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Form History Your history begins before noon on Tuesday the twenty-first of September, 1937, when seventeen of you were welcomed by the Rector and Mrs. Peabody, and led by your unaccountably gay and light-hearted parents up to Mr. Gallien's dormitory. There, all the adults seemed to be having a jolly reunion while you furtively stole nervous glances at those other sweating boys, as you heavy-heartedly unpacked trunks in your dormitory. A roast beef dinnerisomehow ended after interminable scrutinizing of other new kids, and farewells to families were dried away by the sight of much jollification through the afternoon, as old boys returned to pound one another in laughing excitement. That evening your dormitory master began the long process of acquainting you with the manners of this strange new world, and for some weeks you moved in a pleasant coma of blissful mystifieation at the surprising discoveries every single day produced. Before long you came to know one another, what with such helpful introductions as My name is Wicky, I caught an eleven-and-one-half-pound salmon-want a picture of me? A few days after this, Mr. Andrews in the first form room, having warned that the next one to ask a question would get a blackmark for an answer, promptly met Dirk Roosevelt's with not only the promised dusky, but with expulsion from the room. Curtis was wiser, in be- ginning to sleep through Mr. A's classes, a practice he became more and more expert in as the years went on. Welling, meeting a similar fate at the hands of Mr. Lynes, had the additional thrill of being sent to the Rector, where, confused in the etiquette of the occa- sion, he opened his explanations: Mr.-Sir-Doctor-Rector-Peabody-Sir-''g in fact he never got much farther, for the Rector seemed to dispatch him in a twinkling. Your first weeks were spent in mild mauling of one another in Third Club football under Mr. Robertson fprophetic note in the Weekly: Coogan, quarterbacking the Third Club Team, was outstandinguj, no mention made, of course, of how Russell piggy- backed him to his smashing gains, pleasant variations in these weeks included the School's fifty-third birthday, when, after a blissful day on the river, you put on blue suits to parade from the schoolroom to the dining-room singing John Brown's Body to the exciting strains of Mr. Call's trumpet. There followed one of Miss Cram's superb banquets, the shout, We want blue bottles , a silence, a scraping of chairs g a fine song and then merry adjournment to the Hall to see your first school movie, Sabu in Elephant Boy. As you became acquainted with traditions, one by one, the Rector told you of more, when he dedicated the Memorial to Mr. Gardner and preached about him one Sunday late in October. You were next shown Hallowe'en as observed in Groton when Mr. Gallien sent you to bed staggering deliciously under the burden of a mammouth feed, and thrilled by Mr. Jorgensen's prestidigitation. On the morrow, according to the Weekly, The preacher in morning chapel was the Rev. John Crocker, '18, a graduate of the school. By this date you were so used to seeing Chub Peabody's team steam-roller all opposition you could hardly be blamed for wondering at the upper forms' hysterical celebration of a 26-6 victory achieved at Southboro earlier in the afternoon. After the Armistice Day holiday which immediately followed, you decided upon Kingsford and Howe as counsellors and Davison as secretary. Thanksgiving caught you unaware of how easy it was to un- cover relatives in the Boston area, so after hearing Mr. Dick deliver the address in chapel, most of you spent the day in frolic hereabouts, winding up again in a dinner of unfor- gettable excellence. By now Roosevelt had entered the famed shuttle system in Latin, i21l
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NICHOLAS IIOYT Wl'l l'l'l B1-lmont, Mass. l' S N' Class V-I9 ,..,.fw .v EX. 1943 DIRCK Roosx-:v14:LT Glconulc HARRY 'l'R1cAnw1-1LL, JR. PAUL SNUWDEN RIU5suLI. f'HRIS'l'OPHER PATRICK 1 onu1':s JAMES IVIARK WILLLTOX, III 1201
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