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Adr- CJ.-1 56 '.: 43: '-'Z A: .LY- IL ' Ss.. 1:-1 ,526 if ,- Tu, KT .19 QA .Ll ...-.- .EZ th 1 ,S-4 3. 5.2 .4 S' . 7: .A '5 , A431 uc Cu-4 ff bf . hs.. .. .'J.A A - f.. f- V... ,qc EE '-'E ...LE N-I 4 . rx. ,- s-'K 5- , wr: 2.2 VE ',n Kv ,Isl if-1 rA P-3 5: .LV .2 K- . 7.2 .A S! 3:5 ,tg-. 5,3 Z-L. Buttrick Hr. The Faculty. REV. JOHN CROCKER, B.D., D.Litt. PAUL W. WRIGHT, B.A. . . REV. ENDICOTT PEABODY, D.D. ILOSCOE C. THOMAS, A.B. . LOUIS C. ZAHNER, B.A. . FRANCIS P. NASH, M.A. . WILLIAM S. CUSHING, M.A. . FREDERIC J. DEVEAU, LL.B. . A. GURNEE GALLIEN, A.B. RONALD S. BEASLEY, ARTHUR JORGENSEN . . ELIZABETH R. PEABODY . LAWRENCE M. NOBLE, M.A. . REV. MALCOLM STRACHAN, M.A. RICHARD K. IRONS, D.Phil. . ROBERT A. MOSS, A.B. . . ERNST L. LOEWENBERG, Dr. Phil. EDWARD B. GAMMONS, S.B. . GEORGE W. FREIDAY, JR., A.B. REV. PAUL ABRY, B.D. . . THEODOR E. MOMMSEN, Dr. Phil. HERBERT I. BUTTRICK, JR., A.B. HARRY L. WALEN, A.M. . . RICHARD S. MERYMAN . . J. STUART WICKENS, M.P.E., M.A. A G . . H EA DM AS TER . SENIOR MASTER . . Sacred Studies . Mathematics . English . Mathematics Latin and Greek Latin and Greek . English' History . Printing . Remedial Work , ...... Latin English, Greek, and Sacred Studies . . I... History Sacred Studies and Mathematics . . . French and German . . Music . . . . . French Sacred Studies and Mathematics . . . . . History . History and Latin . . English . . . . A rt' . Physical Education JOHN PICK, Ph.D ...... . . . English. JAMES MACL. HAWKES, Ph.D. KENDALL W. FOSTER, Ph.D. . HARVEY P. SARGISSON . . Frenclg German Science ' VWoodwo1i3ing H. DAYTON N IEHAUS, A.B. . . .- , Science RICHARD J. KERRY, LL.B. . Q' . . . French 4 FRED H. TOR.REY . . . . . Bursar rl 15 lr 1? I I V F0 JOHN ELIOT CURTIS Litchfield, Conn. M. I. T. U. S. A. A. F. STEWART HARMON BROWN Richmond, Va. U. S. A. A. f' 'R Princeton LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL DAY Philadelphia, Pa. Harvard 331 IIS? DANIEL CROSBY DEM ENOCAL Boston, Mass. U. S. N. R. Yale CHARLES BURNETT GROSVENOR Providence, R. I. lf. S. M. C. Harvard GEORGE HENRY POTTS DWIGHT Rumson, N. J. U. S. N. R. Harvard I19I RICHARD HURD LAWRENCE Washington, D. C. U. S. N. R. Yale DAVID MCKENDREE KEY, JR Washington, D. C. United States Naval Academy GEORGE CABOT LODGE Beverly, Mass. U. S. N. R. Harvard 4201 P vi WILLIAM GILMAN LOW, IV Morristown, N. J. U. S. N. R. Yale RAYMOND WILLIAM MCNEALY Chicago, Ill. Harvard FRANK SUTHERLAND MACSHANE Pittsfield, Mass. U. S. N. R. Harvard -i211 3 l HENRY STEVENSON PELTZ New York, N. Y. American Field Service Harvard THOMAS ROCKWELL NANGLE New Haven, Conn. Yale Y! JOHN BATES PERRIN Pasadena, Calif. U. S. M. C. Yale 1221- FLETCHER JANES POMEROY New Britain, Conn. U. S. N. R. Yale S DAVID WOODRUFF ROMIG New York, N. Y. ' U. S. A. A. F. Princeton WILLIAM FRENCH PRESCOTT, JR New York, N. Y. U. S. N. R. Harvard 1231 WILLIAM MARTINDALE SHEDDEN Concord, Mass. U. S. M. C. R Yale JOSEPH BEGGS SCHIEFFELIN Tulsa, Okla.. Yale I HARPER SIBLEY, JR. Rochester, N. Y. I A. U. S. Princeion 241- FREDERICK DALZIEL VREELAND New York, N. Y. JOHN ERNEST LYONS WOOD Oxford, England Royal Artlllery New College, Oxford 25 THOMAS HENRY WEST, IV Hopedale, Mass. U. S. N. R. Harvard I THE PREFECTS Hack How: Schieffelin, Lodge, Prescott Front Row: Low, Key, Dwight, Wood .WI'1'ssi'ng: Romig TIMOTHY J. R. BARNES JOHN R. E. BOOKER SAMUEL A. CANN R. ELLIS CARTER JACOB P. B. FOLKESTONE MALCOLM W. GREENOUGH I94 . Ex -f26 MARTIN HUNTER GERALD M. B. SELOUS CHARLES G. WASHBURN JASON F. WHITNEY THOMAS S. WILLIAMS MARK H. WILLIAMSON FORM HISTORY As the August days of 1939 hurried you nearer to First Form year at Groton, your futureAboth immediate and distant-was to be disturbed by changes more drastic and awesome than even you were imagining. On the way home from vacation places you stopped anywhere for gasoline Cuiill her up D, your papers and magazines were splashed with advertisements suggesting that you use long-distance telephones more, that this or that be bought for more motoring comfort, that you patronize this hotel, or take that steamship line for your trip around the world. Your parents were, however, uneasy about more than the problem of preparing you to go away to school. While you were dreading those final dentist appointments, Germany and Russia, each with two million men under arms, completed in Moscow a non-aggression pact, signed by Ribbentrop and Molotov. As you had your blue suit Qwith long trouserslj fitted, statesmen in all the capitals of Europe fearfully awaited Hitler's next move. Before your shiny new patent-leather shoes and funny white shirts with stiff collars arrived from the store, the nervous tension in the world news had crowded off the front page the sports item that Australia's Davis Cup team had followed its triumph over Jugoslavia on the Longwood courts in Chestnut Hill by defeating our own Riggs, Parker, Kramer, and Hunt in the finals at Haverford. On Friday, September first, you prepared to enjoy Labor Day weekend with the help of the newest records: Glenn Miller's Baby Me and Stairway to the Stars. But before you left for the movies that night to see Spencer Tracy in his new Stanley and Livingstone, the radio said Germany had bombed and invaded Poland. Saturday, September second, you went to see Judy Garland in f'The Wizard of Oz while Prime Minister Chamberlain prepared to broad- cast on Sunday morning that Great Britain was at war with Germany. In the next two weeks while your last name-tapes were sewed on and trunks sent off, Poland was being crushed, though Warsaw desperately held out until the morn- ing you arrived, Tuesday, September 19th, to greet the Rector and Mrs. Peabody. All that you had so far seen of the war was the new coat of dingy gray paint hurriedly slapped on both the Queen M ary and N ormandie as they lay at their Hudson River piers, having brought home record crowds of Americans scurrying from the War bursting all over Europe. Five of the thirty-one new boys entering with you were just off the boats, but none in the First Form list, which read: Booker, Brown, Carter, Curtis, deMenocal, Greenough, Grosvenor, Key, Kissel, Lawrence, Lodge, MacShane, Prescott, Sibley, Simpkins, Vreeland, Washburn, Whitney, Williams. Only seven of these nineteen were to be present on Prize Day of distant June, 1945. And of the faculty list, absent on the same day would be the Rector, and Messrs Regan, Lynes, Moore, Howes, Nelson, Williams, Call, Hallowell, Whitney, Robertson, Nichols, Iglehart, Sullivan and Calhoun. After meeting the Peabodys, you were ushered by enormous men called Sixth- Formers to a dormitory in charge of a Mr. Gallien, who little realized he at that moment should have begun taking notes, with specific references,'l for writing a Form History. You thereafter were subjected nightly, by your dorm-master, in what had been glow- ingly described to your parents as a happy half-hour of relaxation before going to bed, to a gruelling series of lectures on your worst blunders of that day plus t to attempt to cope with the next. Wild-eyed, you rushed through a bewildering succ ssion of days, until the School Birthday on October 15th brought the first respite. In a mass departure for the Nashua you found moist, cooling forms of recreation, followed in the evening by one of Miss Cram's never-to-be-forgotten banquets. Next day the pace of school life was resumed 5 confusion was inevitable in the ensuing weeks. For example, how could Booker know that Mr. Wright was not a clothes-salesman? How could Sibley be expected to locate two pairs of faculty shoes lost in the complex organization of the Shoe-Shine 4l27l Corp.? CHe couldn't, and didn't, and so, shrewdly, sold the Presidency of the Corp. to Lodgej How could Kissel know the way to catch a fainting Greenough in choir one Sunday morning? He merely stepped back out of the way to give Mally more room for his fade-out. How could half the dormitory not get sick at midnight after a mammouth Hallowe'en feed like that one? What could Key, all alone on the Second Wachusetts, do to stem the tide of Second Monadnocks, fortified by Grosvenor, Lodge, Sibley, and Washburn? Nothing: so Key's team lost the season a few days before the school, team lost to St. Marks at Southboro, 26-20. 4 ,' ' A. You next turned your energies to soccer or touch-tackle, while your historian busied himself preparing such a masterpiece for, his Thanksgiving Day,-,addr-iss that during its delivery in chapel Vreeland passed out cold, but, ieeling the 'Rector's even colder stare, revived instantly, and walked right out onthe whole deplorable situation. The rest of you, deprived of further diversion, felt obligili to continue the pose of lis- tening intently Can art you had quickly learnedj to the end. Less thanione minute after this service deMenocal with his neighbors was off to Boston for a day with his family, a vacation so utterly delightful, he suddenly realized upon his return, that he thereafter visited his family every few weeks for my sister's wedding, sir. You finished off Novemberls events by electing Grosvenor and Key counsellors, and Lawrence, secretary. Soon after the holiday celebrating Mr. Gardner's birthday on December 2nd, things seemed a bit dull to you at Mr. Regan's table, in spite of occasional black clouds billowing up from the toaster as some elite member of High Societyl' forgot his duty. So Prescott tested the effect of cooling Mr. Regan's plate with a chunk of ice, with the result that he stood lone sentry at the window during certain specified hours. Else- where in Hundred House deMenocal and Vreeland were struck with the same experi- mental virus and painted Mr. Moss's patent leather shoes with black lacquer, and initialed the soles. Result: reorganization of personnel of that Shoe Shine Corp. Mean- while the Dramat was about to do three short plays, Laurence Housman's Sister Gold, Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, and Murray's The Pipe in the Fields. Washburn and Key having heard the title of this third one, and being experienced along that line, had tried out, and of course were accepted for the cast, Washburn as the spirit of the pipe, interestingly. But the rest of the form were content to experiment with gliders and model planes indoors, though deMenocal's method of passing the time in Mr. Gallien's IA English was to sit on the fioor and play with toy automobiles, outdoors, chief sport for all of you was tracking Mr. Williams on his paper chases. As this first term reached its traditional climax of examinations, Carol Service, and the Rector's reading of The Christmas Carol'l by CHARLES DICKENS, you all stood around the dormitory in helpless wonder, marvelling at the ingenuity of prefects Pifer, Rives, Walker, and Webb, as they re-packed your trunks with all you had brought plus all that arrived by express during the term. The chief excitement in the war news during the term had been the Royal Navy's catching the German Graf Spec on December 13th, off Uruguay. After Christmas vacation you found that Mr. Calhoun of the English Department had been replaced by Mr. Philbrick. In your first noteworthy snow-fighting achieve- ment of January, according to the Weekly, the First Form easily defeated the Second, with a little outside aid, and on Sunday? joined in a battle royal of the First through the Fourth Forms near Mr. Hallowell's house, resulting in some black eyes and very sore arms. ,In other fields of endeavor, y'our. accomplishments included Lawrence's 74 to lead the form on the Time Current Events,TestJ Scarlet fever appeared early in the term, deferring the dance, but the Dran1at's 'fCharley's Auntln the 'Gym Exhibition, Confirmation, and the Band and Glee Club Concert were carried through as planned. In the finals of the new boys fives singles towiament Key was the winner. The Rector ' E T izslh . and Mrs. Peabody went to Washington to assist in the Inaugural of one of their former first-formers. During your March vacation, you, having contributed money to help Finland during the winter term, heard your elders lamenting Russia's overwhelming of Finlandls Mannerheim Line. Japan's war against China was in its third year. While you were in New York you saw the giant, unfinished liner Queen Elizabeth which had been sneaked over to the safety of New York harbor. April brought you and some chicken pox germs back for the spring term, but those of you not stricken promptly offered your services at every possible moment to Ivan Dmitri, as he tried to photograph the school for a Saturday Evening Post article. The postponeddance, in the face of the Enew onslaught of chicken pox on school health, expired into final cancellation. Early' in May you helped welcome fifty-five graduates, one from each graduated Form, whocame to visit the Peabodys and to present them with a check fthe boys in school presented one, tooj, the Rector announcing in his acceptance that all of the money would go to extending the brick wall from the Auchincloss gate toward the Bacon gate. Also presented were handsome bound volumes containing a snapshot of, and hand-written letter from, every graduate. It was in this term that Parents House kitchen began to sell you Hon Wednesdays: hot dogs, Coca Colas, chocolate cake, Ritz crackers, doughnuts, on Saturdays: ham, cheese, jam, and chicken sandwiches, iced tea, and the same as on Wednesdays, omitting hot dogs. The month of May has been praised by many poets for various charms, but the local bard has not yet appeared to sing its pleasant, crowded confusion of ball games, crew races, evening marching, after-supper softball or niggerbaby, St. Marks game, Memorial Day parade. Prize Day came along June 14, but for you it was chiefly notable for its being your first day of final examinations, for which by now you had acquired a certain respect, in view of what failed ones could do to a vacation. But . -Finsr Fonai YEAR, , Third Razr: Curtis, lNlacShane, Kissel, Carter, Washburn Sccorul lfmr: Brown, Vreeland, Simpkins, llrs. Peabody: The Rector, Lawrence, Williams, dehlenocal - Front Roux' VVhitney, Booker, Prescott, Grospnor, Key, Lodge, Greenough, Sibley l29l they finally ended on Tuesday the 18th, and at the Last Night Exercises the Rector read out that you had elected as your Second Form oflicers, Brown and Grosvenor, counsellors, and Key, secretary. During this very brief term, you had been reading in your headlines of the successive invasion by German armies of first, Denmark, then Norway, then Belgium, and Holland, and Luxembourg. The British had evacuated Dunkirk the day before Memorial Day, while you practiced your marching on the road. Italy entered the war as you went into your first final examination, and on your first Prize Day, and the Rector's last as headmaster, Paris had fallen to the Ger- mans. That day was to change your own destinies more than anyone could foresee at the time. Before your Second Form year could open, the smoky conflagration that had ruined the gymnasium floor had had its prototype in the summer's events in World War II. France had been defeated by Germany and Italy in June 5 Britain had attacked the French Fleet in July 5 and in August, Italy captured Somaliland, the air blitz on Britain started, and Rumania ceded to Bulgaria and Hungary. In the early September weeks before you returned to school, Italy had invaded Egypt, and President Roosevelt had approved Selective Service, bringing the war that much nearer your own immediate fu- tures. In the foreground of this world-picture of rapid change, your school was starting its new era under Mr. and Mrs. Crocker. Messrs Kromer and Loewenberg were new to the faculty, and to your Form were added: Barnes, Cann, Dwight, Hunter, Hely- Hutchinson, Low, Pomeroy, Pond, Schieffelin, Selous, Shedden, West and Wood, five of these from England. Of these thirteen only five would be present on your own June Prize Day. The football season was soon in full sway with most of you somewhat reluctantly pushed into a noble experiment of six-man football on the Second and Third clubs. Great was the scorn, of course, of Greenough, Grosvenor, Key, Lodge, Sibley, Washburn, and West, all of whom played the regular game on the Firsts. Wachusetts won both First and Second Club seasons that year. On Saturdays you deigned to watch the school team defeat most of its opponents, whenever you were not in a long line behind the stands buying Eskimo pies from the Mish Ford robber barons. A few days after its 20-6 defeat of St. Marks, the first team, as the Weekly put it: went to Mrs. Nash's house for tea 'and also for instructions in the intricacies of knitting to help the British War Relief Society. For the same cause, some of you in printing classes helped turn out sixteen hundred copies of knitting instructions for Boston agencies. Money was raised for the purchase of a Mobile Canteen. The combined impact upon the school of the war, and of the new ideas of Mr. and Mrs. Crocker was fashioning many changes during this term. You were allowed to play touch-football Sunday afternoons, and the gray-flannel, white soft shirt required costume for Sunday afternoons was dispensed With, your Sunday afternoon study period was omitted in good weather, and you could omit evening chapel attendance if you had been to Early Communion. In November Mr. Moss announced his engagement. After the Thanksgiving Day service, at which Mr. Hallowell gave the address, it was noticeable that many more of you had uncovered family'l in the Boston area, to whose houses you could go in somewhat vain effort to compete with the now well-established deMenocal formula for leave of absence. The Lower Infirmary Dormitory, administered by Mr. Loewenberg through the week, and by prefects over gala weekends Call weekends were gala down therej had an original personnel of Brown, Carter, Greenough, Grosvenor, Whitney, and West, but one by one, and fracas by fracas, the group was liquidated or replaced. The rest of you dwelling in' Mr. Moore's dorm were not to be outdone by West's lurid tales of rows, so you had yours right in Mr. Moore's study, until I will not stand for it and the couch will not stand for it drove your mischievous inspirations perforce into the Hundred House schoolroom. There one evening, for the benefit of the Art Department, a nice, shiny alarm clock was i30l -f31 carefully set for 7:45 p.m., and tenderly placed in the wastebasket, with the knowledge of only fifty-three of the fifty-four occupants of the room. An already impressive degree of silent concentration at 7:40 p.m. became a miracle of intensive application to studies at the unpredicted appearance at the door of the Housemaster, who by some incredible divination glanced interestedly at the basket, then stood chatting amiably with the Art Department while the alarm burst into song and died to a wretched tinkle without so much as a smile crossing the face of a single student. The whole incredible incident remains unexplained, presumably for the duration. The term ended in the usual cres- cendo of Christmas preparations and general excitement. During this term the chief development of the war had been the signing in September by Germany, Italy, and Japan of a mutual recognition treaty of a New Order g then Italy's invasion of Greece in Oc- tober, and Britain's opening of the Libyan offensive in December. Your Winter Term began gaily with a nocturnal conga line led up the middle of Mr. Moore's dorm by Dwight, but destroyed in a pincers move by Mr. Nichols enter- ing from the west end simultaneously with Mr. Thomas from the east, so the line re- formed the following Saturday afternoon on the circle, for a newly revised blackmark system precluded the former hours of hard labor as expiation. In your elections for the Chronicle Board, political talent appeared as Sibley, his eye doubtless on the future yearbook job, let Key men install Key as editor-in-chief while he grabbed the modest- sounding press editorship Cby far the biggest jobb. Vreeland, Prescott, Washburn emerged on the masthead, as did Booker, MacShane and Peltz. The play that term was R, U. R. but it was mumps that time that postponed the dance. The Gymnasium Exhibition was permanently abandoned in favor of a new winter sports program. An- other innovation of this term, the hour's extra sleep on Sunday, yielded such a surplus of energy to Second Formers that in the boxing tournament Cann won the Paperweight Division final, deMenocal tied for the Flyweight, and Shedden won the Lightweight. In other fields of effort Pond was the first member of the Form to have a composition pub- lished by the Weekly, A Bolton Sunrise. It was a good deal easier to read, apparently, than the books Mr. Moore turned over to his embarrassed prefect, Cottie Davison, to struggle with in the master's absence. Early in the spring term you welcomed the Peabodys back from their winter in Arizona in time for Easter at school. As the Mish launched its new Food Shop in the basement of the schoolhouse a few days later, Mr. Wright, in an impromptu ceremony sold the first Coke to Mr. Crocker. It is reliably reported that then and there a certain Second Former, a gleam in his eye, determined one day to outsell all predecessors, and to lay the foundation of a great personal fortune. Upstairs in the hall, a few nights later, you were rolled into the aisles by The Happy Faculty Hour broadcast given for the British Relief Fund. This was the term of many serious forest fires in the neighborhood, but you were forced to miss the fun, as only Upper School boys were considered worth scorching. So Key, Low, Sibley and Washburn lent their weight to helping Mr. Noble's First Wachusetts win the baseball season, while down on the Nashua Lawrence coxed the First Crew, to become the first letterman in the Form. Mid-May brought the twice-postponed dance, and as soon as the last guests had left, in blew Mr. DeVeau, healthily tanned by Arizona sun, for a brief visit until just before the St. Marks game, which we won, 1-0. As you traveled home on the train' in June, you gaily recalled such high points of the terms as Mr. Whitney's superb knockout of Prescott with a hurled dictionary, Shedden's poetic masterpiece, the stacked Bibles in Mr. Kromer's classroom, Mr. Robertson's famous non-workingiexperiments in Science, Jason Whitney's band,- and-in the dorm- the well-lubricated floors of the lavatory on bathnights, ideal for tail-slipping. You had been home for the summer only four days when on June 22nd Germany invaded Russia. Since the end of the winter term, Bulgaria had joined the Axisg Roose- -i32l velt had signed Lend-Lease and seized Italian ships in United States ports. Hitler had invaded Jugoslavia and Greece, both of which fell during April, and the British had conquered the Italians in Ethiopia. The summer brought the landing of United States forces in Iceland, and Roosevelt's and Churchill's first conference, resulting in the eight- point Atlantic Charter. . Third Form year- began with Mr. DeVeau returned to a faculty which counted four new men: Messrs Comstock, Freiday, Gammons, and Satterthwaite. Not to be outdone, your form took on eight: Day, Coolidge, Folkestone, Nangle, Perrin, Romig, Williams and Williamson for an all-time high of thirty-six boys in all. The Third Form Weekly you had entrusted to Curtis, Dwight, Key, MacShane, Peltz, Prescott, Sibley, Vreeland and Wood. In the football practices Grosvenor used to break two wrists per day. deMenocal, Perrin and Wood led the Second Monadnocks to a victorious season, while Key and Low accounted for the First Wachusetts success. Then came the 125- pound team's 19-6 defeat of Brooks, with Dwight, Grosvenor, Key, Pomeroy, Prescott and Schieffelin making it a Third-Form monopoly nearly as great as the ten of you who allowed but one Second Former on the Lower School soccer team. Captains of the three teams that tried to make this one team for outside games were Lawrence, Low, and Key. Tim West was already beyond this small-time stuff, however, and personally accounted for six points of the 26-0 defeat of St. Marks at Southboro. But it was on the night of Mr. Gardner's birthday, December 2nd, that the climax of the term for you occurred in your rendering of O'Neill,s one-act play, Where the Cross is Made. Ac- cording to your own Weekly, Those acting in the play were Sibley, Shedden, Schieffelin, Coolidge, Prescott, Romig and Washburn. Special mention should go to Sibley, who took the leading male role and had a part which kept him on the stage all throughout the performance .... But all school ears shifted to another stage the following Sunday, December 7th, where-as the choir was singing Peace on Earth -at the Annual Carol Service in the village, Japan was attacking Pearl Harbor. Your editorial in the following Weekly said in part, We are not of military age, and yet we are directly involved in this war. How true this was, few of you at the time realized, as you tucked that issue into your pocket and went in to hear the reading of Dicken's Christmas Carol. This time your reminiscing on the train to New York relished such recollections of the term as Carter's and Lawrence's non-fireproof hut, deMenocal's nearly receiving a Good Sport Dalma- tian, and Lodge's and Sibley's superb salesmanship for Zeno products. In the winter term you opened your debating careers, Day and Vreeland success- fully contending in the first one that Groton's program of team sports be suspended for the war's duration to implement boys' contributions to defense through farm labor and other civic work. There followed Mr. Beasley's elaborate Air Raid Precautions pro- gram, involving for you practice trips to very familiar cellar areas which suddenly had been dignified by a dim light and the name of Shelter , What you really resented was not being part of the group whose job it was to clamber about the roofs dousing incendiariesg so just for spite, Lodge and Sibley set a fire in the Brooks House cellar. In another debate Peltz and Williamson argued Lawrence and West out of their silly notion that J ap cities should be bombed. Selous, caught up in all this war spirit, staged a commando attack on Lodge and Perrin, brandishing a knife, but Greenough by a neat toreador-stroke with his coat, rescued them. In similar Mars-like activity, deMen- ocal beat up Selous in one fight and sent Booker to Miss Winterbottom in the infirmary in another, thus adding nothing at all to British-American amity. On more peaceful evenings Messrs Howes and Gammons played for Your Sing-Songs, a traditional winter term diversion much loved by Mr. Lynes, the sudden news of whose death on January 31st greatly saddened the community. In February Mr. Nichols joined the Navy, the school went on War Time, moving afternoon period to 2:15. The play and dance both lost out l33l to measles, during which epidemic you greatly improved your skill at bowling oranges. In the fives with St. Marks, Lower School matches were a clean sweep in doubles and singles for Schieffelin, Sibley, Key and Washburn. In April many of you entrusted your lives to your present historian at the helm of a shiny blue bus as you went to work in neighboring apple orchards. Folkestone returned to England, and Mr. Iglehart followed Mr. Nichols into the Navy. Many of you helped Mr. Call build model aircraft for the Navy. But Navy tactics in earnest were practiced on the river in May, where, inspired by our fleet's victory in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the first week in May, a formidable task-force of kayaks attacked and sank Lodge and Greenough in their sail-boats. As for heavy artillery, Kissel hurled a pillow in Mr. Comstock's dorm at Prescott, missed his primary target, smashed a screen, to miss by a narrow margin Mr. Wright, cruising by at that time. In still heavier artillery practice Kissel was hurled out of Brooks House door right into Mr. Wright's waiting arms. As for aviation, C ann, Selous, and Wood nearly landed at an early age in the Army Air Corps as they snooped around the Devens airport. Just to be sure of breaking plenty of school rules, they thumbed their way home, with, as it turned out, Mr. Moore. There followed a curious, sudden new fashion in the Form for parting the hair in the exact middle. The Dramat on May 2nd gave The Petrified Forest to the dance weekend guests, Washburn and Vreeland participating. Carter sat on a pencil and spent two weeks in the infirmary trying to dodge embarrassing questions as to just why he was there. While on a subsequent May Sunday a lawn-party was being given for forty convalescent sol- diers from Lovell General Hospital, a group of you helped entertain three faculty daugh- ters in a game of tag at the flagpole. Dwight began a long career of prize-winning by tak- ing iirst prize in the nationwide Time test. As the term ended, it was announced that Mr. Whitney was entering Infantry, Mr. Comstock, Marines, Mr. Robertson, Navy, and Mr. Hallowell, Naval Aviation. The final word on your Third Form year was written by Dwight in the last issue of your Weekly, in a gripping story, The Firing Squad. But they will gain their revenge, for every day in all parts of Europe, more and more of the oppressed are rising in wrath to destroy their oppressors. It is but a question of time until the dawn shall burst, and the tide of hatred which they themselves created shall surge down and engulf its creators. From Pearl Harbor to Prize Day, June 13th, of your Third Form year, it had been a time of change, tension, and readjustments. Among the changes in school were Thanksgiving dinner moved from evening to midday, daily school supper a half hour later to 6:35, examinations for the Third Form from twice to thrice a year, 11:00 a.m. Sunday Holy Communion Service for the whole school, the Book Fair an annual event on Mr. Gardner's birthday, Second Form Chronicle abolished, snow squads established, overseas caps replacing traditional straw hats for Memorial Day, Prize Day made the end of the school year. It was ,already an appreciably different Groton from the one you entered. In the same period of your last two Third Form terms, most of the World had plunged into the war against Germany and the Axis. Wake, Manila, Cavite, New Britain, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Java, Bataan, Mandalay, Burma Road, Corregidor,- all had fallen to the Jap. We had won the Coral Sea engagement in May, and re-won Midway in June, but the Jap had raided Dutch Harbor, and occupied Attu and Kiska the day you went home for the summer. As, on Memorial Day,'you were marching in your ranks, more impressively and significantly, somehow, than ever before, the R.A.F. devastated Cologne to initiate the large-scale bombings of Germany. During that summer Rommel entered Egypt, and the U. S. Marines attacked the Solomons. Fourth Form year introduced the largest number of new masters in the school's history, Mr. Strachan returned as chaplain, and Messrs Abry, Blackwell, Buttrick, 'I34i Hall, Loewenberg, Meryman, Mommsen, P. W. Richards, and Walen met their first classes. At Christmas Mr. Wiekens came, to make the total ten for that term. Na- turally, with one-third of the faculty new, and with your entrance to the Upper School and its attendant dignity of studies to live in, it was an exciting chapter of your Groton experience. Other symbolic changes immediately apparent included the dispensing with the required traditional outfit of stiff collars, patent leather shoes, and Sunday blue suits. From making your beds on Sundays only, you now did them daily and of course immediately learned how to sleep without so much as disturbing the sheets and blanketsg in the dining room you began waiting on table a half week at a turn. In the field behind the Power House you began shoveling twenty-four hundred tons of soft coal from pile to truck to boilers, on top of the schoolhouse you took turns plane-spotting in the Ob- servation Post. Those of you not playing football or soccer joined the Work Squad, and alternately collected scrap metal and fought termites around the Hundred House foundations. School birthday of that Term is remembered by Dwight, Lawrence, Pres- cott, Vreeland and Wood for their journey by rail from West Groton to Ayer. In foot- ball, Grosvenor and Lodge contributed power to the victorious First Monadnocksg while Low, Washburn and West were up in the bigtime in an unsuccessful season re- deemed by a 6-0 victory over St. Marks on a bitterly cold day. The term's memorable events seem in retrospect to have had a strong Oriental slant. In October former Ambassador Grew spoke about Japan , November brought the movie Gunga Din and Devi-Dja and Company of Bali-Javanese dancers, whose unusual art said the Weekly, significantly, has only rarely been seen in America. Later in the month Mr. Sikorsky expounded the advantages of helicopters for jungle landings, and in December Mr. Fischer lectured on The Riddle of India. All this was appropriate, for your minds were often turned during the term from American troop landings in Africa, from Axis occupation of Vichy France, from Russia's opening of winter offensives, from the destruction of the French Heet at Toulon,-toward the Orient. There the Marines had attacked in the Solomons, Gandhi had been voted power to in- voke civil disobedience, and the U. S. Navy had sunk twenty-eight Japanese ships at Guadalcanal. All this was not without its effect on Fourth Formers. Those of you who dwelled in Hundred House foxholes engaged one night in a barrage of comforters, on another night were bombarded by sixty-five Bazookas, in bursts of six, and on still another night by twenty-four. Low knocked West cold by the latest improved Marine tactics on one occasion, and on another, West and Prescott failed to pull out of a tailspin in time, as the instructor appeared unexpectedly. Lawrence and Lodge, playing PT boat, bounced three beds into total destruction in the course of this term. Meantime in Brooks House, deMenocal frequently slashed Shedden in commando raids, and MacShane practiced flame-throwing at Schieffelin's wastebasket. Greenough tested his ordnance regularly on Shedden, and kept the dormitory fully supplied with Water bombs, while Perrin and Schieffelin practiced setting booby traps across the dorm in hopes of destroying Pome- 4l35l' on the day before you returned as Fifth Formers, MacArthur had taken Salamaua airfield. Arriving at school, you found Mr. Hawkes new in the French and Mr. Pick in the English Departments, you were soon rehearsing with Mr. DeVeau for Blue Bottles Qfifty-nine of 'emlj You engaged in a further-increased work program which included extended waiting and pantry work, daily coal shoveling, and outdoor work squads. Mr. Wickens set up physical fitness programs according to government requirements, and those of you unfit in any category rapidly improved. The commando course is fit g are youB'f,, Your chronicler acquired the first dog to be owned by a dorm master in twenty years, 'Iiesulting in the inevitable flurry of Third Form Weekly comment. Cleo quickly mastered the art of uncovering and devouring contraband food hidden in Hundred House fnpoks, in the best faculty-inspector manner, to the ruin of many a Fifth Form study feed. As one mascot to another, she was able to gloat over Joe, when Captain Wo0d's,-First Monadnocks won their football season, but knew nothing of the first team's breathqtaking season's climax at Southboro, when Low snatched the winning pass for a. 14-7 Victory fifteen seconds before the final whistle. Key and West helped in that game, though West's injury landed him first in the St. Marks infirmary and later in ours. As soon as football ceased consuming Fifth Form energy, dormitory night life took on a most active character. Pomeroy's efforts to woo Morpheus, failing after three hours of restless tossing, invariably used to end in violent punchings of walls, bureau, bed, as he muttered disconsolately to himself. Low and Wood, more sociably, would talk in -their sleep, outdoing each other in their irrelevant mumblings to one another, while the rest of the dorm struggled to follow their dialogue. It all suddenly ended one night when Mr. Thomas, weary of nocturnal chatter, soaked the still-bewildered Lodge four blackmarks. At term end, the climax of much similar activity in Mr. Wright's dorm was MacShane's being tied inside a trunk and deftly and swiftly shipped to Mr. Mommsen's dorm. Mac liked this even less than having bureaus tipped over on him earlier in the term. It was in this term that deMenocal decided to take up Where the termites left off in the systematic destruction of Hundred House, door by door, wall bookcase by wall bookcase, window by window. Thanksgiving week was an eventful one. On Monday you were addressed by Mr. Mathew Josephson on Airways, the Imperialism of the Future, on Tuesday West was elected captain of football 5 on Wednesday Bishop Sherrill ordained Mr. Strachan to the priesthood in the presence of the whole school in the morning 3 in the afternoon you were shown two movies about Flemish painters 5 on Thursday you heard Mr. Irons's address at Thanksgiving service and then either left for Boston with deMenocal or gorged yourself on Mrs. Cross's delicious dinner, slept it off all afternoon, and saw Random Harvest after a buffet supper. On Friday and Saturday you probably did nothing except make beds, wait on table, shovel coal, shovel snow, and in your spare time - that curious, mythical belief of the masters-frantically try to make up the work skipped earlier in the week. Amid an exciting series of Christmas vacation invitations received in the mails, you began counting the hours left in a long term, in the course of which the Russians had fought back through Kiev and Cherkasy and had entered the Crimea. Our Italian offensive had accounted for Sardinia, Foggia, and Naples, Italy having in October declared war on Germany. In the Pacific we had occupied Lae, Kolombangara, Makin, Tarawa, New Britain, and Arawe. The day after Christmas was marked by the Royal Navy's sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst, and by our Marines' landing on Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Small wonder that early in the winter term, our movie-lecturer got his Yellow Cruise hilariously confused, as he skipped around the Orient like the morning head- lines. Low's enthusiasm for ice hockey became so great that he even seemed to like to take ice to bed with him nights. He and Key represented the Form on the hockey f38l 39 team, and Sibley and Schieffelin on the basketball team. A week of midyear examina- tions whetted your appetite for the coming diversion of Washington's Birthday weekend, which started blithely with the Dramat's presentation of You Can't Take It With You, in which Vreeland as Grandpa gave a convincing preview of his own appearance Ca well- preserved old fellow never having in his youth so much as once having had to shovel coal, for examplej in the year 2000 A.D. The Dramat, in respect for his advancing years, naturally elected him its president. Eighteen of you entertained guests for the all-too- fleeting weekend. Some of you finished the festivities by joining Mr, Nash in some emergency coal shoveling, for which he rewarded you by an unforgettable steak dinner at the Inn. Sundays of this term were largely devoted to peripatetic efforts to revive your sense of good humor, though Dwight followed Wood, who preferred the Pepperell direc- tion to that of the Devens airport, presumably because so many quaint Americans would trouble to slow down their cars, stare incredulously at Wood's white gym shorts, and in anything but Oxford accent holler Say, bud, where's ya' pants? Wood's British disregard of New England winter temperatures obviously called for some American boy to demonstrate our national ruggedness. Perrin responded by keeping his study as bare of comfort as Wood's knees, and just in case any Easterner took too much pa- triotic pride in this gesture, Perrin passed the winter with radiator off, coat off, and window nailed wide open. As a concession to culture of the intellect, Perrin allowed himself exactly three books on his six shelves, Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Consola- tion of Philosophy, the Iliad, also in scorn of Wood's earlier radiator-cookery Perrin did all his over Bunsen burners in the Chern,' lab. Meanwhile Key and Mr. Wright continued to concern themselves with the nicer subtleties of creature comforts in the dormitory, Mr. Wright conceding at the end of one spirited discussion that -some of these pillows aren't so good- when Key's pillow would not stand up at the bedstead in the approved Brooks House manner. All denizens of Brooks House, though, con- ceded that when it came to hunting and trapping mice, Lawrence and deMenocal of the Hundred House Fifth Form had no peers. As our carriers in the Pacific chalked up rising suns for each Jap plane demolished, so did these two experts proudly display rows of mouse-emblems on their study-wainscoting after each night's kill. Danny showed sympathy for his victims though, knowing, as he did, just how it feels to be trapped -say, outside a gym, naked, all doors locked. At the term-end band concert, Peltz, in the back row percussion section of the artistically-arranged performers, lent his own touch of atmosphere to the appearance of the ensemble by his fascinating masticatory rhythms, co-ordinated perfectly with Mr. DeVeau's baton. In the three months from Christmas to the beginning of spring term the irre- sistible Russian offensive had entered Poland, taken Novogorod, entered Estonia, and reached the Prut River, where Germany started in its 1941 drive for Moscow. Our Italian invasion had in January effected the landing at Anzio, and in the Pacific we had attacked Truk, taken Saidor, made numerous landings in the Marshalls, had occupied Manus in the Admiralty Islands, and had captured Kwajalein and Eniwetok. Hitler had occupied Hungary, the Allies had opened the Burma campaign, and the Japanese had entered India. Back for the spring term, you found as you entered chapel a school service flag numbering six hundred and twenty-one graduates in the armed forces. It was hard to keep your minds on spring sports in April and May as the Russians smashed through the Crimea and took Sevastopol, as Finland declined Russia's truce terms, as the siege of Cassino and drive from Anzio dominated headline and broadcast, as the Pacific news became ominously scarce, and as suspense hovered over the entire world, awaiting the inevitable continental European invasion from England. But in baseball, Brown, Pomeroy and Schieffelin played on the squad, and Key, Low and Sibley earned letters in an exciting St. Marks invasion, turned back, 9-6, after -i40l' thirteen innings that left all spectators limp with exhaustion. Low was elected captain, and on the Nashua, Lodge was elected captain of the river. His Monadnocks, in- cluding deMenocal, Lawrence and Romig had lost to the Wachusetts, whose boat had Dwight and Prescott. Nangle, Perrin, and West rowed the Second Monadnocks Po- cock straight to the bottom in a smash-dive one afternoon, but refused to submerge in the two counting races, to the chagrin of the defeated Wachusetts. The rowing season concluded in the defeat of our first boat and victory of our second in what were officially called informal races with Middlesex. The second boat's comedy of errors was noth- ing if not informal in general appearance, but to the untutored spectator at the red bridge, the informal was apparently forgotten by thirty-two oarsmen from rival schools rowing their hearts out in two hotly-contested and thrilling races. Perhaps the best sustained rivalry at the river, though, was that between Curtis and MacShane to see who could most effectively imitate PT boat tactics in crew launches, at no matter what damage to their craft, MacShane was given the decision and became crew manager. Unofficial naval engagements and sinkings on the river included the famous Fifth Form's forced foundering of Fourth Form's fragile floating framework of faggots fashioned from railroad ties, the battle itself being not far from the scene of the West Groton forest fire you all got so excited about. Four days after you paraded through Groton's Main Street on Memorial Day, your country's Army paraded victoriously through the streets of Rome, and two days later, as you finished your last examination, the D-Day Invasion of Normandy occupied the thoughts and hearts of all, Tuesday, June 6, 1944. At the Prize Day Exercises next morning, the Hallelujah Chorus was sung and listened to with profound fervor, after which, in the hall, Mr. Weeks, editor of The Atlantic, spoke most suitably of war experi- ences. From your Form, Stew Brown and Tim West received their war diplomas, and immediately thereafter entered, respectively, the Army Air Corps and the Navy. After a lively afternoon track meet CUnited States soldiers were racing across Normandy beaches near Cherbourgj, the Last Night Exercises began after supper on an evening of incredibly cold breezes which helped Romig educe splendid trernolo effects as you shiv- ered through Many Forms Have Gone Before Youn under the elms in front of Hundred House. Mr. Crocker announced the election of Romig, Dwight, and Key as your pre- fects. That summer of 1944 before your Sixth Form year found most of you in the war effort one way or another. Before June was over, the invasion forces had broken through the Germans on the Cotentin peninsula to isolate and then capture Cherbourg. In the Pacific, Biak and Saipan were invaded, the Russians had won Viipyri, Vitebsk, and Mogilev, the Finns came to an agreement with Germany, and the U.S.A. severed diplomatic relations with her. In July, the Alliesin France took Caen, La Haye-du-Puits, Saint-Lo, Lessay, Periers, and Constances. The Russians took Minsk, Vina, Grodno, Pskov, and drove on to the Baltic. In Italy we reached Livorno and Ancona. In the Pacific we had made new landings on New Guinea, completed the bloody conquest of Saipan, raided the Bonins and Volcanos, invaded Guam, and landed on Tinian. An assassination of Hitler was attempted. In August the invasion entered Brittany, took Rennes and Le Mans, a tank column reached Brest, Chartres and the Loire were won , Paris was liberated, and our armies raced on across the Marne, the Meuse, the Somme. The August 15th invasion of Southern France started our troops on a race for the Swiss border ,Bordeaux capitulated. The Russians took J assy, Ploesti, and entered Hungary, Rumania surrendered and de- clared war on Germany. In the Pacific, superfortresses began raiding the Yawata area in Japan, and the Philippines, Nagaski, and Palembang were bombed, but the J aps be- 1411 gan their offensive in the Southern Hunan province of China. Turkey broke with Germany. In September, as you prepared to return to the long-anticipated Sixth Form year on the 19th, the British had seized Arras, Brussels, Antwerp, and had crossed the Albert Canal, General Pattonls Third Army had entered Germany north of Triers and reached the Siegfried Line, an Allied Airborne Army had invaded Holland, Finland was lighting Germany, as was Bulgaria. The Russians were at the Danube, our Fifth Army in Italy had taken' Pisa, and in the Pacific we had attacked Mindanao in the Philippines, had landed on the Palaus, and were bombing Manila Bay. You found your numbers down to twenty-two as you set about the countless new responsibilities of Sixth Form year. New to the faculty were Messrs Foster and Niehaus in Science, Kerry in French, and Sargisson in Shop. Miss Gash had succeeded Miss Rowe as Librarian. Fifty new boys in the first four Forms, swelling the school total to an unprecedented 197,-you greeted upon arrival and ushered to their dormitories in your first important assignment of the year. To the wartime work program was added the task of doing all daily cleaning of cubicles and studies, necessitating a revised morn- ing timetable, and making still further inroads into curriculum time, more and more of which each year. you had been giving up to wartime demands, like all your fellow coun- trymen. 'A totally revised waiting system solved old problems, chiefly in the dining room, and created many new ones, chiefly elsewhere in school life, six of you became headwaiters, key men in the new plan, which was to be further re-fashioned in the winter. With the shortage of domestics in the masters, houses, many of you served as baby-sitters in the evenings. r As early as the first Sunday of the term, Peltz and Sibley, under Mr. Nash's direction, organized the Brush Fire Squads, for having heard that the countryside was to be exposed to the menace-of deMenocal at the wheel of the Mish Ford, they wished to be prepared for any emergency. The Form as a whole spent early afternoons in football and soccer, late afternoons at choir and band rehearsals, and evenings practicing squibs for the school birthday. Any time not otherwise accounted for, that might have gone into occasional preparation for a class here and there, was turned into frequent faculty suppers and an indoor sports program that included Kikit, Sixth Form hall bowling and basketball leagues, and many another form of diverting frolic. Outdoors, on the playing fields, Lawrence, after years of soccer, decided to show how easy football was after all, and became captain and triple-threat quarterback of the undefeated First Monadnocks, all Mr. DeVeau's loyal Wachusett efforts to get him moved up to the squad having failed miserably to convince coaching staffs. On the first squad were Day, McNealy, Pomeroy, MacShane, Prescott, Schieffelin and Wood, and on the first team, Dwight, Grosvenor, Key, Low, Lodge, Romig, Sibley, Sheddeng all fifteen received letters in the one-sided 25-0 victory over St. Marks. For further details of a fine season you are referred elsewhere in this volume. Under the auspices of the new Activities Program, instituted by the faculty in October to encourage hobbies and other creative efforts, the Low brothers, Prescott and Schieffelin formed a vocal quartet, and a number of you revived the Civics Club, under the direction of Mr. Irons, for the discussion of current affairs. On these activity evenings, Curtis, who had holed up in the cellar early in the term, merely would transfer his evening endeavors from Food Store in one basement to Photography darkroom in another. Afternoons and mornings, unless he remembered to attend an occasional class, he devoted to enacting a role of Sherlock Holmes in modern dress. Vreeland, foreseeing the risk of ruining his record of never having touched a coal shovel, quickly evolved an intensive Dramat program calling for a play every few weeks in the coal heaving season. Lodge, just to show his versatility, joined in the spirit of all this, forthwith wrote a play himself, whose gala premiere took place one evening at faculty supper 5 but Lodge's chief indoor fun continued to be the 'l42l- ,gf-Nm 43 methodical destruction of your historian's furniture, as night after night Lodge blitzed one chair, or sofa, or bed, after another to splintered fragments. deMenocal continued as in the preceding year to prefer smashing doors and wall bookcases, when playing a home engagement, but on the road, at the wheel of the Mish Ford, his preference was to bisect a road fork and take to the underbrush, or else attempt courageously to wreck Army trucks three times his size. November began with the elections of Lodge, Low, Prescott, Schieffelin and Wood to school prefectship, and of a famed graduate to his fourth term as President of the United States. Engineers were engaged to mine the Nashua's ledges, presumably to force MacShane to submerge his launches if he wanted to continue sinking them. From these periodic blasts, earth shocks were felt as far as Mr. Cushing's house, where falling ceilings caused the head baseball coach to strengthen his opinion of the sport of rowing. Football ended on the 11th, Armistice Day, with the celebration of the victory over St. Marks, and on Monday, the 13th, the whole school took up touch-tackle and soccer. You helped make the War Fund Drive yield a generous amount to an organiza- tion vital to the country's war effort. Then, on Friday the 17th, the Headmaster assembled the school before supper, in the Hundred House schoolroom, to announce the sudden death of the Rector that afternoon. Sunday morning Mr. Crocker preached an inspiring sermon on the Rector's great Christian character. As, on the following Monday afternoon, the moving and beautiful service for the Rector concluded, you sensed that it had been your privilege, uniquely, in your six years to span the end of one era and the beginning of another. It had become your lot to be the Rector's last First Form, and in the ensuing five years to witness the steady evolution, amid the changes wrought both by the war and by Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, of a new and different Groton. A solemn school community, three days after the service for the Rector, observed Thanksgiving with gratitude deep in its hearts for all that the Peabodys had given it, in founding the school and building it to its present pinnacle in all of your loyalties. In his address, Mr. Loewenberg poignantly increased a sense of gratitude, for all listeners, of a heritage as Americans, who found our paths in this pleasant place. Mr. Gardner's birthday on December 3d was observed with the keen enjoyment he would so have approved, and the Book Fair, become an annual event, occupied pleas- ant hours of your day, in spite of an ugly rumor that it was the first time certain mem- bers of your author's English class had ever entered the library. MacShane was observed noting sales promotion ideas, which he immediately incorporated into the intensive campaign for the promotion of this yearbook. As December moved nearer to Christmas vacation, Perrin distributed chocolates to Sixth Form lineups, and most of you danced at Forge, Ayer, and Shirley to get into training for the approaching holidays. The Dramat's production of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral was a signal success, owing in part to many of you behind the scenes, in part to the competent performances of Dwight, Pomeroy, and Wood onstage, and primarily to Vreeland's splendid achieve- ment in the exacting major role of the Archbishop. A ' On you return for the winter term, Dwight promptly led the school, as usual, in the Time Test, and the masters were heard to mumble something in class about mid- year examinations, so you made gestures for a while toward preparing lessons, which up to now had not been a featured pastime in your busy final year. The clue to some of the failed examinations which naturally followed such a half year may be found in Lodge's question to Colonel Whitridge at the close of his lecture on Army Air Forces Intelligence, just a few days before the examinations: Sir, how many American soldiers are marrying English girls? As the midyears finished, Mrs. Crocker outdid even her own football dinner party in the fall by giving another wonderful dinner party, this time to the Form, in honor of those graduating next day. Too soon it was necessary to move over to the -i44l' hall, where a showing of 'fArsenic and Old Lacell was the perfect antidote for everyone after a week of midyears horror. Next day, February llth, at graduation exercises in the hall, Curtis, Grosvenor, Perrin, Romig and Wood received their diplomas, and a new custom was inaugurated. For the first time ever, even in the vagaries of New Eng- land June weather, it was possible for the new graduates to be picked up affectionately by their Form and hurled high into a mammouth snowdrift in front of Hundred House. That left a Sixth Form of seventeen, sixteen for coal and snow shoveling, and Vreeland to rehearse for Hllncle Harryf' With its eventual production on February 23d, the coal pile simultaneously gave out, and the Dramat president's triumphant timing was widely admired. lfreed at last from all rehearsing, he joined the sixteen of you in withstanding assaults by the rest of the school on your imposing snowfortress at the flagpole. With midyears disposed of, and the five graduates departed, all pretense of studying was again abandoned for a week of sight subjects, holidays, play performances, basket- ball and hockey games, weekend guests, dances, midnight suppers by faculty chefs, teas, and similar forms of recreation. Let each reader in the Form here supply his own unwritten page of specific refereneesl' as to what and whom he chooses to forget and remember. At weekls end, the head of the casualty list was undisputedly Mc-Nealy's, with his disillusionment, dislocated nose, and disassembled toboggan sled. Lodge, having as property manager for the play stolen and later returned articles from every master of the faculty, plunged into the weekend gaiety with abandon, and emerged Sunday grinning like a blithe and merry dairymaid. Vreeland resumed his commuting to New York for weekends, and on his return from the next one, feeling the need of a new and bigger quintet, which in its first practice utterly failed to win the lleadmastefs approval of its lullaby, t'Lili Marlene. lindismayed, he turned his talents next to organizing, with Sibley, Voodoo Night at faculty supper. First a facility member, in Tlzirrl How: Perrin, NlacShane, Prescott, Furtis, Peltz S1-f-01111 Ifozr: G. Low, G. Lodge, C. Grosvenor, Yreeland, McNealy, Sehieffelin, Naugle, Pomeroy, VVood, deNlenoeal Frou! Ifozr: R. Lawrence, Shcdden, Dwight, Key, Romig, Day, Sibley i45l- effigy, was perforatedg then Schieffelin was persuaded that the chief symptom of the state of hypnosis was hot foot, finally Sibley hypnotized Prescott into a stupor from which only the blasts of the band concert a few nights later could rouse him. Then Low, upon receipt of a long-expected induction notice, executed the neatest end run of a brilliant career. He read the notice, went baby sitting at a master's house to ponder the whole problem g leaving his draft board as flustered as St. Marks tacklers, he acquired a bad pain in his tummy, promptly had his appendix removed, andthe head coach of baseball had his captain and shortstop for one more season. The term end movie was a double bill: Fighting Lady and Going My Way. From the story of your Sixth Form year, progress of the war has been deliberately omitted, just because its pattern of increasing success and imminent victory on all fronts was so impressed upon your minds each day that no summary is needed here. By the end of your winter term, both Berlin and Tokio were shuddering under vicious bombings, and the inevitable end of it all had drawn as steadily closer, as had your own ultimate day of induction into the Armed Forces, perhaps to participate in its final phases. During the shortened spring vacation, the printer required this history to be concluded. G Your spring term, with April's College Entrance Examinations, snow squalls during rowing and baseball practices, the respite of Mr. Billings' birthday on the 21st, and its promise of May mildness will be easily recalled. Nor will your memories in the years to come cloud over any recollection of May of my Sixth Form year, with beautiful weather, May Services, evening marching, the Memorial Day Parade. With J une's happy excitement culminating in your Prize Day on the 14th, other pages of the yearbook will provide materials for the memories of six years of happiness amid a chang- ing school and a turbulent world. It is the writerls hope that as you go forth from the school, this history will serve from time to time to freshen your memory of what is certain to prove a privilege and blessing for which you ever will be more and more grate- ful- I went to Groton? -A. G. G. f46l Uhe Qzfrms Q Fourth Row: Stevens, Hooper, Lothrop, Chandler, Coster, J. Lawrence, Walser, Little, James Brewer ' Third Row: Wrenn, Coolidge, D. Carter, Field, Davison, M. Morgan, Gardiner, Putnam, Gray, Hart, Peabody Second Row: Hutchins, Simpkins, Hunnewell, Powers, Robins, Trowbridge, Kunhardt, P. Hwo schinsky, Redfield Front Row: Palmer, Woolverton, Starring, S. Brown, P. Zabriskie, H. Welch, Train, Krumbhaar Stevenson, Auchincloss ' Fifth Form Secretary PHILIP T. ZABitI'sKIE Councillors A SHEPARD BROWN G. HAROLD WELCH l48l F , ,K - Fourth Row: G. LaFarge, J. Brown, VVetxf1dY'e, Booth, Robb, T. Brown, Hator, T. Morgan, Osborn Third Row: Webster, Kirk, Bator, Mdrshall, Bordman, Stevens, Auchincloss, Luther, Sayre, S. Stevens Second Row: Hitchcock, R. Nangle, R. Scott, Bacon, Taylor, Harper, Mackay-Smith, Mathews, NI. Brewer, J. Dwight Front Roux' R. McNealy, Pardue, E. hlorss, R. Grosvenor, Nletcalf, D. Lawrence Missing: M. Foster ,i F' . Fourth Form . . Secretary I Evrlmyfr MoRss, JR. Cdotuncillors PETER A. PARDUE 'if RICHARD GROSVENOR 5 -f ' Jl49lL Fourth Row: Rathbun, Ingalls, Mcllehee, Zabriskie, Frothingham, VVhite, Loring, Farwell, VVhite, Erhart, Brunei, Kinney, Kunhardt Third Row: Birkhead, Hwoschinsky, Jackson, Sedgwick, VVashburn, Crocker, Mcflagg, Cross- man, Palmer, Smith, Milliken, Davison, Amory Second Row: Carter, Myers, Johnson, Coxon, Hadley, Hopkins, Hale, Leahy, Peaslee, Gates, Lodge, Storey, Kennedy Frmzt Roux' llaker, D. Low, Emmons, Bartlett, R. White, Goodale, Emery .lI1'S.S'1'71,g.' Skamser Third Form Secretary GEORGE H. BARTLETT Councillors ROBERT W. EMMONS, JR. RICHARDSON WHITE fl50l Third Row: L. Lawrence, Tucker, Kingsley, Dougherty, Ketchum, N. Brown Second Row: Hadden, Crowell, Townsend, Atherton, Laporte, Brewer, Storey, J. Morgan Williams Front Raw: M. Smith, Lay, Rhinelanrler, Folger, W. LaFarge, F. Mali, N. Welch, Foster, Morss Walker, Glessner Second Form Secretary 1 REn15R.1cK J. MALI Councillors W. E. R. LA FA1zon NOIZIAPJ WFLLCH l51l Third Row: Cunningham, Robertson, Crossman, Cushing, Hobson, Forster, 0yBrien, Phillips Second Row: Rose, Richards, Van Pelt, lll. Walker, J. Ketchum, Berry, Forster, J. Hopkins Coolidge Front Roux' Armitage, Hofer, Stone, Harding, Gardner First Form Secretary HERBERT S. STONE, III Councillors MYRON A. HOFER, II JAMES H. HARDING Jl52l Q -, Organizfifivns Sammi Row: Yrecland, Nangle, MacShanf- Front Row: Curtis, Sibley, VVOOfl JIi.S'.i'1.I1gI La wrence Yearbook Editor-in-Chief HARPER SIBLEY, JR. Business Manager Assistant Business Manager FRANK S. MACSHANE FREDERICK D. VREELAND Associate Editors THOMAS R. NANGLE RICHARD H. LAWRENCE Photographic Editors JOHN E. CURTIS JOHN E. L. WOOD 11541 Second Row: Schieffelin, Pomeroy, Prescott, Wood, Sibley Front Row: Curtis, Vreelaud, Dwight, Romig, Day Missing: St. Brown, T. Nangle, R. Nangle The Grotonian Editor-in-Chief GEORGE H. P. DWIGHT DAVID W. ROMIG FREDERICK D. VREFJLAND FLETCHER J. POMEROY Business Managers JOHN E. CURTIS LANGDON E. M. DAY THOMAS R. NANGLE Literary Editors Press Editors ISS! JOHN E. L. WOOD WILLIAM F. PRESCOTT STEWART H. BROWN Sports Editors HARPER SIBLEY, JR. JOSEPH B. SCHIEFFELIN ROBERT C. NANGLE Third Roux' Perrin, dm-Mcnocul, VVoocl, Prescott, Key, Sibley Srcoml Row: Lodge, McNcaly, Nangle, Curtis, Pomeroy, Lawrence Front Roux' Dwight, Mr. Abry, Schieffelin, Romig, Day, llr. Moss, Yreelanrl Missionary Society President IJAVID W. ROMIG Vice President Secretary-Treasurer JOSEPH B. SCHIEFFELIN LANGDON E. M. DAY Campaign Ojicer GEORGE H. P, DWIGHT Faculty A dvisvr Chaplain MR. Moss MR. ABRY i561 Missionary Society The purpose of the Missionary Society, states its constitution, is to fulfill in actual practice the responsibility of the School in the community. The question might well be asked, 'ito what extent does the Society actually serve the community? There can be no question of the growth of the Society during the past five years. More boys are active in it than formerly. The money contributed to it by the School is twice the amount which used to be raised. But it cannot be claimed yetnthat the Society serves the community to the fullest extent possible. In certain of its well defined activities it does a creditable job. But before the Society can claim to be doing all it can it must have closer contact with the community it strives to serve. In many of the meetings it is apparent that the Society does not know what are the real needs of the community. It should certainly be the hope of the Society that in the future boys will have more time to get to know the community in which they live and that stronger links with that community will be forged. During the School year 1944-45 members of the Society found it difficult to de- vote as much time to its activities as they would have liked to. r But in spite of this the work done was of a high order. Here are a few of the highlights of the year as they appear to the faculty advisor. First of all the Ayer Sunday School's growth from 38 to 59 students should be credited in large part to the enthusiastic labors of the teachers. This year the teachers shared in conducting the services and preaching sermons. Wood's sermon on faith will not soon be forgotten. You have to have faith even when you eat, he said, adding, especially in these days. Most of the sermons were four or five min- utes long but on one occasion Vreeland broke loose with an eighteen-minute allocution which even silenced the prattling of the four-year-olds in the front pew. Secondly, the Boys' Club hadvits most successful season in recent years. Now under the sponsor- ship of the Groton Rotary Club it is simply operated for them by the Society. This link with the town gave the club new meaning and the imaginative leadership of Lodge made the club a real contribution to the life of the community. The third highlight of the year was the new work at the Ayer Hospital. It consisted of janitor work one day a week. Washing walls is not exciting work, nevertheless it is specifically related to welfare work in the community and provides an opportunity for boys to serve the com- munity through its health services. Finally, the Christmas parties, which are always better than the parties of the year before, really were better than ever. The climax of the Forge party came after the party was over, when everything was loaded on the Mish Ford and all twelve passengers were aboard, Curtis couldn't find the keys to the car. It had to be abandoned and the report is that Mr. Willson brought twenty people home in his sedan. Special mention should be made of Lodge's portrayal of a homesick Santa Claus. His unrehearsed slipping on a puddle of melted ice cream at the Ayer party almost literally brought down the house. -R. A. M. 4571 Second Roux' MacShanc, Pe-liz, Schieffelin, Mr. Znhncr, Sibley, Yreelanfl Front Row: Lodge, Key, Low Athletic Association EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chairman JOSEPH B. SCHIEFFELIN IDAVID M. KEY GEORGE C. LODGE W. GILMAN Low, IV FINANCIAL COMMITTEE Chairman JOSEPH B. SCHIEFFELIN FREDERICK D. VREELAND HENRY S. PELTZ FRANK S. MACSHANE HARPER SIBLEY, JR. MR. ZAHNER 158 I' Fourth Row: G. lialfarge, li. Lawrence, Scott, Train, Palmer, Pomeroy, Mr. Beasley, llart, Dwight, Hitchcock Third Roux' Sedgwick, Mackay-Smith, Powers, Sibley, YV. L2ll'l2ll'gL', D. IAIWFCIICO, Osborn Mathews, Zalrriskic, Metcalf, Morgan, Simpkins, J. Brown, Schieffclin, Baker Sffeonrl lion-: Bator, T. Brown, Vreeland, Davison, Shedden, Savre Frmif Roux' R. Grosvenor, Taylor, Ilooper, Dwight, Lorlge, MzicShane, Ilutchins, Morss, Rath- lmun, Myers .l1l'SSl'llg.' Mr. Strachan Dramatic Association Prrfsident FREDERICK D. YREELANIJ Vice Presidf'nt Secretary- Treasurer IJAYID W. ROMH: FRANK S. NIACSHANE Siagr Manager Property Manager Electrician CHARLES B. GROSVENOR GEORGE C. LODGE GEORGE H. P. IJVVIGHT t59l n Dramatics This year the Dramat was at least twice as active as it has been for the past few years. In spite of the pressure of the various work programs and the added burden of wartime difficulties, the Dramat put on one play in December and another on the week- end of Washington's birthday. That the members were highly successful in both ventures is a credit to their talent and to long hours of skilful training. r T. S. Eliot's poetic drama Murder in the Cathedral was produced shortly before the Christmas holidays. No one will deny that it is a difficult play, and that Eliot treats the story of Thomas Becket on a number of different levels of meaning: there is first of all the mere narrative or story g there is the inner spiritual challenge, struggle, and final triumph, and there is, as a constant undercurrent, the implication that the theme has its relevance today. It would be hazardous to suggest that every member of the audience got from the play all its possible meanings, but even boys from the Lower School for days afterwards were repeating and echoing those meaningful lines, The last temptation is the greatest treason To do the right thing for the wrong reason. Of the Four Tempters, M. Morgan was the most convincing and insinuatingg of the Four Knights, Woolverton was easily the most diabolically suave. The Chorus, evidencing great care and precision in its training and led by Scott, was especially remarkable for tl1e clarity of its diction. , But the triumph of the evening belonged to Vreeland who took the part of Becket 3 his was one of the most sustained interpretations of a difiicult part that the school has seen. Astute direction highlighted the application of the play to our own World of today, and the production of Murder in the Cathedral was indeed a landmark in the record of the Dramat and in the intellectual and artistic history of Groton. The play given for the guests on Washington's Birthday weekend was also a murder play-but of an entirely different sort. Uncle Harry was chosen to amuse by its cleverly manipulated plot, by its adroit surprises, and by the chance it gave for certain character parts. A murder mystery about the perfect crime which turns out ironically, the play had its light side, and it had its serious side, and the more reflective part of the audience found themselves disturbed by nightmares and by a bitter taste in their mouths. But the spirit of the audience as a whole was one of gaiety, and they found special delight in the sinister thrills and in witnessing Taylor Cwho did an especially fine job in the closing sceneb and Scott take the parts of the two cruel and selfish spinster sisters of Uncle Harry who was even more self-righteous and self-centered than they. M. Morgan played the part of Uncle Harry with a combination of subtle cynicism and cynical subtlety. There was no doubt as to the audience's enjoyment of the play. The technical crews turned out exceptionally fine sets in the face of wartime shortages of lumber, muslin, and other basic necessities. They salvaged and pieced together-but this is to reveal a secret known only to Mr. Strachan and his staff. No one can underestimate the skill of Mr. Beasley's casting and direction of the plays and his triumph in restoring the Dramat to a two-play season. -JOHN PICK il 60 l 61 Fifth Roux' Prescott, Mr. Gallien, Mr. Strachan, Mr. VVright, G. Lodge Fourth Row: Schieffelin, Stevens, MacShane, Romig Third Roux' D, Carter, Low, Sibley, VVood, Mr. Gammons, Pomeroy, Lothrop, Mr. DeVeau Sopranos Armitage Berry Coolidge Cunningham H. Gardner Glessner Hofer J. Hopkins Hoppin Ingalls Kennedy W. LaFarge L. Lawrence Lay H. Lodge Rathbun Second Roux' Hofer, Foster, Crossman, H. Lodge, Washburn, Kennedy, VV. LaFarge, Mali Ingalls, Harding, Jackson, Armitage Front Roux' VVilliams, Van Pelt, Glessner, O'Brien, Robertson, Gardner, L. Lawrence, Berrv Richards, Stone, Cunningham, Coolidge, Rose, Amory, Coxon, J. Hopkins Mali 0'Brien Richards Robertson Rose Stone Van Pelt Altos Amory Coxon Harding Jackson Rathbun Washburn Williams Choir lfhnirmasfer, MR. GAMMONS i62l Tenors S. Brown D. Carter Lothrop G. Low Pomeroy Sibley Wood Mr. Gallien Mr. Wright Basses G. Lodge MacShane M. Morgan Prescott Romig Schieffelin Stevens Mr. Cushing lVIr. DeVeau Music This year has seen a great abundance of musical activities ranging from large ensembles such as the band and choir through smaller groups of vocalists and instru- mentalists down to individual performers and of course the many who participate as listeners. The school choir has shown a splendid spirit in the preparation of the musical portions of our two Sunday services. The repertoire, apart from service music has in- cluded much fine unaccompanied material, Russian and contemporary church music, chorales and some of the best oratorio choruses. The fall term was climaxed by the satisfying carol service while the winter term brought the service of lights followed by fine Epiphany and Lenten music and the spring term was festive with the music of Easter and the other feasts which culminated in the Hallelujah Chorus on Prize Day. Interest in the organ and its music was manifested in the steady attendance at the evening organ recitals played by Mr. Gammons and Mr. DeVeau. Under the firm rein of our classicist director the band has done the finest work in its history. Mr. DeVeau's understanding of a school band, his own good arrangements and selections coupled with his careful and unrelenting work have brought the band to a new level of flexibility and musical effectiveness. The winter term concert not only gave unalloyed pleasure to the audience but showed fine performance on the part of the band and soloists. For the smaller faculty children and others the spring term means marching, Decoration Day and the lift that only a brass band can give. The real spirit of that derives from the band and its director. During the year the school has been fortunate in hearing traditional American folk music from Mr. John, Jacob Niles and wholesome ballads sung by Earle Spicer who further enlivened his concert by allowing the school to sing with him. String quartets are often believed to appeal only to musical aesthetes yet the Tanglewood Quartet scored a triumph not only by its performance but by the enthusiasm aroused in the school. Despite the inadequacy and erratic performance of the phonograph in the Fine Arts room, the greatly enlarged record collection has provided musical enjoyment for many. In addition Mr. Freiday's Phono-Concerts and Mr. Mommsen's Record Quizzes have attracted a knowing and appreciative following. With the advent of Saturday evening activities a peregrination about the school might lead a visitor to assume he was in the midst of a Hcollegium musicumf' The organ sounds forth from the chapel, pianists, vocalists, yes, even swing bands fill the school- house with sound, the tones of an orchestra emanate from the Crocker'sg tootings resound in the Dome and the less actively inclined cluster about phonographs in masters' studies. This evidence of interest in making and listening to music must rejoice the spirit of Mr. Lynes who devoted thirty years to implanting a love of music in Groton School. -E. B. G. i63l P' ' l l l l Third Row: Vreeland, Zabriskie, hir. Freiday, R. Stevens, Morgan, Amory, J. Brown, Bator, Wrenn, Mr. Gammons, Schieffelin, Powers, Mr. Abry, lN'Ir. Noble, Mr. Niehaus, Goodale, S. Brown, Trowbridge, Davison Second Roux' Pomeroy, Palmer, Foster, Lodge, Townsend, Hunnewell, MacShane, Pardue, Mr. Wright, Mr. DeVeau, Wetmore, Carter, Dwight, Hutchins, Auchincloss, Er- hart, W. LaFarge, Mathews, Prescott Front Hour: Sibley, Peltz, Birckhead, Hale, Low, Morss, J. Lawrence, Bator, Luther, Perera Missing: Mr. Richards, Robb, Peabody, Coster Band Director CLARINETS MR. DEVEAU Solo: Mr. Wright, Pardue, lNIacShane First: Hunnewell, Townsend CORNETS and TRUNIPETS Second: Wreun, Paul Bator, J. Brown, Solo: Wetmore, D. Carter Amory First: J. Dwight, Hutchins Third: D. Low, Hale, A. Morss, llirck- Seconrl: Robb, Mr. Abry, Powers head Th'n':E.A h' l,,Eh ,W.L'- irarge uc inc oss A r art a ALTEI REARINET ALTO HORNS A ' Organ J. Lawrence, Peter Bator, Peabody SAXOPHONES Luther, Perera Soprano and First Alto: G. Lodge fI'RfJ1yIBONES Second Alto: BI. Foster, G. Palmer First: Trowbridge, S. Brown Tenfwf Pomeroy. SWVCUS Second: Goodale, hir. Niehaus Baritone: MT- Ffelday Third: Mr. Noble PERCUSSIQN BARITONE HORNS Snare Drums: Peltz, Coster, Sibley Prescott, Mathews Bass Drum: P. Zabriskie TURA Cymbals: Vreeland W gchieffelin Triangle, Bells: G. Davison SOUSAPHONES MANAGER Mr. Richards, Mr. Gammons J. Brown l64l Second Hmr: MacShane, Day, Mr. Irons, Vreelanfl, Pomeroy Front Roux' Sibley, G. Dwight, Lawrence flli.s'sz'ng: dellenocal Civics Club Despite the work program, a crowded schedule, and the impact of war on the ranks of the Sixth Form, nine members of the Form managed to Hnd the time to continue the Civics Club as an institution and the discussions which took place in the Irons' parlor generated enough heat to make cokes and gingerale well nigh essential as cooling agents. Five meetings were held on Saturday evenings during the winter term and the subjects discussed included the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, socialized medicine, the Groton work program, postwar military training, and possibilities for Russo-American co-operation. Harper Sibleyls decided views on several of these questions gave other members a target at which to shoot, of which full advantage was taken. Perhaps the best short talks during the proceedings were those of Day and Pomeroy. The club was most appreciative of all the catering efforts of its hostess, but her most signal success was the provision of hot chocolate and waffles at the last meeting of the winter. Late in January, the club's chairman, George Dwight, and F. D. Vreeland, journeyed to Boston and appeared on New England's Junior Town Meeting of the Air in a forum on Labor Unions. Listeners agreed that Dwight has a radio future. Less successful was an outside debate with Roxbury Latin on postwar free trade. The Groton team of Dwight, Pomeroy and Zabriskie had good material, but showed that prac- tice in formal debating is necessary to improve delivery. The informal give and take of the club discussions are pleasant and have their value, but much is to be said for the old fashioned debate as a school for public speakers. H-R. K. I. i651 T Third Form Weekly Editor-in-Chief ROBERT W. EMMONS, JR. Press Editors , ISENNETH B. KUNHARD1' PHILIP W. SMITH, JR. Assistant Press Editors CEOVVELL BAKER GEORGE H. BARTLETT BERTRAND B. HOPKINS JOHN V. FARWELL, IV RICHARD C. STOREY, JR. SUMNER W. WHITE, III Associate Editor DAVID H. LOW Sports Editor Business Manager WILLIAM K. ERHART CHARLES MCGEHEE Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Business Manager THOMAS B. LORINC F. COIT JOHNSON, II The Groton School Quarterly Editor School News MALCOLM STRACHAN FREDERIC J. DEVEAU Alumni Notes HENRY H. RICHAR,DS 1661 flfhlafics 68 in 33 JI :Z 'Zu url C :rf ,.v. 4-'ugh -E Q 1:11322 .: hcl, :LE E . QDD4 :.Et:',,, PEE-.5 .Q 4CS if -..:: .2 .531 to DVC'-'-1 .6'E-cd xv... 52:56 mi' QE . 9,-2 nviggg Qge , 'inkwia 5-194-fha J' -4: L-an , ..'Icc'O A-EDA fwfr- SAE? Tiki 2555? P r P-1 'Ei f .www c1p,:: Qs ,ning E2 I-4.-Com ,., Q:-3-. QBOZ: memo -tai: -w'cg-Q Rigs: :Nutz CQ x 5-L. Rctg JI Football Captain-DAVID M. KEY, JR. Manager-FREDERICK D. VREELAND Coaches LAWRENCE M. NOBLE PAUL W. WRIGHT HARVEY SARGISSON GROTON SCHOOL FOOTBALL SEASON OF 1944 It was not so many years ago that American football was predominantly a de- fensive game which lacked variety, imagination and daring in offensive tactics. This period reached its peak in the famous Michigan teams of over a decade ago, whose motto was a punt, a pass, and a prayer. Winning football teams had rugged defenses, strong off tackle plays, good kickers and passers, but the accepted strategy was to emphasize the defense, avoid risks, and wait for the breaks. One famous championship Groton team of the late twenties illustrated this point of view by scoring practically all all its few touchdowns by such methods as blocked kicks, intercepted passes, and recov- ered fumbles, while holding every opponent scoreless. In the St. Marks game that year Groton won 13-0 over a favored Southborough eleven which rolled up thirteen first downs to one for Groton Cresult of a penaltyl. The two Groton touchdowns were scored on an intercepted pass and a blocked kick. Notre Dame's famous Four Horsemen and its fast-shifting T formation began the trend toward more variety and imagination in offense, and since that time there has been a steady development in that direction with the offense generally keeping a jump ahead of the defense every year. This has meant constant flux in methods and techniques of coaching, greater variety in formations and defensive maneuvers, and the end of the old conservative stereotyped football. This rejuvenation has on the whole been good for the game, though it has been a headache for many coaches who like to teach the same old thing year after year. The modern T formation with its man-in-motion, flankers, laterals, and deceptive ball handling, typifies this new spirit which puts the emphasis on speed and deception rather than power. It puts a premium on brains rather than brawn and the boys find it is more fun. Fortunately Groton came in on the ground floor in this type of football as far as Eastern Secondary Schools are concerned, and this will continue to be a distinct advantage as other schools adopt it. For two years Groton teams have been using the T formation with considerable success without meeting a single opponent who also used the T. We have been fortunate each year in having two or three fast-breaking backs as well as a good quarterback and passer, both of which are essential to success with the T. Next year we understand that at least two of our seven opponents will use this formation against us, and we shall probably learn a few lessons on how to defend against it. This year we had the usual nine days of practice before the first game, interrupted by make-up examinations, physical examinations and equipment problems. However, we had the advantage of one year's experience with our new formation, two unusually versatile backs in Dave Key and Joe Low, a veteran tackle in Charley Grosvenor, an experienced guard in George Dwight, a well rounded quarterback in Phil Zabriskie, and i69l 70 what looked like a strong end squad. It was evident from the beginning that the squad was light, but that it was also keen, alert, fast, and eager to do well. ' The season began against an inexperienced Lawrence Academy eleven. The comparative ease with which we scored a 33-0 victory did not mislead us, but the smooth functioning of the basic T plays was a pleasant surprise and the performance of the team as a whole was most encouraging, considering the time of year. Certain characteris- tics of the team were revealed which were important factors throughout the season. In the first place, we had in Captain Dave Key and Joe Low two outstanding halfbacks who were the spark plugs of the team. They were experienced, fast, shifty, and de- pendable. In my thirteen years at Groton I cannot remember any one team ever having two such dangerous open field runners. In the second place, though one of the lightest teams in Groton history, this eleven had a certain daring aggressiveness and gambling instinct which surprised and baffled its opponents, to say nothing of its own coaches. Quarterback Ph-il Zabriskie proved to be a clever ball handler, with a cool head and a fine passing arm, and never one who was loath to take a chance. His adventuresome spirit back-Hred once or twice, in the form of intercepted passes, but his average of suc- cess in risky maneuvers was very high. Finally, this team believed in its attack and in itself, and under Dave Key's fine leadership reached heights which far exceeded the coaches' fondest dreams. The second game was with Tabor Academy, a newcomer to the Groton schedule, and preceding the contest there were the usual unconfirmed reports that Groton boys seem to enjoy frightening each other with-this time that Tabor was a Naval academy whose older boys were exempt from the draft because they were preparing for Annapolis. The Tabor team turned out to be a husky aggregation, but luckily for us they had been delayed a week in beginning practice because of the hurricane, with the result that our superior condition combined with brilliant running by Key and Low and Zabriskie's passing produced another one sided victory by the same score as the week before. One encouraging feature of the season up to this point was the unexpected de- velopment of the line, about which we had had many misgivings before practice began. Although the line had not as yet had a real test, certain individuals were showing definite promise. The leading guards were G. Dwight, Pomeroy and Shedden, while the tackles were C. Grosvenor, G. Lodge, R. Stevens and MacShane, with Peabody and Sibley com- peting at center. Mr. Sargisson was soon to weld an aggressive and resourceful unit out of this material. The end squad, under the capable supervision of Mr. Wright, was mak- ing rapid progress. It was composed of J. Gray, Romig, P. Kunhardt, E. Morss, W. McNealy, J. Lawrence, and Putnam. Lothrop was leading the field at fullback, and the other backfield substitutes were Day, Erhart, R. White, Schieffelin and Wood. Recollections of three years ago when, after two easy victories, we fell before Middlesex, kept the squad working hard in preparation for the important third game at Concord. We received a severe blow in the loss of Captain Key during this week, due to a broken wrist which would probably keep him out for the season. The Middlesex game proved the mettle of this eleven, and banished all doubts as to the calibre of our material and the effectiveness of our attack. Though decidedly outplayed for the first period, which revealed certain defensive weaknesses, we came back to score three touch- downs in the second and third, due chiefly to brilliant running by the irrepressible Low and well-executed passes by Zabriskie and Gray. The B team took over the fourth period, and Middlesex scored one touchdown, which relieved us from the inevitable tension of maintaining an unscored on record. i -l71l As the Belmont Hill game approached we heard rumors of an all-veteran team with thirteen lettermen, and we knew they were undefeated and had already taken powerful St. Marks into camp. The game was played in the rain on a muddy field, and although Belmont won, 13-0, and clearly deserved their victory, it was not a discourag- ing setback for the Groton team. Our light fast team was definitely handicapped in the mud, we were without the services of both Peabody and Key. Due to the playing conditions, we could not take advantage of our passing game which had become oneof our vital weapons. The Belmont team was rugged and heavy, and had obviously pointed for this game. They scored a touchdown early in the contest on a well-executed forward lateral followed by a thirty yard run. Although we gained consistently with our ground attack, and decidedly out-rushed our visitors, two or three crucial fumbles and unfor- tunate passes kept us from scoring. The second Belmont touchdown came in the fourth period on an intercepted short side pass, just as we had made a sustained march deep into their territory. It was a game of missed opportunities, but valuable lessons were learned, and the squad dug in harder than ever for the last three games.. We were some- what consoled to learn that the following week Middlesex decisively defeated Belmont. English High of Boston came to Groton with a team averaging 185 pounds, a fact we had already learned from an article in a Boston paper containing the weights of every man on their squad. This was a rather frightening prospect as we contemplated our average of 157. Although we unexpectedly had Captain Key available with a huge cast over his right hand, both players and coaches felt we had only an outside chance to win over so formidable an aggregation. As so often happens in such a situation, the scared Groton team bounced back from its muddy defeat by Belmont, and dumfounded the over-confident high school boys with a display of speed, deception and passing which ended in a 12-0 victory. We were particularly surprised by the effectiveness of our de- fense against the English power plays. A variety of defensive formations, each one seeming to anticipate the next play, completely bottled up their powerful single wing offense. Our line had learned a lot against Middlesex and Belmont. Dave Key amazed everyone by his one-armed ball carrying and defensive play, while the passing of Za- briskie to Gray baffled the English backs completely. As one of their backs remarked after the game, Those Groton ends were six feet four, every one of them! As a matter of fact, three of them were. The combination of the Belmont defeat and the surprise English victory was the best possible preparation for the two final objective games, Milton and St. Marks. These two opponents found the Groton team at its peak, and it is significant to note that both were decisively beaten by exactly the same score, 25-0. We were as usual distinctly outweighed, but neither opponent seemed to be able to cope with the quick opening thrusts, laterals, sweeps, and passes, all of which develop in the same way from the T formation. Low, Key and Lothrop all excelled in the Milton game, and Zabriskie showed excellent judgment in calling the plays. Captain Key came into his own in the final with St. Marks, making two brilliant touchdown runs in which neither St. Marks nor the officials knew he had the ball until he was ten yards in the opponents backfield. This victory over St. Marks was more overwhelming than it sounds, for one touchdown was called back because of an offside, and the over-eager Groton team received 85 yards of penalties to none for St. Marks. Thus ended a season which far exceeded the hopes of both players and coaches. The statistics show 148 points to 20 for opponents, and this includes five shutouts and a total of 23 touchddwns. I have already pointed out the main elements which were re- 1721 sponsible for this success. I would like to mention again the co-operation and enthusiasm of the squad as a whole, including the substitutes who played an important part but received none of the glory. Though this was the lightest Groton team in the thirteen years I have been here, I would unquestionably rate it among the two or three best of my experience, and it stands at the top of the list in speed, versatility, and deception. One of the finest things about this eleven was the way it took the defeat by Belmont and pro- fited by its mistakes in that game to wind up the season with convincing victories over English High, Milton, and St. Marks. That, so far as I know, was a record performance. -LAWRENCE M. NOBLE Groton 33 Lawrence Academy 0 Groton 33 Tabor Academy 0 Groton 20 Middlesex 6 Groton 0 Belmont Hill 13 Groton 12 English High 0 Groton 25 Milton Academy 0 Groton 25 St. Marks 0 HSI' A A ,M 74 Pelfz lfazr: T11 i rrl S-1 0 C c': C: V :Q ca Q gf LI 2.2 -we Zag Ea: LN 54. ,, CD -13 if U , P5 79 'Q .ini '20 itz! .2 - -FE' ,Sz Ne TIE :TJ is Ml. Baseball Captain-W. GILMAN Low, IV - M anager'-HENRY S. PELTZ Coaches ' I I WILLIAM S. CUSHING g RICHARD K. IRoNs In spite of rumors of bat shortages and the competition of basketball and fives, the winter squad was in the cage early. The coaches' chief concern, as they scrutinized hard swinging aspirants, was to discover three real hitters to take the places of last year's outfielders, Martin, D. Gray, and A. Key. A veteran battery, Johnnie Gray and Phil Zabriskie, was available and three infield lettermen, Sibley, Key and Captain G. Low. Pomeroy, a pitcher and Taylor, a first baseman, also saw some service in 1944, together with Lang Day, useful in both infield and outfield, and Joe Schieffelin, an infielder. No striking finds were made as practice continued. Several lower school boys look promising for future years, especially B. Walker, a catcher. Trowbridge was batting well and Morss and Chandler showed improved hitting. Phil Kunhardt appeared twice and skied a couple of flies through gaps in the overhead netting and a window pane and then retired to fives. E. White proved a terror to batsmen- with a left handed bean ball. ' ' Reports that Captain Joe had been summoned by his draft board somewhat dampened optimism about the infield, but the next news was that he was in a Boston hospital for an appendectomy. It almost seemed as if Providence had intervened to restore to us a shortstop. An extraordinarily mild spell in early March dried the fields ,sufficiently for us to get out of doors and practice under more realistic conditions. Bayard Robb has gained some speed since last year and may make a useful relief pitcher. David Low showed definite fielding ability at shortstop and Day and Morss looked like promising outfielders. Harper fields well, but has not yet begun to hit and Hutchins and Hooper have not so far done well at the plate. It is very early to make any predictions about the season. We face a typical list of opponents with the prospect of finding Milton and Middlesex more dangerous than St. Marks. We should be a fairly strong team defensively. Welch seems to hit quite well and fields acceptably at first base, rounding out an experienced infield. If Gray's arm stays in shape we will have fine pitching, because he has naturalspeed and improved control. Zabriskie is the best catcher we have had since Cochrane and,'once he perfects his throw to second, he will be the best Groton catcher since Fincke. Low and Key are a strong infield combination, and, with a year's experience, Harper Sibley should do a fine job at third. The outfield may be a problem. Certainly there are no long hitters like Dave Gray and George Martin in it, but Day is good, and Morss and Taylor should develop. . Offensively prospects are less bright g Dave Key is hitting harder than last year and he, with Gray and Zabriskie, will probably have to supply most of the punch. Welch, Sibley, Day and Morss all have possibilities and Low, while not a real hitter, manages to convert infield rollers into singles. Taylor has a good eye and packs more punch than a year ago. i In summing up then, we should have a better than average Groton team, barring an injury to John Gray. Groton has been blessed with a number of good pitchers- C. Devens, Greenleaf, Harding, Goodyear and Gray. But we never have more than one at a time. If Pomeroy developes poise under fire and Robb comes along rapidly, it will be most helpful to the team therefore. R. K. I. il75l 76 Crew Captain of the River-GEORGE C. LODGE M anager-FRANK S. MACSHANIG Coaches Louis C. ZAHNER FREDERIC J. DEVEAU The crew season began as usual in September, from the opening of school, Mr. De- Veau, when not busy recruiting for the band, has subtly been impressing seamen for the Wachusett navy, and even the Monadnock coaches have not been above fanning the old crew-baseball debate when there seemed to be any prospect of profit in it. The results of these quiet efforts have been entirely satisfactory. Seventy-five boys have signed on for crew 5 and it is rumored that two or three of them can throw a baseball, overhand, almost thirty feet, with an expected angle of deviation of only forty-five degrees. All during the fall term repairs were being made on the Pepperell dam that con- trols our water level. Father Nashua became a mere trickle. Rocks hitherto known only through their dastardly work on propelilers stuck up bold and bare as Gibraltar. A week's work by an ancient dynamiter clears ' river of rocks and stumps from start to finish, and Mr. Cushing's ceilings of plaster cellar to attic. It was one of the most accurate demolition jobs on record g no homey-bf' any rowing coach even felt a jar. Late in February new coxswains began a blackboard course designed to save life and equipment during the first hazardous days on the river,,and at the same time the oarsmen went on to the machines. Captain Lodge made a new record by snapping the steel shank of number six on his second pull-physical fitness plus. During the winter the runway broke its moorings and fell to the river bottom. Joe Cleary and Jim Bennett, breaking a path through heavy snow to the boathouse, had to take off all the planking to raise it, but the job was done-and a fine one it was-in time for the crews to break another record. On March 9th the First Monadnocks slogged through mud and snow to take out heavy fours in ideal rowing conditions. A day or so later the Wachusetts dangled a toe in the water, found it not so bad, and joined in. From then on for the rest of the term fours and eights were out regularly. The season again Will be based on the Clubs, with two eights and two or three fours planned for each. Races are scheduled for May 9th and 16th CWednesdaysj, with a third race to be arranged in case of tie. A Middlesex regatta, two M-mile races in eights, is confidently expected to materialize on May 23. Prophesies are foolhardy, but a few facts may safely be given. Coaches have already put on expressions of professional gloom, based on the excellent material of the rival club. The Wachusetts have such trusties as Prescott and Dwight, and Monad- nock veterans include Captain Lodge, deMenocal, Lothrop, M. Morgan and Lawrences J. and R. The Monadnock squad is unusually tall, and almost any Monadnock crew, stretched end to end along the river bank, would beat its Wachusett opponent by a length. The Wachusetts, however, have so far refused to settle the season on this basis. One thing more can be stated with assurance: once more it will be demonstrated, whatever happens, that races are won on the water, not on paper. -L. C. Z. 'l77l Snr-mul R011-.' J. l42lWI'l'lH'l', Brown, Lmigi-, Lolhrop, R. liauvrc-llc-0, Mac-Slislllv, Nzinglv, R. 1 mx iM.,i,.-fwwmmwwm A ,M R ,. . . . W , , . , MW, ,.WmW.H,..,W, www ,.L MMWMA.. A,., ,W.x.w.,. ,, WM, M I Yu-nrzrl lfmr: Nlr. INN:-alll, l'rc-svnli, Dwight, Llliil1'l', Mc-Nvzxly, Yr:-4-laml, NI:-tmllf, l,i Simpkins, Rvrlfic-lil, VY11-11:1 lfrmll Ifnlr: Vuxun, Stum- First Wachusettsi' vc-nor, Nlnrgzm, Ficlfl. Nlr. Zulinvr Frnnf Hmr: D. I,:lwrvm'c'. N. VVQIL-in .1'iSSliIl!f.' elm-Nlviioczil First Monadnocksff ' As of April li, 1534.3 USP 79 Second Rout Erhart, Bartlett, Stevens, Kunhardt, MacShane, Auchincloss, Foster, Nlr. Buttrick Front Roux' Robb, Bacon, Peabody, Key, Low, Chandler, Hunnewell .'l11'ss1'ng.' dehlenocal Minor Sports During the fall twenty-six boys participated in soccer under the direction of Mr. Walen. In addition to inter-squad competition the soccer group played two games with Lawrence Academy, both of which were closely contested. The game played at Law- rence Academy ended in a hard fought tie, 0-0, after a double overtime period. In a return match on its home field Groton won an exciting game by a I-0 score on a brilliant goal by James. At the close of the football season the soccer group was augmented by members of the football squad, and practices were held to select representative teams from the Upper and Lower Schools to play against similar teams at St. Marks. The Upper School won its annual game by a 6e2 score. The victory, without a doubt, was made possible by the nearly perfect defense of the backfield and the splendid pass work of the forward line. Captain Romig and SchieFfelin scored two goals apiece for our side, while Gray and G. Low scored one each. Taylor, R. Stevens, Key and Sibley provided excel- lent supporting qualities throughout the game. Although the Lower School booters, coached by Mr. Irons, were defeated by a score of 3e0 by a heavier and more aggressive team representing St. Markis Lower School, they did, nevertheless, give an excellent account of themselves. The winter season provided a real paradise for the skiers and enabled them to glide gracefully over the snow-laden hills. While the abundance of snow served as a handicap to the hockey players, it did not prevent the formation of a worthwhile team, for Key, G. Low, P. Kunhardt and MacShane contributed the requisites of a nucleus. To these time tested players Mr. Buttrick added his findings in the new candidates, and iS0l the result was a group of fast and aggressive skaters. Although it was an almost im- possible job to keep the rinks clear long enough to practice, the squad managed to play four games, defeating Lawrence Academy twice and losing to Belmont Hill and Middlesex. The victories over Lawrence Academy by the scores of 9-3, and 9-0, were largely due to flashy playing by Key and G. Low, plus the team work by the forwards. In the Belmont Hill game the forward line consisting of Key, G. Low and P. Kunhardt showed plenty of speed and shooting skill by scoring three goals in quick succession during the first period. However, Belmont tied the scorenin the second period. During the last period with Groton leading 4-3 Belmont Hill twice slipped the puck past Robb, to win the game by a 5-4 score. Due to the lack of good ice only one game was played with Middlesex and this was under trying conditions as the team had not been on the ice for over two weeks when it traveled to Concord. It was not surprising that under such a handicap we were beaten 4-1 in a close contest. The outstanding players were P. Kunhardt, who scored our only goal, and Captain Key, and Lothrop who did a marvlelouspjob of playing both forward and defense. i Next year's team will miss Captain Key and G. Low who have played very well for the past three seasons, but Captain-elect P. Kunhardt will have many promising players back again with which to form a strong sextet. Basketball became increasingly popular as the season progressed. Participation was greater than ever before, skill was at a higher level, and competition was very keen. A Third Form basketball league was organized composed of four teams: Harvard, Navy, Sewanee and Yale, captained by Frothingham, Birckhead, Myers and Johnson re- spectively. After several round-robin playoffs, the Navy team was successful in winning the league title. There were also several closely contested games between teams repre- senting the various Forms. Informal teams composed of members of the Lower School played three games with the Groton Junior High School and emerged victorious in each. This year under the tutelage of Messrs. Wright and Gallien the basketball squad accomplished a very successful season. Although not winners of all its games the team demonstrated fine co-ordination and at times machine-like precision. The basketball aspirants included Gray, Sibley, P. Zabriskie, J. Lawrence, Schieffelin, Putnam and Chandler. After two practice games against the Masters, the team officially ushered in the season by easily defeating the Groton High School by a score of 68-20. All members of the squad had an opportunity to play and had complete control of the game throughout. The second game was played against Middlesex School and again the Grotonians came out on top, 28-21, with Captain- Sibley, Gray and J. Lawrence providing the winning margin. As part of the Washington's Birthday weekend festivities a very exciting and interesting game was played with the Lovell General Hospital team from Fort Devens, composed of former college stars. The score resulted in a defeat for Groton although the margin was very close, 55-46. The game was fast and well played with the lead con- tinually changing. The consistent floorwork of Gray, the accurate shooting of Captain Sibley, and the delightful cheering on the part of the feminine guests featured the game. In the game against Lawrence Academy the squad easily won by a score of 36-18. Led by Captain Sibley, who scored eighteen points, the squad took the lead early in the game and were never seriously threatened from then on. A return game with the team from Lovell General Hospital' played at night with a group of wounded veterans here as our guests provided a grand finale for the basketball season. Our boys played 'l81l' Second Roux' Frothingham, Birckhead, Lalfarge, VVebster, Schiellelin, Dwight Front Roux' Putnam, J. Lawrence, Sibley, Zabriskie, Gray their best game of the season but the excellent passing and accurate shooting by the soldiers squeezed out a very close victory by a 52-50 score. Gray and Key were the most consistent performers particularly in the offensive work, accounting for 30 points between them. J. Lawrence and Putnam played a strong defensive game while Captain Sibley, Schieffelin and Chandler displayed fine teamwork. The rationing of fives balls and the scarcity of gloves somewhat handicapped par- ticipation in fives this year. However, there was a great deal of interest and enthusiasm as Captain Schieffelin made plans for the annual tournament. In the Lower School, McGehee won the Singles, and then teamed up with K. Kunhardt to capture the Doubles title. Key proved superior in the Upper School Singles, and along with W. McNealy won the Doubles Championship. The Lower School and Upper School Consolation tournaments were won by K. Kunhardt and H. Welch respectively. Throughout the winter many boys were busily engaged in the Physical Fitness or Posture Classes. Volley ball was introduced and provided to many boys an opportunity for recreation and relaxation as well as wholesome exercise. About two weeks before the end of the term some real spring weather made an appearance and the indoor winter activities gradually gave way to the spring sports. The outlook for tennis is most encouraging and the interest should be as great as ever even though it has been necessary to give up outside competition due to war conditions and the fact that many schools are closing early. However, there will be more time to play tennis this season in that the final baseball game with St. Marks is a week earlier and school closes a week later than last year. The usual school tourna- ments will be conducted as will be the annual match with the faculty team. If it is possible to resume outside competition in tennis next year there is much talent available in the IV and V Forms. -J . S. W. 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