Groton School - Grotonian Yearbook (Groton, MA)

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THE GROTONIAN try d1v1s1on presented hlm and Mr Irons punctuatmg h1s lectures w1th frequent freehand delineatlons of Paris and the Channel Coast on the black board introduced some of the form to the intricate crxses little and blg ententes and embrogllos of European history Towards the end of the fall term the A Engl1sh d1v1s1on under the guidance of Mr Satterthwalte spllt up into pairs each parr wrote a play the class compared the final products and voted for and produced Studds and Auchmcloss little masterp1ece on 1nternat1onald1plomacy Delegates at Large starr1ng Bentley Demos Studds Cudahy Sa adah and Barnes The forthcom1ng electlons further stimulated a number of young minds Hamlm drew up plans for a full scale Young Republ1cans Club gamed a hard core of adherents joined the natlonal Young Republlcan League bu1lt up a library of pamphlets and buttons and managed to get one speaker 1 local pol1t1c1an from Fitchburg to address the School Then its purpose ichleved the club quietly collapsed The small but grow1ng nucleus ofSteven son supporters acqu1red batches of mordant buttons declaring such high brow slog ms as We Need Adlax Badly Bentley and Cudahy loyal c1t1zens t1c1pat1on election H1 ht arrived The first news of lnterest was made known at dlnner throughout evening study period news continued to pour IH Cmuch of It gleaned from the small portable radio in Emery s studyj Elnally the majority of boys sped oil' to the1r dormltorles to follow the returns through to Eisenhower s final victory and tumbled into bed fatlgued and sodden wlth black coffee at two A M Soon Chrlstmas vacation came and passed and the wlnter term arrived A large number of boys had parts 1n the School play Andrade: and the Lzon or m the Concord play Major Barbara It was1n the former productlon that Emery first earned hls place IH the thesp1an sun by demonstrating h1s abllxty to ad lib in Latln In an opportune lag in the dialogue Nlck playmg an ox driver murmured IH exasperatlon Per deos lmmortahbusl Cxzcj an 1m precation he apparently felt approp1ate to the tongue of an anc1ent Roman and to the Groton stage Moreover under the leadershlp ofB1ngham Demos Studds and Auchmcloss some members of the Form attempted to improve their skill at the Junior Debate argumg such profound IOPICS as Rexolved That the h1gher the fewer Those of achievement ln the field of athletics lI74l J ' J ' Q J , . 3 ' J ' 9 i J 9 , . , . . D D P J 3 Y J C J ' . . , . ' J L , C , 3 l L 3 ' 3 1 , . - , KK , ' Y! ' ' I L A u , of Illinois, were, of course, an integral part of this group. After much an- : Q - i a . . . , . . , . . . J I , . . , . , l , . f ' 9 J ' , . . U . . ,, . . J J ' J L . 6 . . ' J P I J , D : P

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THE GROTONIAN Moss O Connell and Satterthwaltej and to thelr many studles and the task ofdecor 1t1ng them ln the flll the llC1VyWVClgl1f athletes of the Form Falrburn DIYICII Vaugh IU md Perltms spent most of thexr wakmg hours on the football field P alrburn the ice guard to get h1s letter at season s end PCI'lxlI1S the tal ented Llckofl md extrl po1nt man and D1tzen and Vaughan IS fa1thful but glorlless 1ron cushions for the A squ idmen s blows Sa adah and Rand spent even more of the1r walqng hours wlth the squad answerxng dog falthfully to LYICS of heel' and manage' and ever hnmg 1ndl1m1ng the fields Those who tools. club football and soccer found llfe much e lsler Dormltory llfe proved equally eventful and sometlmes es en more h ll 1rd ous Rebellion 1n Mr Moss s dormltory w I9 almed xt 1 prefect who h ld e lrned h1S merclless d1sc1pl1ne1n the form ofan ephemeral H 1te Bat Llub whlch de rxved xts power from numerous pamphlets and handb1lls car1catur1ng sald S1xth Former and underscored wxth such plthy max1ms as Uneasy l1es the head that wears the crown Mr O Connell wlsely s1detracked the excess energy ofhxs charges by means of varxous unorthodox Br1t1sh VCFSIOHS of parlor games Senslng a row he would herd everyone 1nto h1s study for an even1ng of Are you there brother? xfter whlch the brethren would be only too glad to ret1re quxckly to bed 'lhls p1rt1cular pastxme conslsted of two blmdfolded opponents lylng prone on the floor each clutchmg the other s forearm 1n one hand and a rolled up cyllnder of newspaper IH the other One would 1ntone threatenlngly Are you there brother? and the other was requlred to reply 1n such a manner as he saw Ht W1th thxs sound as a gulde the first would brlng down h1s club w1th all h1s mlght on the spot where he thought h1s adversary s head was located Fortunately we were begmners and few dlrect h1ts were scored Of all the act1v1t1es the most engrosslng were homework and the preslden t1al elect1ons Everybody ln the Form took seven courses whlch pressed the schedule so h 1rd th If It txmes It was lmposslble to do all the work requlred Yet 1n t1me the majorlty ofthe Form rose above thls problem and by year s end Hfteen boys had m lde the honor l1st and all but nlne at least the merlt lxst There were several provocat1ve courses Mr Zlnk whetted h1s teachmg acumen on the broadly ranglng degrees oflntellxgence wlth whxch h1s Chemls l173l , . . . x 9 ' Q ' 1 ' . 1 , 1 f ' 1 -- .' , ' 2 , c Z , 2 Y- i U c ' l u x . 4 - 1 , v' 1 9 ' ' 3 J ' ' '1 1- ' , ' 1 .' ' ' ' fl ll Y 7 . l A 2 . c ' c L 4 N ' L , 1 - ' N ' CK 7, if l! ' ' ' ' ' . c . Tl . . ' ' 1 ' ' 1 ' . ' ' . ' ' f. 121 - '. . . 1. 1 1 1 ' 1 1 the nickname of Bat, and who lived to suffer wormwood-bitter revenge for . . . . . . ' ,, 2 t . ,, . - . . . . ,, . ll g , . . . L . . . . U ,, . C 1 C , ' ' ' ' KK ,Y , . 1 ' ' . , . Z . L 1 . .W . . I . , . y N T ' ' . N . . . ,, ' : Y! ' ' , . l ,. . . . . ' D . . . . , . , . . h , ' 1 1 1 ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' , . . I . . . , D J 3 c 2 A .

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THE GROTONIAN mcluded Pratt Fa1rburn and Perklns of the hockey squad and Schroeder and Demos rn basketball In t1me the all encompass1ng heat of sprlng supplanted the art1fical heat of the lndoors A large number ofthe Form took to crew though nobody made the squad and the rrver was the scene ofmuch earnest strxfe between the Second Monadnocks and Wachusetts The Monadnocks barely lost the season though It can be Sald that they came far from that day elrly rn the term when whlle they were turnmg around ln an upstre lm bend wrth Mr H xwkes 1n the coxsw un s se lt theyj lmmed 1nto the overh mgmg br mches of 1 tree md the bank underneath md were rn turn r lmmed by the W achusetts and eventually by a launch sent up for rescue purposes In baseball Ffurburn made the squad and the rest battled on the Frrst Clubs Tenms was the ChO1CC of those w1th no 1mmed1ate athletlc asp1rat1ons F1eld Rand and Gardner and of aces Perkxns and Hamlm Durlng the sprxng term the adventures ofthe Form decldedly took on a more lmagmatlve and mtelllgent color For the boys 1n A HISYOFY thls went essays on wh1ch everyone spent a large amount of t1me exceptlng Kerr who IS reported to have spent seven hours all together on the project and to have recelved an A mlnus There was the Dance Team lnstltuted by Mr VVaugh wh1ch had a dally scrrmmage IH the TOISC Room 1n preparat1on for the xmpendmg Concord Socrable Coach Waugh spent one breakfast cutt1ng out llttle paper feet to lllustrate the steps wh1ch were equrvalent to wa1k1ng In a strarght l1ne and dependedonly upon open door studded walls forlnstantaneous success On the TOISC Room bulletm board appeared the chron1cles ofAuch1ncloss Gull: ble s D travels and correspondences w1th the notorxous and mysterlous F mny Flrmfortress the psycholog1calen1gma ofA and B an advertrsement p1ctur1ng two men seated on both sldes of and holdlng hands w1th a dynamlc blonde fthe questlon was who was makmg more headway? Many subtletles and nuances of judgement were lntroducedl and the staggermg exposxtxon of Demos sub law Mr Zxnk durlng one class early ln the term c1neram1cally declared that one 1ns1gn1Hcant chemrcal was so vltal to the Amerlcan soap lndustry that the amount used 1n one year by the country could fill a sol1d l1ne of boxcars from New York to Chrcago Demos rose to the bart Once he l17 ' C , 1 - 3 C . L L I 1 . 3 6 Q . . S . ' Q L J L Q L L . , ' ' . . 1 ' , ' ' . ' . 1 ' . . . , . . . 2 ' 1 z , z 1 Y I 1 . , . . ' . 7 L L L , L L L ' 2 Q ' J ' L . l . . . . 6 . C . . M . , L , C - L . . . , . L T. g . K . . i . . , . without saying, for most ofthe term was consumed in the writing ofweighty C . L L . , . J . C L . I ' I 3 lc 1 L . D 1 . L , . . C . . C. . , - ' L L a . . . . , C, . L lv L - 1 H ' ' I ' ' L L Q 9 , . . . . . ' ' ' 9 J ,,. . . ,, . I . . L I