Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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T II E M I L E S T O N E EDGAR ALLEN TEMPLE Puente, Cal. Make it thy business to know thy- self, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Classical Course Entered School in '26 Preparing for Santa Clara University Football Team '26, '27, Captain '28 Basketball '27, '28, Captain '29 Baseball Squad '27 Track Squacl '29 Ciolf Squad '29 President Senior Class Junior Prom Committee '28 X Big Jake Coming events forecast their shadows, and the physical appearance of Bert Temple is heralded with a vocal blast that quite exceeds his summer pals, the roaring sea lions that keep him and his glass bottom dory com- panions in the Catalina Islands. Jake has been one of the mainstays athletically for old Dummer during his three years, and no D A team looked natural without Roaring Jake in the makeup of the South Byfielders. But one smirch sullies the escutcheon of the Jake and his famous Casey will stand out forever in the minds of some of the baseball rooters. As a tooter of the saxaphone and a general dispenser of Whoopee, the name of the noisiest citizen of Puente ever to grace the walls of Dummer will always be connected, but his contribution to the esprit de corps of the school has been of the highest type. Come on, the old ball game! l 26 l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E CARLOS FERNANDEZ Mexico City, Mexico From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. Scientific Course Entered School in '26 Preparing for New Mexico School of Mines 2nd Team Football '26, '27 Football '28 Basketball '28, '29 Tennis Squad '28, '29 Manager School Store '28 Mex Mex is the mystery at Dummer Academy-naturally. Every school and every class must have its mystery. And who better than Mex for ours. We feel sure that Mex belongs to the reigning house of Mexico-or aren't they having reigns down there now '? And Mex, true to his heritage, is the perfect cosmopolite. He has been everywhere. He knows all the places we would like to know but never shall. His understanding of the gentler sex is characteristic. Mex knows them. He understands them. And they don't understand him. The situa- tion seems to be practically perfect. We are hoping that some day he will publish his memoirs. The sale in and around here should be stupendous. In contrast to this tenderer side of his character, you should see Mex on the football field. His treatment of some of the rising young football stars has been scandalous. Mex was a guard-and I mean, he rms a guard. When Mex tackled someone he didn't need the Book of Knowledge to tell him he had been tackled. On a very muddy field it was Mex's delight to push his opponent's face in the mud and count the bubbles as they came up. You don't think of doves when you first see Mex. And when he puts his cage over his glasses to play basketball, he looks like a nightmare making whoopee. At the gentle art of roughing in a corner, Mex had few equals. We all wish he would go down below and stop the unpleasantness below our border. Mex could. And with the scholastic training acquired in Mr. Prothero's classes, he should be a general in a very short time. Then he would be king and we would all have jobs. I25l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E WALTER PAUL TEMPLE, jR. Puente, Cal. slow to wrath. Classical Course Entered School in '26 Preparing for Santa Clara University Football Team, '26, '27, '28 Basketball Squad, '27, '29 Track Team, '28, Captain '29 Baseball Team, '27, '28, Captain '29 junior Prom Committee, '28 V if Jar xr., E r.,il7JK ii ' Wally Some people may be in a community for a century without their pres- ence ever being detected, and Wally comes under that group. Always striving and working for the good of the school, his natural modesty and retiring disposition would keep him away from the howling mob. Football, baseball, and track victories shared by the school during his three years of participation can find the fine hand of Wally in its inception. Despite severe injuries sustained in football last fall he continued to play the game in a masterly fashion. As a musician in the Dummer Orchestra and assistant dispenser of chicken feed, Wally had a diversion from the heavy diet of studies and athletics. Hope springs eternal in the human breast quoth a famous writer of other days, and the firm faith Wally had in these immortal words bade him turn his footsteps daily to the school post-office without success. Still waters run deep, and who knows but what Wally was waiting during his three years at school to hear from a fair senorita from far out in the open spaces where men are men and the plumbing's rotten. l27l uBe swift to hear, slow to speak,