Krok 60th Anniversary DVD Available!
If you’re a Krok, a Krok alum, or an Honorary Krok, you should have received a 60th Anniversary DVD in 2007. If you would like to purchase extra DVDs, please send a request to Steve Dostart ’86 at dvd@kroks.com for ordering instructions.
Kroks of the 1940s
Presenting the Kroks of the 1940s, the tuneful and courageous men who got the ball rolling! Click photos to enlarge.
Krok Founders 1946: David G. Binger, David S. Biddle, Francis H. Cabot, Arthur B. Nichols III. 
Kroks of 1948: Back Row: Al Key, Ed White, Frank Lothrop, Jim Harkins, George C. Lodge, Fred Gwynne, Frank Cabot, Peter Godfrey, David Edgar, Walter Paine, Tom Zinsser. Front Row: Todd Parsons, Seton Ijams, Tony Bonner (Director), David G. Binger, David S. Biddle, Bob Locke, Arthur B. Nichols III. 
Kroks of 1949: Back Row: Warren C. Moffett, Louis L. Allen, E. Parker Hayden Jr., Peter M. Hewitt, Frederick K. Bullard Jr., Gerald Lauderdale, John L. Barroll III. Front Row: Frederick H. Gwynne, Francis H. Cabot, Thomas W. Zinsser, Edward E. White Jr., Francis B. Lothrop. Missing: Albert L. Key II, Charles P. Rimmer Jr.
Krok Founders 1946: David G. Binger, David S. Biddle, Francis H. Cabot, Arthur B. Nichols III.
Kroks of 1947: Back Row: David L. Edgar, George C. Lodge, David S. Biddle, Arthur B. Nichols III. Front Row: Francis H. Cabot, David G. Binger, Seton Ijams, Francis B. Lothrop. Missing: William F. Prescott, Richard D. Estes.
Kroks of 1948: Back Row: Al Key, Ed White, Frank Lothrop, Jim Harkins, George C. Lodge, Fred Gwynne, Frank Cabot, Peter Godfrey, David Edgar, Walter Paine, Tom Zinsser. Front Row: Todd Parsons, Seton Ijams, Tony Bonner (Director), David G. Binger, David S. Biddle, Bob Locke, Arthur B. Nichols III.Kroks of 1949: Back Row: Warren C. Moffett, Louis L. Allen, E. Parker Hayden Jr., Peter M. Hewitt, Frederick K. Bullard Jr., Gerald Lauderdale, John L. Barroll III. Front Row: Frederick H. Gwynne, Francis H. Cabot, Thomas W. Zinsser, Edward E. White Jr., Francis B. Lothrop. Missing: Albert L. Key II, Charles P. Rimmer Jr.Ask Frank Cabot to prove he’s a Krok ...
... and he’ll show you his green thumb. We call him Sir Frank now — and not only because he was one of the founders of the Kroks. Our own Frank Cabot ’49 was made a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec in 2000 for doing what he does best — creating world-class gardens. “Stonecrop,” his 63-acre summer-home paradise in Cold Spring, NY, became a non-profit public garden in 1992. A former chairman of the NY Botanical Garden, Frank founded the nonprofit Garden Conservancy in 1989. The organization, now 6000 members strong, sponsors a program through which hundreds of private gardens in 28 states open to the public each season. Les Quatre Vents, Frank’s private garden in Quebec, covers more than 20 acres. His book, The Greater Perfection, an illustrated account of the making of the garden, was the 2002 American Horticultural Society Book of the Year. And as we learned at the 60th-reunion banquet, for a plant man he gives a hell of a speech!
The history of the Krok Logo
The beloved Krok-in-the-pot logo was originally inspired by an image, drawn by none other than Fred Gwynne ’51, which graced the cover of the first Krok album (click on any of the images below to enlarge):
The image was simplified by Arthur Nichols ’48 into a logo that the Kroks used for nearly 30 years:
It was the artistic inspiration of Alan Wachman ’80 to give the Krok some added presence and whimsy (not to mention a hefty stein of brew), yielding the familiar symbol we know and love today:
