Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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T H E M I L E S T O N E KENNETH CLEVELAND B ELL Waban -Anon. Business Course Entered School in '23 Preparing for Boston University Business Manager of the Archon, '20, '30 stone, '30 Basketball, '27, '28, '20, '30 Baseball, '29, '30 Football, 'JO Sportsmanship Brotherhood, '30 Milestoxie Dance Committee, '30 tCCaSey77 - KKKCHU Casey is the class patriach. He knows everyone who has ever gone to Dummer since Master Moody was the guiding light. Ken will tell anyone that the first eight years are the hardest. Casey and Robby have roomed together for three years. We think that the only reason must be that they each know too much about the other and dare not be separated. Ken has talked so much in his sleep about Denmark, and Robby has talked so much both asleep and awake that neither dares allow the other out of sight. We don't blame either of them. Our own transgressions are still too much with us. In his earlier years at Dummer Casey went in very violently for all sports-and was brilliant in all of them. Of late years we have noticed with sorrow that Ken is slowing up a bit. Still he plays football, basketball, and baseball-and if he is a bit slower, he is wise with the experience of his years. But when he got socked with a high fly-and when he took up typewriting, then we knew that the years had taken their toll. The spirit was there-and is still, But the legs and eyes are failing him. Ken has taken part in every organization at Dummer at one time or another. He has done everything but play a sax. His innate sense of the fitness of things for- bade that. Dummer will always owe Casey a lot for his years of wise leadership. He has guided the old and the new along difhcult paths. And Casey will always have for the Class of 1930 a very special affection-for the Class of 1930 took him to themselves and was the class which finally graduated him. HAH right I'll tell the boys. i201 Long stay makes good acquaintance Assistant Business Manager of the Mile-

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T H E M I L E S T O N E EDWARDO RAYMO ALMEYDA Havana, Cuba The very hairs of your head are all numbered -New Testament Entered School in 1927 Business Course Assistant Business Manager of the Archon, iKEdH U A177 Al is the last of a long line of Cuban ambassadors, to Dummer Academy. And he is in every sense an ambassador. In him are combined a charm of manner, an un- failing courtesy, a gentleness of speech that have made a deep and lasting impression upon those who have known him. We hope that he will send others to fill his place, to bring to us news of him, to send to him our hopes and best wishes. Under Al's influence the commercial department has assumed a new dignity, an air of eclat. He has led the class through the No Man's Land of shorthand, the Ar- gonne of book-keeping, the entanglements of Arithmetic. He has bolstered the falter- ing courage of his classmates with his humor. He has brought his men each day from the rest camps in Newburyport to the front at Dummer month after month without a casualty. To Mr. Reagan, Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Bureau, Al has been a tower of strength in all crises. And crises are frequent with temperamental typewriters and figures running amuck in the book-keeping room. We feel sure that a fair Senorita awaits Al in Cuba. She has waited long-but Al is vastly worth waiting for. He will take with him our faith in his destiny and our heartfelt wishes for his success. I tell you, boy, she ees a beaut! l19l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E GEORGE EDGAR BEST Andover My life's one demd horrid grind -Dickens General Course Entered School in '25 Basketball, '29, '30 Captain Q30 Golf, '28, '29, '30 Captain, '29, '30 ' Hockey, '29, '30 Baseball, '30 Eddie Eddie is the perfect gentleman-always well dressed, always courteous, quiet, and a thoroughly fine sportsman. Eddie has been the best shot on the basketball team for two or more years, has played a sterling game of hockey, pitched for the baseball team, and has been Captain of the golf team for the past two seasons. We are looking forward to the time when Bun and Eddie will be the leading golfers in the country-and will kindly give us their autographs .... Eddie's two outstanding claims to fame are his famous back-fireewhen he nearly burned up the entire countryside after the whole school had just succeeded in getting a brush fire under controlg and the crushing defeat which he and his father handed Mr. Reagan and Kenny Bell at bowling. Kenny has never been the same since-and neither Ken or Mr. Reagan have asked for a return match. Eddie's chief weakness is a lack of faith in his own abilities. He persistently refuses to recognize his capacity for doing something which he can do very well. But we confess that this modesty is exceedingly refreshing after the display of swaggering which certain of our compatriots exhibit on every possible occasion. If Eddie will acquire a greater faith in himself, we all believe that he will attain to the success which he deserves. We do know that wherever he goes he will be wel- come, that in whatever game he is engaged he will be a fine sportsman, and that he will take with him our sincere wishes for his success and happiness. l21l