Kingswood Oxford High School - Retrospect Yearbook (West Hartford, CT)

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Henry A. Hastings Henry Hastings entered Kings- wood in the seventh grade and became a member of the Lancaster Club. Soon after entering, he took a position as a leading student and has held that place ever since. While in the junior school, he augmented his club’s score with points gained by distinction cards. His playing on the club tennis team was also a credit to the Lancasters. On being promoted into the upper school. Harry took interest in a variety of things. Always an able French scholar, he joined Le Cercle Francois (the French Club) in his third and fourth form years. Then, feeling he had not served the school well enough, he under- took the job of student mail carrier in his fifth form year. This past year ’ Stings” has given his services as common room monitor, a position which holds more work than praise (Watch ’’Anstice” any afternoon at five o’clock and you’ll agree. ) Obtaining a place on the second tennis team last year, he has earned first team ranking this spring after conditioning all winter on the third basketball team. Henry has been on the honor roll almost constantly throughout the senior year. He won the Junior Prize for Latin in the fourth form and the Dux in the fifth. He also represented the school in the State Latin Contest in 1936. Hastings is a conscientious boy. who has earned himself more the reputation of a scholar than an athlete. He has held his high rank by diligence and thoroughness in studies, thus winning the respect of his less studious comrades. His hobbies are photography and radio (He hopes to be a radio operator in an amateur way). He also exhib- ited interest in the math club and sang in the choir. Henry enters Williams in the fall, where we all expect to see him do credit to the school. - 23

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Robert P. Harris “Deed” joined us in the fall of 1935. He graduated from William Hall High School where he distin- guished himself scholastically and athletically. But he needed a little more training before attempting to go to West Point, so he decided to further his knowledge at Kings- wood. “Pete” has been very active in sports in his two years here. He was blocking back on the undefeated football team, and his fine blocks never received their due credit. He was a place-kicker of parts, and his remarkable kick in the Loomis game scored the first points for the Wyverns. During the winter months he starred on the chalked court, where he led the scorers for two years. Baseball is “Deed’s” favorite pastime. He was an outstanding performer on last year's brilliant baseball nine. His fine playing and spirit enabled him to be chosen captain of this year’s team. He has led the Wyvern aggregation to the close of a successful season. “Deed” was elected Senior Prefect, and his likeable nature enabled him to carry out the duties of this high office with great success. Outside of school he is known as a trombone player. He caters to followers of swing music by playing with the Campus Jesters, and has been heard over the radio many times. Before he got his music of “I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You” he is known to have played the tune a couple of keys higher than the famous Tommy Dorsey. His ambition is to play with a large and well- known band, preferably Horace Heidt. “Deed” is undecided whether to try his hand at West Point or the United States Coast Guard Acad- emy. It seems that he wants to be a soldier at any cost. We’re sure that he will be as successful in the future as he has been at Kings wood. 22

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Winthrop A. Haviland, Jr. Winnie who entered the fifth grade in '28 won four Wyverns playing soccer for the Lancaster club, and captained the team in his eighth grade year. Besides soccer he participated in basketball, base- ball. and a variety of extra curricu- lar activities. The third form saw Winthrop playing tennis, second team basket- ball. and intermediate baseball. Pom fret School suffered when Win. during his sophomore year, occupied his time reading French magazines of a questionable character and looking for something devilish to do. The Fifth Form saw him once more at Kingswood. He has won soccer “K’s” during the past three years, and loafed his way through managership of basketball to a major letter. He is a tennis player of the first degree, and knows all the answers in chess, which is shown by his three-year championship in that game. Winnie is taking a P. G. this year, and manages to attend physics class whenever he has had too much sleep in previous study periods. He wastes hours on his collection of tropical fish, but still finds time for the ladies, which he picks by their personality and the amount they eat at his expense. Being a scientific-minded individual, he helped organize the newly-formed Math Club, where he spent most of his time trying to bother others with his slide rule and telling the faculty adviser a newly invented way of doing an example quicker. He holds a claim to fame, due to the fact that he has used the same razor blade ever since he started pulling the stray bits of peach fuzz from his lower jaw. Winthrop's ability to disrupt math, class with paper dolls and answering Page’s notes, is surpassed only by the way he manages to get others into a mess. “Winnie the Pooh” has enough optimism to think he is going to Yale. 24