Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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18 EL ARCHIVERO WILLIAM DAVID BEHNKE . UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA And. of all best things upon earth, T hold that a faithful friend is the Jestf, --Last Words, Bulwer Lytton 1955-1956: ,lack Boyd English Prize, Tim: Current Events Winner, Third Soccer Team. B Basketball Team, Second Baseball Team, Intramural Soccer Champs. l'I56-l9F7: A Basketball Team, Second Baseball Team, Third Soccer Team, A Basketball Improvement Trophy, Intra+ mural Soccer Champs. l957-WGS: A Basketball Team, First Base- ball team, Thatcher Lcttermen's Club. l95S,I999: A Basketball Team QCaptainD, First Soccer Team, First Baseball Team, S.B.V.l.S.C. Delegate, Tri-Lit tThachcr Etlitori, Radio Club tPresitleutj, School llrelect. Student founcil, Thachcr Letter- mcn's Club. The crowd cheers wildly as an enemy soccer forward approaches Thacher's goal. ,lust as the opponent is about to drive the ball into the net, a large, solid form intercepts him from the side at blinding speed and with powerful grace dribbles swiftly between two oncoming players. In another moment, after feinting his way into the open, the massive fullback sends the leather spheroid catapulting sixty yards down field to a waiting wing. Dave Behnke does not confine his athletic talents to soccer, for in the winter he may be seen on our air-conditioned basketball courts rebounding the ball high off the blackboard or at springtime on the baseball diamond pegging a man out at second with a fast, accurate throw from home plate. Behnk,' works just as hard as he plays. Nightly the lamp burns late as this student's eyes are wearied by reading Milton or physics. The effort shows, for he has one of the highest grade averages in the class. ln all of his many endeavors Bedink', always carries with him good sports- manship and a relaxed sense of humor. His friendly kidding and good nature are merely two of the qualities which make Dave Dave.

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EL ARCHIVERO 17 IOHN FRANKLIN BEALL, IR. . POMONA TIME PEOPLE NewPremier .... Stepping out of his Buick '59 near the auditorium of the Thacher School last week, was actor-singer John 1Daddy Cooll Beall, 18, the talented impresario who first hit the headlines three months ago with the publication of his intangible creative poetry. Beall, handsome and intellectual, posed in varying profiles for the assembled press men, and when asked why it was his last performance as Montserrat in the hit play by Broadway writer Lillian Hellman, he replied, 5'Manl That part just kills mein N E W S W E E K Contemporary Authorities Size Up Great Literary Figure of This Century, JOHN BEALL D. H. Lawrence: Imaginative creativity combined with literary talents shows deep psycho- logical insight and descriptive power . . , astounding blank verse may prove his teachers' cecityf' T, S. Eliot: Ironic juxtaposition of ideal and reality, subtle allusiveness of conventional transitions, profoundly pessimistic and limpidf, N. K. Chase: Pre-occupation with physico-mental processes due to ill-suppressed feelings. ' . . . depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Of Atheism, Francis Bacon 1957-1958: A Basketball, Varsity Tennis CCIF Championshipj, Notzr Literary Prize 1PoetryD, Masquers, Glee Club, Octet, Thatcher Lettermen's Club. IQSS-l959: Indoor Committee Tri-Lit flea- turedj, El .lrchiwro Board fllusiness Managerl, Notes Literary Prize fShort Story and Outstanding Entryj, Epi- cureans, Debate Team, Mas uers, Glee Club CPresidentj, Octet, Top qfen Walk- ing Mileage, TLC, Lion's Club Speak- ing Contest Cllezional Semi-Finalistj, Recess Baseball Champs.

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EL ARCHIVERO 19 THOMAS GRAHAM BELL . UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA THIS YEARIS AFS STUDENT, THOMASGRA HAMBELL, FROM NOGALES, REMOTE SOUTH AMERICAN VILLAGE We have been very fortunate to secure this year an AFS students from one of the more primitive and desolate areas of southern America. Thomasgra Ham- bell comes to us from the village of Nogales, on the frontier of that foreign stau called by the most recent cartographers Arizona',. Senor Hambell informed this reporter that he could not see why anybody would be cra,aazy', enough to live in the smog of California. Wl1y, he said, using several interesting tribal idioms, it's so grubby-and-a-half here that I canlt believe it! Judging from the inter- view'ee,s sun tan, it would seem that atmospheric pollution did not cut off any of the sunis rays in Nogales. The dark peoplen of this Mexico-Arizonan tribe worship gods of water and sun. Tom Hambell can usually be found bathing in either rays or waves. Upon feeling the need of meditation, he merely submerges himself to the bottom of the ocean and holds communion with the nearest anemone. Many minutes later, while more mortal Thacherites are speculating when, where, and if he will come up, the black-and-brown dripping head will surface in the most unlikely spot. Tinker,', to use the tribal familiar name, is admired and liked by everyone at Thacher. He has gracefully adopted the horses, bits and spurs, pianos and paintbrushes of Westrern civilization. He is accomplished in running and acting. This most robust of artists certainly lives up to the highest AFS QA Fine Studentl standards, and we, his class and friends, are proud to know him. He hath a heart as sound as a bell. -Much Ado About Nothing 1959-1950: Masquers, Radio Shack, Intra- mural Soccer, Fourth Team Soccer. Orange Gymkliana Team, C Track Tc-am, Lower School Gymkliana Team. V756-1957: Student Council, Art Board, In- tramural Soccer. Fourth Team Soccsr. Orange Gymkhzina Team, Track Team, Bit and Spur Club, IVS7-1958: Honor Committte, Art Board, Nlusquers, Piano Ensemble, Bit and Spur Club, Third Soccer Team, Intra- mural Soccer. Orange Gymkhana Team, B Track Team. 1958-1959: School Prelect, Student Council, Outdoor Committee, Epicureain Society, Art Board CPM-sirlentj, lVIzisquers Board, Bit and Spur Club fljresidentl, Second Soccer Team ICO-C2iPIllIIl,, Orange G- rn- khana Team, A Track Team.