Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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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

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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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WILLIAM P TRAVIS Cleveland Herghts Ohro Age 18 College Harvard The 1950 Yearbook has Steve Walker to thank for rt He has been by far the most frugal busrness manager that the school has known Many nrghts he has stayed awake contrrvrng schemes to squeeze money from the school and Yearbook advertisers No one has probably done more work for the Yearbook than Steve Thrs financral genius first attended Middlesex as a day boy Wrth eyes burning wrth jealousy we would look at Steve drrve past Room A rn the morning rn hrs red Mer cury However Steve soon got fed up wrth Concord lrfe and decrded to board for hrs senror year Wrth the help of hrs two room mates he turned the end triple on the thrrd floor of Peabody rnto a palatral surte This spring Steve was tennrs manager together wrth hrs work for the Yearbook It wrll be hard to forget rn future years the many trmes he has brightened up a dull day wrth some humorous anecdote Four years ago Brll Travrs left Cleveland by trolley car and arrived at Middlesex together wrth another boy The other boy had trouble making classes on trme so soon Brll was Cleve land s only representative at Middlesex It vvasn t long before we found out just who was covering the blackboards wrth pictures ofloco motrves blrmps and equations Soon people began to pornt and whrsper He can t help rt He s a brarn But srnce then Brll s interests and actrvrtres have broadened and grown He was on the Ami! board played basketball and lacrosse sang rn several shows and has been a member of the Glee Club ever srnce he came here Brll has also been a backbone of Mr Brrggs debating team He has even trred to crash rnto the cigarette bummrng busrness self a natronal scholarship to Harvard and we expect even greater things from hrm there STEPHEN S WALKER Concord Massachusetts Age 17 College Harvard -l38I , . , . J. y 7 . . . - 7 but in vain. With this record Bill has won him- 3 ' I 7