Proctor Academy - Green Lantern Yearbook (Andover, NH)

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1951 SEPTEMBER 13 Boys return to football camp and greet the new coach, Mr. Wright. 14-18 Grunts, groans, gasps, and thorough physical work-out. Usual remark: Oh, my aching back. 19 Rest of school arrives en masse. New boys be- gin to find their way around. OCTOBER 3 Football team opens season with a victory over 10 12 14 16 17 24 25 27 29 Vermont Academy -- 18-0. Footballers journey to Kents Hill. They lose the football game 15-7, but score heavily in the post-game festivities. Tennis team downs Holderness 9-0. Antique Auto Club members go to a meet in Brookline, Mass. Fire Company helps fight barn fire in W. Salis- bury. Mountain Day. School scales Kearsarge. Battle royal wrestling bouts before lunch. Football team loses hard fought contest to Phillips Andover B team 14-6. Tennis team tramples Holderness 9-0. Sailors are swamped by M. I. T. at Cambridge 119-92. Westmount High arrives from Montreal for the annual game. Gov. Sherman Adams and Canadian Consul General Jas. A. Strong orate, and the Franklin High School band parades, while the two flags are raised. The Canadians are too good for us on the field, score 49-5. Proctor jV's beat Franklin High Reserves 8-6. Cabin Club holds feed. Members cut wood and build chimney higher. Sailors fall heir to new property on Highland Lake. Soon expand, hire steam shovel to make a lakeside resort. Bulldozer starts bulling around on new ski slopes. Trees and stumps and rocks are push- overs for it. 31 Who set off the dynamite? NOVEMBER 2 Mr. Gulick resigns as Headmaster of Proctor, 3 5 8 15 16 17 19 effective june 50, 1952. Mr. Farrell elected new Headmaster by Board of Trustees. Football bon- fire and rally held in snowstorm. Morton House wins Holderness game banner contest. 1Holderness later swiped the banner.J Football game in snow and mud. Holderness wins 24-0. Alumni Home-coming. Big doings. Buffet sup- per. Mr. Gulick burns mortgage to great joy of all. Photographic exhibit by Camera Club. Group of Seniors scout Middlebury. Several think it will do. Maybe the steak dinner did it. Bob Finney gets a new custom-made room in Gannett House at great personal QD expense. Touch football. The Pansies squash the Cream Puffs, as pastry league falls before horticultural league. Liberal U. S. History ends up behind bars at State Prison and State Mental Hospital. They were paroled in care of Proctor. Varsity football team goes to Hanover to see Cornell trim Dartmouth. Dave Farrell makes breakfast. alendar 20 Almost entire school journeys to Franklin to see Andie Murphy shoot it out with Johnny Rebs in Red Badge of Courage. 21-25 Thanksgiving Holiday. Great turkey shortage after the 22nd. 27 Siren sounds at 5 A. M. to alert Proctor stu- dents and Fire Company. Bad house fire across road from the school. Boys save much furni- ture and squirt much water. House partially demolished fby firel. DECEMBER 1 Deer hunting season opens. Many hunters, many shots, many tall tales, NO DEER. 3 Old ski jump goes up in flames by request. 6-11 Trail clearing season well under way. Proctor boys hack their way to glory and a better winter of skiing. 15 Fall sports banquet. Tony Rice officiates. La- Casce awarded frictionless fork. 14 Vacation. Busses roar off to Boston. Boys hap- py. at prospect of three weeks of unadulterated enjoyment. 1952 JANUARY 2 Ski camp of Doc Camp opens with enthusiasm and sore muscles. 7 Golden Horde arrive back with bags Kunder their eyesh . Back to the grind! 10 Favorite student question: What makes more noise than a pig under a gate? Answer: The Faculty skiing by moonlight. 16 Ski season opens with victory over U. N. H. Freshmen, Farrell stars for Proctorg Bill Taylor, ex-Proctor, for the Freshmen. 22 Dave Farrell cleaned up his room. Surprise! Surprise! 24 First Senior Supper, Mr. Gulick speaking. Where did the waiters get their suits? 26 Proctor loses close ski meet to Deerfield but beats Holderness. The Clefters wobble and warble for the East Andover Grange. 27 Two visiting clergymen, Rev. Charles Field and Monseigneur Peter Elbow expound their deep philosophical views at church. 28 The Fishers, their offspring, dog and cats ar- rive on Proctor campus to join the faculty. 30 Ski Holiday! The busses, after many vicissitudes, finally arrived at North Conway. Mind over matter demonstrated by joe LaCasce on ski mobile. A great time. 31 Dave Farrell loses appendix. Ski team loses Farrell ftemporarilyh. Banker Earle Goss speaks to Economics class. Boys busy shoveling snow and modeling sculp- tures. FEBRUARY 1 Fair Carnival guests appear on the campus. Hearts are fiuttering C guests and hostsl. Cary House wins sculpture with Humphrey Knot jimj. 2 Four-way ski meet with Lebanon, Hanover, Holderness, and Proctor. Proctor runs off with Laurels, even without Capt. Farrell. Beattie, Elbow, and Johnson carry on well. Burdett washes dishes at Hatt's tuxedo. Dance great success! Lauridsen's runs away with coronation of Binghamton boys are good pickers of dates. house in a antique car Anne Rice!

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3 Girls depart. Boys sad and exhausted. 5 The Clefters broadcast over WKBR in Man- chester. All New Hampshire amazed. 9 Harvard Freshmen fall before Proctor in ski meet. 14 Mr. Farrell holds forth at senior supper on college applications. 15 WLNH sends the Clefters' dulcet tones out over the air. New Hampshire now delighted. 16 Proctor ski team brings back lst place trophy from Tilton Carnival. Informal ski team races Golden Rule Farm and wins. 19 Extraordinary phenomenon: Dave Steel steals out on skis. 20 Cozier and Putney start battery practice with snowballs. 22 B Ski Team travels to Kents Hill and loses a close meet. 23 Ski Team entertains Vermont Academy and Exeter in a ski meet, and wins over Vermont by 10 points and Exeter by 100 points. Dave Farrell sets new downhill record. 27 Proctor sweeps ski meet with New Hampton by 50 points. 28 The Clefters go to WHDH in Boston on 'Bob Clayton's Ballroom. Are competing with Four Aces in popularity. All New England goes wild! MARCH 1 Proctor enters Interscholastic Ski Meet against 14 schools, comes in fifth. Gannett wins informal dormitory ski meet. 4 Proctor Preferential Primary favors Eisenhower. Truman gets 1 vote. Big Inter-Dormitory Ski Meet, Gannett House wins by close margin. 9 Mary Lowell Stone House wins annual dormi- tory clean-up. Move to change name to Spot- less House! 11 Nissen finally gets to breakfast on time. 13 George McLain spills corn at Winter Sports Banquet. Peter Elbow wins Skimeister Trophy. 14 Winter term ends. The campus deserted. 15 A few luckless Seniors take College Boards. 22 Farrell wins, Beattie gets 4th, T. Gilbert 7th, and Elbow 8th in Mad River Slalom. 31 The campus again populated. All ready for the Spring Term. APRIL 1 Daniel Marquiez Merrill arrives. 3-8 Proctor Chest Drive, with Terry Gulick di- recting.' Bingo games, pie-throwing contests, chances, coffee and cocoa parties, rummage sale - anything to raise money. Mr. Boyden swamped by IOUs. 8 Proctor Chest raises 3610. A record! I0 Rotation of Student Officers starts. 11 The Wrights add a new student, Gary Thom- son. 13 First Blackwater Slalom. Boats ferry skiers over to ski slopes. David Farrell wins Class B. 16 Tennis Team starts off right by downing KUA 8-0. 19 Baseball Team travels to Hanover but loses to Clark School 5-0. 21 State Forester gives out Forest Fire Fighting cards. 23 JV tennis stars think they are good baseball players. JV baseballers show them up 5-2. 24 Senior Supper with Felix Bertagna and his Korean pictures. 26 Big athletic day! Cozier pitches one-hitter and wins from Tilton 1-0. JV's down Tilton 10-6g both tennis teams win from New Hamptong varsity 7-2 and JV's 5-4, alas, the Sailors are nosed out by Tabor. Jim Freund interviews a porcupine at the Cabin. Tennis team beats Tilton 5-4. Varsity baseball with Capt. Gates pitching, rules Holderness 9-6. But the JV's in a comedy of errors lose to Holderness 22-7. Varsity ten- nis beats a strong Vermont Academy team 5-4. MAY Fishing season opens: Carncross, Canfield, Far- rell and Rathbone successful. Both baseball teams drop games to New Hamp- ton, and the JV tennis team bows to Holder- ness. Varsity tennis upholds winning ways by trim- ming Holderness in close f?J match - 9-0. Sailors lose by two points to Dartmouth but beat Middlebury and Marblehead High School. Improvement Squad starts Operation Stump in front .of the Farrell's house. Both tennis teams continue their winning streaks by downing KUA varsity 6-5, JV's by 6-2. Dr. J. Seelye Bixler gives first Ralph D. Owings lecture on Honesty. Baseball team swamps Tilton 14-1, but JV's bow to Tilton Reserves 13-17. Al Hall and Harry Johnson chosen Jr. Mar- shals. Antique Auto Club in four antiques chugs over to the Luther Gulick camps for the week-end. Not too many flat tires. Lusty bats of the varsity baseball team club out victory over KUA 19-2. Johnson holds the fort. Capt. Gates loses a heartbreaker to Clark School 3-2. The Clefters wow Franklin High School with their songs. Another banner day! Varsity baseball team downs Holderness 9-3, and the JV's do the same to the Holderness JV's 6-3. The tennis team wins from Tilton 7-2. Operation Stump still stumps Improvement Squad. JV tennis team puts away Holderness 6-3. Morton House outing at Highland Lake. Home runs blossom on Chuck Riley's bat as the team beats KUA 19-4. Batal baffles op- ponents. Senior outing at Beatties'!! Operation Stump successful. Improvement Squad no longer stumped by stump. Spring Sports banquet, Ed Larter ofliciating. The Clefters make records in Boston. Many hurt in mad rush to order records. Mary Lowell goes on outing at Bradley Lake. Cary House disports themselves at Highland Lake. Baccalaureate Sunday. Mr. Giunta returns to preach to the Seniors, the School and the Town. Gannett House has outing at the Camps' in Laconia in the rain. Senior banquet, Al Hall presiding. Seniors pre- sent portrait of Mr. Gulick to the School. Commencement. Rain forces ceremonies inside. Mr. Lovely delivers the address. Bulfet luncheon with parents and guests. Seniors take their leave. JUNE 2-6 Final grind begins for underclassmen. 6 Farewell to all!