Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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The successful fall term llallowr-'en Carnival featured a skit by each form and several games of chance. The fourth form was represented with one of the easiest games on the Midway We considered it a great honor one week during this term when Carlos Busscln- was named by the NEWS as 'Sports Star of the Week. lle was the first member of our form to be so honored. A short while before Thanksgiving. the fourth formers rooming in the Auditorium decided that the school jazz band w as not working up to par. and. consequently. formed their own band, which even gave a Saturday'-night concert in the Dining llall. This organization included ,lim Reynolds. Bill Phelps, ttilt lfasman. Don Macwiltie and Russ Hubbard, and was sparked by' enthusiasm of the highest calibre. When we returned from Thanksgiving Recess, we found the basketball floor in the Gym completely renovated, affording a better playing surface for all basketball candidates. With thirteen members of the form on the Honor Roll, we adjourned for the Christmas Vacation in December. -.1 .6 ir When we returned from Christmas Vacation. the Common Room, which was to contain couches. ping-pong tables. a radio. card tables and various games, was under construction. This term. Dave Drouet started on the first basketball team. Murray Baldwin obtained a slot on the first team wrestling squad and Mat Mills dominated the ski team, One of the major features of this term was the sixth form presentation of The Little Mau. starring Ron Morris as a rather bewildered European traveller. An impromptu aeronautics show occurring during our mid' year Sacred Studies exam highlighted an otherwise dull exam week. As boys lined the campus. an unknown pilot buzzed over the Dining Hall roof. down the valley. and over the Chapel. Not the least of the school achievements this term was the basketball teams now-legendary game with Berkshire. during which Kent managed to obtain a record score. winning by 90-50. Our own Dave Urouet helped by putting in li of these points. lVlid-year examinations came and went. with nine fourth formers still on the llonor Roll. Une member of the form attained High Honor Roll marks. The basketball team edged out Gunnery' 58-55 to take the Tri-State League Championship, on February 14. This was Coach Hoyle's second League championship in three years of coaching. The Common Room was officially opened late this term. ln addition to the games supplied. the CR managers arranged a ping-pong tournament for all underforniers. One new development of this term was the new'-style athletic banquet for each sport. livery' boy out for each sport was

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FOURTH FORM YEAR 'L 4 ' -A W -. ,, A e , , , ,M L is 1. -v... ff.-.f ff . . Q- ' , . ' . ' .. we--tv' N-rw weii-fB5iexf.6r1xrr16.....' 1aa?,,'fe?t'if5'3.a:f',.a,'e:m4kai-A-arfmwsa .2-'SPEAK mb' -....... e, --,si - - When we returned in the fall of l952 as Fourth Formers. we found. as usual. that a good many new things had taken place over the summer. There were four new masters, one of whom was the father of our formmate Graham Fuller, New with lVlr. Fuller were Nlr. Breasted. who was to lead many of us through the unknown paths of lfnglish prose and poetry. lVlr. Crocker and lVlr. Gifford, One of the major changes in school life we found on our return was the new Permissions System. This system run hy our old math master, lVlr. lloyle. provided for more rig- orous checlcups and more doleful penalties for the luclcless fellow who was ahsent from a school activity without an excuse. or who piled up a sufliciently large amount of late- nesses. This fall, Carlos Bussche was starting on the hrst soccer team, while Dave Drouet. Treat Walker and Holi Shattuck managed to win herths on the first football team. Few will forget the thrilling mass parade which occurred this year heforc the hrst football game of the season. Highlighted by the ancient school jeep. a mascot goat supplied hy Senior prefect lioh Wartl. a loucl school hand and hauners galore tincluding ,lack Marescais and Chris Allenis realistic tiger-skin Hagt, this spirited rally doubtlessly struck fear into even the hardest Trinity-Pawling heart. The tragic ending of the story. however. is that in spite of this spectacle. the team lost hy a score of 13-T. ln the mid-term indicators this fall. a respectable ten of our form managed to achieve llonor Roll standing. with a record two achieving High Honors. One unfortunate incident which occurred during the fall w as the loss of the Silver Spoon to Loomis. as the football team dropped a game T-tl in the midst of the traditional had weather. llowever. few' lienties lct themselves he so depressed that they could not avail themselves of Loomis hospitality lui stuffing themselves with cider. cocoa. apples and doughnuts.

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inxited to the feasts formerly reserved for first teams. Sports movies to top off the steak dinners satisfied all of ns. A few days before spring vacation. the Dramatic Society presented Ben ,lonsonis The Alchemist. None of our form- mates, however. was in this production. Spring term brought all that is associated with it: hikes and picnic lunches on holidays and Sundays. stick-ball on Wednesday evenings. and, for some, nature study. Carlos Bussche picked up two large hlacksnakes, which he kept in his room as pets. After bothering fornnnates with them, he spread the word that they were rattlesnakes. His play worked as expected. for Vultch Voorhees' hate of reptiles kept that esteemed sixth former from inspecting for three days. It was a red-faced inspector who was finally let in on the gag. This spring, '55 undertook to put on another one-act play. Bob Schwartz, Bill lnce, Robin Hoen, Jack Maresca and Bruce Parker starred in Su-bmerged, a drama of men in a submarine. With fine acting by Schwartz, this proved to be our most successful production so far. 3 Yi. Our Form Project consisted of tarring the walk in front of the Field House, paying for the tar ourselves. Scattering, raking and pounding tar tjoel Roberts vigorously claimed he had pounded the entire Autobahn single-handedl. we felt we had done something really constructive. The April 25 indicator marks included 14 formmates on the Honor Rollhthe largest number to dateg and Mike Ellis led the school, becoming the first '55er to be so honored. On May 15, we all filed into Chapel to watch our third 'itappingw ceremony. Ed Hughes was chosen Senior Prefect with Bill Balfour, Bob Ober and Charlie Patterson as the other prefects. Ed gave a talk on integrity, the goal for '54-. Our fifth form year had begun. On May 24-, it was revealed that the first crew would com- pete in the Thames Challenge Cup races in Henley, England. This was the first crew, whose Season we had followed as students, to engage in this competition. A few days later, we once more offered a slate of candidates to the school for our Council Members. This time. George a I . . A nb. t ,L . uyfig. ,, i mil: 1 U 4 in 3 ss 1 s Wehmeyer, Bill Howard and Terri Putnam were chosen for the council in our fifth form wear. At the end of the year. we learned with interest that Dave Drouet had been elected captain of tennis for the W3-1 season. He was the first tHf'llllDPl' of our form to be honored with a captaincy. A few days before Prize Day. we watched Mr. Davis star in the faculty production of Barrieis The r fKllI1tI'HlII1' ffrirlzlon. This play was well done and well received by thc' student body. Our third Prize Day came and went. as 'liony Abbott. 'Sits Exchange student to England. ret-eix ed the Columbia Cup. and Ted Davidson got the Heacltnastefs Cup. After a week of exams. our fourth form year was mer.. and ne rm-tired for n three-month vacation,