Albany Academy - Cue Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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X Humore que ANDERSON-Andy .worked on a farm a few summers ago, and he has never lost interest in the dairy industry. Perhaps thatls why hc was always so quick to volunteer when someone was needed to take the milk up to the Kindergarten and First Grade. He did so like the little fellows, you know. BOWVEN-Coach is still trying to Hgure out what happened to Bones', on the day of the C.B.A. football game. Greased lightning isn't quite the word, but it will give you the idea. If it wasn't for the fact that he has already enlisted in the Navy, who could tell what the Army might have done with him?-The Army. CHATTERLEY-It's been quite a while since we've seen Chatls little car rolling up and down Academy Road at breakneck speed, but from all reports he is quite happy to have traded it in for an airplane. ,CLEVELAND-It is rumored that Chick eats lunch at seven different times during the day. It is either that or dreams of 38 Euclid Avenue that put him into such a peaceful and cherubic sleep during those Fifth Period classes. COBDEN-It took Dick just three minutes and twenty-seven seconds to find out what was going on in Sam Bacouls class, but it took him only three seconds to evacuate that sector post haste. Although the Army finally got him, the Beanl' First volun- teered for service as a periscope on one of our newer-type subs. However, the Navy plans to use the steel ones for a few more years. CRANE-Once Pete was convinced of something, he couldn't be shaken from it by a major earthquake plus Mr. Midgleyls arguments thrown ing witness that unfortunate aHair at the Mendelssohn Club Concert. Pete still insists that the l94-4 Hockey team was the best in years. DUFFY-When Mac wanted to know if Company B was present or accounted forn, Duff let him know in no uncertain terms. John wrote Dorothy Dix so many letters filled with questions about his love life that she invited him down to New York for a few weeks to talk things over. The upshot of the whole affair was that Miss Dix committed hari-kari. EIGHNIEY-No one ever did find out where Sid lived in Troy, but wherever it is, he must have spent many long nights there trying to fathom the Academy system of note- books, outlines, and experiments. He took it all stoically, however, and by the end of the year he was telling us a few things about our school work and Emma Willard. ELLEGATE-Have you read Emmettis new thriller Revolutions and How to Run Themn? It is reported that early sales are topping those of his previous successes 'LService on Committees and The Intricacies of Finance and Tricky Maneuvers Therein . A current rumor has it that Emmett is switching from McManus 8: Riley to Omar, the tentmaker. GOODMAN-A leading psycho-analyst has predicted a short and tragic life for Itch. It seems that he will die at the age of twenty-three of acute laryngitis fafter estab- lishing the phenomenal record of asking four million questions without making a single statement of factj. We have arranged for a granite obelisk for his gravestone on which will be cut three marks H? ? ?l', supreme amid the silence. GRAY--Incomplete returns indicate that Dick had more dates during the school year than I the rest of the class put together KD. Ryan exceptedl. He always had a re- sponsive ear to the various woes the boys brought to him-a regular Mr. Anthony. Several sponsors have approached him about a radio show of his own, but he always blushed shyly and said, Oh, I'm much too busy with my homework. HAVEN-Is there a member of the Class of '44 who will ever forget the clarion call: My name is HAVEN, sir! ? The Sixth Form lunch table buzzed every Monday as the news of his latest escapade into the darkest reaches of the Ritz leaked out to the waiting world. Be careful! Don't upset Bob's books, fellows, hels liable to pick up a desk and throw it at you. HAWN-jawn rates a big hand for his ever, every once in a while he announcements that he would maintains that the Senior year well-developed Chapel announcement style. How- would become so entranced with the splendor of his talk himself into an oral dead-end street. He still was a snap. 442155

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L'Cap', Townsend's advice: Now that you're a p.f.c. you've got to live up to itll, . . . your Hrst Cuidon . . . shining your buckles for hours on end . . . shaking for fear that the Reviewing Officer might ask you a question when he came around . . . the cry of dismay that went up on Armistice Day when the Battalion learned it was to march directly behind the cavalry units . . . how angry you were when the crowd kept saying, Here comes C.B.A.,' and Back from the Civil War, eh! . . . the exhausting trip to Cooperstown and drill in the dust-bowl stadium . . . and the Competitive Drill when you steamed and sweated all afternoon. . . Remember your years in the Middle School? . . . the dictionaries that Mr. Paul used to throw at you . . . the continuous wrestling match between Artie and Marcus . . . Mr. Easton's flaming temper . , . that day you low- ered Mr. Paul Oh-so-gently into a mud puddle . . . shagging flies in the Spring . . . the opening baseball game when you all went down to see the Senators . . . Mr. Moranis lectures on Arizona and the effectiveness of a three-inch hatpin . . Mr. Crawford's desolate existence in the Middle School. . . Remember the Upper School? . . . that first day rushing around trying to find the classrooms before the third bell rang . . . the fierce intramural football games. . .Coach Morris' advice to candidates: Read the Bible and get enough sleep. . . . the thrill of being on a Varsity team, even though you were on the bench most of the time. . . Mr. Stetson: Now . . . ah . . . someone . . . has . . . ah . . . mis . . . appropriated . . . the . . . ah . . . chandelier . . . in . . . the library , followed by You . . . ah . . . know that . . . you . . . cannot . . . ah. . . expect. . .towin. . . aboatrace . . . ah . . .ifoneof.. .thecrew ...is...ah...downinthe...bottom...oftheboat...drilling... a hole in itl' ,... Mr. Webber's varied remarks to his classes, ranging from Quietl dogs, for the Third Form to HI-lush, Ladsf, for the Sixth . . . Mr. Midgley's violent shaking of the notebooks of his Ancient History class . . . those informal metallic clangs as the ............ hit the floor of the Varsity Locker Room in swift succession . . . that burning cord in Mr. Lindsey's room and the knife in the door with the ominous note: Death to Joelv . . . the time Mr. Owen brought the Dartmouth Outing Club guide posing as an illiterate half-breed '. . . the exterior warm feeling and the interior sick feeling after the Initiations . . . strains of Tony Sporborg's Etude in C-Sharp Minor' flowing through the building on a rainy afternoon . . . the spirited chalk Hghts . . . the massive figure of Mr. Webber striding down the hall after Chapel before the Sixth Period Math tests . . . the new Kindergarten teachers . . . and that succession of '4lasts . . . the last foot- ball game . . . the last Guidon . . . the last parade . . . the last test . . . the last Commencement. . . All of which should leave you with the feeling you've experienced if you have been the last one out of the building on a Friday afternoon, and you have walked down the halls, just thinking: or if at night you have ever sat outside on the steps waiting for your Dad after an athletic trip, just thinking. . . The school contains memories of from one to thirteen of the best years of your life. A class history can only scratch the surface of this golden lodeg the rest is upto you. R. O. II 44 20 D

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lN'IcLEOD-Mac was always either doing little things for the Junior-League, such as throw- ing together five-story houses, or Hitting back and forth for War Council Meet- ings. Of course he was always careful that his knee didn't take off and roll down the hall without him. MOREHOUSE-Everyone thought Wade was a nice, quiet lad until malicious stories began to dribble in from the outlying districts of Waterford. An investigation forced the Morehouses to move to Albany. After that, Wade was identihed by that devilish little red hat in the better spots in town. l'Old Automatic was the only student in the history of the school to pass Solid Geometry on the basis of one statement. NIORRIS- Hey listen, you guys, I've got an idea! Gordon was always hatching brain- storms or campaigning for changes in the school. In his own little way Gordy', got to know quite a few of the younger set around town. He met them in the funniest places, such as in the ferris wheel at the carnival, or at one of his ubarn dancesfl OLCOTT-Bob has been busy all year in organizing the Albany Chapter of the League To Defend England No Matter What Happens. In addition he has been waging ,pitched battles daily with Mr. Holmes on the interpretation of physics and home- work included therein. REES-Dave kept Mrs. Munson on the Sixth Form map with his regular attendance and also represented the ultra-ultra in manners and living-room technique. Every once in a while, however, he would come out with a statement that set the boys back on their heels. ROSE-Artie didn't creep out of Chapel for nothing when the F.B.I. agent visited school this winter. He thought Coach was investigating whether that arm he had bandaged to the hilt before every basketball game was in one or two pieces. - RYAN-Such a nice, quiet, unassuming lad--this Ryan boy. Queried recently as to the secret of his success with the opposite sex, Don promptly replied, I have always maintained that lots of sleep and lots of studying Csometimes in books, sometimes notj work wonders for every enterprising Don Juanf' And then he added, Always wash your face with warm water before you go outg it produces a lovely blush and is marvelous for your complexion? Say fella! SMITH---The crowd at the Prize Speaking Contest was hushed, the next speaker was about to be announced. But where was the next speaker? Just as the final words of the introduction were completed, there was a slight disturbance, and down the aisle strode Oney. Learning that he was due on the platform, he was assisted to the stage and, to quote Socrates, He done noblyf' Thus was completed another tense drama, with the unknowing world as an audience. SWIRE-Here, ladies and gentlemen, you may see for one dime, one tenth of a dollar, the authentic, the original Snookums Swire, the only man with the bulbous nose. Poor Umbriago was the most misinformed fellow in school. They say . . . some one told me . . . I heard . . . one of the fellows was saying . . .H -he never got any further, Hawn always laughed him down. TOWNSEND-Nobody has yet figured out what happened to Glen in the A.H.S. basketball game when he put in three in a row from way out. Whatever it was, he wasn't the same man afterwards. The town of Ravena has presented him with the key to his own back door, you know, you know, you know. TRUCHIO-The Times Union had more writeups during the football season on Truch's educated toe than on the war situation. They gave the size of his foot, what color shoes he was wearing, and the name of the girl he was taking out on Sat- urday night. Mr. Midgley has finally convinced him not only that the Monroe Doctrine was not passed by a vote of 51-48, but that it was not passed at all by any body. Of course, it's all in the way you look at it. VALLEY-It isn't widely known that Mort is a close friend of a native Cohoesite who stars as Z1 monster in the horror thrillers. Incidentally, everyone at school thinks that Mortls classic beauty and deep bass voice will make him a sure hit in the cinema. After all, some one has to take Crosby's place. WOOSTER-Roy is the unchallenged master of the triple deal. He has plunged in and out of more tight spots in his time than that amazing little imp, Bolivar Shagnasty. Royls stirring pep talks were instrumental in holding up thc high standards of the color guard. How far up no one will say, but up they were. Editorls Note: As has previously been announced, the names of the members of the board of three which is responsible for the above Humoresque must for reasons of security, remain anonymous. Incidentally-and let me emphasize this point-the rumor that our Miami cor- respondent had a major hand in the effort is wholly without foundation. 44 22 77