Extracurriculars
Martin Andrews ’58
Our academic achievements rivaled those of our athletes, but I feel that the greatest rewards to the school and to ourselves were a result of our extracurricular activities. In the student council, we had real representation and power to effect the changes we needed and reject the ones we didn’t — such as having wine at meals. Through our work in the various shops, stores, and organizations, we developed an atmosphere of working for the school instead of against it, which was the rule in most of our rival institutions.
In an era when little was happening in the outside world, we found our fulfillment in the school’s activities. We did our thing within the confines of the school establishment and were able to expand the scope of our activities when we felt that we were confined. Although we could leave the school at will, we rarely did because there was too much going on. All this sounds like a very rosy picture, and it was.
