Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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LAWRENCEVILLE MEN Who Huge Given Their Lives In C ountryk Service ,- ,fn IOHN'fPHILIP BARTLETT '35 Sergeant Technician, Third Grade, Army Signal Corps HENRY BUNN '36 Second Lieutenant, Army Air Force IACQUES RODNEY EISNER '37 Lieutenant Navy THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, IR. '27 Major, Army Air Force EDWARD EDGAR LOWERY, IR. '40 Second Lieutenant, Army Air Force ROBERT LEE NEv1T'r '32 Private, Military Police ROBERT LUCIEN SHEDDEN '36 Second Lieutenant, Army Air Force GEORGE PARKER TOMS, IR. '40 Second Lieutenant, Army Air Force DERRIOK TILTON VAIL, III '40 Sergeant-Pilot, Royal Canadian Air Force ROGERS KIRK YOUNG '33 Ensign, Navy

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43 on fgoofriofa 4 H EAD MASTED 'S MESSAGE YEAR ago, when I addressed my valedictory remarks to your predecessors of the Class of 1942, we were approaching the end of a still fairly normal year. With the fact of war we were familiar. We read about it in the newspapers, listened to the radio pundits deliver the last word about it Qtill the contradictions of the mor- rowj, and talked about it in season and out. But it did not touch us much as an insti- tution. We could only guess what the war might mean to us. You of the Class of 1943 have begun to find out. With the lowering of the draft age last November, the war entered the gates of Lawrenceville, to stay until the fight- ing stops. And part of Lawrenceville went out to make the war our own. Members of the faculty laid down the tools of their trade and joined the services. Letters from all the fighting fronts spoke of Laurentians wherever our cause was being fought for, and we knew that their allegiance to the cause had been forged partly in the corridors and classrooms which we were still inhabiting. As the numbers on the service flag increased and the gold stars began to multiply, it sometimes seemed to us as if the war were a Lawrenceville war. Everything we have done here this year has been done in the daily consciousness of war and in the atmosphere with which war has sur- rounded us. A You knew no precedent for most of it. The Work Program burst upon you full- armed, but almost at once you b-egan to wield your tools like veterans, after you had recovered from your early impression that they were dueling weapons. Your excite- ment at seeing members of the faculty also work fan activity with which-you had never associated them in your various thoughts about themj lent zest to your-labors. In Carter Stovall you produced the Program's chief public expositor, whose 'remarks treated the faculty more indulgently than they could reasonably have expected. . After the first of the year you caused the Head Master to abandon his usual occu- pation and become Lawrenceville's chief war information centre, a position made difficult by the Navy's extraordinary gift for changing its mind, so that the certainties of today became the lost opportunities of tomorrow. At times your reactions indicated your suspicion that this was basically MY FAULT. But we managed to swear in a number of you as members of V-1, though the needs of the service required Iohn Confort to wear mittens for several days in order to qualify. Since then the Marines, the Army and Navy Air Forces, and the Mountain Troops have received the benefit of your attention, not to mention such nebulous and uncertain organizations as V-I2 and A-12. It is my suspicion Cand I am rather proud of itj that a larger proportion of your membership have arranged their military future than in any other similar school. By way of more conventional distinction your class has produced the mad race be- tween Bill Umstattd and lim Hawthorne for top scholastic honors, the Shakespearean prowess of Fred Buechner, Bill Umstattd, and Barry Doig ffull name on requestjg a quite extraordinary Literary Magazine under Pete Forcey, with the exceptional poetic Nine