The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-04-14

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did not sh6y an aptitude for study.
He said thai this idea had also bcca
endorsed by the Federal government
and that representative had recent
( ly been here looking up the maacr
Mr.. Young said the housing prob
/ lem was almost as serious as far as
the schools were concerned as fol
householders and that in the near fu-
tute more accommodation must be
arranged at the school houses at
Fairbanks village, Paddock village
I and Maple street. In the latter place
a four room schoolhouse should be
built He said the JUNO; hi~h school
needed better ventilation and the
school should have moro rooms. lie
spoke OF the best way to educate the
backward children and this led TO
quite a discussion in which many OF
the members joined.
Senator Harry H. Carr, speaking
for the school board, said there was
a great need OF closer cooperation be-
tween the public school system AM
thc Academy and the management q
oul schools ought TO be under one
head. Speaking OF specific needs in
the public schools he said the time
was close at hand when a new heating
plant should be installed in the Sum
mervile schoolhouse, and he believed
that the change though expensive at
first would save the town a great
annually in coal and ianitor service.
He then explained how the school
tax was raised and just what amounts
St. Johnsbury received from the state
and Federal government.
Dr. C. A. Cramton spoke of the
advantage of medical inspection and
said that this was compulsory in New
York city. He said in ST. Johnsbul%
the eyes, ears, nose and throat of the
children were well attended to by the
local physicians, but he was satisfied
that many parents did not realize the
harm of keeping children in school
with these and other defects, such as
adenoids, etc.
Others participating in the open
forum included Mr. Haffner, Rev. T..
B. Richards, Rev. F. A. Poole and
/. n Smythe.
The last speaker of the eveninc
was P. f. Hazen, who read the fol
lowing paper:
As is generally known, the Acad-
envy was established in 1912 through
the public spirit and generosity OF
Erastus, 'Thaddeus and Joseph =.
Fairbanks. These gentlemen decided
certain property in 1913 to certain
individuals as trustees of St. Johns
bury Academy "and to their assocI-
ates and successors in office Ihls
deed enioined upon the trustees to
make the courses of study means
of thorough intellectual discipline
and school Of fioral and religion
instruction. It provided As cond.-
ton OF the validity OF the decd that
the trustees should be men OF pie.
and members in regular standing Q.
some orthodox Congregations.
church OF churches.
In 1876 Thaddcus Fairbanks cor
viewed to the trustees certain addition
a real estate and he Incorporated IN
/ to his deed the same condition as ID
the requirements for trustee mem
bership which was imposed IN ta4
/ deed OF 1843.
In 1879 the Legislature Of Vernon,
granted a charter incorporating the
Trustees of St. Johnsbury Academy
and the following year all the rec
and personal property belonging -
the Academy was conveyed by tn
Board Of Trustees to the newly on
gained corporation. This deed g.
CONVEYANCE necessarily contained II
same provision respecting the quail
Ecations OF trustee member'l!l
which had been imposed by the deed
above referred to-
In 1900 all the heirs OF the tnr9l
Fairbanks brothers, by deed, made
slight modification in the specHi(
qualifications of trustee membelsnii
so that the trust, as at present co..
stituted, exists:
"On condition that the trustee
forming said corporation SHAH ~
men OF Christian character, and th3'
always a majority of the whole mum
her shall be members in good stand
inc OF Congregational churches, tn
order to which the founders OF tn
academy belonged, and that if the@>
provision, shall be knowingly. violate
and the trustees shall allow the NUN
her Of such church members on then
board to be less than majority o
their whole number during mor'
than one whole year, then the p7or-
ertv shall revert to the heirs OF tn.
original donors.
The academy trustees today hoh
real estate of the value Of betWoct
one hundred and twenty-five and one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
making the total amount Of tru'
property 30 held by them OF
upwa1ds Of 100000, the use Of
and the income from which IS e%
clusively devoted to the cducatlon}
purposes of the academy.
From the foregoing it must clea :
apnear that the present property 81
the academy is held by self-perpetu
ating board of trustees; that th'
+er,,e IF tho trust proyidc not only