Founder’s Day On November 5, Roxbury Latin celebrated its annual Founder’s Day, honoring the very beginning of the school, founded in 1645 under King Charles I by “the good apostle” John Eliot. In this 375th anniversary year, the school celebrated the history of the City of Boston and Roxbury Latin’s place within it. >>
The day began with an address by Dr. Christopher Hannan ’82, a Massachusetts Maritime Academy Professor. Chris has studied and written extensively about John Eliot. Chris focused particularly on the herculean task of creating a written Algonquin language and using it to translate the Bible, which Eliot undertook in order to convert indigenous people to Christianity.
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At the conclusion of Hall, all 304 boys and more
than 55 faculty and staff members piled onto the MBTA Commuter Rail for a full day in Boston’s Back Bay.
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Despite a
rainy morning, the traditional all-school panorama (see the photo on page 30) was taken on the Senior Grass.
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