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

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WILLIAM C. BOARDMAN Bili” first entered Kingswood as a member of the fifth grade in 1930. He joined the Lancaster Club in the junior school and soon proved himself a superior soccer player. Every fall season since Bill has been in school has found him on the soccer field; for the past two years he has been on the first team and has earned his letter as one of Mr. Jacobus’s outstanding fullbacks. During the winter terms Bill showed himself an ardent winter sports enthusiast; and this last comparatively snowless season he could be seen as such, cheerfully (?) jogging about the wooden track at the south end of English Field. In the spring he usually gives his (almost) all for Mr. Cressey’s famous softball team. Bill is almost unanimously considered the best pianist in the class — with this fact in mind, the reader should not find it difficult to believe that this follower of Benny Goodman also performs ably on the drums and trumpet. As might be expected, swing” music is his chief hobby; and over the week-ends, at any time of day or night, there is liable to be a jam session” going full tilt at Bill’s ever-open” house. Next to hot rhythm, Bill’s chief passion is sailing. He has had a great deal of experience at this sport and must be an excellent sailor, for with his 32-foot boat, the Ariel, he has won the following trophies: a cigarette case, a wood carving, three pennants, two cups, and, of all things, a bottle opener! In the fifth grade Bill gave promise of becoming a good rifleman, but quit this activity in favor of greater application to his studies. He has been noted for his energy and per- severance and in his junior year won the Improvement Prize. This year he has been a member of the choir. Next year he plans to attend Union College, where we hope he will enjoy the best of luck. 11

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ROBERT T. BARRY Bob” entered Kingswood in the third form and immediately plunged vigorously into school life, playing on the intermediate football and baseball teams and winning his intermediate K” in the former. In his next year Bob earned letters on both the inter- mediate football and baseball teams, and was a member of the hockey and rifle squads. As a junior he was a first team man in football, hockey, and baseball, and joined that group of sluggers” which went under the mis- nomer of the class basketball team”. In the senior year he completed his enviable athletic record by again ob- taining awards in football, hockey, and baseball, and again striving for the class basketball team. Aside from being a good athlete, Bob has also been a mental whiz” — in his senior year he made the Honor Roll and was a member of the chess team. This same year he also received two of the highest positions attainable: he was made a prefect and elected the class president; he has competently filled both these positions. During his spare time Bob can be found up to his neck in model T” ’s. He has an insatiable desire to find out what makes them tick (and refuse to), and constantly appears in physics class with bulging pockets containing coils, generators, and other spare parts. Bob is quite reticent about his feminine friends, but he is reputed to be anything but backward in this respect. Of course he considers himself omniscient in their wicked wiles and has never yet been caught. Watch out Bob! One of these days they’ll use a bear trap. Next year Bob plans on entering Princeton with several other seniors. We feel confident that he will have good luck there and continue his bril- liant record. 10

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JAMES M. CARY Jim has been member of the '• ( 'lass t ’39 for four years, coming to w Kings wood from Noah Webster in ' ’ 193 5. Upon entering the third form he took up the game of tennis for his fall term sport, and during the winter he played hockey. When spring came -4 around lie joined the softball group where he became outstanding as a hard hitter and expert catcher. During that year he distinguished himself by his outstanding scholastic ability. In his sophomore year Jim con- I M' tinned to maintain his high grades j3HR.-y while taking up the same sports which he played when he was a freshman. His junior year found him piloting the same straight course, and he became a member of the varsity hockey squad. But he did not have a chance to show his ability, as there was no ice. And it was in this same year that he received honorable mention for the Dux Prize, meaning that his average grade for the year was next to the highest. Jim switched from tennis to soccer for his fall sport his senior year. He joined the second team and proved to be such a sturdy defense man that he was moved up to the varsity squad. Again he was a member of the hockey and softball squads. Our tall, silent friend was a member of the Mathematics Club during his junior and senior years, and a member of the Debating Club his senior year. Outside of school we find that Jim is extremely adroit with his hands and has made many fine models of airplanes and boats. He also loves to read and hike. Next year Jim intends to enter Ohio-Wcsleyan University. It is need- less to say that we wish him all success, and he will have little trouble in be- coming a brilliant student. Good luck, Jim! 12