Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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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

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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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O’Hara caused a mild disturbance when Goober Canterbury locked him in the hallway closet, to spend a few lonely hours in the dark. We were also pleased to see Turtle Ahlborn taking second place in the Connecticuts on Gillis Hamilton's undefeated grappling team. Bill Burton, rooming across the hallway from Slim Tim. met a singular fate one evening. It seems that Bill was making his usual Michaelangdo couldn't have done a finer job. uncomplimentary noises in Tim’s direction, arousing in the latter a paroxysm of rage which did not end until Bill was wrapped around a bedpost crying for mercy, which finally came in the person of Charlie Kindleberger. From that moment on. at least for a while. Bill was loath to arouse the ire of the usually mild mannered Grunion. Frank Thayer became quite popular that winter when he was appointed King Grammie. and graft and corruption flourished under his skillful hands. We are proud to see that his skillful management of this task was rewarded with a later appointment in the chapel. In the Norge. Alf and Goose formed the Gourmet Club, which consisted of pooling their funds for Goose's weekly trips to Dr. Mangles, the town dentist. On their hallway with them dwelt what Panther termed the biggest bunch of hoods in school. Here also flourished the ••Bubble. Bubble. Toil and Trouble. ncw,V formed Yogi cult, and some were even suspected of the cardinal crime of radiator worship, which was at one time threatening to completely undermine chapel attendance. But the thing for which we will remember that winter term most was the appearance of a new face in study hall. The skies darkened and the heavens shook, the day when Walt Moody did not make the Honor Roll, and for the first time that august personage came under the wrathful rule of Dangerous Dent Rouse. Also, a member of our form whom we had thought lost forever, appeared that winter, as Tony English returned from a sojourn to the British Isles. Perhaps it was also during the winter term that someone very carefully shut Mr. Wizard Docs it Again.