Harold Fletcher all American Yale star who built Aiken Prep
All-American Yale soccer player Harold A. Fletcher chose education over banking law or investment. He led Aiken Preparatory School from 1937 to 1971, shaping students who became actors doctors lawyers politicians and athletes including Brad Dourif. Fletcher recalls his strict but motivating approach and his lasting ties to the school.
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Yale
Harold A. Fletcher
Fletcher
Aiken Preparatory School
New Jersey
Peddie School
Harvard Law School
Columbia University
Oxford University
England
New York
Aiken Prep
Thomas Hitchcock
Winter Colony
F. A. M. Tabor
New England
Hitchcock
Harold Alexander
Burnside
Conn
Alexander Robert
Agnes (Sanders) F
Hightstown
N.J
Columbia U
Elizabeth “Tish’”) Meyers
M. Muriel
Farnum) Torchio
Duke
Marilyn Torchio
Aiken Day School
Hitchcock Foundation
Treas
Green Boundary Club
S.C
Aiken County Commission On Higher Education
Palmetto Golf Club
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Seymour Knox
Eugene Grace
George Mead
FS. von Stade
Mr. Tabor
Brad Dourif
Laura Mars
Private Slovitch
Courtlandt D.B. Bryan
John O'Hara
Harper
P.S. Wilkinson
Michael Forrestal
Secretary of Defense
Princeton
White House
National Security Council
Soviet-American Trade Commission
Metropolitan Opera Guild
Norty Knox
U.S
Michael Laughlin
South Carolina
Rudy Vallee
Andy Wiswell
Aiken
New Haven
St Claire Chapel Windows Sparked Duty Free Controversy
Mlle Celestine Eustis funded Lorin stained glass for St Claire Chapel erected 1879. Customs sought 40 percent duty, claiming glass as merchandise while Eustis argued art, leading to appeals to the State and Treasury Departments.
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Park Avenue
St. Claire Chapel
Mlle
Celestine Eustis
Aiken
Eustis
M. Lorin
Chartres
France
St. Claire
San Damiano
Assisi
St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church
Aiken Missions
Lorin
Charleston
Mlle. Eustis
U.S. Department of State
Treasury Department
Aiken’s First Catholic Church and its Brick Revival
A deposition in French from artist Lorin irks the mayor of Chartres over a perceived insult to reputation. The first Catholic church in Aiken, built in 1867 by Bishop Persico, burned into a tornado cut in 1878. Archtect Renwick Jr designed a brick church in Gothic style with a rosewood altar, Stations of the Cross, and stained glass under guidance of Charles A. Hutchison.
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Lorin
Chartres
Aiken
Persico
James Renwick Jr
Renwick
St. Partick’s
New York City
Charles A. Hutchison
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