Groton School Quarterly, Spring 2018

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HONORING THE ENDURING CAREERS OF DEPARTING FACULTY

52 YEARS J O N CHO AT E

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HUGH SACKETT Spring 2018 • Volume LXXIX , No. 2

used in the 1930s or ’40s, sat in the faculty room near one of the few telephones in the Schoolhouse. For any long-distance call (including to Boston!), faculty would write details of each call on a slip of paper and insert it in the box, so the Business Office could sort out the school’s telephone bill and charge the appropriate people for their calls. Students followed a similar system in the dorms.

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