Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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T H E M I L E S T O N E RALPH EMERTON SLEEPER Rowley, Mass. Scientific Course Entered school 1921 Preparing for New Hampshire State Baseball '24, '25, '26 usleepyn This generation of Dummerites will always remember Ralph Sleeper as the little boy who went around with needles in the toes of his shoes for use on one's posterior extremity in classes. He used to be full of such playful and highly entertaining, as well as elevating, tricks until after the Junior Prom when a subtle change was noticeable. His hair was neatly combedg his shoes were neatly polishedg he began to carry a finger-nail file. In the spring a young man's fancy often turns to . . . etc. Still we can hardly think this of our star left-fielder, but evidently it is the sad, sad, bitter truth. l28l

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'l' 1 l E lVI I I i E S 'l' 0 N IC HAROLD ALFKICD SLATER Pine Brush, New York Scientific Course Entered school 1925 Preparing for New York Univei sity HI-121179 This is the boy who made Steinmetz die of a broken heart. Everything electrical, or anything electrical, lights, door-bells, radios and curling irons are as simple to him as he is to us. He has his room wired with burglar alarms, electric mouse-traps, magnetic fly seducers and, towering over everything a bottle filled, not with stove-blacking, but the enemy of that insidious thing that makes your best friend a total flop. As an athlete Hal was content to be an interested observer of us lesser and more low-brow mortals. He did occasionally favor the gym class with his presence, but otherwise was content to rest on his laurels. He has preserved that school-girl complexion wonderfully, but his chief pride and joy is his hair, always smoothly combed, and reflecting the sunlight. Usually there is a fly or two who have skidded and broken their wings, or a layer of dust such as one sees on varnished tables. But he is a good boy, really reads the Bible every night, and writes to his blonde mama every day. f igme day we expect to hear great things of him-some day-not very ar 0 . l27l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E WESLEY JOHN WHITE Portland, Maine Classical Course Entered school 1924 Preparing for Tufts Football '24, '25 Track '25 Captain '26 Baseball '25 Captain '26 Basketball '26 Charley Here We have the wo-man-hater 'par excellence'. To mention women to Charley is the same pleasant occupation as selling red-flannels to a bull. We Wonder if this boy will ever get a girl. It is very doubtful, but time may erase some of his prejudices. Chuck is an athlete. That is not sarcasm. To see him win the 1000, the 600, and then to open up a lead on the relay is enough to make anybody perform an undignified series of acrobatic stunts in an adjacent snow-drift. He has yet to be headed on the track. Besides playing in the backfield on the football team, and on the basketball team, Charley is the captain and pitcher of our nine. . Cfharles is the proud possessor of a letter from the Bell Telephone Co., saying that they trace their sudden increase in business directly to him. g7VebW51nted to reproduce that letter here, but modesty-his of course- or a e. i I291