Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-13
DE ELANCEY- EPISCOPAL
MERGER DECIDED ON
BY BOTH SCHOOLS
Two Institutions Will Be
Combined The Rev. Mr..
Steinmetz Requested to
Become Headmaster of
Joint Academy.
Success of Plan Depends Large
ly Upon Acceptance of Post
by Calvary Preacher-Cole-
man P. Brown Working
Hard for Reorganization.

De Lsncey School and the Academy of
The Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, ex-
elusive and fashionable preparatory
schools for boys, in which hundreds of
prominent Philadelphians received their
training. are to be merged. The Rev.
Philip Justice steinmetz, rector of Cal
vary Episcopal Church. Summit, n. j.,
has been urged to accept the head
mastership and has manifested his will
ingness to take the post II his parish con-
sents
The new institution will occupy the
building of the Episcopal Academy, Lo-
Gust and Juniper streets.
The Society for Organizing Charity and
number of other charitable organiza-
tions which for years have dreamed of
modern building that would house them
all, plan and hope to purchase the seven
story building now occupied by De Lancey
School,
The merger, previously ratified by the
trustees of the academy, was ratified by
the board of directors of De Lancey
School. at meeting in the Rittenhouse
Club yesterday afternoon.
Coleman p. Brown, headmaster, treas
urer and member of the board of d-
rectors of De Lancey School, left today
for Summit, where he will meet the ves-
try of Calvary Church and plead with
Mr.. Brown said before he left, that he
and his mother, holding 20 per cent of
the stock of De Lancey School, possess
the power to overrule the action of the
Board of Directors, and thus compel
them to abandon the plan to merge. He
Indicated the possibility of such action
In the event Calvary parishes refuse to
permit the Rev. Mr.. Stenmetz to leave.
Stil1, he admitted, the inability of Doctor
Steinmetz to accept the post would not
mo N
Interested in the fusing of the schools say
that the movement has gone so far that
there can be no changes in the main
plan.
MERGER NEXT SEPTEMBER.
1t is the desire of the trustees OF the
academy and the directors of De Lancey
School that DR.. Steinmetz come to Phila-
delphia and assume the head mastership
within the next few weeks. That he will
consent to do this is extremely unlikely
and, therefore, according to officers of
both institutions, the merger probably will
not be consummated until the beginning
OF the next school year, next September
Mr. Brown will resign as headmaster
OF De Lancey School when the merger Is
effected and will become an associate
headmaster. William Sergeant Blight, |
head of the Blight School until It was
merged with De Lancey and now pro-
fessor of Greek and Latin languages in
De Lancey, and Angel Boss Babbitt pro-
fessor of Greek, Latin and German in
De Bancey School. will become associate |
headmasters.
The new institution will be known as |
The Academy of the Protestant Episcopal |
Church In Philadelphia De Lancey School |
Merged"
FOUNDED IN 1877
De Lancey School was founded in 1877
by the late Henry Hobart Brown, father
of the present headmaster At Mr..
Browns death the school was reorganized
and incorporated. the founders widow
and son having three-fourths of the stock
and the remaining fourth being distribut-
ed among many hands
The Blight School, founded in 1887 by
William Sergeant Blight. Jr.. was merged
with De Lancey February 13. 1911
ORIGIN OF ACADEMY.
The Episcopal Academy. one of the old
est church schools in the United States.
was founded in 1875, under the auspices
of the Rev. William White, afterwards
the first bishop of the Protestant Epls-
copal Diocese of Pennsylvania, and other
men dissatisfied with legislative act
that. they believed. invaded the chartered
rights of the cty's schools.
In January of that year the original
subscribers held their first meeting in
Christ Church. Edward Shippen was one
OF the first trustees
Bishop Rhinelander is president OF the
Academy, Edward S. Buckley. Jr, is sec
retary and treasurer. William Henry
klapp, headmaster. resigned some
months ago. his resignation to become
effective at the end of the school year,