Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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called the best. The election of council-members and appointment of prefects and inspectors on May first gave us a working knowledge of the Kent System hitherto taken for granted. The climax of the term, despite Prize Day, was the day on which we embarked on our summer vacation. We returned in the Autumn unencumbered by the Foster Contingent and with the addition of Allen, Bachellcr, Cheney, Colmore, Gam mack, Gott, Grandin, C. Harris, Grant, Griffin, Hatfield, P. Moore. Rumsey, Leverett Smith and G. Whitney. Among many improvements in the School plant were the new barns. Work was progressing on the new Infirmary. After assimilating these facts we elected Frothingham our president and started our various occupations. From our positions on the leagues we watched Ballard lead his team, coached by Mr. Bartlett, through a championship season. After Christmas we saw Jack Frey’s undefeated hockey team make a name for Kent. During that winter the Alumni House became noted for mysterious events, stairway catastrophes, trunk mysteries and window tapping, punctuated by the wailing of innocent victims. But the authorities, on the trail of a minor offense, encountered these phenomena and put a stop to them. The same dormitory later distinguished itself by its mystic rites to a certain Housatonic divinity, whose name, resurrected from the past, takes the form of Hankus. Our Spring term surpassed even that of the previous year. Benjamin Cheney and I.everett Smith became our first council members. Our Form crew and several men on the baseball squad made us feel somewhat important. The Prize Day report increased the feeling for we had seven of our members on the honor roll and in ranking were preceded only by the then, and, we hope, still brilliant class of 1947. The Fall of 1928 saw Cheney as our President and our Form numbering only thirty-four. The additions were: Baker, F. Harris, Nazro, Tewksbury, Yoorhees, Wainwright, Thompson and Yeomans. When we saw our members, except Cheney, still on the leagues, we realized that we had less claim to brawn than brain. Time flew quickly. After a moderately successful football season and very good hockey results, we came to the Spring term that was to bring us our first importance in the School. Colmore as cox of the crew was our first letter man and Ben Cheney turned in a second letter from his position on the baseball team. Bent, Nazro, Whitney and Frothingham played on the squad while Yeomans and Tewksbury won their tennis numerals. A junior four-oared crew was chosen from our Form to represent the School against Choate at Wallingford. Notable events of the term were the defeat of Pawling in baseball for the first time, and the breaking of ground for a new dining hall. We stayed after Prize Day for our first Board Examinations, drank tea, swam and had a good time generally. In the Fall Boughton, Brainard, Farnum and Muldaur were new-comers. I.everett Smith and Bent were our council-members, Bent our president. A successful football team, beaten only by Hoben of Hotchkiss, had Muldaur and 21

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Cheney among its members. Frothingham, M. Moore, Nazro, Russell, L. Smith, Snyder, Yoorhees and Whitney played on the squad. The success of Muldaur and Russell in dramatics was eclipsed only by the acting of Snyder in a female role. Right Fifth Formers accompanied the (ilee Club on its second trip to New York for the Interscholastic (dee Club Contest. Moore, Bent, Cuvier, Nazro, Froth-ingliam. Holmes and Grant received hockey insignia. The Spring of the Fifth Form year was undoubtedly a successful one. Four of our members were on the baseball team and the Fifth Form crew acquitted itself honorably. On May first, despite foreign intervention, we placed our numerals on the rock and took over the management of the School. I.everett Smith as senior prefect was assisted by Bent and Brainard with Snyder as sub-prefect. Perhaps the most enjoyable day of the year was that on which the Choate second and third crews and the Choate baseball team went down to defeat. The Fifth Form crew, in beating the Choate third crew, had the honor of sitting in the first shell to cross the line ahead of Choate. That evening a dance took place in the newly completed dining hall which we were invited to attend by the graduating class. So, after a short time, including the week before the Board Exams which is one of the best, despite rumors to the contrary, we completed our last year in the ranks. Our return in the autumn found us a very small form—only twenty-seven. We elected Bent our president and commenced to take charge of the affairs of a School of two hundred and thirty-six. The close of the football season gave six of our class their letters, but, though nine others were on the squad, the agre-gatc did not quite fulfill our earlier dreams. Nevertheless, we were becoming resigned to smallness of stature as well as scantiness of numbers. The autumn scholastic report, an unusually high one, showed our Form at the head of the list. To graduate, as evidenced by that report, has been our chief aim during the past year; and yet there are, in retrospect, many things in these school days of ours that make graduation seem not so worthy an object. There are landmarks behind which we will not forget and which will call us back again. Through many inland waters we have sailed together on a voyage that, happy as it has been, has yet had its stormy spells. But, despite storms, tempests, and landmarks looking at our fellow-voyagers as we head for the open sea, we find it in our hearts to say: “We know what risks all landsmen run. From nobleman to tailors, Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors.