New London High School - Whaler Yearbook (New London, CT)

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BULKELEY 25 YEARS AGO Louis J. Boper Edward F. Boyle Wesley B. Bradshaw John J. Connors Lloyd W. Denison Henry T. Donnelly Isidore Eisenstein Frank J. Farina Lloyd E. Gallup Harry S. Graver Kenneth E. Greene George M. Harrington Theodore F. Jordan Jeremiah P. Lyons William P. McMahon Edward R. May Walter D. May Waldo L. Miner Luke D. Phillips George L. Reinacher Samual H. Simonwitz Maurice J. Sullivan Creighton J. Tevlin Percival C. Woodruff Page twenty-three

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BULKELEY 25 YEARS AGO Twenty-five years ago, when our class graduated from Bulkeley School, the United States had been in World War I, for two months. History repeats, and when the present class of 1942 graduates our country will have been engaged in the second world conflict only a few months. The sudden changing of a country at peace to a country at war, was clearly reflected in the feelings and outlook of the twenty-two who received diplomas from Bulkeley in 1917. Four members of the class enlisted the day war was declared; two of whom were called out for service before graduation, but received diplomas by vote of the Board of Trustees. Later seven others enlisted in the armed services; thus fifty percent of our class saw service in the army or navy during World War number one. Although the class of ’17 was one of the smallest to graduate in a number of years, it nevertheless held its own in all school activities, and many members were prominent in track and football. Bulkeley then boasted no gymnasium or football field. Track events were held in the Armory and practice took place in the Y. M. C. A. Football practice and games were held in Plant Field. Our class was the last one to use the field while it was enclosed with a high board fence and contained a grand stand. The following year this fence was torn down and sold for second-hand lumber. Seven of our class graduated from college. If it had not been for the war, this number would have greatly increased. Among the graduates of the class of ’17, some are lawyers, some in the real estate business; some are now in National Defense work. Others are working for the Government; in Municipal Public Safety; in manufacturing; insurance; railroad; newspaper work, and various other fields too numerous to mention. All of them look back to their four years in Bulkeley with gratitude, for the experience and knowledge gained there; for the patience and ability of their teachers; for the leadership of our beloved principal, Walter A. Towne; and for the fine spirit which will ever be Bulkeley’s. By Waldo L. Miner

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Page twenty-four HEAD MASTER Washington and Jefferson College, A.B., Yale University, M.A., Columbia University Extension Courses. Principal Sewickley, Pennsylvania, High School; Supervisor of English, Fall River, Mass., High School; Sub-Master, Wellesley, Mass., High School- Head of English Department and Vice-Principal of Passaic High School, Passaic N.J.; Head of English Department, Classical High School, Newton, Mass. Editor, Sir Roger DeCoverly Papers, published by American Book Company; Macaulay’s Life of Johnson and Selections from Johnson’s writings, published by Charles Merrill Company; English Leaflet published by Association of English Teachers of New Jersey. Member of State Committee of Connecticut to prepare English courses for secondary schools. Member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Head Master of Bulkeley since 1921. HOMER K. UNDERWOOD, A.B., M.A.