Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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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

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TI-lll2D FORM I-IISTOQY Though forms may eome and torms may go thrs years Thxrd Form, the elass of 44 yylll be remembered long after all others haye passed Ot seyen members last year, four returned wlth an addxtnonal nxne more, makxng Ill all thlrteen NX hen the year of 1944 rolls around e promlse great teams nn all sports, for, yyrth all the sportsmen yye novy haye, plus the new boys three years will brlng, how eould vye help but be good? NX e elalm already the yarsxty I-Ioekey goalle, and also a nearly eomplete Baseball str1ng Scholastle attarnments hnd a marked plaee here, sux ot us hayrnv made the honor roll at one tlme or the other Also, for Dramatles, there has been a large turn out In the Thinksgly lng play, Bob Mellulhe represented us III a yery well acted part Cox and Box, the Chrlstmas operetta featured Chrrs Rxley as Bouneer, the double dealnw boardlng house oper1tor,and one ean lmaglne how well Chrls htteel Into that part Dean Blaekyyell drew 1 part lll the Sprlng French play The Commeneement operetta really got the erowd from the Third lorm Blaek well and Lowe are ehorus members, and two of the leadmg roles fall to Bob Lmmons and Chf1S Rlley Abbey Towers has th1s year 1naugurated a new 1nspect1on plan Mr Abbey s proetor, Art Bennett lnspeets wxth the erxtleal eye of the stern task master that he ls, and marks aeeord lngly eaeh day Thxs proy es to be a real result getter and has been exeeptronally sueeesslul A word more about our proetors Desplte the numerous hours of work they haye gxyen us, we stlll llke them for thelr advlee and proteetxon, and, what I5 more lmportant, yye luke and Art got the most yotes ln the electron for Presldent of the School We wlsh them good luck and assure them that they w1ll be remembered by all those who wear a blazer bearxng the numerals 1944 Uur proetors wlll tell you that our lorm IS mterestlng for the number of hobbxes we haye We wont speak of Ofdlllify hobbles, luke stamp eolleetxng or the eolleetrnf of tm foul what we do want to mentlon are two new and unusual hobbles The hrst IS that of one of our members who collects necktles The present amount of them IH hls LOllLCIlOI1 ns about forty We also have somebody collectrng pletures of hreroglyphlcs Donald Best does thxs, and he trles to explam to lnnocent XISIIOYS that the garden rn one partxcular drawlnv has only an entrance and no CXII and that xt means death You ean t get out of 1t We are also, ID addrtlon, yery musreal lxcept durxng Study Hall pernod there ns hardly a moment when there rs not at least one, and sometlmes two or three, radlos going Some trmes whlle we llsten to the radlo we play ball through a elosed wlndow and knoek ehnps out of lamp shades Thls IS bad Sometxmes the Fourth Form XISIIS and xntlmldates us mto takrng showers m our good suxts Th1s rs also bad Anyway, let us close now But first, let us glye our best vylshes to thls year s Srxth Iorm We feel sure they wrll be as successful ln whatever they may undertake IH later lrfe as they haye been here at I-Iolderness Lf ,4 N Ahix . v -s I - y '- v , ' 1 1 - A , 7. . 4 7 . gk 7 I f f I . U x - I L . L l 2 I lr 1 2 1 - y W V 1 . . Q Y ,, x . ' I V . 7 v l 7 w - A i v w 'Av v D , In I V l ,B Th I - I D L ' x- . h I L L - , A . , ' . Y . V I ' I ' Y,' ' , ' 1 - ' 1 1 ' '- 1 V A 1 1 - - 1 g 1 I- - -- , ' 1 A ' , , , -,, , , , . , , . ' , y. ..,.L.' . them because they are genuine friends of ours. Their worth is proved by the fact that Pete 1 ' - l ' T1- ' 1 - Q 1- b 1 4 1- ' f . X ' - . C V - 7 b ' x ' za ' ' l cc r 5 J , ' xx 1 1 1 Q 1 1 ' 1 1 l X y 4 fy. B , . v V. . Y , . I l ll 2 - r A y . X s - 'lx 'll 7 T Q . ' xx . 1 I n ,.. . , A - ,ni 4 ' . , K ! e ..-. . .2 A 4