Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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54 Offrz Todrzkkz 5 4 that your Form's achievement is still inadequately recognized I can only say that the few retorts my mind can presently supply seem to me to be arrant cliches, unworthy of extension in this otherwise relatively high-minded document. I salute and celebrate Pete Haywood's single-handed achievement in producing the Fifth Form tea dance in the Alumni Study, which deserves an annal of its own. Remember also your participation in the opening of the hockey rink on that bone- freezing Ianuary Saturday night. And a lot of other things too-and particularly people: the unprecedented elevation of two of your present members, Dick Iordan and Dave Pursglove, to Fifth Form status in mediix rebusg Ace Baber, whose nickname has become an accurate char- acterization, cocaptains of football Gene Coker Cthe homesick 'Ifexanj and Pete Wight Qwho made that touchdownjg the incredible jet-propulsion of Iohn Harkraderg the captains and the players of distinguished other teams, too many to enumerate, but among them the old leaguer Chuck Heppenstallg Oakley Hewitt, captain of hockey, good at everything, that valiant, stylish, and gifted sportsman, Ned Langhorne. And on the non-athletic side Clint Najarian-acute, mature, perceptive, President Bill Trim- ble, whose sterling management-calm, imperturbable, modest-has served the School superlatively wellg and other stars in your distinguished galaxy. You have given Lawrenceville a fine year, my friends, and if it be true, as Noel Marshall admonished us in The Tempest, that We are such stuff as dreams are made onf' this dream which we have lived together this year on these well-loved premises has had, I trust full well, a reality, a temper, and a sure promise in which I am proud to have been a participant. Mrs. Heely and I say good-bye to you with deep affection and Firm confidence. ALLAN V. I-IEELY Head Muster Ten

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H EAD MASTEIQ 'S MESSA6 If s A MATTER of dull fact, to which school teachers are allegedly attracted as moths to a flame, annals are a register or record of the events of a yearf, In practice, however, the word is commonly ascribed to those years only which seem to someone to be worthy of salute and celebration. It seems to me, in a benign and eupeptic inter- lude, that the Fifth Form year of the Class of 1954 is worthy of salute and celebration. It may even have been, as some of its members appear to be convinced, earth-shaking, though the question of precisely who shook what remains perhaps still not quite clear. At the opening Convocation I remember assailing your less than eager ears with gem after gem of seasoned wisdom, of which both the content and the purpose now escape me. But there were 602 young gentlemen in attendance-a captive audience of priceless worth. That afternoon the first Fifth Form tea was held. You have been an especially flavored coterie at Fifth Form tea this year. There have seldom been many of you present at once. You have exhibited a tendency to come late to tea and to stay late, cool toward the culinary entertainment prepared for your delight at adjacent school food dispensaries. Your conversation has been variously witty, gossipy, pedestrian, depressed, rumor-ridden-but always friendly. The Messrs. Schrade and Caldwell have commonly introduced the afternoonis activities. Mr. Cote's epicurean tastes, to all of which I heartily subscribe, have added dash to the goings-on. Mr. Schoettle has brought irrepressible good-humor to his self-imposed labor of going through all the food in sight as rapidly as possible. I have found pleasure in the com- pany of Ed Smith and Pete Railey, particularly since I have been able to tell them apart. Noel Marshall, certainly the best ambassador England has ever sent us, has been intelligent, perceptive, and entertaining in his animadversions on a strange society to which he was perhaps surprised to find himself remarkably in kinship. Of him, too, I shall remember with permanent satisfaction his performances in The Wz'n5l0w Boy and The Tempest-the most accomplished school-boy acting I have ever seen. At tea also I have been grateful for the patience and forbearance which Mr. Cilley has habitually extended toward the Head Master's intellectual deficiencies in the face of irrefutable logic. His editorial distinction I applaud. From his parochial preference for Washington salmon I reserve the privilege of dissent. Your class established a special place in our hearts by your touching and resounding gifts to Mrs. I-Ieely on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday, on which the whole school community united in a wonderful, unforgettable expression of affection and gratitude to her. We live in the hearts of our friends, and such tributes are our greatest treasure. You grieved with all of us at the death of two distinguished servants of the School, Karl S. Wells and Lansing W. Tosteving for the tale of a school is told in the lives of men and women who have held her to be of supreme importance. And the illness and retirement of David P. Smith you also have felt to be a rent in the Schoolis fabric. Your academic performance has been, of course, appalling. You have helped make extra days a probability rather than an obscure hope, and to those of you who feel Nine

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