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

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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

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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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Thomas Radford d’Arcambal Lower Prep —'41 Tom Big Tom is one of the three original mem- bers of the Class of ’49 who have weathered the Kingswood storm for a full eight years. In the Junior School he battled for the cause of the White Rose, and, in the doing, garnered for himself a fistful! of Wyverns for football and baseball. Early members of the Class of ’49 will probably also remember Tom’s annual hot-dog roasts. As a freshman d’Arky was introduced to the wiles and guiles of the Senior School, and he was lured (without much exterior persuasion, however) to a life membership in the 3:30 Club. To offset this rather dubious honor, Tom joined the Rifle Club and the News board. As a sophomore he joined the Camera Club and then the Dramatic Club, and for the following three years he was a mainstay of the backstage contingent of the latter organization. In the fifth form he used his bulk to good advantage in football, and he emerged with a J.V. letter to his credit; during his senior year he was a member of the first football team. In the winter months of his entire Senior School career at Kingswood, Tom participated in that roughest of all games — morning basketball. As a matter of fact, Tom was rather wont to forget these gymnastic appointments, but under the eagle-eye surveillance of Sim Jim Morris of Bulkcley Stadium fame, such negligence was held to a minimum. But if he couldn’t persuade Jim of his ill health, he assuaged his hurt feelings by leaving school a few hours earlier in his trusty red Olds (with a wolf whistle). Springtime found d’Arky belting the horse- hide pill for the second team, and in ’48 and ’49 he wielded a mighty iron for M.W.J.’s golf team. He received a letter in both these years for his efforts. And as Tom roars out through Russel Gate at 1:30 for the last time, we might hear him say, “The smoking privilege in the Common Room made everything so much simpler!” Michigan 18