1920-1922First Students
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Bigelow’s cherished ideal of founding a school for young boys becomes their reality in 1920 when they take into their home (the rectory of Christ Memorial Church, Pomfret, CT) for the school year, George Chandler Holt, II, son of Dr. Hamilton Holt, then Editor of the INDEPENDENT in N.Y.C. and later President of Rollins College, FL. George and the Bigelow’s son, John, are the first Rectory students. Sargent’s Handbook of American Private Schools advertises Rectory School as “a small home school for a limited number of boys between six and twelve years of age.”