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

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Robert Charles Johnson Ace Hob made his first appearance here at Kingswood during football practice at the start of our Sixth Form year. Having already graduated from Crosby, in Watcr- bury, Connecticut, he decided to continue his studies at Kingswood for a year before going on to college. While at Crosby, “Ace”, as he is more commonly called around the campus, played basketball and baseball. When his senior year came, he was a forward on the famed Crosby High School tournament team. This is where he earned his nick- name. Upon his arrival at Kingswood, Hob nailed down the right end position on our football team. His tremendous defensive play soon brought him the reputation of being one of the hardest tacklers at Kingswood for a long time. As winter months rolled around, Ace somehow wangled his way out of athletics and joined the infamous 3:30 Club. During that period, Kano’s hot rod was frequently seen rumbling off with its occupants, Kano, Ed and Ace — destination unknown. After midyears, though, Ace joined the basketball team. The baseball team has great hopes about his spring performance. In a remarkably short time, Ace has earned a position as one of the most popular and respected members of our class. His cheerfulness and his wild talcs about the days at the shop have given us many a hearty laugh. We will not forget the Ace. 23

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Paul Edward Highbcrg Paul Paul’s Kingswood career started in the fall of 1949. He had previously attended the Sedgwick School, hut after John Lacava caught him strolling across the green on the first day of school, he adapted himself quite readily to the Kingswood ways. That fall, Paul played soccer for the Lancaster Club and continued this sport until his Fifth Form year, at which time he assumed the responsibility of being the assistant manager of our Varsity team. Basketball was Paul’s choice for winter sports in his first year at Kingswood, but since then he has indulged in the more manly version of the game, commando basketball. In that first spring, Paul played tennis, but he switched to golf for his last three years. In his Fifth Form year, Paul won his minor “K” at this sport. In his Sixth Form year, he was a member of the famous undefeated and untied J. V. soccer team, thereby winning one of the prized silver soccer balls. Paul was elected as president of our class for the Fourth Form year and was a member of the Student Council. He was a member of the rifle club, and it is rumored that he became at that time one of the charter members of the Three-Thirty Club. The Fifth Form year found Paul working on the lights for the school play, A Young Man’s Fancy, under the very able direction of Stephen Horton. He later acted in the Kingswood-Oxford joint production, Our Town. He joined the press board, and could be found many an afternoon at one of the local newspapers, fighting for a front page spread on Kingswood activities of one sort or another. Paul was also a member of Mr. Sagcbccr’s electronics club. He became interested in amateur radio and installed a long antenna on the back of his car. Since that time, many a driver’s heart has jumped a beat upon noticing in the rear view mirror a car with a black top and a long antenna following him down the driveway at about eight twenty-four and a half. In his senior year, Paul was president of the class again, and again he was a member of the Student Council. He was elected a prefect and chairman of the Press Board. Paul was one of the Honor Roll crew who left school early with the greatest of ease in order to obtain ads for the classbook. He won a part in the Kingswood-Oxford production of You Can't Taf(e It With You. Paul had his favorite haunts, such as the typewriter in Mr. Farquhar’s office and the lobby of the gym, where he sold soda for only one thin dime. To the new haunts where he will soon betake himself, follow the admiration and good wishes of his classmates of ’53. 22

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Henry Jay Kane “Kano Jay is one of the six original members of the class of 1953 who has weathered the Kingswood storm for a full eight years. In the Junior School, he battled for Lan- caster, and in doing so, collected a trunk full of Wyverns and developed his now famous floating elbow. In his sophomore year, Kano joined Mr. O’Harc’s highly successful intermediate football team and was lured, without too much persuasion, to a life membership in the 3:30 club. This was just one of his many accomplishments. He also found time to hold down the position of honor- man in mathematics. Kano was one of the youngest men in his class, but he nailed down a tackle berth on the varsity football squad and made a name for himself, before the season ended, as the “rock of granite” in the middle of Kingswood’s defensive line. He came into his own as a football player during the fall of his senior year, and turned in some fine ball. In the winter, he was elected Treasurer of the 3:30 club and finished the year in a blaze of glory as a member of the lacrosse team. Jay’s affable good humor and willingness to help others has brought him many friends at Kingswood. Such too, will be the ease we arc certain, when he goes to college where he intends to study some branch of engineering. We shall never forget his notorious grumbles and cheerful manner, all of which have made him an outstanding member of the class of 1953. 24