Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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FRANCIS HOWARD GRANT Gump 'WVU makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions, -Emerson. 31 Carisbrooke Road, Wellesley Hills. Mass. Born at Boston, Mass., May 5, 1924 Tardiness Committee '42, Debating '42. Gilbert and Sullivan '42. Football QHJ '4l. Hockey '4l. Tennis lH ' Z Entered Holderness 1941 Preparing for Bowdoin if BEING A newcomer to the school didnt cramp Gumps style ll On the contrary he began his Holderness career by earning a backfield position with the football armada Just as suddenly this upstanding Wellesleyite crashed into the scholas tic honor ranks and he has remained there consistently Should you be confused by the odd title of Gump suffice it to say that its origin is unknown Gump s pulchritudinous following makes an exacting eprstolatory demand on him He has even been forced to employ private secretaries for reasonable fac simlles thereofl To do this ts daring to get away with it is miraculous Gump has done it Such qualities as these com bined with his other amiable qualities are certain to carry him through the proposed stay along the rock bound coast of Maine it 14. 0.0 JY. , .. . ata. . '

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Q ROGER PERHAPS better known as The Count does not take part in a wide variety of extra curricular lields But in those he does try he really goes to town His nickname arises from his passion for the strains of lower Basin Street and who him during one of his performances on the restless ivories' Occasionally when tired of thumping it out on the piano he deigns to try a hot lick on his trumpet But let it not be said that Rog is only a Jive hound Far from lt' He was cap tain of a football team that made history wxth its team spirit All the members of thts years team felt that if they didnt do their best they were letting him down We will ever remem ber Rog for his gemahty his leadership when leadership was needed and the fact that he always came through in a pinch ROGER LIONEL FOSS Count, Fossil, Rog Without music life would be a mistake. --Nietzsche 123 Wibird Street. Portsmouth, N. H Born at Portsmouth, N, H., June 7, 1924 Tardiness Committee '42. English Dramatics '39 Foot ball il'lJ '41, '42, Captain '4Z. Baseball '40, Entered Holderness 1939. College undecided 54: gif g il ? 1.5.1 can forget the stamping crowds of eager devotees who surround

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ARTHUR LESLIE CRAVES, IR. Art, Bone-Crusher O, it is excellent To haue a g1'GUf,S slrength: but xt xs tyrannous To use it like a grant. -Shakespeare. 61 Pleasant Street. St. Johnsbury. Vt. Born at Burlmgton Vt July 25 1923 Camera Club 4l Football CHD 41 Entered l-'lolderness 1941 Prepanng for NOfWlCh rf- ga WHEN ART rolled down from the north Holderness got some breaks Those who found his specnal drawer found also that they could have access to hrs oft replemshed supply of the best ancrent erght odd place table of logarlthms But aside from the literary aspect Holderness got a football player Bone Crush er s speed m the lme has become a password among the boys for he was often seen rapndly gammg on the opposing team s star runmng back Although rt must be admntted that Art s smokmg hohdays are few and far between nt ns nevertheless an estab lished fact that a rush to the butt room was the dxrect cause of a pecuhar accident This accndent resulted rn several stitches and subsequently a three weeks vacatxon from Phys ed In sptte of all thus we feel sure that Art the Engmeer w1ll be as success ful as Art the Holderness boy 52-' rt 0 44 1, HJ modern literature. For the math students, Art had his ' , . . , .