Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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Mrke has been a member of our class for only two years srnce hrs return from Lrberra Durrng thrs trme however he has been a very promrnent member of rt He wrll always be best known for hrs photographrc enterprrses Complete wrth Hash bun Speed Graphrc exposure meter plates and assorted trapprngs he rs a common srght wherever thrngs are happenrng Endowed wrth a qurck rmagrnatron and the abrlrty to apply rts rdeas effectrvely he has produced many unusual and fine prctures of whrch the prctures rn thrs Yearbook are examples Moreover he has contrrbuted hrs rare talents as edrtor rn chref Also whrle rn our class Mrke has been an edrtor on the Amr! and a member of the squash and tennrs teams An excellent scholar and near the top of the class consrstently Mrke won a prrze scholarshrp to Harvard JOHN C MORLEY Sagrnaw Mrchrgan Age 18 College Yale MICHAEL L MEIER Bethesda Maryland Age 18 College Harvard For five years now we have been trymg to grve ohn a nrckname Thrs seemed an almost rmpossrble task srmply because thrs fart harred boy from Mrchrgan seemed to have no weakness Ah but after sprrng vacatron 1950 we had a new member rn our class Peaches Thrs baptrsm came as a result of john s sophrstrcated tastes for datrng women who expect therr dates to shave However he has also earned marked recognrtron rn the field of athletrcs He has earned two football letters and thrs sprrng he alternated between the first and second crews and won hrs crew letter Scholastrcally he has always been rn the upper half of the class At trmes the back to nature movement stemmrng from the top floor of the B P lured hrm from the more cos mopolrtan socrety of R W But we were all happy to hear that he has forsaken the calls of hrs natrve land and next year wrll attend a Yankee college fl33l- v ' v 1 , .7 . y v 1 s v a ' a 1 l I. a a 1 r ' v 1 v s 1- U - ' , . . . - 9 - v r v

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NATHANIEL LORD Bangor Marne Age 18 College Amherst Iour ycars ago ack came from Lours vrllf. Kentucky to Mrddlesex Certarnly he vsaked up srnce rs another questron ack s reactron to any krnd of vrork rs generally Ah m tard but rf he can find a place to prop up hrs feet lean back and compose hrs hands folded across hrs chest he contrrbutes a great deal to the rnrellectual actrvrty of the school As a matter of fact ack has been on the debatrng team for tvro years and has been one ofrts most rmportant members durrng that trme Hrs forceful delrvery and clear argu ments are rn strange contrast to hrs mode of exrstence Scholastrcally ack has always been near the top of the class vrhrch testrfres to a fine rf vvell shrouded mrnd srnce he rs an ex ponent of the what good are books? phrlosophy and srnce he generally rsn t vnrde awake rn class Occasronally he has been heard to speak rn class Ah see what yo drd suh but wha? But these awakenrngs are short and soon followed by refreshrng slumber In hrs semr vxakrng hours ack has contrrbuted to school lrfe by Elayrng basketball for whrch he vron hrs letter erng a busrness manager of the Yearbook a member of the Glee Club Nat has always been the most conscren trous worker rn the class Nerther the cunnrng lures ofhrs rowdy roommates nor the glrttermg lrfe of the stage has kept hrm from hrs studres The Trojan efforts have rewarded hrm wrth consrstently hrgh grades throughout hrs five years at Mrddlesex Nat harls from down east Marne rn a town called Bangor noted for lob sters and women Many trmes he has taken some of us asrde and trred to convrnce us that Taylor was all washed up Idaho potatoes were not better than Marne potatoes' Any mornrng when we drdn t have enough trme to douse our faces wrth cold water our eyes would usually manage to open when Nat appeared rn front of us garbed rn one of hrs screamrng tres Hrs humorous puns were always actrve rf not hrlarrous In the field of sports Nat has trred hrs hand at guard for the first football squad wood chopprng and strokrng the thrrd crew For three years he has been a show prrncrpal and thrs year was presrdent of the Glee Club We hear that he rs takrng hrs romantrc tenor vorce to Amherst JOHN H MCCHORD JR Loursvrlle Kentucky Age 18 College Prrnceton 'l32l' 7 - Z , ,' 7 , , made the trrp rn a sleeprng carg whether he has ' ,A 7' y , 7 'S I Y 1 . Q K . . , , . , 7 , u V 1 17' , Y. 7 7 7 r I Q I 7 A v r ,y . U Q j

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NICHOLAS B POTTER New York New York It wasn t long after Fred came rn the fifth class that we started callrng hrm Pat and that rs now vrrtually hrs real frrst name Srnce hrs early days Pat has been marnly rnterested rn the Crvrl War and the Detrort Trgers cheer rng the Trgers and wrrtrng hrstory reports on the Crvrl War for as long as any of us can remember He has also won a Thoreau Medal for one of hrs more erudrte works on the War between the States Pat rs perhaps proudest of hrs athletrc achrevements however In two years he has won hrs major letter rn hockey and thrs sprrng he won a letter rn baseball He finrshed up the season wrth the hrghest batrrng average on the team and he turned rn some fine prtchrng performances as well I the classroom Patty has been handrcapped wrth a soft vorce and who knows what gems of wrsdom have been lost because no one could hear them Pat has been a member of the Glee Club and show and has been the sports edrtor for the Amz! He rs at present edrtrng the sports sectron of the Yearbook Next year Pat plans to attend Andover to do some post graduate work He will probably major rn baseball and hockey Nrck came rn the fourth class from a lrttle town called New York There he had learned to play a lrttle game called soccer at whrch he was qurte adept For four years he has been tryrng to rntroduce thrs shrn krckrng brawl to Mrddlesex Thrs proved an rmpossrble task so Nrck decrded to go out for football For two years hrs bullet helmet could be seen crashrng through that lrne on the pup and fourth teams However a back rnjury finally put a stop to Plung1ngPorter Thenrn the second class year Nrck went back to krckrng the leather and got so expert rn krckrng the extra pornt that he became a specralrst and earned hrs letter both last year and thrs These explorts earned hrm the subtrtles of Automatrc Pot ter the golden toe and others Wrnter found hrm poundrng the walls of the squash courts and acqurrrng two letters Hrs krckrng abrlrtres seemed almost eclrpsed by hrs rac QUCE abrlrtres as he prled up an rmpressrve record on the tennrs courts He was captarn FREDERICK A PRATT Concord Massachusetts Age 17 College Harvardfilj l34l , . 9 I A Age: 18 College: Harvard of the tennrs team for two years. 7 I 7 - , . 5 ' 7 . . ' ' ' , . n 3 3 4 I - I 7