Duke of Deception (14 page)

My father, Arthur Samuels Wolff, with his mother, 1909
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Uncle Bill Hass
(left),
with my father. Crescent Beach, about 1912
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Eaglebrook Lodge School, Deerfield, Massachusetts, the first class picture. My father is in the back row, far left, leering
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The first student body, spring 1923
. Front row:
George Rogers, Robert B. Garey, Allen N. Swain, Jr., George M. Cook, Robert Collins, Whitney S. Stoddard, John W. Bennett
,
Roscoe H. Philbrook, Jr
. Middle row:
John Brooks, Charles Parks, Paul W. Tripp, Richard M. Twitchell, Henry Hinckley, Robert P. Read, Reul Van Buren, David Wells
. Back row:
Arthur Wolff, Gordon Wood, Lowell S. Trowbridge, Alfred P. Putnam, Alden Mason
. Not shown:
John A. Allen, James H. Berenson, Steven Davol, Eben Tisdale
.

Cadet A. S. Wolff, St. John’s Military Academy, Manlius, New York, 1923
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My father, nineteen, at Roxbury Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, the last of his five boarding schools
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“Duke” Wolff, third from the right, gussied up to play mandolin for the Roxbury jazz band
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