Vermont Academy - Wildcat Yearbook (Saxtons River, VT)

Page 19 text:

We, the Class of 1938, considering with clear judgment that our work in mind, body, and spirit is completed at Vermont Academy leave the following bequests: First, to the Class of 1939, all our fame including the excellent leadership of Louis Graves, President. Item, to four underclassmen the voices of the quartet CHanks, Redlon, Frey, and Schmidtj plus a few sharps and flats, and Redlon's throat-clearing act. Item, Andy Bitgood bequeaths his drums to Stacey Cole. Item, Doc Andersen leaves his wardrobe to Dude Rice. To Bill Lyons, Jack Reynold's aggressiveness in the Bird League basketball court. To Ben Saunders, Dan Casale's paper route and business ability. Bob Smith grants an appropriation so that the post office will not go into bank- ruptcy upon his departure. Bush, Hett, Glenn and Harlie Reed, Frey, Singleton, Irv. Townsend, the seven old men, depart after four years of t-oil and service. Q Item, Bates leaves Lois to some love-sick underclassman. Item, to Jack Neff some of Duggan's height. I To any undergraduate, Dick Graves' technique of sleeping under beds. Item, Olchowski leaves a fine scholastic and athletic record. Nat Perry gives his medical supplies to the infirmary. Downs, the athlete, donates his room to some Junior who does not object to con- tinuous bull sessions. To Steve Porter, Jim Buckley wills the Rec room piano. Item, Hill gives his kitchen troubles to D. Smith. Bob Blood leaves, much to the relief of opposing athletic teams. Bill Dunn, Jr., inherits Bill Andrews' formula to keep that schoolboy complexion. We hope Bill Leahy does not leave his violin behind. To next year's varsity football center, Dick Baldwin leaves his stalwart skill. Item, Gee-gee Kogut leaves an outstanding athletic and service record. To Winne, Lang's running ability. Item, to Cal Cumings, Bucket'i' Emerson's capacity for food. Item, Bill Curtis bequeaths his make-up kit to next year's leading man. To Coon Merriam, UT. D. Miller's horn-rimmed glasses. Marshall grants to the butt squad, his cigarette lighter-which works! Item, Elston leaves his clarinet to Charlie Chandler. Item, P, J . Kimball leaves his ability to eat and talk at the same time to Whit- ney Brown. Ringleader Huntley wills his position to Stan Harvey. Item, O'Brien's chatter goes to Templeton. Item, Longshore leaves V. A. as quietly as he came. To Vince Bellondi, Bud Tingley's serial dreams. Irv Fenton gives his Berkshire Evening Eagle to the 'fJones boys , while his neighbor, Russ Fritz, gives the New Haven Register to the same group. Done this twelfth day of June in 1938, by the Class of 1938 of Vermont Academy. All is gone to one friend or another, save our memories which we hope will never reach an end. ' CLASS OF 1938

Page 18 text:

rn- Dunn, who has coached everything except skiing and basketball, was in charge. Mr. Malcolm has since taken it over and this year's team is very good. The Hockey Team, which was the best since the sport started four years ago, lost only two games. We have had a fairly good Basketball Team every year. This winter they did well against college freshman teams and defeated Cushing and K. U. A. Flood and fire struck during our second year. Luckily Mr. Leavitt had a pre- monition and let school out a week early for spring vacation. Otherwise we would have been stranded for three days by the high waters of the Connecticut. Those who woke that memorable spring night to the cries of fire will not soon forget that terrific inferno of the old barn burning. The night before the Carnival in our third year, the school witnessed another conflagration just off the hill. In our second year we had in our midst that famous scientist, Rollo Sears. He and his formidable deathray kept Mr. Tripp in constant fear of being blown to bits. There have been numerous noteworthy days in our stay here-many we will not forget, the spring afternoon in '35 when Mr. Leavitt told us the school had received a 31,000 check and a half holiday was declared, the night of housewarming when Mr. Tillinghast made one of his famous speeches and Ed. Tebbutt lit the first fire in the new hearth, February 2, 1937-the snowless winter-when the Gods in charge of snow bequeathed us some and Mr. Leavitt declared a snow holiday, the first day of school when we heard all to bed and one minute again or for the first time, Homecoming Day, the days of the Christmas parties, the days vacations began, the night this winter when the Basketball Team defeated Cushing in two over-time periods twenty- nine to twenty-eight, the days we received replies from Dartmouth and other colleges in regard to admission, the night of the spring dance, the night Mr. Malcolm couldn't get the movie machine working right , the night Gene Redlon wrote Coach Dunn From Old Wesleyan. We have also heard some lectures we will remember for a long time: Dr. Eddie O'Brien's at the football banquet, Bradford Washburn's thrilling account of his ascent of Mt. Lucania, Commander MacMillan's talk on the Arctic, the sports talk by Mr. Coty with his moving pictures. Some of the strange occurrences have been: Mr. Harris' losing his shoes while out with the Outing Club boys, the time the Alumni Hall boys collected the radiator tax in Jones Hall, the day Fritz Downs and Bob Smith were in a train wreck, when Mr. Holbrook's chemistry experiments didn't function the orthodox way. We have had four Carnivals, the first two with snow, but the second two lacked it. Except for a slight scarcity of snow, this year's Carnival was a big success with a tea dance in the afternoon and the Big Apple featured during the evening dance. At last we organized just before spring vacation. Louis Graves was elected Presi- dent, Bill Curtis Vice-President, Stan Kogut Secretary, and Gene Redlon Treasurer. Besides senior activities there was considerable thinking, planning, and hoping about our next year's plans. Many colleges were favored with our applications. After vacation bat and racquet swingers and future track stars commenced their activities. As we look back upon our first year and compare it with this year we see a great difference. There has been a great improvement in quality and quantity. Those were the days when we had silent picture shows here. The film sometimes broke and at the end of the show it was usually all over the floor. In our Junior year we found the school the proud possessor of a fine moving picture machine with sound attachment. Since then we have seen many fine pictures. Some of the other additions and improvements to the school are: new library books, the waiting room in the dining hall, the baseball batting cage, the new truck, and the hockey boards. We realized our days here were limited when we started work on the different senior committees. We all had a good time on the Class Outing. There was much trying on of caps and gowns and marching practice. Exams-Commencement Alumni lun- cheon-and we leave Vermont, but we take with us many fond memories of the school, the beautiful campus, and friends. We are not leaving for good. We shall be back again to visit the school we love so well and live over again our good times here.

Page 20 text:

VERMONT ACADEMY EVENING SONG Words by Dorothy H. Leavitt Music by Gilbert B. Parker O Vermont we've seen your beauty, Changing with each hour and day, We have found your hidden trout pools, Where the lights and shadows play 5 Swirling sparks above a campfire, Hemlocks laden down with snow, Autumn hillsides flaming crimson, Where the sugar maples grow g Morning mist upon the mountain, Frosty stars across the sky, Snowy campus turned to silver ' When the moon is riding high. O Vermont we will not leave you Here behind us when we part, We will take your beauties with us, Etched forever on each heart. UNDERGRADUATES BACK Row: Brown, Bellondi, Csgood, Stebbins, Gordon, Coleman, Hornsby, R. Smith, Nichols, Dunbar, Hovey, J. Townsend, H. Moore. A FOURTH Row: Browne, Stein, Briggs, Porter, R. Moore, R. O'Connor, Reid, George, Templeton, Rice, Merriam. THIRD Row: Gardiner, Lyons, Jackson, Davidson, Hulbert, Harvey, Sheldon, Urion, Churchill, Bidwell Matthews, Lu. Graves. Y SECOND Row: D. Smith, Mears, Chandler, J. Perry, Benedict, Huntington, Bradley, Foster, Whiting, Saunders Swenson, Winne, Cushman. FIRs'r Row: Barnes, Mzlgoon, Neff, Cumings, L. O'Connor, Hastings, Simonds, Tucker, Vollono, Alden, Cole.