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DeLand Volusia County

EDUCATIONAL CENTERS


SEA PINES SCHOOL

Sea Pines was founded in 1907 by Rev. Thomas
Bickford and is a college preparatory school (resident) for

girls. Miss Faith Bickford is principal. She inherited the

school from her.parents, whose ancestors received the land

from the Indians. She herself is the eleventh lineal descen-

dant of that early New Englander for whom the town of Brewster
is named. Evidences bf her modern outlook include the recent

.incorporation of the school under a board of trustees, to be

conducted without personal profit. The annual migration of

the school to Florida for the 'midwinter term, introduction of
project methods, rating by individual ability and achievement,

and other features consonant with the progressive educational

trends.
Protestant Christian girls are selected as

pupils. The enrollment in 1935-36 term was 25 pupils, with 10

adults enrolled during the winter term in DeLand. The school

offers college preparatory end cultural courses as well as

music and art. Special courses for adults and a lower school
for younger girls.

The school is located in fall and spring,on

a 100-acre tract on Cape Cod Bay (Brewster-on-Cape Cod, Mass.).




SSea pines School (Educational Centers)
DeLand, Florida

- The pine'groves, meadows and lawns belonging to Sea Pines include

Sbridle paths, a riding ring, tennis courts, playing field for

soccer, volley ball and other team sports, and archery range, out-

door theatre, not to overlook half a mile of sand dunes and

crescent beach for canoeing, sailing and swimming.

.,Waving palms and Spanish moss supplant the
murmuring pines of Cape Cod for 8 weeks in Jan. and Feb. while

school keeps ouz of doors in the Fla. sunshine. Housed in a

spacious modern inn in DeLand, given over to the school's ex-

clusive use, Sea pines students and faculty are accorded every

courtesy by Stetson Univeristy at DeL'and and Rollins College at

Winter Park use of libraries, laboratories, invitations to out-

standing lectures, concerts and dramatic productions.

Observation trips provide much for students of

the arts and natural sciences.

The unusual facilities of Sea Pines School offer

a unit of adult education, a summer camp on Cape Cod, and arrange-

ments for a year round enrollment if desired.
The faculty consists of the principal, Miss Faith

Bickford, who has special study groups and tutoring. At her side
since 1920 in the administrative affairs of the school, Miss

Gladys Parker, A.'B., Lawrence College (Wisconsin with graduate
study at the University of Chicago, is now associate principal -
also a gifted teacher.
'he academic head of the upper school is Miss

Agusta Smith, A.B., Smith College.- Experienced in preparing

students for college board examinations, she teaches Latin and

Ancient History.





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feLand, Florida .

S Miss Esther Holcomb, a graduate of Western Re-

serve University, is in charge of the Lower School and Dramatics.

,.Her study at Winnetka and attendance at.the Nice .conference of 1

.'progressive educators have added stimulus to her project methods. '

Mr. Donald S. Lowe, A.B., Dartmouth College, is

an experienced English teacher. Mrs. Lowe holds a certificate in

Cecil Sharpe English Country Dancing and.has qualified in

ballet under well-known Russian teachers.

M;. Miss Josephine I. Mooney, a graduate of Welles-
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; ley College, who has a diploma :from the Institute de Phonetique,

:;Paris, brings her linguistic gifts to the school. '

Music is under the able direction of Prof. Wmi.

Philip, composer end director. He came from the staff of the
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,.-Troy Conservatory of Music, and has teaching certificates from "
; the Meissner Institute of Music, Los Angeles, and the degree of

SMaster of Music from the State Academy of the Church and School

Music, Berlin, Uermany. .

Mr. Wm. Howard, of the New England Conserva-

tory of Music, and Mrs. Olive Consodine, pupil of Emil Janzer, '

Mt. Holyoke College, teach violin and other stringed instruments.

Miss Sarah H. Hawkes, a graduate of Sea Pines

and Mt. Vernon Seminary, spent some time in foreign study and is

most valuable in a secretarial capacity and athletic instructor.

Miss Janet Lane, B.S., Tufts College, teaches

mathematics and college preparatory science.





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SMiss Ruth E. Williams, after graduating at Sea

lines, received her diploma from the Vesper George School of "rt

aid is an able teacher of arts and crafts.

SMiss Louise Allen, Wellesley College social

adviser.

Miss Grace Bixby, R.N., Children's Hospital,

!Boston resident nurse.
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Dr. John P. Nickerson physician.

Mr. Frank W. Robinson, of Boston University -

superintendent of grounds and buildings.

Miss Alice Clark, A.B., Vassar with the

younger girls.-

Mrs. Robinson, graduate of Salem Normal School -

tuAors smaller girls.




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By Mrs. Zelia .Sweett'

Edited by A. W. Trainor


. May 25, .936


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EDUCATIONAL CENTERS (SEA PINES SCHOOL)

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