Albany Academy - Cue Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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X4-Ag! W F 4 if ,fi flgxfx 9 93 0 THE 1937 corporals and on election day the battalion was ready to march at Bleecker Stadium before the football game in which the Academy was subdued 46-O by the l-ligh School. The Dramatic Club play, Adam and Eva, came and was gone, the Cuidon passed in the conventional manner and, flat- tered at being allowed to attend, we appraised the Officers' Dance as the best of the school social events. Paul Cohen easily won the Prize Speaking award for the glory of our class and Wheeler, Hannock, Smith, Wilkins, and others definitely established the athletic worth of the junior Class above that of the Senior group. Clinton Brand acquired the Corporal's Cup, Wheeler, the Sergeant's Medalg and Edward Eaton, the Townsend Medal to bring to a close the Fifth Form year lsave for the matter of college boardsl and herald the beginning of the fuller life to be foundonly in the Sixth Form. Wilkins having been chosen major, captain of football, president of the Sixth Form and the Student Council, what were left of the honors were thrown open to the public. The battalion steadily improved in both ap- pearance and efficiency. For the first time all ranks were filled and the ef- ficient officers with Colonel Donner and Captain Townsend gave promise of a banner year. ln December Paul Cohen fell in love with Anne Morgan and climaxed with a kiss the joint C-irls' Academy-Boys' Academy pro- duction of The Cuckoo's Nest . Finally, Captain Eaton carried off the flags at the Cuidon Drill for Company B, and so elated were Colonel Don- ner and Capt. Townsend with the appearance of the battalion that they both appeared at the Officers' Dance for an exhibition of their ballroom technique. Clarence Thurston Thompson came, and Douglas Manley went, and johnny Wertime came and went, all to add to the confusion of this memorable year. As the banquets passed, as the often-to-be-recalled Cue trip ended with the return to the unstimulating Capital District, as this same Commencement Cue won its fight for existence, the Sixth Form be- came increasingly conscious that their twelve years at the Academy were quickly coming to an end. Competitive drill was not long in coming and the next week on june eighteenth we commenced with due honor. Thus, we, the class of thirty-seven, have passed on. lt has indeed been a memorable year. No one quite dared to simulate the experience of Stalky and the dead cat, but there have been moments: Who, for instance, was the cowardly villain, or if you will, the brilliant jokester, who from the height of some twenty-five feet, with careless abandon dropped a handful of wet towels directly over the unsuspecting person of Mr. Crawford? And who failed to arouse the mirth of Dr. Mc- Cormick with the alarm clock in chapel? And, once and for all, what was the true story of Mr. Midgley's window stick? These questions, my dear readers, remain unanswerable, or, at least, unanswered. lt has been a memo- rable year. 'av Page thirty l L -Wf- tt 5. if . x , kg N- . M. Q C

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E l93'?CUE Q is old building as members of the Academic Department. Some boys named Edward Eaton and Carl Meyer and Donald Van Olst had joined us and we were quartered at the foot of the stairs in Miss Boyd's and Miss Shute's rooms. The yoyo craze hit its hardest that year and recovery had not been around several corners and was destined to be not around many more. We organized a sleigh ride that winter and those who knew kept trying to make those who didn't to go snipe hunting. All year we were saving our pennies for the building fund and ducking missiles hurled by that Mr. Krogh during his terroristic reign in the Sixth Period. The following year still as First Formers we moved to the New Academy and, while workers were still put- ting finishing touches to the staircases and doorways, we all signed up for Doc Adams' Radio Club, or Mr. l-lahn's Stamp Club, or Mr. l-licks' Astrono- my Club. ln those early months we were rather thrilled as we first tasted the experience of military drill, learning right face and left face iheel of the right, ball of the left or ball of the right and heel of the leftl, but Tom Wheeler was the only one proficient enough to march in the parade that fall. Somehow we managed to get through our first Cuidon and Competitive Drills and on both occasions we were conscious of real excitement. i933 passed quite uneventfully while the class matured to the extent of another year. Mr. Krogh continued to take honors for class bogey man, but, other than the daily forty minute ordeal with him, nothing in particular ever happened, and the Second Form seems to be the low point of the class history. With the arrival of another fall things began to buzz in earnest. Prac- tically everyone was on the swimming team and Tom Wheeler began his climb to hockey fame by starring for the varsity in the Third Form. A strange fellow named Mr. Loomis blew in one day to expose us to a little Latin, but confined his pedagogical pursuits to the relating of his experi- ences as a sailor and to swearing at the class in French. Some of us that year got into a society, some of us didn't. Andrew Rooney and Charles Smith brought glory to themselves the fol- lowing fall by playing varsity football. Our Fourth Form Ceneral lnforma- tion Contest Committee drew criticism for its weird questions, of which one, possibly the weirdest, read, l-low many saxophones are there in Cilen Cray's orchestra? Mr. Colton beat out Mr. Hahn for the information prize and either for that accomplishment or merely as an expression of good will, Mr. Colton was subsequently presented with a valiant white steed lnot alive, of course, it was a whiskey advertiser's modell by his humble Caesar class, led most enthusiastically by the class mascot, Willie Baumet. c Came the Fifth Form with Marshall l-lannock, President, and Douglas Bridge, Student Council representative, once more. As had been anticipated, a certain half or two-thirds of the class were promoted to sergeants and K at :XXL ' 2' l ll l Page twenty-niize X xx 'l X15 C,- M. --ix -.QXMV ,fwsy V Q-.A - Y, ififglsir J, ,,,.s sent -- .ref

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THE l93'ICUE Q S 0 cu-xss Hurvtoaesouia Bedell-They laughed when he stood up at the Beck banquet, tell us, Wal- lace, just what was the answer to that story? Our editor has done his best to make himself believe that a certain resignation from a post' with the basketball team has broken Coach Morris' heart. Brand-As official and duly commissioned First Lieutenant Quartermaster in the Cadet Battalion of the Albany Academy, Clint did . . . no . . . er . . . or rather acted as . . . was, er, ah, blew his tin whistle smartly and clearly each week for the duration of ten seconds. Bridge-During the Spring, there was a movement afoot to rip up the board track land why not?l and with the wood build Doug an office at the back of chapel where he could meet his debtors privately. We also thought of making a statue of Doug draped in many a ripe and also rare uniform of historic vintage-the statue to be dedicated to those hardy souls who try to collect exchange bills. Clark-The gift of the class of '36-which reminds us that the clfss of '32 should replace the dead tree it left. William was another one of those cheerful oddities that make America's subways and street cor- ners the topic of such amusing satires. Cleaver-l-lolstein didwhis best to get himself nicknamed l-loke , but to us there is something very fetching about just plain black and white Holstein. Among Cleve's repertoire of daily questions were, Do we use ink?', and Can we write on both sides? Cohen-Could Paul's parents have had anything in mind when they initialed him P. A.? lthere isxa famous system and it hasn't anything to do with Notre Dame footballl. Paul is looking for five silent partners with which to incorporate. The son of Mrs. Cohen spent his year dancing and talking about it. Eaton-Cupid traded his bow and arrow for a machine gun when Ed stepped out. l-le looked like the original gold standard in uniform with all his medals on. Gibson-Chuck's main aims were to be a non-conformist at any cost and to throw Landay off his trail. What the Sixth Form didn't do to him and what he didn't do to the Sixth Form Room leaves very little for us to talk about. C-ormly- Now, there was a traveling salesman and a farmer's daughter . . . harumph, Douglas, harumph, Sweet Adeline , in fact life it- self, assumes a new meaning when interpreted by his ace bass voice. l-le had such a low voice that they had to move the bank notes down an octave so he could count the Clee Club concert profits, l-lannock-To Bea or not to Bea: that is the . . . Marsh was a baseball- hockey-football man with a one track mind. lf only he had had time left over to do some work he might have gotten into college on his marks. Heisler and l-lemstead-We will never be held responsible for splitting i this green pair lyou all know what green pears do to peoplel. john is about 5' S , l4Og George is about 5' ll , l55. You've probably seen if them around. 441 t uf'-ATTAEQ l ' ra li ' KHMXYV Page thirty-ooze R XX 1 ik? ig f., ,Jr