Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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These hallowed walls called Chris all the way from Nagpur Indra Coming from India he has been one of the most interesting members of the class Besides giving out with a good deal of fascinating information about that distant land he has taught the more uncouth among us to say vulgar naughty words in Hrndustanr Consequently we submit that we can thank Chris for substantially adding it to our education In spite of his eastern background Chris has become favorably adapted to his present environment Always one on whom to lean he has been a good scholar and has won a scholarship to Prince ton He has learned to play games as quickly as well starting out as a guard on the fourth team in the third class he moved up a team a year until he played on the first team and won his letter In addition Chris has been one of our best attack men on the lacrosse team getting his letter in lacrosse for two years Also Chris was a member of the debating team in his second class year and has always been a strong voice in the Glee Club EDWARD C BRAINARD Boston Massachusetts Age 19 College Harvard CHRISTOPHER B BOSE Nagpur CP India Age 16 College Princeton Beacon Hill s contrlbutxon to Mrddlesex and the atomic age was Eddie Brainard W will never forget Eddie s diabolical plans for exploding dams making cider and breeding hamsters He has also dabbled rn the finer arts of one armed driving spreading it and scaring little girls wrth wild stories Will we ever forget that study ln Hallowell where our hero in vain tried to find what makes the world go round from two furry little hamsters' However when Eddie was calmed down he has made some fine contributions to school life In the Held of athletics he was co manager of the highly successful 1949 football team and towed ballast on the second crew To the surprise of the class Eddie has chosen Harvard for his college With great anticipation we will be waiting in future years for spine trngling tales from Cambridge about the nefarious enter prises of our Beacon Hill bad boy l21l l I , - 7 l , y - . , V , , . , , ' 1 7 . . ' ' ' ., . . . ' 7' 7 , I - 1 ' i fi I rf 1 I . I . . Y

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MILTON L AITKEN JR Springfield Ohio Age 17 College West Point Whenever there is any sort of a tussle in the first class room and there usually especially after supper you can be sure that Dick is in the middle of it Reason fails to explain why this rosy cheeked cherubic looking person should underneath it all b just fights for no apparent reason Of course people do pick on him a little they call him Dimple see picture Cherub and like names which Dick considers an affront to his manly pride In fact his manliness has shown itself admirable in athletics After a brief spell on the fourth team fsn. years Dickie quickly advanced to the first team There he became Hrst string defensive center and proved the un doings of many an opponent backfield man trying to crash the center of the line Dick was awarded the major M for football this year He has also played for two years on the squash team getting a letter for each Last year he was on the eight in crew and this year he pulled a strong oar on the second boat for which he got another major letter Milty joined us in the third class. In his three years he has been a member of the Rifle Club and secretary of that organization In his first year Milton played football on the fourth team and then decided that after all perhaps the glory of playing wasn t worth it all and so he went out for manager last year H also played basketball and in the spring went out for crew manager which job he did very well and was awarded a major letter this year when he became chief manager Scholasticallv Milton has been very capable but not always too ambitious After a comparatively slow start he picked up and eventually rose towards the top of the class Milton has also been an active member of the Glee Club Milton has shown an interest in military matters and has won an appointment to West Point which he plans to attend next year RICHARD ALMY JR South Westport Massachusetts Age 17 College Harvard IZOI 7 1 . e I 7 I . Q , . . . , A , Q is, J, . . - , . v 1 e Y such a fighter. In fact he never gets madg he ' 9 i C yy .. ,, . , . n , Y , by ' ' ' , . 1 A 7 . . 7 '

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AUGUSTUS P BROWNE .IR Concord Massachusetts Age 18 Middlesex Post Graduate Larry has been with our class for live years In that time he has developed into the schools number one squash player He has played on the squash team for two years and been captain both This year he won the squash tournament in New York City and for his Major M this winter Besides being an extraordinary squash player Larry has shown himself to be an outstanding crew man as well Last year he stroked the second boat and the first for a while as well This year he was again stroke on the first boat He received his letter both years Larry has also played football starting as many of us do, with the fourth team and then working up to the first squad Besides all these activities Larry has also been a sharp shooting member of the Rifle Club for many years He has been one of the best pool players in our class rn fact after a while he found it hard to get people to play with no one likes to be beaten all the time fl22l Gus is another of these persons from Concord. This fact has simplified Gus' sordid life to a considerable extent' he finds it easy to commute between home and school and C A Gus has played on the fourth and C teams in football and shown himself to be a very good wingback He has also played hockey and won his major letter in hockey this winter Last year he rowed on the eight and this year he stroked the second crew and won his letter in crew Gus has been one of the most popu lar members of the class during his four years at Middlesex and he has been one of its leaders as well being a member of the Student Council Gus has felt that he has not ex hausted all the possibilities of Middlesex and so plans to return next year as a post graduate LAWRENCE D BROWNELL Philadelphia Pennsylvania Age 18 College Harvard 7 5 7 . , I . . . . . , 9 : , - - - 7 V . . y . special athletic prowess, he was awarded the l 7 ' Q 1 Y 1