Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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SIXTH FORM First row: R. Copeland, Tillotson, W. Little, Gill, Scanlan, R. Blacklow, Staples, Patterson, C. Cabot. Second row: 'I . Davis, Studlcy, Casner, Pride, Ulfelder, Sigourney, Draper, Walters. Third row: Porter, Welles, Faulkner, Ward, Barnes. Cranney. Fourth row: Wilson, Todd, II. Smith, Turley, Watson, Novak. Fifth row: Dwyer, Frye, Walsh, Govan. LX

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Alie SlA Aonn Alls tor V The following is a historical document recording the footprints which our illustrious members, past and present, have made on the sands of time. Accuracy in this work has been subordinated to jocosity wherever possible. September 14, 1943, found eight youthful adventurers surveying the horrendous road before them. The challenge to elude the Mole’s ever hovering grasp proved more time consuming than any intellectual endeavors. The record of these first dark days remains obscure, since only one of the primordial eight survived. Composing this awed octet were Beggs, John Bickford, A1 Eaton, Pete Elliot, Murray Kidder, Woofie Klemperer, Frank Swan, and Tru Casner, the aforementioned survivor. Beggs and Swan felt that their endeavors could be more fruitful elsewhere, and so at the end of Class B two fruits departed. To fill the ranks, Bill Porter, Tim Sturtevant, Howie Ulfelder, and Jim Cill were signed from the surrounding communities. E. Bailey Frye and George Devine, seeing the obvious potentialities of our still embryonic class, immediately withdrew from the class of 1950 to join us. Howie Ulfelder started his long career of truancy by appearing a week after School opened. The strange disappearance of several of our members was finally explained bv the revelation of the Madame Wong tortures administered by Moose Coffin, alias Madame Wong. It was not uncommon to find several classmates serving as targets of the society’s knife throwing. The next year, Mole Densmore transacted one of the biggest bargains since the Manhattan purchase as we exchanged Tim Sturtevant for fourteen new members: Scrapper Boland, Bob Blacklow, Bob Copeland, Vito Da Prato, Charlie Donovan, John Grozier, Bucky Johnson, Don “Babbit Ears” McDavitt, Dick Kluckholn, Tom Metzger, Brendie Sullivan, Bill Todd, and George Vrotsos. Bob Watson had spent a lonesome year without George Devine and so dropped back to join us. This year was featured by a mass exodus over the hill to the new clubhouse. And Longball Charlie Carrol, a new faculty member, set an all time high of 1,391 hours of detentions. Charlie’s study halls were punctuated by exploding caps, ball games, card games, and other forms of scholarly work. Perhaps our most interesting newcomer was our little bambino from the Continent, Vito. His limited vocabulary included “shuddup and “no.” Vito, once found with his foot hanging through the roof of the old Lower School building, quickly replied “No! when the Mole asked him if he had done it. The big jump from Class D to the Upper School was too much for Vito, George Vrotsos, John Boland, Charlie Donovan, and Brendan Sullivan. Pete Elliot departed our midst; but Pete Briggs, Kit Rice, Dick Saitow, Tom Nickerson, Garr Cranney, Will Little, and Harv Smith swelled the Form total. The last three of these stayed with the Form to the end. The Thin Man and II Duce were effervescent from the beginning, but it was not until the Sixth Form that Harv showed his true colors as one