By Nick Noble ’76, Communications Manager, Editor, and School Historian

Before it was LOST: The Sixth Form Room at St. Mark’s

In 1890, when the Main Building was first occupied, Headmaster William E. Peck set aside a small room along the Chapel corridor exclusively for the Sixth Form. A small narrow room, it had a fireplace, mailboxes for the Sixth Form (there were 27 Sixth Formers in 1893, the largest senior class up to that time), and Sixth Formers took to marking the window frame/sill area with Groton game results. That space is currently room 132, where Dr. Glomset teaches.  That original Sixth Form Room was under the direct supervision and authority of the Monitors. (more…)