by RHH | Apr 5, 2022 | Belmont Hill
The Melvoin Building that now houses the Middle School replaced the Howe Building, which opened in the fall of 1957 but after a half century of service proved of a design and construction type that no longer permitted rehabilitation in a manner consistent with the...
by RHH | Mar 1, 2022 | Belmont Hill
The School’s 50th anniversary witnessed publication of Roger Duncan’s The Story of Belmont Hill School, 1923-1973, cited in a prior post. On the 75th anniversary Harold Prenatt’s Belmont Hill School 1923-1998 appeared, contributing a significant photographic component to the story.
by RHH | Feb 14, 2022 | Belmont Hill
In the spring following Dr. Howe’s death, The Sextant published a memorial edition. A leather bound edition signed by the boys in every class, the faculty and the trustees, plus some graduates, was then presented to Mrs. Howe.
by RHH | Jan 28, 2022 | Belmont Hill
Ninety years ago today, January 28, 1932, Dr. Howe passed away in his residence, now Howe House, at Belmont Hill, two days after suffering a severe heart attack. Henry Sawyer, later a faculty member for over 50 years, was then in the senior class. As he recounted at...
by RHH | Dec 21, 2021 | Belmont Hill
The work of founding Belmont Hill effectively brought to an end Dr. Howe’s work as a scientist and leading authority on dragonflies. Nonetheless, nearly a hundred years later, a controversy involving him as a principal over the naming of a dragonfly resurfaced: H....
