University School - Mabian Yearbook (Hunting Valley, OH)

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27' B ll A N Thomas Robbins Parker Prefect C455 Student Council C35, President C455 Varsity Football Squad C255 Football Letterman C355 Editor- in-Chief of Mabian C455 Glee Club C455 Choir C455 News C355 Sports Editor of News C455 Varsity Club C355 Secre- tary Star Club C355 Cadmean Society C25 C35 C455 Edward Moore Society C455 Winner General Information Contest C35, Second C25 C455 Chairman Refreshment Committee of Senior Prom C455 Headmaster's List C35 C455 Second Honors C15 C25 C355 Varsity Track Squad C255 Freshman Football C155 Freshman Track C155 Vice-President Class C25 C455 Sherman Prize Speaker C35. Eyes are focused on a lighted platform. The Players are giving one of their biennial performances. Suddenly from the Stygian darkness a strange sound is heard. The actors pause. The audience stirs uneasily. Doctor Peters peers warily about him. But the sound continues. From an eerie screech, it cres- cendoes to a mighty horse haw, ripples back and forth, and grudgingly dies. The actors are given their cues, and the play goes on. The audience, with difficulty, returns its gaze to the stage. According to its author, Tom Robbins Parker, this weird shriek is a laugh, but those who know him well forgive him this horrible accomplishment. Tom is one of the most popular boys around school, in spite of the fact that he is President of the Student Council. Such a diilicult position well-filled is a true test of popularity, so let it be known that Tom is Vice-President of his Senior Class. Tom is one of those energetic persons who find time for everything, including impersonations and vocalizations in the Senior Room. Editor of this honored annual, athlete, speaker, general information prize winner, and all-around fellow, Tom has set up an enviable record and reputation at school. .llolhnm Bright llmarlklhunrst Freshman Swimming Team5 Sherman Prize Speaker C355 Glee Club C35 C455 Choir C35 C455 News C15 C25 C35, Literary Editor C455 Bushnell English, Second C455 First Honors C25 C355 Second Honors C35 C455 Library Commissioner C455 Edward Moore Society C455 Players C25 C35, President C45. If the criterion of intelligence is determined by the application of a minimum of effort in order to obtain a maximum of results, Jack Park- hurst is the unacknowledged genius of the senior class. No master can long resist that unruffled urbanity of address or that dignified look of vir- tuous innocence which invariably accompany J. B.'s phillipics in defense of his persistency of concentration. On several occasions the man of leisure has been known to deign to participate Cof course in a feigned manner of paternal conde- scension5 in the friendly tussels always in progress behind the closed door of the Senior Roomg and in fact Pres. Lamb strongly suspects our John of No gamble is the prediction that Tom will be as great a success at his college, Yale, and later in life, as he was here. tossing one of the small pests through the formerly beautiful davenport. Seriously though, Jack has supervised the literary page of the News with extraordinary successg and in the presentations of the Players, his character roles, especially that of a misguided French interpreter, have been im- pressive. As a rule Jack is not boastful, but he is inordinately proud of Egbert Oswald, the Dual- Ratio King of Fordsg and he is not excessively modest when asked to explain how he manages to maintain his impeccable wardrobe one month in advance of the styles illustrated in Esquire. But alas, the parting of the ways has come, and we must say-Cheerio, jawn!

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l-l Ernst Weideman Mueller Freshman Football Team 18th1 1115 Freshman Track Team 1115 Student Council 121 1415 Mabian Board 1415 Bushnell English Examination, Second 1315 Edward Moore Society 1415 Varsity Wrestling 141g Cum Laude Society, Secretary 1415 First Honors 111 121 131 141. Some of us know him for his wrestling, some for his phil- osophies, and some for his non-professional tutoring in the Senior Room, but all of us recognize him as the personification of well- directed energy expanded towards an always definite goal. But many of us have seen him working for nothing, as it were, dur- ing long evenings as he strives to defeat Lady Luck-so far, though, she has bested him in nearly every conflict. School work holds no terrors for Ernst-that is, except for Physics 1applied Algebra!1. Even Mr. Walton's pet nightmare, Solid Geometry, does not phase him-much. Notwithstanding all his many con- quests in masculine fields, Ernst has never been tempted from his rightous path of monogomy. And after two years, he still insists that a little sister, not a gorgeous Senior is the cause of his daily visits to H. B. S. Again we Wonder! But feel that fair Harvard will change Ernst in more ways than this oneg perhaps it may even alter his pink viewpoint. Best luck and more blnckjacks to you, Ernst! Don't be frightened by the headress of our subject, dear reader. It is no symbol of pagan ritualism nor fiendish device of the desire to frighten innocent children, but rather it is the culmination of years of ceaseless cultivation. Bill North, our amiable subject in his spare time, is a most successful President of the Edward Moore Society and the only non-squirrel of the Prefect Board. To his more intimate acquaintances he will have it known that as a bridge player, he con- siders himself second only to the matchless Hal Sims. He follows Mr. Sims' system exclusively even to the point of becoming psychic. Un- happily what to him are psychic efforts to foiling his opponents serve only to confound his tolerant partners. Bill is possessed of an ism which just off hand can't be scientifically placed, but it can be William Harrison North Edward Moore Society 131, President 1415 President of Class 111 121, Vice-President 131, Treasurer 1415 Cadmean Society 121 131 1415 Student Council 111, Secretary 131, Vice-President 1415 Board of Prefects 1415 News Board 121 131, Sports Editor 1415 Mabian Sports Editor 1415 Glee Club 131 1415 Choir 131 1415 Second Honors 131 1415 Fresh- man Footballg Freshman Basketballg Freshman Baseballg Varsity Football 1415 Varsity Basketball 1415 Varsity Tennis 131, Captain 1419 Saunders Tennis Cup Winner 1315 Ath- letic Council 1415 Junior Prom Committee 1315 Senior Farewell Committee 1315 Community Fund Supervisor 1415 Chairman of junior Prefectsg Foul Shooting Contest, Third 121. described by merely stating that he gets restless mentally unless he can manager to wrinkle a fen- der or two on the family car monthly. Another phase of his life that proves rather an enigma to his classmates is the nature of the spasmodic airmail letters he gets from Pine Manor. However, Bill promises to get this spasmodic con- dition remedied next year when he's at Cornell, where he will be a trifle nearer to E. B. '26

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T H JE ll 9 3 5 Joseph Corbin Ramsey Freshman Football Team5 Freshman Basketball Team5 Freshman Baseball Team5 Class Football 1215 Varsity Basket- ball 131 1415 Varsity Baseball Squad 1315 Varsity Soccer 1415 Varsity Clubg Cadmean Society 131 1415 Dance Com- mittee 1415 Edward Moore Society 131 1415 Junior Prom Committee 1315 Glee Club, Presidentg Choir. Once upon a time-five long years ago-a little farmer lad romped up the steps of U. S. with a tin whistle in his mouth. He gulpedg he gaspedg and the whistle in his mouth disappeared. Ever since that memorial day, Joe has had a perpetual expression of gullible amazement upon his smiling visage, and his birdie whistles have never abated in intensity for any appreciable period. The Chagrin Terror is an extremely nervous chap for one of his complacent disposition. Rumor has it that last Hal- lowe'en after a certain episode of pure fun, Joseph was hastily fleeing down Chagrin's main street with the one-man police force pufhng diligently behind. Having just traded in his corn- cob for one of them new-fangled briars, Joe was in slightly better condition than the stout policeman, and eventually man- aged to evade him. His shattered nerves haven't yet recovered from the apprehension of confinement in the local dungeon. Some people, however, place no faith in this rumor, but attribute Joe's alertness rather to a natural fear that them city slickers'll put somethin' over on him. In his younger days, Joe used to pitch potatoes across the field into a bushel basket, singing to himself all the while. Therefore, when Joe entered U. S. he soon became an indispensable member of the basketball team and later President of the Glee Club. After eighteen years of disturbance and turmoil, Chagrin Falls already is preparing to enjoy the four peaceful years which will follow Joe's graduation from U. S. and his enrollment in Pennsylvania. Though as people of the United States, U. S. students fail to recognize titled aristocracy, yet they recognize and indeed pay homage to their one remnant of feudal titlage at University School. Dick, the Duke Robertson is their object of esteem and well is he worthy of such a title. The Duke is a swimmer par excellence. He came to us two years ago from Florida bearing various titles of Florida State swimming championships. We were impressed and happy. However, The Duke found Florida championship times would not break any records in Ohio. So what did he do? Why, he just improved until he was swim- Richard 'fllfaullboitit Robertson Varsity Football 1413 Varsity Swimming 1415 Osborn Moore Swimming Trophy Winner 1415 New School Swim- ming Record in 100 Yard Free Style-55.8 seconds and 220 Yard Free Style-2:24.8 secondsg Varsity Track 131 1415 Varsity Club 131 1415 Mabian Board 1415 Senior Prom Committee 141. ming on a par with Ohio state championship times. In fact, he broke Bill Crouse's record in the 100 yard free-style, and jimmy House's record in the 220 yard free-style. He did this all in one year, thus netting for himself the Osborne Moore Swim- ming Trophy. The Dukei' has been variously described in local newspapers as the Florida Sunshine Boy, the Bronze Giant, the Tan Apollo , etc. We feel, however, that no more fitting title, the Duke , can be given a championship swimmer whose prep school performances are comparatively on a par with the Olympic performances of the great Hawaiian champion, Duke Kahauamokn. IZ8