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Trinity struggled through the hard times of taught at the School from 1938 through 1941,
World War 1 and on into the 1930’s with Dr. and served as Assistant Headmaster from 1945
Cole still as Rector; in fact, when it came time to 1947. He began Trinity’s most recent expan­
for the two hundred twenty-fifth anniversary sion. This has included a further revision of the
celebration, he had three more years left in his School’s curriculum by the addition of several
thirty-four-year dedication to Trinity School. accelerated and honors courses and by tying the
Speakers at the two hundred twenty-fifth cele­ course of study of the Lower School in with
bration were Bishop William T. Manning and that of the Upper. A second major step forward
Dean Herbert E. Hawkes, the latter again of came with the construction of the William Gage
Columbia University. Brady Gymnasium (dedicated in 1958), the ren­
In 1937 Mr. Matthew E. Dann became Head­ ovation of the locker rooms in the basement of
master of the School. A teacher at the institution the Annex, and the conversion of the old gym­
for years, Mr. Dann continued the modern tra­ nasium, so lauded in 1893, into bright and shin­
dition of the School in a more realtistic sense. ing modern classrooms. Finally, in this two
The courses were once more realigned with the hundred fiftieth year, a new lunchroom was built
requirements for college admission, and the on the second floor of the Annex, and the old
School began to acquire its present stature as a fourth-floor lunchroom was converted into addi­
college preparatory institution. Approximately tional new classrooms.
midway in his administration, 1947, the Pawling This current improvement of the program and
School was bought by the Board of Trustees of the plant will not stop with 1959. The Two
Trinity. In 1948 the much-praised chapel was Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Fund provides for
remodeled. a three-year science chair, three new science lab­
Mr. Riddleberger came to Trinity for the oratories, a Chaplain’s chair, a new scholarship
fourth time in 1955. Having been graduated in endowment, an endowment for raising faculty
the two hundred twenty-fifth class in 1934, he salaries, and the funds for rehabilitation of the

The physics lab as it used to look, taken about 1910.

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