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

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Wilbert E. McClellan, Jr. Bill isn’t exactly a newcomer, even though he did come here this year after a long absence. To be exact, it was three years. He was with us in the seventh and eighth grades, where he was a member of the York Club. Even down there Bill was quite an athlete and won his Wyverns in all the major sports. After he finished his career in the Junior School. “Mac” decided that he wanted to go away for a while, so he took himself down to Ashe- ville. N. C. where he attended the Asheville School. Here he made quite a name for himself as a base- ball player, running up a pretty high batting average. Finally Bill decided that Kingswood was a pretty good place after all and came back to get the finishing touches before entering college next year. The finishing touches for “Mac” turned out to be a pretty strenuous athletic schedule and some honest, hard work in his classes. Last fall he took up football and held down the end position on the undefeated eleven. He was one of the main features of every game, because he could always be counted on to make at least one seemingly impossible catch. In the Canterbury game our friend broke his arm somewhere along in the middle of the game, but no- body found out about it till the cheering was over and the game had been won. This little bit of cour- age cost the basketball team one of its best men. however, as Bill was unable to join the squad till about two weeks after practice had begun. In spite of this he finished up strong and had the honor of being a letter- man on one of Kingswood’s best basketball team. This spring Bill played baseball—his favorite. Next year, the Devine-McClellan duo will break up. when Bill goes to Yale and Andy to Harvard.

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1 heodore M. Maltbie The 'Judge” entered our class as one of its original members way back in the fifth grade. Being more of a student than an athlete Ted proved to be a regular contribu- tor to the York score in the junior school. Nevertheless in the eighth grade he was on the record-breaking Yoik relay team. He was also an associate of the Science Club. On arriving in the senior school Ted joined the French Club and was participant of that organization for two years. He also started as an ever increasingly important member of the Dramatic Club. Who will forget him as Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer last March? For the past three years Maltbie has been manager of the soccer team. In the fifth form he was business manager of the News. All during the football season the “Judge” led the cheers along with Turner. He could also be seen snapping action pictures of the team from all angles. At the end of his junior year Ted won the Harvard Prize, which is given to that boy in the fifth form who shows the most promise for the future. He has been a regular honor student all through the senior school. Maltbie was a Prefect this year and was also on the second rifle team. The “Judge” cannot help imitating his learned father in the classroom even though he does not plan to pursue a judicial career. His recitations are always couched in legal phraseology and he makes one immediately think of the solemn procedure of some court of law. For all his wisdom. Ted has an excellent sense of humor. His conduct dur- ing the annual ducking of the soccer manager proved this. Next fall the Judge” expects to enter the class of ’41 at Williams. We all wish him luck for the future. 28

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r? F. Price Merrels Price came to us in the eighth grade and has been one of the best athletes in the school ever since. His first year he lugged the pigskin for the York Club but forsook it when offered a position on the sec- ond basketball team. Likewise the club suffered when in the spring he went out for baseball. In the Senior School Price kept up his interest in athletics going in for the three major sports. This year he was on the undefeated eleven and received his nugget. He did not. however, confine his efforts solely to the major sports. He fenced for one year and went out for hockey last winter. Price has played an active part in many things besides athletics. He has been a member of the Chess Team as well as the Rifle Team. He also went in for the sciences in a big way when he joined the Math Club. If you listened very intently every morning in chapel, you might also distinguish Pricy’s manly voice blended in with the rest of the choir, and if you misbehaved in that place, you might also have found out to your sorrow that he has been a Prefect for the past year. All the boys in the class seem to like Price for his good nature but especially because it is such fun to kid him about being naive. He earned this reputation when at times he takes an uncommonly long time to catch onto a joke. Don’t put too much stock in this reputation though. Ask the girls who the most naive member of the class is! They know better than to call a member of the Dwyer. Merrels. and Curtis trio simple. Next year Price is planning to go to Yale where he will undoubt- edly maintain his good scholarship and shine in athletic sports, even as he has done here at Kingswood School. 30