Bolles School - Eagle Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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Q i f1'iX.,f 'N . . SENIORS CLA S PR OPHECY We ask the indulgenee of the reader to sit with us quietly in the darkened ofliee of Zombie Spatz, the one and only astrologer, spiritualist, and prophet. Graduating ten years ago with the Class of 1945, he went right on with his edueation and enrolled in a higher institution of Iearning-Chattahooehee. Now he's in business for himself, and his wide reputa- tion has tempted us to eall on him. Quiekly now, Zombie sets about fulfilling his promise to 'Lloeatei' the Seattered members of our elass. A few mumbled words, a erash of thunder, a bolt of lightening-and the room is engulfed in a dense smoke! As it elears, we gaze out into the panorama of a large ball room where guests are beginning to arrive for some sort of a banquet. It must be the first dieenniel elass re-union that we had planned on so long ago. Yes, this is the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City! The first person we are able to reeognize is the great industrialist, Corky Beal, of Heal, Dul'ont, Hoekefeller, Ford, and Heal ine., who is distributing his produet among the guests- toothpieks. Next to arrive is Si Higgins, the fruit speeialist-just in from California on his Orange Box Speeialf' Over in the middle of one group of intelleetuals is Alex Tatgenhorst, one of the after-dinner speakers. Tat is following in the footsteps of Claude Pepper, his Ideal, and was reeently admitted to the Atlanta Har Association. ln the midst of some eonfusion over by the door we are startled to see some stars of the Chit-ago Bears stride in, all dressed in zoot suits--Gardner, liaisner, Milam iaeeompanied by the Mrs. and several little tax exemptionsl Boyd, Minton, Tous lplus several senoritasl and Hussey. Now the gathering is beginning to eome to life. We are entertained for a few moments by Skippy Knight who sings, L'Marehing Through Georgia half way, quiekly Vlliillgillg to Dixie as llamp Davis, Robson, Areher, Walker and Gardner start walking toward him. Glendinning looks simply spiffy in his white admiral's eostume. He must have thought this was going to be a masquerade. ln the orehestra we see the familiar faees of Lanier fthe seeond Paderewskil, Kyle 31 Clark all under the direetion of Shot-Lip Watkins. Suddenly a newsboy rushes in shouting Extra! Extra! The headline says Congress Rejeets New York Times' Plan for Appointing Only Russians To U. S. State Department. Well, l guess Halbe is still fighting for his old eause. He's Editor-in-Chief of the Times and also the Moseow Morning Mail now. His home town, Fort Pieree, seeeded from the Union long ago and joined the U. S. S. li. Over in another eorner of the hugh room we notiee several of the nation's foremost doetors diseussing what to do for poor Mrs. Compton, who has just fainted after seeing lxid's,' fourth, seventh and ninth wives eome in simultaneously. fThe divoree proeeedings seem to be a little balled up? Dr. lfortune suggests an immediate appendeetomy. But Dr. llardin and Dr. lxrueger -illsl spoof him, saying, itis only streptoeoetis of the lower saero- ilyae. Dr. Todd, surgeon-general to the President, ,lim Hooper, asks to see the patient's teeth. Hmm,', he says, njllsi as l thoughtf' Presently, however, iiTl1IllllSl0IlC,i Shaw, Charles Atlas' instruetor, earries the unfortunate vietim from the room and the pre-dinner eonversations resume. Something whishes by in baek of us. It's 'glllaek Magie Tous, still pursued by the Cuban damsels. Poor Al! Hump Robson, Murray MeQuaid and John Dulany seem to be attraeting a lot of attention. All three of them are brown as beets. They are just baek from the Matterhorn to Melbourne yaeht raee. Hump steers the boat, Murray tends the sails, and Dulany sits on the deek and designs the next boat they are going to buy. Quite a team, these three! Dempsey and Milne seem to be having quite an argument over who is going to manage the Brooklyn Dodgers which they have just bought from Campbell, Gonzalez, Crooks, Clements and Company. .laek l'ons, the hliest Dressed Man in Amerieaf' is next to arrive, amid sighs ami swoons of the ladies. ,lark Parker and Edward Areher seem engrossed in some deep subjeet. No doubt they are diseussing further uses for the robot, whieh they reeently jointly invented. The odors of the eooking foods in the kitehen tempt a few of us baek there and whom should we find, but Howell himself. Billy is the head ehef in the kitehen, having just returned from an intensive study of Freneh foods in Paris. ln lfranee, he saw Speneer who is there trying to get lfranee to adopt his new, improved metrie system. He was reeently expelled from Germany beeause he proved by means of his new fourth dimension that the super raee did not exist. The ehefs bring on the food now for the huge banquet. .lust as the guests start sitting down, smoke fills the room again and when it elears we find ourselves back in Professor Zombie-'s ofhee. The Bolles Class of 1945! just think of it. All of them in that room togetherdfand now they're gone--gone forever. With many words of appreeiation to the Professor' for his mental taxation, we take our departure still thinking it was all a dreanl. And wasnit it? Tillie will tell! DIVISION H 1- Page 2

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ls . SENIORS CLA SS HISTOR Y The history of the Senior Class of 1945 began with the enrollment of Joel P. Oliver in February, 1937. A little over a year later, Hump Robson joined him. Then in September 1939, the nucleus of the class was formed with the arrival of Krueger, Pons, Hardin and Tatgenhorst. The following year, their number were increased by the coming of Spencer, .Warner, Beal, Graves and Seammen. Some of these boys were responsible for the founding of the so-called C. Company Smoking Room, and other nightmares to the faculty. The Freshman class in 1941 was made up of these boys plus some newcomers: Fitch, Howell, Compton, Glendinning and Grace. With such things as paper-wad fights after taps, pillow fights during evening study hall, tossing contraband from the windows of the Day Boy bus, and ink fights anywhere and anytime, the faculty had already begun to dread the year that these boys would become Seniors. After enjoying three months of loafing etc., we returned to school to find our numbers swelled by the addition of Fortune, Tous, Crooks, and Higgins. This combination of cadets will never forget their happy experiences in Latin class, or the practical jokers in Mr. Cibson's English class. After the return to school the following fall, we were joined by Skinner, Elliot, Clements, Shaw, Halbe, Todd, Lanier, Braren, Minton, Mills, Doro, Gonzalez, Milne, McQuaid and Martin. This almost completed the Class of 1945-in fact, it nearly finished them in the eyes of the faculty. It is doubtful whether any of them will ever forget the jokes, reports, grades and stink-bombs tied up with the Junior English classes. With any imagination at all, one should be able to foresee the bright future in store for such a fine group of youlg men. The remainder of the class of 1945 entered Bolles at Summer School and the following September. These were Davis, Parker, Dempsey, Amrine, Watkins, Kaisner, Archer, Walker, Dulany, Clark and Campbell. We shall skip the accomplishments of the Senior Class, and mention things like humour in Senior English class, the vast quantities of Senior privileges obtained during the year, after-taps excursions and other unmentionables. Seriously, though, we all hate to see it coming to an end. Due to war conditions it will be impossible for but a few of us to attend college, and we shall look back upon our friend- ships and good times at Bolles as the brighter days of our life. D1vIs1oN II- Page l

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SENIOI-ES CLASS OF 1945114 Standing: KYLE, IIOOPER. Seated: BUSSEY, WELLS, MILAM, REINSTEIN Due to present world conditions and the conscription laws concerning age, these boys felt it necessary to complete their courses at Bolles before June. They took Summer School courses and were graduated from Bolles January 27, 1945. Many are now in the armed service. We wish them good luck. Dlv1sloN Il H Page 3