Chapman Technical High School - Torch Yearbook (New London, CT)

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Beckwith and Iohn Andrews. These five played the greater part of every game as the reserve strength of the squad was not very great. ln track and field competition, Tech won the Eastern Connecticut championship with a team headed by Charles Eglise, lr., a sprint star who also excelled in the jumping events. The baseball team, led by Ellis Crouch, and the football team, captained by Howard Pearson, also had successful seasons, though they were nosed out of championship honors. lt is a curious coincidence that Howard Pearson, first Tech athlete to win a football letter as a freshman and all three years thereafter, and Edward Cruise, one of the out-standing four sport athletes in the history of the school, went to West Point and both, at this time, are serving in the U. S. Army with the rank of colonel. Iohn De Gange, Class of 1924. Standing-eStanley Taylor, Coach: Norman King, loseph Skoczylos, Iames Martin, Noble Hicks. lose-ph Zaporanek, Ernest Duhaime, Manager. Front How Raymond Beckwith, Bernard Hewitt, Edward Cruise, Otis Linkletter, john Andrews. 87

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CHADMAN TECl'12l YEAIQS A130 The class of 1924 is unique among the graduating classes of the school in that the majority of the graduating students were born the year that Chap- man Tech lthen Manual Training High Schooll was opened, in 1906. Thus, the class of 1924 is the charter class. This happens to be the twenty-first anniversary of its graduation, and twenty-one years is just about one com- plete high school generation. Chapman Technical High School is the third name under which the school has been known. lt was originally founded under the name Manual Training High School, later changed to Vocational High School. ln the winter of 1922-23 the department of education authorized the change to Chapman Technical High School. The class of 1923 was therefore the first class to receive Chapman Tech diplomas. The class of 1924 was the first class to complete a full scholastic year under the name of Chapman Tech. Social activity at Chapman Tech in the early twentys was rather limited. The big event of the year was Class Day, when the juniors were invited by the graduating class to take part in their pre-commencement exercises. The Class Day dance was the only dance permitted during the year, and the attendance was limited to the two upper classes. The class of 1924 had two or three socials in its sophomore, junior and senior years, and held one class picnic at 'Ocean Beach. This program madejt perhaps the most socially active class up to its time. Athletics during the period of the class of '24 were limited to four sports- football, baseball, basketball, and track. When the class of '24 was in its senior year, the school competed in what was then known' as the Eastern Connecticut Conference. When the '24's were seniors, the school did not compete with Bulkeley, the two schools having severed relations following the football season of 1922. During the senior year of the class of 1924, Tech won championships in basketball and track. The basketball team of that year won the Eastern Connecticut Council championship and then it went to Storrs where it won the post-season Eastern Connecticut tournament sponsored by Connecticut Agricultural college, Know University of Connecticutl. The Tech team of 1923-24 compiled an all time Eastern Connecticut high school record by scoring'l,OO2 points in twenty-six games. E. Bernard Hewitt, center on the team at that time, scored an individual total of 425 points which still stands as a one-year record by an Eastern Connecticut schoolboy player. Other players on that team were fcaptainl Edward Cruise, Otis Linkletter, Raymond 86

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