Severn School - Yearbook (Severna Park, MD)

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tennis. Instruction in boxing is also a part of the winter program, but no actual contests in that sport are permitted. There are no athletic scholarships. In trying to make the various teams, all students are on an equal footing and do not compete against boys imported for athletic ability. Fair and friendly competition is the goal of the school's athletic policy. RECREATION The Severn River affords opportunities for such forms of recrea- tion as swimming, canoeing and skating. On Saturday afternoons those students who are in good standing as regards conduct and eEort are granted permission to go to An- napolis to witness the sports of the Naval Academy, where there is carried on perhaps the broadest athletic program to be found at any institution in the country. Such students may also be granted per- mission to go to the movies for the afternoon or early evening performance. Lectures and musicales are from time to time held on Sunday evenings, during what is known as the Sunday Evening Forum. Three school dances are given by the student body during the year. 10

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student has explained to him the general conditions under which his life at the school is governed, and then doing the right thing becomes his responsibility. Shirking of that responsibility will result in cur- tailment of privileges, or other appropriate penalty. The underlying purpose is to build up in the boy, under the sym- pathetic and understanding guidance of a watchful faculty group, those elements of good citizenship that will mean so much towards his success and happiness in college or one of the Service academies where almost complete responsibility for his actions will be im- posed upon him. - THE STUDENT COUNCIL The members of the Student Council are elected by the students to represent them in the field of student life and interests which lie outside the realm of immediate faculty discipline and direction. The Council chooses a member of the faculty to act as adviser. ATHLETICS At the beginning of the year each boy is given a physical examina- tion by the school physician in order to determine the boy's physical fitness to engage in organized sports. A student is not permitted to take part in any sport disapproved for him by the school physician, but is required to take part in such sports as the physician may advise. Organized athletics are an essential part of the American school- boy's life. They are the natural outlet for his physical energy, and the most enjoyable avenue for physical development. Properly directed, they broaden the boy, incite mental alertness and develop leadership. Past records at Severn show that the majority of students who stand well in class are members of athletic teams, and that those who sub- ject themselves whole-heartedly to the discipline of organized ath- letics not only display lceener initiative in their general work, but maintain a higher conduct record. Organized teams meet other schools in football, soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, and tennis. ln football and lacrosse there are teams in different weight classes to provide opportunity for competition to smaller boys. Each team is under the supervision and direction of an instructor at the school. Between seasons the students, under faculty supervision, engage in intramural contests in soccer, box lacrosse, soft ball and table 9

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1923 ATHLETIC HONOR SHIELD The class graduating in 1923 presented to the School a shield bearing the inscription, Hereon Shall Be Inscribed Each Year The Name Of The Student Who Has Done Most Towards The Promo- tion Of Athletic. In selecting each year the student whose name is to go on the shield, character, conduct, leadership, loyalty, faithful- ness, earnest effort in studies, as well as athletic ability, are taken into consideration. Awards have been made as follows: For Nelson T. Turner, of Wardour, Maryland. 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 Edward A. Hannegan, of Washington, D.C. Charles R. Zimmerman, of Baltimore, Maryland. Francis S. Bell, of Baltimore, Maryland. Robert A. Theobald, of Annapolis, Maryland. john B. Farr, of Tunlchannock, Pennsylvania. John Danenhower, of New York, New York. John C. Hampson, of Wayne, Pennsylvania. Gordon P. Chung-Hoon, of Honolulu, Hawaii. Ericsson Reed, of Washington, Pennsylvania. Richard R. Pratt, of Washington, D.C. John L. Mehlig, of Miami Beach, Florida. Robert C. Giffen, Ir., of Annapolis, Maryland. Nathaniel W. James, III, of Annapolis, Maryland. John Marshall Brenner, of Palo Alto, California. john F. Pendergast, of Boston, Massachusetts. Robert R. Carter, of Wassaic, New York. L. Warren Klauer, of Dubuque, Iowa. Thomas E. Kessing, of Annapolis, Maryland George W. Klauer, of Dubuque, Iowa. Frederic H. Harwood, of Middletown, Connecticut 1941 John E. Williams, Ir., of Milford, Delaware. 1111 0AMQw.0J4Ma,vg Cibpufyv, W. 11