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...expression has justified the notoriously cruel amusements of teenage males for centuries, but its alleged acceptance at the Groton School has had messy consequences for the elite academy. With a former student filing a negligence suit against the school, its policies on student behaviorand their implicationshave come under close scrutiny...
...floor. According to Hawkins, they then tore off his shirt and pants, grabbed at his testicles and penis, inserted his fingers into his rectum through his boxers and licked his face. Hawkins spoke out about these assaults a few months before he was scheduled to graduate, and in response, Groton launched an investigation. Although the administration punished several students who were found to have participated in inappropriate hazing, Hawkins remained dissatisfied with the schools response of the school to his claim of assault. His frustration pushed him to vent his story at roll call on Revisit Day, the Prefrosh Weekend...
...According to life-long friend David S. Biddle `49, who attended both Groton and Harvard with "Freddy," acting was only one of Gwynne's talents...
...Gwynne followed Groton with a brief stint as a radio operator during World War II and then headed to the New York Phoenix School of Design, where he planned to pursue his interest...
...Groton," Biddle says. "Freddy was going to make money being funny...