Frank Boyden
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Personal life
He attended Amherst CollegeAmherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
, class of 1902.
He married Helen Sears Childs on June 29, 1907. She was a 1904 graduate of Smith College
Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
, which awarded her a Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1934.
Boyden enjoyed driving through the Deerfield Valley in one of his several horse-drawn buggies.
He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention
Republican National Convention
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from Massachusetts in 1960.
His only living relatives, a grandson and three adult great-grandchildren currently reside in Northern California.
Career
Boyden kept his desk in the hallway of the Main Building so as to keep the pulse of the school. As headmaster, he became known for taking in students who had been expelled from other schools. Boyden was replaced after his retirement in 1968 by David M. Pynchon.Legacy
A chair, the Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy, exists at the University of Massachusetts BostonUniversity of Massachusetts Boston
The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the second largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is located on on Harbor Point in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States...
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Boyden was profiled by John McPhee
John McPhee
John Angus McPhee is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction....
(Deerfield, Class of 1949) in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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in an article later expanded into a book, The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
The Headmaster (book)
The Headmaster : Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield is a book by John McPhee, profiling Frank Boyden, the headmaster of Deerfield Academy, which grew out of a magazine profile in The New Yorker.ISBN 0-374-51496-8...
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The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
holds some of his papers.