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

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The Sixth Form Histor Sixty boys have at one time or another enjoyed the privilege of calling themselves members of Bel- mont Hill's Class of 1957. Some twenty-three never made it, and thehgallery of ex-'57's is as follows: George Heck, Grades 5-10: Dear little George high- lighted his Hill days mostly by producing subdued motor noises which really were a warning that he thought cars much more important than education. Rog Kellett, 5-8: VVisely saw little future in B. H. crew and left for Brooks. Tony Oberolcrfer, 5, 7-10: He needed more intellectual stimulation. Exeter proved the solution. Guy Turnbull, 5-6: One hockey player who never made it. Bill Pokross, 5-7 : His rights as a citizen were al- ways being trampled on here, and he thought us pretty dull so he joined the Cambridge School of Weston for a more liberal education. Dick Zimmerman, 5-8: Couldn't stand the rapid pace eof '57 and joined '58. Soon left altogether. Pete Blackman, 6-10: Sketcher of airplanes, guns, he joined '57 via '56 and soon disappeared entirely. Joe Hayes, 6-8: His world was the great outdoors. Mike Rollins, 6-10: Mike lived from suspension to suspension, teetering on the brink of expulsion, and he finally achieved that too. A proud graduate of Weston High. Larry Holliday, 7: In and out so fast we remember nothing. Jim Dwinell, 7-10: One of the few jocks who ever escaped B. H. captivity. Proceeded to take a tour of some of the better private schools of New England. Bill Hill, 7-10: All broken up when Peeps left, but Bill never strayed far from B. H. social circles. Dave M ugar, 7-S: Needed another year to mature photographically. Bob Prescott, 7-10: Percy and his bees went to Lexington High, thereby almost bankrupting our canteen. Hugh Stubbins, 7-8: One of the more active members of the I Hate 'Mole' Club, but he didn't have the nine lives of a Mike Rollins. Bill Nichols, 8-9: He was the school's all-time cham- pion brownie, Mike Brody, 9: Here was a legend almost as great as that of Casey Jones. Mike was the founder of the Brody-Gudas-Tuttle threesome. Peter Gudas, 9: My master calls. Dick Robnett, 9: A baby-face kid whom no one can recall. Peter Holmes, 9-10: He couldn't stand being on the south side of the Concord Turnpike. Bob Mitchell, 9-10: Lots of talk, many fights, and back to Wellesley. Ted Moulton, 9-10: '56, '57 and out. Barclay Henderson, 9-11: Black Bare liked '58 better. Dave Regamey, 10-11: Came to us from '56 and we were sorry to see him go. Now to the survivors of this eight year ordeal. Research shows that only four remain from that first year-Pete Crone, Richie Mostrom, Claude Welch, and Steve Wilcox. There was an undefeated Pups football seasong Nature Boy Gregg soothed our rest hour with se- lected readings for young juvenilesg Deac Bur- roughs held music and English classes for those who were interested in Red Sox lectures: hir. T. in- sisted that we were the worst bunch of would-be artists that ever existed, and claimed that '57 would never amount to anything but talkg the Pawnees won the Intramural race, and Claude won his first prize. GRADE SIX Moose Mulliken continued his Uncle Smedley stories, lNIole lectured us, among other things, on what not to do on Halloweeng Mr. Croke performed his swami act for the umpteenth timeg and Deac still refused to read us And Sudden Death. Frank O'Neil was the newcomer of the year. Bow Down Sailorl' featured those glamorous Damozonian maid- ens Mostrom, VVelch, and VVilcoxg the Log was the first of many publications for these latter two. GRADE SEVEN The front steps were ours, and up them came John Davidson, John Simon, and Pete Tague. Tague and Dwinell were inseparable, Si played goalie in hockey, an astounding revelation in itself g the an- nual carnival grossed S48.58 in pennies, Richie Mos- trom served a second glorious year as class presidentg Moose produced hundreds of cost + profit prob- lems, and Deac finally relented and read to us that gruesome tale of mayhem on the highways And Sudden Death. There was D Day at Moose's Buzzards Bay camp, and the class do- nated a plane tree in return for lWole's many color- ful lectures on such subjects as the virtues of a cold shower, extra sweaters unless the temperature was over 750, and wearing rubbers when the sky was so

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much as darkened by a single cloud. SECOND FORM We were big boys now, and Silent Stepsf' Whit- tier proved it by his frequent and generous distribu- tion of Saturday detentions. Water guns, paper clips, and I Like Iken buttons were the symbols of this year which heralded the entrance of Sam Bar- tol, Fud,' Booth, Taxi Cabot, Pete Crider, Greg Downes, Curt Gwilliam, Pete Henkels, Jim Hodges, Pete Keville, VV ill lNIack, and Dick Medverd. Bartol and Mack were the Mutt and Jeff of the class as they engaged themselves in endless games of tag, Greg Downes scored sixty points as Junior football captain, and everyone got into the get Ned act which became particularly amusing during the sixth period study hall, and which was highlighted by Ned's Warm-hearted reading of Nyoka, the Jungle Girlf, R. J. Smith of Taunton taught us little General Science II, but he told us plenty about his wartime heroics-which turned out to be mostly a lot of bull. Spike followed the time-honored theory of get them while they,re youngl' and wove his convenient facts and perfect examples into something called Geog- raphy Hg Whit,', who often sported a delightful beet-red, behind-the-ears blush, performed daily with the chalk-over-the shoulder routine, and Finch Keller did the most daring thing of the year when he changed his pants in class. Scholastically, the year consisted mostly of Let X equal . . .,,' and composi- tions entitled My First Day of School, 195Q. The old red bus was painted yellow, and Teddy Test dropped the key in the river. THIRD FORM We took on Charlie Cornwall, Jon Fairbanks, Laurie Hawkins, Steve Karp, Jack Woodbury, and Anson Young. The faculty was enriched by the ad- dition of Messrs. Tibbetts, Tuplin, and VVoodward. Moose', Mulliken left the Lower School, and We knew that we had lost a friend. Driver Training Chah, hahl was introduced, Sykes,' Tibbetts had his history students learning the Lord's Prayer in Gothic, while Mr. Loomis rambled on interminablyg John Simon and Jim Hodges earned the class, first varsity letters. FOURTH FORM Dave Aldrich, Ben Coflin, Ted Eyrick, Rolo Hoff- man, Bushy,' Maclaurin, Mike Magruder, and D'Arcy MacMahon joined '57, as did the O'Connor kid who loved '56, but to sum it up in his own words: Can't handle it.', Peeps', lVIason and Rug,' Wright were the prize catches of the year on the faculty, and the two of them provided many fine hours of entertainment. The former was the victim of every known persecution ever vented upon a teacher by students and this included erasing the blackboard with water guns as tests were being writ- ten on it, and the removal of Peeps's briefcase to mysterious locations. Peeps,' once told one of his classes that he could have them shot if they had been in the army under his command, but alas, no boy ever got further than a few privileged moments in the classroom corner. Rug, on the other hand, took longer to develop or perhaps We should say to be developed. Messrs. Aloian, Smith and Walworth also joined the faculty, and the big event of the year was J. H. Funkfs single-handed creation of that marvelous institution, the Middle School, com- plete with interior decorations by. John Henry him- self. Sykes was more popular than ever as he in- troduced the Form to outside reading. FIFTH FORM Steve Lerman, Brooks Pettit, Dick Solar, and Norrie Teel completed the class membership in this year of the three R's-Rock, Roll, and Rug. Elvis Presley invaded the Common Room and competed daily with Rug's history classes next door. The former inspired great contributions by the classes of 1956 and 1957 to the spirit of the modern dance, while the latter attracted numerous pennies. Of our newest members, Nuncs came to us from St. Mark's via the Watch City Motorcycle Club, Lerm spent the year drafting Science Club an- nouncements for his senior yearg Zub,' Solar took over the canteen, and for the Erst year, no profitg Noisy Norrie Teel never stopped talking. Changes in personnel included the addition of learned faculty members Humphreys, Jordan, Lanxner, and Nelson, as well as a new music teacher named Sokol. This latter gentleman, who introduced something called voice trials, was to provide many educational Thurs- day morning assemblies for his captive audiences. Young blood came to the front office in the form of one Miss Desautels. Spurred on by the high-living Class of 1956, the whole year was a ball, and Belmont Hill's reputa- tion was furthered farther in a few short months than it had gone in many years. SIXTH FORM The year opened with a class meeting in which everyone who was opposed voted yes and com- plained afterwards, and closed with a series of meet- ings at which thirty-seven about-to-be alumni and