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

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 %2 the Board he actively participated SEWARI) RUSH COFFIN Rush Coffin entered the class at the beginning of our First Form year. His athletic program in the junior school was filled by participation in football, skiing, and baseball in all of which he contrib- uted greatly to the York Club. The freshman and sophomore years found Rush engaging more in school life. He entered into extra-curricular activities of all types, in the meanwhile adhering pretty well to his former athletic program. He became a regular contributor to the Wyvern and earned a position in the Dramatic Club by a very good perform- ance in The Taming of the Shrew. Rush’s junior year began with foot- ball in the fall months. As a member of in writing of the Wyvern. Again a princi- pal member of the Dramatic Club Rush starred this year in Sunset Becomes Rhythm. He was again to be seen on Monvay’s Hill with the other members of the skiing squad. This spring Rush decided to take a year off from baseball and so he tried his hand at tennis. Always one of our more outstanding students, he has held his place in the class this year with ease, at the same time extending the scope of his extra-curricular activities. As co-editor of the Wyvern he has worked hard to make this year one of the best in the history of its publication. This fall Rush was a member of the first football team and at the end of the season was awarded a major K in the sport. President of the Dramatic Club, he acted the part of the main character in A Night at the Inn. This spring Rush is again to be found on the baseball field as a member of the first team. As an officer of the newly formed Junior Club he was influential in having it accepted by the student body and has served it well since its formation. Rush’s latest contribution to the class is his acceptance of the posi- tion of a Classbook editor. Rush plans to enter Wesleyan next fall, where we feel sure he will add great- ly to its program. 12

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%2 EDWARD BALDWIN CHAMBERLIN Round and chubby, Ed, the future Ed Diablo of the class of 42, first set foot on Kings wood’s grounds in the sixth grade. He soon became well adjusted and as he was well advanced for his years, he proved to lie a mainstay in the York club, mainly due to his outstanding participation in all major sports. Things went well for Ned in the sev- enth grade, and his year was highlighted by the famous trip to the shore with Doc Crawford and his strong-arm gang. For the next three years Ed played In- termediate football, skiing in the winter. By the end of his Fifth Form year Ed was well up in the top rank of his class. He had received his letter as a guard on the first football team and was elected next year’s captain. His versatile athletic- ability was also shown on the hockey rink and the lacrosse field, for which sports he won his “K”. His activities did not stop with sports, for because of his endless labors for the Kingswood News, he was elected Assistant Editor, and also a class member of the Student Council. In his last year as a mighty senior, Ed did a fine job as a Prefect, and although he was put out of commission in the first game of the season, he made a good football captain and kept up the spirit of the team. In winter sports Ed has also been outstanding. His playing this year on the ice was most notable and it served to put him in good shape for lacrosse. But alas, his appendix acted up and out it came so that he couldn’t play lacrosse and had to l e content to spend his exercise periods getting a tan. Perhaps with more interest in living than learning, Ned has lived up to the standards of a Kingswood 42cr. He is to be seen at all the big social functions, either with his own girl or somebody else’s, and his car’s to be seen nearly every afternoon somewhere near Prospect Avenue. Ed plans to go to Bowdoin, and if he keeps up the good work, he should have no trouble in Incoming a successful doctor. 11

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'42 ROBERT BLAKE COOLIDGE, JR. Boh first blessed Kingswood with bis presence in the seventh grade, and after considering several offers, be signed with the Lancaster Club. Bob immediately took an active interest in all school activities, an interest which has continued through- out his school career and will be stopped only by the close of Kingswood’s doors in June. By that time, I think, no school club or organization will have been without Bob’s services at one time or another. The close of school this spring will mark the end of Bob’s fifth year with the Kingswood News, where he has served as a sort of jack of all trades. In addition to this, he has served time in the Dramatic Club, the Choir (one often hears his sil- very notes floating from the last row of the choir loft), on the first football squad (where he and Ralph spent a very exciting season acting as technical advisors to JoeG.), in the Common Room as a monitor, and as a bustling mem- her of the lacrosse squad. This year Bob made a very successful business venture: that of managing the Tuck Shop. Besides the pleasure of handing out candy to the youngsters, this job had its pecuniary aspects as well, both of which enticed the “I’ll try anything once” spirit of our hero. “Coolie” has been an executive of some note during his school career. The opening of the winter season has always brought Blake into his own as he assistant managed and managed many a basketball team to fame. His great task ended this year when he managed the first team. Having a great sense of humor. Bob has gone from class to class with jokes, pranks and witticisms. For some he has received applause and for some, the paddle. Bob plans to enter West Point where his waist will become waspish, his phy- sique like Atlas’s, his knowledge unlim- ited and his fame reaching to tin far ends of the world. In fact Robert will undoubt- edly become an institution. 13