Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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MIDQQESEX SCHOOL JOHN BRYANT BISBEE North Fayston, Vt, lAgeJ 17 lServicel Naval Aviatioi lC1ass Entered? V1 Football First Squad 1944 Show 1940, '41, '42, Principal 1939, '44 Cilee Club 1939, '40, '41, '42, '43, Dramatic Club 1939, '40 Pa T . QQNCOED, M1-iss. ROGER CLAYLAND BIGELOW 530 Grand Avenue. St. Paul. Minn. lAgel 17 CService7 Marine Corps tC1ass Enteredj IV lst Team Football 1942, '43 lst Team Hockey 1944 lst Crew 1943, Captain '44 Soccer Team 1940, '41, '42, '43 Time Prize 1941 President Class 1941 Student Council 1942, '44 President M. A. A. 1944 Dance Committee 1944 Hook Night 1941, '42 Head Waiter 1944 Graduated with Credit '44 1 ge SPUUITI

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MIQIEEQEZ4 ..5C1j.Q0EAcc.ac-cc-- .--cQQNQ0RDf M25 Yeah! Gentlemen-at-large. as long as we stayed on school bounds. But Concord Academy really suffered that year, added a cynic. But how about us guys that went to those dances down there? ques- tioned a realist. Ignoring him, someone continued- We got Ellis, Thorne, Parsons, Little, and Selfridge that year. And Toll and Kistler, both one-year boys. Post dropped back from the second class, but he kept on dropping, and soon was safely out of school. 'Al-low about Howard and his fourteen stone? Murph finally broke in, You boys keep on going and you'll be making up names. I-lis cigarette was out now, but what was left still clung tenacious- ly on. That was the year we entered the war. Remember how we gathered in the assembly hall to hear the president's speech? And then the dark days of the spring of '42, The only bright spot was the dance at Moore's. Someone snickered, and Murph broke in, But in the second class you be- gan to change. By that time you were getting pretty big: you had quite a number of fellows on the first team. And all of a sudden you began to dis- cover those mysterious aunts and dentists whom you had to visit in Boston. That winter you got Mac Keyser, but he didn't last long: just a brief visit, and he was gone. But you stuck it out all spring. Hey, do you guys realize something, that although we lost only one boy to the services during our first class year, Mitch Draper to the Marines, out of the forty-seven boys that were in our class at one time or other, only twenty-five can possibly graduate? That means almost one out of every two. Sort of makes you wonder how we got through. doesn't it? l wonder if we will. No one spoke, and finally a few rose to go. Soon all had gone out. leaving the room behind them empty, and useless. Page SIi.X'll'C'l7

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MIDDLESEX SCHOOL CoNCoRD. MASS JONATHAN PEALE BISHOP South Chatham, Mass. 11-Xgcl 16 1'Co1lege1 Harvard 1 Class Entered 1 Vl Show 1939, '40, '41 Glee Club 1939. '40 Yearbook, Associate Editor 1944 Prize Scholarship JAMES KEELEY BROWN .2661 Clay Street. San Francisco. Calif. rAgc1 17 lServicel Navy lClasS lintcrcdl V lst 'lieam Football 1943 Basketball Team 1943. Captain 1944 President Class 1940 Prize Scholarship Librarian 1944 Kelton Bowl Anvil 1942, '43 Chapel Monitor 1944 Stage Manager. Show 1944 C71'r1rIuz1lt'd Lwlh Highest Cfredzf Page Eiqht Gruduuled with High Credit