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

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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

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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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belted'. O.C. 6c«ry y 'n y WILLIAM FRANCIS EUSTACE, JR. “Lucky Bill” entered Kingswood in the Third Form. After a slow start scholas- tically, he made the honor roll and has been a regular member ever since. In June he won the Dux prize and that he has won each succeeding year. Bill also be- came a regular frequenter of the rifle range, qualifying as an Expert Rifleman and winning the senior school rifle cham- pionship. Early in his Fourth Form year, he was drafted by the Dramatic Club to play the part of a fetching young woman. The thespian remained in the club and has taken part in many of the plays which have since been presented. That year, too, he became by virtue of his trumpet playing (?) a member of the Kenyon Street (is there any more beer in that can, Joe?) Barrelhouse Boys, a hot little jive outfit, which was to become, with a few additions, the Kingswood Orchestra. For three years Bill played soccer. In the winter, track and skiing occupied his time. In the Spring, he played a combination of tennis and softball. This year, however, he decided to forego athletics, although on cold winter nights if one looks closely, he can be found ice or roller skating, and it is rumored that he holds no aversion to galavanting about astride a horse. With the orchestra out of operation this year, Bill satisfied his musical craving by joining the Choir and Choral Club. He is also a staunch supporter of the French table. Bill’s worst vice is his love of dancing, which has held him within Mrs. Godfrey’s Barn for seven or eight years. With one exception he is the only member of the class still attending dancing school. He received his nickname by virtue of an automobile trip, during which he was the chauffeur, to a nearby city. This excursion established his reputation as the “best” driver in the class. The only plans for the future Bill has are to enter Harvard this spring and to get married some day, after he has trav- eled around the World. 16