Berkshire School - Trail Yearbook (Sheffield, MA)

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Sen iord

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MR. GEORGE F. MENARD was graduated from Brown University where he starred in hockey and baseball. After playing professional baseball he joined the Berkshire faculty to teach Mathematics and coach football, hockey, and baseball. MR. RICHARD R. PARADISE majored in English at Harvard which awarded him an A. B. and then attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has completed the requirements for an A. M. He teaches in the English Department and coaches football and basketball. MR. FRANK A. ROBERTS received an A. B. from Denison and has studied and taught at Princeton and the Ecole d'Instituteurs at St. Lo, France. He teaches French and Spanish and coaches football and skiing. MR. RICHARD P. RYERSON teaches in the History Department. He attended St. Paul's School and Princeton, where he majored in History and played football and hockey. MRS. MARY C. DITMAR received a B. S. from Bowl- ing Green University, and at Berkshire has inaugurated the Developmental Language Training program. EXECUTIVE STAFF Preston C. Northrop .... .. .. Marion H. Northrop . . . Marjorie Sweet .... Mary S. Wetherill . . INFIRMARY STAFF Edward R. Wyman, M. D. .... . . .Superintendent . . . . . .Secretary . . .Secretary . . .Secretary .School Physician Mrs. Rita Fulton ....... . . .Resident Nurse

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101 E IOR CL Five years ago a surly mob headed by a scrawny little blond boy named Tom c'I'll get to Miss Hall's if it kills mei' Storrs marched plain- tively up the long trail to Mem III mumbling a primitive African war chant. Others included Pete 'tthe peopleis choice Whitridge who brandished a hockey stick, 'iDangerous Dave Francis, who brandished a Latin book, and Scudder uhooksn Smith who brandished c'Daugerous Davef, In the back of the line was an unmentionable who didn't make it up the hill. These four proved to be the foundation of the class whose experience this book commemorates. In the following year 'gSpide,'l and Al, and his brother Toby, Grumbling Greg Hartswick, and Ken the photog, also joined the mob in their plots to burn the school and drive Dudley dizzy. Slowly the years passed by and others joined the group. Each year the class took a more im- portant part in the life of the school. By the third SS HI TORY year some varsity players were among their ranks, and last year the leaders prepared to take over the leadership of the school as well. As they matured the class became one that Berkshire could well be proud of. Led by its president, Tom Storrs, they did much to uphold the traditions of the school, and their members began to excel in athletics, studies, and extra- curricular activities. The top scholars, Dave Francis, Ralph Kaplan, Dave Gillis, and others, have compiled records which would be appreciated by any college in the nation, and more members of the class will attend Harvard in the fall than any other class has sent to that august institution. '53 produced such outstanding athletes as Charlie Berry, captain and guiding light of the football team, Tom Storrs and Peter Whitridge, both out- standing in three sports, and Scudder Smith, who was captain of two major sports, soccer and track. I im McCurrach did a very creditable job as editor