Colorado Academy - Telesis Yearbook (Denver, CO)

Text from Pages 1 - 144 of the 1969 volume:

Telesis: 1969 Faculty Advisor, William Matassoni Editor, Marshall Dickson Art and Layout, Lawrence Leissner Photography Editor, Mackenzie Waggamen - --f fr. JZ f, vm , ' f l . Si T'w il , f l The 1969 Telesis is Respectfully Dedicated to Mr. A. 1. Musil SENIORS To The Seniors When the Editors of this year's TELESIS asked me to write an article addressed to the graduating Se- niors, I was quite honestly honored at their request. I was also struck by the fact that the request came for exactly twenty junes after I had ascended the dais in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria to re- ceive my diploma and graduate from high school. Twenty years is a good length of time at which to take stock and try to articulate some basic values before we launch off on another twenty-year trip. What follows, then, is an intensely personal reaction to that request, a reaction that may look more like rumination than anything else, but which is really one teacher's credo. I want to speak about what I consider the most important aspect of a man's life: Truth, that without which everything else he does in his life possesses what Conrad calls a taint of death, the flavour of mortality. Lip service to the contrary notwithstanding, most of us do not delight in the truth -it is often too painful, and too often appalling. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free, cries St. john. However, as most of us delight not in the truth, so most of us dislike freedom, for true free- dom brings with it responsibility - the burden of freedom. It is slavery that carries with it an absence of restraint, it is willing commitment to a cause ex- ternal to oneself that brings with it freedom. A slave cannot sin, only a free man can. The person to whom that fact is a contradiction rather than a para- dox is a person whose inner life has not been suffi- ciently developed. If St. john is correct in his assertion that freedom and truth are concomitants, then humanity is correct in its assertion that happiness is a consequent of lib- erty. To paraphrase a famous document, truth, liber- ty, and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable human rights. And if rights, then duties. Or so I hold. I take it as self-evident that the happiest man is he who is most at peace with external reality, the man whose mind conforms itself to life as it really is, viz., to truth. The unhappiest man, the most neurotic, is he who refuses to, or who can't, accept external reality and who wars with it. Or put it in Christian terms: the man who can truly pray, thy will be done rather than the more usual my will be done, achieves the peace of God, the peace that surpasses all human understanding. Which is one of the reasons why such people are so often misunderstood by the mass of lip-servers. Herman Melville had precisely that thought in mind when he wrote, PQI saw C.od's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it, and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heav- en's sense . . . And vice-versa. A more orthodox writer, St. Paul, put it another way: We must all be fools for Christ. Fools as the world fmanl counts fools are people who are not hip enough to swim with the current, or who are not bright enough not to rock the boat and cause waves. Christ was a fool, Pilate was a prudent politician who providentially worried about what Caesar thought rather than what his own intellect told him: I find no cause in this man. Even though a political realist, Pilate unfortunately lost in the end anyway. But that's accidental. It is his figure I find fascinating. After all, it was the Procurator Pilate who asked that famous question of Christ, What is truth? He was a typical worldly Roman cynic, whose question reveals the underlying belief that power is truth, rather than the other way around. Truth is what the current Ceasar says is truth, and only a fool would fly in the face of that reality. Christ had no power, He was an absurd King. I recall Stalin's famous rhetorical ques- tion when someone asked him how he would get around the Pope's objections to Russia's doing something or other at the time: How many divi- sions does the Pope have? barked the cynical commissar. Another context: Socrates was actually put to death for the nebulous crime of corrupting the youth of Athens, all he actually did was to try to lead them to discover for themselves the nature of beauty, truth, and goodness. Yet those in power thought that effort subversive. And in a sense, of course, they were right, it was. Truth can be the most subversive element in a society, at least in a society that is not essentially true. For people whose characteristic and essential nature is not imbued with a love for truth, truth speakers are at best em- barrassing and at worst subversive. What a dreadful thing to point out to young men who are about to commence their journey to 1989! But if what I say is factual tthough not pleasingi, then what is one to do out there in a world dominated by a realpolitik habit of mind? loin it if he can't beat it? That is one way - Pilate's, Stalin's, the used car salesman's. But I can't buy it. My God, I can't stom- ach it! And so this is my answer, and to avoid the charge of banality I shall quote from Sophocles: Truth is always best, regardless of the surface real- ities ofa given context. My word to you departing Seniors, and, indeed, my word to anyone, and my word to myself as I too depart Colorado Academy, is that in spite of the pain and sorrow that adherence to truth and integrity brings with it, still that is better than anything else. The spirit of the law of truth quickensg the lying let- ter kills, and, surely, a live life is superior to a death- ly one. And in the long run it is a happier one. Na- thaniel Hawthorne, speaking of false, wretched Ar- thur Dimmesdale, writes: Among the many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's expe- rience, we put only this into a sentence - 'Be true! Be true! Be true!' A psychological truth is a moral truth too. Manifestly, then, there is a sacred quality to truth, which is why there is a satanic quality to lies. Mel- ville's Father Mapple sums up what God's bidding to man is: To preach the Truth to the face of False- hood! Each time I consider these thoughts, I am inevitably drawn to Father Mapple's Sermon: Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! A strong injunction? A hard morality? Yes. It takes a big man to live up to the truth. Listen to Father Mapple again: And if we obey C-od, we must diso- bey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists. Accretive selfishness is simple, altruistic love is hard. Obeying God's bidding lto live always according to the truth! is not only hard, it is dangerous. The world expects men to lie, to equivocate, to temporize. It doesn't want people to be truthful. That's why Soc- rates was executed and Christ crucified. Well, if such happened to them, then how can we expect better treatment? We can't. Don't expect it, because we probably won't receive it. Truth may be always best, but it's almost never smoothest. Though living a true life may make a man free, it guarantees no freedom from pain or sorrow. Quite the contra- ry. That's why we find it so much easier to lie, both to ourselves and to others. It has always been easier to slide down the greasy chute to hell than to climb the steep and thorny path to heaven. But isn't a man really happier being a Christ than a Pilate? Look, then, Seniors, at this book in your hands, the history of your stay in this school. See the truth and falsehood here, consider them both and make up your mind which course you wish to follow. judge for yourselves. Evaluate your experiences. Ar- ticulate your criteria. Though the truth can be ap- palling, it won't frighten a well individuated man. Twenty years from now, reread these pages and pro- fess your credo. What have you to lose? The same thing you have to save - your soul. - F. X. Slevin Steven H. Adler .auf im uw- M313 M A ,a. lm 6 S 'S if, JLV, R Fix.. , 4 ,,,,.v ., L. . .1 3,3 .f . n in S in . if T - fy, john F. Bennet . . y fy xi ig, 1.5, 1 1, 9-K Wilson C. Birkenmayer Ill 9 cv E T3 'L' CQ ce S. 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A Nw X , . .x .,., ,- , . ya' ' - ln' ' Q x f Q M . 7 .L ,011 I 1 mm- , Q.n...,,, 5.4 K if s ve , W, 4 , W fd of., H ,,. Q N? AX xg, N ...N if Kp.-A xg. Z if Q . N' M. W. Waggaman Robert G. Wunderlich Charles W. Young Hugh Whittaker The Senior STEVE ADLER: Electronics Club 15 Gun Club 1,2. DOLPH ANDREAE: Football 1,2,35 Baseball 112,35 Gun Club 15 Chess Club 15 Drama 2. ,IOHN BENNET: Glee Club 1,2,35 Mt. Training 15 Basketball 1,2. BIFF BIRKENMAYER: Football 2,35 Lacrosse 2,35 Dance Chairman 2,35 Drama 2,3. MIKE BRANDT: Football 35 Basketball 35 Dance Committee 3. BRUCE BISTLINE: Soccer 1,2,35 Kayak 1,2,35 Drama 1,2,35 Glee Club 1,2,35 Dance Committee 2,35 Bridge 1,2. CHARLES CAVNESS: Student Council 1,25 President 35 Soccer 15 Football 2,35 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Wrestling 1,25 Telesis 25 Mustang 3. GARY CHAVEZ: Football 1,2,35 Drama 1 lBest Supporting ActorJ,2 iBest ActorJ,35 Harvest 1,25 Student Council 1,2,35 Harvest Editor 35 Glee Club 35 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Dorm Proctor 2. SAMAUEL CHRISTIAN: Creative Writing 1,2,35 Chess Club 1,25 Wrestling 1,25 Drama 1,25 Track 25 Gun Club 15 Baseball 1. TONY CLAIBORNE: Drama 15 Soccer 15 Catchers in the Rye 1,25 National Merit Letter of Commendation 2. DAVID DAY: Soccer 15 Wrestling IMost valuable Wrestleri 25 La- crosse 3. MARSHALL DICKSON: Telesis 15 Telesis Photography Editor 25 Telesis Editor 35 Mustang Staff 25 Mustang Features Editor 35 First Citizen Award 25 Key Awards, Scholastic Art Contest 2,35 Glee Club 1. DON DODGE: Soccer 1,2,35 Baseball 15 Drama 15 Chess 15 Dance Committee 2,35 Mustang Sports Editor. MARC EARNHARDT: Band 1,2,35 Football 1,2,35 Track 1,2,35 Band Director 3. BILL EMBREE: Football 1,2,35 Baseball 15 Dance Committee 1,2,35 Mustang Staff 35 Lacrosse 35 Effort Honor Roll 35 Honor Roll 3. CHRIS FILLEY: Soccer 1,2,35 Effort Honor Roll 1,2,35 Honor Roll 2, 35 Glee Club 1,25 Mustang Editor 35 Class Treasurer 15 Class Secretary 25 Telesis 35 Yale Award 2. GARY FREEMAN: Debate Team 35 Glee Club 35 Drama 3. JIM GALVIN: Mountain Training 1,2,35 Honor Roll 1,2,35 Crea- tive Writing 1,35 Lacrosse 35 Ski Team 3. ROBERT GOTTSCHALK: Mountain Training 15 Football 1,35 Soc- cer 25 Kayaking 25 Photography 2. TOM HEADLEY: Football 1,2,35 Ski Team 1,2,35 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Creative Writing 1,35 Honor Roll 1,2,35 First Citizen Award 2. ROBERT HOGAN: Drama 15 Soccer 1,35 Chess Club 35 Creative Writing 3. HENRY JOHNSON: Gun Club 15 Drama 15 Soccer 1,2,35 Student Council 15 Student Tutor 25 Lacrosse 35 Photography 3. RICHARD JONES: Soccer Team 35 Ski Team 3. TODD JONES: Glee Club 35 Lacrosse 3. TIM KEELY: Football 35 Basketball 35 Mountain Training 3. KEN LANGE: Football 2,35 Basketball 25 Captain of the Baseball Team 2,3. Activities LARRY LEISSNER: Track 25 Telesis 25 Telesis Layout Editor 35 Mus- tang 35 Harvest 35 Finalist, Scholastic Art Contest 2,3. ROGER LEVY: Soccer 1,2,35 Ski Team 1,25 Tennis 1,2,35 Glee Club 35 Student Tutor 3. TRIP MAYTAG: Ski Team 1,2,35 Baseball 15 Soccer 2,35 Lacrosse 35 Gun Club President 3. MIKE McWlLLlAMS: Band 3, Mountain Training 3. GREG MEHLMAN: Soccer 1,2,35 Chess 1,2,35 Baseball 15 Bridge 1, 2,35 First Citizen Award 25 Telesis 3. STEVE MILLER: Soccer 1,2,35 Tennis 15 Chess 1,25 Mustang 35 Bridge 1,2,35 Golf 2,3. PAUL MITCHELL: Mountain Training 2,35 Soccer 2,3. BILL MOLINA: Computer 35 Scuba Diving 35 Mountain Training 35 Kayaking 3. FRED MORFIT: Soccer 15 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Mustang 1,25 Telesis1,25 Drama 2,35 Harvest Art Editor, Dance Committee 2,3. PETER MORRIS: Football 1,35 Track 15 Cross Country 25 First Citi- zen Award 25 Student Tutor 25 Lacrosse 2,35 Dance Commit- tee 3. JOHN MULLINS: Soccer 35 Baseball 35 Honor Roll 3. STEVE NORRIS: Soccer 1,2,35 Band 1,2,35 Gun Club 1,2,35 Chess 1, 2,3. WILLIAM OSBORN: Glee Club 1,2,35 Catchers in the Rye 1,2,35 Drama 1,2,35 Soccer 1,2,35 Baseball 1,2,3. MONTE PEARSON: Soccer 15 Basketball 1,35 Baseball 15 Moun- tain Training 25 Dorm Proctor 25 Kayaking 35 Telesis 3. WILL PERRY: Soccer 1,35 Kayaking 1,35 Vice President 15 First Citi- zen Award. DAVID PRICE: Football 15 Basketball 1,2,35 Effort Honor Roll 1,35 Honor Roll 1,35 Student Council 1,35 Drama 25 Telesis Sports Editor 25 Mustang 3. MARK REED: Football 1,2,35 Baseball 1,2,35 Tutoring 3. JOHN SANDS: Football 1,2,35 Ski Team 15 Band 15 Baseball 15 Glee Club 2,35 Lacrosse 2,35 Student Tutor 2,35 Dance Committee 2,35 Mustang 3. FRANK SMITH: Soccer 1,2,35 Ski Team 1,25 Kayaking 1,2,35 Chess Club 1,25 Gun Club 25 Drama 2,35 Class President 25 Student Council President 35 Bridge Club 3. RANDY SMITH: Gymnastics 25 Gun Club 25 Wrestling 25 Kayaking 25 Mountain Training 3. JOHN STEAKLEY: Football 35 Lacrosse 35 Bridge Club 3. MACK WAGGAMAN: Telesis 25 Telesis Photography Editor 35 Kayaking 25 Cross Country 35 Skiing 35 Mustang 35 Creative Writing 3. MIKE WOGAN: Soccer 15 Skiing 1,25 Captain Ski Team 35 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Football 2,35 Mountain Training 3. ROBERT WUNDERLICH: Soccer 2,35 Wrestling 25 Gun Club 3. CHARLES YOUNG: Football 1,2,35 Lacrosse 1,2,35 Effort Honor Roll 1,2,35 Student Council Vice President 35 Honor Roll 35 Basketball 35 Dorm Proctor 35 Dorm Representative 2. 1 B 1 l l ' ., ur un-an. , , ka-.... H,,,,.w-5' Ni' .Qi HSC .- ,QK Q' 2 x ,eg x Z8 A- 5 aka X-2': .4 LOWER SCHCJCL X r I x' l ,A S. Preschool 'W QTop Leftl Mrs. Dick Moorlag. lTop Rightj Mrs. Lee Humble. iMiddle Leftl Mrs. Homer E. Fanning. lMiddle Rightl Mike jones, Christopher Crump, Mrs. Homer E. Fanning. CBottom Leftl Mrs. Dick Moorlag, Elizabeth Evans, David Emanuel, lan Purcell. 64 fd' t , ' 'iff ' ,' T t qtz ,X , J T 3 . i :QQV4 1: .1 A if A QE' is L. eg. P ,.. I I aehwammemsmawwzmummuk ggngn. 95, . ,,,,yn- x 1 N 5 if . 'S xf 1' fi 'ltr 1 at f. 'L ,Sid 3 v- Second Grade lAbovel Todd Patterson, Stephen Branch, Kurt Soderstrom, Bruce Mur- row, Hamilton C-regg, Kevin Crump, BACK ROW - Norman C-askill, Lisa Lee, lohn Reed, Pamela Boucher, Carlton Dean, Luis Fonseca, Scott Perlman, Beverly Stein, john Lowdermilk, Christopher Schneck. tRightJ Mrs. Ralph Hulbert. 'WH Third Grade Mrs. Anson H. Garnsey ...H if l KNEELING - Gregory Rosenblum, SITTING - Clifford Edwards, Carl Rehburg, STANDING - Law- rence Peek, Scott Hixon, Alan Watts, joseph johnson, David Harder, Trent Headrick, Martin Shore Michael lhlenburg, Gerald English, Schuyler Grey. 67 Fourth Grade fBelowJ FIRST ROW - Thomas Graves, Drew Downs, Christopher Wogan, joel Wingerter, SECOND ROW - Christo Senakos, Mark Petrone, Timothy Gustafson, Kurt Frantz, Glen Friedman, Mark Smith, THIRD ROW - jonathan Bush, William Robinson, James McKeon, David Seidl. iLeftJ Mr. Yoeman C. Fisher. txukkmie, A 68 L ' - 'l s M' ' S1 Xxjv Mrs. Manon P. Charbonneau SITTING - loel Rosenblum, john Nordeck, Michael Stein, lay Burnham, Thomas Cross, STANDING - Christopher Woolley, jonathan Filley, Andrew Thu- lin, jeffrey Neibarger, Mitchell Whiteford, Benjar- min Brown, Halsted Morris, john Whitesel, Scott Tallmadge, Randy Rudolph, George Rucker, Alex- ander Groos. 69 Miss Susan 1. York Fifth Grade Carl Hosler Sixth Grade KNEELING - Scott Kuster, Bernie Kellman, Carl Hosler, john Ake, Douglas Klusmeyer, Norman Goddard, SITTING - Brian Milligan, William White- ford, john Hopkins, STANDING - Garth Englund, James Keller, Keith Washington, Rodney Lippman, john Williams, Elton Parks, Alexander Lunt. Mr. Robert D. Rehburg FIRST ROW - Erskine Myer, William Bayne, Rich- ard Scott, Denneth Francis, Geoffrey Bush, SECOND ROW - Harry Walker, Frank Cohen, Richard Simms, Ludlow Howe, Christopher Pfister, Bradley Gilmore, Michael Wagner, Bruce Milburn, THIRD ROW- Thomas Woolley and friend. H 1 y. R Mrs. Klaus Meyer Mr. Marco A. Soto Mrs. Winfield Miller -A-... Mr. Cambell Witherspoon I 'Q Mrs. Beverly Yoder 71 I i 3 On Education Learning is an individual experience. No one can do it vicariously for someone else. The person doing the learning must be actively involved in whatever is going on to derive the greatest benefit from the situ- ation. This is particularly true of elementary age children. Sitting still and keepin silent are not natu- ral normal things for young chiFdren to do. No one denies that these disciplines must be acquired also, but in gradual small doses! Elementary age children must be allowed the freedom to move about the classroom, to discover and explore, to use the ph si- cal equipment available in most subject areas andlto discuss their findings with their classmates. I kee thinking of a statement made by a very dear frienclli William P. Hull, an educator of unusual qualifica- tions: Who needs the most practice in school talking? The kids. And who gets it? The teachers! How right he is! There is an old chinese proverb, I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. With this firmly in mind, most learning situations in the lower school revolve around two basic rules: Ill use the equipment with care and concern, C23 and at no time bother or interrupt any- one else who is working. Learning in the mathematics laboratory takes place in many ways. There are games requiring logi- cal thinking and strategy to win. There are games requiring the skills of arithmetic and are designed to improve the child who is slow and unsure of facts that are still very necessary. There are materials for exploration - mileage markers, trundle wheels Iwalking yard sticksl, simple surveying tools and measuring equipment - for developing the ability to estimate and then measure accurately with stand- ard devices. There are many sets of blocks - algeb- raic, multibase, pattern, attribute, Cuisenaire, prisms, and cubes - to show in concrete situations many of the ideas inherent in mathematics. The abil- ity to see pattern and structure is vital to the study of math, if the child is to see and understand the beau- ty and the fun of this normally hated subject. There are team games and individual projects. The children work by themselves at times, and together with a partner or in small groups for some activities. Rarely are two children ready for the same concept at the same time, and if they are, differences imme- diately show up in the depth or the degree of so- phistication into which one or the other can stretch his thinking. This type of learning demands that a teacher know his students so well that at any given moment he can say, lon is ready to multiply two digit numbers, or joe still needs more work with the multibase blocks before he can abstract the ideas of a base structure and work with just paper and pencil. It means having a wealth of materials, physical and printed, on hand and ready to use at a moment's notice. It means being willin to sit down with a child and listen instead of doing are talking. It means encouraging original and creative thinking when it comes to problem solving and hel ing the children discover man ways to approach the same problem. It means alfbwing the children to help each other in these discoveries, kids often relate better and more activel to their peers than to an adult. It means being1willing to admit mistakes, and being able to enjoy t e excitement of discovery with the child. Sometimes it requires makin deliberate mistakes or creatin chaos out of which can come the most profitable?earning situations. And it some- times means allowing a child to hang himself with an idea before stepping in with a suggestion for correction. Children are such individuals, and learning can be a naturally exciting, stimulating, and rewarding situ- ation for them when we, as teachers, show them that we have confidence not only in their ability to learn, but in their desire to do so. There are several excellent books on learning which I urge all thinking people to read, and I par- ticularly would encouratge anyone considerirgf teachin as a career to rea : john Holt's How Chil - ren Faigand also How Children Learn, Johathon Kozol's Death At An Early Age, james Herdon's The Way It Spozed To Be, and Herbert Kohl's 36 Child- ren. Perhaps you won't agree with all they have to say, but after reading them it is very difficult to look at children the same way as before! I attended a college where the educational philos- ophy was Learning b Doing. I did not fully appre- ciate it at the time, but I havelnever been more grateful for the experience than in these past few years, when the children I have worked with have made me realize what an exciting, vibrant approach to learning this philosophy can be. fn-5. fllanm Q C'Aa.1-Lumen-cc MIDDLE SCHOGL OU f If S. Grey, R. Severy, E. Mohler, D. lewett, K. Long. KBELOVVI FIRST ROW - S. Charboneau, A. Delano, SECOND ROW - 1. Dilatush, P. Grimes, F Cooley. 75 at , .fsriiii 7. rs? is ,Q . .V 13. X ,f- f ws .1 .A-1, -as ,aww 55'-Q .. 7312359 ,Y-Q - 1.,s,f.qw. t. Mr. Griggs Dayton, Special Instruction Mrs. Richard Bostwick Librarian 'W ' KE 'W' Q KW D. Matthews 1. Linley R. Cast M. Bidwell 76 Mr. john Davenport, Science P. Grimes, R. Delano, S. Charbonneau, M. Polluck 'REG E X 'sa LW rw Q. - A Q 51 - 'G L i s iii w Mrs. Gerald Volgenau, Spanish 2 T. lohnson,T. Levitch, G. Ormsbee, D. Arnold, l. Ohrel. 1... .e M. Langley, C. Hall, C. Gerarden, D. Stein, K. Patterson. Mr. Ben G. M. Priest English Teacher, Drama Director Eighth Grade IRICHTJ R. O'Brien, D. Milligan, M. Dreher, F. Cranmer, D. Adler. ' c s 3 ...I S5114 , Q.. -ik... l R. Lincoln, 1. Coors, Y. lshizaka, D. Horst, M. Teters, C. Arnold. H. Kenney, A. Duke. D- Cohen Mr. Michael Luchcnco Admissions Director E?E1 2 79 -mm, 4' N UU -as Mr. David Woods, Mr. Marco A. Soto Music IBELOWJ M. Simms, 1. Lowrie, K. Soderstrom, 1. Coors, 1. Larson. D, Crocket, 1. Jennings. 'ff' ' its i JE4ffN. 80 in 1 .' Q Q H 1 4. f' ' S25 ' , V17 K new -'72 'fgf A ..i iffjff k ' jimisigf 55: 371 ' -'-Q. vw A wif? L fl , L4 . YQ 'xi ?.w'.5 l fu, 'F M X f .... fi ,X ' , 4-,., .TE we , , A f z 1,4 firrifxgs :wg . 1.-73. A 'QF5' ft ff' ' ? ' ... -1.--,N -Q.. 5.1 ' use 54 5, . ,Q g,.f'lt.:g,, .Q :? ?'3nl . T' CMJ, 'Lx-fwlff 53:4 'J Mr. john Stickney Spanish X , Mr. Ralph Hulbert Science R. Pfeiffenberger, D. Horst, T. Schuneman. 81 x l C. Malo T. Burns 1. Shepard Ninth Grade P. Boucher T. Aitken I. Dane 5 . P. Emery B. Whealen M. Bright I. Barr IRICHTJ I. Twombly, T. Bruce, R. Toliver. IBELOWJ F. Neef, E. Lincoln. K. Perry H. Grimes P. Crossland B. Mitchell M. Brun ke T. Hansford R. Hall F. Froelicher I. Warde C. Wooley D. Hulbert C. Barnett C. Mayfield L. Ballontine B. Oaks W. Her I P. Blac C. Brox Sports .V- .1.,.- . , , ,, , , .-xxx... u mf lx -1 .111 ,- . A n.. -1-1 lwxl 1 - 1' 1 -.1.x..- . Arllxxxkixl lk!! xlull nllxxxl 1 1'1--....-n- 1 ...-..fxff1-K. . .f ...-.x...-- uwrk 1-g1l.m.41.-.- xx. ... --x- . ,.x-KK1.--1. . -K.-.k...K .--K . .11-1-1. 1 .1 .-1..x1:. - R ... -xx.x,X.7.wX- xx-N w--nu-mms-x.11x.. . ..,. WA- f 4'N fE3..'?5:ii'i'5T.F YR? PTM? ..-......., N., M... . m1..z--1:5753 K tis if 50 N- ak 'fffm M-any 5 . R, s x fy.-A akggalz . A ,3..,.. f x A YT I X , f N K ' NTFS' t X I MX ..A N ' L' X X K' N in .,..N-,in fi 7 ... .- .ky A - - '3 Q NNN 'fx' 1 X 1 A A Xy- Qh frvxxq. A vkf.. . ...- :h1:L,,.L,:'7 ..5x,f,'. 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' R' i ff g,. x '4 ' ' l Miss Mary Powell, Art Mr. David Woods, Music RIGHT: Stephen Marx, English 93 g . s fiis'1'f,'-Q Mr. Ernest Tapley, Shop Rev. I. Philip Nordeck, Chaplain 'T' X A L . f ' - , T 345353. 35,1 5' ,iftgf x . l:sf,sL:.51.g, f-,-1, ' v - 9' 1 XM V-Q-a iwlg f f A K- Q .L .Xu---W . .. H-if! :1i5vLfl5 a iid, , . sp '2--w,.,,.s f .. .PK ,r.?.u: ' - lflilnziia 3 :'f'fff 355 I. Huidekooper T. Moore R. Carey P. james, T. Baur M. Watkins C. Ranger T. Moore M. Goodin D. Downs M. Maxwell C. Teters L 1 S. Hawley, F. Williams D. Malo D. Sandberg Q-'va M. Glowan R. Turner :NW M.lacobson K.SaItsman 4'I ' 4 v - V ,. .g1i.:' f, ' . . ,. U, uswu'w 'Vmw H -,Gc- phvffmw- f 1 TT' A f'?.'I5'2f. .,'E'i-ervif ii -, il .liar -mx: 1. -...f2f.1w' 5 A , Y' -' ,K ,.,-'gf -.--'5 3, lHf., f:3'-b.g1 35ng:3 4 .M fi' :Binh If-A ' 14.3, gp, N- ' . f. fa efisixr if ' 1' 251 :X .vi + .2-2, ff! . . ,. - 'hiv .A 1 1 Tenth Grade M. Charbonneau,W. Schuneman j.Whitham M. Maxwell L. Deffenbaugh P. 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Mr. Ian jewitt, Lacrosse Coach 111 J, S .,.1 ', I A V, ' ef, . gh.-Msffy M A 5, -wdg 1 x V- .Q V .. ,-,-jj:m Q, - ' 5:4112 ns..-T 4. 4 11 2 IL' ..r ,W .av A- I psy: .xr f ww- , 1 1, --6, hav W . -ii' 1. dw-, .- K. 4 7 .4 -5 xr- The Activities One of the advantages of a small, well-equipped prep school should be a wide range of extra-curric- ular activities. This year Colorado Academy saw its already fine activities program expanded. Under the clirection of Mr. David Woods, the Glee Club toured Kansas City and the surrounding area giving a series of well received concerts. Mr. Ben Priest's leader- ship resulted in a particularly fine production of Wil- liam Shakespeare's The Tempest. Many members of the audience likened the production to perform- ances at the university rather than the prep-school level. More academic activities included Mr. Wood's computer seminar and Mr. Dillingham's creative writing class. And, of course, Mr. Musil was once again faculty advisor to the Chess Club while Tap ran the shop. Mr. Lee's band, the Preps, had several playing engagements this year, notably playing at half time at a Denver Spurs game. Mr. Slevin's liter- ary magazine, The Harvest, provided all the young, wet-lipped, sensitive Keat's with a chance to display their Spenserian stanzas. The other artsy- craftsy refugees were found doing fine work in Miss Powell's art seminar. ln conjunction with the Glee Club tour, Colorado Academy instituted a seminar program for the first time. Courses ranged from Mr. Matassoni's course on Samuel Beckett and Mr. Marx's film seminar to Assistant Headmaster Lee's discussions about prob- lems of administration. Both faculty and students were pleased with the seminar program, and plans are now being made for a possible three-week semi- nar program during january of next year. A good activities program must be present in a good prep school. The program provides students with artistic, academic, and recreational opportuni- ties that cannot be present in more rigid classroom meetings. Colorado Academy has such a program. 3 5 35 M m 1 y '4'Q v-ff ' -ff 'V m ix-. s Q Wg! H vii! in V .V , I I A . 4 t We 5 -' . ,.Q Q--v Q H55 S 5' ' L . . . Na I 4:45 ' . 'rbi-ggfffkv . , x. lr if ' R . .fb fi k. 3-. 3 Q x 1 1 a wr F' fp ,JW Wi A ,,,.,,,. -MPH' GDMINISTRATIGN if gf f X, J . If wi av'- F. Charles Froelicher, Headmaster N- Thomas I. Lee, Assistant Headmaster 117 NHL nil 14 11 Mr. joseph Filer Business Manager Mr. Harry McGinnis Chef Mrs. H. Saliman Receptionist Mrs. Virginia Pointer Bookkeeper Mrs. Howard Krasnoff Secretary Mrs. Henry Benac Public Relations 119 Mr. Jewell lackson Chef Mrs. Elizabeth Brignac Nurse Aauvn. wan 6 1: 4, 0 an y 1 n r ep u naw., -f -.N ,,q..w,g,. O Mrs. Marian Horan Headmaster's Secretary Miss Amanda Koester Secretary Mrs. Kenneth Steinberg Nurse Mrs. Joseph Martino Bookstore Clerk mmmmfm'm'mommrmmm KY 1 .r fc - Lf!- sg m. 1519 :Wi --V , Z - -Liv K' 9 FTS? 'Il f- O f A lzzrvfiiffswfjv S9 QC 1 1 ij. ' 1-': Yo iii? 'K 15 - TMA 4-f r: s'1 '1r Ko ' If - - 'ff.-'- - f' 123' : : Z M .I , ,,.,,,,,. .. 1 :Y lv .- . -.f--'L 'PP' 3 fy , '- ' A af 3' 'N en' :qt mi' i ' vi , uv-Mr '.v:., ii!! .' -'Y Ig? ,nf ,..,gq. - if.g'r-J'1'Li-Fifi QQ'9f 'Qf:.r4, ff T'-Tl ,.':i4f:Z Qi? i W' . Lrg-.1 ',.f,. V' -,,- --1.,U,:1j:.-1 g.1j.:3..5i.' fl-1-,U Egfr f ff L .',f,,f- , ','- V -3 , Y f -.. QL -' 4-Af -' L ' ' :-.-- -1 'ffniif --f 'fff r. A - W: 1 ,.:,-.gww A 1-1-2 f ' 4:.Q:idE4:.3, 'rr--'I ni- ' ' 7 5 5 - : L-:.:-z,lQ': 'A -' ' ' f' 3 H ' ' 5 ' 1 w g.: ' W X , N ,D I, ' , lb. .f A , 'fiery f ll .a l U 1 ' , --'N KW 5: cv ,Z I V Wi l, rg, ' 'X 2 I KN :n-.4-.af-: ..L ' I mg . -Sn' ' ff. . ' N -'-51'-e 5'49.e- 2 A g.Tf '5 - - . ,eb re af ' g' 0 If 'Lf-511 .V lj .j, , f f , - :'.a::u':.- 3 .,.fe-- .A ' - - :mul A 4 ' ' . . A ,in ' f E81 5 D-1 : ,,.--,. ' - I, C 1- 'Q 'F A -L 4, T 'U '- - Our congratulations to I you splendid young graduates. - Your qualities of leader- : ship are now apparent . . . pleasurably - we anticipate news of your deeds I in the years to come. I i i ' t 2 illnmrr QPPEI Eth. : IMPORTERS 0 STOREKEEPERS FOR GENTLEMEN i ' SEVEN FIFTEEN SEVENTEENTH STREET ' DENVER 8 ' ' ' ' N QU9,0Q0i0, MMMQOW9MMQO QALQQALQQ ODD QQ, MBL l.UlOjfUllQl JUDDVODDJUUQ rA. j'lll.llll.ll,J YUULQ QSM ll QQMLO M -ff' gy., 5 QAZ i1giP' F m ', ...x...,............w: pn., I 1 if ,. ...-. fg iff is If -I in -flfif . 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Shop UNIVERSITY HILLS SHOPPING CENTER Courtesy of BUTLER FIXTURE Compliments of BISTLINE BROKERACE 1411LarHne Denver Colorad 222-6690 7 The '69 Telesis Pays Tribute to . . . Enthusiasm Qi., lg P W ' Q Q Q.:- -.x,...2 ,I B Q ' 2' Q 'fs' , 5 Q, ees S ni' ,N Q f I' 6' r' 'f 'bwii A 'if Q 1 if ng. f 'A if, W f ,MW N. ' '. ian? . 5, 'SY - Nei, I K J 1 129 A ' .QUH5 : 'fiiif Jef n, Wu. ,I ,. ,rv 1 ,f I nh if 2 2 ,4 m QQ' :F 5 Q Q gg if-1 , 3 if +55 . h Lk ,va Q, , 5' if gl, 'ai -.,.,. f- ' A Controversy L -gig X K , H f,,,,.. 1 ' -. ,N 'M-f ' fu f ----' 'T'-'Y .gal 'ol ' J- .rv The Football Season The 1968 Varsity Football Team has to be one of the very best that C. A. has ever fielded, not only because we were undefeated, but because we had such a well planned team in every area. We scored a total of 249 points, in 7 games, which is an extremely fine offense, and we held our opponents to 45 points, which speaks well for our defense. We had an explosive running attack with speed and power. Our passing attack had receivers with fine hands, and we were always able to produce a good kicking game when needed. The most important thing to me was the fine attitude, cooperation and willingness of these boys all season, which enabled them to go all the way. In 1968, we certainly did have esprit-de-corps and a lot of pride. We did not have a super star, but we must mention some names such as Mark Reed, Scott Olson, Ken Lange, Marc Earnhardt, Charlie Cavness, Chuck Young, Biff Birkenmayer, Pete Morris, Randy Welton, Gary Chavez, Andy Holly, Bill Keller, Dolph An- dreae, lohn Sands, Monte Pearson, Tom Headley, and the rest of the squad, who certainly contributed to our fine success. As Head Coach, I can say that we wouldn't have gone all the way without the fine assistance of our line coach Frank Messenger, and Pete Kritzer, our defensive back coach, and the tremendous support that was giv- en this team throughout the season. This year's team and experience will never be forgotten. It was truly a fine season, and anyone connected with Colorado Academy was extremely proud of it. - Coach Simms 132 Estes Park 0 C.A. 33 Hugo 6 CA. 30 Wiggens 12 CA. 25 F.V.S. 7 C.A. 55 St. Andrews 0 C.A. 49 St. Anthonys 0 CA. 56 D.C.D. 20 C.A. 60 A X . N 5 3 S ia, NEW A Q1 2-Sk X- wg . xy i ,Mg .Z .M Q, 21 S fi- - V A. 41,55 if Q A Q f 3? S A s ., ,N ,, X x N K All Hallows Institute Xavier High School Fordham College AB, History Columbia University MA, Teaching of English Univ. of Nebraska MA, English Lieterature And That Has Made All the Difference The man who wrote the dedication of this year's Telesis To the Seniors, Mr. F. X. Slevin, will not re- turn to Colorado Academy next September. He has chosen to teach elsewhere. When the senior editors learned of his departure, there was no doubt in our minds that some type of farewell tribute would have to be enclosed in the yearbook. For Mr. Slevin is, or unfortunately was, senior English IV at C. A., and more than that he represented a kind of moral and intellectual integrity that every upperclassman who took his course could not help but admire. Sincere admiration. Despite his demanding course, despite his difficult grading standards, despite his rigidity and unwillingness to compromise, Slevin was ad- mired by his students. lntelligence was not the basis for this admiration, though many a disconcerted student was aware that Mr. Slevin could sometimes be too logical. No, intel- ligence, be it couched in philosophical meditation or verbal dexterity, awes a man but does not inspire admiration in him. The seniors' admiration for Mr. Slevin was based upon the man's integrity, the man did not lie. Of course he didn't prevaricate with his classes about past experiences or present capabili- ties, but more than that you knew that what he said he meant. Even in his condemnation of his philis- tine, ignorant classes, there was no personal illusion of grandeur. ln his class the student-teacher rela- tionship was exactly and rigidly defined. You knew where you stood with him. Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the car- dinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. - F. Scott Fitzgerald And that trite phrase means more than the fact that a student knew he would receive a zero if he didn't turn in a book review. No, Mr. Slevin meant what he said, and he, like Kurtz, had something to say. just read his dedication. He meant what he said about everything, about life if we are permitted to use that all-inclusive and therefore meaningless word. Suppose a teacher acquires all our new terminolo- gy, tells us books are heavy instead of worth- while. Suppose he wears a 'stache and smokes grass. Do we reply Groovy, or do we wait to see what the man has to say, wait to discern whether the words mean anything, or simply congregate on the surface of the man's forehead? That's the point. Although Mr. Slevin never at- tempted to create an awareness in the student through any pseudo Ponce-de-Leon metamorpho- sis, never attempted some compromise on issues - On, I suppose marijuana is sort of nice for the kids. -the seniors still felt a need and value for his advice. At the beginning of the year many students complained that the old teachers didn't reach them in the manner of the new Tom Wolfe's on the faculty. But the remark was never said of Slevin. Slevin didn't reach to you, he made you come to him. He was fixed, stable, rational, and above all truthful. He did not pose. Of course we did not agree with everything he said. Though seniors, our minds did function occa- sionally. But what he did say, whether we agreed with it or not, was said from logical, rational, intelli- gent sources, not from middle-aged dogma. The man thought, and there is no generation gap when perspicacity, lucidity, and integrity are concerned unless the perceiver of that gap does not possess those qualities. The only gap between Slevin and his students was that between the admired and the admirers. To summarize, then, it did not really matter if Slev- in taught us anything about Hamlet or Moby Dick. Much more importantly, he showed us not just how to think, but how to live by thought. Though in his dedication he, like Eliot, feels that human kindfCan not bear very much reality, the 69 Telesis editors are sure that every senior who studied under him aspires toward his steadfastness of mind. For those students Slevin, as Frost has it, has made all the difference. We can think of no better way to end our farewell than with Marlow's words in Con- rad's Heart of Darkness: ... You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie. Not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament I suppose. .-Q i 6 bm'