Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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Nlwwi Rmn during this period. being a charter member of the Lower Library Late Lights Study Club, and having easy access to the Encyclopedia Britan- nica, from which he copied all assigned work word for word. Bronx Park was wont to put a sixty on these gems, with the remark. Yes, Richardson, they're good, but they're familiar. Spring came slowly, and left the field below the North Dorm covered with large cakes of Honsatonic ice, which were whisked away on work holidays. lt was not long, however, before tennis, crew, and the Naughty Nine were flourishing. Dogmeat Ellis. prefect par excellence, wore out several pair of athletic store gumshoes chasing up itlount Algo, and when he finally nabbed the catch, the dust bowl behind the Library Building was transformed into a lovely scenic park. Soon there came the time of council elections. There was much controversy over whether the intentions of Ajax Jones, the ex-exponent of forced horticulture. were on the up-and-up. It was finally decided that the revolution could wait, and W'allis, Dewey and Howe were re-installed in the rear seats of Study Hall for the last month of the year. We were present at the rainy resignation of Pater, and the advent of Father Chalmers, but. truth to tell, we didn't hear many of the speeches because we were too busy watching the little photographer put flashbulbs in his camera, and count the house. Also, liew Baldwin won the History prize, and created quite a disturbance by skipping the festivities, an unheard of occurrence. As the last game of Nigger Baby ended in front of the dining hall, and Jazer McClain, the class of 1941's top buglist, played taps to the incoming sixth form, we packed our belongings for another summer at home. Greaser Vook disappeared down the State Road toward Litchfield, suburb of Torrington, in a cloud of dust, and we were once more separated. to loll to our heart's content, and watch the progress of Hitler into Bussia in the late summer. The summer of I9-t-1 was spent in sunny surroundings. None of the brothers did anything but loaf. to the best of our knowledge. W'ar was a far-away quantity which could never reach the shores of the good old t'.S.A., no matter what fluff-guff W'hite- ley, or the Honorable Vere, or Richardson, or llavenshaw-the English-said about You Ameddicans will be in ere long, you know. W'ith September came fifth form year. We returned leisurely, in no hurry, watched with disdain while the lower formers scurried about, and settled into rooms in the Dining Hall and the Auditorium. There has been a lot of talk made as to how the fifth form looks forward to the sixth form, and down upon the lower forms. This is only half true. The fifth form looks down on A Iior ciARTERS both the sixth form and the lower forms. It con- lincarn tinually, in the first two or three days of the term. has its bigger brothers sirred by the lower 5 Q

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f' when they came out on Alumni Field for the first game. They put up a great fight against the f blue and white jerseys, and two-tone grey pants 1 Union freshmen, and only lost because of a heart- breaking last-minute play in which Johnny Ash- b , v, f' vi rf J fb -ZEVE mun caught a pass and was declared out of the end zone. The rest of the season was successful, including revenge on Taft, and a tie with f'hoate. W'e had waited so long for a win in this game that we would have pulled a Doctor Faustus for the victory, f'.O.D. and no questions asked. That was the last game the school ever played with fhoate, and yet it was a merry group that piled into the busses and prepared for the annual Grit thar fustest with the mostestu on the stores lining the route to Kent. Graham W'aldo, who was later to kill the grass outside of his window with tobacco juice, and horrify Bill the Barber by swiping his cigarettes half-smoked, did himself proud on this occasion with three black Porto Rican cigars. He tired of these however, and smoked Salada tea the rest of the way back. Athletically, we had Jerry Howe, Tom W'allis, and Raving Dave Peake on Tote W'alker's undefeated second team. The lull after the football season was spent chopping wood, and playing poker with Richardson. who claimed he had never seen the game played before, but made enough to buy all his Vhristmas presents on the train trip to New York. Vollier was still crowding on the steam in the exams, and we were content to let our marks andhis average passing. Snow was lying deep in the valley, and Begin the Beguinen was being played in the Bell Tower, as the School filed across the bridge for Christmas vacation. The battle of Britain had been fought and won over the skies of England. General W'inter looked down from Algo on Laurie Hooper and Ted Bridgeman. playing on the first wrestling and basketball teams respectively. Laurie was soon dubbed the Super Hooperman after cracking every rib in sight. It was he who started the custom of carrying Kent's opponents back to the locker room when they couldn't walk. Ted Bridgeman looked. talked. and smelled of basketball all winter. He and Laurie were the form heroes for some time. Not to be outdone, President W'allis rallied his forces for the famous W'allis Aggies, which by now were synonymous with Murder Incorporated. Wallis and his pals. Vonnolly, Little. and liergamini, had evolved a new system of body-checking through the boards instead of over them. Another undefeated season was the result. There were exams at the end of the term. contrary to expectation, and the sur- prised brothers were forced to strive their utmost to pass. This term also saw Fido l'helan's term C iuaasrn Swat' essay effort. which involved getting up at ll :30 at night and working straight through until breakfast. Richardson was chortling happily WEEK s REX IEW

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A N V 5 f ' formers, until the lower formers are put wise, W, ,i g 1 and also the athletic members are very palsy- walsy with the big boys in the sixth form. The only trouble with being a fifth former at all seems T'-E-6,1 6 to be the rule about getting to bed at nine o'clock. No responsibilities, a lifetime of ducking studies, Som NOTE enjoying sports, and getting around the sixth form with the wiles born of three years experience. W'hat fun! Soon the fifth form, living on the second floor of the Auditorium, got to spending the entire night in the room of W'hitely, a scholastic half-breed, who was in and out of the sixth form. Many times poor Hotbread Rod Todd, a legal senior, was forced to fight his way through the crowd into his own room after lights. Among the more delightful joys of fifth form year were Lew Baldwin's miniature study hall in his roomy closet, Harry Jambone I'eckham's window garden, and rose in Brooklyn, and Deeck the Greeck Jones career as mathematician and engineer of deviltry. Earlius W'ilson reached, with Prickett, heights of contraband hoarding never before conceived of in the mind of modern man, and Fodder Snap-it Hodder politicoed up and down the hall. W'allis and W'ierum were still playing Tom Hamil- ton's Football Game, started in second form year. The only furniture in their room besides the beds was the game, two chairs, and a table. Hooper industriously blew up his muscles like balloons. Peake and Atkin gave that debutante tinge to the hallway. Their room was stuffed with racy little trophies. such as mouldering evening slippers, of evenings at hot spots up and down the Atlantic and Jersey coast. W'ell-meaning Brad Locke of the sixth form vainly tried to enforce a modicum of law and order, and occasionally cracked down on such as Blouse futler and Fingers W'ard, the constant purveyors of ersatz foodstuffs that needed only hot water in a child's teapot. and a match, to bring them to a succulent boil. Cutler had used his ingenuity to get himself a seven foot bed big enough for a whole regiment, and he with Peake was the only possessor of such gorgeous apparatus in the school. Ogden, the virtuoso, who taught himself to play a new musical instrument every year, played mournfully on his collapsible flute. Swanson Silvers drifted in and out, interrupted in his silent wander- ings by those who wanted to know how the Arab maids of Algeria compared to the Hollywood ideal. The Dining llall was a mechanized hive of activity. Leaders in Catiline plots were the old-timers, Janboy Harvey. liirdskin Caldwell, and the carefree Ajax Jones. A daily guessing game was carried on. Whoever could guess what was in the sus- piciously bulging sack that resident inspectors LAM David Green and Don Dickson used for an icebox. dangling from the window, won the daily double. C'ollier forsook studies for the gay life. and with others introduced the game of bridge, a scientific K