Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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ceremonies, Oracle Davis predicted a 10-2 win. I said those boys would end the year with a wham, and they did. After the 16-9 triumph over the Grots, two “double- pro” members decided to celebrate the victory on the town. After a midnight stroll, they returned only to find the whole police force looking for them. After this, some members of the form were so downeast or disappointed that suicide and soul-searching were the main topics of conversation. All became outwardly unified, if not inwardly, before the end, and the form settled down for exams. JuNE 11, 1953. Dear Diary, I’m going down to the chapel after this entry. I was thinking now of how much the Barbers have helped me, too, and the faculty. How grateful I feel. Tomorrow the boys may graduate. 15 NEWS FLASH! Souruporo, Mass. (AP) Jung 13. Locan AUTHORITIES ARE STILL BAFFLED TODAY OVER THE DISCOVERY OF AN APPARENTLY INSANE LION THAT WAS FOUND CRYING AT THE ALTAR RAIL OF THE St. Mark’s CHAPEL YESTERDAY EVENING. No OFFICIAL EXPLANATION HAS YET BEEN GIVEN AS TO HOW OR WHY THE LION HAD HIS BREAKDOWN. THE LION OFFERED NO RESISTANCE WHEN THE ATTENDANTS CARRIED HIM AWAY, HOWEVER. A VETER- INARY PRESENT AT THE SCENE DIAGNOSED THE CASE THIS WAY: “IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE LION HAD BEEN WORKING VERY HARD AT SOMETHING FOR QUITE A WHILE. It’s ENOUGH TO GIVE ANYONE A BREAK- pOowN, I GUESS. “PERHAPS THE REASON HE DIDN'T OFFER ANY RESISTANCE WAS BECAUSE HE FELT HE HAD DONE THE JOB SATISFAC- TORILY, THE DOCTOR SAID.

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started off the term on the wrong foot, tripped, and then crawled around until June. Gilly and Mike began things by selling imported water guns at (naturally) black-market prices. Then everyone, in- cluding Fred, tore a hole in their Brooks Bros. suit pockets for their guns, just to ‘‘be ready.”’ Gae ended all this very soon, however, with a little lecture after morning prayers. Then, except for making tape recordings of the Thursday night lectures and a “mild” coke and ginger ale (et al) party in Framingham, there was almost nothing to do. Once the boys might rush out two St. Markers a day, or someone might try to hunt up a back copy of the V index (he never found it), and the Cercle (their motto, ‘‘all that glitters is not gold,’’) even displayed shining performances on French Night—but there was actually nothing to do. So it happened. In spite of the four monitors present and the nature of the ceremony they were about to perform, I could not help but feel that the whole atmosphere on that May night was very unofficial and very secular. Immediately after Hutch was bent up and “baptized” (complete im- mersion, including clothes), the “evange- listic’’ spirit seized everyone and before the services were over for the night (and the week), approximately thirty boys, one corridor, and one ceiling (Maxyvoy and Biff missed by minutes) had been aquatically acquainted. When the mist had cleared and the Fire had cooled, a seventh form with a new head mo emerged, the school’s most “influential form” controlling every school organiza- tion except the Blue and White and the Stationery store. Then, just two weeks later, the form’s second win over Groton united everyone again (with an occa- sional exception) and made them realize that, regardless, a diploma is a diploma. I should say more, though, about the Groton baseball game. With mad Buzzy gone, there was a frantic search for some- one to hex the Grotties. All doubts were dispelled when Dwight D. drove up for the week-end, equipped with everything a boy needs for popularity. After proper

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Scorr AIKEN Southborough, Massachusetts Scientific Society °52, Vice-President °53; Scholar °51; St. Mark’s Scholar 50, 52; Weatherman 752, 53; Cam Laude. A scholar is like a book written in a dead language: it ts not everyone that can read tt. MicHaEL AKERS Naples, Florida Prefect; Football Squad °50, Team 751, °52; Basketball Squad ’51; Fives Team °50; Baseball Squad °50, Team 751, °52, Captain °53; Choir-Glee Club 751, 52, °53; Fine Arts Society °51; Junior Dramatic Club 750; Scientific Society 50; Student Council °53; Dance Committee; Brotherhood of St. Andrew 53; Acolytes Guild 752, ’53; School Store Manager °53. My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O my soul is white. 16