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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 ' ' ' .
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four to ten w IS the subject of much drscussron rn futurc years Vymg wrth Don for the htcriry spothght was rm Osthermcr who gave us such xmmortal poems as The Crty md Ram Wrth thcse lrterary lrghts to blclc us up we started a weelcly mrmcogrlphed shcct callel The 111111 mr: Thrs w ts a consprcuous flnancral success rf somcwhat vague edrtorrally We began to malce our werght felt tthletrcally as Fred Horw een won lettcrs IU footlull md hockey Our vocabulzry w as greatly enriched through the cfforts of Blll lraxrs who overwhelmed us wrth hrs knowledge of the SIX sylllble words rn Webster s Drctxonary In the spnng we fought forest fires for excrtement All ln all we were a pretty wrdeawalce Class Those of us who were m Hrggmson that year rcmember the joy whrch we expressed at bemg awaken d tt sux one mormnxg rnstead of seven In the Thrrd Class the top o at of Peabody became famous rn cllss Crrcles A one stop barbershop was set up but folded rmmedrately after two customcrs clarmed they were skrnned Peabody also boasted a Cool restful outdoor sleeprng porch and a nrghtly game of drop the can Many of us remember wrth gratrtude 1 the care given us by the French Dc partment rn the form of all mg Classes and the R W Ere, whrch made drsplaced persons out of the members of the class 1n that house The year before, we had notrced a new sport whrch had been started around the campus rt was played with a hard rubber ball 1nd somethmg that lool-.ed lrlce a fish nct 'Ihe object of the game was to crrpple your opponent and throw the ball xnto a goal Twelve of us de crded to try lf and have never re gretted our cholce Wlth the flagpole mlsslng and wrth many new rmprovements made the campus seemed a lot drfferent when we returned rn 48 Ours was strll the same old class though and tfter a short trme we began agrtatrng for sccond class 9lTlOlxlI1g prlvrlegc ll? . fx. .- , , , . , . ff .1 - H - - ' 2. H 5 , . T I 4 r an '- , ' , c . K , ' 1 a ' V, , - 's , ', fa L . ,f , . . - . , , I 7 -. t 1 K . z 'z. 4 ' , 17 Y 7 v A ' 1' . - - If 1 c, - 7 - c . . . . . , Y v f I 1 Y ' La 1 'lv , c 1 ,. ,' ' f , llc ' 4, 3 9 I , .. , . . 1 '- v f '- I ' 2 . , , , - , , , . r' 1 T alma 3 , . , , 4 . Y ' ' N 1 , A , , , , .av -2. . . ' '.
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