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

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Donald Newton Colon Third Form — ’45 Don Coming from Sedgwick Junior High School, he immediately started his career of aggressive football. Quickly becoming accustomed to life at school, Don joined Mr. MacDonald’s inter- mediate football group and turned in a fine performance. That winter he played basketball, and in the spring was also a member of the baseball squad. Throughout the year, Semi- Colon as he was known in a grammatical sense, maintained a good scholastic average and, together with the rest of us, was pleased at the approach of summer vacation. In his sophomore year Don renewed his fight for the black and Crimson by playing on the highly successful intermediate football team. During the winter months he laid claim to being the best snowball shot at Kingswood, but the faculty had the best average, throwing him repeatedly into Saturday Morning Study Hall for his marksmanship. He rounded out the year by performing on the diamond for the intermediate baseball team. August, 1947, found Don at the football camp at Paul Smith’s, New York, engaged in many activities aside from football. Camp helped a lot to give Don the necessary drive to work up to the first team in time to turn in a fine performance in the Riverdale game. Then he turned in an excellent showing for the 3:30 club. In the spring he joined the Camera Club and was an understudy to the notorious Red Thornton in lacrosse. Red’s inspiration probably accounts for Don’s tendency to whack opponents over the head with his stick. Then came the senior year. Big D earned his major letter in football while playing on Coach Morris’s varsity squad. Although he was one of the smallest prep school tackles anyone had ever seen, he held his own through aggressive fight- ing. During the winter Don played basketball and continued to be a follower of the Outing Club and Camera Club. Under the supervision of Colonel Wainwright he mastered the intri- cacies of shooting enough to be made an Expert rifleman. The lacrosse team claimed his services during the spring at the center position. For his exceptional play he received his letter. Clarkson 16

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David Bradford Cole Lower Prep — ’41 Dave Dave’s appearance at Kingswood has been characterized by joviality and comradeship. Launching his career with the noble Lancaster Club, Cuddles was first seen testing his athletic- prowess on the soccer field. History was made when Cuddles startled not only himself but his parents as well by winning a place on the Honor Roll through his inspiring wisdom in geography. Continuing his allegiance to Lancaster in the fol- lowing years, Dave turned to football, basketball, and baseball. Lower school ended by D. B.’s being elected vice-president of the Lancaster Club, while spending his spare time ravaging the school and several public localities. The Senior School unfolded a novel adventure as Dave plunged all of his 160 lbs. into a combination of sports and studies. Surviving such ordeals as the bone-crushing morning basketball, he proved his standard of endurance which saw him through two hard yeats of Latin and algebra. Throughout his career Dave has been noted for sportmanship and imperturbable dis- position. His reputation as a hunter, although somewhat dubious, has been ranked highly. As an Outing Club member and a sports writer, Dave has achieved the public eye by both example and prophecy. His wide scope of ability was lent to the Dramatic Club in his portrayal of Miss McCrickett in the Torch-Bearers. Cuddles' senior year was the climax of a fine career, in athletics, studies, and social activities. Besides playing a number of positions in the line during football season, he was a mem- ber of a formidable array of hackers which con- stituted what was known as morning basket- ball, but which definitely resembled the rugged play of football. Tennis occupied him in the spring, while he was also a member of the Classboo staff, and the dramatic club. Everyone appreciates Dave’s smiling face which will always Ik remembered by his classmates. Dave was chosen as a principle candidate in the N.R.O.T.C. and has been accepted by the University of North Carolina under their Navy quota. Princeton 15

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Richard Cootc Third Form — ’45 Richie During the fall term of his third form year Richie devoted his exercise periods to playing goalie for the Intermediate Soccer Squad. He applied himself to this job with the same reck- less abandon he exercised in any activity he went out for, always taking extremely seriously his favorite motto, Keep ’em smiling! Always ready with his effervescent humor, Richie’s often hilarious quips have been the bane of many a serious master’s existence. The Outing Club and the track team also held an interest for him his first year. In the fourth form he played second string goalie for the first soccer, and participated in two new extra-curricular activities, the Camera Club and the Dramatic Club. As a thespian Dick played a part in The Royal Family, presented by the Dramatic Club in conjunction with Oxford School. In the Spring he devoted his energies to tennis. In the fifth form Dick acquired the nickname Shoulders because of a jacket he was in the habit of wearing which sported an inordinately broad pair of shoulders. This fall Rich forsook soccer and devoted his athletic prowess to the football squad. More extra-curricular activities were participated in by Shoulders. Among them were the Glee Club and the Rifle Club. He was also made a member of the Netas board and the Wyvern board. At commencement exercises the school finally recognized his gift of humor by awarding him the Jonathan Downs Prize and honorable mention for the Gleason Prize. This Fall Dick was the kicking expert for the first football team. He added two new activities to his roster, the Choir and the Rifle Club, and he was elected secretary of the Camera Club. Richie is still a staunch member of the Dramatic Club, having played in The Torch Bearers last year’s production. The Classbook staff is this year graced by his membership, and Keep ’em Smiling, is still the good word. Harvard 17