Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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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

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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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THE MILESTONE JOHN MARTIN CAPRON Annapolis, Maryland old ll head -Shakespeare Classical Course Entered School in '26 Preparing for Harvard Moody Kent Prize in History, 1927 Football, 1029 Tennis, 1930 Manager Hockey. '28 Associate Editor of the Archon, 1030 Associate Editor of the Milestone, 1030 Harvard Club Prize, 1020 Newburyport Chapter of Dummcr Allies Scholarship, 1020 john john is a genius. Aside from being pleasantly alliterative, that remark is essentially true. For proof we have only to point with pride and envy to three facts: 415 johns general appearance: 129 john never studies: 137 john gets astonishingly high marks. When we say that John never studies, we intend no reflection upon John. Not at all. We simply mean that john never seizes upon a book with a look of grim de- termination upon his face, opens viciously, clutches paper and pencil, wrinkles his brow, and goes to work. Never! Johns method is that of pure, undefiled genius. John drops wearily into his seat. He fumbles in his desk absently for a book. Withdrawing same, john holds it gently between thumb and forefinger and gazes off into space. When pressed for time, john lays the book flat on its back on the desk and manicures thoughtfully. His brain draws information from books just as the sun draws water- and with as little effort. We rise to repeat wtih emphasis and euphony-John is a genius. . It is only with that idea firmly impressed upon one's mind that john can be un- derstood. His general appearance. atmosphere, habits are all the result of that astonishing mental activity. His brain cannot help absorbing knowledge! If then he forgets to comb his hair. or tie his tie, or arrive on time, it is because his brain has so for oustripped his physical possibilities that he just gives up. john is going to Harvard. Obviously that is where he should go. That is where the atmosphere is most heavily saturated with learning. John needs only to stroll about from building to building, give his brain utter freedoom and let nature take its course. f'But I couldn't have made the Honor Roll this week. l22l I never knew so young Il body with so