Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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FOUIQTI-I FGRM I-IISTORY Dear Mr Rogers When you left we all promised to wrrte you So let s take a good look around and see what happened where rn the past year Here rs the blond young president of our Form You remember Bob Emmons? He strll has that good hrgh and loud vorce and by this time he has earned three major letters for three seasons of sports The letter he has rn hrs hand rs of course for a certain Miss Harrison Then we spy over rn the mrddle of the lawn two creatures goose stepping and chanting a now famous song To talk of Alexander may be a good rdea but not for Rrley H hasn t changed a brt srnce you left Hrs vorce can outshout anyone and any number Almost handcuffed to Chrrsrsaslender dark authorrty on Mu the R A F gymnastics and heaven knows what else There s not a roof around school that this man Best has not explored See that gentleman over there with the professional look rn hrs eye? Wrth all the book prizes he received he ought to be able to open a show Scholar singer actor poet and very drsappornted rf he has only a 90 average You must study harder Penn Now watch P J Of late Smith has become a scholar And otherwise he has changed a lot this year now he rs one of the reg lar fellers Of course he and hrs pal lVlcDuffie go together lrke Scotch and soda Bob though rs usually occupied rn the musical world As he sees rt a good Jrvey record 15 as good as two Beethoven Symphonies But you don t like Bob s krnd of music so let s leave Remember Fragile Scranton? We ve forgotten completely how he looks naturally after all that bone breaking trouble has rrd hrm of hrs physrcal beauties and abrlrtres Room mate Burt Lowe has had plenty to do grabbing the sport pages every morning Then of course though he always found trme for preparations for a debate or a hand of brrdge Speaking of brrdge rmmedrately connotes Colrn Mitchell An easy gorng chap thrs Colrn he and hrs room mate Charlre Dodge have a knack for keeprng out of trouble By the way Charlre plays Chat tanooga Choo Choo and Jenny on the Chapel organ now It s a lrttle hard to concentrate on wrrtrng this letter to you because Bob Lovett just turned on hrs radro Bob strll lrkes to srt rn a corner all by hrmself and do nothing but lrsten Another sound rndrcates that P C Smith rs movrng about sayrng enough to fill frve mrlk cans and have them slopprng over But sometrmes he prefers to go exploring the grave yard Ed Schaupp rs with some book rn the lrbrary Then we have over there Freddy Ter chert who keeps on telling others to smarten up -especrally Farmer Dodge from the brg and beautrful crty of Lay conra What modest Johnnie has gone through rs rndescrrbable There remarns only the ever agreeable Dean Blackwell another brarn But wart' 1 Al rolls rn strll good humored but when he gets mad look out' Now what drd we do all year? Well we have completed our sports record for the year We had representatives on the first teams rn most sports We also supplred three major char acters and a good part of the chorus rn Trral by Jury We know too who topped the school rn studies all year long Srnce you left for the Army we have been under the keeprng of Mr Branstad And we found that rn gettrng hrm we were very fortunate We talk about brrdge games about the candy Chrs expensej and the parties we share with hrm We wrll remember this year even when we are lrvrng next year out rn the garage Buckingham Palace to you srr Crood luck THE CLASS Of' 1944 D ' .. ,, . , - h e there was always a lot of biology to do. Little Vick seemed to have that latter trouble too, al- ' , ' - , ' . ' . -B'g

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Tl-HRD AND SECOND FORM HISTORY If anyone thrs past year should ever have happened to vrsrt Abbey Towers durrng the half hour perrod from 8 45 to 9 15 he would perhaps have wondered rf Holderness were gorng to the dogs When those few vrrtuous boys who made the honor roll for a few weeks were rnterrupted by the chargrng brrgade from Study Hall a free for all usually was the result Whrle the one vrctrola of the dorm was grvrng forth sweet and hot and whrle Jack Copeland settled down to the rncessant pumprng of hrs accordron we exhausted ourselves rn order to rnsure a good nrght s sleep More often than not there was a revolutron agarnst our beloved proctor Bud Grrmes We had nothrng agarnst hrm we had excessrve energy Last fall the Form real ly got gorng More than half the characters rn the Thanksgrvrng play were filled by members of the Thrrd Form Al Mersel and Grles Low as two of the most gracrous and beautrful ladres ever fo set foot on our stage were ably supported by blond Mac Jacoby and red Fred See as Negro servants We were none too ambrtrous about sports most of the fall we dug on the hockey rrnk Only See and Norrrs got mrnor football letters and rn the wrnter agarn only See was on the skr team All the others erther played volleyball or used the begrnner s slope on Wendy s But rn the sprrng--oho we were very ambrtrous Jacoby was fifth strrng catcher on the baseball team whrle Fred See Mersel and Farnsworth were very eflicrent rn the out field Hayden berng utrlrty man Sherwood was on the tennrs team he drd well too And then agarn came a chance to show our mutual rnterests All but two volunteered to be drafted for the operetta We were the chorus of the Brrdesmards Here agarn Jacoby s hrgh vorce came rn handy Our hobbres were of a wrde varrety The art of modelrng arrplanes seemed to predomr nate especrally when the Army Arr Corps furnrshed the rdeas on blueprmts Hayden Jacoby Low and Mrtchell were very enthusrastrc supporters of thrs pastrme And have you ever heard Sherwood grve hrs rendrtron of the latest popular songs? Shouldn t have mrssed rt The most unrque hobby however was Farnsworth s Jrmmy had part of hrs electrrc trarn set up rn hrs room Almost any trme he would have reenacted the Casey Jones wreck for you The Second Form was qurte somethrng thrs year It consrsted of the one and only rnsurpassable Acer Copeland Jack was Just about the most agreeable person around and had never ut tered a word that would have made an enemy When we got some of the jrtterbugs rnto school thrs year he was greatly rmpressed now he lrkes Jazz better than anythrng except church mu Copeland rs the begrnnrng of hrs form If that Class of 1946 has the same vrrtues faults and characterrstrcs as Jack there wrll be nothrng to worry about Now one more word about the Boss Bud drd have a lot of trouble wrth us but we hope he also had a lot of fun We drd We wrsh hrm a lot of luck for hrs career rn college and after that Desprte the fact that we had our ups and downs we were a happy and congenral form But we strll wrsh we were senrors IEdrtors note You wrll bell 're l . . , 1 ' ' ' 1 1 . , . . 1 , 1 . , . ' - 1 1- 1 - 1 - 1 . . - 1 , 1 . . . - . , . ' r 1 ' ' - 1 1 1 . . - 1 - - ' , . 1 v , . . . . . , - - . , , . . . . 1 1 . . 1 u 11 - - 1 1 T ' SIC. . 1 , . u 11 ' ' . 1 - 1 . . . . , . 'T 'v ' 1 1 . f 4 ' ser' Av' f AY, ' ' ,c fl' r ' 'f .