Lewis Perry

Lewis Perry
7th Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
In office
1914–1946
Preceded by Harlan Page Amen
Succeeded by William Gurdon Saltonstall
Personal details
Born January 3, 1877
Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died January 27, 1970
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater Williams College
Princeton University

Lewis Perry (January 3, 1877 – January 27, 1970) was an American educator and the eighth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Lewis Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts on January 3, 1877 to Arthur Latham Perry, a prominent economist, and Mary Brown Perry.[1] He attended Lawrenceville School as well as Phillips Academy for one year,[2] then Williams College, where he graduated in 1898. In Williams, he was the national president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, of which his father helped found the Williams branch.[3] He was also the first student to be awarded the Rogerson Cup award, the "highest award for alumni service" at Williams.[4] He then attended Princeton University, where he earned an M.A. and a L.H.D degree. From 1901 to 1914, he taught English at Williams. In 1914, he became principal of Exeter. It was under Perry in 1919 that the Exeter Summer program was created.[5] It was also under him that philanthropist Edward Harkness donated to the school $5.8 million to create the Harkness table teaching method in 1930.[6] He retired in 1946.

Perry first married Margaret Hubbell, with whom he had a daughter and a son, who died in 1928. He then married Hubbell's sister, Juliette Adams, with whom he had two stepdaughters. He died on January 27, 1970, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.[7] Over his lifetime, he was awarded honorary L.H.D. degrees by Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, the University of New Hampshire, and Harvard.[8]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Collections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  2. ↑ Fuess, Claude Moore (1917). An Old New England School: A History of Phillips Academy Andover. Houghton Mifflin.
  3. ↑ Collections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  4. ↑ "Lewis Perry, Class of 1898". Alumni Awards. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  5. ↑ "Exeter Summer | Phillips Exeter Academy". www.exeter.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  6. ↑ A Declaration of Readers' Rights: Renewing Our Commitment to Students. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon. 2008. ISBN 9780205499793.
  7. ↑ Times, Special To The New York (1970-01-28). "Dr. Lewis Perry, Ex‐Principal Of Phillips Exeter, Dead at 93". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  8. ↑ Collections, Williams College Archives & Special. "Lewis Perry (1877-1970)". archives.williams.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-13.


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