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

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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

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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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Michael William Morrow “Mike” Mike left Moreland Hill School in 1951 and joined the Fourth Form at Kingswood. At first he took a shot at football but when he broke his arm he decided to give up that type of exercise, and he then joined Mr. Goodwin’s skiing enthusiasts. When the snows melted, Mike joined the tennis team. In good scholastic standing, he found time to join the Dramatic Club and play a part in the production A Young Man’s Fancy. During his Fifth Form year Mike turned from football to the milder (!) sport of soccer where he was one of Mr. Jones’ regulars on the undefeated jayvee soccer team. That winter he was skiing again and giving the bullscyes a good ventilation with Mr. Kaptyen’s rifle club. Spring found him our number one man on the tennis team, and he well deserved the captaincy of that sport to which he was elected. Mike was in You Can’t Tal c It With You and also proved of great help to Mr. Greene with the set for Kings wood-Oxford's luidy Precious Stream. Senior year also found Mike center forward on Mr. Jacobus’ varsity soccer where the team could always count on him when they needed to score. He joined the business boards of the News and Classboospending many afternoons in quest of the advertisements you see here. As operator of the New Britain-Hartford 8:25 a. m. express, Mike gave his unappreciative passengers a bracing walk in the o| cn air from his private parking lot which was located just a short ten-minute walk from the chapel. It was during his senior winter that he went to Florida with Mr. Jacobus and several mem- bers of the soccer team where they attended the Soccer Forum at Sarasota. Any college that gets our 1954 tennis team captain will find they have a very capable and well liked addition to their campus with Kings wood’s Mike Morrow. 20