Kent School - Kent Yearbook (Kent, CT)

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Winter term passed slowly. during whieh time Paul White's strength was put to use on the seeond wrestling team. Led by Ron Tooman, the basketball team had a terrifie year, winning the Tri-State league title and gaining our admiration and support. .M midyears we ehanged roommates and moved froln one part of the sehool to another. Most of us found the ehange an enjoyable one. as we got to know a new group of friends. By this time. the form had gained some degree of seeurity, and manifested this in numerous haeks. most of whieh oeeurred on the see- ond south hallway of the Library. Rooms were flooded, beds were du m ped. and various other spirited deeds were aeeomplished. By this point, we were eonvineed that we possessed two budding organists in Sant Robinson and Cliff Con- way. Thus we were assured of good organ musie for the next fix e years. l.ee ltoring. Diek Baker. and Merrill Bailey be- eame our offieers for the seeond half of the year and represented our form on the liouneil. By the second week in Mareh. we were about ready to he ernshed by our negative attitudes. However. vaeation eame. and onee again we abandoned the Happy Valley. Spring term eame. and our numbers were slightly depleted. Rusty Dodsworth. Charlie Viatson. .loe tlhalmers. and ,lerry Baird had left our ranks in seareh of greener pastures elsewhere. Those of us who aspired to be musele men and glory hounds went out for erew. with high hopes that we might someday row on the first eight. However. our egos were slightly dampened when we wound up on the fourth and fifth elub boats. Dan U'Brien took up the muskrat trade and gave quite a few of us heart failure as he displayed the s fated animals on his window sill. The hoekey rinks were a maze of traps, and U.B. was the only one who knew how to get out of the area alive. Much to our amazement. Kent onee again beeame beautiful. as Algo ehanged from brown to green and the river banks were lined with heavy foliage. Yve had almost forgotten that Kent was onee alive. All of us were happy to learn that the erew was going to Henley again. and that elevated the tin gods even more in our eyes. Prize Day soon rolled around. and we were swept up in the rush of aetivity. We helped the sixth form paek and elean up. and we eonsidered this an honor. The eeremonies were exeiting. and we wondered if the day of our own graduation would ever eome. After exams, we were off for vaeation, having experieneed a profitable first year at Kent.

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S1-holastically, we were usually at the bottom of the school. despite thc gallant efforts of Merrill Bailey, Nick joukovsky, and lice lioring to keep the form av- erage up. inevitably, there would be weeping and wail- ing in thc second form section of job assembly when the indicator grades were given out. It is hard to con- ceive- of a more conglonicrated microcosm of society than thc Class of 1957 at that time. Hur individual size alone ranged from liharlie Watson at a scant ninety pounds to ,loc Chalmers, who at six-foot-two weighed almost two hundred. Fall tcrni passed rapidly with such a busy schedule. Big .lint Draper guided us through Presler john and 14077111 lhwm' with his inspiring tales of paratrooping and football. Mr. Barton. in the process of teaching us l.atin. amazed us with his knowledge of Sanskrit and his prowess at inhaling half a cigarette in one drag and exhaling the smoke some twenty words later. A few treasure the memory of Happy Harry Hoyle, math- ematician supreme, who once announced that he had given us the wrong answers after we had all reported one hundreds on our homework for the day. Thanksgiving afforded us our first taste of free- dom in twelve weeks, but we all returned slightly de- pressed by its brevity. However, after three weeks, in which we started winter sports, we again paraded happily across the bridge to eagerly await the cattle cars of the Berkshire Bullet. Twenty days later, we returned refreshed to face winter term and midyear exams. The early weeks of January were spent cramming for our first exams. They did not prove too difficult, although Jerry Baird and ff E t yu . 3. 1 Bob Fuller seemed to have trouble the second time around. Soon' we were afflicted with the winter term slump, and the form assumed a negative attitude of massive proportions. For those of us who had aspired to play hockey, a great shock awaited us. We seriously considered changing the name of the sport to club swimming or club snow shovelling. A few of us landed from time to time in the Hatch where we found that one nurse was fanatically obsessed 9 with hypodermic needles. For this reason, we all re- covered from our maladies with amazing speed. By this time, all of us had experienced the hazards of the laundry and had ruined a few ties in the man- gling process of Kent dry cleaning.

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A s. . THIRD FORM YEAR lt was heartening to return with the rest of the old hoys in the fall of 1953. Four members ofthe 1-lass, ,loek Fleteher, Billy Zantzinger, Palmer Sehweppe, and Ralph Pedersen were no longer with us to enjoy our new position as third formers. But they were replaeed hy thirty new memhers whom we got to know and like. lt' wasnit long hefore we were molded into a unified grllllp. Vi e launehed ourselves wholeheartedly into the sports program. Paul White, Jerry Turnbull, Peter Kuhn, Sandy Allen. and llrax Williams played for the first soeeer team. and in them we plaeed high hopes fora first 4-lass team our ssxth form year. lt was a fine I I ,vw year for the first foothall squad whieh ended with a five-and-one season. Two members of our form. Bruee Tarbox and Mike Tooman. made the team, and the form was proud of them. Few of us will forget the sereen pass that 'lloomie threw in the Taft game. That was a moment of glory for the Class of 1957. Sehool spirit was high during the fall term. This year a new league. the in'termediates. was inserted in elulm football between the juniors and the seniors. and many of us played in the intermediates. The administration of l95Al- was doing a good job under Eddie llughes. This year lrrougllt uupreeedented interest in extra- eurrieular aetiyities. We were well represented in the Glee Cluh. witll five memhers of the forln partiei- pating. and Mike 'l'ooman sang seeond hass in the Baker's Dozen. XX e also had various form mates in the Music' Appreeiation Soeiety and in the Art Club. Wvhen the first indieators eame out. we were pleased lo find out that not only had our form average risen substantially. hut that Carl Taube had led the sehool. Un the other extreme. Mike 'llooman and Bruee Tarbox. along with others of our numlner. were in- itiated into regular membership in the 5: I5 Cluh for the first time.