| The Shore School of Beverly Farms had opened in Lee Cottage in 1919 with 15 students. North Shore Country Day School had originally opened in Medford prior to World War I, and in 1922 had moved to Swampscott (in what was originally the Deer Cove Inn). Needing more space as a result of increased enrollment, NSCDS moved to Beverly into Sidney Winslow’s mansion on Cabot Street.
Sidney W. Winslow Jr. was president of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Beverly. In August of 1931, through the work and generosity of Messrs. Ayer and Poor, the Board of Trustees at North Shore Country Day School agreed to pay Mr. Winslow the sum of $37,500 for ownership of the home so the school could remain at its location. This late-19th-century building is still the heart of Shore Country Day School.
In 1963, the second floor of the Winslow Building was made into the Ingelfinger Library, and in 1993 the library moved to the Brian R. Walsh Science Center and Library Resource Center (Mr. Walsh was Head of School from 1971-82). Today, Winslow houses Upper and Lower School music, along with the Admissions, Business, and Advancement offices. Shore has added computer labs, gymnasiums, an indoor climbing wall, a theatre, art studios, a dining hall, and multiple classrooms equipped with multimedia technology.
Seventy-five years after the North Shore Country Day School merged with the Shore School of Beverly to form Shore Country Day School, the campus spans 17 acres, has 94 employees, serves 35 different communities and over 430 students, and is considered a leader in elementary education.
And what Board President J. Hampden Robb wrote in June 1941 remains true today:
“Another year has passed, a year which has been overcrowded with events, many of them distinctly sinister in nature, affecting the whole world. In contrast, it is my pleasure to now report to you that your School has come through that same year in satisfactory and successful manner. The steady progress along the lines of furnishing still better educational and physical facilities each year, which was intended when the new School was first organized, has continued. … All this in the face of world conditions which have been unsettled, to say the least, is an achievement of which we may be justly proud. We have all been responsible for it, every parent, child, teacher, and employee connected with our school.” |