Wilbraham and Monson Academy - Hill Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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Walke. These boys are To be commended, Tor They have been selecTed by Their classmaTes To The highesT posiTions in The school. Some very disTanT parTs oT The world are represenTed in our class This year. Tsugu Kabayama Trom Japan is parT OT The resulTs oT lasT year's STudenT Council proiecT. From The opposiTe side oT The world, lran, we have lvlassoud Ahari. Our represenTaTive Trom Cuba, Gonzalo BeruTT, is compleTing his second year aT Wilbraham. WiTh The beginning oT school, The TooTball Team came back To The gridiron. We didn'T have an exacTly powerful Team, buT To coin a phrase oT Dr. Sigsbee's, We were building characTer This year. Some oT The seniors, who were on The characfer building Team, were SeTh Akin, BuTch Anderson, Pancho BeruTT. Joe BoTTaro, Dick Brigham, Tom Chase. Phil Erlenbach, Ed Hammond, Howard Handy, Joe Kochanowicz, Thad LeForT, Maude Lerner, Lennie Meyers, Ted SchwerdTle, Ray Walke, Al Wiegancl, and Willie Williams, all under The waTchTul eye oT 'George Fallon, The manager. AT The end oT The season, Ted SchwerdTle was elecTed capTain oT The Team. The seniors comprised abouT Tour-TiTThs oT The Team. The VarsiTy Soccer Team also read like a senior roll call. There were only Three ouT oT The eleven undergraduaTes on The TirsT Team. The soccer Team, while building iusT as much characTer, won more games Than The TooTball Team. And, again This year, The soccer Team was TriumphanT over The TooTball Team in The Bunion Derby compeTiTion. The record oT The soccer Team was an impressive one, due To The hard work oT The Tollowing seniors: Jim Davies, Andy DragaT, Bob Fiske, DwighT Gammons, Dave l-linTze. Fred Jack, BiIll' lvlcATee, Jim McPherson, Joel Niper, Dave Olsen, Les Reynolds, Don Roy, STeve Sack, Bob Sands, Leonard Sydney, and Gus WinTers. The manager oT This Team was NaThaniel Bond, who did a Tine job all season. The senior class also showed superioriTy and TalenT on The Junior VarsiTy TooTball Team in The persons oT Paul Anderson, who was elecTed capTain, and William Bill STacy. BoTh boys helped The J. V. squad a loT. WiTh The coming oT WinTer, The sporTs aTTenTions leTT The gridiron and soccer Tields, and were Tixed upon baskeTball and winTer Track. This year's VarsiTy baskeTball club was made up almosT enTirely oT seniors. John Gus WinTers, Frederick Fred Jack, Edward Ed Hammond, Ronald BuTch Anderson, and James Jim Davies were The varsiTy hoopsTers, who played many exciTing games. The Junior VarsiTy also had quiTe a Tew seniors. They were Phil Erlenbach, Jon Shakour, Pancho BeruTT, and Dave l-linTze. As we look back on our undergraduaTe days, and.The gab sessions abouT col- lege being so Tar away, we come To The realizaTion ThaT Time has virTually Tlown by, and we are wiThin sighT oT our goal aT lasT. There are many Things ouTside oT classes ThaT we will never TorgeT: spa periods, SaTurday nighT movies, Sunday evening vesper services, Uncle Charlie's Rendez-vous, hard ToughT aThleTic,conTesTs, and The buTT room Tor Those who couldn'T resisT The lure oT The weed. . Yes, Today we have come To The end oT a surprisingly shorT secondary educaTion. As we leave Wilbraham To go To The many colleges in The UniTed STaTes, we can'T help Teeling ThaT we have leTT a liTe ThaT we can never live over. lnsTead, we can only reminisce wiTh our old classmaTes in The years To come. Wilbraham has produced iTs quoTa OT alerT young men, who are eager To puT To The TesT oT higher educaTion, The Things ThaT They have learned aT Wilbraham. I am sure ThaT These graduaTes will do Their uTmosT To make This world a beTTer place in which To live. David B. Hirzlze. CLASS PROPH ECY '52 December, l97l Tound me residing in The Town oT l-logworT JuncTion, Idaho. l would probably sTill be There had iT noT been Tor The leTTer l received Trom Joe BoTTaro, Telling me ThaT he would pull a Tew sTrings and obTain a iob Tor me in WashingTon. ln a Tew days l Tound myselT The new Overseer and AdiusTer oT ln- Ternal Problems in The PenTagon. Being ToTally unTamiliar wiTh This Type oT work, l 32

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was raTher slow aT undersTanding The complexiTies oT The boiler sysTem. Joe had obTained This job Tor me, purely ouT oT The kindness oT his hearT: so when he asked me To do him a Tavor, l gladly consenTed. IT seems ThaT The IasT person who held This iob was Bill STacy, who had discovered ThaT by opening and closing cerTain con- Trols on The venTilaTion sysTem, iT was possible To lisTen in on any oT The mosT conTi- denTial meeTings. Realizing The possibiliTies oT This discovery To his news column. Tomorrow's News Today, Joe BoTTaro had made arrangemenTs wiTh Bill whereby he was provided wiTh all The hoT news. UnTorTunaTely, Bill didn'T sTay long, Tor he became so disgusTed wiTh The Things ThaT he overheard, ThaT he resigned To sTarT a reTorm movemenT. Now I was The source oT Joe's inTormaTion. For The nexT Tew monThs, aTTer I had Tinished work and reporTed To Joe, I spenT my Time sighTseeing in The ciTy oT WashingTon. One day I was walking down MassachuseTTs Avenue on my way To The SenaTe, when I came upon a large crowd, IisTening To a soapbox oraTor. To my asTonishmenT iT was Laurie Hibbard ranTing To The crowd: And why is The Trans- porTaTion Tax on ChrisTmas Trees so high? I'll Tell you! lT's To Torce VermonT ouT of compeTiTion wiTh New I-lampshire. . . Suppressing my desire To hear more. I hurried To The SenaTe and arrived iusT in Time To hear The TavoriTe son oT lvIassachuseTTs, SenaTor David NirensTein, inTroduce a bill To appropriaTe Tive billion dollars Tor The preservaTion oT The TasT disappearing Banshee Bird. Pleased ThaT Dave's bill was passed unanimously, I was iusT preparing To leave, when I was Tapped on The shoulder and Turned To see The Tamiliar Tace oT Gonzalo BeruTT. Having exchanged slaps on The back, he Told me ThaT he was in WashingTon, represenTing The Tobacco growers oT Cuba. I-Ie was puTTing The pressure on The Cuban represenTaTive To inTroduce a bill making iT illegal To sell anyThing buT Cuban Tobacco To minors. The Tollowing aTTernoon Tound me aT The enTrance oT The SmiThsonian lnsTiTuTe. In The naTural hisTory deparTmenT, I noTiced several odd species oT animals wiTh cards reading: ObTained on The TourTh expediTion To The lower region oT WesT Bougodia- by Philip Erlenbach and David Olsen. My curiosiTy was aroused, and I Tinally decided To look Tor someone who could give me more inTormaTion abouT These Two Triends. I knocked on The door marked curaTor. IT opened. and sTanding There wiTh a sTuTTed monkey in his hand was George Fallon. GreeTings, he said. I-Ie inviTed me in, and coming righT To The poinT, I asked him whaT The sTory was on Dave and Phil. I-Ie Told me ThaT They were doing exploraTional work in unexplored lands, bringing back ani- mals, minerals, and planT liTe. I-le said ThaT I would noT be able To see Them Tor some Time, since They had iusT IeTT in search oT live Tish in The Dead Sea: Thanking George Tor sparing his valuable Time, I reTurned To my aparTmenT. The Tinal days oT I97I were wiTnessing many world-shaking news evenTs, and, sTrange as iT may seem, many Tamiliar names were in The headlines. I was delighTed To hear ThaT Ralph FarnsworTh had made his Third successTuI Trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel, buT I was dubious abouT his plans To make The nexT aTTempT in a boTTle. Jim Mac Pherson had done iT again: aTTer successTully deaTomizing several persons and sending Them Thousands oT miles inTo space, he had invenTed a second machine wiTh which he planned To bring Them back. The presidenTial eIecTions were rolling around, and mosT Republicans seemed To be sTrongly in Tavor oT I-IonesT Jim Davies, who had gained naTional renown by exposing The Tix in inTercollegiaTe chess compeTiTion. One day, l heard over The venTilaTor sysTem ThaT ProTessor Briggs, The eminenT physicisT was missing somewhere in Europe. IT was Teared ThaT he had been capTured by an agenT oT The Gremlin. I-le had been vacaTioning in Europe aTTer compleTing work on Fosmic Rays. The whole aTTair was being kepT Trom The public, and aT ThaT Time The F. B. I. and SecreT Service were carrying on a desperaTe search Tor him. The locaTion oT The learned genTleman was oT such imporTance, ThaT even Leonard Meyers, who had iusT succeeded J. Edgar Goober as head oT The F. B. I., was doing his own per- sonal research. I was iusT debaTing wheTher or noT To inTorm Joe, when a man enTered who looked iusT as if he had sTepped Trom a Humphrey BogarT picTure. As he Turned 33