Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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aged to come out a little ahead, but classic was the error Brad made in trying to bluff the Goob who had five sevens. Lips had a pair of jacks. Major found out about it one fine day, and we were asked if we didn't know we could- n't get away with that sort of thing around here. At the end of the term we sustained the loss of Langshaw, who for the third set of exams in a row, flunked five for Hve. His wit we will never forget. Snow settled with the winter term, and the boys in the Sixth Form constructed a snowman mod- eled after our Head. Indignation arose in our ranks, and hlait disapproving of such rank disre- spect, conceived the noble idea of melting it with hot towels. Steve and Anth also lent a hand. The rest of the form followed suit, and soon a battle royal raged, Tony's room getting the worst of it. Sawin saw Ijams, and yelled down to Rod Thompson and Curtis, Come on, boys, let's get him. People ran around madly, but there were no casualties in our ranks. That afternoon, Horse-collar, photo- graphing the statue was clipped by a snowball. He told us he was fed to the ears' Later in the term, Seedy, in a one man revolt against Sawin's regime in North 3, thrashed him to within an inch of his life. WVe were in our prime those days, and the boys would meet in Yummy's room, and padlock people to his bed. These affairs were the predecessors of the Harrys, etc. Lakin told us to keep our eyes on the Balkans. VVe've been doing that for some two and a half years, although we now lack our initial anticipation. Hockey featured Charlie, Hook, Seed, and Phil getting their letters, the Goat for the second time. The rest of the year was un- eventful with illegalities in New Dorm and the trunk room and C.C.'s bomb craze. Jim had an amazing collection of school keys which were put to good use in col- lecting chemicals for this. Isolated in the tower were Tish and Mon- grel, who enjoyed the company of Wang nightly. They exchanged volleys of pellets and B.B.,s with sling-shots and automatic B.B. guns with Hook and Monk who lived over the Dr. The spring term ended with a poor Groton game in which Hub, George, Skin, and Seed received their letters. Bram- mie was elected captain although a mere Fourth Former. This tradi-

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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-

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tion-shattering event stimulated the omnipresent form spirit. The following week was spent throwing ping-pong balls around madly, and we looked to a bright future the following year with Gil as Head lXIo. Little did we know. Q, In the fall of '4Q, our ranks were increased by two new specimens, namely, Crusher Pihl, man o' steel, and the mentor from Ari- zona whose sole topics of conver- sation were dry ice and stale beer. Wie were fortunate also to acquire Bromo, who had had just about enough of his own form. Football seemed endless, a series of disappointments such as would depress any coach. The team, shackled by injuries to key play- ers, was rightfully qualified as Hponderous, unimaginative, and pachydermousf' The Groton game, although a cold defeat, showed a slight improvement. Browny be- gan his imperialistic career by being elected our next football captain. By then Chan had managed to install a regular arsenal in his room together with a well provided stock of tobacco. Perhaps it was then that the lNIajor detected the smell of powder in the air, for he efficiently put an end to such indis- criminate hoarding. New Corridor acquired novel forms of enjoyment which consisted of firing flaming tennis balls down the corridor. Une such missile found its way into A.J.'s quarters, who, not knowing whether this intrusion was meant as a sign of Godly wrath, began by having a numinous and instant- ly converted himself to the ro- mantic cause. not without having first removed the unorthodox form of recreation. P.Ql.H.M., which stands for Power-Crazed-Head-lVIonitor, un- der the spell of new activities, de- cided to raid the rooms one day, and was amazed at What he found. This bad policy was no doubt transmitted to some of us, who, encouraged by this looting, organ- ized a commando raid into the