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

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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

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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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Mrs. Dunlop, the head librarian of the Upper School, was among the first of the faculty who came to the unfinished Hawken campus in 1959. Like many of the other facilities, the library was tempor- arily set up in two small rooms in the White House. In four years, however, she has developed a fully equipped and efficient library which is now the first place Mr. Relic shows to school visitors. A moderate disciplinarian, she maintains a quiet library, and stu- dents find it the only satisfactory place in the school to study. Her willingness to help, whether it means giving her annual orientations on the use of the library, helping a student on a research paper on Byzantine Art, or attempting to keep track of the one starter which is needed to light all the fluore- scent bulbs in the carrells, has certainly made her an invaluable asset to the school. Rumor has it that bachelorhood has proved to be an effective decay preventative when used in a relaxing program of classroom instruction and reg- ular regressional care. Back at Short Hills Mr. James Farwell wasn ' t much of an athlete, but he had 43% fewer dropouts with Kiisl. Now safely installed in our French Department, Mr. FarweU, a graduate of Yale in 1950, spends most of his waking hours relaxing in one of his classes, usually giving a test. Interested in metaphysics and the basic problems of existence, Fars often leaves the realm of the French language and converses in Latin. Once the academic require- ments of the class have been fulfilled, the relaxed, efficient teacher image gives way to the devil-may- care Big Brother image, and a French short story releases all of the answers to all of the profound questions that have long plagued mankind. 26