Introduction
In the early 20th century Hotchkiss students frequently kept scrapbooks and photo albums as mementos of their years at school. Scrapbooks as we know them emerged in the 1820s as a means for people to maintain their personal histories. Common items in scrapbooks included journal writings, poems, programs, tickets and other mementos. With the development of photography later in the 19th century, photographs appeared in scrapbooks and family photograph albums became a common item in Victorian homes.
The Hotchkiss School Archives has collected more than 50 student scrapbooks and photograph albums that illustrate school life throughout much of the early 20th century.
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George W. Carrington 1912
George W. Carrington was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was active in St. Luke’s and a Pythian. Carrington was managing editor of The Record. Carrington graduated from Yale in 1916 and went on to a career as a stock broker and investment banker. He died in 1983 at the age of 92.
This scrapbook was donated by his son, George W. Carrington, Jr., Class of 1938.
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Edward H. Dodd, Jr. 1924
Edward Dodd was born in 1905 and grew up in New York City. Dodd was a member of the Pythian and St. Luke’s societies, and active in debating and drama. He graduated from Yale in 1928. He became president of his family’s publishing business, Dodd, Mead and Company. Dodd died at his home in Putney, Vermont in 1989. Dodd created two volumes of scrapbooks, which show us a typical book from the 1920s.
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Title Page (below left): Note that Dodd knew he was a member of the Yale Class of 1928 during
his Prep year at Hotchkiss in 1920.
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Henry S. Frank 1902
Henry S. Frank grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the Pythian Gym
team, Mandolin Club and the Glee Club. He graduated from Yale in 1905. Frank died in
Glendale, California in 1957.
Frank’s book was primarily a photograph album, but also contains some other
scrapbooks items.
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Gerald W. Hinkley 1910
Gerald W. Hinkley was born in Chicago in 1889. Hinkley was a member of the St Luke’s, Pythian and Agora societies, mandolin club and served as president of the Musical Association his senior year. He graduated from Cornell in 1915. He went on to become an engineer for the Atlantis Crucible Steel Company in Dunkirk, New York. Hinkley died in January, 1919 from influenza during Spanish Flu epidemic. This scrapbook was donated to Hotchkiss by his family later that year. Hinkley’s scrapbook shows a representative sample of items that students commonly put in their books.
At right, a portrait of Gerald W. Hinkley, ca. 1906
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Roy C. Wilcox 1912
Roy C. Wilcox grew up in Meriden, Connecticut and entered Hotchkiss in the fall of 1907. He was a member of the Pythian, St. Luke’s and Forum Societies. Wilcox was on the 1912 Varsity Baseball team, and established the Wilcox Award, which goes to the player with the highest batting average. Wilcox graduated from Yale in 1916 and went on to become executive vice president of the International Silver Company in his home town of Meriden. After he retired, Wilcox made a number of nature and conservation films. He is most noted for serving as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut under Wilbur Cross from 1933-1935. Roy Wilcox died in 1975 at the age of 84.
Wilcox kept a photo album. He included pictures of new students illustrating the traditions surrounding their first few months at school. During the first home football game new students marched to Baker Field under a banner proclaiming, “We Are New.”
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