Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER Now it is spring. As I write, the elms around the Bowl are showing a touch of green, and the magnolia over the main gate is about to blossom. Even with the stage giving visible signs of being set for the closing events of the year, it is difficult to think that the Fifth Form will shortly be singing its Parting Song and the Class of 1965 will march out of the chapel, leaving their pews to the Fourth Form. VVhat kind of year has it been? One thinks first of all of major ac- complishments. The 'cnewv Lawrence of recent issues is one of the best stu- dent newspapers I have ever read. To Mike Matthay all credit for presiding over his spirited and sometimes con- tentious editors, Ion Miller, Dave Okerson, Bob Hecker, and Lewis Perrv. The stress and strain of self- discovery were amply evident in Law- rence columns during the winter, but from all the alarums and excursions I4 has emerged Phoenixlike a genuinely new and fine school paper. VVe are accustomed to high levels of achievement from Periwig, now thoroughly at home in the Allan P. Kirby Arts Center. N0 Time for Ser- gerznts was first class and Greg Mal- colm in the lead role memorable. Chris Lees and the cast of the winter show, Duerrenmatt's The Visit, were strik- ingly effective. Again the accomplish- ment was beyond cavil. There were other triumphs during the year. I shall always remember the last quarter of the Andover football game when Art Thompson and Robin Madden captained their underdog team in a display of tenacious spirit which showed that there can be a glory in losing, a glory of the heart. And then there were two tremendous iinal wins over Choate and The Hill. Other accomplishments have been more individual in nature. Bob Heck-

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eris virtuosity with his oboe, Andy Chilsonis proficiency on various stringed instruments, and Matt Do- miny,s manipulation of his trombone have given personal accents to a gen- eral upsurge in the musical life of the campus. There have also been other individ- ual accomplishments of a high order in different areas. Dave Lordis man- agerial omnipresence became legend- ary. One member of the Form valiant- ly earned the sobriquet 'gChow Boyv because he always wanted to be fuller, Or perhaps it was just the improved, gourmet quality of the menu in the Abbott Dining Room? Events as well as people have made the year memorable. We all watched with amazement and delight the con- struction during the autumn of the translucent roof for the Edwin M. Lavino rink. And Nick F orstmann and Bill Hamill subsequently captained a hockey team which made up in spirit what it lacked in goals. Mentioning those two doughty members of the Form for some strange reason reminds me of the wave of Beatle tonsorial taste against which I mounted a losing battle primarily by means of personal loans advanced at an exorbitant rate of interest. In fact, future historians may regard as signincant the circumstance that this has been the first and perhaps the only school year during which barbers and haircuts were a constant topic of conversation. First of all came the mi- crocosmic economic issues of bank- ruptcies, monopoly, and free trade as exemplified in hot partisanship on the issue of our village Figaro versus the campus stripping service. Then there was the persistent faculty campaign for shorter haircuts matched by an equally obstinate resistance on the part of students. More seriously, as I review the year I think also of strikingly substantial leadership in the Form. Scott Robert- son has been a distinguished Presi- dent. Working principally through personal relationships and with deft touches at the right places, he has re- sisted the temptation to take refuge in bureaucracy and blunderbuss. The re- sult has been a harmonious spirit with- out loss of taut concern. His fellow officers have been correspondingly ef- fective. Pete Zaloom has also reshaped the Chapel Board on new and more vigorous lines while Bod Kerr has been deeply involved in Periwig and with swimming. just a year ago Scott Robertson said in his Mantle acceptance speech, c'You go to a good school for self- knowledgef, What he then delivered as a maxim has in my judgment now been accomplished in fact. In retro- spect I think of the Form as a yeasty ferment of individuals devoted in com- mon to the School. Devotion. but- tressed with energetic hard work, has brought change and growth. And as the School has grown, so has the Form, individually and collectively. I am proud of the accomplishments which have been your gift to the School and proud also of what you have become. Lawrenceville is different because of you and will be different without you. Mrs. McClellan and I have confidence that as you move to new challenges and new responsibilities the qualities you have shown here will serve you well. VVe shall miss you, but we know we will also be proud of you. 15