Governors Academy - Milestone Yearbook (Byfield, MA)

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T H E M I L E S T O N E ' EDWARD FREDERICK Ro1:INsoN, JR. Needham 'ATO bring ill--Hf'll7Jl'l1 shield mia lion among wrmzuz is ll mort drmrlfzcl thing - - Shakespeare Classical Course lintt-red School in 1026 Preparing for Yale President of Class of 1030, '27, '28, '20, '30 Junior Prom Committee, 1020 Baseball. '23, '20, '30 Captain, '30 Hockey, '20, '30 Sportsmanship Brotherhood, '30 FreclH Fred is the beauty of the class. Needless to say he is a terror with the women and they fall at first sight. His gentle ways and his physical charms make him the answer to many a maiden's prayer. Yet it is rumored that Fred is at time rather more than ruthless in his manner of breaking hearts ..... Fred has helped athletics at Dummer in a large way. He has been one of the mainstays on the hockey team for the past two yearsg was a perfect imitation of Red Grange until he broke a wrist playing at Manchester, and he is now Captain of the baseball team in which sport he is, as pitcher, quite naturally the cynosure of all eyes, the admiration and envy of all his teammates. Fred's drag with the faculty is something marvelous. His quiet way and air of gentle unsophistication quite undermines the resistance of that august group. Fred has a perfect record in that he has yet to return on time from a week-end. Yet, with a few well chosen words he dispels all doubts and suspicions and is once more taken to the bosoms of the faculty. Fred is headed for Yale. In those five words are contained the faith of his class- mates, the charity of the faculty, and the hopes and dreams of Yale and New Haven. Good luck, Fred. 'tHey, Mac. have you read this one? l27l

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T H E M I L E S T O N E MORTON BLACK RAE West Newton I Ulf he really thinks there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons -Dr. Johnson Entered School in 1920 3 Classical Course Hockey, '30 Baseball, '30 Golf. '30 Circulation Manager of the Milestone, '30 Mort Mort is one of those unfortunate individuals whose intentions are always being misunderstood. Either that. or his intentions are only too well understood. Instinc- tively people regard him with suspicion. To our shame we must admit that we, too, were similarly affected. When we tirst saw him, we placed one hand upon our loose change and the other on our watch. Now such conduct on our part was. of course. a grave injustice. just because Mort looks the way he does is positively no adequate reason for such treatment. If some of us were judged by our looks, where would we be? Despite the fact that Mort played bravely and well on the hockey team, leaped about the basketball floor. and is now engaged in playing both baseball and golf land Mort's victory in the Andover match was the deciding point in our victoryjg despite his arduous t?J pursuit of History. English. and Spanish-Mort suddenly found him- self sent from the sacred confines of the Commons to durance vile in Peirce Hall. Oh, loathsome spot! Life is full of sorrow. With Bunny. Mort spreads discord and dissension, tumult and chaos, around Brookline, Crow Point. and way stations. We are as yet unable to decide whether Bunny leads Mort astray or vice versa. The only facts in the matter are that they are both astray much of the time-definitely and completelyg that they have a natural talent for crises: that they go roaring about in a terrible Lincoln disregarding life and limb: and that they will come to no good end unless they separate. Despite this forbidding reputation we feel sure that, barring the long arm of the law. they will succeed enormously. Such people always do. And our hopes and pray- ers will go with them both. i261

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T H E M I L E S T O N E OTTO RICINHARIJ BURLICIGH LEONARD THICLEN . Lynn Thr man that lnlmlzes is not quite ll x-,T ff ' Y ,!,.- l1r11f4 '-X oung AA? :AS-. lintered School in 1028 Classical Course Preparing for Harvard Business Manager of the Milestone, '30 lfootball, '20 Toot Give Otto a thought and he will wrestle with it for days in utter contentment. We know of no one who can so reduce a thought to utter. abject terror. When finished with a thought, no one else can ever find any use for it. It is donee-completely, ir- revocably. Otto moves among us in silent majesty. The words of fellow students or faculty pass him by unheeded. The bells are not heard. There is no Timeeeflife stretches ahead full of thought that must be seized. masticated in quiet contentment, digested. In mathematics Otto is happy. There is a field where the thoughts proceed in or- derly arrav, well-behaved, perfectly disciplined. liut in English, where thoughts run rampant in confused hordes, Otto is lost. No sooner does he select one lovely thought than a hundred others assail him, pour over and around him. leave him completely be- wildered. And by the time he has seized one of them firmly and dealt with it after his own fashion, the others are lost forever. It may be that Otto thinks too much. Hut this world has need of thinkers. .Xnd Otto has tried very hard to adjust himself to this life. He has tried football and he is now trying baseball. Given time he will succeed at anything he undertakes. His is a persistence that knows no defeat. His courage is limitless, his tenacity without end. Otto is headed for Harvard. Having fixed his eyes upon Harvard Otto will, in the course of time, arrive at Harvard. The only way that Harvard could foil him would be to disappear over night. Otto will like Harvard. and Harvard will like Otto. We are sure that he will succeed in his chosen field eand we wish him great success and great happiness. 'tI'll work on that theme all the afternoon, Mr. jarvisf' l28l