New London High School - Whaler Yearbook (New London, CT)

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Eiatnrg nf the Gllaaa nf 1925 ' OUR years ago on a morning in September, We were organized as a class, and JH on the evening of a day in June this year we shall disorganize. It seems that it will be only the evening of that same September day, and yet four hard years have passed. Since that day we have played the parts of downtrodden Freshmen, soph- isticated Sophomores, condescending Juniors and now we are in the stellar role of Seniors. Throughout our afhliation with this school we have done our best to put Bulkeley School in the high place she deserves. v A Our achievements have been many as well as great. Be it on the athletic Held or treading the boards, ,28 has done everything that it Went into with true Bulkeley spirit. Although athletically we have our best representation on the diamond, we have sent men of the highest calibre on to the gridiron, and in a large measure have accounted for the successful years at track that Bulkeley has known of late. As ,luniorstwe won the interclass baseball championship. In the gentler arts we have alwaysibeen a very serious contender for first place in the Pot-Pourri, and this year we hope to produce a class play. In addition to this, our members have aided considerably in making successes of the operettas held in the past two years. Our scholastic average is high, and in all scholastic activities and competitions we have played important parts. Last year one of our members tied for first place in the Declamation Contest. We also decisively established our supremacy over the class of 1927 last spring in an interclass debate, so that ours was the first team to have its name inscribed on the trophy shield now on exhibition in the main corridor. Our choice of leaders has always been well supported by experience. As Fresh- men we were captained by Earle Edgecombg as Sophomores, by Quentin Walsh, and last year by Morris Sulman. This time we have chosen Robert Ferguson as our guiding star. lt would take a book to do real justice to the years as we have experienced them. but from this it can be seen that we have set a mark for all coming classes to aim at. Now we leave the school with the knowledge that it has given each and every one of us more than we can ever repay. Farewell. ' Page 7 wr'l1fy-two

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Gllaaa Hrnphrrg ml-lE members of the class of 1928 have before them one of the most wonderful opportunities for success in life that has ever been offered to the graduates of any school in New England. New London, which has seen so many of Bulkeley's finest rise to the heights of commercial and political fame, seems now itself on the verge of true prosperity. And what is more fitting than that Bulkeley men, whose predecessors have helped to make New London what it is today, should share in the prestige brought to this city by other and even more potent forces? '28 has, during its association with Bulkeley, gained a reputation of which its members may well be proud. No, we cannot call ourselves pioneersfliulkeley is too old a school for that. We have shown ourselves mildly progressive, not radical. lf our members can but say this for themselves in the years to come, as we know they can, the class of 1928 can boast of producing some of the best citizens New London has ever known. As a class, we have had many ambitions. And retrospeoting the path we have trodden, it seems safe to say that the majority of these ambitions have been fulhlled. So now the desire for individual achievement, which will grow keener for a time, to reach its climax some few years from now, spurs us on. Nearly every one of us has at least a vague idea of what field he may choose for his life's work. Choices cover almost every conceivable profession or occupa- lion known to the busy world of today. Hulkeley boys will be called upon to com- pete with the products of other schools of this vast nation. Hut the young men who are to go forth this .lune under the Orange and the Black will have an advantage. lmbued with the spirit so marked in Bulkeley boys, and lighting the battle of life on Hhome grounds, as the papers call it, they will meet men, and women, boasting some more famous school as their Alma Mater, on equal footing in New Englandis future metropolis and chief port, New London. Three generations of Bulkeley men have grown up within these hallowed walls, have prospered or failed, as the Fates decreed, and, we hope, Bulkeley School will see the day when the ninthkyea, and the tenth generations shall depart from her ancient precincts, to add their bit to the glory of the colors. The members of the class of 1928 are typical Bulkeley men-the straight- forward, square-shouldered variety. We have our heroes, others of us seem less appreciated, but we are united in bearing our common burdens, trifling or heavy. Our class of young men, many about to start some life work, is developing moral Hbre, clear heads, quick wits, healthy bodies, sound minds. Thus equipped, what cannot reasonably be expected of us? Mayhap ours may be the men to discover and develop new lines of thought and science, Connecticut has yet to send forth a president of the United States, why should not a Bulkeley man take the initiative? There are many years of life before us, offering many varied phases of existence. The men of ,28 will be found treading many paths, but all will go their ways with heads up and shoulders erect, living up to the finest of mottoes: 44Look To The Hillsf' Page Tzvmlly-nm'

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SURGEST PERNELL AKER Classical Course Class Baseball 135 g Varsity Track 135. Surgest was awarded a prize, for courtesy upon graduating from grammar school and he has cer- tainly maintained the same excellent standard during his four years' stay here at Bulkeley. - GURDON SPICER ALLYN 1 Spike 5 ' Classical Course '4Bul-Bali, 1353 Cross-Country Team 145. S ikell is one of those fellows who iirml be- . P 6 u Y lleves that, ' a sense of humor IS the sugar that takes the bitterness out of life. CHARLES HAROLD ANDERSON 1HAndy 5 General Course Class Track 135. Andy'7 is a firm believer in that little saying, lf love is bliss, then silence is golden? WILLIAM BRANTDER AVERY 1dChang, '6Judge,'5 Classical Course Varsity Football 125, 135, 145. 'fludgen is the outstanding stalwart gentleman of the school. He is fashioned after the Spartans of old. He was practically the whole line on the gridiron. i Page Twenty-tlztrcc