Annie Ware Allen

Founder, Roger Ascham School, Scarsdale, NY

(from A Brief Biography of Mary Pickard Winsor

by Jane Hoeffel Otte '57, P'84, '86

Archivist)

Three of Mary Winsor's siblings became heads of schools-Frederick founded the Middlesex School; Elizabeth Winsor Pearson co-founded the Eliot-Pearson School with Winsor graduate Abigail Eliot '10. Annie Winsor Allen founded the Roger Ascham School in Scarsdale, N.Y. Her older brother Robert, a principal at Kidder Peabody, offered advice and financial support to her at a crucial time and was instrumental in establishing the Pigeon Hill School, predecessor of the Meadowbrook School.