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

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1 se] 3 3 eS AW KEN SCHOOL MALCOLM B. VILAS JR. SOPHOMORE RED Secretary-Treasurer Football 9, 10; Basketball (Manager) 10; Baseball 9, 10; Players Club 10; Year Book Board (Advertising Manager) 10; Com- mittees: Chapel (Chairman), Lost and Found. trying to make you laugh! No! No! He always looks that way, stupid; he can’t help it. This lad, though decidedly inferior in height, is quite the opposite “with the wimmen.” In fact he is almost the ladies’ man of the class, but not quite; that honor is reserved for Wilson. f tying reader, gaze ye upon the countenance herewith presented. No! this boy is not “Frat” (the nickname comes from being an only boy with five sisters) is a little of every- thing. He has received football letters for years and years (perhaps because no one else desired to take the punishment that the center position provides) ; earned a baseball letter; balled up the minutes of the Red meetings; played, or rather wrecked a piano; acted as stage electrician and has even been known to crash through on the Honor Roll (ages ago.) His apparent object in life is the evasion of work. However, under the careful tutelage of Messrs. McCarthy and MacMahon, he is now being shown the error in his ways. He has, as has been mentioned above, had no small amount of experience with the weaker sex. In this respect he deserves to rank with those masters of sex appeal, Hallaran, Morgan and Wilson. But we promised not to mention this so consider it unsaid. In concluding this brief sketch I wish to point out his one (?) weakness. He, like every other genius has just one—gravy on bread. Well, if “Frat” keeps out of the clutches of designin’ vampires and can maintain his golf at about 150, he may bear up under the strain and become quite a success. Let’s hope so! Seventeen

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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

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1 9 3 e! qa SS HAWKEN SCHOOL S22, HUME WALLACE SOPHOMORE RED Football 10; Players Club 9, 10; Newspaper Board (Printing Manager) 10; Committees: Grounds (Chairman), House. ET not the man of a hundred years or so in the future show surprise when, upon turning the pages of his Encyclopedia, he sees, in the bold type commonly used to head important sections, WALLACE HUME; and when, having further examined the history of this per- son to whom so much space is devoted, he finds him to be classified as cosmopolitan, military genius, empire-builder, dictator, British-patriot extraordinary and pragmatist. (Which has noth- ing to do with wives.) Certainly one would never suspect that smoldering within Hume is a de- sire to conquer for the glory of England and to hold the destinies of whole nations in the palm of his hand. Nevertheless, such is the case. Furthermore, this ambitious lad, not being content to wait till the world lies at his feet, has dared to dream delicious dreams in which he, abetted by some scientist, invents a way to transport people to another dimension (he reads these Science Fiction stories y’know) and forthwith disappears, in company to be sure, leaving behind the trials, tribulations and teachers of this globe. ; Much of his time is spent in the perfection of a weird heathen sacrificial ceremony, which, he would have us believe, was invented by the Zulus. But we know better! Asa further evidence of an incipient stage of “Dementia Precox” (as if any were needed) we cite the fact that when- ever overjoyed or excessivly irritated, Wally will always exclaim, “Icki! Ooka! Egu! Wegi!” or words to that effect. : Besides being chairman:as well as the only active member of the Grounds Committee, this versatile chappie has taken major roles in both of the last two Players’ Club productions, acquitted himself nobly on the football field and assisted materially in publishing the school scandal sheet. In concuding this paragraph of glorified slander, we will merely say that, provided the feud with Mr. Mack comes to no sudden and bloody end, he may, despite the handicap of his spelling, yet achieve his ambition. Eighteen