John Kennedy
Their most notorious stunt
was to explode a toilet seat with a powerful firecracker. In the ensuing chapel assembly the autocratic headmaster,
George St. John, brandished the toilet seat and spoke of certain "muckers" who would "spit in our sea." The defiant Jack
Kennedy took the cue and named his group "The Muckers Club." Kennedy remained close friends to the end of his life
with several of his Choate fellows, including especially Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings. Throughout his years at Choate,
Kennedy was beset by health problems, culminating in 1934 with his emergency hospitalization at Yale-New Haven
Hospital from January until March. In June 1934 he was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and
diagnosed with colitis. When Kennedy graduated from Choate in June 1935 his superlative in The Brief, the school
yearbook (of which he had been business manager), was"Most likely to Succeed."
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