Lawrence A. Martin
The St. Paul Academy was founded in 1900, with two faculty members, Charles Nathan Brooks Wheeler, who had been the headmaster of the Barnard School since 1892, and Frederick W. Fiske, a renowned teacher previously employed at the St. Paul Central High School, and became known as the "Old School." The school was reorganized and incorporated in 1914, known through at least 1950 as the "New School." The school was initially a boys school and was specified in its Articles of Incorporation as being nondenominational in its enrollment and faculty.
The St. Paul Academy is governed by a board of trustees,with 31 individuals having served on the board from 1914 until 1964. Those board members were:
Charles W. Ames ( -1921,) Board member 1914-1921, Board president 1914-1921
William J. Dean ( -1941,) Board member 1914-1941, Board treasurer 1914-1937, Board president 1937-1941
Edward P. Davis ( -1932,) Board member 1914-1930, Board secretary 1914-1930, Board president 1930-1932
John N. Jackson ( -1945,) Board member 1914-1942, Board president 1921-1930
C. Reinold Noyes, Class of 1901, Board member 1914-1928
Charles Lesley Ames, Class of 1902, Board member 1914-1960, Board treasurer 1936-1949
E. N. Saunders, Jr., Board member 1915-1945
William D. Mitchell, Board member 1915-1926
F. E. Weyerhaeuser ( -1945,) Board member 1916-1920
D. C. Shepard, Class of 1902, Board member 1920-1923
Horace C. Klein, Board member 1921-1950
Roger B. Shepard, Class of 1904, Board member 1923-1956, Vice President 1926-1940, President 1941-1951
Jule M. Hannaford, Jr., Board member 1927-1952, Secretary 1930-
Edgar B. Ober ( -1937,) Board member 1928-1937, Vice President 1931-1932, President 1932-1937
Homer P. Clark, Board member 1932-1941
Shreve McL. Archer ( -1947,) Board member 1937-1947
William H. Lang, Board member 1941- , Vice President 1946-1951, President 1951-1959
Benjamin G. Griggs, Board member 1941-1960
William W. Skinner, Board member 1941-1949
Paul W. Frenzel, Board member 1945-1961
William Mitchell, Class of 1921, Board member 1947- , Alumni trustee
Russell M. Collins, Board member 1947- , Treasurer 1949-
Richard Ordway, Board member 1949-1961
Dr. Wallace P. Ritchie, Board member 1950-
John H. Budd, Board member 1953- , President 1959-1964
David H. Lilly, Board member 1956-
James C. Otis, Board member 1960- , Alumni trustee 1959-1960
Blake Shepard, Board member 1961- , President 1964-
William H. Sweney, Jr., Board member 1962- , Alumni trustee 1960-1962
Henry P. Blodgett, Jr., Board member 1962-
Carl B. Drake, Jr., Board member 1962-1965, Alumni trustee
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