Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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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,

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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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FIFTH FORM YEAR Wlwn the vlass of V753 is-turin-d to lxent lor its filth form war. it lound two new masters. Nlr. Ulson. and Nlr. ltourki' who had vonie to take on-r that Vllllllltlilllhllill of ilu- mathe- mativs di'partmu'nt. ln addition. we tllNl'lHl'l'4'tl a new reiplired minor vourse. .Xrl llistorx. taught hy Mr. lhvastcrl. our former lingrlish masterg and that in our ranks were two new hots. John Sessions. and llal l'a1'liio-, Our athletic- rem-ord was this yi-ar at hit inoro distinguished than it had liven prvviotisly. Tut-he ul us niunagefl to survive ilu- rigors ol early week and avtrit-xt-rl ltlllt'L'S on the first loot- hall team. lfive of our loam. sparked hy Carlos liussche, had made Ihr' lirst soweii ta-am. lmss distinguished hut just as hard working were Matty Nlills and ,Ion Topham who were on tht- i-lu'ei'l1-:tilt-rs' squuil. Quite early in the war. we sal down to elevt our class president lor lhm- voming W'ltI. and we chose- ltill lnvr' to lead us through ilu- lu-4-tie days to 1-ome. During.: the lfall Ti-rm. our form was required to take the Vovational tluidunve 'lin-ts. Despite the derisive remarks from sm-it-ral quarters ahout playing lintr- ganies with pins. we took these tests. most of us hnding out that we were meant for ilitvllfliggu-i's. as might have het-n vxpeeted, Nluvh to our delight. we found that the foothzill team was duo to liavu an exceptionally good season. ln its lirst gains. it heat Trinity-l'awling 33-12. following: up this viutory hy heat- ing lterkshire Lllvtl and Kingswood IH-fi, On Us-toher 31. as was the vustoin. the animal Hallow'e'en Carnival was put on, transforming the North Dorm Field for one night into a gay old place indeed. We felt especially hon- ored this fall. hevause three of our form. Stuyvie Bearns. Cra- ham lfuller. and ljskil lfrieson put on an inspired skit which vlaimcd to represent the typival prep-school kiti-hen and its various woes. As each mcmher ol the student hody, strangely enough. seemed to had a parallel to someone he w as acquainted with. this perforniaiirre was well reveiwil. On a i-old and wct day on Mothcris weekend. the foothall team smeared llotchkiss hy the 4-omlortahle score ol 11-tl-T. One Saturday night this term. the class of 19511 had a supper danve with damsels from St. lVlilt'tlttl'L't-S School. Although most 'Y n 1- ,d H ... 1 '1 W' Q5 up in of us would have liked to attend. we were 1-onsoled by being allowed to take over the running of the svhool. We inspected jobs that night tmadly forgetting our ownt and took our places as tableheads. The only sad thing ahout this was that the next morning we assumed our old plaves as hlth foriners, still waiting to take permanent power. The next week, Kent hrought hack the Silver Spoon from Loomis hy whipping that school 34-T. This left only one game to go to make an undefeated football team. We were all pretty excited about the coming game with Taft. also an undefeated team. lnfortunately. the team the next Saturday was some- what undermanned due to injuries. and we lost 20-6. But despite this game. no one vouhl deny that the team had enjoyed its hest record sim-e we value to Kent.