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

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DANIEL FLETCHER BARNARD JR. 16 Taft Drive, Winchester, Mass. B'naad Dan'l College: Dartmouth Born: November 14, 1944 Entered: 1958 Football: '61. Hockey: Manager '61, 62. Crew: '61, Captain '62. Junior Varsity Football: '60. Junior Varsity Crew: '60. Sextant: '62. Panel: '61, '62. Yearbook: Sports Editor '62. Spirit Committee: '62. Humanities: '62. Chapel Committee: '6l. Religious Seminar Committee: '62. Study Hall Proctor: '62. Lyceum: '60, '61, Secretary '62. Glen P. Woodbury Public Speaking Prize: '62. National Merit Letter of Commendation: '62. John B. Breed Biology Prize: '60, Phillip Stuart Burbank Memorial Crew Trophy: '62. Honor Society: '59, '60, '61, '62. Cum Laude. Too small for what? GEOFFREY HEMENWAY BARTOL 1466 Canton Avenue, Milton, Mass. Bardahl Goff Santa Claus College: Lawrence Born: April 16, 1944 Enieredi 1957 Football: '60, '61. Junior Varsity Football: '59. Hockey: '61, '62. Junior Varsity Hockey: '60. Junior Varsity Tennis: '61. No, it's muscle. Mme YLKFIWJF H W 'T' ,lb Mitt, 'lite , - ,, :SffQl3Qf,5 i,,. , ' ' 2- if-31' 7'-3'5 it .W W tl +..,t,, my ssm1,fQi,Ef:Ef.:E'f-2 'f fe Ja'g. ':urfE:aa:: 311 zgzzfs tu.: 2 ' . af' 1,-2 . Q 1- H-3:21, .:: -wife-fi? ' . ,- sif' ' '. ' ' 26

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number one on the Tennis Team and was elected president of the Glee Club, thus successfully completing his grand entrance to the Hill. Other elections suddenly transformed Dicki and Danni into President Birnie and Cap'n Barnard. Dougie would have to be content with being Bruno. The year ended and Ron wasn't given a letter. Ron also managed to flunk the History final along with two-thirds of the rest of the members of Mr. Fisher's General History bull sessions. Few were very upset at seeing the Fifth Form year come to a close. True, there was happy song of Claudia and Ginny, but Claudia moved to Washington and Ginny wouldn't be seen again until the following December. By the time we were seniors, we were down to forty-two. Forty-one actually, but rather than let us be an odd class, Ax Bohlke came over from Germany to swell our intel- lectual ranks. Not only was Ax like brilliant, but he was almost as tall as Mr. Calder, and could still walk like the rest of us. This was unquestionably a big boost to our morale-Mr. Calder later moved Ax to Mr. Ingham's sec- tion-but it was sort of disconcerting to have him finish sixth out of the whole class in the first term. Ax was a nice guy anyway. We were seniors, though, and this weld been waiting for. When you're a senior you get all sorts of honors and priv- ileges, like walking out of Chapel first, and we'd heard that there was really nothing quite like it. Some of us had waited eight years for this, and two had waited nine. The disillusionment started to set in early. Schedules had been changed, and we could only walk out of the Chapel first three times a week. As if that weren't enough, the seventh period had been made into classroom time, cutting out the after-dinner smoke. And then there was the Threat of completely cutting out the Common Room, that Cradle of Sixth Form Liberty. To top it all off, one villainous mem- ber of the faculty looked darkly at us and informed us that inactive seniors would attend study hall throughout the afternoon. Massive trauma. President Birnie explained that this was all a part of growing up, and that he too would have to miss his cigarette, that he too would have to suffer right along with the rest of us. There were those who doubted him. As it turned out, however, the Jeep ironed out all of our problems, and the senior year we had en- visioned began to take shape. This was the first of many times throughout the year when we discovered that in time of crisis, Mr. Hamilton was a senior's best friend. The year started off Well, however, Litvack broke up with Teddi, and along with about 2096 of the class, got into Columbia the next day. Lasell Junior College was subse- quently discovered, and Casselman went on a Fox hunt. This was shortlived, but there were notable recurrences during the year. Shapiro began early, setting a pace of 3.2 days of school attended per week. There was speculation that he would shatter the mark set by Bruce Stone from 1958-60, but Pete proved too consistent, and the only record shattered was the one sent to the colleges. Danny was going with J aneg there were those who disapproved. Athletics got under way, and the outlook for football was excellent. There were seven starters returning, with the addition of Bobby Walsh and a secret weapon which was hopefully called Peter Worthen. Worthen was about 6-3, 200 lbs., and by far the strongest player on the team. Coach Fisher realized that with some work he could bring out Worthenls tremendous potential as a football player, and so he let him kick off, sometimes. The team had good support, however, and in spite of an unfortunate opener, the school was behind them all the way, win or tie. Blest be the tie that binds. On the soccer field, the team spoiled an otherwise perfect record by winning its eighth game. They had spirit, desire, determination, sportsmanship, con- sistency, and injuries, few lettermen, and fewer goals. Birnie recognized the shortcomings of the team, and re- marked that it doesn't matter whether you win or lose but how you play the game. We sure hoped so. During the fall we became aware of the existence of an individual who called himself Bruno Hallinski. We knew that in reality he was actually Doug Hall, but Bruno was not very smart, and didnit realize this. These frequent lapses of identity-i.e. Doug one minute, Bruno one minute later-were misunderstood until we read Hamlet and found out that this was only his antic disposition. Tragic. We also found that the best way to tell Doug and Bruno apart was by what they said. Bruno would say that he was gonna rippumapart and Doug would mention that he was going to get married. Either way we had to humor him. The interim period between the end of the sports season and exams was, as always, a busy time. The Athletic Council found time to award letters to l4fZ: of the entire student body. This really put it on Lynchie, although he was pretty much recovered by Christmas. Mr. Walworth prepared for Hockey, putting marks on all the boards that had to come down. Bill Karp of the Work Squad helped out by taking down all the boards with no mark on them, and while explaining to Mr. Walworth in Cole's Hole, knocked down the fire extinguisher and sprayed the entire storage area. Everybody, even Mr. Aloian, hated him. The season's-end migration to the Common Room took place as expected and there were many surprises. Doug-it may have been Bruno-learned that George Keyes was a senior when the latter protested wildly at being thrownout of the Common Room. This was some- thing in itself, George not being a wild sort of guy. But as we assumed Georgie into our ranks, we lost Bobby Walsh. Walshie was revealed to be a Fifth Former by Mr. Jenney, who discovered this while writing out the first term comments. The Common Room took in a new faction of pipe smokers-e.g. Smith, Egan, Johnson, Parker, Brad- lee, etc. Hall told Smith that no, he didn't mind him smoking a pipe, only that he resented having Smith empty it into his motorcycle boots. Smith grunted his regrets and emptied it into Doug's pocket. Arture asked yase ou no, if this was not ver' fonny, and the Perfect Eric responded in an unintelligible Cuban accent. This was not unusual for Eric, who incidentally was taking out a girl whose name was the Perfect Berg. Honest Dave Wallace began to turn out the Great Yel- low Rag quite regularly, and it could not be denied that everyone in the school realized what was going on in the Student Council meetings. Probably as a result of his un- believable cleverness, Honest Dave was made Class Sec- retary. That should teach him. As we settled down for the winter, we settled down. The activities began again, and as before, Lyceum and Glee Club led the list. Lyceum attracted a great crowd, on paper anyway. Nigro harangued about how everybody should sacrifice his time and effort to debate, but it usually turned out that he and Garth talked themselves dry when- ever a date rolled around. In fact, the only time he ever got any real response was when it was surreptitiously re- CContinued on p. 1531

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RICHARD WILLIAMS BIRNIE 9 Myopia Hill Road, Winchester, Mass. Dick Scoop College: Dartmouth Born: December 8, 1944 Entered: 1956 Football: '6l. Junior Varsity Football: '59, '60. Hockey: '61, '62. Junior Varsity Hockey: '60. Baseball: '61, '62. Junior Varsity Baseball: Cap- tain '60. Athletic Council: '62. Class President: '62. Student Council: '6l: President '62. Panel: '61, '62. Lyceum: '60, '61, '62. Spirit Com- mittee: '62. Study Hall Proctor: '62. Wyman W. Smart, Jr., Hockey Medal: '61, Babe Ruth Foundation Sportsmanship Award: '62. Honor Society: '57, '58, '59, '6l. Harvard Club of Boston Book Prize: '61, George von L. Meyer, Jr. Memorial Award: '62. Hey, you guys better quit screwing around in Study Hall. RAINER ALEXANDER VOLKER BOEHLKE 4 Cosimaplatz, West Berlin-Friedenau, Germany f1Axe1ll HAIexll fIAx!J School: Gymnasium Zu Berlin-Steglitz Born: January 18, 1944 Entered: 1961 Junior Varsity Tennis: '62. Panel: '62. Chess Club: '62. Lyceum: '62. Honor Society: '62. D0n't call me fink . . . Hightowerf' 1 27