This year Endicott Peabody, 83, retired as headmaster of Groton. Last week Rosemary Hall celebrated its 50th anniversary. Between those two events there was more than a timely connection. Like swank Groton, Rosemary Hall, a swank girls' school in leafy Greenwich, Conn., has been ruled from its beginning by one person. And like Groton's Peabody, Rosemary's Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece) is in a class by herself among U. S. headmistresses.
To pay homage to her, there arrived at Rosemary last week socialites, college presidents (including Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken), 250 devoted old Rosemarians. They found Miss Ruutz-Rees in nominal retirement, two...
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