Thatcher School - El Archivero Yearbook (Ojai, CA)

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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.

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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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20 EL ARCHIVERO IONATHAN BOLDUAN . WILLIAMS Cunning in Music and Matllenlat- ics . . . --The Taming 01 the Shrew l'Ji7 IWZN: Sefontl Socfcr llicam, Second fiasc- I-ull Tcxllii. Omliue Kiyinklianxt Tezlni. IIJQSYIUGV: .Vntri Board, lipiciircain Club, C-inn lioaircl, lop 'lien NV:ilking Mile' nec, First Soccer Team, Chess Ladder, M.isqncrs. As the Thacher School files with supreme dignity into the Outdoor Chapel, a tall figure with curly blonde hair sits intently sight-reading and pumping at the ltlfl-pipe grand organ. As the last solemn Arnett is still reverloerating, a faint cry of lioldwa-a-a-a-anl', emanates from the rear of the assembled flock. The organist looks up from his music to flash the famous l3oouuldie smileii and pos- silily responds with a completely inaudihle 'LYe-e-e-e-es?,' But Baldy does not confine himself to hymns. Thacheris most accomplished pianist can lie heard almost any day in the music hox plucking rag-time from the ivories. The adept fingers of the virtuoso,s hand find other uses, too. They have pro- duced the quick. sharp racket of a typewriter as often as the soothing tones of a sonata. By hard work ,lon consistently adds two extra Clays to his vacations. More than once in lioom l have all the history students simultaneously swiveled their astonished heads around to find Baldwin delivering a two-minute discourse on an involved question which had drawn a complete blank from everybody else. jon will also he rememliered as the guided missile of the soccer team. Some- how. whenever there was a collision on the field. a cheerful Baldy emerged tri- umphant with the hall to give it a well-aimed lioot down the field. Williams will gain next year a musician, an athlete. a scholar. and a most wonderful smile.