Over by the parking lot for DGB, used to be a building called Cedars; it was a dormitory. When the School wanted to get rid of it, the (local) fire department burned it down for practice. They put a big, big roll of hay inside and started it up.”
Bonus Answer:
GL-70 and Gardol. Think back and back some more to the 1950s, to a time when many bathroom cabinets housed a dental cream, as toothpaste was called at the time. GL-70 and Gardol were oral hygiene products in dental creams; Colgate contained the cleansing agent Gardol, and the bacteria-fighting compound GL-70 was an ingredient in Gleem. Smile!
Image: Headmaster John Bigelow seated with students in front of Cedars Cottage, Rectory Archives, 1951.
- Bell Tower Bulletin