Brooks School - Bishop Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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Football Crew and En ltsh classes It should be noted that Mr Van Pelt llke the Doctor also unceremonlously retreated from dormltory l1fe soon after these lnctdents D1C lertco began handtng out food for practtcal gaxn but had ltttle luck wtth Ptckles who has amazed us all by h1s abtlttv to ltye on drops of water Rooks took up French unsuspectedly when forced to retreat mto Mr Barr s French class w htle one of the hterarchy gaye the net hborlng study hall a lecture on w hy not to throw erasers Thts was not the only corruptlon prey alent Culbertson had dey eloped a CIOHYCIIC maktng machlne as well as a Boxford applejack dlstlllery both of whlch were oy erwhelmtng successes After bexng caught srnoktng five ttmes he had to brtng these dubtous act1v1t1es to a halt When the fourth form year rolled around there were several notable addlttons lncludtn the Duke of West Boxford Dtclt Ptnkham whose yellow and black car became yery useful Donald tn h1s green corduroy pants helped Van Cjerblg expand hts yocabulary w1th scores of useful expresslons llke Bun wamm Campbell too jolned us at thts pomt although lt took htm the better part of the fall term to persuade us that he really w as tn the fourth form It was clear that we had a lady klller ln our mtdst as well when ChflS Wllktns brought us QIOYICS of Cfrosse Polnte debutantes When v1s1ble below hxs mass of hatr and when not at Abbot he has been yery congental Ttm Wllson also came fnot yet sporttng a beardj and wrote Bohemian plays to the wr1t1n of whtch he has stnce applled hlmself more yt orously A select and excluslye Blue room club grew up of Mlller Eaton Free man and Van Cverblg Mrs Champollton IS stlll wondertng about Rldder s locomo tue Joke fso IS Rtdder for that matterj In Peabody House tea and crumpets were The headmtstless of Mtss Walkers School reported to Mr KIHQQTJUFY that Bob X oun man was dead but fortunately for the crew tt was a false report WhlCl1 X oung man had put Record up to clrculattng The form s hterary endeavors centered around the rlflzddlf School Reronl ground to a halt w hen Mr Palmer began ustng the only three tssues as grammattcal CXCTCISCS Fsmond Martln dey eloped the hablt of frequent trtps to Boston at ntght to the extent of taklng weekends ln the mtddle of the week not to speak of Ladd Cutter who ay oldtng the sprtng rush extended hls xacat1on to etght weeks only to haye lns bull whtp confiscated upon hts leturn Phll Isles whose letters llterally deluged the mall room reached hxs hetght wtth the fair sex but was yery dlsappotnted when he found that as '1 fourth former he had to leave the school dance by ten o clock and go to bed 1m Pew had by now worn paths from hts room to all the spots of mterest and hts superhuman audltory senses appeared to be tnfalltble Bowles Wlth h1s H1F1 Ty rolean hats lederhosen parachute harness setsmograph parts machmes for ey ery thtng and whatnot yolned Hoguet and Sawyer IH Peabody House fOI'ITllDg the tnfamous HBS club The Zoo had many curtous anxmals tn It that year lncludlng a baby dtnosaur called Crole The C ardner House Cfymnastum to whtch Scott and Roche were shuttled on arrtx al became famous for the Herculean combats between Isles and Mama Eats as well as for Scott s and Campbell s frequent contests ln the manly art of fenclng much to Mr Parrot s dtspleasure Howey er james Walker 1n traxntn for Thorne House Prefect w as an ald from the dorm aboye Brtghtjolned us from the form aboye whlle Nltke Watson found hunself at home tn the laundry truck Sprlng was at hand and Daye effrey felt l1l1'I1SClf ready for a fifth fortn prefectshtp II3 I ' U' ' . . D , .. .. . , , . I . . U . . . . , t t . 9 , L , l I., ' I 2 I D ' if ' . .. ' g , 'U - ,' ' , cc ' as ' - Y 7 ' ' ' ' 11 - y t . . I. . . U . 7 . a - v ' Y Y v 1 3 s 7 ., 1 K ', 7 ' ' ' Li , - 95 , y y. . L .L . , . . 7 y- . . . D a . . . 5 D . I , 7 . . I I . . I . . ., g . . . ,U y . Y - . - D ' 9 ' , , sq A ' consumed every afternoon by certain members of the form-at least it looked like tea. y 04 V . K u 7 - D , . . 7 9 I 1 0- I. .Ls 4 I . .. . 4, A Y , , n 7 V ' Viv ' 7 7 I .X , . , . V V V , 7 , ' . L ' u s .5 . A , , c , . LI ' . I . , t . s n n a n, A ' , I' t, . , t, . , ., I '- r 9 F ' I ' 3 . is ,, V . . . . . . s 1 , ' . . , A , ' , , CG 3' V I 5 1 , Q w 1 I . , . , , D

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The next year added four more to our number and rncreased responsrbrlrtres Daye Harrrs preferrrnv Brooks to hrs resery atlon rn North Carolrna added flay or to the form X afa, subsequently notorrous for hrs X ellow ournalrsrn was qurck to assume lrterary responsrbrlrty and rarse the Sizzeld to new herffhts whrle George lxrlborn arrry ed and made eyerythrnfr competrtrye Krngsbury was an added asset to football hockey baseball and school lrfe rn egener al Bender unable to cope wrth hrs oppressrye prefectorlal dutres retrred to the rnhrmary wrth pneumonra for erght weeks and Mtlbank tmpresslng a grrl at a house party decrded to drag along the crew course rn the school launch durrnv lunchtrme He landed on an rsland wrth the motor boat Back at the body house, Webster found our form hard to handle, and to atone for hrs offenses was treed by Freeman and Nlrller Bronson Hall smellrnff a punffent odor rn hrs room wondered what had hap pened rt was a strnk bomb Soon Nfarrrner s qualrflcauons for drnrnff room prefect became parnfully ey rdent rn hrs sleuthrnrg back stage for crffarette butts wrth Mr C hry ers who feared for wrfe and lrfe 53 X Fnvlrsh under the Nflaclsaac Palmer Eldred trlumytrate met seldom as all the classes were frrst perrod The newlv rnstrtuted Fencrnff club met frequently that rs untrl Campbell s forl went through both srdes of Morse s shrrt The members of the club are strll try mg to fivure out why rt drdn t go through Morse too Actryrtres came to a halt wrthrn the club but not outsrde rt It was decrded to put the rssue of C atholrcrsm ys Protestantrsm to trral by arms oe DrC,lerrco representrnff the Papacy lrttle was proy ed as both champrons clarmed they had won ln sunny sprrngf the crew consrstrnff almost entrrely of members of our form donned bla7ers straw hats and Brooks tres amrd crres of conformrsts Howeyer thrs drd not deter them from occasronal drps they recommend Lake Cochrckewrck Fhe concludrnff ey ent of the year for all rntents and purposes was Freeman s attempt to buy an oar from Nffr Krngsbury To Freeman s drsmay there were none for sale Ml but a few pearls who had fallen by the waysrde returned thrs year and rn addrtron seyeral notable rf rather late arrryals The most notrceable of these was Ben Wrlson who sewrnff a Brooks shreld oyer hrs lvfrlton patch, added a certarn amount of debatable rntellectual flayor and showered frequently rn the Danforth room Bruce Chambers fresh out of quarantrne, came from Envland for a chanffe of chmate and founded a new chapter of the I lrke Wrnnre Club Bronson Hall hrtherto aboye us felt such a deep attachment for our form that he stayed back to recerye an extra drploma A new band was formed by Ted Prrce and Mr Cahry ers whrch consrsted completely of percussron mstruments and played a new yartety of 'Nlame that Fune Ted named rt, and then you trred to frvure out rf you could recoffnrze rt when the band played rt The newly formed Octet was somewhat more harrnonrous Xlthouvh Xoungman farled to rncrte a counter reyolutron rn Cuba the srxth form year wrtnessed a new outbreak of relrffrous wars that wrll doubtless go down rn hrstory besrde the wars of the Reformatron whrch rn comparrson, rndeed, seem rnsrfrnrfrcant DlClCflCO affarn defendrnff The Farth but forsakrnq the forl turned to eraser and chalk fights rn the Lrnk Mrlbank stepped rnto Xldrrch s shoes becomrnv the heretrc defender of Protestantrsm Ks the year wore on the furnrture rn the Danforth room wore out and a new sofa had to be brought rn upon whrch oyce can usually be seen asleep llebatmo lil fr 11, . r V . L' V .1 4, V . K ' . , , D , U . ' ..' V A 5 ,lv - 9 - lv. f I tr ' . D . . y. v- , 4 . .' Q . D D . Q 7 ' r L , . . O' V v C . . I 44 U , . A .l . V . ' . , s ' v . '. tv y . 1 Q n V- 1 1 boldly' fought the heretrc, Rrchard Aldrrch, at hve-thrrty one mrsty Saturday' mornrngg ., 4' . . A V, .-. ' D . - ' , ' . ., , ' ., , , , H . ,. Y . , s ' .g I . D Y , . . ., . .T v , , ' ' ' V ' , . . V . A I , . A ., . O y O . . . H . . . , ,, . 7 A. . , . Y My I . . r N , . .. . 7. M ' ' ' D 1 U v V' A . ..A 7 . . . V . . , . 7 4, D x - 4 g s . - ra ' I ' o o 1 - C Q 5