Middlesex School - Yearbook (Concord, MA)

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MAA Iron! Rau A Wells Rogerson J Green Horween Lewis Romalne Tlylor Plcfflrltlll Serum! Rau Ham mond Alles Mr Dawson Durstholf A Osrhelmer During the winter term, we were in what amounted to a state of inactivity We found that in this term other extra curricular activities took preference over us and we were forced to meet at greatly separated times During this period of inactivity many members of the school began wondering what the Student Council was for Several people wrote papers on the In the Spring Term we met regularly every Friday night from seven to seven thirty We found that with a regular schedule we could more easily keep ourselves informed on the activities of the school At one POIHE we found that cheating needed to be discouraged in several classes and advised the respective masters to keep a close watch for rt The Student Council project 'Ihe Merry Mess was very expertly run this year by Nelson Lee Nelson did a wonderful job of managing and as a result we are assured of a good profit With this profit we voted unanimously to pay the balance on a present of a television set to Mr Raymond which was given as a gift from the student body M A A The M A A consists of eleven members five of whom are the captains of the five major sports Of the other six five are elected by the separate classes and a secretary is appointed by Mr Terry The M A A with the very helpful advice of Mr Daw son awarded letters in five major and three minor sports Because of the above average records of most of HOP inactivity of the Council and as a result we began to move again in the Spring Term. -A ' ' ,, , ' f ' ' , ' , , , ' ' ' , , -, , .

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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.

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these teams more letters were glven than usual The football and hockey team members earned the prlvxlege of srlver footballs and hockey pucks mth the1r letters A great deal of credlt should be glven to Mr Dawson for the plannmg that made the M A A possible THE ANVIL Thls year s Amzl board IS Composed of Bxll Hamilton as Edntor ln Chlef and Tom Btsbee erry Dole Gul Gllmour Blll Percy ay Ward Deke de Gunz burg jimmy Dunn and Charley Morrxs as e lltors Dave Amory Duck Shnver Serge: Kolachov Pete Mllton and Chuck Rusch make up the Busmess Board It has been the drnvmg arm of this Am I! Board ever smce rt first mer to hnd somethlng novel to Insert between the covers ofrts magazine It even thought of changmg the cover deslgn itself but declded agarnst If The Board therefore determxned to cur down on sports more or less and to put rn some specral artlcles and a calendar of comlng events The special artrcles consrsted from anythmg from a hrsrory of the flagpole whrch used to stand m the mlddle of the campus to how the athletrc frelds were created out of stone fnlled pasture land However when our Board scanned some other school publlcatlons nt looked as rf their edrtonal boards had had the same ldea at the same trme Even so the Arzzzl has come through this year wth a very mterestlng serles of rssues ANVIL BOARD Front Rou Hopkrns, Hutter, Travis, Taylor, Hamnlton, Pratt, Lord, Meier Serond Rau Brsbee, De Gunz burg, Moms, Rusch, Shriver, D Amory, Mr Brxggs Third Rou Dole, Ward, Dunn, Grlmour, Kolachov, Percy Hll 1 V 4 ,J , , .J , - s - - v 1 y 1 v V ' v , . . I , a - a