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

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Richard Loomis Mahoney “Reg” Dick Mahoney, at the ripe old age of 17 years, can look back with pride on the four years he has spent at Kingswood. During his first year at Kingswood, in the Third Form, Dick engaged in football, basketball, and base- ball on the Lancaster teams. Apparently, he played well, because in his Fourth Form year, Dick played jayvee football and won his numerals. During the winter season, he played Varsity basketball, and in the spring he played Varsity baseball and won a major “K”. Dick was plagued with a knee injury in his Fifth Form year and was unable to play foot- ball for Kingswood. Instead, he did special exercises consisting of a few laps around the track and shooting baskets in the glm. He played Varsity basketball in the winter and received a letter. In the spring, he played baseball and again won his letter. Dick joined the News board and assisted in turning out a fine paper. On graduation day in 1953, Dick was awarded the Harvard Prize for being the most promising member of the Fifth Form. He also won the Dux Prize for being first in his class scholastically. He had been on the Honor Roll for four straight marking periods. Dick’s Sixth Form year was scheduled to be a busy one. He was sick for the first few weeks of school and therefore could not play football in this year either. However, basketball and baseball are on the agenda again. This year, Dick has given his services to the literary board of the News, and he has been extremely active in the Student Foreign Policy Association. With Dick’s great ambition, we of Kings- wood are sure that he will go a long way in this world. 18

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Richard Samuel Kone Dick Although Dick only came here in his junior year, he has carved a niche for himself in the Wyvcrn Hall of Fame. Despite his fabulous athletic skill, however, his greatest attribute is his fine personality. This fact was brought out at the end of his Fifth Form year when he was elected permanent class president. It was at this time also that he was chosen by a combined vote of the Junior and Senior classes and the faculty for a position on the Prefect Board. In his Senior year he was further honored with a posi- tion on the Class Committee, proof again of the great respect accorded him by his classmates. Dick has had an outstanding athletic career at Kingswood and in the various ofT-season leagues around town. He captained the 1953 football team, the 1954 baseball team at Kingswood in addition to leading the champion J. C. Courant league Lipman Motors baseball team in 1953. It was during the ’53 gridiron season that Dick showed his great courage and stamina by playing many a game when he should have been in a sick bed. His truly outstanding running and tackling plus his better than average passing were a constant inspiration to his teammates and a thorn in the side of the opposition. On the baseball diamond Dick shone both in the field and at bat. In addition to his feats in the outdoor sports, Dick's arching one handers and driving fast breaks figured in many a basketball contest involving not only the Kingswood Varsity, but other local hoop teams on which Dick has been a mainstay. Having been an inspector in the Nutmeg Automotive Company, a summer day camp councilor, a laborer with a food pack- ing concern, and a pianist and co-leader of the Ralph-Richards dance band, Dick has certainly shown that he has the versatility and ability to go far in whatever field he has chosen in the past, and we hope that his future endeavors will be as successful. 17

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David Martin “Dave” k All eyes were on the Senior Green in February of 1949, when Dave came muscling through the snow and into the Second Form house. There he announced himself as the newest member of the Second Form, and from that day on was happily accepted as a member of the class of '54. Along with his good standing, Dave had one of the widest ranges of extra-curricular activities. These included the Dramatic Club, the News Board, the Classbook’s literary as well as business boards, the co-chairmanship of the Dance Committee and, because he had the hottest car in the lot, (a cherry red, chopped '35 two door Ford convertible with a red plaid top, a floating trunk, and a '49 Mercury motor with a full house) he was deservedly elected president of the Kingswood Hot Rod Rumblers. S Throughout his athletic career, Dave was a Lancaster man, winning his Wyverns in football and wrestling. In the Third Form, Dave gave his muscles a try at lacrosse, and proved to Ik a valuable player, winning his letter four years in a row. After winning his numerals for football, Dave continued with his varsity wresding and lacrosse throughout his career at Kingswood and thereby further developed one of our most renowned sets of muscles. Being a really tremendous fellow, his week-end adventures were a bit on the gargantuan side. Many of his reminiscences centered about the joys of working at Hampton Beach Casino during the summer and the value of the power of persuasion in a pinch. As a fellow possessing warm personality, Dave’s humor and his ringing “How’s the old Waazoo?” as a familiar and cheerful greeting, remain a highlight of our senior year. 19