Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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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

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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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THE YEAR IN REVIEW STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Councrl for thus year met vurh hrgh hopes of accom plrshmg great deeds We thought we were well on our way when we purchased a tape recorder with the profrts from the Student Councrl s The Merry Mess But after thls benevolent gesture we seemed to fall rn a slump We thought that we would be able to stop all actrvrtres whrch aren t looked upon wrth much favor around Mnddlesex such as cheatmg underclass smoking and repeated neglr gence but after drscoverrng what powers we d1d and drdn t possess we found ourselves wrth a harder taslc than any of us suspected We found that we had great powers of recommendatron l STUDENT COUNCIL and little for specrfic actron We were advrsed not to act as a secret organrzatxon with each mem ber actmg as an undercover agent to sneak around rn hopes of catchmg some wrong doers but more as a body whrch would be closely connected wrth the students We belreve that we suc ceeded farrly well rn thrs arm and as a result many who could have been caught and pumshed were left free to watch the few who were caught Our only hope of achnevmg success by thus method was ln the theory that the ones who were not caught would reallze how detnmental their acts were not only to the school but also to therr own characters l39l w Front Row: A. Browne, Taylor, Fordyce QPre.tidentj, Lord, Pratt. Second Roux' De Gunzburg, Lee, Shriver.