Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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ROBLRT W BOCKIUS Upperco Baltrmore County Maryland Ace If College Yale Rrlph came from Swrtaerland to jorn us bourgeorsre rn the thrrd class As soon as we hrd drscovered whrch of the two peas was Rrlph we drscovered that he hrd 1 certarn perhaps Swrss frnesse and gloss H rs rn frvor of noblesse oblrge md self servrce rt the hrst class trble Athletrcally oe rf you can t tell Bomontrs apart you call them all oe bore out hrs character hrs canny tennrs and qurcls eye were good for three years of usefulness on successful teams He rs also an ardent skrrng enthusrast another sport offrnesse though we never saw hrm do rt Hrs qurck eye useful rn tennrs was also useful rn Concord and Ralph s socral lrfe can only be descrrbed as flourrshrng He was slrghtly drsturbed however when one grrl got mumps whrle dancrng wrth hrm When the conllagratron rn the upper story of R W toolc place Ralph went to lrve rn the Bourqurn s house for a whrle and must have rnterrupted therr home lrfe consrderably by berng able to r1Sfll1 wl rrhry vurc sr l l Illlj, B lr 1 rrcd rn thc fourth 53 f U l C. 0 UNL C Nfl! cecdcd ro tlrsrrnburslr hrmsclf by hrs rbrlrty to rnhale crgars rn clrmbrng up and down the srde of Peabody and rn hrs fondness for Grnger On the serrous re athletrc srde Bob made the thrrd crew thrs year though he had coated rn the fourth and thrrd clrsses Thrs wrnter he co managed wrth Robbrns for the hockey team He also played on the first football squad tlrrs fall and made probably the IUOSI vrcrous tickle of the year but the clrmax of hrs athletrc career came when culmrnatrng a long drrve he scored from the two foot lrne rn the Nobles game A more accurate account of the complr catrons and complexrtres of thrs feat rs obtarn able from hrm you need not even aslc on the top floor of Hrggrnson where he successfully commanded hrs forces rn an all out campargn agarnst L B Desprte the supervrsron of hrs socral advrser Mr Hulburd Bob has now be come the proud owner ofa car rf not the where RALPH M BOMONTI 3107 Dunbarton Avenue Wlslrrngtcmn D C Age 18 Collelge Prrnceton 'lar ll ' rr zppeg - ' - claff at the ipc' ld ag- f '-lve. H- I - ' c f -J r 5 , f 7 : I withal to pay for it. 1 ' ' ' ' 2, ' v . . 2 , '. ' ' 2 z ' , Z Y I - . Q ' J f . e I f 1 ' Y - I V ' mr l -rf: rl rar - f' '.'1Yll1f.I. rf I

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im followed his brothcr to Mtddlcscx trrnvmg in the fourth class and before he graduated he had made himself felt athletically scholastically and financially His hardwork mg spirit earned him a berth on the first foot ball team and his exhibition in the St George s game was especially praiseworthy He became captam of the squash te tm at the end of a very successful three year service being on the famous undefeated team He also made the first baseball team and served as clean up batter Scholastlcally he LllSIIl'lgL1lSl1CLl himself by standing consistently near the top of the class and financially through the firm of Con cessions Incorporated which he ran with hrs roommate who follows immediately His was the room where the coke got stored and we wonder vxhat the profits were He also put m 1 lot of time on the debating team and the Amr! was show electrician and did most of the dirty vvork for this Yearbook Wlien he left he took with him his doggedness his keen nose for cash but he forgot his wmc colored corduroy jacket The Hlbllldhlli ie tttle W tshmgton A L I7 College Princeton IAMI 9 l BACON Box 86 l tstAuror1 Ncw Y ork A c I7 Collcge Harvard soon knew all there wts to know about Puget Qound md environs from Oregon to Alaska at lclst th tt s what we thought Seattle s trdent son didn t thmk so however and told us tll over again We soon knew enough about Seattle to mtke fun of it and thereafter Bill was on the defensive especially after he re marked that they sxphon water uphill out there Bill is a great advocate of the virtues of basket ball havmg played three years on the team he also backed log tables in log tables vs slide rule but the odds were against him there and we saw him sneak a slide rule from the proctor of the Physics final Besides first team basket b dl Bill played first squad football and got two letters playing first team baseball He was continuously wrappel up in Hnancial affairs besides keeping the accounts of Concessions Inc he was business manager of the Amr! and Yearbook mtkmg profits for all three by now he must know all the ways of hooking advertisers and he certamly knows all their ways of avoiding being hooke l flll 1 l ' Y ' ' .., ' 7. ,. ,'k I -, -- ,A 1 i 1 1 v . ', ' ia: 1, ' ' ' . , -, ., . gn 2 , I , . CIQBIQRT BAILLARGEQN, IR' Bill arrived in the fourth class and we 4, , K I ' Y' 2, ' ' Y . 1 , if ' Y i k , Q l I gf YQ ' - . N A Y ' , I , 'z ' Y . ' ' . L. , -, , A ' y L. ' , 1' ' y 1 I r ' 7 . ,.- , I . V ' 'V L ' , -'. ,' -N . ' y ,' . '. 2 ' Y g , , .' y , ' ' I Y ' L.

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When me hrd drstrngurshcd the ocs we found them not exactly alrke Terry was apparently spared to a certarn degree the abrlrty to srde step whrch hrs brother has found so useful though he rs not so destrtute of Swrss finesse that he mrssed the chance to take German and French wrth both of whrch he was already famrlrar Hrs eye and proficrency wrth a racket enabled lnm when he took up squash thrs wmter to make a posrtron on the tcam He also skated rn the wmter and he skrs too though not rn the provmces of Amerrca H luke hrs brother p ayed tennrs and was one of the hardest hrtters on the team on vshrch he served for three years H place krcked for the football team along wrth several other people He was also very adept at bootrng a ball around the soccer field demon stratrng LC true Swrss way of playrng Terry belt Ralph to the possrbrlrtres of dorng a parr of questron marks for a panel There was hovsever no questron about hrs rnterestrng HlNRX S BRAINARD 684 Sunnysrde Avenue Akron Ohro A e I7 College Yale WALTER 1' BOMONTI 3107 Dunbarton Avenue Wfashrngton D C Hcnry had to wrench hrmself an ay from Sunnysrcle Avcnue four years ago Brg Hank over here rn the lefthand corner at 120 poundsl was a three letter man He managed he foot ball team wrth George Nrchols rn the fall played number four on a fast rmprovrng and ultrmately very successful squash team thrs wrnter and coxed the frrst crew this sprrng and last Henry drvrded hrs trme between brrdge and cleanrng up after hrs roommates for whrch thankless and endless task he re cerved the honorary trtle of homemaker and the attendant dutres Henry drd some cle batrng some Vrrgrl and a lrttle Math Gamma though he never forgave Mr Terry for sug gestrng that he take rt when Physics would hive been so much easrer It was three to one agarnst Hank rn B P and hrs roommates developed a great flur for drop the Hanky One of Henrys objectrves durrng hrs stay here was to argue Mr Archrbald out of some thrng Needless to say he farled llrl f 2 V. A V. ' J '.', . , k 1 . Y ' ' . e, ' ' ' , lf 1 , y l ' ' C 1 - - -I A p 1 , I 1 ' 1 1 , - i ' 3 . . , . . I I . . 'I ' K. ' , , . . I f y Q ' 1 K A A Is' ' h r '. I Y . . 1. connections in Concord. ASQ: IH Cnucgu prim-w,,, 3 1 A , ' . ' ' . , ' 7 . 8 5 5 ' . . . f . -' A y 1 . y I I , ' 1 b 1 , 1 ' . , 2' . . n Y ' b .