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5 on 19 oofricfa HEAD MASTEIQQS MESSAGE T has often been noticed that, when Lawrenceville alumni meet, the question they generally ask each other first is, What House were you in? What class? seems less important. For the past two years it has not only been less important: it has become downright baffling. The sub-division of a Fifth Form into Sections labeled September, February, and Iune, designed as a convenience, has contributed mainly to the Department of Utter Confusion. The chief trouble with it, from my standpoint, is that many of you barely become tolerably digestible as Fifth Formers when you demand to be graduated. The first chapter in your separate history began with the Summer Semester of 1944. Having discovered the previous summer that my services as an administrator were less than essential to the Gartner management, I deserted you at the outset of your career and went away to rest my mind. Not, however, before I had seen Bill Allsopp display his massive physique in shorts and crew-shirt, while your premier mound artist, Rudy Clemen, preserved his amateur status on the summer diamond and reviewed the glories of the past season with Bob Slocum. Mo Kinnan became a Fifth Former last summer, too, and gave a sample performance so good that everybody wanted more of him. So did the Army. September was the end, also, of the local exploits of Charlie Letts, whose performance as Gran'pa in You Can't Take It With You had made Periwig history. At the annual Convocation which marked the opening of the regular School year, all these worthies, plus enough more like them to total twenty-three, took their diplomas and went on to the grim business of war. The rest of you settled down as if nothing had happened, showing the ability to meet calmly and sensibly whatever came which has been the outstanding charac- teristic of the Class of 1945. The most important thing you did at the beginning of the new term was to elect a Council which is the best I have ever seen: so good that I must speak of it as a group rather than distinguish a few individuals. Ever since taking office, they have given your Form and the School a responsible, con- scientious, public-spirited administration which shows how good elected leaders can be when they are at their best. I am very grateful to them, and I hope they know it. The whole Form, too, deserves some of the credit, for you elected them and you have followed them. Between you, you have made a record which deserves your pride and my deep and warm admiration and thanks. Here they are! You are one of my main reasons for the unshakable confidence I feel in the competence of your generation. Those of you who were labeled To Be Opened in February survived, not with- out pain and moaning, a second term of accelerated courses. You gave the impres- sion that they were difficult. But you did them. Among you were the omniscient Max Gellert, Bill Graves and Roy Holsten, who taught football to the re-born Nine
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5 01, fzafrzfafa 4 s Hamill House, Manuel Rionda, veteran of veterans, whose boast it is that no one else ever survived so long the ardors of the Lawrenceville curriculum, and Tom Stanley, good in everything, who won all the Commencement prizes except those in courses he had never heard of. Fourteen of the Class of 1945 crossed the Chapel platform without tripping Qthere was a little wobblingj on a February morning, and celebrated their new status by lunching with their admiring relatives at Upper, before making way for newly elevated Fifth Formers from the Circle. As we settled down for the final stretch, thirty-seven of the Class had already been graduated. We have had an orderly year together. There have been no acts of violence, except in a friendly way. If there have been fires, they have been kept under private aus- pices, and I have not heard of them. The life of the Proctor and the night-watchmen has been placid to the point of boredom. It has been fun to live with you. You observed with me my tenth anniversary as Head Master, politely concealing your astonishment that one so old could look so healthy. That was a memorable day in our relationship. You have received with docility my remarks on the ques- tion 'KCan a man find out how to 'behave?i' Perhaps you have sometimes wondered. Mental uncertainty is a good thing in a man. You and I will never forget the 1945 swimming and wrestling teams, or the announcement of the holiday in their honor, in which I permitted myself the ir- resistible enjoyment of a childlike hoax. Five minutes after the announcement you had filled to capacity the Iigger and the Lawrence Shop, demonstrating that even in times of crisis the Lawrenceville appetite for food never surrenders. That was a day. Let us remember together also those of your number who left for service in the armed forces before their course here was run: Skip Dyer, Dave Green, Don Halsted. There may be others before this OLLA Pon is distributed. We shall keep them in our minds and hearts. And so shall I all of you! A great class, my friends! It is my hope and work and prayer that Lawrenceville may serve the nation well and truly. In this great, tragic crisis, she has done her part. Thousands of her sons are in uniform. Forty-five gold stars: and there will be more before your class has left the campus. You belong to a worthy company, and it is better because of you. I am very proud of you. When happier times are here, you will go on serving your country, as you have here served your School. I know that as surely as I know anything. In the anxious and hazardous meantime, our thoughts and affection and prayers go with you. Do strongly and faithfully whatever it is given you to do. Take care of yourselves. Never forget that here you have made yourselves a part of a long, honorable American tradition, that here you can never be forgotten. We shall carry on here in your name. ALLAN V. HEELY Head Master Ten
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