Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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FDDM THE HEAD MASTED HE year rememberethc SehooIIs I47th-With a record enroll- ment of 628, giving rise to a general feeIA began, I ing of opulence which the Treasurer de- plored. That they all slept somewhere seems at this remove indisputable; but I forget where. Last year's Fifth Form, early on in its career, ran foul of the designae tion iiimmature,'7 which it continued to resent, with increasing ferocity, as the months went by. Your Form7 though vari- ously categorized, has defied its mentors capacity to describe you with a single ad4 jectiVe-not so much, I suspect, by reason of their verbal limitations as of your own lush and resplendent variety. The impact of unprecedented numbers and dazzling accomplishments among the Class of 1937 made heavy inroads upon my formerly adequate stamina. Having launched the ship on its latest cruise, I took to my bed; and it required hve days, two physicians, and an astronomical hunt ber 01. units of penicillin to restore me to a reasonable level of spiritual equanimity. The fall term was a time of ferment, as I remember it, when we were young and gay: yeasty is the word for it. Early cola loquia at Fifth Form tea gave rise to an inexhaustibly vivacious research into what words really mean, led by Jim CYBrien, which established the Head Masters decie sion that the slogan for the year was to be ACCURACY. Seldom, therefore, has the Alumni Study coruscated with such pas- sages of elegant conversation as it has this year between five and six, daily except Thursdays. I have been edified and ine structed, not to say admonished and core reeted. In these festive goings-on, I have been trenchantly attacked from various vul- nerable angles by such masters of the coup dc grace as Bill Berkson, Bill Haddad, Bob and Bill Koprowski twhose mice always uncooperatively died before anything could be found out about thcmy, Dave Barnes, Carter Bowles of the Confederacy, the skeptical raised eye- brow of: Freddy chert, and other lethal creatures too numerous, to coin a phrase, Gimbel, Claude to mention. During the weeks of this see mantic crisis, the form of address most frequently directed toward me was, HBut, sirew We saw then, launching of Mr. KeuffelIs career as head coach of footbaIl-antl a most successful maiden cruise it was, under the superlative leadership of cwcaptains Roeser and Mac- Intyre; and other athletic prowess which glorihed the Schoolss annals. We saw a Fifth Form tea dance in the Music House, which I admired particu- larly because it was not in our house, and neither Mrs. Heely nor I had anything to do with it. Then there was that unprecedented pot litical panel just before the election, which provided a luscious opportunity for uni dergraduates and masters to insult each other in public; though there is no evie dence that anybodyIs views were changed. The whole School community rejoiced at the elevation of Robert F. Goheen 36, to the Presidency of Princeton University, for which his Lawrenceville teachers took most 01? the credit. Here beginneth a paragraph on the Periwig Club. I remember Dennis Faxw cett, who, in the fall and winter product tions, enhanced his reputation as the most creative, imaginative, and technically gifted schoolboy actor I have ever seen; and whose authorship of a oneeactor in the win- tooiremember ?ethe N in clean

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5 7 OlZa 730517 sz 5 7 ter show was :1 brilliant accomplishment. I remember also Ed Pearson in Antigone, whose dignity, authority, power, and die- tion are not to be surpassed. I am grateful to Ed Pearson for the excellence of his ambassadorship and for the diversity of his high accomplishments. He is one of the English children who have been taught how to speak. I am grateful to him too for his sardonic but genial tolerance of the Head MasterIs 0c- casional misguided Views on education and Anglo-American relations at Fifth Form tea. I recall with pleasure the January day when, as Bill Haddad had it, the Heelys were bled down the garden pathII and Hi- Fi invaded the Alumni Study. It was then that Dizzy Darwin installed himself as first of a group of experts all of whom knew all about everything, but no two of whom agreed about anything. It has been :1 year of notable leadership under Chuck Roeserls presidency. He and Twenty his Council have been constructive and responsible, and they have viewed the de Hciencies of faculty perceptions with be nign charity. And so on and so on, far beyond the space limitations which the editor wisely imposes on me. It has been a memorable year together; Mrs. Heely and I will not forget the fun and pleasure of your com- pany or your services to the School which makes us one. As I have said in another place, this is a place to love. This is a place to cherish. This is a place to hold within the fast- nesses of our hearts. As you leave this plot of ground, these buildings, these peo- ple who will stay behind and serve here, I hope you will hold fast to the dignity of our common inheritance. Mrs. Heely and I bid you good-bye with affection and confidence. ALLAN V. HEELY Head Master