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1937 CLASS l'I IITUIQY WILBERT B. SWIFT AND HARRY M. KELSEY IN June, nineteen thirty-five, the class of thirty-seven consisted of one girl, Barbara Kelsey, who had just arrived and was in the process of unpacking. CTime marches on IJ The class in September consisted of two boys and two girls, the three newcomers being, in the order of their arrival, Bill Stewart, Alice D. Simmons, and Bill Swift, who were also in the process of unpacking. This was the entire class in its junior year. It must be recorded here that within half an hour of their assembling, in spite of being total strangers, the members of the class were found dancing together like old friends. During the first year the history of the class coincides with the history of all the upper school. It had no special activities as a class, but participated in athletics, dances, dramatics, and the like with the rest of the student body. BK, as Barbara soon came to be known, and Stewie, ne Bill Stewart, found out for the first time the joys of organized sports, Swifty, heretofore Bill Swift, discovered that study could be interesting, Alice found that gardening was great sport, all found new activities which attracted them and gave them a wider outlook on life. Many memories of that first year linger in the minds of those seniors who were here. There was the time that Swifty climbed the sapling at the picnic and swayed above the heads of the picnickers, who were certain that the tree would snap and drop him into their laps, there was the time Alice and Barbara, dressed in old clothes, got into the back of the station wagon, thinking it was bound for Hockessin, and ended up in Wilmington instead, when Swifty put all the shingles on his chicken-coop upside down, when BK locked Dotty out on the fire escape by mistake, when Swifty was swept off the horse, Hickory, by a passing low-hanging tree, when BK and Alice romped all over the hills playing Antelope and Stay at Home . . . in such a condition was the senior class in its junior year.
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In June the first Gavel Banquet was held. At a farewell dinner at the end of the year Mother unexpectedly made it known that she was going to present a gavel to the boy and girl of the junior class who was most worthy of the ideals of the school, who were to take the responsibility of the boys and girls in their senior year. The gavel, amid many cheers, was presented to BK and Stewie. Came the summer time, and came September once more, and the senior class became the Senior Class. After serving as a junior counsellor ih the summer camp, Bob Mingus decided to remain in the school with the Class. A week before school began Harry Kelsey, BK's brother, joined the gang. The last member to arrive was Lillian Scarborough, who came in February. Thus the Class was completed to its seven members. The high-lights of the senior year included the football season, with Stewie the old standby at center, Swifty in the backfield, and Bob and Harry at guard and tackle, winning two games and losing three, the hockey season with Barbara and Alice as forwards and backs, the hayrideg Mother's birthday, the Hallowe'en party, Phil's birthday, the Christmas plays, The Land of Heart's Desire, and Monsieur Boulinard g Eleanor's birthdayg the Spring Formal, the Easter play, She Stoops to Conquer g Line-Thomas McCarthy, Robert Mingus, Harry Kelsey, William Stewart, Randolph Clark, Richard Mitchell, Wilbert Swift. Back Field-Reading from left to right John Williams, Robert Russell, George Achenbach, Richard Geiger.
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