Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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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

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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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C' Zin garinmrn intra VOLUME 9. NO. 6. St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts December 5, 1941 FAIR sax INVADES sr. MARK'S AS St'Ma'k'SS0cce'Sq ad Humbles Groton, 4 to 2 A few daysaftcr the Groton foot- ball game, the St. Mark's soccer f 1941 t d 'th WITH FIRST WOMEN IN TWO MONTHS Z,1aSZ2,Eu,,,,,iCgt,Q,51,np egfagiafirs Sixth Form Dance is Great Success reporting for the initial practice. Robin Scully was elected cap- tain prior to the game with Wa- tertown, the 25th of November. His play at center forward has been Last Saturday evening an inform- School EI'lj0yS I'Ial'l'lpt0l'l exceptional, and his Spirit was an important factor in our win over al dance was held in the Common Room, with lady-guests from Mil-, Singers Again Groton. The Scorclzer Mrs. Parkman, Tony and Chan composed a scorcher. and Tish breezed in past Slobber Dan to Calahan, who was in no condition to understand it anyway. The upshot of the whole thing was a tongue-lashing delivered to the class of ,M by Torch, and- oh yes-Chan, Tish, and Tony indignantly resigned. The I.B.T. then sank back to its former level. Uh, that was an eventful year, and spiced with new gems on the faculty. There was lVIuster Smuth the fellow who reprimanded Bob, Muster Gaarrdner, yeouw can't goeuw roun' sayin'-this, andi that. VVhat would a visitor say?,, and You,re a rat-who,s a rat- Hoy,s a ratw Who was too young to manage the Sixth Form corridor, or maybe it was that things were getting too hot for him. Yes, that Was it. And Buffalo Bill, Who, assigned to Dorm E, left most of the work to the prefects. One night, We recall, when the prefects had taken a week-end, he came out five times, each time threaten- ing to hand out two marks apiece, threats which invariably failed to materialize. And remember the lVIilk,s story on the eve of Christ- mas vacation about Housemouse and VVoofie in the Crypt. And how the latter came tearing up, and in a breaking voice demanded who had yelled his nickname, and an unidentified person asked, VVhich nickname, sir?', We remember Livvy roomed with lyloregrease, Whose den was the scene of con- stant battle. Foggy, interested, dropped in on one, and somebody taunted Livvy, Kill himf, Livvy queried, VVhat d'ya think I,m doin, .... Oh, it's you, sirf, Dick also proved he could take it. We lost the Groton game again that year, but Tony and Tomp got their letters, the latter playing on the team. Sunday morning after church was the appointed time for poker. Tony always man-