Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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completely. Herbie had his own ideas about social behavior, patterned largely after the Ten Commandments and totally different from the normal Sixth Form ideas of ethics. There are too many graven images being made around here,', he once remarked cryptically, among other things. The idea appealed to us. Do you know,', he said to us one day, that there are three persons in this form who are wicked? He didn't say whom, but he left us in no doubt as to what he meant by wicked. . . . Everyone -notably Silver Doeller-cooked in West Corridor, and one night eight fuses were blown in the corridor. A. J. gradually conceived the idea that the smell of hot- dogs and pancakes do not really belong in West Corridor. 'Tm sorry, he said. I'm awfully sorry, but I cannot allow you to establish an emporium in West Corridor? Chairman, almost overnight conceived the noble idea that the School was really his, all his, and it was up to him to run it properly. He approached Brooksie and said: I, as it so happens, run this School, and I do not like your attitude. 0h? said Brooksie. Well, it so happens that I run the Vindex and everything else, too. They had a mighty battle on the Sixth Form room floor, to prove who ran the School. It might be best not to say who Won. Later, Brooksie tried to make up to Hank. I'm sorry, he said peni- tently. I've decided that, as a matter of fact, you do run this School. Thanks, said Hank, with perfect equanimity. I'm glad you've come around to my way of thinkingf' The Head-Mogul, in a very noble moment, unbent a little from his stately dignity and issued a statement: I per- sonally do not care what anybody in this Form does. It's just that I represent the Headmaster. After a moment's thought, he added: And I ,III pretty well fed up with the job, too.', And Goober began going around with an ashen look on his face and saying: Want to catch a quickie with me? Brazen-larynxed Mr. Coe started his devilish body-building program in the gym, a development everyone viewed with mixed emotions, mostly unfavor- able. Before the end of the year, Foggy had been picked up and thrown against the back wall of the gym because he failed to understand the principle of the thing. You haven't the intelligence to do exercises, said Coe. There is no hope for your bodyf, After a moment's thought, he added: Mind either. Yes, sir,', said Foggy. Or, rather, no, sir. Dave four Davej turned up after a week end speaking fluent Hawaiian and telling us, in that difiicult language,

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YI The next year was placid: dull, almost. In New Corridor, W.T.G. was yelling his head off, to very little purpose. Clt seems to us, in retrospect, that he spent most of his time in fruitless yelling at us.j A character named Rene turned up, speak- ing English with an accent horribly reminiscent of Claudette Colbert in Under Two Flags. Zis place, it. . .how you say?. . .stinks. I shall be vairy ,eppy 'eref' No one will ever forget his vivid flights of oratory on the subject of fallen France: Ah, France! She is daifeated: ze laight of her glory is gone oot. Ze Franchmans are all daid: zousands and zousands of zem. . . In those happy days we first began to take trips to Marlboro, an unfortunate habit which has since become our only vice. Cl.aughter and boos.D Everyone had radios right and left: it was wonderful. Toward the end of the year. there were the wonderful politi- cal scandals about Cai who was to be Head Monitor, and fbi who was to be represented on the Student Council. Two idioms were added to the language: upper crust Cwhich means just that and is a vile thing to say about anyonej and lower crust Qwhich was a fluctuating term meaning anyone you wanted to associate with: or, roughly speaking, the entire Form :D Dave's attempts to climb from the lower crust to the upper crust, and, later, his attempts to climb back again, were a source of constant amuse- ment. Gil won the Head Mo fight from Kitten, while Ouiji as dark-horse candi- date went into the longest and most pain- ful sulk the Form has yet seen. And since then we have found out that no one is ever represented on the Student Coun- cil except the members thereof. But the graft-fights of our Fifth Form year were Wonderful to behold. This year, also, Geoff started to write a play: his idea was to present it in the Old Gym to raise money for the Red Cross. He and Willie finished the first act and then Dr. Parkman got hold of the script and said it eouldn't possibly be presented. Why?', said Geoff. Whom does it of'fend?,' Everyone, said Dr. Parkman, in the entire school. Well, spee1fieally?', said Geoff. Me,', said Dr. Parkman, principally. Dr. Parkman, by the way, left at the end of the year to go in the Air Force. Bishop Sherrill. in a voice like Doom, announced the news. There was an air of improbability about the whole thing, like being told that the President was dead. The year ended with Dr. Parkman holding everyonc's undivided attention. VII Herbie, the Theological Student, turned up in the fall of 1949 with theinews that religion was for all men. There was im- mediately started a lavish campaign to convert Herbie to complete and utter atheism. It may or may not have failed

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about a dazzling creature who is known only as Dave's Hawaiian Princess. Later on, Dave Cthe other Davej surprised us by announcing that his face wasn't really unattractive. Asked for enlighten- ment, he said: Well, it has an acne condition, and I haven't shaved, and I need a haircut, but I think I've got something there that no one else has. . . . Mr. Brewster turned up at the begin- ning of the winter term and endeared him- self to all of us by instituting smoking for the Sixth Form-pipes only. The exact number of persons who nauseated them- selves on the occasion of that Hrst smoker, remains uncounted, but the whole idea, as the saying goes, strength- ened relations inestimably .... In our day we have seen the ultimate in week- ends taken with a maximum amount of money and stretching over the longest possible periods of time, usually from Thursday to Monday, though Bev ex- otically took several from Monday through Thursday. Of course, there were some who were denied weekends the first term because of an unfortunate incident, when Dave, Goober, Livy, Hallett, Willie, Griz, and countless others decided that curfew would not ring that night and went out in search of com- panionship and formed many beautiful friendships which were later forcibly dissolved by the school authorities. Dur- ing the winter term, weekends became wonderful vacations lasting endless peri- ods of time. Ouiji said: I am going to see my Congressman, and turned up for a long one in Putney, Vt. The Head- master remarked: I wondered why he was taking his skiis with him. Seabiscuit made several trips to Princeton in the Beverley-mobile, a hideous red-and-black vehicle with a fog-light and a musical horn. CGas rationing didn't affect Bev, but he wrote to his Congressman when kerosene was rationed.D We had a Sixth Form Dance, and, as it may well be one of the last, we may well tell one or two details. As, for in- stance, the girl who said: Fives courts are nice, but what do you use them for?' And Geoff, who had announced that Stein,s girl loved him and him alone, saw her on the stairs with Buzz and com- mented with bitterness: Suh, you are loving theiwoman I was talking of! Two other details that flash across our mind are: Mrs. Brewster moaning after the dance: Everybody's hungry and they've locked the kitchen, and I havenlt got the key. And Suzie explaining to his girl Qa borrowed onel: We're the Sixth Form and it's our Dance: that's why it's called the Sixth Form Dance. The Spring Term of our Sixth Form year was a time of amiable and confusing comings and goings, when everyone was having V-12 exams and things