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

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GROVER V. LASSEN, JR. Bud” came to Kingswood in the seventh grade from Sedgwick School and immediately joined the York Club. From that point on, his ingrown-toe- nail” story (really a fact) has been a milestone in the path of excuses from exercise. Bud has taken soccer and tennis for some time and has worked himself up through the various stages to become manager of the tennis team. Although no great scoops have come his way, probably because they arc not a necessity for his job, Bud has been on the News staff as a reporter since his third form year. This debonair gentleman who always seems to turn up with some- thing new every so often (and we do mean often”), rolls around in another sport item; namely, a ’38 convertible Ford coupe with a swell little radio in it that used to make tutoring period pass quite rapidly and pleasantly. Besides being student mail carrier this year and a member of the famous French class, his News position keeps Bud pretty busy; and, as he plans to enter Princeton University from Kingswood, this keeps him concentrating on the more serious line of studies. Bud spends parts of his summers fishing for salmon in New Bruns- wick. His favorite fishing spot is at a grand sport camp, eighteen miles up the little southeast branch of the Mirimichi River. The latter parts of his summers are spent at the famous Strand” at Waterford, Connecticut, which is on Long Island Sound. Many of Bud’s friends arc acquainted with the Strand”, because last June he gave a house-party there; and 1 under- stand that every one enjoyed himself immensely. A main feature of this party was seeing the Yale-Harvard crew race. Incidentally, this sport is one of Bud’s few weaknesses. W V 1 23

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GEORGE T. KINNERY Bud” came to us this year from Bulkeley High School, where he ex- celled both on the athletic field and in the classroom; and although he has been with us only a relatively short time, he has already won himself a place of esteem with both the faculty and the student body. The first bright light of Bud’s career at Kingswood shone forth when he made himself the most prominent member of this year’s football team — he held the record for points scored by a wide margin over any of the other players and was the backbone of the defense. We might mention in passing that he was all-city” guard while at Bulkeley and made the all-state” team this last season. Next Bud showed his athletic ability and versatility by becoming a capable guard on the basketball team, in spite of the fact that he had not played this game before. One of those rare combinations of athlete and student, Bud has proved that his talents arc in no way limited to sports. He has not only played a superior game of basketball and football, but has also made the Honor Roll several times. Bud is by no means backward socially — he belongs to that exclusive (?) group known as the Quintet. His blue eyes, snub nose, and physical build like the boy in the Ironized Yeast ads have endeared him to many members of the fair sex, who flock to Kingswood contests to ogle this year’s star as he goes through his paces. It is understood that, in some cases at least, their feelings arc reciprocated. Next year Bud expects to go to Princeton, where we all feel sure that he will continue the enviable record which he has made during his short stay at Kingswood. S' ] AeAr- a I 22

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WILLIAM M. MORCOM Bill” entered the school with the original Class of ’39 way back in the fifth grade. He was the first president of the class, a responsibility in those days when we were so little and school life so strange. During the remainder of his stay in the junior school, he distinguished himself by regular attendance in Saturday morning detention and by gaining several Wyverns in both major and minor sports. He served as president again for several different terms, and in the eighth grade he led the victorious Lancaster football team and the hockey team. In the senior school Willie” entered extra-curricular activities; he became circulation manager of the Kings- wood News, managed the Dramatic Club, and began studying the piano keeping up meanwhile his interest in rifle. In athletics he played end and fullback on the intermediate football team, gaining his letter in his sixth form year; a knee injury in 1937 prevented him from taking an active part in sports during the fall term. He has also been numbered among the ranks of the famous club basketball group, playing through three seasons without sustaining any serious injury. (His opponents, how- ever, were not quite as lucky.) Outside of school William, when he isn’t running around with beauti- ful young ladies, tries to keep a decrepit model A” Ford from falling apart. He has a mechanical bent and is very much interested in engines, especially marine engines. He is also quite skillful at drawing boats and cars. To prove that his mind isn’t entirely mechanical, Bill goes in for swing music; he can play it as well as listen to it. Bill intends to follow his brothers to Princeton next year where he will try for a B. S. in engineering; and, after taking a look at his scholastic record (rumor has it that he has been seen on the Honor Roll this year), we feel pretty certain that he will succeed. 24