Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 15

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A practicing lawyer for
over 40 years and a Saco
municipal court judge for
four years, George Addison
Emery was called “Judge
Emery” througho ut his life.
Emery made numerous gifts
to the school, some of which
amounte d to one-third of the
school’s operating budget.

On March 19, 1912 the Board
voted to name the then-new
gymnasium, modeled after the
one at Bowdoin College, after
Emery. Exactly one century
later in 2012, the Board of
Trustees voted to update the
aging building, recovering its
architectural beauty and devoting
its space to the library (see
bottom left) and a dance studio.

For 37 of his 51 years of
service, Emery served
as Board secretary/
treasurer. Increasingly
shaky handwriting of the
recorded minutes attests
to his aging and explains
why the Thornton Academy
Board created a unique,
no longer-filled position
of an assistant secretary/
treasurer - a younger
member who could write
in a legible hand.

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