Chase Collegiate School history

*1910 McTernan School Opens

The second was a boys' school established in 1912 as the McTernan School for Boys.

Alberta C. Edell, a graduate of Columbia University came to St Margaret’s as an instructor in the fall of 1913.

Miss Chandler had come to St Margaret's in 1920 and taught English for 28 years.

Over the course of a decade, Miss Edell gained experience and was named to succeed the current principal, Miss Munro, in 1923.

Starting in 1928, these three buildings, which had been connected, were used as one facility.

Berkeley Hotchkiss, a McTernan School graduate and teacher, was appointed Headmaster in 1946.

Miss Edell retired in June 1948, after twenty-five years as Headmistress.

Winston Ranft, teacher and coach who had been appointed Assistant Headmaster in 1952, was appointed Headmaster to succeed Mr.

He instituted language training and athletics into the curriculum and built a new gymnasium in 1955 after a successful capital fund drive.

In 1961, the property in downtown Waterbury was sold to the McTernan School, and St Margaret's was now wholly encompassed on the Chase Parkway campus.

In 1962, as part of the School's Centennial Progress Program, a Butler building was given to the school by Charles E. Fulkerson and was restructured on the campus.

Ranft directed the school until 1970 when he moved to Florida.

Ranft as Headmaster and continued in that capacity until 1972 when he was appointed Headmaster of the newly merged St Margaret's-McTernan School.