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I-I EAD MASTEITS MESSAGE HE Class of 1951 has surprised me. With your laurels long since tucked securely behind your ears, it will not seem, I hope, ungracious of me to confess to you at last that you have exceeded my expectations. One of the occupational delusions under which teachers labor is the fancy that their ability to appraise the future prospects of a group of students approaches the infallible. My own observation of you as Fourth Formers, therefore, taken together with the findings of my more clairvoyant colleagues, persuaded me that as Lords of the School you would prove to be affable, bright, debonair, and playful Qperhaps frisky is the wordjg but that when it came to the weightier matters of the law we could expect little more from you than an attractive indifference. It was perfectly evident from the beginning, furthermore, that, in view of the uncertainties of your academic and military futures, you would pass your Hnal year here in a condition of chronic dementia, exhibiting panic, instability, palsy of the mind, and jerks of the morale. Well, I was wrong. While I was busy informing alumni and your parents that rebel- lion and anarchy, though not yet arrived, might well be just around the corner, you were more profitably employed in achieving at mid-year the highest academic average ever recorded by any Form since the invention of movable type. By one joint effort you threw all predictions out the window, and I am reliably informed that today you can't find a crystal ball within ten miles of the campus. You should be proud of your accomplish- ment. You had the distinction of leading the largest student body in the School's history, and your own numbers were sufficient to overtax the accommodations normally provided for you. At the beginning of the year, therefore, some of you were submitted to the scheme of life at the Maple House, whose facilities were generally considered a shade less elegant than the Schoolls usual offering. And through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Harwood, the last handful of you was tucked in at the Van Dyck House. By mid-year emergency housing had been discontinued, and you were back to normal. At Fifth Form tea, to which many of you have devoted yourselves with zeal and appetite, you have been briskly conversational, relaxed, casual, and comfortable to have around. Some of you have developed, further than all but a few of your predecessors, the difficult technique of working your way through a tray of cake or cookies with thoroughness and dispatch, while giving the appearance of ascetic self-denial. There has never been a year in which Mrs. Heely and I have enjoyed more the tea-time company of the elect. None of us can ever forget the shock and sorrow we all felt at the death of your class- mate Iim Finnegan when he had been with us only a few weeks. In a school community such a loss is especially keen. And the memories of World War II were quickened by the departure of Mr. David Wicks and of the few of your post-graduate companions Nine
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51 Ulla Todrzkkz 51 who entered college during the first semester for reasons of academic and military ad- vantage. I have already remarked upon the extraordinary poise and stability you have shown during a period when politicians have been batting the man-power problem around, to the utter confusion of everybody. The year has produced unforgettable phenomena which it will always be pleasant to remember. During the month of Ianuary I discovered the truth about Texas and Cali- fornia weather, always grossly misrepresented by the natives. I remember lim Coker's superb leadership of the football team, and the last of Don Kastilahn's touchdowns, when he entered the end-zone carrying not only the ball, but most of the members of the Hill teamg and our distinguished cross-country team, and the Thanksgiving hurri- cane, which I was glad to have you miss. Dave Evans' remarkably fine Lawrence comes to mind among his other unusual achievements, and the discovery of new talent in Bart Biggs' Lit. Then there have been our excellent ambassador from England, Peter Broom- head, who, to everybody's surprise, pronounces his name Broomheadg the impossibility of distinguishing between the Brown twins, to whom, I suppose, the question of identity presents no problem, the Firm, sensible, responsible presidency of Iamie Carey and his colleagues, to whom I owe a .heavy debtg Hugh Lobit, who has photographed me more often than all his predecessors put together, Buddy Pray's outstanding swimming team and his unfortunate removal at the bitter endg the indispensable services of the Open Door and the Chapel Ushers, Bob Stovall's remarkable grasp of the dialect that passes for English in the deep South, these and many others. Your Fifth Form will have seen the completion of the magnificent Lavino Field House, though denied the privilege of com- peting in itg and the beginning of the Science Building, the gift of Iansen Noyes, '05. There has been progress here this year, and it has been both various and solid. And so we come to the end of our companionship. It has been a great satisfaction to Mrs. Heely and me to have lived and worked with you. You have served the School well, and you are the better and the stronger for it. I hope this place will remain in your hearts and minds always as something to be cherished and to be thankful for. Mrs. Heely and I bid you good-bye with our thanks, our affection, and our enduring interest. ALLAN V. HEELY Head Master Ten
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