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Senior Class Chronicle MMHU BllFINCH %n As Sixies the Assembly Hall seemed enormous The unbelievable M.B.T.A. Selling tickets the day before THE GAME. Messrs. Chamberlain. Miethe and Leiter judge a Science Fair exhibit. Class VI On September 9, 1964, the 450 new members of the class of 1970 ascended apprehensively the stairs of the famed Boston Latin School, uncertain as to what lay ahead. Many of those among us were already battered and bruised from their first experience with the M.B.T.A., ( truly the eighth w onder of the w orld ) . At 8:30 a.m., we filed into the assembly hall. As we took our places, we could not help but notice names on the walls of this auditorium. Names, which then meant nothing, but by the time we were ready for graduation would be culminated into a pride and heritage in Latin school which would stay with us the rest of ours lives. We were then greeted by the distinguished Dr. Wilfred L. O ' Leary, who was also beginning anew his career at Boston Latin School. He predicted that two-thirds of us would be gone by June, 1970. His prediction (even with the new math) comes pretty close. Our feeling of awe and mysticism was quickly dissolved. After a couple of weeks of long homeroom periods, never-ending writer’s cramp from filling out program cards for everyone (including alumni) and nomading about the building in a fog. we finally settled down to the business at hand: keeping our heads above water. Although our subjects, mathematics, English. American history, geography, and elementary science, were not radically different from our subjects in grammar school, they were however more difficult. Difficult enough to keep us busy: three hours a night for those who wanted to stay. And of course there w as Latin, the language of scholars and kings. With the aid of Ritchie’s First Steps we were introduced to this language to which our school has lent its name. To a few Latin would become an escape, an enjoyable path to the past; for most of us however it would turn out to be a headache, for which the only remedy was to grin and bear it. Although the scholastic endeavors were stressed, our physical con- ditioning was not omitted. In our bi-weekly phys-ed periods such teams as Notre Dame. S.M.U., and Purdue would compete in relays and basket shooting with unswerving zeal. The much sought-after results of these hotly contested battles were regularly scrawled on our home- room blackboards. The football season was soon upon us, and we learned that Latin school was not all work. We also became aware of the fact that those dreadful last periods on Friday could be legally skipped with the pur- chase of a football ticket. Those of us who did attend the games found it to be very rewarding as we watched our purple clad men on the grid- iron crush all opponents to become the undefeated City Champs. The
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