South Kent High School - Yearbook (South Kent, CT)

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X. 1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR Book 1935 that it was a joke were we able to sleep in peace. The next notable occasional was the annual dorm feed with the customary hot dogs. Under the influence of pop, some of us were actually cajoled into singing. No his' tory of a class at South Kent would be com' plete without mentioning Thanksgiving. That is the day when a boy can invite up as many relatives as will come for midfday din' ner. It happened once in the dark ages that one boy had a table full of grandmothers, aunts, uncles, and so on. A full two weeks beforehand the Old Man has us call the clans together. Then the wild morning assemblies when he checks over the guest lists. George is not sure whether there will be five or just twog jim says his father is coming and perhaps two sisters and an aunt. So, tablefseating is no easy task. Well, the day finally gets here, and after a chapel service we Cand the Old Manj wait expectantly. Oh, the horror of seeing your car, in which you expect to find three people, arrive with four! You rush to the study, apologize, POP'EYE relatives is slightly dimmed by such ordeals But it is worse yet when your family fails to appear on time. It sounds as though Thanks' giving contains nothing but mishaps. This is not true. The waiting and dishfwashing is well taken care of by the boys whose families do not come. The day goes off as smoothly as clockfwork, and as many as ninety full and very impressed people drive off that after' noon. Vacation was drawing near. Soon we were oiling our jobs and places. The smell of oil pervaded the school, a smell which we soon learned to associate with going home. The winter term went along quickly. Apparently the cold weather ruined our YACK voices. More than once we were criticized it and it is all over. The joy of seeing one's page twentyfseven

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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR Book 1935 CLASS HISTORY N OR those of us who are Starting their first year, this School will be a unique history. It will require harder work and more initiative of them than they have been accustomed to. But in the end it will instill in them a selffreliance and directness of purpose which will prove invaluable to them when they come in contact with the world. This editorial greeted the eyes of the class of 1935 the first day they arrived here. This history is not going to attempt to review the past Eve years with an eye as to what was said above. It prefers to give an informal sketch of our lives here. But before we begin, it seems fitting to say that our class appreciates deeply all that South Kent has done for us. Whether we realized it at the time or not, we now see the truth that lies in that editorial. ik Pk Ik Woodrow! The conductor's voice echoed down the South Kent car, and slowly the train came to a standstill. We all piled off dragging suitcases, packages, and dufflebags with us, all of which we were very glad to entrust to the care of Martin and his wagon. For the first time we climbed the hill to school, each think' ing of the next five years with many and varied emotions. Our original class was a motley crew! We no longer have a Pud Thomas four esteemed secondfform presif dentj nor a Barnacle Mooreg Bill Hayward and Micky Downs have dropped off the s roster too. Our lives were the average ones led by any bunch of brats with football being the chief topic of the day. Then came Half lowe'en with the hunt for something original to parade around in before the faculty and their wives. That Hallowe'en stands out very vividly because two nights before the big event shots were heard down at the pump house. Mr. Goodwin spread the whole school into a state of nervous excitement by spreading the story around that a lunatic had escaped from Wingdale. He actually bull' dozed a majority of the boys into pulling their Shades down at night to keep this man from shooting at the windows. The tension in the dormitory was terrific, and not until we heard Dicx page twentyfsix

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.X 1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR Boox 1935 for the way we sang in chapel. Those of us who could played league hockey. The rest of us would pull on our skates and, in varying degrees of excellence, manage to get from one end of the lake to the other. Some of us were sadly lacking senses of balance, all of us dreaded the fish holes on the north end of the lake for a while, but even the worst skater could dodge them. There is little more to say of this term. We had the usual snow, and sometimes when we woke up in the morning it would be inside the dormitory. We also learned to dress in extrafquick time because of the temperature. ' After a spring vacation the new term al' ways seems hard. The ground is still thawing out and the roads to and from school are veritable mud holes. Anyhow we cheered up as soon as baseball began, and by the middle of the term we realized that it was the best one of all. Speaking of base' ball: one of the big features of the kids' season was the time when Pop McCoun hit a home run and forgot to touch third base. Fortunately Pop arose to the situation and . managed to get back to third before the ball. May First was upon us and we witnessed with a great deal of interest the ceremony that goes with the picking of the new prefects and the induction of each fifth form. We received a couple of shocks due to final exams, but nevertheless Prize Day arrived. Pop car' ried off the honors for us that day when he received the cup for the best all around junior Athlete. Next day, feeling like typical men of the world, we set out for a good long vacation. Before we go on to tell about the next four years, it seems fitting that we mention some of the familiar characters about the school. T Certainly Tom Boyd, the Martins, Mike, and AL l:dU?'-slfhiilsu, Xu' -R -........ A ,. JANES page twentyfeight