Belmont Hill School - Belmont Hill School Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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lormances Ifrank Mrller s story on hrs capture of the Borer, Mr Harrrs s 1nrnd readrng act wrthout snakes and the norse of the earls mornrng brrd walks are strll vers much alrve Bake and av contrnualls amazed us wrth therr soap box speeches and therr knowledge of the Russran language Qwanre left us that sear to go rnto the Marltrme Servrce He sent greetmgs vna a letter to Mr Maxwell Mr lV'allett and all the other employees of the Qchool lxen Maclean also left to go rnto the -Xrr Corp bone were the days of the Nlohavsks Indrans breenhornets and lxnrckerbockers when a new all rnclusrve rntramural program was Introduced He strll wonder how the teams are chosen and whs Mr Harrrs rs alwass able to trnd the other team s substltutes but never hrs own Wolles ball was one of the new games rnstrtuted under the revrsed pro gram Ihrs sport proved too much for the facults as thes were defeated bs the all stars rn a post season contest -X last memors of that lrfth lorm sear IS the fact that lammre had the hrghest battrnv average VK e conclude that hrs hrts are necessars to allow hrm trme to fog to hrst base ln our Qrxth lrorm sear gtretch Rogers Hugh Smrth Roger Lurtrs and lom lsauffman Jomed our numbers Mr Harlrng left school rn the sprrng of 1944 and Mr Rrchards and Mr lohnson rorned the facults rn the fall ack Blodgett vsas our presrdent He Dow lamerson ohnns Marno and Phll lfarrrngton headed the Student Councrl, and mans of us trred our hand at rulrng over the vast majorrts of lower formers rm l ulton and ohn lrraser took over Phrl s and ohnnv s dutres upon then earls graduatron Soon we began to realrfe the re sponsrbrlltres we had to carrs rn thrs our senror sear Settrng an example dorng our Fnglrsh and Phvsrcs assrgnments publrshrng the Yearbook and oexlanf and arrangrng and decoratlng for dances were some of the problems we had to face Other drfhcultres an efflcrent means of gettrng to breakfast on trme after havrng awakened three mrnutes before Srx of us attended the Summer Sessron thrs sear lfrom what the rest of us have heard from ohnns Phrl Case Bake or Roge we conclude that none of our storres about the good old dass can top therr campargns agarnst assrgnments exhaustron and bugs Srmmre was the srxth partner rn that summer corporatlon but the Wavs somehow soon became more appealrng to hum Bake left us rn November of thrs year to go lnto the Arr Corps Hrs passron for explosives would havebeen satrsfred bs gtretch s boobs traps whrch caused a few amazing rncrdents rn the dormrtorv Some of the new rnnovatrons thrs year were the arrrval of the red bus, the students lrbrary commrttee the prevalence of brrd walks on whrch we were not apt to be seen and the exclusron of masters from rntramural competrtron Brrthdav greetrngs bv us, at lunch, were alwavs rendered on the Hat srde Hurd contrnued to teach us and our teacher rn scrence classes Mr Maxssell s classes were usuallv delas ed bv the '1ll'1V3l oflatecomers from the hell hole Our athletrcs were vers successful thrs sear and were marked bs the hrst foot ball vrctory over Groton Mr Lrokes calrsthenrcs before football practrce were so thorough that he vsas not allowed to drsplas hrs talents further rn the sprrng The hockes season brought a clean sweep over Groton and St Marks Basketball agarn became a mayor sport arded bv rnterests from Indranapolrs and VK atervrlle ' Qtretch how ever, made us all basketball conscrous wrth reports of the unbeaten team from hrs home town Mr lxeller was able to coach baseball thrs sear and he realls made some of us work Ihe crew after takrng over the Charles Rlver for therr water hrghwas forgot how to appls the rules of the road when thes paddled downtown Games wrth the facults were alwass postponed bs the latter leadrng us to conclude that Mr Lroke had got us too well ln shape last fall to surt them VK e finalls got our sheepskrn rn hand and danced merrrls that nrght Some of us even were awarded Cum lousres but all of us were more than sad to have to leave Belmont Hrll where mans glorrous sears of our lrfe had been spent - 1 - r ' at 'v 1 . 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ROBFRT S4RGFNT BPXCON B0 ake Pntered 38 e Lnzzed Wales Yrmj Azr Corps Summer Qeuron Honor Qouety 44 Geologw Prxfe 44 lower Qchool -Xrt Prxfe 40 Lpper School -Xrt Pr17e 4l 43 44 l earbook l'd1tor1al Board Sextant Board 43 44 45 Rlfle Llub 43 44 Dramatmcs 'H IOHN HPNRY BI ODGFTT IR ack ffackxon Bfodge Pntered 40 ge Lnzled Wafer Navy Lum Laude Presxdent of Fourth and Sncth Forms Honor SOClCty 42 43 44 Student Councll 44 Lhalrman 45 l earbook Pdltor IH Chmef Sextanl Board Busmeee Manager 44 45 Glee Club 43 44 Presldent 45 lrootball Manager 44 Hockev 44 45 Tha! Z! paw zn the dark U' zl gow asf enough 4201 4 Y Y ll bi? KKB Y! 1 :'. Ag : 18 , . A I Y . k xni. . K Q V: ' f .V I, . ' K . I l 1 - ' ' 1 1 1 l A ' ' Y '7 . . v v v ' 7 5 ' ' I Y Y . ., ' -. ' f Hey, tlzafs fhe ,1pex! - , , . ,. . J , U . Il? YY KK YY Ll 7, 1 :' A z 18 T . . M ' Y' Y 1 l ' Y 'l - - U J V - - v . , - N ' N' 5 5 l n . 4- 4 I 9 1 I ' x l . , , 4 . , , . Y Y 1 ' 7 ' if Y ' 4 ' ' f