Headmaster at Rosemary Choate Hall when JFK was a student there.
Upon JFK’s arrival he was solicitous of his new charge and wrote to his parents that “Jack sits at a nearby table in the Dining Hall where I look him in the eye three times a day, and he is fine.”
However, as the first term progressed and JFK’s lax attitude to regimentation and rules, St. John’s attitude to Jack evolved into some degree of exasperation.