Our class was pretty much absent from the first Chronicle of 1961. Of course, there was Christmas break and apparently a lot of snow since the last issue.

Three storms in only a few days in mid-January, the January 27, 1961, Chronicle said, resulted in one day off (January 16), but also the cancellation of the sophomore dance, basketball game against Classical, and several typing exams. Students also would have had January 20 off because of snow, but school was already closed that day so we could all watch JFK’s inauguration, on one of the coldest days in Washington, DC, for that event.

Jerome Webb as our sole representative in Chronicle pictures, at right. Jerome was on the chess team that had just defeated Longmeadow 7-0(!) to remain undefeated at 4-0.

In the first Literary Supplement of the school year, the class was represented with items by Ernest Gaudette, Lawrence Landry, and Dorothea Hammond.

In sports, basketball coverage started including freshman Gene Ryzewicz among the starting five. That wouldn’t change for four years, except for injury.

Here’s the January 27, 1961, Chronicle

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Literary Supplement, page one

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