Pomfret School - Griffin Yearbook (Pomfret, CT)

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EDWIN THORNE BLAKE Blackie Ned Entered in Second Form - Ionian Hockey Squad '48, '49, '50g Crew Squad '48, '49, Third Boat '50g Pontefract Business Manager '49g Engines Key '48 '49 '50g Gun Club '5Og Glee Club '49, '50g Community Chorus '49, '50g Dramatic Asso- ciation '50g Cum Laude Society '49, Ned was chiefly noted not only for marked individuality, but also for the amazing conviction with which he adhered to his beliefs. Always an excellent student he added an interest in literature and music to his natural bent for science and mechanics. His versatility easily made him one of the more interesting boys in the form to know. Most people will always remember his quiet unassuming presence and his subtly barbed wit. Litchfield Connection Yale ROBERT MCHENRY CARROLL Bobo Heap Entered in Fifth Form Ionian Football Squad 48 49 Hockey Squad 49 50 Numeral Hat Gun Club 49 50 In the fall of 1948 a bouncing giant K6 3 230 lbsj strolled lazily onto the campus and Pomfret boys took their first look at Bob Carroll better known as Bobo or Heap Bob has taken an active rnterest in athletics playing on both the Football and Hockey Squads but he is more widely known for his wonderful sense of humor and ever since his arrival at Pomfret has been the favorite town clown Wilton Connecticut RICHARD ALAN DAILY Gamma Herman Entered in Third Form Achaean Numeral Hat Pontefract Board 48 49 Circulation Manager 49 Choir 4 50 Glee Club 50 Community Chorus 50 Dramatic Association 49 50 Dick came to Pomfret in 1946 immediately demonstrated his prowess as a Math brain and as Mr Nagys protege vas dubbed Herman In his four years at Pomfret Gammo participated in all the singing groups but retained harmonious vocalization during study hall as his greatest engoyment Unpretentious in his ways Gammo will nevertheless be remembered for his consistent play on the leagues where he sparked his beloved Blackshirts to many a hard fought victory Morristown New jersey Princeton I 1 1 I l 1 1 ' 1 1 v 1 1 1 1 , . ' ' r rr 1 1 1 1 . Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . 1 , , . 1 - 1 1 c . . . 1 . YV . 1 1 1

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THE SIXTH FORM Left to Right Back Row Daily Payson Durey Hazard Blake Stearns Farr Falconer McKinney Poutiatine Muhlenburg Standing Evans Sprague Halstead Felber Lowery Ransom Dodds Carroll Simonds Hannerz Hinsdale Gray Pettit Knower Kneeling deCoppet Welling Reynolds Fox Langdon Sumner fPres1dentQ duPont L Howard A Hodges Davis W Godfrey Missing Lucas WILLIAM OSBORNE SUMNER B1 Guzllaume Entered in Fourth Form Achaean Form President 50 Student Council 49 President 50 Dorm Assistant 50, Numeral Hat, Student Vestry 49, 50, Pontefract Board 50, Achaean Vice-President '49, Glee Club '50, Stage Manager '50, Dra- matic Association '-19. '50, Principal of Winlerfei: French Dramatic Society '48, '49, '50, Secretary '49g Class Valedictorian '5O. About the only athletic events Bill starred in were midnight races against the clock before the weekly French quiz, He managed, however, to get his thumb into many of the other pies in the school, and through his work on the council gained the respect of the entire student body. 'Gui' was a leading member of the Sixth Form Society of Pseudo- Intellectuals and was noted for his occasionally subtle, often rapier- like, wit. New Canaan. Connecticut Harvard I0

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WENDALL DAVIS, JR. Wendy Pooh Entered in Third Form - Ionian Crew Squad '47, Second Boat '48, First Boat '49, '50, Numeral Hatg Numeralsg Pontefract Board '49, Managing Editor '50, Dramatic Asso- ciation '47, '48, '49, '50, French Dramatic Society '48, '49, 50, Shop Key '47, '48, '49, '50, Choir '47g Griffin Business Manager '50, Camera Clubg Model Airplane Cub, Permanent Class Secretary. Wendy's interest in publications was one of his predominant traits, and he held key positions on both the Pontefract and the Griffin, He was also very able scholastically and his last two years he coxed Pomfret's New England Championship First Boat. 'Pooh' was an amaz- ingly efficient organizer in everything he did, and should be the perfect EDWARD deCOPPET Ned Neddo Entered in Third Form Achaean Baseball Squad 50 Basketball Manager 50 Athletic Council 50 Numeral Hat Bank Committee 50 Ned was probably the hardest working boy in the Form every thing he did was done efficiently and throughly and completely without complaint Record keeping seemed to be the lob he was stuck with most for not only was he one of the leaders of the involved school banking organization he also was the tender and augmentor of Mr Mansfields complicated Basketball statistics His friends found that his sense of humor while quiet and subtle was one of the most stimulating in the man to carry out the duties of the permanent class secretary Brookfield Centre Connecticut Harvard form New York New York Obefllfl GORDON BARLOW DODDS 1 Doddne Entered in Fourth Form Ionian Dorm Assistant 50 Basketball Squad 48 49 Baseball Squad 48 Manager 50 Numeral Hat Athletic Council 50 Chairman Track Meet Committee 50 Pontefract Board 48 49 Editor in Chief 49 Grzjfzn Board 50 Pontefracz Prize 50 Although he ran no foot races during his career Gil ran almost everything else that captivated his interest A veteran orator of Pomfret politics and a leading student in English and History he was not nevertheless noted for his proficiency in Mathematics Gil managed to devote most of his time to bull sessions exercise and was a positive stimulus to former if not in the latter of these two and not too strenuous physical others and to himself in the fields Bristol Pennsylvania Harvard 12 1 1 t - ' . Q 1 1 , . y . - v - v '. , y s . ,D ,,. , 1 y s y ,. . .,.. Q y 1 v . , ,. .. .,. .. 1 i i i ,I -1 , . .. ,., y y 1 , . i , . i