This Week in NMH History 2016-2017 #18
60 Years Ago
Your editor’s occasional insistence
that debate is a sport is not without precedent: witness this article on the
exploits of our chess team.
from The Hermonite; vol.
LXX, no. 7; p. 2 (January 19, 1957).
Varsity Chess Remains Undefeated;
Two Deerfield Meets In Near Future
The Mount
Hermon Chess Team upheld its record of “never defeated” by subduing a team from
Springfield Classical High School by a score of 5-1 on Sunday, January 6th.
Winners for Mount Hermon were Edward Maher, Peter Ong, Alan Skidgell, Tony
Cameron, and Karl Neuse. The only loser was Barry Miller, to Ralph Guertin.
Two meets
with Deerfield have been scheduled for Jan. 20 and Feb. 3. These are considered
the “big” meets of the year for the team, which has remained undefeated and
untied since beginning interscholastic competition three years ago.
The February 16 issue of The Hermonite reported wins in these matches as well.
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