New School Honors His Name
LLOYD H. BUGBEE '12, retired superintendent of the West Hartford (Conn.) 1 public schools, poses before his portrait at the dedication of the new school bearing his name in West Hartford. With him, on his left, is Walter Korder, the artist, in the lobby of the Bugbee Elementary School, where the portrait will permanently hang.
Dr. Bugbee, who now lives at Fairlee, Vt., retired September 1, 1947, after 35 years of service in the educational field, 25 of them as superintendent in West Hartford. He was elected president of the New England Association of School Superintendents in 1946, and was president of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford from 1921 to 1923.
Known for his ability to anticipate educational methods, Dr. Bugbee was among the first to innovate the use of motion pictures in teaching science when he was science teacher in the Springfield (Mass.) Technical High School, 1913-18. As superintendent in West Hartford, he inaugurated some of the first driver training courses in the country and established a permanent interest among West Hartford residents in taking university extension courses which he arranged primarily for his teachers.
Still looking forward, Dr. Bugbee retired at an age when his services were in great demand. As he wrote to a Dartmouth friend about retirement: "Most men are always getting ready to retire and to enjoy their lives.... They die getting ready to retire. I may die tomorrow, but at least I have faced the future with an understanding and helpful wife, with the prospect of sufficient activities to keep us busy and, we hope, well employed, for years to come. There is much up here that money can't buy."
