End of the Line For Old Appleton?
By Linnea Staples
Historic School In Need Of a New Student Body
The New Hampshire Sunday Times - Sunday, March 31, 1968
By Linnea Staples
By LINNEA STAPLES
NEW IPSWICH - Of all the New Hampshire schools to be discarded before the mighty sweep of modern education, few have a more colorful history or have touched upon the lives of a greater number of New England’s stalwart forbears than New Ipswich Appleton Academy, founded in 1787 as a private school.
Bluntly stated, 181 years of tradition. rich in fundamental values, sturdy patriotism, and an uncompromising insistence of individuality are going down the drain.
Unless some merciful Providence intervenes.
For this historic educational institution — the second private academy to be incorporated by the New Hampshire Legislature with Philips Exeter preceding it by only five years — has for some years served primarily as a junior and senior high school for this and surrounding towns.
The new Mascenic School for the District takes over next September with a novel “open construction” type school now being built to serve New Ipswich, Greenville and Mason.
[To be continued]
James Roger diary entries
28th September 1912
Fair with cool northwest wind to west. David painting guide boards and went to Selectman’s Office and to Miss Palmer’s in afternoon. I picked five broilers and helped to lift the potatoes which David dug. Got letter from Alice and Jean. Also p.c. last night from May.
O, Appleton, we look to you
For wisdom, faith, and loyalty.
You guide us on to pathways new
And lead us on with dignity.
I was sorry to see Appleton go. I attended many basketball games and have many fond memories of Appleton. Many members of my family and friends went to the Appleton. In 1968 I was attending the UVM College of Medicine and shocked to hear about Appleton. I was no longer a resident of New Ipswich but strangely, I felt a great loss, like the passing of a friend.