Groton School - Grotonian Yearbook (Groton, MA)

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Form H1SfOfy HFRIL were only tlurteen of us on th lt w lrm September dly of 1949 when flfter lunch plrents were cordlfllly 1nv1ted to le lve lnd we found ourselves on our own as 1 group for the first tlme Cl1Sl11I1Q, lpp lrently w ell up on hls Dale Cclrnegle, felt thflt thls rflther tense SIYLIIUOH cllled for 1 self' lntroductlon 11nd hrs My name s Ph1lCushmg but you c ln c lll me Spllle qu1cLly becflme fl Form legend lt w ls the dublous dxstlnttlon of the Form to serve IS the whctstone for the t llents of Mr Albry the new housem lster md he ld of the Fxrst Form dorm ltory HIS detectlve lcumen w IS put to 1 test when mldll ly through the w1n ter term lfter l1ghts,someone let fly w1th 1 cflke ofso IP vs hxch, lfter tr lVCI'blI1U' the whole length of the dorm, shflttered lvalnst the study door ln l shovl er of splmters The cr1m1n1l as revealed only from the lmmunlty of q1Xfl'l Form yeflr 1n fl pr1v1te1nterv1ew w1th th1s VWFIICFD w IS F urburn who smte, lb c ltth er on the b lsebflll squad his become lmelzlngly PTOFILILIIK lt the long throw from the pl lte to second bflse The Form, however, wfls to dlstmgulsh itself not ln the dormltory, but ln the dmmg room On one OCCHSIOII Adlms shocked lnd ll lbberglsted Mr Nxchols by somehow I'l'1'1l1'1g1Hg to upset cl pltcher ofmxlk It the begmnnnff of grace And how s1n1ster were the conspxracles ofthe spellmg g lme experts who gleefully el1m1n'lted Mr Wr1ght from contentlon Wlfh such words ofdubxous zluthentlclty as tht But perhrlps most memorflble of lll w 15 the cr1s1s when Gardner pushed 1n the chalr for Mlss ellxson, the he my set lbSlSf lnt nurse, the 1lfT1l1r endmg w1th MISS elllson sprflwled on the floor lnd the ch ur tot llly demollshed In athletlcs, the Form wfls not outstrlndmg F urburn CllSfll1gUl9l1CCl hnmsclf as the only one to m lke the Second Clubs lll e1ther footb lll or b lsebflll Bmg ham won the new boys Hves tournament m the wrnter, whxle IH the spring term Gardner coxed C boat to zl 3 I record Perhclps the most s1gn1Hc1lnt athletlc achlevement w'ls the formxng ofthe Fourth Clubs rn blseb lll co lched by Mr Moss, stzlrrmg Burnett and Cushmg 'lnd mth Pfwlzer IS ut1l1ty lll Helder Spec11ll mentlon must be g1ven here to George Gund whose clothmg 'md eatlng mnovatxons are llkely to have Z1l7.Sf1Ilg effect on Groton hfe He set the style ln haberdashery w1th h1s lurld t1es ofblelzmg hues tled ln three Inch wlde l 163 . Y 1 . . 1 1 , 1 u ' ' ' ' nl ' K. L C L . 11 1 . 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1: - . . I .UW , . . V .Y,, , , 1 1 F K C n 1. ' li 1: 1. . 1 1 .1 , 1 1 1 1 - . 1 1 1 '1 D 1 - 1 1 1 1 ' l 1 1 ' 7 - D l 1 1g 1' 1 ' . . . . . . , , . .Q 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 ' 1l'1 '- 1 1 , 1 1 1 'X 1 1 1 1 . 1 . ,. 1 1 1 1. '. L L L V2 H . 1 ' H H I li u L C K C 1 J 1 - 1' 1 ' J 1 1 1 1 1 . 11 1 . 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 . - , . . . . . - . 1 C I l , C I ,C 1 J ,' I I C l n L - -