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

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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

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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 Duncan stand first in our minds. Tom seems to be everywhere at onceg working inside and out, and above all handling those everfpresent salesmen. There is not one of us who has not said goodfmorning to Mrs. Martin at least once a day when we pass her on one of her many trips between the Old and New Build' ings. She, in turn, has had a cheery smile for all of us. Martin, though quiet, always has a hello and some comment about the weather. Along with him we find Vic. And then comes Mike. With brush and bottle in hand he scampers all over school. If he is not whistling, he is grinning. We soon found that Dunc's face meant and still does mean f . both food and kitchen. And last of all come Benny and Hermann, inseparable companions. 9 Q MURCH 1: as ak When school opened the following fall there were a good many new boys in our class, although a number of the former members did not return. The old ones lived in the fifth form hallwaysg the ' ' new ones in the dorm. These two factions had numerous raids on one another. Some' times we got away with them, but other times we did not. When elections for class president were held, our form chose Larry Newhall. That fall our form average was quite a bit higher. Chamberlain and Turner were on the honor roll and after our record of the year before, it was a relief to know that we were helping along the school averf age for a change. Talk of the new chapel at last materialized. Ground, just beyond the New Building, was broken on November the twentyfsixth. The Nativity Play which had been omitted the year before was given the Wm night before vacation. Before such perform' page twentyfnine