Nichols School - Verdian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Even though I have been at the job of Headmaster- ing for some time, I continue to derive great satisfac- tion in comparing our students today with my com- panions and myself when we were in school. Take for instance this Verdian and compare it with those of old. This edition tells the story of the school year incomparably better. The activities are interesting, the photography better, the writing pertinent and less trite. The editorship of the Verdian has never been easy and always time-consuming, but the work that goes into the modern volume must be at least twice that of the old. The very financing is a revelation- many boys participate and the volume always operates in the black. Moreover it frequently is a prize-winner in competition with yearbooks of other local schools. The Nichols News is a joy to behold as well. No longer is the fare of the paper a rehash of athletic encounters that have lapsed into oblivion. The News carries in a telling way the story of a very vital school. Its pages are now interesting to parents, to alumni, and to outsiders whose only connection with the school is one of sympathetic curiosity. Considerable growth has taken place in the News under Mr. Fox and then Mr. Williams. The editorials, the interviews with prominent Buffalonians, the Faculty Pipe Bowl, etc., are showing a breadth of interest as well as some very fine report- ing. In other ways the modern Nichols senior seems to surpass his counterpart of the past. He is more knowl- edgeable-he is challenged academically to much great- er degree-he is reaching for the ultimate more inten- sively. His poise is greater-he reads before the whole student body and conducts himself like a seasoned veteran. In the days of my contemporaries, any boy who had the courage to speak before the entire school was most unusual. This generation of Nichols boys is indeed an impres- sive one and I salute them. Philip M. B. Boocock PHILIP M. B. BOOCOCK HEADMASTER E l l 12