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This riveting story of an extraordinary high church Episcopal prep school is no coffee table book. The reader unacquainted with Saint James School yet interested in the spiritual formation and education of adolescents, finishing this book, will take heart about life. Intrepid, even saintly headmasters devoted to 'the soul of the thing, ' the Civil War, near death experiences and resurrections--it's all there, right now. Bravo. --Andrew C. Mead, Rector Emeritus, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue St. James is the patriarch of church schools in America. Retaining the rich common life of its founding before the Civil War, students and faculty share in daily habits of scholarship, athletics, worship, and fellowship. The first headmaster, John Barrett Kerfoot, insisted that education was not a passive, abstract endeavor, but must be experienced in the carefully choreographed rudiments of an entire day. Over 170 years later, that commitment remains. --Patrick Gahan, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church This is a useful discussion of St. James School, told through the lens of the school's successive headmasters. One chapter is a transcription of a memoir by Adrian Onderdonk (headmaster, 1906-1939), and another is written by the current headmaster, Stuart Dunnan (1992-present) about predecessor John Owens (1955-1984). The book is well worth reading. It contains among other things a frank discussion about slavery and Southern sympathies, and thoughtful reflections on the goal of religious schools. --Robert W. Prichard, Alexandria, Virginia

This riveting story of an extraordinary high church Episcopal prep school is no coffee table book. The reader unacquainted with Saint James School yet interested in the spiritual formation and education of adolescents, finishing this book, will take heart about life. Intrepid, even saintly headmasters devoted to 'the soul of the thing, ' the Civil War, near death experiences and resurrections-it's all there, right now. Bravo. -Andrew C. Mead, Rector Emeritus, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue St. James is the patriarch of church schools in America. Retaining the rich common life of its founding before the Civil War, students and faculty share in daily habits of scholarship, athletics, worship, and fellowship. The first headmaster, John Barrett Kerfoot, insisted that education was not a passive, abstract endeavor, but must be experienced in the carefully choreographed rudiments of an entire day. Over 170 years later, that commitment remains. -Patrick Gahan, Rector, Christ Episcopal Church This is a useful discussion of St. James School, told through the lens of the school's successive headmasters. One chapter is a transcription of a memoir by Adrian Onderdonk (headmaster, 1906-1939), and another is written by the current headmaster, Stuart Dunnan (1992-present) about predecessor John Owens (1955-1984). The book is well worth reading. It contains among other things a frank discussion about slavery and Southern sympathies, and thoughtful reflections on the goal of religious schools. -Robert W. Prichard, Alexandria, Virginia

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Walter L. Prehn III is an independent scholar who has studied the nineteenth-century church school movement on both sides of the Atlantic and is a specialist on William Augustus Muhlenberg. Prehn is a freelance journalist, a poet, and a director of the Living Church Foundation.

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