Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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'l'lll'I .XWKWARIJ AGE Ill As we returned our 'llhird Form year. our feeling was one of ex- treme superiority. for as we glanced into the future we saw power. Hooker was elected president of Brantwood. Sam vice-president, and Esky was in charge of shoe- shining. How wonderfully indis- pensable we were. We set to work on the bonfire for the cele- bration after the Groton game twhich work, incidentally. was a waste of timej and how important we felt ordering new kids about hauling loads of wood. Later, F.A.P. inaugurated the B.S.A. At first a Third Form organization, it rapidly spread throughout the lower school. That was its undoing. for when this happened. it lost that elite spirit which is common to the Gestapo or 5.5. Guards. One supporter, the Hlob, still defends it, however. Among other things that year we were blessed with a little fellow of diminutive proportions, whose feet wouldn't even reach the floor when he sat. The little 'l'onnny would read books of archaic Greek handed him by ltlel, which he would return accompanied with valuable comments directed to give lXIel a clearer understanding of the Greek language. An organization known as the Gestapo was rampant in those days, and acts of violence were committed such as would make Jan Yaltin's ordeal seem like para-

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Our brass had its start with the good-will representative from Cu- ba. Torch, with the idea in mind of helping out this forlorn foreign- er, showed him carefully around the school. When it was over. Juang tactfully told the Head the school was nod bed. We had a crazy boy: U'Toole. we called him. He was always getting in trouble with somebody, and we remember vividly the time he stirred the Goat's wrath. The latter grabbed him and hurled him to the hard floor of Dorm B. breaking his rib. Never will we forget when Juango and the Nob made Sammy cry by taunting him with Chee-CThee-Boo's,', or when Skin and Ully, who was fast be- coming the great Esky. put an old adder in S2l1l'llJ0iS bed. Not only every night, but Sun- day mornings between seven and eight oiclock were also periods set aside for fun. Un these days Bong would traipse in from C and join the sport. A favorite trick, it seems. was inscribing initials or designs on people Cprincipally Shafteej with shoe polish. One day we discovered that Eddie was stronger than we suspected. In fact, we were amazed. A characteristic we have never outgrown is getting marks. But we consider that it is merely a sign of good humor. Of all the years, our second was the worst. A new high for the school was recorded when the Class of '-M managed to amass some 300 between a Wed- nesday and the following Satur- day. hlr. Butcher and the hlajor held serious meetings of the group in B. where they planned a system to reduce the number of marks: to anyone who received twelve marks or over, an additional eight marks were given. The plan. although well conceived, soon fell through, but not before Billy re- marked. I don't see why this would reduce marks. Why don't you subtract eight marks instead? Billy fell victim to the system. The spring term of our Second Form year will always be remem- bered with mixed emotions. Bram- mie, our pride and joy. played on the Team and lammed in a winning run against Groton. But nigger- baby, although fun for the majori- ty. often hurt Fi-lf'i's pride and rear, and once his self-respect when the Gac was hardby a-listen- ing. Peter had picked up some mighty coarse jargon in Lexing- ton. Damn, he could cuss!

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dise. Dorm D was particularly cruel in not admitting Butch one evening till about eleven, and Blubbus was thoroughly blackened and polished more than once. Goat made the hockey team which was pretty good for a third former, and the winter then petered out due to cases of measles and chickenpox. However, those not afflicted acquired the rather quaint habit of squashing soft boiled eggs in other people,s pock- ets. Quaint it would seem to an outsider, but after all we were still in the lower school. Vile can't go on without men- tioning Jim and the Nag. How the friendship occurred, what its nature was, when it started, are some secrets that will undoubtedly die with Jim, but one thing was evi- dent: a close association existed and persisted till the end of the year despite all the kidding that the pair received. That spring Hooker played on the nine again, and Death Breath piloted the first boat at Fort Meadow, which we still feel was the climax of his career. IV Casper and Big Dick turned up in the fall of 1941. rooming to- gether in Dorm E, which made up, in part, for the loss of 0'Toole, who had thought it wise to quit. lVe were now in the upper school with the I .B.T . in our hands to do with whatever we pleased. The very idea was stimulating. and we concentrated most of our effort into making attractive and catching headlines. This we did, for who will ever forget SU- HIER SOUNDS CALL FUR DElVIOCRACY.,' Later on, short- ly after a tea-dance sponsored by