Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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SIXTH FORM

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'wr' , -5 V1 v-J-KAI. -- -1 '-uv W fi Vw-r -1----1 -1:1 - -T- r 'P' ' 'f .1930 - 1936 There is an old hay wagon at St. Mark's, painted blue and white. Thus begins the description of St. Mark's which appeared in Fnrtunc's article on the nation's twelve best schools. VVhen the football team beats Groton, it becomes a chariot of victory in which the players are pulled by the rest of the school through the tiny Massachusetts town of Southborough. One stormy afternoon in 1934-, the victory wagon was draped in black and rolled up before the bare, Norman chapel. On it was placed a casket, covered by the school flag. Wind whipped the solemn lines of graduates, sleet drove across the grounds, and the boys of St. Mark's gave a long, slow cheer for William Greenough Thayer. Then the sixth formers pulled the hay wagon down the hill to the cemetery. Thus ended the first great age of St. Mark's. 'f Hopefully pushed forward by loving parents, we stepped in to start the next age which began six years ago when Dr. Parkman assumed the headmastership after Dr. Thayer's resignation. Those of us who came into the first form were greeted by a headmaster as new at the game as we were. However, without paying him any great compliment, it might be said that his blunders were less numerous and less troublesome than ours. As usual, most of the misdemeanors consisted of almost every kind of battle from mudfights on Flichtner and Lower Fields against the class of '35, to Hudson-Heiskell slug-fests. Kister, the tame but untaught monkey. seemed to get into more than his share. Even Ritz-Schlitz Moore temporarily lost his usual tranquillity to pursue a harmless second former, successfully getting his man. Just to be different Scoopie complacently slept through the raucous uproar of a fire-drill. The Fay football game showed us the possibilities in the little man from Arkansas, who was one of the few players to survive the victory without a substi- tute. In the winter Pinky, later to captain the varsity team, played in the Fay hockey defeat. Spring found Izzy and Jenny coxing their club crews in record-break- ing style. Brotherhood and Izzy won the series, while Jenny, now the crew captain and the first letterman in the form, took third place of the three crews with Thayer. Except for these athletic aspirations, the form showed little constructiveness, even sometimes allowing Kister to lead scholastically. Adrian burst into lachrymose wail- ings before Dr. Parkman just in time to be prevented from shaving his head for mercenary reasons in emulation of a hairless fifth former. This provided one of the few distractions which interrupted the peacefulness of our last term as new kids, except for Izzy who had been through it all the year before. Even after we were well settled in our second form year it seemed hard to believe that the errand-running was over for some of us. That fall the form was more than doubled in size by a boisterous mob of undisciplined new kids who went around say- ing such odd things as, My name is Henry, but you may call me Skipper. How- ever, their disordered appearance was soon improved by the annual ceremony of Sanitary Saturday in which Les sang Baron Munchausen while standing on a box which contained Ben, the wild Wood. All suffered such minor indignities as paddling and soap-eating, but no one minded-much. This Form distinction was soon forgot- ten in the club football struggle, which Brotherhood won. Gym day brought fresh paddling of the new kids by the old kids in the Form, although the less numerous old kids were slightly confused by the number and ferocity of their classmates. The adventurous minds of the form, with an eye to business, organized the racketeering firm of Gypem, Gypem and How with the partners collecting fortunes for protec- tion, i' The less said about the dining-room situation the better, but it is fitting to 15