Such a delight to watch this and realize how fortunate we were to live within these walls way back in the late 60’s. I too fondly remember the soda fountain and my year to “chair it”, re-setting the pins in the bowling alley. We were there for our 50th reunion and pleased to see that the weaving studios were still in place. The fabulous furniture that we had in our dorm rooms has been scattered around various study halls and libraries. Thank you Kevin for a great tour.
As much as I appreciated Kingswood’s beauty and history during the four years while I was a student, it can’t compare to my present day appreciation of all that I experienced. This wonderful video and commentary is a beautiful reminder of how fortunate I was to spend my high school years at Kingswood. I do wonder what has happened to the piano practice rooms where I spent many hours, the bowling alley and the soda fountain and store. Is there still a senior cabin?
I went to Kingswood camp from 1970 - 1974. Our counselors once took us into the woods to show us a very tall statue of a man (or something resembling a man) in stone. There was a square tile in front of the statue of the man. "Go ahead. Step on the tile!" The camp counselors dared us to do. When we did red (rusty water) blood squirted out of the eye of the statue and onto all of us. It was very traumatizing for myself as a 6 year old! To this day I cannot find anyone who remembers this event and no one at Kingswood who can identify/verity that this statue does exist (somewhere in the woods of Kingswood) but I know it happened. If you know of this statue of a man/person in the woods and can validate my story please do so. Just so you know I'm for real, I learned to swim in baby Jonah, moved up to little Jonah and finally swam in big Jonah. Sadly the man made lakes there are now in terrible disrepair. I write to you not because of those lakes, but because I am looking for someone who can corroborate my story regarding the very scary stature in the woods. Thank you.
I served as both a Latin and Greek teacher (with Art Palmer!) and director of college guidance at (beloved) KIngswood for a decade--during which time there were constant discussions over the (large) discrepancy between men's and women's salaries and attendant housing, I still look for women in charge at the school...and note that even a tour of the campus architecture is through a man's eye. The two other schools where I worked (Fessenden School for Boys in Boston and Princeton Day School in Princeton) had a faculty salary committee which kept careful watch over the important issues of salary and housing. Here's hoping Kingswood and Cranbrook do too! As an aside, I have been lucky enough to live in southern Vermont--not far from Dartmouth where Scrib and Romy Jelliffe retired--so I saw them often, right up to each one's death and am happy to say that I am still in touch with Fitzlee!
A great masterpiece!
Such a delight to watch this and realize how fortunate we were to live within these walls way back in the late 60’s. I too fondly remember the soda fountain and my year to “chair it”, re-setting the pins in the bowling alley. We were there for our 50th reunion and pleased to see that the weaving studios were still in place. The fabulous furniture that we had in our dorm rooms has been scattered around various study halls and libraries. Thank you Kevin for a great tour.
glorious, resplendent. Thank you.
As much as I appreciated Kingswood’s beauty and history during the four years while I was a student, it can’t compare to my present day appreciation of all that I experienced. This wonderful video and commentary is a beautiful reminder of how fortunate I was to spend my high school years at Kingswood.
I do wonder what has happened to the piano practice rooms where I spent many hours, the bowling alley and the soda fountain and store. Is there still a senior cabin?
The practice rooms are still in use, as is the bowling alley. The soda fountain is, unfortunately, no more.
I went to Kingswood camp from 1970 - 1974. Our counselors once took us into the woods to show us a very tall statue of a man (or something resembling a man) in stone. There was a square tile in front of the statue of the man. "Go ahead. Step on the tile!" The camp counselors dared us to do. When we did red (rusty water) blood squirted out of the eye
of the statue and onto all of us. It was very traumatizing for myself as a 6 year old! To this day I cannot find anyone who remembers this event and no one at Kingswood who can identify/verity that this statue does exist (somewhere in the woods of Kingswood) but I know it happened. If you know of this statue of a man/person in the woods and can validate my story please do so. Just so you know I'm for real, I learned to swim in baby Jonah, moved up to little Jonah and finally swam in big Jonah. Sadly the man made lakes
there are now in terrible disrepair. I write to you not because of those lakes, but because I am looking for someone who can corroborate my story regarding the very scary stature in the woods.
Thank you.
I served as both a Latin and Greek teacher (with Art Palmer!) and director of college guidance at (beloved) KIngswood for a decade--during which time there were constant discussions over the (large) discrepancy between men's and women's salaries and attendant housing, I still look for women in charge at the school...and note that even a tour of the campus architecture is through a man's eye. The two other schools where I worked (Fessenden School for Boys in Boston and Princeton Day School in Princeton) had a faculty salary committee which kept careful watch over the important issues of salary and housing. Here's hoping Kingswood and Cranbrook do too! As an aside, I have been lucky enough to live in southern Vermont--not far from Dartmouth where Scrib and Romy Jelliffe retired--so I saw them often, right up to each one's death and am happy to say that I am still in touch with Fitzlee!
Don't worry about a thing. Make Cranbrook schools totally mask free at ALL
levels come the fall. 😁
ad TO LONG!
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