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

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WN 3 Wag, 7 . , xx ' .,,Mw,.fY ' Mr, Belmont Hill If anyone can be called Mix Belmont Hill,', Mr. Keller would most deserve the title. Our memories of him are many and varied. Who can forget his arguments with Mac McGlynn or his eraser-throwing ex- planations of algebra, abetted by his next door neighbor, Mr. Max? More seriously, Finch, by his fair application of discipline, his love of sports and good sportsmanship, and his insistence on no alibisf, has proved an admirable example for every boy. Thirty-three years of devoted service to both students and alumni, plus an unending support of the school and its activities, make Finch a person unique in Belmont Hill annals. Although he is retiring from active teaching this year, we of the class of 1957 will always remember his humor and, although he never did get around to our biographies, his understanding of a boy's problems. Thanks, Mr. Keller, for making our years brighter. 20

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ing to break tradition, Lester Lanin became the craze, a certain group who knew proclaimed I Hate J .... V .... Week which provided much lively, if not delicate, discussion. Time flew, and Ted Eyrick opened the International Geophysical Year with his all-new, air conditioned wind tunnelg the Howe Building openedg lXIr. Hamilton announced Mr. Kellerfs retirementg the thesis deadline was fast approaching. Fud', announced that the Dance Committee, after thirty-six meetings, had decided upon a spring timev theme for the Prom. Howdy,' Aldrich proved the chapel hit of the year with his talks entitled How to Cheat on Examsf' and Three Types of Graduation Speakers, and Claude's ef- forts to ram through the Student Council Constitu- tion were almost as funny. There were exciting mem- orable seasons in baseball and crew, especially in the former where we lost only our last game with Gover- nor Dummerg nevertheless, going down to defeat as good losers. At Prize Day the Joseph C. Willey Awards for the Choicest Impromptu Remarks of the Year Not Made by Joseph C. VVilley, went to Will Mack for his Squeeze da bulb at the class picture taking cere- mony, and to Steve Lerman for his near classic: It's rather brisk out. I advise warm clothingf, The Peeps Mason Memorial Trophy for Co-operative Spirit, awarded annually in memory of the late Pro- fessor Mason, was awarded to the entire Belmont Hill student body for its outstanding demonstration of co-operative spirit in the Prize Day rehearsal of the school hymn. The last week finally came, but the learnin, part wasn't over by a long shot as Medverd, Bushy,', and Anson experimented with that old saying that says something about People who live in houses with glass shouldn't sit near picture windowsf' and there were near encounters with the law too. A host of young anti-conservationists played havoc with the forests of eastern Massachusetts because the Dance Committee had decided that a wooded,' gymnasium was not going to be sacrificed for the well-being of Spike's', stomach ulcer. Graduation morning arrived. The 4 A.M. Prom Decorations Committee appeared alive and breath- ing, and after an hour or so we had our diplomas. That evening Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton gave their annual supper dance for the Sixth Form and their dates. Mr. Keller was presented with an album con- taining messages from each of the graduates. The last oflicial event of the year-the Prom-followed, and by sometime Saturday morning most everyone had adjourned to Sammy Bartol's in Milton. Break- fast at Fud's,' and a day at Rolo Hoffmanfs in Rockport concluded the Hrst eight years of the his- tory of the Class of 1957. '57-AFTERTHOUGHTS The history of '57 however, will never really be over. It will live in recollection, and future service to and interest in the school. The Prize Day announce- ment by Jack Woodbury that the class had contrib- uted IOOZ, to the Belmont Hill Fund marked us as the first class to do so in the first year out of school- and what's more, we did it before school was out. This event in many ways was typical of the year. Every class comes to the point where it is sure that it is the best class ever. Usually such pronounce- ments are not wholly true, and are based more upon vanity than fact. Yet certain things may be said about the school's thirtieth graduating class Cthat's us, you knowj. Testimony by those who knew the class-the faculty, the headmaster, and even a few non-'57 students indicate that ours was a pretty fair group. The leadership of the class was evidenced in a truly active Student Council, the Sixth Form Panel editors contributed something to the school through their constructive editorial criticism of eligibility and driver training, and through such positive proj- ects as the CARE drive in which the student body collected nearly S1500 for Hungarian Emergency Re- lief. There was the student-faculty Library Com- mittee which collected hundreds of books and hun- dreds of dollars for the library-a project conceived by the Panel editors originally. The Science Club and the Lyceum were astoundingly active under Sixth Form leaders. The Sixth Form proctoring of study halls was an acknowledged success for the first time in the schoolfs history, and the Student Council wrote itself a constitution for the first time. These were all major achievements-all certainly at least partly the result of having a strong class, and there were other lesser accomplishments. The excellent management of the Dance Committee, the all-time record-breaking advertising and subscription drives for the Yearbook, the Form's charity drive record in which we attained 100'Z, before any other class for the second consecutive year, and the genuine interest shown in the several evening Hfireside chats -all these were indicators of the Form's strength. It would appear that the Class of 1957 has set a standard of sorts to be aimed at perhaps, by future classes. Let's hope we're surpassed soon. Belmont Hill deserves it!

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