Hoosac School - Owl Yearbook (Hoosick, NY)

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THE PREFECTS—Terry Loftus and John Allen.

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£ve,X£,tt iJxving { Vi[[i±, CJ.x. Hillandalc Road Rye, New York HOOSAC 1957 - 1958 Activities: The Riding Club VI, The Liturgical Choir VI, The Owl Board VI, Dramatics VI, Class President VI, Baseball VI. School previously attended: Westminister School. Rett came to Hoosac from Rye. New York, and with him brought the polished ways of Rye society. Much of this brushed off on the boys here and solved some of the masters’ problems. Of his many interests and talents his primary one is a girl named Gay. Rett is a conscientious and hard-working student. On many occasions Rett has entertained us with his guitar music. He has a very forward personality and probably for this reason cannot help but do well in later life. “Peter Prep”

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 ZJllC y-’xzjzctl. Terry and John—the driving force behind the student body, the coordinators of numerous committees, the go-between for the administration and the student body, the ones who did the job when no one else would—this was their responsibility. This task of being prefects was theirs, and it has been performed with little recompense. Perhaps most of you think it’s an easy job and a soft life being a prefect. But just ask them. It isn’t. It involves a great deal of personal effacement and mental and physical sweat, of times when you just wish you could drop the whole thing and let someone else pick it up. But maturity is accepting responsibility and performing faithfully, sincerely, and diligently the tasks assigned to one in life. This trait has characterized this year’s prefects. To those who follow we do not say Terry and John were infallible. No one is. We do say that at present better examples could not be found among our student body. We express the hope that next year’s prefects will be at least as good, and that Terry and John will be able in the coming years to put into use the invaluable experiences they have had at Hocsac.