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

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Allen C. House A1 entered school in the fifth grade as a member of the Lancaster Club. Red Shepard entered at the same time, but became a York. The result was a House-Shepard feud, which lasted for four years. Dur- ing his last year in the Junior School. A1 was secretary of his Club. His outstanding ability in football, basketball, and baseball brought his club many victories. After entering the Third Form. A1 became a mainstay on the second football team. The following year he went up to the first squad and paved his way to the first team, on which he held down a halfback position for two years. He earned his gold football on this year’s undefeated team. A1 has played first team baseball during his four years in the senior school. His first two were spent in the outfield, and the last two covering the first sack. He was “puck-stopper” on the last year’s undefeated hockey team and captain of this year’s aggre- gation. which was unable to demonstrate its powers because of the lack of ice. Although A1 doesn’t like studies very much, he does think that House in the Pines is a pretty good school. He is an inveterate fisherman, coming from the neighboring province of Farmington, which is noted for its ardent sportsmen. He can always be found on the streams near the beginning of the trout season, and it is a rare oc- casion when he returns home empty- handed. During the winter term, he was made a Prefect, which is one of the highest honors that can be given a Kingswood boy. As yet he is undecided on what college he will go to. but wherever he goes his good sportsmanship and cheerful nature will be an asset. A1 says he may even come back next fall and take a P. G. 25

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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

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W. Watson House, Jr. Watson entered Kingswood in 1934 as a member of the Fourth Form and immediately became active in the athletic and social life of the school. He joined Coach Greene’s soccer squad in the fall of 1934 and after a winter of loafing on Mr. Blake's basketball team, went out for second team baseball. In his second year. “Wat’’ played football with Mr. McDonald’s team and again chose baseball as his spring sport, pitching on Coach Gargan’s brilliant nine. This year he played first team football and was a substitute back on the undefeated Wyvern machine, and is doing mound duty on the baseball team this spring. “Wat” is well known for his appearances at all Kingswood dances where he trips the light fantastic in his own inimitable, and much admired, style. He is an excellent piano player (self-taught) : his rendition of popular numbers being much in demand around these parts. For all his sophistication he is really a simple, nature- loving soul at heart, as his frequent trips to certain “farms” in the neighborhood will attest. “Wat’s” real pleasure comes in tying trout flies at which he is very adept. As a disciple of Izaak Walton he is a wow. The open- ing of every trout season sees “Wat” among the thousands who flock to nearby streams in search of their finny prey. We wonder how many he has landed this year with his “slab of bear.” Perhaps he does not know himself for sure, after telling stories of all the “big ones” that got away. This enterprising young fellow can be found around the school at almost any time regaling his friends with stories of his latest excursion to New York. Philadelphia, or to Boston. Next year “Wat” plans to attend Wharton Business College. 26