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

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DOUGLAS PALMER AMON .,D0ug,, P. G.: Deerfield Born: April 15, 1945 Football: J.V., '60g Varsity '61, '62 Basketball: I.V., '60: Varsity '61, Captain '62, '63 Baseball: J.V., '6Og Varsity '61, '62, '63 Panel: Editorial Assistant, '61, '62, '63 Athletic Council: '62, '63 Study Hall Proctor: '62, '63 Coaches' Award in Baseball: '61 Ex-Captains' Basketball Award: '62, '63 Babe Ruth Foundation Sportsmanship Award: '63 Haaaaaaaa DONALD CARL ANDRESON 58 Buckman Drive, Lexington, Mass. D DA D0n'l College: Wheaton Born: February 25, 1946 Entered: 1957 Football: J.V., '61 Basketball: J.V., '61 Sextant: Associate Editor: '61, '62, '63 Student Council: '60, 63, Class President '61 Drama Club: '62, '63 Humanities: '63 Cum Laude Society: '62, '63 Honor Roll: '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63 Cum Laude . . . Well, huh, I . . . ah . . . I sort of thought this was valid, sir . . . all . . .' A fi 5 if in KX liQ Q'Nx amwwswrawaamn 143 i i t wi' 40 Scotland Road, Reading, Mass. Entered: 1959

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Our first student government responsibility was wel- comed by 7-A, which ran the study hall after lunch on a rotating basis. Werman hung out the study hall win- dow and N ahmie sent us all running around the build- ing to expiate latenesses. It was a gay time, and we all put each other in The Book numerous times. Loomie and Tommie were buddies, and Tom started his fantastic series of clever little skits with different members of the class. His was the sense of humor that brightened in the Fourth Form when he and Hewper sent Mr. Willey's English class into hysterics over Hewp's little cartoons of that gentleman, and reached its height in the last weeks of English VI-A when they left a month-old hot dog in Mr. Aloian's closet as a symbol of something or other. Came the spring: D-Day, that long-awaited excur- sion into the exotic territory of Princeton, Mass., for a day of good clean fun under the watchful eye of Mr. D. D-Day was exactly concurrent with the return of the black flies from Capistrano, despite this, we managed to raise some real hell, like lighting firecrackers deep in the underbrush, and making up funny little rhymes about Mister Charlie Smith on the bus back. The Log, our lower-school periodical, which splin- tered biweekly in the Panel, came out under the digni- fied leadership of Bill Herron. The Log published a final gala issue, including the traditional Seventh Grade Yearbook, from which we learned that every clod in the class wanted' to be a chemical engineer, and that Maynard Maxwell was going any place but Har- vard. The Eighth Grade represented our liberation from what was referred to by our new gatekeeper as the monkey house Calthough it had never seemed that way to us.l The Class of 1962 bequeathed us Pete Shaw, Wes Danser, Jeep Whitelaw and a little lad named George Augustine McCormack. Fessenden sent us Peter Mac- Laurin, Dave Millard, and Jeff Kosow, while Canada offered us Henry Atkins. Various unidentified places, some of them schools, sent us Dougs MacLean and Bonner, Dick Vietor, Roddy Furnald, Hooper Brooks Cno relation to the famous haberdashery store, Hooper Bros.5 and Al Fuller. A new personality blew into our lives like a spring breeze laced with eau de cologne. He was Mr. John Henry Funk, and under the auspices of Ethics I taught us all about what Werman had only hinted at, and re- vealed that those who do the most talking about it do the least doing. Perhaps the biggest flaw in this course was that Bobby Bell missed it. Bill Herron asked sev- eral naive questions and the highly touted movie,' was a big disappointment, especially to Charley Starr, who sneaked into Assembly hoping to see last year's movie', again. Rod appeared and everybody thought he was a link, but after a few years he opened his mouth and became president of the Forum. He became a past master at dreaming up clever little impromptu speech topics like why should women wear blue hats. Garth hadn't mounted his soapbox yet and didn't stand a chance. Buddy and Tom got excited about good music and began playing U. S. Bond's records at low speed to catch any erotic references. Both of them are still at it, in a slightly more sophisticated way. Tommie and eru- dite Mr. Jackson had difficulties, but Mr. Jackson left at the end of the year and Tommie didnit, so things were O.K. Al Fuller left at the end of this year, but not before he found the time to deposit his appendix with MGH, and an ice-cream sandwich in roommate Furnald's sports-coat pocket. Those were the days before Rod could freeze anything with a glance. Although we werenit yet out of Mr. Funk's jurisdic- tion, Form Three was quartered in Eliot, we worked under a stone plaque marked Disce aut Discedef' The new faces that September belonged to Pete Get- ting, Doug Amon, Mike Austin, Chris Brooks, Gil Campbell, Pete Feresten, Woody Underwood, Perry Wicks, Bill Diamond, John Donovan, and Bob Bell. Somewhat more familiar were the faces of Rodger Matt- lage and Walter Densmore, who couldn't stand the idea of getting too far ahead of neighbor Butchie aca- demically. Bill Garth had been elected to the class presidency the year before following a sympathetic an- nouncement that he was in the hospital, and he ruled with dignity. The Belmont Assemblies were still the scenes of romantic intrigue-not yet had we grown up enough to realize that their proper function was as a fireworks testing ground. Bob Bell started to realize that he was fated to be class host, and many headed to the dimly-if-at-all-lit Beatrice Circle abode hung with all those clever party signs. While Bob was intro- ducing the select to sparkling Cataba and the Belmont Junior High pickings, Pete Feresten introduced the Underwood Boarders to Jack Kerouac, and formed the rather informal Subterranean, coke-sipping, teevee so- cial group. Pete was not the only symbolic literary critic, Mr. Gurney carefully explained to George Mc- Cormack the significance of Jim Conklin's initials in The Red Badge. George thought this was pretty clever, so he wrote a Sexlant contribution featuring one Jesse Crittenden, it would have been printed too, but for Jimmy Cole. Mr. Gurney also introduced the school to serious theatre, as the Dramatic Club presented Stalag 17, Pietz the SS guard and Merry the POW were on oppo- site sides for once. Buddy underwent two weeks of dili-

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HENRY HORNBLOWER ATKINS, II Great Meadows Road, Concord, Mass. The Coach Toby Smilee College: Yale Born: April 5, 1945 Entered: 1958 Football: J.V., '60, Varsity '61, '62 Hockey: J.V., '61, Varsity '62, '63 Crew: J.V., '61, '62, '63 Panel: Photography Assistant, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62 Photography Editor, '63 Sextant: Art Board '62, '63 Lyceum: '61, '62, Secretary, '63 Spirit Committee: '63 Yearbook: Photography Editor, '63 Humanities: '63 Study Hall Proctor: '63 Crackers and Milk: '62 Honor Roll: '59, '60, '61, '62 Harvard Club of Boston Prize, '62 NMSC Letter of Commendation '62 Get the puck outa here . . STEPHEN WALLACE AUBIN Piney Point, Marion, Mass Steve Szevari110 College: Harvard Born: February 28, 1945 Entered 1960 Soccer: J.V., '61, '62 Wrestling: J.V., '62 Sailing Team: '62, '63 Glee Club: '62, '63 Cum Laude Society: '62, '63 Honor Roll: '61, '62 Cum Laude It's nine you guys-time to fool around. s get 3 f vt f'g233'!i?f5'I,Q.f?:' fh ?5.QSi5 Mi. '31, lisa - I 23 A