Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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FIFTH FCDIQM I-IISTCDIQY The Immortal words of last year s Fxfth Form edltor namely that the umor Class stands for progress are bemg proved this year Progress IS a result not an occurrence We of the Filth Form are not egotxsts Nelther are we falsely modest when we sav we show the most mltlatnye most energy and greatest capabllrty rn the school The Flfth Form holds the pecul rarly promxnent POSIIIOD of bexng the most useful form for rt IS we w1th Muller as our mam stay that do the most work around the campus all of whlch IS dulv appreciated In our lust of attarnments superylslons ol smokxng by the Sxxth Form ranks hugh because we are the hrst to warrant such 1 measure Then late rn the Sprnng of 1941 though supposedly heayxly opposed by the faculty we succeeded III obtaxnlng ten thxrty llghts an lncrease to Flfth Form PYLSIISC Ilnally and most lmportant we rnaugurated the Holderness umor Prom a soclal revolutlon xn the annals of the school The success of xt was probably more astoundmg to us as a dorm than to the school for though we had planned long and carefully the novelty was unpredlctable We appreciated the backlng of Dr I-Iuntmg and Mr Lynch our rnscrutable and metxculous Calthough this IS not shown ln mspectlon marksj dormxtory masters As for sports we can truthfully say we are more than outstandmg Sewall Clark Manley and Foss receued letters 1n Football be1ng ably backed up by the mayorlty of the rest of the form as jayyees Wmter sports were well represented xn all d1v1s1ons With the prominent 'Nlxchols as manager many turned out for baseball Also we can pomt to two top men on the Tennis team the veteran Sewall and the newcomer Manley In Dramatlcs we boast Sewall ln Cox and Box Steve Warner ln an excellent portrayal of a d1zzy lanky dame and Quetton nn a matronly characterxzatxon from Curse You jack Dal lon In the French play Le Mcdecm Malgre Luz Quetton reversed hrs role to that of an old man w1th Vnckerman as one of those much dreamed of cocottes and Lxbbey the leading man underwent a metamorphos1s from a woodchopper to a doctor lolanthe drew out Armstrong Sewall Manley and uetton for pr1nc1pal roles A newcomer to the extra curr1cular act1v1t1es th1s year the Debatmg Club had nts mam stay on nve Flfth Form members Nlchols Weld Vxckerman Quetton and Manley At the Bates Debatlng Conference Vnck placed second for lndlyrdual speaking while the team as a whole placed fourth On the Dzal and Yearbook staff Staples the Asslstant Edltor together w1th Bull the Business Manager and Llbbey the News Fdxtor were taken on as new maternal They w1th Weld as the expernenced Photographrc Ildntor composed the Frfth Form s offers to next year s colossal Dm! Staff In the meantlme they have done excellent work on thls year s staff The amazingly dxverslfied experxence of thls form should have prepared us ably to meet both currlcula and extra currrcula trlals of next year Untrl that year opens adleu We glve you next Fall I-Iolderness the class of 42 the new Slxth Form . I , 4. 1 . V J . , 1 1 U . , . , . . . . .V Y . . Y . .. - 1 1 - , 1 1 ' V x . v . . 1. . 7 I ' 1 - 1 N A . , . . Y. V 1 . , , I - V . , - ' , A ' ' 4 1 1 4 I .7 T. y 1 . . x . . - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . . , 1 1 1 1 1 . V . . . . 1 1 , . , . , . 1 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 Q ' - , y - - 1 1 1 1 ' 1 - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - . . . 4 . . , 1 1 , . . . , ' 1 ' . , . , . 1 1 1 ' i I Q . . . 5 I . D Q H r - gf, . ' - 1 If 1 V ' 'xr - 4' , ! Q V ' .f:'-B.: ' 1 ., ' 1' ,,-' 3 ' ' . , A - ', rl. U i.. -4.4 .T -4. 'L-fam ,

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FCDUIQTI-l FGRM l-IISTGIQY Irrst I must tell you how I came across the wrrtrngs whreh follow It was about two years ago when Srmon McGrundy hrst came to our house He was a strange old fellow He hardly eyer left hrs room, and so rt was my' duty to brrng up hrs food I always had to knock at the door so that Mr IVleGrundy would haye trme to hrde the preerous rnanuserrpt upon whrch he was eonstantly workrng He guarded these papers more carefully than 1 mrser hrs gold One day, howeyer, I knocked rn yarn After contrnurnv my knocks for a few moments, I opened the door slowly To my horror I perceryed Srmon, slouched oyer hrs desk elutehrng the marruserrpt rn hrs death grrp After callrng Mother, I rmmedrately started to look for hrs wrll My seareh was frurtless, and so Mother, herself saw that the old man reeeryed a decent burral then, rn lreu of the rent whrch the old man had not pard Mother took possessron of hrs bundle of papers And so rt was that we came rnto possessron, rims so strangely, of the Hrs tory of the Fourth Form, Holderness, 1941 I well remember my amazement upon first glancrng through the papers and aecompanyrng photographs of thrs work The photographs themselyes aroused rn me a startled Gad' after Gad' , and after I had hnrshed yrewrng these, I turned my attentrons to the manuserrpt Shak rng the dust from rts eoyers, and my self shakrng lrke a leaf I proceeded to gltnee through the pages bueh paragraphs as these were the ones that greeted me The shryerrng Thrrd Former, ably escorted by a group of Iourth Formers, meekly walked toward the shower In yarn he sought refuge Wrthrrr a moment he would be thrown rnto the rey downpour The Fourth Formers grasped hrm and, amrd crres of trrumph he was thrown, elothes and all, rnto the shower, After flrckrng on the lrght, the unfortunate owner of the room took one look at what was before hrm and then emrtted a cry comparable only to that of an rnfurr ated bull Lrttle wonder, for rn one corner of the room hrs bed stood, lrterally strrpped of books were also among the debrrs In faet, not one thrng remarned rn rts rrghtful plaee He could reach but one eonelusron Some representatrye of the Iourth Iorm had yrsrted hrm, Not all of the paragraphs howeyer, contarned as gory faets as these Some told of partres, results of wrnnrng rnspectrons Others told of jam sessrons when the arr was nlled wrth the strarns of Beat Me Daddy and of accompanyrnv hands and feet I next found a small packet around whrch was tred a large red rubber band As I searched among rts contents, I came first upon a lrst entrtled Athletrc Teams Here was mentron of the actrye partrcrpatron of the Fourth Form Actrye rndeed I thought for hardly a team was wrthout some Fourth Formers Another tattered paper I soon saw, was an honor lrst Here agarn were Fourth Formers rn top posrtrons I could not help thrnkrng to myself how aetrye these fellows were Why eyen the Debatrng Club contarned some of thrs form' Unfortunately poor Mr McGrundy neyer reached that part whreh rn most books sum marrzes the precedrng materral, and so I feel that rt rs my duty to hrm to attempt rn a humble manner to do thrs From Mr McGrundy s materral, I gather that the Fourth Form was, I dare say, a farr bunch of boys The pranks whrch Srmon McGrundy relates show them to haye been red blooded, but not mean or destructrye From therr reeords rn both athletrcs and scholastrc achreyement, they seem to haye done rather well At least they appear to haye been rn the thrck of thrngs most of the trme rf not, alas, all of rt My only regret rn wrrtrng thrs rs that rt rs rmpossrble for me to rnclude the whole of Mr Srmon McGrundy s book, or rntended book I would lrke to mentron, howey er, that there rs a consolatory factor Mother has Just reeeryed a letter from the publrshers, Snosly and Noad, who haye agreed to publrsh the McGrundran manuscrrpt The enelosed cheek was enough to coyer Mr McGrundy's rent by a wrde margrn, and Mother was rn town only thrs afternoon to see about a new baby carrrage for my lrttle srster, Anne . I' - 1 Y 1 ' ' 1 .1 A v . g . ' 8 lv 11 - vf - F ' -- - 1 , 6 1 1- I 11 1 S 1 . . . V U .- ' 3, 1 l - - 1. ' Y ' ll 1, ca my I ' ' I Y' ' 7 ' i X, ' - ' . 1 ' - 1 , ' ' 7 ' I A 1 1 1 I -1 1 . , . ' 1 -1 1 1 1. U 1 - ' v1 ' y ' 4 6 - I ' 1 - 1 1 . . , I 1 nl cc ' ' ' . . . , blankets, sheets, and mattress. These were scattered about the room. His carefully arranged 1 1 - 1 l 2 X 1 1 1 ' 11 1 I I fn' 1 ' 3, - I 1 I vi Q X KC 'Fl A i N ,gi N . . .. , L . . i V .... . Q. 1,, V I X . . ' ' SK ,ll V' g . a Q 1 KK 1 ,y l 1 ' Y Y . , . . , 3 I I l I - I . v r 1 v - v -1 ' - v- - , 1 , 1 I . ' , . . . wx X .K l v . . I ' 3 ' 1 'Y y