Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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ohn has always been one of the class humorrsts and possrbly rts best As a conse quence of hrs wrt and rts propensrty for gettrng rnto absurd srtuatrons there are a good many storres about ohn crrculatrng around whrch however we won t embarrass ohn by rntro ducrng rn the wrrte up Actually these storres and hrs nrckname testrfy to hrs great popularrty There rs not a member rn the class who has not had a good laugh over the latest ohn Rod gers ohn rs a New Yorker and as such rs naturally a sharp dresser he has one of the best collectrons of bow tres and shrrts rn school ohn has played C team football but left off rn hrs first class year when he heard Lady Nrcotrne and the brllrard room callrng He has swung a mean axe on the wood chopprng squad for four years and has also played base ball there he won hrmself a name as a slugger rn hrs frfth class year Srnce then he has trred so he has played lacrosse for three years and won hrs letter for capable work as defense man DAVID S ROGERSON Brooklrne Massachusetts Age 18 College Bovvdorn 1351 l New York New York Age 18 College Harvard Dave came to us from Brooklrne rn the frfth class as a rather rotund specrmen of Massachusetts youth Srnce then he has taken several reducrng courses and slrmmed down to a streamlrne form Hrs adept co ordrnatron frrst caught our fancy whrle he was quarter backrng the pup team In the fourth class he rose to the fourth team and rn hrs thrrd class year to the frrst team However thrs acceler ated clrmb was stopped suddenly by a bad back rnjury and he became an assrstant coach of the pup team Thrs rnjury drd not keep hrm from hockey rn whrch he earned three major letters Hrs qurck hands and steady play earned hrm two baseball letters and captarncy of the 1950 team One of the humerous hrgh pornts of thrs year came as a result of Dave s facrle features and amazrng abrlrty to look lrke a crooked polrtrcran We fear however that hrs mrmrckrng talents were not apprecrated by the hrgher authorrtres J . . . n . 5 . ' . J , 1 . r his hand at crew, whlich didn't appeal to him, JOHN G RODGERS A

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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

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THEODORE C ROMAINE -IR New York New York Eddle loped mto M1ddlesex1n the thlrd class and has been lopmg around the campus ever sxnce Accordnngly he was at once dubbed Antelope Ed halls from a dub1ous town named Summlt sltuated somewhere or other ln New ersey He has partrcrpated rn football basketball and lacrosse and has tried to teach those damn Yankees the New ersey method of skung In football Ed used to gallop around the ends as a wmgback He has played lacrosse for three years earning hrmself two letters Academ1cally Ed s marks have 1mproved tremendously ln the past year At the end of the wxnter term we found him among the top ten thanks to h1s consclen tlous efforts Th1s year Ed roomed rn B P where he mrght often be found llstenmg raptly to the strams of the B P trno or fiercely argunng with Travis over who was the trlckler of the two It IS our smcere belref that Ted has broken more mandenly hearts than any other Lotharxo 1n hrstory Here IS one who halls from the glltterlng New York cafe socxety and yet one who has not scorned the pulchrltudx nous offerings ofNevw England Arlxngton will always remember hrm as a hot spook Prmce Ted never really jomed our class he was wxlled to us by the class of 49 He has won three football letters as a halfback and led the 49 team to a hrghly successful season as one of the hlghest scorers 1n New England Along wxth earnmg four hockey letters he captamed thns year s team and led them to the champron shrp of the prnvate school league In the spring he added three baseball letters to his hlghly lmpresslve total We thmk II hlghly unkmd that one of hrs ex lovers should say to htm Ted lf you had a brain you d be dan gerous In sprte of th1s vxle crack we wrsh Ted all the luck as he extends h1s fleld of con EDMOND K SUMMERSBY Summlr Newjersey Age 18 College Harvard l36l . ' Q . 7 . Age: 19 y College: Virginia quest to Virginia. J . A . . l ' v Y