MAJ James S. Merritt's Scrapbook
The following photos are from the personal scrapbook of MAJ James S. Merritt 1917, who was Commandant of Cadets for many years and was the father of COL Tom Merritt '53, an HMS Superintendent. The 1909 Howe Catalog lists MAJ Merritt enrolled in the Lower School. He literally spent his life at Howe. -- The very first aerial photo of Dear Old Howe, looking north, showing the quad in the foreground, the Mansion with its carriage house just north of it, the Upper School (later Gray Hall) with the original Academic Building north of the Upper School. McKenzie Hall (Mess Hall) is at the far left edge.