Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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somewhat green team and a dubious sup- ply of talent which never fully materialized, Coach Seabrooke made use of an amaz- ing lower middler and a pint-sized Charley Ravenel to try and win at least one game. Exeter won one. As can be readily imagin- ed, the traditional Exeter-Andover football game appeared less than scintillating to a crowd of dejected but always hopeful Exon- ians. Cross-country, perhaps PEA,s most maligned sport, had an overpowering sea- son, led by Captain Byron Rose, who was a master of speed and endurance. Despite victories over Andover in soccer and cross country the fall athletic picture was blackened by the resounding loss in football to the Blue. In winter sports, which are more on an equal footing with each other than the fall sports. due to the lack of one dominating sport such as football. the outlook was a good deal brighter at the end of the season. Against Andover. hockey and wrestling were won. though not by impressive margins. On the final Saturday of the winter sports season. the lied swept four of the five squash matches against the Blue. and won the basketball game by a margin comfortable enough to atone for the decided defeat of the previous year. Only swimming and track marred the winter record. A new sport was instituted this year. in that it was played for the first time with enough zeal to be termed a sport: touch football. or rather. senior touch foot- ball. At the end of the rugged season, the captains of the romantically named teams t'4Goodie,s Crapplersw, Nlenga's Klaulerswl sent off a skillfully composed challenge to Andover. which in its uniquely lethargic way. declined. Unfortunately for the senior class, the Assistant Director of Athletics did not share its ardor for enlightened sports. With his customary candor. he announced that a fine old Exeter tradition, twelve o'clock squash, was being discontinued until further notice. Rebounding with remarkable vigor, several seniors, led by two dangerous inno-

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Fall-Winter Story organized riots and athletic achievement - 1958-59 start- ed off rather unproductively. The fall and winter terms offered practically nothing: in the way of spectacular sport- ing events or destructive pranks. and the previously exalted MIICQUQ, was fast disappearing from the pulmlie eye. There- fore. in the following summary of the tyxo terms. a lack of lmoyish enthusiasm and relish in deserilring the events may he noticed. As far as fall sports went. lnedior-rity reigned. The greatly lauded soccer team was not undefeated. hut did manage to squeak out a well-played victory against that School. Football presented other prolnlenis. Faced with a n contrast to its predecessor. a gener- ally positive attitude prevailed in the class of VJ59. especially in the realms of student goy ernment. discussion groups. puhlica- tions. and musical cluhs. Nlature hull ses- sions. preoccupied with such weighty con- siderations as the effectiveness of the new Council, senior discipline in the dorms. and the compulsory church question. re- placed contempt for the petty side of lfveter lilo 3 scholastic and intellectual. Yet. lay the usual standards of evaluat- ing a class or a year at Exeter 4 well-

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vators. formed their own contraband section: through their efforts. the fight won. As previously mentioned. the devil-inay-care aspect of the class of l'J5'J was hardly evident. One alvortive attempt to remove the Chapel doors was neatly thwarted by the ever-present Ut-an. who appeared. flashlight in hand. to lend moral assistance in reinstating' the doors as well as to hand out the neccssarv restrictions. Plans for a mass. synchronized toilet flush also the majority of it would not he such a good the septic tank. more optimistic when the spring to worry about in the tiresome the instigators went clown the drain when came to the conclusion that thing after all to blow up Toward the end of the winter term. the lfxonians were assuring one another that term rolled around. and they did not have marks and such. things would become. vernacular of the year. cyozcler. Among the more successful extra-curricular activities this year was the Dramatic Association. Inherit the Wind. as the fall offering. amused many of the schoolis atheists, who preferred to call themselves agnostics. A Visit to a Small Planet. in the girls in the feminine cess. For the spring winter term. boasting genuine town roles. was certainly a thorough suc- play. the venerable Bard triumphed over such latter-day authors as Eugene Oixeill in the race for inevitable dramatic glory upon the Exeter stage. The PEAN, led bv a persevering chairman forced to cope with a rather neurotic staff, plodded along through the fall term. gaining momentum as the winter term pro- gressed, and achieving fever pitch early in March. The anticipated object of their efforts - a bigger and better