The Story of Swofford
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| Swofford Has Two More Freshmen Victims |
Many years ago, Dr. Frank Adams, an alumnus of Mt. Berry School for
Boys (1954) and an alumnus of Berry College (1958), wrote a story
about his experience as part of a Varsity Club initiation at the high school
-- the annual trek to Swofford Cabin, which was located on Lavendar
Mountain.
Actually, in reality Mr. Swofford was a stone mason who worked most
likely not only on the stone buildings on the high school campus but also
on the Ford buildings as well. The horrific story of his son going crazy
and killing his whole family was probably a fabrication by some guy with a
great imagination. Dr. Adams felt the original story was too gruesome, so
he changed it to contain more human interest. He had hoped that it
might be published by a specialized magazine such as Georgia Back
Roads. Consequently, he had to change the name of the school to
Berrington Academy and the name of Swofford to Swanson.
It was not published, but he would like to make it available to all high
school alumni. If you are interested, he can send it to you as an
attachment on an e-mail or mail it to you by regular mail. You can contact
him by e-mailing him at frank@scenictrace.net or by calling him at
706-238-8223. Moreover, if you would like to share your own experience
at Swofford Cabin, he would be glad to have you write it down and send
it to him by e-mail or regular mail (25 Scenic Trace Dr. NW, Rome, Ga.
30165). He would like to collect all of these remembrances and present
them to the Berry Breakfast Club and to all high school alumni as a
printed booklet.
Boys (1954) and an alumnus of Berry College (1958), wrote a story
about his experience as part of a Varsity Club initiation at the high school
-- the annual trek to Swofford Cabin, which was located on Lavendar
Mountain.
Actually, in reality Mr. Swofford was a stone mason who worked most
likely not only on the stone buildings on the high school campus but also
on the Ford buildings as well. The horrific story of his son going crazy
and killing his whole family was probably a fabrication by some guy with a
great imagination. Dr. Adams felt the original story was too gruesome, so
he changed it to contain more human interest. He had hoped that it
might be published by a specialized magazine such as Georgia Back
Roads. Consequently, he had to change the name of the school to
Berrington Academy and the name of Swofford to Swanson.
It was not published, but he would like to make it available to all high
school alumni. If you are interested, he can send it to you as an
attachment on an e-mail or mail it to you by regular mail. You can contact
him by e-mailing him at frank@scenictrace.net or by calling him at
706-238-8223. Moreover, if you would like to share your own experience
at Swofford Cabin, he would be glad to have you write it down and send
it to him by e-mail or regular mail (25 Scenic Trace Dr. NW, Rome, Ga.
30165). He would like to collect all of these remembrances and present
them to the Berry Breakfast Club and to all high school alumni as a
printed booklet.