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

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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR BOOK 1935 ,tmwwww e 'm' To THE LADIES BACK in 1923 when the School began, Miss Dulon undertook the duties of housemother, besides doing willingly and cheerfully everything else that came along. When the Faculty began to marry and settle down, their wives did exactly the same thing, and they are still doing it today, making every boy feel happier and more at home here at School. On every festive occasion the dining' room has shown the results of their labors, and the hard work connected with the Nativity Play is largely in their hands. This year they introduced weekfends for the Sixth Form, providing chaperonage and lodgings for the girls. There is not a boy of the class, moreover, who does not remember with pleasure his first tea' party and the many others that followed. These teas played a very important part in our Hrst years at School and we are duly grateful, and we wish to thank the women of the Faculty for their kind interest and help. Since we have been here, we have seen many new arrivals among the Faculty wives, and also several of the younger generation. We now have four faculty households and seven children at South Kent. Each newcomer has entered fully into the life of this small community. Along with the work of the wives of the Faculty goes the work of the women page fortyfsix

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1935 SouTH KENT YEAR Booic 1935 White , nor will we soon forget their illffated son, Milne. The other drama was dominated by the Chinese characterization put on by the inimitable Merrell, the comic element being supplied by johnson as L'Crawls. The sup' porting characters of this latter play were Gillispie as the cherubic Father jerolomenn, Cowan as jake, and Baker Cwho seemed particularly well castj as the unkempt Smike. At the close of the winter term crime came to South Kent in The Duke and the Dices, v l in which HOLISCOH, already I'nOtECl for his ' '... HOPHEAD GANGSTERN characterization of the Sergeant in The Monkey's Paw, rose to new heights as jake, the speakeasy proprietor. With some difficulty we recognized a classmate when Waller came on the stage made up as a hophead gangster. Milne took in this play the part of a soft spoken bouncer, while Martin and Lehmann gallantly provided the love interest. Subsidiary gangster fcomplete with derbyj-Echeverria. Early in the spring term two more plays were presented, one in French. The style of acting displayed in these plays was perhaps the best shown by student Thespians. Formerly, there had been good and poor actors, the eight participants in these plays were almost uniformly good. We would never have supposed that Maxwell would have made such a good comedian as he proved to be in Les Assureursf' or that Hoey could have so successfully impersonated a mem' ber of the weaker sex. We admired, too, Lane's suave villainy in Brains, and the Scotch and Cockney roles played by Macpherson and VanSand. All in all, these plays revealed to us unsuspected depths in our classmates and members of lower forms. Some of the plays have been so good that several will probably be revived later in the year. In concluding, we hope that the rise of the Drama, in which this class has played so important a part, will continue after we have left South Kent. PF PF PF Bk This year one of the alumni presented a plaque to the School, on which is to be inscribed the name of the boy who does the best work in dramatics, either in acting or in stage managing. This has added a lot to the lasting interest in drama at South Kem. page fortyffive

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1935 SOUTH KENT YEAR BOOK 1935 of the School staff. Mrs. Eschmann's job as Housemother is probably the most inf volved of any at South Kent. As head of the vvomen's staff, the Housemother has always had to carry on a great variety of duties-supervising the School's diet, ordering and checking supplies, keeping the boys' socks in repair, keeping an eye on the running of the laundry, seeing to the health of the boysAthe administrative details are endless. Together with Mrs. Eschmann we must also mention Mrs. Martin, who aids the Housemother conf , . Mas. ESCHMANN siderably in all of these myriad details. The social side of the Housemother's job is equally important. She arranges all teas for athletic events, and plans the various form and athletic banquets. She has also seen fit to extend to the Fifth Form the privilege of a weekly tea-the best in School, say connoisseurs. Also, the Housemother gives a birthday party for each student when his day comes around, and this, too, entails much work. Having taken on this allfinclusive post in succession to Miss Dulon, Mrs. Eschmann has worthily carried on during the past year the functions of her predecessor. Comparatively unnoticed but very important in the life of the School is the Infirmary. To the maimed and the halt, to those suffering from the many little ills and injuries arising from a strenuous school life, it has always been a haven of refuge. For the past four years we have had Mrs. Lyon in charge of the Infirmary. Her tireless care for the inmates has be' come proverbial. A returning alumnus once asked if Mrs. Lyon still treated each patient as if he had pneumonia. Any pres' ent member ofthe School can answer that question. During the current year Mrs. Lyon has given an average of sixteen treat' ments a day, or thirtyftwo hundred odd during the school year, the ailments range from broken bones through indigestion to the common cold. We of the Class of 1935 proffer our sincerest thanks for what she Mas. LvoN has done for us. page fortyfscvcn