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

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RICHARD B. CURTIS Dick” entered Kingswood in the fifth grade, but left in the sixth to come back in the eighth. He played soccer in his first year and was an end on the Lancaster football team when he rejoined us. He was captain of the Lancaster hockey team and served as catcher on the baseball team. He won the Junior Manual Training Prize for building a clipper ship; the model had masts four feet high and displayed a cannon that fired buckshot. As a member of the senior school Dick played end on the intermediate football team for two years, was on the first squad for two autumns, and won his letter this season. In the fifth form he played center on the hockey team, receiving a letter; and this last semester showed his superb leadership and sportsmanship in captain- ing the hockey team through a successful season. He played baseball on the intermediate squad as a freshman and as a sophomore, but since then has spent his spring terms with the invincible sprinters in galloping around the track. Doc” has been a member of the rifle club for three years and honored the math club with his presence for two consecutive seasons. Dick is an out-and-out hick”—he has, at one time or another, raised vegetables, had a chicken farm, and (his latest venture) managed a rabbit farm. The only peculiarity about these experiments was that he usually ended up in the red”. Dick plays the trumpet and at present is engaged in organizing an orchestra composed of members of the class. An ardent swing” fan, he sees a good per- centage of the nationally famous bands that come to Hartford. Next year Dick plans to enter Cornell Veterinary School, and with his background of many years of farm- ing he is sure to make a successful veterinarian. 15

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RAYMOND CUNNINGHAM, JR. Ray” entered the school in the fifth grade and distinguished himself by obtaining the first distinction card of the Class of ’39. Always well up in his studies, he played on several of the Lancaster teams, winning Wyverns in football and basketball while he was in the seventh and eighth grades. He also won several rifle medals on the range and was elected assistant secre- tary of the Lancaster Club. Entering the senior school, Ray joined the Dramatic Club and has done some fine acting in all of the school plays since then. He played inter- mediate football and basketball during his freshman and sophomore years; he was a member of the varsity football squad in his fifth form year and the varsity soccer squad in the sixth form. His other athletic achievements include living through the club basketball season and being a member of the softball squad for the past two years. In 1937 Ray won the Drawing Prize with an excellent sketch of an airplane, and the following year he won the Music Prize and was awarded honorable mention in the essay contest. In his senior year Ray was given the honor of being made a prefect. He was editor of the class book and a member of the Wyvcrn board and the Debating Club. Next year Ray intends to major in either English or philosophy at Trinity and expects to take a post graduate course in England if possible. He has taken up the study of piano and is a lover of classical music. While smoking his pipe after lunch, lie enjoys telling his classmates how terrible swing music is. In regard to the fairer sex, Ray always has his eyes open, and at present prefers an English brunette. We feel sure that his good nature will carry him far in whatever he docs. 14

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GEORGE B. FLYNN George Flynn is one of the charter members of the Class of 1939; im- mediately after entering Kingswood he gave evidence of a vigorous interest in athletics. He won his first Wyvern in the seventh grade for playing on the York football team and the fol- lowing year became a substitute end for the intermediates. When he became a third former, he changed from football to soccer and played this lat- ter sport with his customary drive and energy. The Kingswood News claimed that he got a letter in soccer in his fourth form year, but he never saw it. Fie did, however, receive an award the next year and was justly chosen cap- tain of the 1938 team. A hockey enthusiast, he won his letter in his junior year and this last season was player-manager. His track exploits have been numerous: as a freshman he took third in the half-mile run; he was a member of the fourth form relay team and the same year obtained second place in the high jump; in the spring of 1938, he came in second in the Dod- derers’ Derby”, won a medal for the high jump, and received a silver cup for tying the record in hurdle-running. Besides being an athlete, George has held various other posts. He was president of the class in the sixth grade and two years later was assistant secretary of the York Club. In the senior school he has participated in many extra-curricular activities such as the Debating, Math, Dramatic, and Rifle Clubs, the shop, and the pub- licity board; he has entered the public- speaking contest for six years straight. He also won the Improvement Prize in his sophomore year and this year has served as one of our best and most earnest prefects. George has had to stand a good deal of razzing because of his invet- erate misogynous propensities, but he takes it all with a good-natured smile and shakes his head sagely at his friends’ predictions of an early marriage. lfls! I c S «swnethmjK 16