Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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Senior Prefect in a moment of relaxation Representation continued when we put the original Kent version of The Nairobi Trio'' and magician Jose Bright in I957’s variety show. Frank Thayer and Shmoo Brooks played second tennis. Pete May worked for a baseball letter, while six sweated out a season with the second team, and John Skinner. Larry Hughes. Toad Revson. and Hondo Brookfield pulled big oars. Reading The Wind in the Willows” in our English classes helped to bring forth the gleeful Toad character. We watched Neddy Hobbs. Bob Vandervoort. Dick Ward, and Price Gripekoven run up the numerous aisles with numerous other honored tappees. closing an exciting week which sawr Gage and Reed soaked, and Prefect Baker spirited away to a dark mysterious room above the chapel, securely bound. We also watched the hillside turn green w'ith the strokes of ’58. and then plowed through a grueling set of exams before being allowed to wend our separate ways home in peace. Many ‘58ers w'ere be ginning to show their teeth already, and. although w e could not know it then, the infamous spaghetti-bender Nino Inganni was just warming up to a great career as a genial table-head the next year, w’ith the aid of his buddy-pal Simmy. Then, as the momentous day finally came. ufe ran off into the wilds to breathe the fresh air elsewhere. The hockey team, about a million years ago.

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inn that summer. As a matter of fact. 1960 also provided Steve and Alex as ground crew fodder for Mr. Armstrong's antipoison ivy campaign that summer. The mastermind also pushed a big costume party in the Rectory, promoting form interest and tea party spirit. However, ring leaders Ferster. Alford, and Clapp reneged on their publicized prizes when their decisions were attacked and the idea of the whole affair crumbled with internal politicking. Everyone enjoyed it. though, and the disguises. Satchmo. Elvis, etc., were priceless. Returning from Christmas holidays, most of us hit the ice again. Branny perhaps most of all. now a fast rising goalie having proved himself unfit for any other position. We guess he really did learn to skate eventually after several years of just standing and sitting. Rabbit Skinner captained the new Junior Hockey team and a turtle was seen rapidly crawling about on the second team mats, looking for his brother. At mid year we showed our true worth to the school. Wh«-, more, we won cbe game as g;,, BolIengicr and Umfundis Haggerty led US to second place in the school’s scholastic standings. Being both on the high roll, they soon left our league. New Council representatives Connecticut boys Howie Wolfe. Tony “was late to the meeting” Dunn, and Toph Clapp managed to swing the class down to watch Marco and the Bergers wipe up the New Haven home ice with a strong Yale frosh squad. That completed the first undefeated, untied season for Coach Nadal in thirty-six years. Mitch, rooming with Honor-Roll Kepner (strictly alternating indicators, the latest thing according to “The Blue Bible”) began his gray period with a letter a night and drawn shades all day. Why hide such a noble brow? Fong and the Goose watched a crew race on the school side of the river and brought some little treasures about half of the way home. The antique collectors were to enjoy a pleasurable two weeks at a small happy valley

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 -. to R.: McClelland. W. L. Smith. O'Hara. Thorpe. C. Brooks. Phyfe. Smithies. Slaughter. Morris. T. Smith. McPhail. Moody. Alexander. Stock. Ahlborn. Stanton. Stowell. Brookfield. Thayer. Alford. Porter. Skinner. Mitchell. Kepner. Gordon. W. B. Smith. Mell. Tatro. Hard-castle. Korfmann. Gladstone. Clapp. Dunn. Cady. Baiter. Sweitzcr. W. A. Burton. T. Black. White. Springs. H. Hamilton. Kindleberger. Anderson. Bollengier. Ferster. Knapp. H. Johnson. Delevett. Headden. Griggs. Harper. Crytser. English. Baldwin. Bright. FOURTH FORM TEAR Many of our form came back early for sports to start off the fourth form year, and we eagerly awaited what promised to be a most promising season with Jake McCandlcss' last year of coaching. It was just that, too. with the exception of the single heart-breaking loss to Choate. Perhaps some of the victories were due to the valuable efforts of Pete May and W.B.S. Down on the air-strip Breck and Sleepy Ken had made the team, and later, people like your reporter were forced to find more appropriate names for the undefeated record which the team had. Some of our more reactionary members were horrified to find that the form table system had been instituted in the Dining Hall, and' we were all forced to add to the Golden Rule the phrase “after you've taken some for yourself.” in order to keep body and soul together. To add to our difficulties, we had to cope with the voracious appetites of such paragons of the sixth form 3S Nino and Simmy. All right, who drank the glass wax? Magnificent job. This year was the last of the Thanksgiving vacations and it was properly celebrated by Mitch and Kep. who celebrated so well on the train coming back that they were rewarded a few extra days of school at Christmas vacation. During the winter. Goo-goo managed to break Goose's nose for about the fourth time, and Glick