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mundane chores some other students had to do. For example, he mailed his dirty laundry<br />

home each week, to be done by the servants. It was mailed back to him clean and<br />

folded.@s2@s2<br />

Student records show a massive list of offices and titles for Poppy, perhaps more than for<br />

any other student:<br />

• A.U.V.<br />

• President of Senior Class (1 term)<br />

• Secretary of Student Council (1 term)<br />

• Student Council (1941-42) (surveillance of students during tests, keeping order<br />

in the movies, investigating student thieves)<br />

• President of Society of Inquiry (1941-42)<br />

• Senior Prom Committee<br />

• Chairman of Student Deacons (1941-42)<br />

• Advisory Board (management of sports, choosing of P.A. Police to control<br />

student body, choosing of cheerleaders)<br />

• President of Greeks (1940-42)<br />

• Captain of Baseball (1942)<br />

• Captain of Soccer (1941)<br />

• Manager of Basketball (1941)<br />

• Society of Inquiry (1940-42) (formerly a Christian mission group, now<br />

management of extra-curricular activities)<br />

• Student Deacon (1940-42)<br />

• Editorial Board of the Phillipian (1938-39)<br />

• All-club Soccer (1938)<br />

• Business Board of the Pot Pourri (1940-42)<br />

• Deputy Housemaster<br />

• Varsity Soccer Squad (1939-41)<br />

• Varsity Basketball Team (1941-42)<br />

• Junior Varsity Baseball Team (1939)<br />

• Varsity Baseball Squad (1940)<br />

• Varsity Baseball Team (1941-42)<br />

• Johns Hopkins Prize (1938)<br />

• Treasurer of Student Council (1 term)<br />

To be sure, some of these distinctions were, well, a bit less than he had hoped for.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Class of 1942 was officially polled, to see who had the most status among the<br />

students themselves.<br />

For `` Best All-Around Fellow, '' Poppy <strong>Bush</strong> was third. <strong>Bush</strong> did not show up in the ``<br />

Most Intelligent '' category.

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