Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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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

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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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Here rs a jack of all trades that IS there IS nothrng that he has not shown hnmself able to do very well Scholastxcally jack has etther led the class or been very close to the top throughout hns entnre career at Mnddlesex Moreover slnce he entered Mxddlesex rn the Hfth class he has been one of nts top athletes Startnng with the pups he rose a team a year thus playlng first team football for two years and wlnnxng two letters He has also won two letters ln hockey two nn lacrosse and was captam of the lacrosse team thus year I addltlon he was editor ln chxef of the Antz! show electrtclan and a member of the 1949 debatmg team and he won the Kelton Bowl and the Harvard Book prxze 1n the second class He has been one of the most popular members of the class and one of 1ts leaders as well he has served two years on the Student Councxl and one on the M A A He wlll be long re membered as the gu1tar player of the BP sxngers CHARLES D W THOMPSON Old Brookvtlle Long Island New York Age 19 College Harvard JOHN ,I TAYLOR St Paul Mmnesota Age 17 College Yale Fxve years ago Charlxe journeyed from Glendale New York to Concord Massachu setts to begln hrs Mlddlesex educatxon He has always been one of the quneter members of the class and has worked steadxly whlle others flntted thenr trme away He played football on the pup and fourth team He also sang tn the Glee Club and took part ln the Gnlbert and Sullxvan Wnnter found hum playmg club hockey For two years Charlie managed base ball and thereby earned hrs major M Thts year he swntched to tennxs Next year wnll Fmd hum at Harvard It IS perhaps a dnstressmg note to New Yorkers to find so many of thenr brood spendmg thenr formative years at New England s places of hlgher learmng Charlxe ltke many others seems to have found some thang that New York doesn t have 1371 ' 14- .U ' ' y 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 . . I 1 1 x 1 . . ' , s s ' , . - - 1- u ' , . . . ' 1 . , . 1 1 - n