Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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'MAN, lT'S A HOT DAY CHARLES ADKINS ln addition to filling a gap in the line of the football team, Charlie also played an important part in the activities of the school. He won two letters in football and two in wrestling. Although he is not a baseball letterman, Charlie abetted the team much by pitching batting practices. He was a member of the Varsity Club and was very active in that organization. i It is difficult to visualize Charlie not sitting behind the wheel of his big black Caddy or not wearing his customary uniform of char- coal black flannel trousers, white shirt, and black loafers. Though he rarely talks about himself, he is much interested in flying and trap shooting. Ten 'I7

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CLASS OF 1956 The only thing that all the seniors have in common is the senior room-their private domain and refuge. ln practically every other respect they are different from one another, with aspirations running from poetry to a naval career, with sizes ranging from ceiling height to rowboat width, and with ages between pre- driving and eighteen. To clarify their differences, shall we take a short tour around the school park- ing lot. The first car you are likely to run into, or vice versa, is a Ford Thunderbird belonging to a short, squat heavyweight wrestler with a knowledge of landscap- ing. Next in the parade is a '48 Cadillac owned appropriately by the eldest mem- ber ofthe class. A Nash Rambler convertible, somewhere in the lot, is the property of a Navy man who in his spare time runs the Varsity Club, Student Council and Panther. We come now to a '54 Studebaker, whose owner may best be described as a combination of Duncan Hines and Edgar Guest. Leaning against something over against something over on some side of the lot is a godforsaken bicycle, the property of a person who tinkers with guided missiles and hearing-aid prompters for amateur theatrical productions. The next person, although he rarely drives his car, has an extended rear end of his own and a vast knowledge of Urbana, Ohio. These are only a few. The rest of the owners include a farm boy in lvy League clothing, a sports car enthusiast who wants to ring the gong for J. Arthur Rank movies, a journalist, the president of the Park School actors' union and past editor of a small newspaper, an enthusiast, and a person who, if he isn't arguing, isn't awake. Here we end our trip around the parking area, and may it be added that any similarity among the seniors is unintentional and purely coincidental. 16

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Red Football DAN EICHER In his three and one-half years at Park, Dan has won three letters in football and two in wrestling. He was one of the chief agitators for a wrestling team, once it was formed, he captained it in its first two years. As an active member of the Prompters Club, Dan has appeared in three plays and has proved himself an absolute wizard at rounding up properties and furniture. 2,3 Members of the Upper School will not soon forget Dan's salmon-pink crew-neck sweater and his red Thunderbird. The boys in the junior class agree that Dan was one of the weightiest causes of their failure to take possession of the senior room. ln classes he might not always have had an answer, but outside class he invariably had a quick comeback. MAT MAGIC