Cranwell Preparatory School - Bell Tower Yearbook (Lenox, MA)

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BOBOLA AND ALOYSIUS HALLS O'Neill still played his splendid best in basketball and Bill May still succeeded in everything he tried. jim Mahony let us hear his fine Irish tenor and all the class proved they could be good leaders, fit to set an example for the younger boys. They worked and they wondered at the results. Fr. Moriarty exacted fifty- Hve lines of Latin a night and managed three extra plays of Shakespeare. Though the memory and the translations came tinged with sweat and smoothed with the midnight oil, the class succeeded and enjoyed them. They played, too, gloriously. I still noticed some snowballs but fewer and better aimed. The class presented their own football heroes now, for they were the Senior and dominating force in the sports world. Jack Toner and Mike Downey added their efforts to the veteran squad which the class had slowly developed over the years. The spirit and fun of the rallies with the torch proces- sions will never be forgotten. Basketball with the famed jimmy Del Grande added to the veterans John O'Neill, joe Kirby, jack Higgins, Tom O'Brien, Paul Printon, Larry Rowe and others made history with its glowing record. It was a team never to be forgotten. Invited to the Prep School Tournament in Boston, they fought through to the Hnals, and sadly lost this deciding game. The hockey team, when they could find ice, enjoyed a game or two. Baseball had its usual triumphant season. Oh, yes, how could I have forgotten, the Seniors of '49 founded a new sport at Cranwell under the generous guidance of Fr. Tobin. Soccer has come and I think is here to stay. Chris Nelson, Leon McClellan, Rod O'Neil, Fen FitzPat- t l kevi n Page Twenty seven

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germ puffed to monster size, the siren who drove boys mad, I have almost for- gotten to mention, skiing. Into the valley of Cranwell swooped the mad hundred, some to end in a graceful pose, others just to end, but all try again. The Juniors boasted the European champion Billewicz, and the raw pluck of Jim Connor, the polish of Bill May and the doggedness of john Tweddle. Their wildest was Peter Hamilton, who earned the title of one arm Cuntil the cast came offj. The year waxed calmer than any previous. Slowly time was sapping the weakness and childishness from the group. Intellectual activity was not looked upon as poison any more, while some even found it nectar. They had their debat- ers and a hardy few whose haggard mein and flinty eye betrayed them as actors. Their productions ranged from imitations of A1 Jolson by Bill Hassan through locker room quartet to the gallant drama of Arsenic and Old Lace , as nobly created by Shafter, jim Kay, Chris Nelson and Larry Rowe. As inevitable as the axe-fall on the guillotine, exams came and ended. The summer danced her beauty before us in the joy of another year ended. The boys departed to effect the metamorphasis that summer brings to Seniors. They returned. Senior', didn't glow in large letters on their foreheads, but their state was obvious. They hadn't suddenly become model boys, serious book- worms, or full-fledged men, but they had learned that they had a new responsibil- ity. Their Senior year I can honestly claim was their best. Teachers noted with joy and surprise their goodness, ability, and talent hitherto unknown. john l BERCHMANS' HALL 1'-HWIRHQ . X 'IQQQ' lagf llcenty-six 46 44? g' Q Sv , Q, Q N E3 +0 ez , s O 2 V E . Q fl 'ahve

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rick, Bill Hughes, Joe Kirby, Francis Fleurant, Larry Rowe, John Tweddle, Al Larson, jim Kay, Bob Shafter, Marian Billewicz, may be called The Founding Fathers . Though many times they were twitted about their score of victories , I would offer them this consolation: The first year is always the hardest, and they did their best. Their debaters and actors had acquired a little polish with their years of ex- perience. I heard their Minstrel Show was one of the best in a long time. Jim Mahony proved an outstanding M. C., while Larry Rowe and Jim Gill made im- mortal the Apache Dance. Many a shady room echoed with the sounding rhetoric of practicing debaters who showed what practice can accomplish in The Prize Debate of Parents, Week-End. Their final speaking display culminated in Brother Orchid . This proved a fitting climax for all the year's work in such lields. We shall never forget Chris Nelson, Larry Rowe, Bill Aldrich, Bill Hughes, or Bob Shafter for their excellent characterizations. On this note of triumph my record ends. Though histories and graduations are familiar to me they never cease to inspire when I realize this constitutes the first step for the well termed Hope of the worldu. I thank God for such men as Fr. Maxwell, Fr. Burke, Fr. Cunnifif, and all the faculty who with expert hands have guided the class through the years, and I thank Him, too, for such boys as these. XAVIER HALL Page I Il enty-eight -6 gd Q Q Q-il Ji Q Q A 'Z f QEJ 319 IQ 06 . UQ. vx tw by 'Q V Qi! e e arf 5 is ifsx' . of 'oft T