"Here is some more information on the Woodland School which I have discovered through Google searches. From the pictures in the brochure it seems as if athletics and particularly baseball was very important at the school and so I wondered if he were related to the Spink family that founded The Sporting News in St. Louis, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
First is the entry from the Porter Sargent guide to private schools which is still published today and is the gold standard for information about private schools throughout the country."
- Carl Tannenbaum
Woodland School for Boys, Phoenicia, established in 1912 by Erwin Spink, is a home school characterized by a wholesome outdoor life. There are about twenty-five boys in attendance from various states.
From: A HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
AN ANNUAL SURVEY
SEVENTH EDITION Porter Sargent COPYRIGHT, I922
It was also listed in the 1915 and 1918 editions of the same book.
Below is an advertisement from 1916 in the magazine The World’s Work.
