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

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Anthony Dominick “Tony” Tony joined the class in '54 in the Second Form and quickly became established as one of our best liked members. He played excellent soccer, basketball and baseball for the York club and that year started his summer camping career. Third Form saw Tony captain of the winning York soccer team, manager of York basketball, victorious first baseman for his club and, not so incidentally, an Honor Roll man as well. In Fourth Form, Tony was elected Secretary- Treasurer, won his Jayvee soccer numerals, skiied with Mr. Goodwin’s team and profitted by Mr. Farquhar’s coaching on the baseball team in the spring. He was also a well-known habituee of the Honor Roll, making it all four terms. “Secretary-Treasurer Dominick,” we called him from then on, whenever we had money. When we had news it was “Mr. Editor”, for he was editor of the timely Kingswood News. When we felt respectful, we called him “Mr. Prefect”, for Tony was that exalted officer too. In his Fifth Form year he had been a stage hand for the Dramatic Club, managed the skiing team, been a member of the choir, played some tennis and won his major “K” for soccer. He topped off the year with his second season as camp counsellor. Tony’s Sixth Form year was filled with all these interests, lopped by his devotion to the News. Being Secretary-Treasurer of the Student Council gave him the responsibility for KSSF, our combined charity drive and its disbursement. With a background like that, we confidently predict success for Tony and wish him happiness. 12

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Ralph Hoxic Cross “Ralph” A little kid with a crewcut peddled his bike up the Boulevard hill and through the portals of Kings wood. He ran to the gymnasium and reported his tardiness. Thus, in 1948, started Ralph's career and his first year at Kingswood. He quickly showed his athletic ability, playing soccer for York. As the year drew to a close, Ralph found he had made many new friends. His winning smile and cheerful How-dy” made him a class favorite. In his Third Form year, Ralph did what most Freshmen dream of doing, and became a starter on the Varsity Soccer team. When Christmas vacation came, he left for Florida with one of the more prominent members of the class. He returned in January very sunburned and very lazy to play on “Duck’s Jayvee Basketball team. It was during this time that Ralph started going to Ma Harrington’s little gatherings at the T C Club once a month. You could notice a change in Ralph, Ralph could notice a change in himself, for the first time in his life he thought girls were something other than sisters or pests. During the winter vacation of his Fifth Form year, after being elected to Captain the Soccer team the following year, Ralph went to Florida again. This time he went with a different faculty member, “Chick Jacobus. They attended a soccer clinic in Sarasota, where Ralph played with and against college players. In the spring Ralph put on his mask and stood behind home plate. In tribute to his courage, the other members of the baseball team elected him Co-captam. In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Ralph was exchange editor of the News, co- chairman of the Dance Committee and on the production staff of the Dramatic Club. Ralph base been one of the most popular boys in the school, and as he leaves Kingswood to face life anew, the class wishes to extend to him their wishes for happiness and success in the years to come. 11

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Edward Dickinson Duffield “Ted” Ted Dufficlds arc very rare. This one came to Kingswood in the First Form, young, be- wildered, and full of questions. He has aged six years and lost his bewildered air, but Mr. Sage beer’s chemistry class knows he has not lost his inquisitiveness. Dramatics and the Wyvern took up most of his time, tho photograph and music too absorbed him. In dramatics he will never be forgotten in Young Man's Fancy, Our Town, and The Importance of Being Far nest. His xylophone playing in You Can't Ta e It With You, (when he incidentally startled several girls’ gym classes at Oxford while practising). His difficult dialect part in the Playboy of the Western World, and what his zestful and savory rendition did to a meager part in the Kingswood-Oxford production of Lady Precious Stream, amazed and amused us all. No one can get the same elfect from words that our unique man Duffield achieves in his thespian triumphs. Ted managed the soccer team in 1952 and gained great prominence for his notable and often astonishing chapel announcements of soccer games and anything else that happened to come to him at the time. This was also the year of Ted’s Tepid Trio, a three piece combo with Paul Highberg and Sid Whipple, as well as the first Kingswood marching band — composed of Ted and a beat-up bugle. With this he successfully drowned out the twenty-piece Taft band for a moral victory. He was president of the Kingswood- Oxford Summer Theatre Group and was chosen editor of the Wyvern. One of his greatest honors was the award of the prized Gleason medal for poetry, in junc of ’53. It goes without saying that we will all miss him and that wc wish him the best of luck. One thing is sure, Ted has certainly made a deep and lasting impression on the class of ’54. 13