1957

1957

By Rufus McClure

As everyone in the Class of 1957 now knows, the class decided for its Fiftieth Anniversary to break the pattern and do something spectacular for the school. Under the extraordinary leadership of Ted Quantz (Naturally he acquired that leadership dynamic at Bolles!) the class raised a fantastic sum and commissioned a statue that now stands in front of the entrance plaza.

It is a life-sized bronze, Transition, which depicts the military era, followed by the preparatory era and concluding with the co-ed era. For the dedication, Commander Quantz read from Degnon’s memorable words opposite.

(Commander Quantz’s dedication remarks and pictures are now archived on Bolles’ Website.)

The monument coincides with our 75thAnniversary . The symmetry is perfect.

These two Twenty-fifth Anniversary reflections say it all.

The bottom right is an image for all time!

Julian Fant, “Hickory�, was instrumental in The success of the Transition monument.

Raymond Landis is another bona fide academic, college professor and author.

Ronald Langley is the youngest of the three Langley brothers.

He also partnered with Ted Quantz to push the Transition monument project to its resounding success.

John Macpherson was instrumental in the success of the class project.

He monitored the progress every step of the way.

John Morse was a movershaker of the monument project, including a major challenge gift which catapulted it to fruition.

As indicated previously, Commander Quantz spearheaded the gift drive that culminated in the greatest class gift in our seventy-eight year history.

He has always remained very close to the school, including two stints on the Board of Visitors. Ted is also the younger of two brother tandems to serve as Battalion Commander, one of two tandems to be thus distinguished in our history: the other pair being the Varn brothers way back.

Ted is also one of a very few to serve as both battalion commander and senior class president.

There is a lot of Bolles history represented on this page!

Lt. George Traynor was a very popular teacher with a short tenure. He went on to graduate school and disappeared from the radar.

Mr. McKniff was one of our best ever. He passed on in mid-year 1963.

Unfortunately, Captain McClure couldn’t hold on to his youth, but it was great while it lasted.

Ron Langley continued his dynamic leadership as he forged ahead for the class project; more later.

Menial tasks were a way of reprimanding those who chose the wrong place to sneak a smoke.

Watch out! Here I come.

But what’s my name?

Bill Tym, third from left, was also a great tennis player, one of our best.

In fact, he made tennis his career and wound up as tennis coach at Vanderbilt University.

Another image of the tennis tournament, discussed earlier.

I don’t have stats for their year, but with the likes of Tym, discussed earlier, and Peterson, West Point, they must have had a great season.

This page reflects the best lower school faculty of the entire military chapter.

As indicated previously, the current ABOUT BOLLES is a nationally ranked publication.

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