Loomis Chaffee High School - Confluence Yearbook (Windsor, CT)

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1 966-1 968 It's Spring, Here I sit on the wall, in front of Flagg, my customary seat. How many times have I sat here? Do I remember the first time? . . . eight years' passage of time flickers away-and I hear: Hey, there's a freshman on the Senior Path! . . . Here come the Chaffers for Hum . . . Who's going to the Senior House for Star Trek? . . . now the hazy scenes of the past come back-coats and ties, loafers with white tape, saddle shoes on the Chaffers, crewcuts, pep rallies at 9:20 for the Saturday football game, the train to New York for Thanksgiving, Frank Grubbs reading announcements at lunch, councillors handing out hours, Ralph Erickson whistling and shouting as we dismantled the bleachers, Grim's bow-ties, the Snug in Palmer, the Nook on Founders 2nd . . . My hero, Holden Caulfield, my hangouts: the Lincoln Dairy, Jimmy's, le factoire . . . Charlie Pratt, Tom Finley-their age and years at Loomis living testament to the unending, unchanging role of teacher, student, classroom. . . . Hi, Mr. Wiggins. Can it be? Am I the same guy who received 40 hours my freshman year when I lived in a triple? Can Loomis be the same place that turned us into that dreaded person, the preppie? Who are these kids who talk about dope, Plato, and photography all in the same breath? Can this be the same school that once, not long ago, had I8 electives, 4 weekends a year, no girls? Was it all a dream? Was Vietnam, Cambodia, the Beatles all a dream too? Do These seniors know or care about prep school and all it represented? Do they know how deprived fluckyj they are? Ah, mystery, ah Spring .... Grant Wiggins '68 I2 Founders Lounge, formerly the Loomis library

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Freshman Year-1970-71 Because we were all new to the Island, few of us realized the magnitude of the change that was go- ing on our freshman year. In the history of the schools, this year was a milestoneeChaffee re- turned to the Island to be housed in a new com- plex at the south end of the campus. For the first time in over forty years, Chaffee and Loomis stu- dents were going to school on the Island, though still the freshman and sophomore classes were separated by sex. To accommodate the new fe- male members, the school went to the eleven day cycle fthe boys used to go to school every Satur- dayl. The new library was opened as was the new wing of the Clark Science Center and the new dining hall. The OKE-FUN-OKE reigned freshman year, especially after dropping money to us in the quad one sunny noontime. Section 38 formed, under the leadership C75 of Chris Wallace, and most of us were absorbed by the excitement of the Loomis- Robinson basketball game. Chaffee debated the identity issue as the girls seemed increasingly absorbed in the swirl of Loomis life . . . and the faculty and trustees debated just what the name of the school should be. It was the year of the Spirit in Flash, an undefeated Loomis track team, Once Upon a Mattress, the first Tour de Loomis and the first year of the Twilight Softball League. Both school Senates debated the issue of smoking and finally Loomis upperclassmen were given permission to smoke in their rooms. The curriculum continued to expand, but for most of us as freshmen it was English I, French or Span- ish i, Algebra I, History I and Science I . . . What's Really Going On, education, calculus, Alienation, photography and ceramics were a couple of years in the future. And some of the seniors who we remember . . . Mary Lou Lombard and Phelps Gay, Manny Weiss, Jerry Goodbody, Paul Henderson, Gail vonDohlen, Jean Farquhar, Tim Carney, Rick Doucette, Bobby Clements, Jessica Ippedico, Lou Birenbaum, Bruce Raphael, Hunt Taylor . . . 14 . ,,--.,- l 'I 1 Q - r- ' 4, - -3 ul:-I . VZ' L lff1'1LfQ H 61933 1 H L. f R'RR ' . .M ' 'i P fills 51 Coke-'ifunstbhw ,gs 1 .. 1 ,I 'W -'f H w -4 'lit '