Hawken School - Onyx / Red and Gray Yearbook (Gates Mills, OH)

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1 BEE: = A © tr Z, DM ete an © © ou ROBERT MORSE SOPHOMORE RED Football 9, 10; Players Club 9, 10; Year Book Board (Circulation Manager) 10; Newspaper Board (Business Manager) ; Committees: Chapel, House. ND now, dear friends, what can we say about an infant prodigy with an overstuffed cranium? Just what has he done? When told by the Ed. to mutilate this lad’s reputation, we sallied forth and obtained an interview with the genius. “How many times has Mr. Holmes hauled you up?” we inquired. “How many times has Mr. Stephens taken you down?” But at every turn we were balked. No one has anything on Robert. The school is equally in the dark as to Bob’s Social Life. Never has he been seen in the com- pany of the fairer (but lower-voiced) sex. In and around school Bob has shown himse!f a very versatile fellow. He has received let- ters in football, and honors in studies; as well as filling important posts on both newspaper and Year Book. Quietly inefficient, Bearcub (so called because of his tendency to hibernate in class) has won for himself the title of second sloppiest boy in the school (next to Nash.) Though he has the best of grounds—often being unable to read his own handwriting—Bob- is never discouraged. Occa- sionally, Mr. Mack, knowing that Morse, overconfident, has omitted his homework, will call a halt to the proceedings, and dgscend in full force on the unfortunate lad—to the immense edification of the other members of the class. But he always comes back at his persecutor with a 100% les- son the next day. As to his future we can only say that if he exhibits the same remarkable diligence later as he has thus far, and keeps well away from the cows, his success is assured. Fifteen ————— - —— ——aw = = A et — — seein

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DIXON MORGAN SOPHOMORE RED President Football 10; Basketball 10; Baseball 8, 9, 10; Secretary of the Student Assembly 10; Ex- ecutive Committee of the Student Assembly 10; Players Club 10; Year Book Board (Business Manager) 10; Newspaper Board (Supervising Editor) 10. ERE, folks, we have the beatific visage of Dixon, alias “Romeo,” Morgan. This lad is un- doubtedly the Beau Brummel of the class, the glass of fashion and the mould of form, al- Ways sartorial, immaculate and, except in certain (but notable) instances, correct. In fact he admits that he is not so much better than the Prince of Wales. To him also belongs the dubious distinction of being a charter member of the infamous Order of the Spat and Derby, his associates —Vilas and Wilson. Being the kind of fellow who looks as though he needed a little female protection (see cut above) girls simply dote on him. Always accustomed to service (even to muss- ing his hair) Dixon accepts this condition as his natural prerogative. At parties he is invariably called upon to play (?) the piano, whereupon, after properly modest objections, he sits down and proceeds to mutilate the latest numbers in his repertoire, as well as to render sundry vile pieces of his own composition, some of them more than slightly reminiscent of last year’s hits. But joking aside, Dick has been quite successful in baseball, basketball, and track. In many major school activities he has taken a conspicuous part, having played an important réle in Wap- pin’ Wharf and bore up nobly under the burden of the Assembly minutes. Though ’tis rumored that the meetings often had to be postponed because the Secretary had omitted his duties. 5 ; C545 As he departs from the great educational scene, next year’s class may well shake their heads, sigh with envy (possibly relief) and exclaim, “Sic transit gloria mundi”—‘“Thus passes the glory of the world.” Fourteen

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pra | HUMPHREY NASH SOPHOMORE GRAY Football 10; Players Club 9, 10; Year Book Board 9, 10, ( Editor-in-Chief ) ; Newspaper Board (Managing Editor) 10: President of the Student Assembly 10; Ex- ecutive Committee of the Student Assembly 10. Cleveland, but even throughout the entire country for his most distinguishing idiosyncrasy— a VHIS prodigious, eccentric specimen of blossoming manhood is known not only throughout namely, his eloquence in his expression of the King’s English. Humphrey’s mental capacity is nothing short of phenomenal. Indeed he is generally accepted as the genius of Hawken. Although usually of a taciturn nature, he enters with a deal of en- thusiasm when the theme of the conversation strikes upon one of his many interests. He takes fiendish delight in finding some error in the work, or some mistake in the statement of a teacher. Frequently his immense store of general information enables him to emerge from one of these en- counters victoriously. At such times the genius’s face is engulfed in a satisfied smile. Humphrey (sometimes known as Leo) is always the one to whom you go when you desire to learn something—hbe it an explanation of the fourth dimension, or the price of rubber boots in Paraguay. But getting down to the more serious side of Humphrey, he is one of the best-liked and most- respected boys in the school. He presides over the Student Assembly, and acts as Editor-in- chief of this Year Book, as well as playing regularly in the line on the football team. With such a brain, and with such likeable characteristics it is certain that Humphrey will go far in later life. So when, ten years hence, you read in a newspaper of the tremendous success of this lad, never say that it wasn’t prophesied. Sixteen