Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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river. The term ended with a re-incarnation of the Boyd Personal Attention Express Service, completely staffed by Scudder Boyd, who would carry any and all trunks on his back coolie fashion. On the last morning, an angelic third BUCK IESSF Bw' form, glorying in its new appellation, faced a similarly joyful sixth form, and repeated its litany. It was whispered that Luther had been seen with a halo around his head, but this was dismissed as being so improbable as to be impossible. At last, we were free. After a long period of utter laziness, during which the Germans started a war in Poland, we returned to Kent in the fall of 1939. We were a supercilious group on the train, and snubbed several incoming members of our own form, under the mis- taken impression that they were lowly second formers. Uur ranks had been swelled by twenty-five new members, and we were all quartered in the North Dorm, a building which we always maintained had at least the advantage of being fireproof. Our belief was put to the test shortly after at 4:30 ac emma, at which time the attic started smouldering and desperate cries of More Water rang up and down the halls. Before this, however, we made shift to acquaint ourselves with our new classmates. A wel- coming delegation, led by Bergamini, went in and attacked the newcomers with water bombs and insults. The peons of the lower hall replied in kind, and soon thereafter was fought the battle of Bergamini, which resulted in an investigation in Job As- sembly, in the course of which Dick Little was asked what he was throwing water with. With my mouth, sir, replied our Dick. and he brought down the house. The boys had a good audience, for the next man up, Windy Wierum, said the same thing, with the same result. During this fall term we gradually made friends with the newcomers, including Professor Stevens, who preferred Cartography to study, Fish Warren, who was rumored to be not yet in his teens, Lew Baldwin, Bob Derr and ltaving Dave Peake. Deeck the Greeck Jones also was the object of much attention at this time, and did not get along very well, as he was so small that he was thought an off- shoot of the town. The process of amelioration continued on the field of play. and we were enthusiastic juniors that year. After the Uhoate game, we retired into our end of term shell, to come out only for terrible water-fights and rough-houses. Brune Levering and newcomer Jack Deas evolved an interesting routine at the time, which went tdialogue only! roughly as follows: Deals, you a niggahf' Who say I'm a niggahf' I say you a niggahu and the fight was on. These exchanges sometimes occurred two or BIRD Ines .I1'xG1.1-1 .Im three times a day. depending on Brune's ability to recover after each encounter with the athletic Deas.

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xt our leader. Sandy acted exactly like a floor- fascinated by his sophistication. Immediately following his election. G. Sanderson declared :YS Q walker in a very high-toned store, and we were 1 Q3 martial law. and with the help of other willing IA... , 2 , A. NNIHTMX helpers, kept the volca11o capped. The winter was memorable for being the last in which the No Visiting rule was enforced. No one but the spiteful had ever paid the slightest attention to it as llS6flll for anything but protection against West Hall. Also, this winter term saw Anson Gardner building delicate model airplanes, illlll Willard liuther and liilienthal Levering indulging their be11t in the upstairs room over West Hall. This duo barricaded themselves against i11vasio11, and went happily about their business, while fifth column- ists dismantled one wall of the room, and the remainder of the form stormed the door. Imagine the youthful airmen's surprise when their bastion crumpled, under the attack of Legs Kerr and Jock Lafferty, a11d they were inundated with water bombs. After an unsuccessful hockey season, during which the shifty defense was developedfa system better i11 theory than practice-the spring vacation drew 11igl1, Zillfl with the possibility of vacation came the awful reality of term cleanup. YYierum and Luther entered fully i11to the hygienic spirit, and threw Vtesty VVestlake's bedding out of the window. The culprits were brought to trial, convicted. and corporeally chastized by Schmidt illltl Read, the intrepid inspectors. Spring vacation went its hurried way. In the spring presidential ltose 0'Day Wallis, then known only as ltosy, was elected, due largely to Sl1af'fer's repeated i11- junction that the corn-fed candidate was The l'eople's f'hoice. In that last term invention flourished. Janboy Ilarvey, the boy electrical wizard, who was later to graduate to full-fledged death chairs, developed the ultimate in brooms, complete with fiashlight, bulb-and-hose attachment for blowing away the dust. and a bell to war11 passersby of his presence. Deviltry reigned supreme up and down Main and XYest Halls. liafferty and Kerr headed the West Hall legions, a11d fought with Buzby, Fhild and Boyd, who also fought with Balsam, Blair, a11d Bowman. These biblical encounters were not very good for Jimmy Child. as at that time Jim was of a micro- scopic size, knew no more than five or six languages, a11d was only kept alive by large doses of a mysterious white powder, which he secretively swallowed twice a day. Also, one night a delegation from the third form dropped over, and showed the brothers how to escape from the Blain Building by means of the window ledges, and frolic o11 the triangle during the soft and balmy spring night. Jerry Howe, who had take11 up My lteverief' made the second baseball team. to the accompaniment of cheers, while the rest of us puttered around, on diamond, court, Zlllfl BIGGY Dust 131:11

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The term closed with more exams. and more amazing marks by Bob Vollicr. dean of the scholastic prestidigitators of the school. Little if tried to gain publicity by reviving the old gag CMM MOUSPI about throwing stuff into a suitcase and closing it. and cutting off whatever hung out. in the in- terests of appearance. No one paid the inventor any attention. and Little retired fiustered from the scene. The winter brought hockey to the third form with a vengeance. Three teams hit the ice, the first, and second form teams, composed of professi nials, and the W'allis Aggies, led by Mad Tom Wallis. president of the form. No one knows what happened to the first and second teams, but Tom's flashing six. playing a game that resembled golf more than hockey, went through an undefeated season. With the spring term of third form year came athletics, and in that field of extra- curricular aetivity we were only fair. Jerry Howe. he of the Neapolitan mane, made the first baseball team. The third form was represented in the annual crew regatta by two organizations which may have looked smooth elsewhere, but resembled an aggre- gation of hiccuping playboys on the river. We retired for the summer with good grace, to whistle over the German progress in France, and at girls as a matter of policy, we being on the verge of manhood. W'hen we came back for fourth form year, certain definite trends began to show themselves. W'e were quartered in the new library building, which we all considered great, under the guidance of Bassett, Brewster, Tapscott. Burnham, Klaus and fross. We had with us numerous Englishmen, including the honorable Vere Harmsworth, who was an English peer, and suffered therefor, and also Michael John deltougemout Richardson, who roomed with Symington, a cast-oft' from the class of 194-2 who had spent some time in St. Louis, trying to grow a normal head of hair. ln Fall Term of that year, the full genius of Janboy Harvey flowered into evil luxuriance. Every type of gambling game known to man fiourished in John's shaded little den on the first floor. Birdskin Caldwell, an enthusiastic roommate, was pressed into service as an assistant dealer. Even the great Hank Elser of the fifth form came down and played with us. At the center of the mad whirl sat Harvey, a green eyeshade over his face, his impas- sive tone sounding flatly over the room: Place yore bets, gentsf' However, Jan's roulette wheel and croupier's rake were confiscated by the authorities, and we stuck to poker, craps, and a game played by guessing numbers on a painted shirt cardboard. This game evidently did not have the odds fixed right, as Jan lost a goodly sum before revising MONKEY M AC them, whereupon we would no longer play with him. That fall the first football team was wearing