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

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 212 RICHARD FISK DIMOCK I' ■ ■' • ■ - I- I ' ' ' i- ••:!■ ■•••: K !!.;•- '■■■•■■ ' . : 1 . '■ ■ •■■■' -■••■■■■■ ■■ ' ! i 1 • :: ■-. ::■■■: ■ 'i . 1 •: distinguished himself by becoming club president in his eighth grade year. Accord 1 •: ■ school constituted the height of his career i• i • • team, and captained it to victory in his last ' :“-'k'-‘VV ; Vip-• ;•“'■;vv winning the school music prize in the sev- « uth gradr. flHHHIHHHHHHHK Upon entering the Third Form Spud became the school cheerleader and has had the hoys yelling their heads off ever since. Spud has occasionally become blue in the face trying to squeeze cheers from the stands, but as a rule he man- aged to keep the student body in a continual uproar. The Club Committee awarded him his class numerals for his meritorious work in the lower school. In his Fifth Form year. Spud once again rose to the limelight by winning the improvement prize for graduating second in the class and followed through by being made a Prefect this year. For athletics Spud has played intermediate football, and this year he played first team soccer. Spud’s interests are far-flung as well as varied. Although his specialty is horses, he manages to find time for the fairer sex, shooting galleries, flying, fast driving, horse-racing, and above all he holds a charter membership in the Unholy Three. This organization has long been the scourge of West Hartford, but further details must he censored because of the war. Spud rates as one of Doctor Craw- ford’s “colic kids’’ and although he has so far managed to escape the long arm of the law, he has never been able to evade the Doctor’s eagle eye. Spud plans to attend the University of Arizona, where he hopes to join the R. 0. T. C. and thus obtain a commission before the draft catches up with him. We all wish him luck. 14

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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

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 RICHARD EDWIN DUNNE, JR. Dick’s smiling face first adorned the Kingswood campus in the fall of 1938, when we of ’42 were Third Formers. He began the year playing on the Intermedi- ate football team and receiving his letter. During the rest of the time he played club basketball, inter baseball, shot on the range, and wrote for the News. The following fall was a happy one for “Richard,” for he was chosen presi- dent of the class, for which he never has paid the cigars. That year he was a letter- man on the inter soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. His interest in the News and rifle were continued and he also added his bit to the Glee Club rehearsals. “Big Dick” augmented the first foot- ball eleven his Fifth Form year and filled out his sports program with inter- mediate basketball and first team baseball. His fluent French led him into the Societe de Francais du Kingswood. Ever the man for a full program he com- pleted his with work on the News, publicity board, rifle range, and as Lost and Found monitor. Dick was one of the four returning lettermen on Joe’s football team last fall and this winter he blessed the hockey squad with his presence as manager and substitute goalie. This spring he was a letterman on the first baseball team. The News was again fortunate to have his services as a sports reporter, as was the publicity board. Besides l eing one of the original Prefects appointed last June, he was also Student Mail Carrier and a member of the French Club. When away from Kingswood “Tarzan” spends much of his free time chas- ing blondes and the rest of his spare moments thinking of ones whom he has already chased (only thinking of one at a time though). In line with his social life Dick did his bit in preparing for the in- formal dance given in April. This summer Dick will be joining the ranks of the Harvard men where he plans to follow his father as a doctor. Keep up the good work, Dick, and you’ll come out on top. 15