Taft School - Taft Annual Yearbook (Watertown, CT)

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WILLIAM BURG ANSTINE JR Wfilliams Three Years at Taft Beta Bchmtl the Wlieel Crazy Bill Anst Cool XX'1lly Dinan Bind SQ Marching Bind 56 Context Band 58 Glce Club 58 L pper School Debating, 58 jlggcr bhop Committee 57 Camera Club 58 Varsity Basketball T 58 I V Basketball 56 57 J V Track 57 Automobile Club 58 If you can plcture a boy wearing a red sweater and a blue golf cap, seated at his desk and vigorously manipulating a ski pole, you can picture Anst MG sports car At Hrst, this wild exhibition of sports car enthusiasm may seem to con flict with Bills placid nature, but, on closer 1nSpCCt10r1 of Bills character, one also detects his great enthusiasm and determination in everything he tackles, be it sports cars, basketball, track, music, or scholastic achlevement Willie, who failed in his attempt to make the York Pa Junior High Basketball team, set his sights on the Taft Varsity squad His diligent and enthusiastic practice enabled h m to join the J V squad as a Middler and the Varsity team as a Senior While rummaging through his closet one Saturday afternoon he un covered a dusty snare drum which he thought he had left home Five minutes later th halls were reverberating with wild drum rolls One month later the Concert and Marching bands were blessed with Cool Wlllies drum, and, within half a year, the Taft School Dance Band, the epitome of instrumental skill, accepted Willie and his drum into its folds For reasons that should be fairly obvious by now we are confident that Bill will do more than an adequate job in any walk of life he chooses Farquhar Estates York Pennsylvania 26 2 1 ' ' Q58 . . . . . . ,, ,, in one of his rare moments of ecstasy - practicing speed shifting for his . . . , . . . . , , 'f , . , - , S . . . U ' ' QQ ' ' , ,Y 3

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ANTONIO ALOMAR GARCIA P Four Yeirs at Taft Beta 'I he LeBlanc s Funny man' Spncler Monkey Sprck jre Papyrus Photog.,t1pher 56 57 58 Press Club Photogrrpher 58 Music Club 58 Current Events Club 58 Gui Club 55 5f Camera Club 55 55 57 58 Secretary Treasurer 58 Chemxstry Club 58 Vusrty Soccel T 58 V Soccer 57 Vars1ty Hockey T 58 j V Hockey 57 Lower School Hockey 56 V.1rs1ty Track 57 H3lllng from that colorful South Amerlcan country Colombla, Tony, better known among h1S fr1ends as Sp1der Monkey flrst set foot 1n these halls four years ago as an lnconsplcuous Lower M1ddler and qulckly became a well l1ked member of h1s class As far as scholast1c achlevement IS concerned Tony has 1mproved 1m mensely When Tony first came to Taft he could speak only a few words of Engllsh As the years elapsed Splder Monkey grasped the Engllsh language 1n such a way that he has become an excellent scholar HIS abllxty to compre hend 1deas qu1ckly has helped Tony not only ln h1s stud1es but also nn athletlcs S1nce Tony llves 1n South Amer1ca, he had never skated untll he came to Taft Therefore, we can say that earmng hlS letter ln hockey was Tonys greatest athletxc accompl1shment, a goal Tony made by h1s eagerness to learn Not content w1th hockey as h1s only letter sport Splcler Monkey has won h1S letter on th Track squad by runn1ng the m1le He also was on the Varslty Soccer team d1st1ngu1sh1ng hlmself as a good forward Another of h1s accom phshments 1S 1n the Held of photography Many have praxsed h1s skxllful plctures, wh1ch are cont1nuously wlnnmg photography contests and wh1ch have helped h1m ga1n a pos1t1on on the Papyrus as a photographer It can be sald w1th confidence that, on the baSlS of h1s fine record at Taft, Tony IS assured of success ln the future Ap Aereo 839 Fernando, Agullo 20 Medellm Colomb1a Barcelona, Spam 25 R. .I. 2. fl , 1 1 1 ' ,' ,' 5 ,Z ' A l .V 7 J. V. Track '56 , ' ' QQ ' ,Y ' 3 , - ' 2 ' ll ' ,S ' ' Y . . . , . . U . ,, . , G . . . . . 9 ' - , Y

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THAYER BALDWIN Xae Tue Yerrs at Taft Alpha In the surf m not talkrntc, xx hlle the flaxor lists 'lcd RC'lLly Teddy Blldy Marchmg, Brad 51 S5 Concert Bmd S Press Club 55 56 Copy Fdxtor 57 Vxcc Prun clLl'lI SQ C YSIHIIS Chou Sl SS Cheerleldcrs SQ VZYSIIY DCDIIIHKL, 57 58 Lpper School Debxtxngc 57 Vlce Pres1dentSecret11y Lower School Debltlng 5l 55 56 Masque and D13,g,crNoc1cty 55 if 57 58 Receptlon CITIIIIIIIIICL 57 59 Current Ex ents Club SQ Mathemxtlcs Club W Chemxstry Club S8 V Soccer 56 57 Vars1ty Soccer I 57 Sunday DISLLISSIOD Group 57 58 ust by graduatmg from Taft Ted Baldwxn wlll earn hlmself a great d1St1I1CtlOI'l Ted IS one of the five remammg members of the orxgmal class of S8 Others have dropped by the waysxde, but Ted IS stlll w1th us and ln a falrly pos1t1ve sense, too He has brought acclalm to l1llTlSIf ln v1rtually every Held of endeavor Durlng thls soccer season, he was an outstandmg member of the schools best team ln years At the same tlme he was a cheerleader whenever he was free of soccer oblrgatlons To make h1s record even more 1mpress1ve he also took part ln the Fathers Day play and took lead posxtlon on the negltnve team 1n the December Yale Debate Ted IS a member of the Masque amz' Dagger Society and has been smce hls Lower Mld year He became the first member of our class to make Varslty Debatmg and IS now Vrce Presldent In addltlon, he has been a valuable member of the Press Club and IS V1ce Presrdent of that orgamzatlon, also Llke all of us thls symbol of mdustrrous youth has h1s weaknesses The foremost among these IS MISS Sherrle Platt, who has been hns date at every Taft dance as long as any one of us can remember Smce everyone IS golng to be successful and wealthy and thus, of course, happy, to say Ted w1ll be successful does not say much about hlm Let us say, rather, he wlll enjoy l1fe he always manages to 75 Alterton Ave Hull Massachusetts 27 ,JR 'l .,. ' . ..I, .V -.Y U D' 4 'l A ll hi? af' ,' z'. r 4 L-V, -. . 1 1.7, Q . -:A g '58 a '5.' .' '. ' a 'f ' fm' .' ' I I I 'l .ls ,, k.' 'Q 1 ' '- , . . . . . . . S . . . . . . , ,. , . , .. . . s 2 . . . , . . ,