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

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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

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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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The Sixth Form History-continued their money were soon parted. In the intervening eight month period a number of revolutionary events took place. The first of these radical goings onl' was the dis- tasteful ruling that all Sixth Formers had to attend study halls. Not to be outdone the Sixth Form re- taliated by taking over the study hall management, which was only the first in a long series of maneuvers to gain control of the school. The fall term saw a late afternoon, lightly clad swimming party in the lagoon led by Downes and Hawkins, a rally at Pete Keville's, and Mr. Hamil- ton,s think footballn pep talk in chapel-all three events acting as stimulants for the much deserved Governor Dummer win-a game in which the entire school 'fthought footballf' There was a winless soccer team and the bitter criticism heaped upon it by both students and faculty, the fall dance with ad- vertising posters by Fud', and Taxi,' making full use of Listerine ads, the short-lived integrated dining room seating experiment, Blank 0'Neil,s retire- ment to the Common Room for a winter of hiberna- tion after his triumphal success in introducing one Frankie Vigneau to the B. H. social circuit, and Claudeis futile attempts to get our desserts sent to Hungary-a plan which failed only because there was grave fear that the Hungarians might send the stuff back and decide that the Russians weren't so bad after all. On the faculty side of things Messrs. Cocchiola and Fisher signed up for a spell, Sok,' proved such a hit with his The Mansion VVe Builded that We had him back every Thursday morning, Joe Willey made his daily few preliminary announcementsvg Chunky', sold his calendars with renewed vigor, everybodyis friend Spike Downes made the year both miserable and interesting at the same time. As winter approached so did the completion of the Keller Rink, and after a slow start the student body pitched in and helped on this effort, dedication day came and there was Greg's speech-so short that it hardly reached from the microphone to the loud- speaker, Charlie Cornwall started to get his crew oars ready for late winter practice, Obie broke prece- dent and paid for a dance, Jon Fairbanks insisted that the class was being run by a bunch of 'fsmoothiesng Hodge broke all records for going steadyv, there was SKarp and the sometimes doubt- ful humor of 57,,, Zub', Solar's highly question- able handling of crackers and milk, Anson's adept- ness at colorful foreign expressions. There were higher compulsory insurance rates and higher auto sales due to Nuncs Pettit's fre- quent and distressing highways accidents, John Si- mon continued to do all his assigned reading by the synopsis method, 'iBirdogger,' Hawkins practiced his art with a straight face, Pete Crider found a base- ment room in Speare more convenient on long Week- ends-no climbing of stairs, just falling down, and hockey captain Downes toured Concord Academy in uniform and was much surprized to find that the Jeep,' had reserved a front row seat to his perform- ance. There was a hockey trip to Northwood high- lighted by Obie's single word of wisdom- Die , there were broken beds and everything was SkeetsH for the trip. It was during this fateful adventure to the cold northland that the cry of heigh-ho Stever- ino', was first heard, and no three words ever caught on faster. Spring came, and with a short-lived attempt to vote in a new class project, but tradition held and once more the wall received the dubious benefits of the Form's limited knowledge of masonry, Brooks wore ruts in Trapelo Road by his many visits there, and the Town of Lincoln was forced to convert this once lovely byway of the countryside into a modern, high-speed expressway, Tague wasn,t taking any chances, and his interests', remained solely in VVinchester where he spent many quiet, intellectual evenings by the Fireside, Fud commenced his spring series of Dance Committee meetings designed to determine the decorations for the Prom Qa story in itselfj, Esquire Dayv came, but Iggy was not amused by the wide range of costumes which in- cluded Farmer', Will and lVIonoH Aldrich, com- plete with saggy pajamas and toothbrush. Mr. Funk was not amused either when he found his latest olive-green-brown headpiece on Jon F airbanks' head-turned inside out. College Boards neared and there were many cram sessionsug History VI sailed merrily along on not more than one set of co-oper- ative notes, a thesis was due. SKarp, Wood,', and the nmilkshake twins Fair- banks and Downes took to the highways over spring vacation and went south to beloved TVA LAND where they interviewed the natives and gathered much material for future arguments with Spike, There was evidence that the moral fibre of our presi- dent was beginning to tear, Mr. T. felt sure that Lerm, Steverino, and Black Ansoni' were go-