Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-25
DANlELsON
Robert K. Bennett, High School Alum nus, to Return as Principal-Mon : days $1.600 Fire at Wauresan-Hal- pin Wins Championship = Outing Notes

Robert KerShaw Bennett of DayVille, who nine years ago last June received his diploma as a graduate Of k1lllngly high school. was elected principal of the institution at a special meeting of the school committee of the town held Monday afternoon to fill the vacancy created by the recent resignation of Hal R. Eaton. who goes to Attleboro
 MT. Bennett was selected from near ly forty candidates for the place as eminently fitted to successfully direct the work that he will be called upon to do. decision in his favor, being based on record of scholarship and teaching experience that has won for him unqualified commendation and exrression of positive confidence in his ability to Go notable things in the educational field
 He was born in Dayville 27 years ago and is the youngest man ever elected as principal of killingly high school. Graduated from the school at the head of the class of 1902 he taught for three years at East Killingly, later going to Brown university, graduating with the degree of A.B. In his junior year at Brown he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. though he had entered college four months late. In his senior year he was awarded first prize for greatest ability shown in public dis cussion and also received final honors in mathematics
 President Faunce of the university referred to MT. Bennett as one of the most brilliant men at Brown. While studying there. MT. Bennett was ap- pointed an instructor in mathematics, but did not accept. He gave two years of study to peda gogical subjects while at Brown.
 His teaching experience, aside from that in Killingly, includes three years as instructor of the graduating class of the CanGace street evening school of Providence, for three years an in structor in the boys summer school in the Y M. c. A. of the same city, one year the sub-master of the high school in Plymouth, Mass, and one year prin- cipal of the high school and graded school in Windsor Locks. from where he will come to Danielson, although reelected there for the coming year. Mr Bennetts salary here is to be HOO.
 In Windsor Locks. where he had 12 teachers under his direction, the inn pression that he made may be indi- cated from the following extract from the letter of prominent citizen of that town to a member of the local committee: He has unusual tact in dealing with all classes of people, young and old. He is very popular with his pupils, his teachers and with the people of the entire community. I do not know of single fault or weak ness that has hurt him in his year of work here. Frankly, I think I have never known anyone to come nearer to my ideal of what young high school principal should be. Very few men could win so large a place in the af- lection and esteem of q community like ours in so short time I be- lieve he will make good from the start, and that he is also bound to develop greatly in the next few years.''
 This estimate has come toNbe shared by the local committee. MT. Bennett has been found to have made more than good wherever he has been His attitude in seeking the principalship in sKillingly may be gauged by his enun- citation of the feeling, without the full confidence of the committee, do not care for election And the com mittee deemed that he is entitled to this upon the record of his attainments