Alan Lake Chidsey, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlan Lake Chidsey
American writer
Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1904
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1981
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Alan Lake Chidsey
- Alan Lake Chidsey (March 13, 1904 – October, 1981) was an American secondary educator. Chidsey was born in Easton, Pennsylvania.
- He graduated from Union College in 1925 and continued his education at Harvard University.
- In 1934 he married Ellis Cochran Brown from Greenwich, Connecticut.
- They had two children, Peter Chidsey and Ellen Chidsey Hays. A professional educator and school administrator, before World War II, Chidsey served as headmaster of the Pawling School (today called Trinity-Pawling School) in Pawling, New York and as principal of the now-defunct Arizona Desert School in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona.
- Military service interrupted his career as a teacher and school administrator. In 1942, he was inducted as a lieutenant in the United States Army.
- Rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1945, Chidsey served in a variety of administrative positions in Washington, D.C.
- and developed educational materials for the wartime Army. After World War II, Chidsey briefly served as assistant dean of students of the University of Chicago, with supervision over undergraduate activities.
- In 1946 a group of prominent Houstonians invited Chidsey to their city to discuss the establishment of a coeducational private school.
- He was asked to spearhead efforts which led to the establishment of St.
- John's School, located in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston.
- Though St.
- John's opened with 344 students and a small campus linked to St.
- John the Divine Church, it grew into a large, independent school with a sizeable campus scattered over several city blocks in central Houston.
- Chidsey served as headmaster of St.
- John's from its founding until May 1966, when he was succeeded by Elwood Kimball Salls.
- Chidsey shaped the school in its formative years.
- He even supplied the school's seal, which was a near-exact replication of the Trinity-Pawling seal. Chidsey was also the author of several books, including historical works on Rustam, Odysseus, and Romulus; Heinz, a satire of service in World War II; and My Animal Friends, a book of poems about animals with lessons for people.
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