William Gurdon Saltonstall (November 11,1905 –December 18,1989) was an American educator and writer,and the ninth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Saltonstall was born in Milton,Massachusetts to the wealthy Saltonstall family. [1] He was a son of Robert Saltonstall and Caroline James ( née Stevenson) Saltonstall. [2] Among his siblings was Harriet Saltonstall Gratwick,a co-founder of the Rochester Zen Center. [3]
His paternal grandparents were William Gurdon Saltonstall and Josephine Rose ( née Lee) Saltonstall (youngest daughter of John Clarke Lee,founder of Lee,Higginson &Co.). [4] His maternal grandparents were Caroline James ( née Young) Stevenson and Brig. Gen. Robert Hooper Stevenson (brother of Thomas G. Stevenson). [5]
He was educated at Exeter,where he was a member of the class of 1924. He then attended Harvard College,where he was president of the student body and field marshal of the graduating class,and Harvard Law School,where he earned master's and law degrees and was a member of the Owl Club. [1]
He served as the principal of Exeter from 1946 to 1963,where he had previously taught history. Under him,the Lamont Gallery,the schools educational art museum was established. In 1963,Saltonstall was asked by President Kennedy to be the director of the Peace Corps in Nigeria. After two years,he left. [6]
He was a trustee of Colby College and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,and a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and United States Naval Academy Board of Visitors. He was a trustee of Educational Testing Service,and a president of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. [1]
On September 22,1931,Saltonstall was married to Katharyn Saltonstall with whom he had three daughters and two sons: [7]
Saltonstall died on December 18,1989,at a nursing home in Lakeville,Massachusetts. [1]
He held honorary degrees from several schools,including Williams College,Tufts University,Bowdoin College,Dartmouth College,Colby College,Princeton University,and University of New Hampshire. The Saltonstall Boathouse in Phillips Exeter is named after him. [12]
Phillips Exeter Academy is a co-educational college-preparatory school in Exeter,New Hampshire. Established in 1781,it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school. It educates roughly 1,100 boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12,as well as postgraduate students.
The Boston Brahmins,or Boston elite,are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century,they were often associated with a cultivated New England accent,Harvard University,Anglicanism,and traditional British-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
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