St Pauls School - Sigillum Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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glue OLBOMQQI' School Lower School, i958-1959, has had a worthwhile, if not spec- tacular, year for grades 5 through 8. lt has seen a great many happy moments and a tragic one too. Sports have been ably repre- sented, as have scholastic abilities, and, according to many of the masters, the reason is that this year's Lower School, the Second Form in particular, has been the best in many years. As always, the aim of the Lower School this year has been to prepare the boys to enter the Upper School with as much advance knowledge and priming as is possible. The extent to which this is accomplished can only depend on the willingness of the boys them- selves to learn. The Lower School masters, iust as with any other age group, can do no more than the students will let them do. The courses which the fifth and sixth graders took included Eng- lish, mathematics, history, science, music, and gym. The First and Second Forms also took courses in English, math, history, science, music, and the ever present gym. They also got their first taste of Latin. Naturally some students excelled in these courses over others, but, as stated by the Lower School head, Fr. Durando, this year has seen a great number of Lower Schoolers make the Honor Roll. ln sports, as in scholastic work, the aim of the Lower School is to prepare the boys to take their place in the lll Form and to pro- gress from there at the best of their ability. Sportswise this has been done very satisfactorily. While some of the better athletes did wres- tle with the varsity wrestling team, the maiority of them remained with their own age group. Lower Schoolers had the opportunity of participating in soccer, football, basketball, and baseball. Accord- ing to coach Durando, the win-loss record for the football team consisted of 3 victories, 3 defeats, and one tie. The basketball team saw an even better season with 7 wins and only two losses. This is to the credit of both the coaches and the players alike. Mr. Russell's soccer team had a season of 3 wins, l loss, and l tie, while the baseball season is still to be concluded. Field trips are an important part of the Lower School calendar, and in the past the boys have visited the Hayden Planetarium, vari- ous manufacturing plants, and airplane factories. Science trips were taken, including some for the purpose of collecting specimens for the science classes. The one tragic note came from the tragic death of First Former Dick Williams, who was a well liked and very popular boy. His death was a sad loss to all. Another event that did, however, have its amusing overtones and cause considerable talk throughout the school was the Dread Plague which struck and in one day leveled more than twenty Lower Schoolers. Mrs. Routcliffe deserved a medal on this one. The Lower School has many boys of which it can be proud. Probably the most outstanding scholastically is Charles Kawada. A Second Former, Kawada has maintained an average in the nineties during his years here, won an outstanding student award at lost year's Commencement, and will probably be the head boy of the Lower School graduating class this June. Others who have consistently kept their grades at a high average are Regan, Brown, Tulbert, French, Willets, Freese, Lincoln, Miller, Papa, Berko, and Babcock. Lower School sports have also produced a number of outstanding athletes. During the football season Smith, John'Whittaker, and Cappy were the gridiron stars. ln soccer Giebel and Borsari scored many goals, and basketball saw Palmer as a star. While the base- ball season is not yet over, the general opinion among many of the Lower Schoolers is that Kawada is as much at home, and able, on the diamond as he is on the Honor Roll.

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