Buckingham Browne and Nichols School - Torch Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Class 11 The Iunior Class had a very productive year with the twenty-six returning members and nine new boys, all of whom contributed to the school in various ways. Among the new boys were piano whiz Tom Hen- nessey, lack Marshall, an ardent coin collector, Bob Mignone and Peter Slocum, football players. The remaining new members included Mike Alt- man, a football and basketball player, Paul Lamarche, a hockey player, Andy Olsen and Carl Skip Symonds, both of whom received football injuries in the line of duty, and Peter Smith, our competent and friendly class president, better known as pore Iudd to the audience of Oklahoma Along with the many accomplishments of the new Iuniors, our veterans also made many contributions. Roger Adler gave an enjoyable class party during the Christmas vacation. Chuck Bailey, co-captain of next year's football team, continued his Honor Roll achieve- ments of last year. Bill Bazley, an outstanding varsity soccer player, is to be next yearis co-captain. Truman Bewley, a crew man, maintained his high honors' standing, and was assistant editor of the Torch. Roger Brown made honors, and was an assistant editor of the Torch. Steve Chalmers, a wrestler and soccer player, loaned his shiny, black Ford to Roger Adler for his driving test. No dents. Bill Collins was a varsity wrestler and crew man, the class representative to the Book Store, a constant member of the limited high honors' group, an assistant editor of the Torch, a Li- brary Committee member, and a participant in Okla- homa, The rest of the time he loafed! Don Cooke, a Hockey player, attained honors for the third period. Mike Dowd became a well versed and fluent member of the debating team. Eddie Etsten was one of the class' two representatives on the school's trip to Wash- ington. Other veterans included Mike Holden, a soccer and tennis player, and Doug Iackson, who was elected co- captain of football, was the basketball team's high scorer and also a varsity crew man. Myles Iacobson was a football and hockey manager, and Roger Iohn- son participated in the Boston Skating Club's Ice Chips . Willis Iohnson was a participant in Thieves' Carnival and Oklahoma, Langy Lombard was a very able varsity soccer player, and Arthur Mason, a footballer and next year's hockey captain, was another Oklahoma star. Iohn O'Connor was very efficient as the varsity hockey goalie, and Ned Perry kept Mr. Denny stumped with new mathematical equations, while Wig Pierson hoped to make a bid for baseball pitcher under Mr. Elliott's instruction. Bob Reischauer is a hockey player and next year's co-captain of the soccer team. Bill Saunders' hello comrade, was every- where, and Rob Stephenson informally introduced cross-country running to the School's athletic program. Haven Sweet was a member of the Glee Club. Ierry Tishler kept Mr. Levy's French 3 class informed about French culture, and Paul Vernaglia's return to the School in the middle of the year was a wonderful sight to all. Class 10 After a year of command in the weighty matters of the Middle School, the Tenth Grade finds itself, as we have often heard said, at the bottom rung of a new ladder. However, with the addition of several boys to our ranks we are quite happy in our new, if com- paratively low, position. In fact, seeing how difficult we sometimes make it for the Seniors, few, if any of us, are looking forward to the day when we shall pre- side over the morning studyhalls. Perhaps our future antagonists will be more merciful than we are now, but we doubt it. We have been exposed this year to the new realms of biology, romantic poetry and the language labora- tory, which we hear a lot about, but rarely get to use. At least it's something to talk about, especially for high fidelity and electronics fans like Nat Iohnson, Al Crandon, and Ambrose Spencer. Andy Donovan has gone on to bigger and better things, such as making color television sets. He and Ambrose contributed their technical knowhow to the Browne 8: Nichols - Buckingham production of Oklahoma. Our classes have been extremely interesting. Many of us expected Biology to be a rather gruesome subject, but it turned out to be reasonably tame. In English, one of the hardest things to learn was that Mr. Ducey is always right. Some of us have tried all year to prove him otherwise, but have had no success. At any rate when you are right he never hesitates to tell you so. Having been told many times that Roman culture has a great deal of bearing on our present way of life and also that it earns college credits, many of us con- tinued with Latin and an elite few took up studying Greek with Mrs. Sindall. Others have found Russian interesting as well as timely. In sports this year three of our class members, Don McClosky, Steve Caplan and Bob Coyne, played in varsity football games. True to tradition, the virtues of soccer as opposed to football were often hotly argued at lunch. Vv'inter made openings for sophomore man- agers which were quickly filled, and many boys joined the wrestling team. Outstanding of the sophomore wrestlers was Steve Caplan, who won all but one match and was elected co-captain for next year. More and more of us have acquired drivers licenses, and this spring trips to Richards instead of tennis roadwork are probably planned. The driving training course last fall was enjoyable to all who took it. The rest are anxiously awaiting their sixteenth birthday and next year's Driver Education Program. We have found the year stimulating, to say the least. The change many of us made from 5 to 4 subjects by no means seemed to reduce the amount of homework. Vacations, we found were not a time to forget work but a time to catch up on it.

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