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Boys Basketball Team— Nothing
Short of Progress
T
he Storm King School Var-
sity Wrestling Team won the
Hudson Valley Championship in
a packed gymnasium by dominat-
ing Marvelwood School 48-24
and New York Military Academy
60-18. The boys finished the sea-
son with a 6-0 record in the HVAL
and an even more impressive 13-0
against New England Prep School
Athletic Conference Class “B”
schools — schools with less than 350
students. This marks the first HVAL Wrestling Championship by a Storm King team.
The team was led by seniors Frank C., Harris A., Scott G., and Jon F. as well as sopho-
mores Dylan C., James S., Chandler Z. and 8
th
grade stand out Tae Han L. The Storm
King Community can expect a bright future for the Storm King Wrestling Program as
the team touted eleven sophomores, freshmen, and 8
th
graders and a total of 14 under-
classmen. Coaches Graziosi, O’Connor, and Watts would like to thank the Storm King
Community for their terrific support this season.
SKS Wrestling
Wins League
Championship
T
he Varsity Boys Basketball Season has been nothing short of progress in the 2011-
12 season at The Storm King School. The Cougars set out with only two goals this
season: to be the best defensive team in the conference (Hudson Valley Athletic League)
and to bring home a conference championship. One of two has been accomplished,
with the Cougars holding teams to an average of 30.6 points a game in league contests,
and to 34.3 points overall. The team is currently 10-4 overall (8-3 in conference), and
in second place in the HVAL, with a viable chance to win the conference. This is the
first time in at least eight years that the Cougars will have the opportunity to compete in
the NEPSAC tournament — a qualifying tournament for prep schools
in the northeast. Three games remain in the regular season, and the
Cougars hope for a chance to play “cross-town” rival New York
Military Academy for the conference championship. Stay tuned
for the results of what will be a program defining postseason. We
look forward to the completion of a successful winter season, and
to the commencement of a strong spring sports season. We hope
to see many alumni and parents at our athletic events throughout
the remainder of the year.
Let’s Go Cougars!
— Athletic Director and Varsity Basketball Coach Kevin Wilkins
The SKS wrestling team finished the season with a
6-0 record in the Hudson Valley Athletic League.
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Antoine Gagne
in response
to “What is your Favorite SKS Memory?”:
“the Head, Mr. Auson Barker (1933-1936)
assembled the small bunch of us in the
common room after Sunday dinner and
read a strange book to us, chapter by
chapter. “
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We received the following note
from
John (Jack) Hitzelberg,
“I received
my issue of OtM and was rather amazed to
find an old SKS buddy written up. Among
others, I used to pal up with Earnest Bailey
— hadn’t even realized that he also went
to SKS.
When I attended in 1940-1941, I also
was a scholarship student and only there
for one year. However, I really enjoyed the
school and got into sports that my high
school never offered — hockey and
football. At the time, my father had died
just previously and had been Orange
County Superintendent of Schools.
I have thought many times about
attending reunions but circumstances have
prevented that. Now that I am 87 years of
age, it has become more difficult to drive
up there from my home in Fairfax, VA.
However, we will see — I haven’t given up
that idea yet.
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Tom Delaney
sent in the
following piece of trivia: “While waiting to
have the oil changed in my car, I read a
short article entitled “11-13/1897: Harvard
and yale play to a 0-0 tie” in
Sporting News
Magazine
. It describes the yale Captain, Big
(Charles) Chadwick. I wondered if he was
our “Mr. Chadwick.” I then remembered that
our champion of the cigarette ashes was
George Chadwick. Google confirmed that
Charles and George were brothers who,
respectively were captains of the 1897 and
1902 yale teams. Our George was picked as
an All American in 1900 and 1902 and was
yale Head Coach in 1903.”
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Mott Greene
wrote to Alumni
Association President Rich Roberts ’60:
“I went to Storm King because my father,