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

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HENRY F. RUBY, JR. Rube”, as his friends call him, entered the eighth grade at Kings- wood from Northwest Grammar School in 1934. As a member of the Lancaster Club he immediately dis- tinguished himself as an all-around athlete. He was quarterback of the Lancaster eleven, and guided the team to victory. The basketball and baseball teams also fell under his athletic prowess and elected him their captain in his first year at Kingswood. During the year he became interested in shoot- ing and soon did very well for himself. In his third form year Rube played football and basketball for the intermediate team. He also played catcher and second base for the first Kingswood nine, which lost only one game that season. His sophomore year was most illustrious, not only in the field of sports but also scholastically. He received the Anthony Prize, an award given to the most outstanding boy of the sophomore class. His work on the first basketball and first baseball teams earned for him his school letters. With all this he managed to get on the Honor Roll for the year. He was also vice-president of the class. In the fifth form he was again vice-president of the class and again played on the varsity basketball and baseball teams. He served as substitute back on the first football team. In his senior year he played on the first soccer team and captained the first basketball team. Spring found him again playing on the varsity baseball team. Rube’s outlook on the weaker sex is simple (some girls are O. K.), and it appears that he has had quite a bit of experience. When asked what type of girl he liked, he replied, Blondes pre- ferred”. Sammy Kaye furnishes him with his rare musical moments. Out- side interests include sailing, tennis, and bull sessions. Next year Rube plans to go to Colgate where he is sure to triumph. We certainly wish him the best in everything! 29

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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

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JACK J. SHERER The Class of ’39 experienced a new sensation this year when a pair of twins by the name of Sherer came to Kings- wood from St. Thomas Seminary. It has aways been a great difficulty to tell these two apart, but Jack is a little smaller than Bill. The Count”, as he is known among his friends, has always been interested in art, and had a great deal to do with the starting of an art club at the Seminary. He was also outstanding scholastically, having an average grade of A”. At Kingswood he maintained a good average in his studies and was a member of the Mathematics Club and also a member of the class book committee, being one of the art editors. The Count has also taken an active part in athletics. He was a member of the second soccer squad during the fall term, and played club basketball in the winter. At the end of the winter term he was on the notorious sixth form basketball team, which, by the way, did not win a game. In the spring he swung a mean racquet in tennis. Outside of school he has a thriving business of making shields, which sell to the boys of the school for seventy-five cents (and up) apiece. He likes sweet swing music, the movies, and sailing. Another of his hobbies is building model ships. In the summer he has been going to Mr. Hill’s camp up in Vermont. During the week-ends he can usually be found cruising around either in a ’39 maroon Buick with soft music coming from the radio or in a ’39 Chevrolet with white-walls. Next year Jack intends to enter Yale where lie will continue his art work and an academic course. All the luck in the world, Count! 30