Here is the headmaster’s obituary from 1937:
ERWIN SHEPARD SPINK; Founder of the Woodland School Dies in Florida at 72
It reads – “Erwin Shepard Spink – Founder of the Woodland School Dies in Florida at 72
Daytona Beach, Fla. Feb. 27 – Erwin Shepard Spink, teacher and headmaster in various private schools before his retirement in 1933, dies at his Winter home here today. His age was 72. Born in Brooklyn and a Columbia graduate, Mr. Spink first practiced law, then taught in Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory Institute and Mountain School. In 1912 he founded his own Woodland School at Phoenicia, N.Y.
Mr. Spink was a former principal of Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Emily Seymour Armstrong Spink; a son, Shepard, and a daughter, Harriet.”
