The Morgan School - Tower Yearbook (Clinton, CT)

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We the students un the class of nuneteen hundred and fufty one are the last ever to be graduated from wuthun these hallowed walls, and as us futtung, our hustory us one that us somewhat on the order of a magnufucent clumax Perhaps to an outsuder lookung un, we may not appear to be partuculorly spectacular, but we are typucal and un the Amerucan sense of the word that means pretty wonderful As wuth anythung young and unexperuenced, ut us necessary for a start to occur before thungs begun to happen rapudly and wuth the savour faure of the ac complushed and learned Thus wuth the years our class has gauned momentum and wuth the advent of each new one our achuevements have become more numerous and handled more maturely As freshmen we entered unto these halls of uvy un typucol weak kneed frosh style but beneath our quaverung exteruors the egos of a hughly confudent crew were busy at work reassurung us and mokung us more cocky than ever The attutudes of the upperclass men toward us may have cowed us but only tempor oruly and we conceuted greenhorns proceeded to show the school that at last truly superuor students had arruved The upperclassmen were more surprused than anythmg else by our hugh school ombutuons and durung our furst year we made our mark un the fabu lous realm of hugh school actuvutues Furst place un the Curtus Mogazune Compaugn was our class had garnered ut we were prudeful haughty zealots but terrufyungly happy kuds Our premuere performance un secondary school was clumaxed wuth a rolluckung pucnuc on the sun drenched shores of Hammonassett State Pork mem orues stull lunger the funny uncudental kund that be come more precuous year after year That year rolled by all too quuckly and unfolded before our newly enlughtened selves, a panorama of drama fun and academuc success Come fall we returned thus tume as Sophomores stull on the bottom of the heap but feelung our od vanced posutuon as only people of our smug calubre could The hugh pount of the year was the purchasung of class rungs Some were un onyx and some un combuna tuon gold but all were very dustunctuve and added an aurora of the chuc about the proud possessor Toward the latter part of the year our Presudent Tom Howard decuded to return to hus old stompung grounds Long lslond for the remounder of the aca demuc year What better excuse for a party? Thus our small class of twenty two students had a sumply won derful tume at a goung away party un Tom s honor and succeeded un addung loads of glutter to on other wuse uneventful year The curtaun ruses now on year number three and what a year that was we were no longer the luttle ones, we were funolly of age we were the upper classmen Wwtaaq We were flyung hugh, very hugh and not once dur ung that whole year dud we ever crash The presentatuon of the Unuversuty of Connectucut Glee Club started us and our treasury off wuth a re saundung bang The group sang before an excellent house and the profuts were exceedungly gratufyung Then the stellar socual affaur our Cunderella Ball ut was really mognuflcent The desugn was all from the wonderful faury story and the hall was dec orated wuth utems suggested by ut Come the tume for graduatuon, we were busy as the senuors, as for the most part we shared the thrull and excutement of the funal weeks wuth them Class day Baccalaureate, and the Banquet, all o part of the bustle caused by the departung senuors, shared equally wuth us We complanued true, but we adored every munute of the frantuc preparatuons Congratulate us we made ut we are now senuors and cocky freshmen of a few years back are now the humble senuors humble un honest humuluty War a very ugly word us back un the vocabulary and the men of all free mens metropolus are march ung forth to meet the challenge of the aggressors once agaun Two fellows from our class went Duck Walton and Lee Correll Now that they are gone theur loss us felt keenly but what us sentumentaluty when ut comes to war a very ugly word For the fourth tume un as many years we agaun competed un the Mogazune Compaugn the detouls are better left unsaud but we dudnt have to present a party for the whole school Perhaps lughtnung doesnt struke twuce un the same place but we certaunly have had fabulous luck wuth our socual affaurs Our Cotulluan was very fune and the talk of the shorelune for weeks afterwards Hardly had the class tume to breathe when the college aspuronts had to compete un college board exomunatuons They were tough but the rugged crew that we were came out on top you see the adage us true that ut takes a good but to keep a good man down ln our last year o new club appeared on the Morgan scene ut was our own chapter of the No tuonal Honor Socuety Sux of our senuors had the honor of beung voted un They were Roger Bedell Muldred Braunord Myra Lee Dutrueuulle Thomas Howard .lohn Johnson and Joon Wall To top thus a senuor was elected Presudent and a gurl at that Myra Lee Graduatuon comes and wuth ut an odd yet pleas ant feelung of a new type of sadness not quute the tradutuonal kund thats present at every graduatuon ours was dufferent We are leavung the old for the new we are barely outsude of Morgans walls the scholarly mother whom we had known untumately for four years, when she us o legend to be recalled only through memorues Yes four hectuc years have passed what wull the future brung9 Who knows? MYRA LEE DUTRIEUILLE I I . . I . . . . I . . . . . ,, . I ,, . . . . . , . I - ' I . I , . I . . n . o 0 0 0 Il II u 1 J I 1 I ' I I I I a u u n . I , , I I - I I ' ' Il II ' I I I ' . . . , . . . . . , ours. We had worked madly to acquire it, and when - - 1 ' u - I I I I I I ' ' ' I . . , . . . I . . . I I . . . I I I . I . l Q ' ' 1 I . I I . . I I T I - I I - 1 l n T ' ' I T . I . . . - I I I . I . . . I I I I I I ll ' Il I I . I . I . . I I I I I 4 . . . I , . . . , , ' - I I I ' U . . , , - I I I I . . . , , . a 1 ' f . I . I ' I I I . 18

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I Don Gustafson leave to you Don Wallock my dancmg abullty It may lnsplre you to try sometime I Pat McElwann leave to you Barbara Walton my quuet ways and tltle of class lady but we re really devnls underneath I Ed Hardmg leave to you Gerald Wren and Arthur Becker my helght Theres plenty for both of you dont crowd I Ann Norton leave to you Carol Evarts my blush Maybe between the two of us we can reach a happy meclnum I Fred Thompson leave to you Chucky Avery some of my curly haur You re golng to have to stop getting crew cuts In order for It to do any good I Helen Rae Swann leave to you Joan Muller my qunet vonce It does more than lust soothe the nerves I Jack Passant leave to you Chappy Holbrook my love for complucated lab apparatus More fun' We Dotty Peterson Gert Platts Jean Slewert leave to any of the selected few commercial students period 5 study hall room 2 Watch out for those detentlon slnps I Duck Walton leave to you Tum Donahue my wllllngness to help anywhere anytime Lsfes greatest pleasures are nn helpmg others to be nuce I Ed McKlnlay leave to you Charlie Palmer my maroon sport coat It stall has plenty of llfe I Ann Norton leave to you Eduth Wnght a lock of my halr Didnt you ever notice my slight tmt of red? I Don Gustafson leave to you Bob Woodstock my love for school when Im not busy elsewhere I Pat McElwaln leave to you Abble Comstock my letter wrltmg Remember a letter a day wlll keep happy those away I Duck Walton leave to you Hllda Mondanl my modest ways onthe condltlon that they be returned lf abused I Joan Wall leave to you Louise Kane my 'obs on commlttees Its a lot of work but lt s also a lot of fun I Rebel Correll leave to you John Braunard my way with the women Take nt from here boy! I Dlan Dudley leave to you Elalne Pugh my dnmples Be careful they attract the opposite sex I Ed McKlnlay leave to you Gordon Bralnard all my hlstory notes Drop a pencil and believe me you re sunk Wrtnessed by Scnbes THE SENIORS MISSING MASCOT JEAN SIEWERT TOM HOWARD 'I7 II II Il II ' ' ' I I I I ' ll Il ' ' ' I I I I , . , . II II ' ' I I I I I ' I I I I I ' II ' II ' I ' I I I I ' I I I I ' II II II II ' I I I I II II II II ' I I I I , . . Il ' II II ' II ' ' I I I I I . . , . . II ' Il ' ' I ' I, Joan Wall, leave to you, Bertie Soderstrom, my pleasmg personaluty. Its mce II II ' II ' II ' I I I I ' . . . . , I I I I ' II ll n 11 -n I I I I I II II ' Il ' Il ' ' I I I I ' I II ' II II ' II ' ' ' I I I I I . . . , I I I I ' ' I II ll ' ' ' I I I I ' I I I I I ' I II II ' ' ' I I I I ' . . , , . I Il II , .

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