Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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Y -1 if may JOHNNY ADAMS has new-r been captam of the hockey team and he seldom was on tht honor roll for studncs yet he dnd cxccptronally well rn both Hrs abllrty on the srlxer blades earned for htm a regular posntron with the varsnty forward hrs two years hcrc ohnny wasnt qulte heaxy enough for the hrst string, rn football but hrs w1ll1ng,ness and admlttcd abrlrty placed mm nn the JV lrne up lor thus past season Hrs schol astrc consrstcncy has proud hrm a credntably good scholar while that wrnnmg smrle gamed frrends from both the faculty and students We feel that thus last trart wrll have far more bearmng on has success rn Mnddlebury than etthcr scholastrc or athlctnc abxlrty JOHN SHERMAN ADAMS johnny Life if rx jest and all thmgs show it. -Montagu. 350 Bacon Street, Wfaltham, Mass. I Born at Waltham, Mass., August 4, 1922. Football j.V. '4O. Hockey QHJ '41, Skiing '39-40. Ten nis squad 39 QHJ 40 41 Lntcrtd Holdtrntss 1939 PFLPHFIDL, for Mrddlcbury I9 , , , , , . , : . , . ' X . Y , 1 5 'VT' 'Z 7 tiff, ' 'K .H :gig A Y . Q I 1 U' lrne, and hrs abzlnty on the tcnms courts won hrm an H for ' A , . J , , , , I 1. , . . . v , 5 . ' 'fx '

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SIXTH FOQM HISTORY Irve years ago, two younJ bovs Just out of short pants Illllldly approached Mr Weld and gave hlm a feeble handshake thus begmmng thelr respectxve careers at Holderness School and IT1'1lxlI1g up the nueleus of the Slxth l'orm of 1941 One was a httle fellow of 193 pounds, who has not earned anv more but, rather, has lost more than a lxttle slnce The other was really small and nowhere near as protruslve as the former Wlth these two, the form began, and, as xt grew, the school seems to have grown proportlonally Durxng these lads hrst vear, there were hfty ses en boys enrolled H1 the sehool, now there are seventy hve As the enrollment mereased, obvlously the eampus ehanged A new dormntory was put up wlth a masters cottage next to lf that j0lIlCCl lf wxth the other dormltory The temporary dorm 111 the mam bulldxng has at last met nts Oflgllhll purpose and IS now the llbrary Last summer there was another much needed tennls court bullt, and now the football fleld IS bexnv leveled and seeded ln an attempt to make a llttle more grass grow on xt As the sehool has grown, so, also, have our varxous athletre teams grown, rn both slze and sueeess Our football team has lost only one game mn four years, and that one was the hrst of the season of 1937 Our skr team has Improved tremendously lil the past few years We have won several eups for xnterseholastne races and have done well Ill many dual meets There than holds 1ts own wxth most of the teams lt meets Baseball too has xmproved, but not rn such huge leaps as those games mentloned before, and, although th1s Srxth Iaorm has a1ded ath letxes nn one or another way, that IS not all ll has managed to do We have managed to hve up to the pr1v1le Yes that other Slxth Forms have had, such as Sxxth Form Coffee, proetormg lunch d1shes, and eleven o clock study permxsslon, but we have also recelved a new prlvllege ln November It was decnded that somethmg would have to be done about the SfI10lilI1U rules We had a meeting wlth Mr Weld, and It was concluded that the Snxth lorm should undertake, completely, the enforcement of these rules We have carrled on wrth thus and have had some success wxth ll The Snxth I'orm owes a large part of lts suecess 111 thnngs whleh they have done to the eo operatxon gxven them by the rest of the school We all sincerely hope that any galns we have made wrll be carrxed on and furthered by Snxth Forms to come, and that these Slxth Forms w1ll recexve as good co OPLFBIIOII from the under formers as we have had, and even better 1 I ,4i -:T 6 ., , ,, , - U ' , -rv 1 L ' 1 ' sl 6 I ' A , . Y 'J i i 2 T . Y- 3 V I Y . 1 ' ' - , D , ,, . ' v s 1 1 - 1 A A s - t - ' s L - s - L s s I - L l was no hockey team at all hve years ago, but now we have a reasonably good team, which more Y I l 5 . 1 s s ' D 1-. 1 I 8 ' .7 c ,B , , - . ' ' I . , , If 5 ' x ff, - . fa, ,ff . :.. ' ' - Xl A , .. 5' , f, -Pl , in , - . , xl -' s r A .. .-' I 9 ,j A! l U . Z P N ' N I 'p I ' i

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5, 'Ss ARTHUR VINCENT BENNETT Art Benny tell be world. SShakcspcarc. 98 Prnhard Street, I1tthburg Mass Born at Brooklmt Nlass Dtttmbtr 3 1977 Football QHJ 38 39 4 C1pta1n 40 Squad 37 Base a 37 38 Hotk v qHj 43 41 Basketball Squad 37 Press Club 38 Ed1tor 39 btudtnt Countul 38 Inter st OASIIL D1Ilbl1V Ratts 39 4 41 G1lbtrt and u 1 n optrttta 37 35 9 41 Glu Club 43 C 011' 41 Sk1Llub 43 Enttrtd Holdtrntss 1936 Prtpanng, for Nhddltburx Q- xv: Brea: followmt, among, tht low r formtrs bttaust of h1s 1ob mu: t taptamtd ht root a ttam ISI a IS ta t Capn B bw um tht masttrs h1ldrtn Wt. all know muth about Fltthburb vuth Btnnx lround and 1t sttms that ucry ot tr paptr wt p1tk up 15 publ1shtd thtrt Smtt Btnny 1snt as mtertsttd 111 sprmt, sports as ln I5 111 sports autumnal ht has had to hnd othtr mtlns of sport th1s SPYIDL, So t IS that n1s,tly ht tan bt sttn prowlmt, around vnth h1s hxctc Ewtrtady for smoktrs or whtn nom art out d1srurb1n1, tht parkmx, Romtos As Btnm IS qultv. a Romto h1msclf wt won der 1f h has stopptd to rh1nk how ht would fetl 11: somebody d1sturbed h1m v1h1le ht was parkmy, .1 ,H .1 U K I l'll 1 U. ' , Y, D .5 ' ,ni A , b ll ' ,' . ' ug ' , ' . ' . hlr' 'Q 's11'- ' va -- '. h' - .E15'f,,, 4532!- -2f1'f,'igff 1-Hzssirfl A . 5,1- 1 'V' 5 f. A' BENNY , THE assistant kccpcr of Abbcy's nursery. has a 3? . ',h-H' - t- ' bill E- 1.,vfllhc' -11-d I ,x ' J v 1. . . C . . I , . ,' , ' v 'V nt if A Q l y-xx K ,A- yr ',, - . , ,. It I ' 1 '-y '21 fl 1 ' 'K y 9 1 , v ,', . s ' 'h ' - ' - - - ' -' ll 3 F J -A.-4 V , Y 'U I. s I s 1 T 'K I' v 1 L,'r ,Vw I.-an A . Y x 'af V I