Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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We had our second dance that spring. This time Emma Willard and Westover were the vic- tims. There were more lists7', but they weren't so successful. That dance marked the first ap- pearance of a distinguished singing group known as The Discordsf' Included in the group were Rus, Alf, Veeds, Otto, Tuffy and Mage. Of more worthy note are the men in our form who can really sing. We have some able guys in our midst. Bill Weber, for instance, started singing in the glee club as a second for- mer. Bill was also a soloist for the club that year leach succeeding year, tool. Also, Web and Bobby Reed both spent most of their lives at Kent sing- ing for the Baker's Dozen. Chuck Mills also sang in the club ever since he came to Kent. Lance Larson, Art Crisfield, Pete Waring, Paul Feldman, Bert Waters, Put King, Bob Casey and Dick Tyson also sang for Mr. Gilliam's very ac- complished club. The glee club has always been a great source of entertainment for the school and the fellows in our class that performed in the club should be congratulated. Then, finally, that important night arrived. The night in which our prefects and other of ficers would be tapped. We all had ideas as to who the prefects might be, but none of us were really sure. Anxiously, we and the rest of the student body crowded into the chapel. After a short service, Fr. Patterson stood up to speak and the chapel became quiet. Fr. Pat. announced that he was creating a new and important job that year. The job was Library Proctor. This job was needed because of the building of the new enlarged library. Fr. Patterson then announced that the holder of this post would be Bert Waters. The Rector then announced that the post of Din- Willy - you ol' lover you. 1q, You can do it, Rusty! ing Hall Steward, so important to the smooth run- ning of the school, was to be held by Bob Reed. Both Bobby and Bert received loud applause and cheers. Then Bob Lawrence was asked to tap his successor as Editor-in-Chief.of the Kent News. Bob wandered around the congregation, and at last tapped the man. Dave Clapp ran to the front of the chapel to assume his seat. Then Hal Pa- chios went into the nave to indicate his succes- sor. Peter Schmitt was to take over Hal's Verger post. Murray Baldwin then tapped Denis Da- mour. Denny was to succeed Murray as Sacristan of St. Joseph's chapel. At last came the tapping of the prefects. Bill Howard was the first man to tap his successor. Amid cheers, Charlie Appleton came to the front of the chapel.'Then Jack Maresca went into the nave to find his successor. After a short search, Jack tapped Charlie Brainard. Tarry Putnam then walked to the back of the chapel, and a few seconds later Rusty Wing ran to the front of the chapel. Well, the moment was finally here. We were to find out who our senior prefect was to be. Bill Ince, ,55's head man, slowly went to the rear part of the chapel. Finally, after it had seemed that Bill in fact c0uldn't find his succes- sor, the outgoing senior prefect grabbed the new senior prefect. Dick Baiter was to lead our class and the school for the following year. And so we were to be lead by Baiter, Ap- pleton, Brainard and Wing. Damour, Schmitt, Clapp, Recd and Waters were to be the leaders in special segments of school life.

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The six were: O. H. Schmitt, Dave Clapp and Rusty Wing, all in Otto's faithful plym',, and Tuffy Stowe, Dick Alford and Dick Baiter, all in D. B's green Merc fsometimes referred to as the dying beetlewj. The six returned with thou- sands of tales about Delray, Lauderdale and the conquests enjoyed at those places. Early April and some members of the form a little more nervous than usual. Why? Well, it seems that tapping wasn't far off, and hard as it was to believe, it was members of our form that were to be tapped this year. The sprints were on, bets were being taken. At last some of our guys were on the crews. Leigh Faldi coxed the first boat, while Chuck Masters are human too. Mills, Tuffy Stowe, Bert Waters, Bart Bates, John Marsh and Put King rowed on the seconds. Oh, Terry Johnson fTall Terrl coxed the latter crew. In the meanwhile, Dev was firmly establishing himself as our form's tennis ace. Rusty and Alf were also up there. In baseball Tuck and Mac Hicks, Jack Detwiler, Bobby Reed and Dick Bai- ter were all regulars on the Coach Nadal team. Scotty and Wimp both saw lots of action during the season. Bobby sent the unit flying. Crew and tennis faired pretty well that sea- son, while baseball had a sketchy time of it. As the various seasons terminated, Leigh Faldi was elected captain of crew, Foster Devereux of ten- nis, and Redding Frazier Hicks of baseball. It was almost impossible to believe that members of our form now were captains or were captains- elect of every sport at Kent. As usual, spring term meant more hacking. Of everlasting memory is the night that the great Pete Magee, famed for his wit and versatility, took the jeep and cracked into a fence post. Luckily Dick Harriss, Lilly Lonsdale and some others ran to the rescue. If it wasn't one thing, it was another with Mage. lay, Nick, Russian, Art and Limey. . .1..,f:.,,.,,ftaaafhg--15: f--f 1 -ffm-. 1- '1 'Q W it

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Ah A week later we elected George Beard our sixth form council member. Dick Alford was picked to edit our yearbook. Jack Detwiler and Terry Johnson were appointed kitchen heads. Frank Bates and Ned Hatfield were to be co-op store heads. The new Cauldron editor was to be Bill Weber. Foster Devereux was to handle the new job of Sports Building Head. L Now we knew all our officers, and we had confidence in them. We also had ideals that we were going to try to live up to as sixth formers. We knew that we had a tradition to uphold, and we knew that to succeed as a senior class, we must follow the principle that had been set by Fr. Sill. At last we were sixth formers. The year actually started for us on Sept. 9th in New York City. We had our form party that night. First we ate dinner at the Columbia Club, then we all went to see the show Damn Yankees . Follow- ing the show we returned to the Columbia Club for a meeting. The party then ended fofficlallyj, but many stalwarts of '56 continued the gaiety into the wee hours funofficiallyj. The Tiger says no! Sandy and B. J. - but where's Fos- ter and Rusty? 22 The next morning we returned to Kent to help indoctrinate the new boys. As each new boy would arrive, his sixth form sponsor would greet him and his parents, show them around the school, and answer any questions the boy or par- ents had. Early week also was the first chance that Mr. .lake McCandless, new football coach, had at the first team candidates. After one day under Jake, everyone knew that the term sack,,' when applied to football, was out of place at Kent. Fall term started quite smoothly. We all seemed to have the same things on our minds: studying and winning football and soccer games. Shortly after school began, we welcomed two new members to our form. They were Dave Jones, the English exchange student, and Tors- ten Nykopp, son of the Finnish ambassador. We soon found out that the Lime and Nick F inn were great guys. When the first indicator grades came out, we were shocked to find that our form had the lowest form average in school. Bert Waters was our top man, while Clark, Harris, Waring fmath- ematician extraordinairej and others were up there. Mention should be made of the fact that the new auditorium and library were finished. Both buildings were made possible by the Fiftieth An- niversary Thanksgiving Fund. They were needed additions to our school. Of equal importance was Ki, weekend which took place in early September. The set- up was something like this: In the valley fields and in the north fields, tents were set up. The one in the valley was large enough to seat liter-