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

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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

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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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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR BOOK 1935 ances the schoolroom was the scene of great activity. Benches blocked the front of the room to form the stage, and down in the old chapel three or four people wrestled with the organ trying to get it upstairs. In the evening the schoolroom would be filled to overflow' ing. The result was always worth the work, and everyone was left full of just that much more Christmas spirit. The winter was very unseasonable. We did not have much ice, and soccer leagues were organized to keep us busy. There was a good deal of digging going on, for the chapel foundations were being laid. When that was T Hnished, work was discontinued because of lack of funds. g Shortly after our return from spring vacaf tion we held a class meeting and nominated Newhall, Gildersleeve, Pullman I, and Thomas as candidates for fourth form council members. The fateful day arrived, and Newhall and Gildersleeve won the elections. That spring two of our mem' bers, McCoun and Gildersleeve, were on the baseball team. Prize Day arrived in no time at all, and at last we could say that we were honest to goodness upper formers. Ik if if ARTY Six new boys joined us when school ref opened. We were sorry to see that Gilder' sleeve did not return. His place on the council was not filled. During the summer a new wing had been added to Father Robert' sonls house, and Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, who had been married in june, were living there. Barnacle Moore, Pud Thomas, and Pop Mc' Coun got their letters in football. On the eve of the HooverfRoOsevelt elections the school was the scene of a very bitter cam' paign. Besides the Republicans and the Democrats, there was a large group of Social' DUTCH page thirty