The Happy Years

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

• 
  Dean Stockwell

  John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover
• 
  Darryl Hickman

  George 'Tough' McCarty
• 
  Scotty Beckett

  'Tennessee' Shad
• 
  Leon Ames

  Sr. Samuel H. Stover
• 
  Margalo Gillmore

  Maude Stover
• 
  Leo G. Carroll

  Mr. Hopkins
• 
  Donn Gift

  Joshua Montgomery Smead
• 
  Elinor Donahue

  Connie Brown
• 
  George Chandler

  Johnny
• 
  Irving Bacon

  Mr. Conover