University School - Mabian Yearbook (Hunting Valley, OH)

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23' M B ll A N Francis Sclhlerili Leonard Varsity Track Team 135 1453 Varsity Soccer Team 1453 Gym Team 145g Orchestra 135, President 145, Cadmeam Society 1453 Varsity Club 135 145. It is impossible to think of Francis Leonard, without one word-speed-popping into one's mind. Fran is Coach Grant's star dashman on the track team, and there is not a more smooth and beautiful sight :han seeing Len flying down the straight away in the hundred-yard dash. Not satished with his own in- herent speed, Fran has an eighty-mile an hour motor cycle that excites the envy of all boys. Fran's other occupier of his time, besides his studies, is the school orchestra of which he is the president. No doubt credit should be given to Maestro Funkhouser for holding Len down, but then Fran gets his freedom to go as fast as he wants in his own jazz orchestra, called the Sole Killers. Such a name connotes heat and speed! Despite Len's speed, he slows down enough for one to catch his sly quips in chemistry, and appreciate his pleasing personality. Barnard Coffin Luce, Jr.. junior Varsity Football 115, League Football 1255 Captain, League Football 1255 Wrestling 125, Secretary of Stamp Club 1253 Fencing 1353 Varsity Football 135 145: Dance Committeeg Players. Those who really know Barney find him very interesting, but even more so when he comes out from behind his whiskers, which only the week ends seem to be able to make him do. His football experience has been varied as well as his stage experience. This year in the Players he played as a lover and then as a Russian, two widely diversified parts, but both easily within his scope of acting. Around school we find him looking first like a black bearded hermit and then like a handsome city slicker, but always we find him defending his home town of Detroit to the utter- most. He is a resident of the Dorm, and in that quarter he is known for his designs of modern ocean liners. He is very much inter- ested in all phases of the nautical world as well as in aviation, sports, reading, and the theatre. Next year he hopes to be at Brown continuing his studies to be a business man, and maybe an engi- neer.

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'il' H IE ll Robert Robe Lalnalb Glee Club 1415 Second Honors 121g News Board 1415 Freshman Swimming, Class Basketball 1513 Class Swimming 1213 Varsity Track Squad 1213 Class Tennis 121 131 141. Bob, who joined our ranks some seven years ago, is another of the wits 1?1 of the Senior Class. His humor has been shown in most classes, particularly English, where as an annoyer of Mr. Gray he has no equal. This year he was one of the standbys of the Glee Club. And, despite his tomfoolery, Bob managed to make the News Board this year, turning out some of the best articles in that interesting paper. He has been active in class athletics, participating in Class Tennis for the last three years. Next year will find Bob at Dartmouth, and the school will find itself separated from one of its most agile humorists. And if you don't think that he has a flare for writing, be- sides the News, he walked off with S25 in the Merchant Marine Contest in the Ohio competition, plus the SIS Cadmean awarded him. We have every confidence he,ll use the money well, or don't we? Now we come to one of the most enigmatic, silent, and secretive boys of the Senior Class, John Laubscher. He resides at the dorm, but is very vociferous about his liking for Lakewood. And, we mustn't omit it, he is not very silent, at least one can worm it out of him, about his liking for Lakewood girls. In evidence of his feeling toward 9 3 5 John Kenneth Lnnbseher Varsity Track Squad 1415 junior Varsity Football 1413 Senior Prom Committee 141. girls, witness the way he sticks to the Trianon, the good old Trianon, where his face is a decided orna- ment. If you are still in doubt as to his voice you should come into chapel when lunch is on the tables. Chances are 11 out of 31 that you will hear a voice exclaiming, Who wants my dessert -for a nickel? Ah, yes, oh, woe, 'tis John, but he has no takers-at a nickel. '22

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T l-l lil l William Alexander MeCleary Orchestra 131, Glee Club 1415 Headmaster's List 141. For two years now Bill McCleary has been a familiar and interesting character in the dorm's roster of school personalities. He is quiet and reservedg perhaps to day boys he seems a bit secretive. And so really to discover the real personality of Mac you muSt be a dorm habitue. His rather pompous carriage is remarkable. If by nothing else, you can tell by his walk that Mac's a minister's son. And it looks as if he'll be one who follows in his father's guiding footsteps. If you don't believe that, just hark back to his senior speech about Moses and Aaron, religion and the radio. It seems that Mac even went to Dr. Phillips' church over Fairmount way the Sunday before to acquire the convincing ministerial touch that melts audiences and such. But McCleary uses his rich, booming voice for vices, too. You can easily pick his base voice out of the other bass voices in the Glee Club. Well, anyway, best of luck, Mac! lfirecdleriiels Stevens McConnell, Jr. With a daub of paste in one hand and a two hundred word article in the other, our industrious News Editor is vainly trying to complete his re- nowned front page. Dictating headlines to his subordinates and muttering dire 1dyer1 threats against the lives of his subordinates, Fred domi- nates the News room in the tower at the time of publication. Suddenly with a cunning gleam of satisfaction he pounces upon an unsuspecting hole, pastes in the article, and another News is com- pleted. Thus we see Fred at his most notable News Board 131, Editor-in-Chief 1413 Handbook, As- sociate Editor 131, Editor 141, Alumni News Letter, Asso- ciate Editor 141, Senior Room Director 141, First Honors 17th1 18th1 111 121 131 1413 C.E.E.B. First Honors 131, Second Honors 1211315 Cum Laude, President 145 Highest Scholarship, Middle School 12 years1, junior Declamation Speaker 1815 Sherman Speaking Contest, Third 1319 Edward Moore Society 1415 Cadmean Society 1415 Spelling Contest, Third 141, Mabian, Assistant Editor 141, Players 121 131 1413 Headmaster's List 141. occupation, or, perhaps, we remember him, lying cold and stark in the eerie blue floodlights during his last Players' performance. Perhaps, while we bitterly recall our long-gone-by grades, we will re- member the record of AU after A that Fred has hung up for the younger and less distinguished honor boys to shoot at. When Fred leaves this year for Yale, we know well that he will not need our wishes for good luck and better grades , in- stead, We shout, 'A' revoir et Bon voyage. l24