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

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Mr. Baker, tucked comfortably away in a plush niche annexed to the athletic building, seems to be constantly on the phone talking to who knows whom. Q)Ilege Guidance Q unselor at Hawken, he also teaches American History. Before coming to Hawken, he was graduated from Ob erlin, received his M.A. in history from W.R.U., taught history and did college counseling at Mt. Hermon, and was head- master at Gushing Academy for two years. Since he guides the college choice of each senior, Mr. Baker may often appear an awesome figure to the students, but informally he maintains an amiable character and constant good humor. If the friendly hello comes from a man with a thin smile, a relaxed shuffle, and a meditative aura, then the greeting is from Mr. James Bresnicky, the unofficial head of Hawken ' s contemplation depart- ment and professor of degrees from Stonehill, Du- quesne, and John GarroU. Mr. Bresnicky is a Latin teacher, but as his students know Latin is only an- other means by which he conveys his philosophies of life and the greatest thinking of man to his stu- dents. Due to vicious restrictions imposed by the administration, Mr. Bresnicky has found it necessary to curb his intake of nicotine. Not one to be foiled, he; a piece of chalk now replaces the weed of sin, which may account for his having by far the whitest teeth in school. Besides a sure-fingered ability with chalk, Brez is one of the wickedest men with a basketball ever to have faced the Radio Wonders. Shuffle. 24

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The man with the index cards and the deadly left-handed hook shot is Mr. Peter Relic, Headmaster of the Upper School, teacher of the Senior Honors European History Seminar and Freshman English, founder and faculty advisor of the Phalanx, and varsity football and baseball coach. Mr. Relic graduated in 1958 from Bowdoin where he developed the orator- ical skills which make him unquestionably the most influential personality on campus. His most note- worthy forensic achievements include the celebrated circle session after a varsity football loss to Mau- mee, the great med room lecture of ' 62 following a freshman basketball loss to U. S., and the notorious clothes dumping clammers of ' 61, ' 62, and ' 64. Mr. Relic is an amiable conversationalist both in an ad- visory capacity and an informal relationship. He pursues a variety of interests with such intensity that students often wonder how he has time to sleep. He devotes an astonishing amount of attention and thought to each student at Hawken, maintains ex- cellent physical condition (winner of the coaches ' half mile), reads profusely (particularly current af- fairs), and is constantly involved in various com- munity and social projects. A pioneer in education and community service, he initiated the Karamu tutorial program and the high-school exchange pro- gram in Cleveland. In 28 years Mr. Relic has received his Master ' s Degree, become head of the world ' s leading high school, and traveled to all parts of the globe. The only thing he hasn ' t done is get married. 23

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What are you doing painting that grass green!? Thus spoke Coach Coffey, Hawken ' s combined ans- wer to Red Auerbach and Marc ChagalL Former notorious coach of the J.V. hoopsters, his team scored twelve points one game and came within two of upsetting Gilmour the next. But it is as an art teacher that Coach really shines. To the unenlightened the artroom is a jungle of pasted straws, paints on canvas, cave-manish hammerings, and groans of dis- satisfaction. To the enlightened it is a garden of inspired youth. A native Clevelander, Coach is a graduate of Heights High and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Denver (I960) and his Master ' s in art from W.R.U. Camping, coaching, and occasionally art, are among his main interests. It is often said that good things come in small packages, and this adage certainly holds true in the ' case of Mr. Richard Davies of the Math Depanment. Graduated from M.I.T. in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree, Mr. Davies resumes the student ' s life in the summers when he studies for his Master ' s degree at Ohio State.Formerly a member of the faculty at Worcester Academy, he now teaches a wide range of subjects at Hawken, extending from 7th grade arithmetic to 12th grade calculus. During the winter he coaches freshman wrestling, and in the spring he helps out with track. This year he and Mr. Kenepp have been arranging a computer course which they hope to add to the Math curriculum. An O.K. guy, he frequently uses the expression in his explanations of problems in class. At last count, he held the school record with 108 O.K. ' s in 45 minutes. 25