Montclair Academy - Yearbook (Montclair, NJ)

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WARI NC- WATT WEED HAROLD LOMAS WARINC i935-36-Captain Cross-Country Team, Cilee Club, Dra- matic Club, Varsity Track Team. Posterity will remember this individual for his winning of wonderous cross-country races and mile runs and for his knack of falling unconscious at the finish. They will also recall with a grin his ability to sling it and to create various uproars in the Business Training Department. Wherever Harold may be in years to come he is sure to bring good cheer to those around him. RALPH ELLIOTT WATT i935-36-President Senior Class, Vice-President and Busi- ness Manager Dramatic Club, Rostrum, Chairman Rostrum- Forum Dance Committee, Octopus Staff, Eagle Rocket Staff, lnterscholastic Debating Team, Student Council, Chairman Sen- ior Ball Committee, Cross-Country Team, Track Team. Williams is certainly going to be fortunate when it finds the name of Elliott Watt on its freshman list next fall. While at Montclair Elliott has been president of practically every school organization, besides working on the staffs of the Eagle Rocket and the Octopus. Popular, generous and genial, he is a stu- dent of unsurpassed ability and appliance. His future success is guaranteed. WlLLlAMS WALKER TEN EYCK WEED i935-36-President Rostrum, Captain Varsity Track Team, Managing Editor Octopus, Assistant Editor Eagle Rocket, Inter- scholastic Debating Team, Dramatic Club, Secretary Stud:nt Council, Cross-Country Team. lt you See anyone reading the Eagle Rocket and laughing heartily, you can be sure that lke's sparkling political or social satire is the cause. Undoubtedly this popular fellow is one of the most original, yet capable students the Academy has ever had. Ike is prominent in other fields too. He is an outstanding Rostrum debater, editor, student council member, and half-miler. DARTMOUTH Q23

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220 STUART TOWNSEND TURNER HAROLD MICHAEL STUART i935-36-President Student Council, President Rostrum, Varsity Football Team, lnterscholastic Debating Team, Eagle Rocket Staff, Octopus Staff. Stewy's pleasing personality and fine character have led his classmates to vote him the most popular of their number and to elect him president of the Student Council and the Rostrum, ln addition, he has distinguished himself in almost every field of athletics, in debating, and in writing for the school publications. He will long be remembered as one of the most unselfish and public-spirited students Montclair Academy has ever had. PRINCETON DALLAS SELWYN TOWNSEND, jR. i935-36-Managing Editor Eagle Rocket, Octopus Staff, Secretary Rostrum, lnterscholastic Debating Team. lf, at some future date, you hear of a discriminating young critic, or a brilliant conductor of a symphony orchestra, or a distinguished lawyer pleading cases before the Supreme Court, his name will probably be Dallas Selwyn Townsend, lr. With- out doubt Montclair Academy has never seen such excellence as his in the writing of English. Princeton is particularly fav- ored. PRINCETON lAMES HUGHES TURNER l935-36-Cross-Country Team, Sergeant-at-Arms Ros- trum, Manager Varsity Hockey Team. I jim has been with us for a number of years, and l'1IS cheerfulness has made him a friend of everyone. His good driv- ing is conspicuous as is his fine work in cross-country run- ning. The Rostrum Society has been fortunate in having him as a member for three years, and his services as Sergeant-ab Arms will be long remembered. Lots of success at Princeton, lim, PRINCETON

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SENIOR CLASS HISTORY lf a visitor had chanced to drop in upon the Senior dinner, which was held, this year, a few weeks after the Christmas vacation, he would have found there, earnestly engaged in serious discussion, the members of the class of '36 This class, in view of its accomplishments in school life from the time it entered the Upper School until the completion of its senior year, has come to be considered one of the best groups of boys that has ever been graduated from Montclair Academy. lf the visitor had been acquainted with the various extra-curricular activities of the school and their participants, he would have recognized, in the group seated before him, the leaders of this vital division of lVl.A. life. Over there at that table, for instance, he would have recognized the class president, while at another table he would have seen the pres- ident of the student council, here he would have found the captain of the football team, and there the editor of the school paper. ln fact, he would have realized that all the various teams, the debating societies, the Dramatic Club, the year book and the Eagle Rocket, and various other activities are well-represented in the class of '36 All senior classes can boast of the large number of their members actively engaged in extra-curricular activities, but the class of '36 is outstanding in that, under the management of its members and on account of their earnest work, these activities have been even more fully developed than has ever been the casa before. For instance, consider the school weekly, the Eagle Rocket , which has grown under the i936 board from a two or four page edition to four or six page one. The student council has also become a much more active influence in school affairs in the hands of this class than it formerly was. Upon the Dramatic club, the Rostrum and Forum societies, the interscholastic debating teams and practically every other activity connected with the school, the members of the class of '36 have made this same lasting impression. l3ut let us return to our visitor, whom we have left behind at the Senior Dinner. As he looks the class over, he may perhaps be wondering wherein lie the essential factors that have contributed to its success, for the group as a whole looks practically the same as every other senior class. lt is rather difficult to determine what these factors are, but there is apparent in the make-up of the class a strong sense of duty, and self- dependence, together with a willingness to work and the ability and in- telligence to do a good job. l-lerein lies the secret of the success of the '36 Senior class in extra-curricular activities, sports and scholastic com- petition. The members of this class have initiative. 0240