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Claude

Moore Fuess (January 12, 1885

– September 11, 1963) was an American author, historian, educator, Academy Andover from 1933 to 1948. After attending Amherst College and earning a Ph.D at Columbia University, Fuess

taught English at Phillips Academy from 1908 to 1933. As Headmaster he guided

the school in a new era as it faced the Great Depression and Second World War Concurrent with his teaching and

Headmaster roles, Fuess led a writing career spanning several decades. He is

credited as the author or editor of over 30 books and articles including

biographies of Caleb Cushing, President Calvin Coolidge, Rufus Choate, Daniel Webster, and Carl Schurz. Fuess was an avid reader at an early age. High School's first team and cycled for the school's first track

team. Cycling events included half and one-mile races around a half-mile dirt

track  He entered Amherst College in the

autumn of 1901 at the age of 16 and graduated in 1905. While at Amherst he grew

interests in forensics, debate, and public speaking. He continued to train for

Amherst's cycling team but was unable to race when the New England Committee

abolished the cycling races from its athletic program. He was a member of the

fraternity Alpha Delta Phi. He took courses in debate, public speaking,

and German. In the fall of 1905 he entered Columbia University. After earning

his M.A. in 1906, he accepted in 1908 an invitation to be an assistant in

Columbia's English Department. He earned his Ph.D at the same institution in

1912, his thesis titled "Lord Byron as a Satirist in Verse".  He was awarded a Doctorate of Letters, an

honorary degree from Amherst College in 1929 for his career as an English

teacher and author. Fuess continued to keep close connections with

Amherst for the rest of his life. He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of

the Alumni Council, President of the Society of the Alumni, for two years

National President of Alpha Delta Phi, and President of the Amherst Corporate

Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. In addition, he published Amherst, The

Story of a New England College in 1935 to illustrate the evolution of

educational thought. Frederick Allis, who discusses Fuess in his book Youth

From Every Quarter: A Bicentennial History of Phillips Academy, Andover characterizes

his relationship with Amherst "clearly a love affair." Fuess

earned a total of eight honorary degrees over his lifetime. Fuess began his

career in teaching while a student and assistant in the English Department at

Columbia. He took the advice of his mentor, Professor William P. Trent, and

took a year off from school to teach at the George School, a coeducational secondary school in

Pennsylvania, before making his way unexpectedly to Phillips Academy where he

would settle. Fuess spent a substantial portion of his career at Phillips

Academy, a coeducational secondary boarding school which was at the time an all

boys school. Fuess received an invitation from the current headmaster Alfred E. Stearns to a position in the English

Department. At first he declined, convinced he would join the faculty at

Columbia University. Stearns knew their English Department was short one

teacher and needed someone in the area with a college degree. After making a convincing

job offer, $1200 a year with room and board, and receiving a telegram from a

professor at Columbia urging him to take the job, he accepted. He began his

tenure in the fall of 1908 living in Draper Cottage. As an English

teacher he focused on teaching his students to articulate themselves and

nurturing their natural instincts of curiosity and a desire to learn In

1913 he assumed editorship of the quarterly the summer of 1918 he was asked by John Pershing to commission 200 of his students as Second

Lieutenants to serve in the First World War, which he did. That September Fuess himself

was commissioned as a Major in the Quartermaster Corps at Camp He soon caught influenza and was honorably discharged in January 1919. He

soon became a popular figure among the younger alumni who knew him and known as

one of the best English teachers of his time. John U. Monro, Class of 1930

and later Trustee of Phillips Academy, found himself throughout his life

"dependent for survival" on the "solid growing pleasure he takes

in the use of language he traces back easily to Jack Fuess."  In March 1933, Alfred Stearns was forced to

resign in the midst of a scandal. He was a widower and married his housekeeper,

someone "beneath his social class. Upon the resignation of Alfred

Stearns, Fuess was appointed acting headmaster of the school which had just

begun a new era. The successful banker Thomas Cochran had

worked closely with architect Charles Platt over the past several years to transform

the campus and construct a number of new buildings, notably the Addison Gallery of

American Art. At the same time however, the Academy was in

the middle of a traumatic moment in its history. Professor and Judge James Hardy Ropes, President of the Board of Trustees, died

suddenly; Thomas Cochran, now considered a driving force of the school, was in

poor health among others on the Board of Trustees. Similar to when Fuess

accepted the job as an English teacher in 1908, he was reluctant. This time he

was interested in a job as Professor of Biography at Amherst College, which

would allow him to continue his writing career more freely. For the next month,

the Board of Trustees interviewed a number of candidates for Headmaster outside

of the school. They soon concluded to "stick with someone whom they knew

and respected, someone, furthermore, who knew Phillips Academy thoroughly and

whose election would reassure the Andover community." On May 28, 1933,

Fuess was formally elected 10th Headmaster by the Trustees. During the first

few years of his administration Fuess worked to acquire funds to renovate

Bulfinch Hall to house the school's English Department. In the past it had

served as a gym and at that point a dining hall. With a gift totaling $725,000

from Edward Harkness he

was able to renovate the building and install English classrooms as well as

provide five teaching foundations including on-campus residences for each.

"My heart is very full over these gifts from Mr. Harkness," he said

announcing the project at Commencement in June 1936. The gift sparked a boost

in morale for the school amidst the Great Depression. By the time if his retirement in 1948

 the English Department had grown

from four to sixteen faculty members.

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