Saint Marks School - Lion Yearbook (Southborough, MA)

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made up the whole of a great hockey team. Johnny was elected captain for '57. Nip was elected wrestling captain and Bull a.lso got a letter. He was so intrigued by the colors that he never took them off. Babs earned the position of basketball captain. The dance committee lecl by Mickey, aided by a self-appointed seventh meni- ber, produced a gay motif for the Friday part of the Sixth Form dance. At the smoker which followed, the Form song was inaugurated by Archie, a light, rol- licking ballad entitled Audie M urphy set to the tune of Red River Valleyf' Stickball became the spring craze after D.B. threw out the first. ball to climax a stirring ceremony in which the Star Spangled Banner was whistled by the whole form. North Q and VVest 2 faced each other in nightly encount.ers, which often drew blood. Rafe's nothing ball was the big threat of West 2, while Curt, en- veloped in a heady mist, could be relied on to drop any and every ball which came his way. Jock was a safe bet to strike out, and Ladder was just fazed by the whole game. The byword of the season became, down to the whit.e rockv - a rock over which smoke eddied and blew. Everyone who was anyone - led naturally by the Long Island contingent-joined in t.l1c merrymaking. Charlie became baseball captain: Frog, thriving in his own element, headed the crew. Dick took over the tennis team, while Jeem and Nip co-captained la- crosse. John was elected Head hfonitor, and we embarked for the summer, with an eye to becoming the heads of the School under his proven command. Wie all returned to our sheltered clois- ters in September, very definitely the worse for wear after a completely dissi- pated three months. Brantwood proved a favorite haunt for many, and Jock's abode was the stopping place en route to Peter- boro, New Hampshire. Soon after becoming reestablished, Aargh and various of our members on West. 2, developed a very definite and un- reasonable dislike to the night watchman, and took great pride in thwarting t.he wretched gentleman at every turn. Re- peated warnings trickled in from authori- ties above, and a hasty retreat was begun. Bridge, instituted by Chaddy and Jeem, soon became the major indoor sport, played during smoker and in other ex- traneous times in Mr. Barber's study to t.he melodious accompaniment of Doc's mood music. The list of plumbers grew constantly, led by Ego te who de- pended primarily on Heaven t.o save him from awful death at the hands of his partners. An earthly god finally stepped onto the scene and a formidable curfew was placed on the card sharps - but not before even our Japanese exchange stu- dent had mastered the game. The football team, led by Jeem, cli- maxed a great. year by a smash win over Huey Scott and Co., while the booters also fared extremely well. The fall term was brought to a crashing finale by the various dorm feasts and t.heir accompany- ing riots. Tony and Blick, as representa- tives of their corridors, challenged each

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centrated all effort on Boogie. Tom and Tony, rooming next to Hall, rigged up a rather dubious-looking apparatus ulti- mately destined to siphon water into Boogie,s bed. Unfortunately, a corps of prefects burst in upon the conspirators in the midst of a trial run, and the machi- avellian scheme was nipped in the bud. On the gridiron, Buck starred on the Varsity, while Mickey acquired a some- what dubious soccer letter. Ted, Fred, and Johnny scored on the hockey team, and hfickey landed in the goal. Indoors, Buck clinched a spot on the basketball team, while Nip and Dave wrestled. Nleanwhile, on North 3, slingshots came into their own, with Rusty on Hospital carrying on a spirited battle against the whole corridor. As winter cold descended, and windows remained shut, the frus- trated Archie quickly came to the con- clusion that Air-wick was the only valu- able product of the North. The spring term arrived just in time, and the Dog moved back to the pole vault pit. Our dorm feast was highlighted by a truly awe-inspiring riot between North 3 and VVest 3, which ended up with a con- certed attack on Dorm C. Brooms became the weapon of the hour, and Aargh man- aged to poke a hole in the door of Harde's room, 1nuel1 to Biff's despair. In the spring sports scene Charlie, Ted, and Johnny inspired tl1e baseball team to a Groton victory, while NVendell, Daggett, Dil, and Prune cringed before Mr. Lanier on Fort Meadow. The year was closed out after a Form picnic, given in honour of the departing lNIcCandlesses. We finally left for vacation with a somewhat questionable feeling of pride. John had tried to show us the way, and remarkably enough, we were learning! At the beginning of the following year, we began to realize that., disgusting as it was, we were going to have to work - at least occasionally -if we hoped to fight the formidable Fifth Form curriculum. Ive started now to come into prominence on the sport scene and other activities, as Nip, George, and Captain Jeem starred on a fair football team. John and Mick were aga.in standouts for the booters. Pete and Archie showed their dramatic talents on the stage. This was Petc's world premiere as a male star - and was only marred by the fact that he was a monk. VVe also boasted a crack slingshot team, co-captained by Goose and Hoser. They and their squad scrimmaged nightly, and managed to shatter over 60 windows be- fore lNIr. Gaccon's attention was called to the breakage. Strangely enough, the team soon ceased to exist. In class, NVendell's frankness was ap- palling. hir. Chatfield, surprisingly enough, ejected him from the room after being classified as a liar, and Dr. Begg's mind was unable to grasp the rather distorted humor of being called a cheater - once more lvendcll departed. North 2 was forced to band together to form a vigilante committee to curb C.B., a beast which possessed a definitely sa- distic sense of lmmor. We gradually be- came resigned and Augie's purchase of some Super-Spray shaving cream marked the start of a new and frothy trend. In the winter, Fifth Formers almost

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other to a duel to the death. The raging uproar was subdued eventually by a much distressed clergyman. The winter term found t.he Sixth Form corridor reduced to a reasonable facsimile of Dorm A. Daggett's banshee cries and Porto Ric's screams of agony sounded as a clarion call above the subdued shrieks from the rest of the overturned rooms. The climax of these skirmishes was the piece by piece removal of Boog's bed, mattress and blankets, by a gay group of do-gooders. Order was finally restored by the imperial hand of Chwarlie, who was attempting to prepare for his impending wedlock. The hockey team completed an almost undefeated season and even Southerner Jones managed to gain an SM. Thayer's club hockey team, led by Willy, was completely outelassed by Frog's Fearing. The Sixth Form dance will go down in posterity, if only for the brutally fought out broom hockey game on Saturday and the dance after Sunday chapel, in which all religious scruples were forgotten. The ensuing mail influx was led by daily epistles from a sweetly singing Brook-e, who washed away all Aarglfs defenses. Spring vacation arrived, and with it a happy rush for the sunny shores of Ber- muda. Nick made daily trips to the Sea- man's Savings Bank, where he depleted his account for many a fair lass. When Mike was not devouring burnt toast, he sped gaily around the island clutching his famous cap. We all came tripping happily back for our final term, singing the new form ballad, a harmonious little munber set to the tune of Tear It Down. A savage onslaught of reports, essays, and other equally dismal projects appeared out of nowhere, and all was temporarily peaee- ful, with only the unnerving chatter of typewriters breaking the quiet of South Q. It could not last: we knew it, as did Wild Bill. Soon a novel idea sneaked into the mind of Charlie, and t.he first water pistol appeared. The form quickly divided into two formidable teams, armed to the teeth with sawed-OH: water pistols and balloon hand grenades. Frog, Zowie, a.nd Stiffen were undaunted leaders in the nightly crusades which raged through the entire school. The library was the base of all