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

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THOMAS E. PURDY Tom” has been with the class from the beginning, and ever since his entrance into the fifth grade has figured prominently in Kingswood activities. As a member of the junior school he entered whole-heartedly into student affairs, joining the Debating Club and showing a great interest in dramatics. Tom also played soccer for the York team as well as basket- ball and tennis. When he entered the third form, he energetically pitched into the affairs of the school, showing his literary talent in gaining a place on the Wyvcrn board. Since then he has given great service to our school magazine and was rightfully recognized by being elected editor-in-chief in his senior year. How well he has managed his position is shown by the second place awarded the Wyveni this year by the Columbia Scholas- tic Press Survey. One might think from all Tom does — editing the Wyveni, being president of the Dramatic Club, and debating — that his time would be pretty nearly taken up. He is no slouch at sports, however, as those who have watched him kick a soccer ball around or hit a three-bagger at softball can testify. He was a regular member of the second soccer team in his fourth form year and earned his letter as a halfback this last season. A good student, Tom has managed, in spite of all his outside work, to make the Honor Roll from time to time; and at the beginning of his senior year he was one of those selected for the honor of prefecture, which office he has fairly and competently administered. We can truthfully say that Tom Purdy, through his interest in and energetic support of school activities, has left a lasting mark at Kingswood and that this same enthusiasm will carry him to success wherever he goes. 27

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DAVID C. PEASLEE In the fall of 1937 came an abrupt and brutal shake-up in the regular scholastic average of the fifth form. This disturbance of the status quo came in the form of Dave Peaslee, who since then has wrought havoc with all that we ordinarily conceive to be good marks. That fall, Dave devoted his energies to playing soccer under the direction of Mr. Greene. Later, when the weather began to get cool, Dave decided that the most comfortable spot to sit and soliloquize was on the intermediate basketball team’s bench. During his spare time he attended Math Club and indulged in workouts with the chess team. The spring found him playing touch football with the track group. At commencement in his junior year, Dave continued to smash all precedents as he walked off with the Dux Prize, the Harvard Prize, the Special English Prize, and received honorable mention for the Science and Mathematics Prizes. Last fall, Dave ably managed one of the best soccer teams that ever represented Kingswood and at the end of the season gracefully accepted the ducking accorded all managers. Every winter afternoon after playing chess or tutoring some preppie” he rather disdainfully traversed twelve laps on I lazen Track. Dave played tennis this spring and, to complete his extra-curricular activities, was an able member of the publicity board and a valuable bass in the school choir. Lately he has voiced his intention of trying for most of the school prizes available to seniors and, being the out- standing student that he is, he will undoubtedly carry off more than his share. As for his outside life, Dave is rumoured to be one of the most con- sistent bachelors the school has ever seen; but one never knows, or does one? Dave has chosen to go to Princeton in preparation for his scientific work at M. I. T. where he hopes to become a research scientist. 26

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HORACE E. ROCKWELL Shortly after Rock” entered Kings wood, he showed his many athletic abilities. His first year he was an outstanding member of the York football and track teams. When he started his freshman year, he was under a disability received from an injury in football. This was an extremely hard blow, but Rock was determined not to let it dampen his interest in sports. To make up for this loss, he became manager of the inter- mediate football team, and in his fourth form year assumed the mana- gership of the intermediate football and baseball teams. Rock soon became interested in the Kingswood News and was made an associate editor in his fifth form year. This year he served as editor-in-chief so excellently that the News won second place in the Columbia Scholastic Press Survey. Other extra-curricular activities have occupied Rock’s time — he has been an ardent supporter of the Chess, Math, and Debating Clubs; he was the president of the class in his sophomore and junior years; last year he was the lost and found monitor. In his senior year Rock was given the highest honor a boy can obtain at Kingswood: he was chosen the Senior Prefect and has proved himself worthy of this distinction. As one of the best students in the class. Rock has won many prizes while attending this school. He won the Dux and Junior Mathematics awards during his second year in the junior school, and again received the Dux Prize in his third and fourth years. In his freshman year he took a second prize in French and in the state Latin contest; last year he was chosen the most outstanding member of the biology class. After attending Dartmouth, Rock expects to study law, and the class wishes him all the luck in the world. 28