Landon School - Brown and White Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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believe that Brooks Brothers made canary yel- low pants in a 23 inch waist. The fifth grade year will never be forgotten for it was in this year that Tusharco Landon a never-ending source of excitement, a fact to which the whole Upper School body would attest at many a school meeting. Each year, as we returned, we noticed that our classrooms from the previous year had been newly carpeted and furnished. We were always a year ahead of the renovation. Perhaps it was this neglect and injustice which nurtured the frustration for our sixth grade gang wars. More than once Mr. Ricker would raid the bathroom only to find Nick Wiel and company dunking someone's head in the sink. Each of the class had their own badges worn underneath the lapels just in case a classmate didn't recognize you. It was in sixth grade that we lost Drew Hyde to St. Albans, a loss that would prove menacing in many Landon-St. Albans athletic contests to come. Continued on page 86. , dnt: . lifts is-si Wh - t,., tl' --tm tftttit

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L The Class of '81 began as a group of thirty four seven and eight year olds, all but a dozen of which wouldn't make it through the full ten year term. Certain students immediately took titles that would stick with them throughout their years at Landon. Drew Hyde was labeled the class clown when, in front of the entire class, he opened a closet door to reveal Mrs. Thompson changing her dress. Stewart Cobb, along with being elected the king of clip-on neckties, was recognized as the class brain. He achieved this honor as a result of his intense interest in space, where along with the local Radio Shack, Stew spent most of his time. Many family legacies, such as the Kochs and the Buckinghams, were represented in this class for the third and fourth times in the school's history. lt was these students who, for their first five years at Landon, would be called only by their brothers' names. Everybody thought Landon Banfield owned the school. The Shrimp Bowl ended in a 0-O tie, but we were consoled when our teacher told us it was a moral victory since the 66'ers were older and presumably more experienced. In our fourth grade year, we picked up Gor- don Gooch, a Texas-born boy whose Texas drawl was to slowly but surely fade away by his senior year. Greg Asbed was encased in a cast that went from his chest to his knees as a result of a football injury. Just about everyone in the class wondered how Greg took care of certain day-to-day activities. Mike Oliphant was also a new addition. JoIlie Ollie always seemed to have an uncontrollable urge to smile. As we entered our fifth grade year, more new-comers were added. Billy Beef Adkins was known as the strongest kid in the fifth grade tand the sixth, and the seventh, and the eighth as welll . Corey Burr was the second pre- piest thing Landon had ever seen fthe first being his brother Shept, and no one could

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WILLIAM BRIAN ADKINS Beef Entered Grade Five If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and Everything that's in it And - which is more - You'Il be a man my son. - Kipling l've got a '69 Chevy. . . - Bruce Springsteen 1980 Spring Nationals, Columbus, Ohio 20 . , W , fx I God give me serenity To accept things which can not be changed Give me courage to change things Which must be changed And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. - Niebuhr