In 1938 president Charles S. Haight died and C. Lambert Heyniger purchased the school, becoming its headmaster and treasurer.

Heyniger was a Princeton alumnus who had taught as a missionary in China and then pursued graduate study at Columbia University before joining General Motors.

The boys had hoped school officials would send all the pupils home until repairs were made.

[4] The campus is situated on the original site of the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark.

[5] It spans over 365 acres of land, with 26 buildings, tennis courts, playing fields, ponds, orchards, pastures, marshlands, and a vast forest.