Camp Pasquaney - Annual Yearbook (Hebron, NH)

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6 THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 5 Photograph by F. O. Reed T A HAND-STAND DIVE VVATERFRQNT With the various' water activities lasting, as they do, througho-ut the summer, it is quite natur-al t-o find a great deal of interest co-nstantly centered in and on the water. We tried, this summer, to arrange our 6 schedule so that th-ose events requir- ing the greatest amount -of skill 'and practice, came towards the end of the -summer. Th is gave the con- -testants a greater opportunity to practice and condition themselves for th ' e1r events. I-ndeed, the whole month of Jul to swimming and diving instruction. y was dev-oted largely The quality of the exhibitions on the Reception Day was indicative of considerable pr-ogress, and a laro-e b amoufnt of credit 1-s due tho-se coun- sellors who did the coaching, Une of the most gratifying ex- amples .of progress lay in the diving, The opening of the seaso-n found uig with just -one first rate diver in Camp, lrast year's champion, Phil Geiger. Jimmie', Winsttead and Brooke Stoddard sfho-wed some promise but that was just about the extent of our talent. However, Mr. VVhiting and Mr. Ri-chardson s-oon had a group of pr-ospects working daily. They displayed a genuine deslire to learn the fundamentals and their efforts were not without avail. By the time our Gala Day arrived the boys were 'diving well enough to stage an entirely respectable per- formance for o-ur guests. Three weeks later, the trials and finals of the diving competition br-ought a happy surprise to all of us. lt proved to be a real competition in every sense of the word, though the divers sensibly avoided the more difhcult dives, their p6ffOf1Hfl1lCC was most creditable. FifSf Place was finally won by Jimmie Win- stead wh-o was claslsilied as a Junior. Obviously, first place in the diving was a real achievement for ,li111mlf'3 for it is seldom that a Junior GVCH places. The improvement Of Dave Smith, Fred Ieilllings and John Stoddard is particularly lflllfl' able. Smith took second place While L.:-v-sen-qtiueo vl I l ' v-fs--1 g 940 A-,.,-

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THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL ATHLETICS Photograph by A. W. Moody .Athey Beebe Bolling Bowen, Burrall Carey Casler THE EXHIBITION CREW, 1929 THE SWIMS, 1929 HALF-MILE SWIMS . Chase, H. Miller, R. B Emmett Miller, H. F. Hardwick Moore L. Jennings Pile Mendoza, A. Sulloway Mendoza, N. Tyler, R. Metcalf Whitridge MILE SWIMS Hesse, 62:10 min. Higgins, B., 71 min.

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THE PASQUANEY ANNUAL 57 the .latter two tied for' third. For bgys wh-o were as distinctly begin- ners as these- fellows' were during the first of the summer, their per- formance was quite exceptional. Another outstanding 'development became apparent when the final heat of the Senior Hundred Yard Swim was run off. just a year previously, Elihu Howland took second place in the junior fifty. His form had always been go-od, but he had lacked speed and endurance. Howland worked faithfully -on this phase of his swimming t-hrough-out the larger part o-f the summer. He easily won his heat in the preliminaries which resulted in his meeting Adams, Brown-ell and three others in the ti-nals. Adams, an experienced swimmer wit-h a strong record, was ,selected by many as an easy winner. Soon af.ter the start, Adams' and Howland established a safe lead over Brownell and Burrall, their closest competitors, bu't there was little cho-ice between the first two wh-o alternated in the lead all the way dow-n the co-urse. Instead of cra-ck- ing at the seventy-five yard mark as many expected 'him to do, How- land overhauled Adams who was then leading and finish-ed in first place with Adams only two feet behind. It was one of the prettiest races s-een at Pasqua-ney in several years, and illustrative of one o-f the m-ost rapid developments I have had the pleasure to- witness. As usual the competition in the different classifications for the re- spective general excellence awards Was most keen. Casler and Pmut were -outstanding among the Sub- juniors. Although Casler splashed through to a three foot victory over his rival in the twenty-five yard swim, Pr-out defeated him in the finals of the obstacle race on Recep- tion Day and was also victorious over Tucker in the dingey finals. This gave Pr-out a total of twelve points -to ni-ne for Casler, his nearest co-mpetitor. Photograph by A. W. Moody THE, SPIRIT OF PA5QUANE.Y Pile, in the Junior divisi-on, was easily the hi.gh point sco-rer. His victory in the fifty yard swim was the greatest exhibition of grit of the sum.mer. He defeated Bolling, a much more finished swimmer, large- ly by determinatio-n. He won the Gbstacle Race over Hooper by a slight margin, and, with Til1S'0'U 35 his partner, was a runner-up in. the Junior Canoe Tilt. This gave 111111 3 t-otal of eleven points to- nine fo-r VVinstead, the winner of the diving. The Senior -competition was the