{"product_id":"the-silver-tray-9798234064615","title":"The Silver Tray","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Silver Tray tells the story of Frank Stanton, who is completing his third year as headmaster of Hammond Academy, a small boarding and day school for boys in Tennessee. The setting is the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the headmaster, an alumnus of the school, wants to make some changes in the school's direction, changes that other good schools are making and have implemented. The board of trustees is composed of elderly men who consider the changes radical, and the story involves students, faculty members, and their wives, trustees, administration, townspeople, the traditions of the school, tacit segregation, and the mean, nasty things that can be perpetrated within the confines of such a school.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David E. Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rondoleo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798234064615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWood, David E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A native of Waynesboro, Georgia, David E. Wood, Sr. enrolled in Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee, as a freshman boarding student in the fall of 1950. After graduating from BGA, he majored in History at Davidson College and later obtained an M.A. in School Administration from Middle Tennessee State University.After serving as an officer in U.S. Army Intelligence, he returned to BGA to teach and coach from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1976, he was associated with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Vanderbilt University, serving the last twelve years as Director. He then started a thirty-year career in independent school administration, associated with five southern schools, serving as headmaster of four of them: UMS Preparatory School in Mobile; Harpeth Hall School in Nashville; St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Jackson, Mississippi; and Randolph School in Huntsville, Alabama. He also served as Head of Upper School at Pace Academy in Atlanta.Over the years, he has enjoyed playing piano music from the 1920s to the 1950s for seniors, doing so up to 450 times and counting.In 2010, he collaborated with illustrator Ben Johnson to publish a children's book, The Crooked Tree, which he has read to over a thousand young people.He and his wife, Margie, had two children, David Jr. and Margaret. He presently lives in Franklin with his wife, Marietta Eggleston Burleigh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"David E. Wood \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48641384841373,"sku":"9798234064615","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3c4e6b5e-cc81-4ef2-b625-252fa2960ecc.jpg?v=1784108031","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-silver-tray-9798234064615","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}