Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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T H E M I L E S T O N E RODMAN GEARHART Winthrop, Mass. Let down the curtain: the farce is done. Business Course Entered School in '27 Zncl Team Football '28 Hockey Team '28, '29 Tennis Squad '28, '29 Secretary and Treasurer of the Senior Class llflodfl That young man with the hyena grin is none other than the product of Winthrop, Gabby Gearhart. Possessed with a perpetual sense of humor, at times overdone, he is one of the happy-go-lucky members of the school. As the leader of the Dummer Marshland Band which did its stuff in some of the post-season football games, he was at his best as he led his musical troupe with a feather duster. In athletics he was always trying for one of the teams but had little success except in hockey where he was of help to the ice-men. Had the spirit and style-much style-but just could not seem to make the grade. As an enduman with the minstrel troupe he was up on top, and his natural desire for merriment and willingness to toss dull care to the four winds were points that made him successful with the black face men. With the minimum of time he put into his books, his continual search for a sunbeam in order to pull a joke, and his sortie with the athletes, gave him but a few hours a week to put into practical office work his major sub- ject. His big boss, Mr. Reagan, spent most of his free time trying to find him in order to help put over some big deals for the school through the medium of the Gearhart driven typewriter. Occasionally the B. B. was able to detect him wandering about his usual haunts, but most of the time he had to do the machine gun work himself. Carefree and happy, would that we had more boys of that type, especially when so many of our present generation take themselves so seriously and feel that the progress of the world depends upon their shoulders. l22l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E F l GEORGE GORDON LADDS Newburyport, Mass. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Classical Course Preparing for Harvard Entered School '24 Moody Kent Prize in Latin '25, '26 Moody Kent Prize in English '27 Newburyport Dummer Allies Scholar- ship '25, '26, '27, '28, '29 First Prize Milestone Short Story Con- test '27 2nd Prize, Ambrose Prize Speaking '27 lst Prize, Ambrose Prize Speaking '28 George 1 George Gordon Ladds is, like Tom Walker, one of those who lend color and atmosphere to the class of 1929. To be sure, and praise be, he does not lend the same color. George's scholarly habits and appearance are a con- stant puzzle to boys like Tom, Mex and Derb. They cannot understand for the life of them Why anyone can cherish such a passion for Latin as does George. Now one could scarcely call certain members of the class of 1929 aesthetes. We are not certain that George is-but his fondness for Horace and Pliny, his passion for old and decrepit books, indicates something very very foreign to the class in general. George is one reason why the class of 1929 can never be forgotten. If all others in the class have criminal tenden- cies, if every other member defies law and order, we feel sure that George Gordon Ladds will maintain the best traditions of the old school of real scholars. To be sure George has his weaknesses. They are part of his charm. He buries himself in book cataloguesg he spends money scandalously for musty first editions rescued from the ruins of Pompeii 3 he is invariably late to any and all school functions: and more than all these-he acquired a Ford, an ancient, anaemic, tubercular Ford which fitted into the scheme of things beautifully. George has since given the Ford up-but we feel sure that it is in his back yard where he can take Horace's latest story to read without fear of interruption. George will be a professor of Latin. Of that there can be no doubt. And he will be an anchor holding the present generation from slipping into the abyss of frivolity. 1211

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T H E M I L E S T O N E GRAY WILDER ADAMS Newbury, Mass. Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrocl? Classical Course Entered School in '27 3rd Prize, Ambrose Prize Speaking '28 KKG1,21y9, He is a young man of mystery, is Mr. Adams. He walks into our midst about the hour of eight, attends his classes, holds his peace during the times when the loquatiousness of the ordinary Dummerite is on full blast, and then departs from our confines with the same, quiet air that character- ized his appearance. Adams is a musician of the classical type, so we are informed, and the performances of our jazzy artists perhaps has something to do toward quickening his stride away from our halls of learning as soon as the whistle blows for the end of studies. Possessed with an unassuming manner and the earnestness that has characterized most of the Newbury boys that have come to Dummer, we look for a continuance of the good work and traditions laid down by so many of the local boys that have gone out from the old school. fzrsj