Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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'AU Phrlrp B Weld BE f lalej Mr Weld has confiscated more wrter prstols than anyone else He teaches Mrth and Chemrsrry md rs assrstrnt housemaster of Hrggrnson Davrd C Huntrngton, A B fPr1r1remr1J Mr Huntrngton lrves rn Hallo well ICILll69 French torches sun dry rumor teams rnd collects wrter prstols Laurence H Sanford, jr A B PVIIILFNIVT For some strange reason Mr San ford drdn t get enough of Mrddle sex when he was here as a student teach Economrcs rs hrs meat and sorrow He has shown hrs rbrlr tres as an excellent coach of the junror teams Gregory C Colfrn A B flldfldfd We understand that the female sex has at last ensnared thrs ex confrrmed bachelor He teaches Englrsh coaches crew and assrstant housemaster of L B Thomas R Huckrns, A B fBrau11j Although we sometrmes rhrnlt that Mr Huckrns as busrness manager rs out to part us from our last pennres we see the re sults of hrs abrlrty about us every dav In the afternoons he coaches basketball and baseball He also plays a mean game of brrdge as McChord and Pratt drscovered james H Volkmann, A B fHarzam'j ln the three years that Mr Volk mann our drrector of admrssrons has been here hrs easy smrle and frrendly manner have become a hxture around the campus . , . . , 1 ' , ' , ' 1 ' - . ., . . so he decided to come back and . , . . ' , , is ,

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CIASS HISTORY In the fall of1944 the nucleus of thrs the largest gr tduatmg cl rss rn the hrstory ofM1ddle sex came through the gates on Low ell Road Srx years liter thrrty erght boys went out under that same gate whrch had seen them enter rn groups and srngly durmg the precedrng srx years Srx years IS a short trme rn a person s lnfe but rnto our sux years at Mrddlesex we have packed enough to talk about for the rest of our ltves What rs wrrtten here wrll only serve as a remlnder to brmg to our mmds many more mcrdents some of w hrch happened md some well the larger the class the taller the tales' The four members of our class who started rn the srxth class letrned early that rt took five trmes as long to clean a Frrst Class study as rt drd to clean thelr own They were pressed nnto the Glee Club and furmshed much backstage assrstance on the hugh notes of the show Room I was the home room and therr favorrte class was Mrs Farnsworth s Poetry Apprecratron course crded to become poets When our orrgmal four returned the next year they were jomed by srxteen new classmates The New England trend of the year before had been broken by the influx of mrddle Westerners and one Colorado hrll brlly We were the last class to have Mr Brsbees history course and we all felt a deep loss when we heard of hrs death last winter All of us were rn the show that wmter most of us makrng up the grrls chorus The srngrng was hrghly pra1sed, desprte the two most dubrous lookmg grrls ever to grace the Mrddlesex stage George Lewrs and ohn Bransford In the sprmg of that year we took part 1n the perennral water gun fights unt1l all the weapons somehow gravrtated mto the hands of the First class I the Fourth Class our group began to reach Its present proportlons We drd ow at trme but rn Don Hut ter we had rn our mrdst one of the most promrs mg young authors ever to take up the pen Hrs thrrlllng tale ofw rld anrmal lrfe for ages Illl ry 1, a 2 I 'Av , B g - - I k v4 - f 2 ' b 'X - , s I 4 f Y 4 f ' , k ff Q I V ' If I N . After one class, everybody had de- 5 7 , vl y C... I n I 5 n't kn ' it the 1 ' ' ' .