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

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BFRCHHAN S H XLI the pxllow hght that sprang the Ere alarm and Mlles OBr1tn s lil gtnulty, quellmg tht generous peal wlth a mere toothplck or tht ukes or the omnlprtscnt water p1stols3 The fuultv eventually could have wholesaled by the dozen tht Pl'1St1C plstols collected and rendered useless by Mr V1gI1C3.U s no fuss, no muss method There were plenty of surprlses Frank Moscarlllo returned NORTH from the sunny South just before mxd years Father Rector 1ssued two free weekends besldes U1OX11'1g the cstf IIIIO the old dlnlng hall Any free moments we had were spent 111 sknng 'md mtramurals besldes followlng asslduously the Korean confllct However Sprlng refused to walt Baseball beckoned Bull Shea caworted capably at shortstop on the varslty dlamond and proud Parents weekend echoed wnth debate and drama but was splashed w1th water plstols 15 well Alter plungmg headlong 1nto the Hnals we emerged LlIl1l1jUI'CCl and rmdv for a well desert ed V8.C21IlOll 79 W! Z Qavllla 0 A, 5+ any 'X IQ 39 .ff . . , . , . , c . 2 ' fl ll ' 1 2 ' 4 x I Q x V 1 u C I C 3 1 c . . x W l Y ' 1 cc X 77 . . B V. U ,, . , . C himself a strong hitter, while several played J. V. , ' I . C, r . . C 4 ,. . X . C 3 Y . . L I is - 2 V 1 . 5 P-U x . .mi x Q Q f f 'f A j' ff 1 'H 41' ' T Q f,' ,,

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l istiil in I V , ,l L ' isa 1 HL! earned a varsity uniform. After two games, with the infirmary crowded with injured players, Father Maxwell was obliged to call a halt to the gridiron sport. Nevertheless, sports still functioned, for the soccer team hung up a successful record. Our representative was Roberto Botero. Scholastically, improvement over our Freshman record was the keynote. Old reliablesn-Ned Soares, Vic Gutierrez, Charlie Men- dez, Miles O'Brien and Jim Halpin-rarely visited night study hall and enabled us to have the most honor students in the school BOBOLA and ALOYQIUQ While Father Bowman mapped out the march of Caesar s legions and Mister Rooney taught us to prove two triangles symmetrical we watched an immortal basketball team led by peerless Joe Ferone sweep through its rigorous schedule Bill Shea played his part in that victorious march which continued to the finals in the Class A tournament in Boston Despite defeat at the hands of Dean Academy in the Hnal game there was considerable consolation in Ferones nomination to the All New England basketball team But there was time for play as well as work Who could forget 28 1 .pw

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gg r faxes! Aceompanylng us 1nto the unror year was a new feelrn a nevs attrtude The school ICS trad1t1ons IIS faculty became a more rntegral part of our llves New extremes appeared Serrous moments were more serrous but the hrlarrous ones gave us louder laughs Maybe these only served to exemplrfy that nov trrte but true more respon srbnllty more prrvrleges maxrm whrch charaeterwes upperclassmen The Freshmen classes we had attended were dlstant lntangrble memo rres The m1l1tant pace of Caesar s soldiers thudded away mto the drstance and new challenges lay before us The September of 1951 found us CX21I11lI'lll1b our new quarters St ohn s Aloyslus and Bobola besldes meetm the many new students who swelled our ranks Mrke Kennedy and Al Young the future eomedran team of Mrke and Ally joe RICCOEJCIIC of the qurck dart lrke qulp affable Charl1e Staley ohn Nellxgan the Kodak k1d Ilmrlro Fernandez the S!T1lllI1g Puerto RICSII jet halred B111 Lynch red hfured Jay Forst unperturbable 1111 Conheady Drgger Dren nan Loo ee Trrado bespectacled B111 Rosenberger and a tall curly haxred athlete named Jrmmy Gallagher Replacrng Father Maxwell who was sent to oeeupy the Presrdent s office at Boston College was Father lxeane Mr Clasby former B C quarterback became football coach when Mr D1 I rhppo was recalled mto the Arr Force Both were ll'I1I11Cdl3.ICly popular as they vson therr way mto our hearts wrth therr slncere frrendlrness and dex otron Our football stalwarts were now xarsrty trmber rm Gallagher at once won a startrng half back posltron and Norm Dupre B111 Shea Mrke Maxwell John Dessauer Ned Soares and Blll Somers saw con srderable servrce Gallagher s hrghpolnt was a two touchdown splurge agamst Albany Academy leadmg the Cranes to a 14 13 wc tory After a 33 18 w1n over St Sebastlan s we turned our mrnd to basketball and studles Suddenly on a cool December Sunday we were stuplhed and gr1ef str1cken at the death of Sklp Couzens football captaln Semor Presrdent and Sodalrty Prefect and the INOSI popular man on the campus Our sorrow was assuaged by the realrzatlon that hrs death was wrthln God s Prov1dence and served to brrng hlm to hrs eternal reward Indeed he exemplrhed the Sen1or class and left behmd a model for whrch we could SIFIVC rn our darly lrves Slowly and re luctantly we turned back to school llfe Chrrstmas vacatron finally arrlved, preceded by a gala class party, 30 r'. N ' A, f'-' , ,, l..-,fp-'I V' K . . NI . 7 g, V 'r ff '- ' we n n 1 1 v ' V 1 ' 0 - , me ' a 1 - . . . 0 Y Y Q y . . ' y ' 1 s H 1 , s . . . . . ,, . . ' . I . , . . I . . . 3 - 3 . . . , . . . . 0 l G I , . 2 . i . U , -v 1 ' rv . ' s 7 . . , s 3 ' . X . . . I . x . 1 a a s s 5 1 ' 7 I ' CC ' ,D - , , J 5 0 - l rc 99 ' . ' . 9 ' 9 - ' 9 , 1 . . , , . s -- , s , , e , c 7 , X '. . e , h . . , . , . ' 7 Y ' 7 K. Y v '1- 1 ' y a . 1 1 . - 1 a L . . , . . r 1 - v' - . . , . 1 a ' - -s 9 . . , . . . . 1 - s