Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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The blll must have gotten stalled rn the executne department of the Stu dent Government because we herrd nothing more of lf Slnlstet hrppen lngs were afoot rn B P as olm Rod gets found more than one cryptlc note placed carefully rn hrs shoes Durrng the wrnter rt was discovered thrt tw o ofour members behcved that wresthng was the best way to preparc for 1 French clrss Onc nrght as one w rs about to pm the other a ll rshhght cleaved the darlcness and they drdn t do so wcll rn French the ncxt day The great Bolo Bouncer fad hut thc cl rss ln the Sprung 'Ierm but there wasn r a champron among the whole lot of us Frted by the accounts of Napoleon s battles rn Hrstory Class the Hrggrnson branch of our class decided to have a couple of therr own The general howexer developed 1 sudden reluct ance to talce charge of hrs troops so wrth the srngmg of La Marserllarse the wars were called off Durrng the temala became mvolved rn the yearly tevolutlon there Luclclly he was not elected Presrdent and so survrved to rejorn us for the Senlor X ear Our last year at Mrddlesex got under way early wrth many of us teturnrng early for football practlce Thrs year was to be the culmlnatron of our prevrous experlences and we all loolced fotw ard to lf eagerly We md ulgcd rn all of the usurl brawls meetrngs and pranlcs W played pool for three weelcs untrl the fad wore off and the table wore out That was the last of the poolroom as far as the Frrst Class was concerned Cunnel jack Mc Chord led the Hrggmson assault of the LB stronghold under the com mand of General Tad Graxes and Mrlt Artlcen Thrs trme we were the ones who conflscatcd the water guns and we saw that they were put to good use After the brawls and crgar smolcrng sprees rn Ware Hall Padre Dlclx Almy was always therc to com fort the slclc and wounded Lxcryone remcmbcrs the nrght that B P held open house rts hrst and last socul ...f llll . ' i B . 2 - . - 'A - I . . , F' rl - H A W v 2 v ' l 7 ' 7 K ' f p V 5 summer, our representative from Gua- - -,I , V 1 , v , 1' r v A 4 . , L , Y . 7 , . . 6 V V 5 I 5 I I . I , , ' - , f T v. XM . 1 ' I 1 1 1 A 1 4 I ' '

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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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event of the season The crewmen wrll alvsays remember the day the new shell was rammed and almost sunk by a belllgerent snapprng turtle RW was the scene of the famous crime court rn whxch Brll Travrs nearly forferted hrs lrfe to prosecutors Al Lrtchheld and ohn Morley I also housed Ted Romarne who was harled far and vude as the chref socral representatrve of the school and was the brrthplace of many a fine tune by that prolrhc part of song vxrrters Chrls Bose and Gus Buttrrclc Peabody held the offices of Edward C Brarnard and Co who specralrzed rn coursed navlgatron and whose sun lamp vsas rn constant demand Hallovsell was known far and vnrde as the home of those herce and relentless starlmg extermlnators ohn Fordyce and Gus Browne 'Ihese brave mcn should recerve full credrt for the disappearance of untold numbers of these lrttle pests around the campus From the baclc hrlls of B P came the Hrclcum Brothers led by Hank Hoffmanr and assrsted by aclc Taylor and Nat Lord At the end of the year these boys were serrously thrnlcrng of a gurtar busr But even though we had a good deal of fun rn our school careers not all our achnevements were rn the humor ous lme Athletrcally the class was very successful I s members formed a basrs for the best football team srnce 1941 for a champronshrp hoclcey team and for successful crew and lacrosse seasons Yet we were not entxrely an athletrc class We managed to send a Nanonal Scholar to Harvard and vue ,graduated our share of credrts In Mllxc Meler and Fred Goodmg, we had somethnng as good as rf not better than a professronal photog raphy studro In Don Hodges we had perhaps the best marlcsman whrch the Mrddlesex Rlfle Range has yet produced Delvrng mto the entertarnment freld we attempted to revrve some thrng lrlce the old Mlddlesex tradrtxon of Hook Nrght In thrs extravaganza spectators were treated to a ghmpse of Mrddlesex 1984 several numbers by an rmported Drxreland lazz band feats of black magrc by the celebrated orrental falcrr Perprng Tom and a spme trnglrng account of hon huntmg nn Darkest Afrrca by Fearless Pot ter Coupled mth thrs all star revue N was the Yearboolc Auctlon conducted 114I . , '7 ' ' ' ,J . t , 7 ness, but were hindered by the lack of time. 7 ' 1 ' 7 V v V l A. a I 7 . ' A . I ' . l 7 v I l 7 ' . ' ' l -7' . ' . , ' . ' A . Y I - , 1 ' 7